Borax
Original: Borax on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Setting: a backyard with a wooden fence and grass. Two women stand near a large mound on the ground (resembling a nest or anthill). The woman on the left has blonde hair and a worried expression. The woman on the right has flame-like red hair and wears a pith helmet, round glasses, and yellow rubber gloves; she is crouching and holding a small tool.
Blonde woman: SO... THEY TAKE IT BACK TO THE NEST TO SHARE, BUT INSIDE THE CIRCUS PEANUTS IS—
Red-haired woman: BORAX.
Caption (below panel): We managed to clear the clown infestation.
Votey:
Handwritten text over a black scene showing a sleeping/lounging clown-like creature:
I WISH I COULDN'T HEAR THEIR DEATH-HONKS IN THEIR DREAMS.
Blonde woman: SO... THEY TAKE IT BACK TO THE NEST TO SHARE, BUT INSIDE THE CIRCUS PEANUTS IS—
Red-haired woman: BORAX.
Caption (below panel): We managed to clear the clown infestation.
Votey:
Handwritten text over a black scene showing a sleeping/lounging clown-like creature:
I WISH I COULDN'T HEAR THEIR DEATH-HONKS IN THEIR DREAMS.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Main panel: in a fenced backyard, a worried blonde woman talks to a red-haired woman dressed like an exterminator (pith helmet, round glasses, yellow rubber gloves) who crouches beside a large mound on the lawn. The blonde says, 'So... they take it back to the nest to share, but inside the circus peanuts is—' and the exterminator finishes, 'Borax.' A caption below reads, 'We managed to clear the clown infestation.' The joke treats clowns like an insect pest exterminated with poisoned bait (borax in circus peanuts), as one would treat ants. Votey: a dark scene of a slumbering clown-creature with handwritten text reading, 'I wish I couldn't hear their death-honks in their dreams.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.