2003-03-17
Original: 2003-03-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with brown hair in a green sweater sits at a table across from a woman with long blonde hair. He is grinning and pointing at her.
Man: "YOU'RE UGLY... NOT!"
Woman: "THAT WASN'T FUNNY THE NINTH TIME, AND IT ISN'T FUNNY NOW!"
Caption (below panel): It was definitely funny the seventeenth time, but she still didn't laugh.
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "funniness" and the horizontal axis is labeled "times joke is told." A black curve starts very high, drops off steeply toward zero, and stays low — with a single tiny spike partway along the bottom. A red curve (labeled "your perceived funniness") starts high and stays high, rising slightly across the whole graph with an arrow at the end.
A man with brown hair in a green sweater sits at a table across from a woman with long blonde hair. He is grinning and pointing at her.
Man: "YOU'RE UGLY... NOT!"
Woman: "THAT WASN'T FUNNY THE NINTH TIME, AND IT ISN'T FUNNY NOW!"
Caption (below panel): It was definitely funny the seventeenth time, but she still didn't laugh.
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "funniness" and the horizontal axis is labeled "times joke is told." A black curve starts very high, drops off steeply toward zero, and stays low — with a single tiny spike partway along the bottom. A red curve (labeled "your perceived funniness") starts high and stays high, rising slightly across the whole graph with an arrow at the end.
Alt text
An SMBC comic. In the single panel, a grinning brown-haired man in a green sweater sits at a table pointing at a long-haired blonde woman across from him. He says, "YOU'RE UGLY... NOT!" She replies, frowning, "THAT WASN'T FUNNY THE NINTH TIME, AND IT ISN'T FUNNY NOW!" A caption below reads: "It was definitely funny the seventeenth time, but she still didn't laugh." The votey (aftercomic) is a hand-drawn graph with axes "funniness" (vertical) and "times joke is told" (horizontal). A black curve, the joke's real funniness, plunges from high to near-zero and stays flat (with one tiny spike). A red curve labeled "your perceived funniness" starts high and keeps climbing, joke teller convinced it gets funnier the more they repeat it.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.