2005-03-26
Original: 2005-03-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A woman with orange hair in a green shirt holds out a small wooden box toward a blond man in a dark blue jacket.
Woman: I GOT YOU SOMETHING!
Man: HMM...
Sound effect (from the box): scratch-a scratch-a
Caption (below panel): Every year, two weeks before our anniversary, Polly would sever my right hand. I love her, but the unoriginality is *really* starting to irk me.
Votey:
Handwritten header: Reading this 10 years later...
A bearded man with a furrowed brow looks unimpressed.
Man: THAT'S NOT HOW HANDS WORK.
A woman with orange hair in a green shirt holds out a small wooden box toward a blond man in a dark blue jacket.
Woman: I GOT YOU SOMETHING!
Man: HMM...
Sound effect (from the box): scratch-a scratch-a
Caption (below panel): Every year, two weeks before our anniversary, Polly would sever my right hand. I love her, but the unoriginality is *really* starting to irk me.
Votey:
Handwritten header: Reading this 10 years later...
A bearded man with a furrowed brow looks unimpressed.
Man: THAT'S NOT HOW HANDS WORK.
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic. An orange-haired woman in a green shirt holds out a small wooden box to a blond man in a dark blue jacket, exclaiming "I GOT YOU SOMETHING!" He replies "HMM..." while a scratching sound ("scratch-a scratch-a") comes from inside the box. The caption below reads: "Every year, two weeks before our anniversary, Polly would sever my right hand. I love her, but the unoriginality is really starting to irk me." The joke: the gift is his own severed hand, and the narrator is bored by the repetition rather than horrified. Votey (aftercomic), labeled "Reading this 10 years later...": a bearded, scowling man flatly says "THAT'S NOT HOW HANDS WORK."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.