2003-02-26
Original: 2003-02-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Speaker (a person with reddish-brown hair, dressed in black, sitting at a table with a coffee cup): "So you see, science proves nothing! We only see what we're programmed to see. That's why poetry is the only way to transcend reality and reach truth."
Caption (below the panel): And yet somehow Stuart was unimpressed with Katie's "Ode to Shutting Up."
Votey:
A handwritten poem on a note:
"Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Shut your face,
It's an ugly face."
Speaker (a person with reddish-brown hair, dressed in black, sitting at a table with a coffee cup): "So you see, science proves nothing! We only see what we're programmed to see. That's why poetry is the only way to transcend reality and reach truth."
Caption (below the panel): And yet somehow Stuart was unimpressed with Katie's "Ode to Shutting Up."
Votey:
A handwritten poem on a note:
"Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Shut your face,
It's an ugly face."
Alt text
Main comic: A single panel. A person with reddish-brown hair, wearing black, sits at a small table with a steaming coffee cup, gesturing earnestly while speaking to a bald, bespectacled person seen from behind in the foreground. The speaker says: "So you see, science proves nothing! We only see what we're programmed to see. That's why poetry is the only way to transcend reality and reach truth." A caption beneath reads: "And yet somehow Stuart was unimpressed with Katie's 'Ode to Shutting Up.'" The joke: the lofty speech about poetry transcending reality is revealed to be the prelude to a crude insult-poem. Votey: A handwritten poem on a square note reads: "Roses are red, / Violets are blue. / Shut your face, / It's an ugly face." — the actual "Ode to Shutting Up," confirming it is a rude doggerel rather than profound poetry.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.