2002-12-27
Original: 2002-12-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Single panel:
A store interior. On the shelves to the left are paper scrolls/documents, with a yellow sign reading "ARTS DEGREES". Below them sit rolls of toilet paper, with another yellow sign reading "PARTICULARLY LOW QUALITY TOILET PAPER".
A man with orange/brown hair in a green shirt (glasses, facing away) stands at a counter. Behind the counter is a woman with blonde hair in a purple shirt, looking annoyed.
Woman (behind counter): "DO YOU HAVE TO PUT THOSE NEXT TO EACH OTHER?"
Caption below the panel (the man's reply): "Oh great. Are you another guy from the toilet paper company?"
Votey:
A close-up sketch of a single cylindrical roll standing upright on the floor. A small tilted sign in front of it reads: "2 PLY ARTS DEGREES".
A store interior. On the shelves to the left are paper scrolls/documents, with a yellow sign reading "ARTS DEGREES". Below them sit rolls of toilet paper, with another yellow sign reading "PARTICULARLY LOW QUALITY TOILET PAPER".
A man with orange/brown hair in a green shirt (glasses, facing away) stands at a counter. Behind the counter is a woman with blonde hair in a purple shirt, looking annoyed.
Woman (behind counter): "DO YOU HAVE TO PUT THOSE NEXT TO EACH OTHER?"
Caption below the panel (the man's reply): "Oh great. Are you another guy from the toilet paper company?"
Votey:
A close-up sketch of a single cylindrical roll standing upright on the floor. A small tilted sign in front of it reads: "2 PLY ARTS DEGREES".
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic set inside a store. On the left shelves, paper scrolls labeled with a yellow sign "ARTS DEGREES" sit directly above rolls of toilet paper labeled with another yellow sign "PARTICULARLY LOW QUALITY TOILET PAPER" — the joke being that arts degrees are shelved right next to, and equated with, cheap toilet paper. A man in a green shirt stands at a counter facing a blonde woman in a purple shirt behind it. She asks, annoyed: "DO YOU HAVE TO PUT THOSE NEXT TO EACH OTHER?" The caption below, the man's reply, reads: "Oh great. Are you another guy from the toilet paper company?" — implying he assumes she's offended on behalf of the toilet paper, not the degrees. The votey (aftercomic) is a rough sketch of a cylindrical roll standing on the floor with a tilted sign reading "2 PLY ARTS DEGREES," doubling down on the toilet-paper-equals-arts-degree gag.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.