Dolly the Sheep Therapy Pun

This is a two-panel hand-drawn comic featuring sheep characters in a therapy setting. In the top panel, a sheep therapist holding a notepad sits across from Dolly the sheep, who is reclining on a therapy couch. The therapist says, 'Dolly, you only talk about your mother. Tell me about your father too.' In the bottom panel, Dolly stares blankly at the therapist, who now has a confused question mark floating above their head. The joke relies on the real-world reference to Dolly the sheep, the first successfully cloned mammal, who was created using genetic material from a single mother sheep, meaning she has no biological father, making the therapist's request impossible to fulfill.

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Dialogue

Dolly, you only talk about your mother. Tell me about your father too.

Overview

This is a two-panel hand-drawn comic featuring sheep characters in a therapy setting. In the top panel, a sheep therapist holding a notepad sits across from Dolly the sheep, who is reclining on a therapy couch. The therapist says, 'Dolly, you only talk about your mother. Tell me about your father too.' In the bottom panel, Dolly stares blankly at the therapist, who now has a confused question mark floating above their head. The joke relies on the real-world reference to Dolly the sheep, the first successfully cloned mammal, who was created using genetic material from a single mother sheep, meaning she has no biological father, making the therapist's request impossible to fulfill.

Origin notes

This comic is originally created by artist Herta Burbe, as indicated by the ©Herta Burbe 2026 watermark and artist signature present in the bottom right corner of the second panel. It was reposted on the platform 9Gag as an RSS feed entry with the original post title 'Took me a while', which refers to the delay many viewers experience when connecting the comic's premise to the real-world cloning backstory of Dolly the sheep to understand the punchline.