2002-12-25
Original: 2002-12-25 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Santa Claus stands by a window at night, holding a gift-wrapped rifle with a green bow. He has a content, slightly mischievous expression and is humming, shown by a speech bubble containing a musical note.
Santa: (humming) ♪
On a box at the bottom of the panel:
Label: I ASSAULT RIFLE
Label (in a yellow burst): FOR KIDS!
Caption (below panel): Some years there are too many good kids. That's bad for business.
Votey:
Handwritten text on the side of the box:
Ages: 240 months +
Santa Claus stands by a window at night, holding a gift-wrapped rifle with a green bow. He has a content, slightly mischievous expression and is humming, shown by a speech bubble containing a musical note.
Santa: (humming) ♪
On a box at the bottom of the panel:
Label: I ASSAULT RIFLE
Label (in a yellow burst): FOR KIDS!
Caption (below panel): Some years there are too many good kids. That's bad for business.
Votey:
Handwritten text on the side of the box:
Ages: 240 months +
Alt text
A Christmas-themed SMBC comic. In a single panel, Santa Claus stands beside a dark window at night, cradling a wood-and-metal rifle wrapped with a green bow as a gift. His eyes are half-closed and content, and he hums to himself, indicated by a speech bubble holding a musical note. At the bottom of the panel sits a red box labeled 'I ASSAULT RIFLE' with a yellow starburst reading 'FOR KIDS!' The caption below reads: 'Some years there are too many good kids. That's bad for business.' The joke: Santa, whose business depends on naughty kids getting fewer gifts, arms children to thin out the ranks of good ones. Votey (aftercomic): a plain box showing the toy's handwritten age rating, 'Ages: 240 months +' — i.e. 20 years old, so technically not for kids at all.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.