2002-11-26
Original: 2002-11-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Single panel:
Setting: A nursing home bedroom. A poster on the wall reads:
WELCOME TO SHADY ACRES NURSING HOME
(below the text the poster shows small portrait images of faces)
An elderly person sleeps in a hospital-style bed with an IV drip stand beside it. A man wearing a cap stands in the doorway, glancing warily over his shoulder. He carries a large purple jar with a yellow label reading:
BEES
The jar is buzzing (small bee marks shown around it). A second, smaller jar sits on the floor nearby, along with a clipboard/papers and a telephone handset on the floor.
Caption (below panel): Ed occasionally had attacks of conscience, but deep down he knew it was the right thing to do.
Votey:
Caption header (handwritten): DRAWING THE VOTEY, 13 YEARS LATER
A roughly sketched person (the artist) looks at the page with a slightly puzzled expression, hand near chin. A thought bubble above reads:
I DON'T GET IT.
Setting: A nursing home bedroom. A poster on the wall reads:
WELCOME TO SHADY ACRES NURSING HOME
(below the text the poster shows small portrait images of faces)
An elderly person sleeps in a hospital-style bed with an IV drip stand beside it. A man wearing a cap stands in the doorway, glancing warily over his shoulder. He carries a large purple jar with a yellow label reading:
BEES
The jar is buzzing (small bee marks shown around it). A second, smaller jar sits on the floor nearby, along with a clipboard/papers and a telephone handset on the floor.
Caption (below panel): Ed occasionally had attacks of conscience, but deep down he knew it was the right thing to do.
Votey:
Caption header (handwritten): DRAWING THE VOTEY, 13 YEARS LATER
A roughly sketched person (the artist) looks at the page with a slightly puzzled expression, hand near chin. A thought bubble above reads:
I DON'T GET IT.
Alt text
A single-panel comic set in a nursing home bedroom. A wall poster reads "WELCOME TO SHADY ACRES NURSING HOME" with small faces pictured below. An elderly person sleeps in a hospital bed with an IV stand beside it. In the doorway, a man in a cap glances warily over his shoulder while clutching a large purple jar labeled "BEES" in yellow, with little bees buzzing around it; a smaller jar, papers, and a telephone handset sit on the floor. The caption reads: "Ed occasionally had attacks of conscience, but deep down he knew it was the right thing to do." The joke: a man is apparently about to unleash a jar of bees on a sleeping nursing-home resident, yet frames it to himself as morally righteous. Votey (aftercomic): a rough black-and-white sketch captioned "DRAWING THE VOTEY, 13 YEARS LATER," showing the artist staring at the page with a thought bubble reading "I DON'T GET IT."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.