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2004-04-04

Original: 2004-04-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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Title banner: SMBC PRESENTS "DATING TIPS"

Setting: A school hallway lined with lockers. A girl with brown hair, glasses, and a pink shirt stands on the left wearing leg braces. A boy with black hair and a green shirt stands on the right.

Boy: SANDY, WILL YOU GO TO THE PROM WITH ME?

Girl (Sandy): ME? REALLY? OF COURSE I WILL!

Caption below the comic:
Dating Tip #1:
If you take a girl with polio to the prom, you leave with a cheerleader who thinks you're sensitive!

Votey:
Header text: Reading this 11 years later...
A bearded man's face looks puzzled.
Man: BUT WHO HAS POLIO ANYMORE?

Alt text

An SMBC comic titled "DATING TIPS." In a school hallway lined with lockers, a black-haired boy in a green shirt asks a brown-haired girl in glasses and a pink shirt, who is wearing leg braces, "Sandy, will you go to the prom with me?" She replies, "Me? Really? Of course I will!" The caption reads: "Dating Tip #1: If you take a girl with polio to the prom, you leave with a cheerleader who thinks you're sensitive!" Votey aftercomic: header reads "Reading this 11 years later..." A puzzled bearded man says, "But who has polio anymore?" -- noting the joke's premise has dated badly since polio is now nearly eradicated.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.