2003-01-13
Original: 2003-01-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man and a woman sit across a table from each other, plates of food in front of them. The man holds up one hand over his own mouth and extends his other fist toward the woman, holding up a small object (his thumb) with motion lines around it, gesturing as if the object is speaking. The woman looks at the object warily.
Caption (below panel, attributed to the object the man is holding up / ventriloquizing):
"STEVE'S THINKING ABOUT DUMPING YOU. YOU SHOULD BUY HIM A PLAYSTATION."
Votey:
A close-up of the small object the man was holding up — a crudely drawn face with two big eyes and a grinning toothy mouth (a thumb-creature). It speaks in a speech bubble:
"YOU REALLY COULD DO BETTER."
A man and a woman sit across a table from each other, plates of food in front of them. The man holds up one hand over his own mouth and extends his other fist toward the woman, holding up a small object (his thumb) with motion lines around it, gesturing as if the object is speaking. The woman looks at the object warily.
Caption (below panel, attributed to the object the man is holding up / ventriloquizing):
"STEVE'S THINKING ABOUT DUMPING YOU. YOU SHOULD BUY HIM A PLAYSTATION."
Votey:
A close-up of the small object the man was holding up — a crudely drawn face with two big eyes and a grinning toothy mouth (a thumb-creature). It speaks in a speech bubble:
"YOU REALLY COULD DO BETTER."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Main panel: a man and a woman sit across a dinner table with plates of food. The man covers his own mouth with one hand while thrusting his other fist toward the woman, holding up a small object (his thumb) with motion lines, pretending it is talking — a clumsy ventriloquism act. The woman eyes it warily. The caption, spoken in the object's 'voice,' reads: "Steve's thinking about dumping you. You should buy him a PlayStation." The joke: the man is transparently using a fake 'talking' puppet to manipulate her into buying him a gift. Votey (bonus panel): a close-up of the puppet — a cartoonish face with big eyes and a wide toothy grin — saying in a speech bubble, "You really could do better," twisting the knife.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.