Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for May 29, 2014
Transcript:
Alice: Petey, what's this shoebox diorama? Petey: The Coming Martian Invasion. Alice: Are the pieces of pasta Martians? Petey: Yes. It's one of my more controversial dioramas. I hesitate to show it publicly. Beni: Dill, don't eat the Martian. Dill: Ptoo- Petey: Also the Hidden Empire of the Molmen, The Sasquatch Peril and The Lurking Threat to America's Children Posed by Mixed Vegetables. This dioramas shall never see the light of day.
Ah, mixed vegetables, the parent’s way of trying to get kids to eat something they normally wouldn’t. My Mom used to hide one piece of green bean in my brother’s mixed vegetables, and when he was done that one piece of green bean would still be on his plate.