2004-05-09
Original: 2004-05-09 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (below panel): What if cholesterol made you skinny?
Panel 1:
Two doctors stand over a hospital bed where a patient lies. One doctor holds a clipboard.
Doctor with clipboard: "Damn. A heart attack at age 22."
Second doctor (operating a heart monitor): "Yeah, but what a hot bod!"
Votey:
A gaunt, thin-faced man speaks.
Man: "I'm having the good cholesterol."
Panel 1:
Two doctors stand over a hospital bed where a patient lies. One doctor holds a clipboard.
Doctor with clipboard: "Damn. A heart attack at age 22."
Second doctor (operating a heart monitor): "Yeah, but what a hot bod!"
Votey:
A gaunt, thin-faced man speaks.
Man: "I'm having the good cholesterol."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic imagining a world where cholesterol makes you skinny instead of fat. Main panel: Two doctors in white coats stand over a hospital bed. One holds a clipboard and says, "Damn. A heart attack at age 22." The other, tending a beeping heart monitor, replies, "Yeah, but what a hot bod!" The caption below reads: "What if cholesterol made you skinny?" Votey panel: A drawing of an extremely gaunt, hollow-cheeked man saying proudly, "I'm having the good cholesterol." The joke: in this inverted world cholesterol is glamorized as a slimming agent, so people court heart attacks for a thin physique, and "good cholesterol" makes you even more skeletally thin.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.