End
Original: End on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child: Dad, do you ever worry about the end of the world?
Panel 2:
Dad: Ha, when I was a kid like you, I sure did.
Panel 3:
Dad: Once you grow up and get a job and responsibilities, well, you'll say to yourself, "I welcome the cleansing fire."
Panel 4:
Dad: I was hoping you'd say life will go on.
Child: No. Not if we can de-orbit the moon. That should do it.
Votey:
Child: Oh! Or de-orbit the Earth!
Child: Dad, do you ever worry about the end of the world?
Panel 2:
Dad: Ha, when I was a kid like you, I sure did.
Panel 3:
Dad: Once you grow up and get a job and responsibilities, well, you'll say to yourself, "I welcome the cleansing fire."
Panel 4:
Dad: I was hoping you'd say life will go on.
Child: No. Not if we can de-orbit the moon. That should do it.
Votey:
Child: Oh! Or de-orbit the Earth!
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A small child looks up at an adult man (Dad) under a starry night sky and asks, "Dad, do you ever worry about the end of the world?" Panel 2: Dad smiles and replies, "Ha, when I was a kid like you, I sure did." Panel 3: Dad continues, "Once you grow up and get a job and responsibilities, well, you'll say to yourself, 'I welcome the cleansing fire.'" Panel 4: Shown as two silhouettes against a dark sky. Dad says, "I was hoping you'd say life will go on." The child responds, "No. Not if we can de-orbit the moon. That should do it." Votey: A close-up cartoon of the grinning, wide-eyed child eagerly adding, "Oh! Or de-orbit the Earth!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.