2005-11-02
Original: 2005-11-02 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Single panel. A man with brown hair in a green sweater stands on the left, facing a person with long reddish-brown hair seen from behind on the right. A cascade of speech bubbles fills the panel, the dialogue rapidly deflating from excitement to anticlimax.
Man: HONEY! WE'RE PREGNANT!
Man: OH COME ON! HE DOESN'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE ME!
Man: OH... HEH, SORRY... JUMPING THE GUN A LITTLE THERE I GUESS, HUH?
Man: RIGHT?
Man: WOOH...
Man: YEAH...
Man: SO, WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
Votey:
Handwritten caption at the top: "Reading this in 2015"
Below it, a bearded man's face with a puzzled, slightly weary expression. His speech bubble reads: "So... the thing on the right is a plant? or..."
Man: HONEY! WE'RE PREGNANT!
Man: OH COME ON! HE DOESN'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE ME!
Man: OH... HEH, SORRY... JUMPING THE GUN A LITTLE THERE I GUESS, HUH?
Man: RIGHT?
Man: WOOH...
Man: YEAH...
Man: SO, WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
Votey:
Handwritten caption at the top: "Reading this in 2015"
Below it, a bearded man's face with a puzzled, slightly weary expression. His speech bubble reads: "So... the thing on the right is a plant? or..."
Alt text
A single-panel comic in bright yellow. A brown-haired man in a green sweater faces a long-haired person seen from behind. A stack of his speech bubbles tumbles from manic excitement down to bored normalcy: 'HONEY! WE'RE PREGNANT!' / 'OH COME ON! HE DOESN'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE ME!' / 'OH... HEH, SORRY... JUMPING THE GUN A LITTLE THERE I GUESS, HUH?' / 'RIGHT?' / 'WOOH...' / 'YEAH...' / 'SO, WHAT'S FOR DINNER?' The joke is that he compresses an entire arc of false alarm, paternity panic, and recovery into a few seconds before casually asking about dinner. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn sketch labeled 'Reading this in 2015' shows a puzzled bearded man squinting, with the speech bubble 'So... the thing on the right is a plant? or...' — a reader years later unable to even parse what the figure on the right is supposed to be.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.