2005-05-17
Original: 2005-05-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man in foreground (seen from behind, name established as Lloyd by caption): "My head hurts a little."
Man with flame-like orange hair, grinning, holding up a jar: "HOW ABOUT SOME TYLENOL!?"
Label on the jar he is holding out: "RAT POISON"
Caption (below panel): It's tough having Lloyd as a roommate. On the plus side, now I know why my wife is dead.
Votey:
The orange-haired man (now drawn with a flat, deadpan expression): "I'm not mad. Just disappointed."
Man in foreground (seen from behind, name established as Lloyd by caption): "My head hurts a little."
Man with flame-like orange hair, grinning, holding up a jar: "HOW ABOUT SOME TYLENOL!?"
Label on the jar he is holding out: "RAT POISON"
Caption (below panel): It's tough having Lloyd as a roommate. On the plus side, now I know why my wife is dead.
Votey:
The orange-haired man (now drawn with a flat, deadpan expression): "I'm not mad. Just disappointed."
Alt text
Main comic: A single panel. On the right, a grinning man with spiky flame-like orange hair eagerly holds out a brown jar toward another man seen from behind. The man from behind (named Lloyd in the caption) says, "My head hurts a little." The orange-haired man enthusiastically offers, "HOW ABOUT SOME TYLENOL!?" but the jar he's holding is clearly labeled "RAT POISON." A caption below reads: "It's tough having Lloyd as a roommate. On the plus side, now I know why my wife is dead." The joke: the narrator's roommate keeps trying to poison people, which retroactively explains the wife's death. Votey (aftercomic): A close-up of the orange-haired man, now wearing a flat, deadpan, faintly sour expression, saying, "I'm not mad. Just disappointed."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.