2005-10-08
Original: 2005-10-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bald, bearded man in an orange jumpsuit, one wrist shackled with a chained cuff, is using a handsaw to saw through his own arm at the wrist/forearm. He is screaming.
Man: PAIN ISN'T REAL! THE FLESH IS WEAK! THE FLESH IS WEAK!
Caption (below panel): Nothing was gonna keep me from that PTA meeting.
Votey:
The same bald man, now calm and tidy, sits in a sparse room speaking up.
Man: I have some concerns about after school programs.
A bald, bearded man in an orange jumpsuit, one wrist shackled with a chained cuff, is using a handsaw to saw through his own arm at the wrist/forearm. He is screaming.
Man: PAIN ISN'T REAL! THE FLESH IS WEAK! THE FLESH IS WEAK!
Caption (below panel): Nothing was gonna keep me from that PTA meeting.
Votey:
The same bald man, now calm and tidy, sits in a sparse room speaking up.
Man: I have some concerns about after school programs.
Alt text
A bald, bearded man in an orange prison-style jumpsuit, with a chained cuff locked around one wrist, frantically saws through his own forearm with a handsaw while screaming, his speech bubble in jagged yellow reading: "PAIN ISN'T REAL! THE FLESH IS WEAK! THE FLESH IS WEAK!" The caption beneath reads: "Nothing was gonna keep me from that PTA meeting." The joke: his manic, self-mutilating escape was all so he could attend a mundane parent-teacher meeting. Votey (aftercomic): the same now-calm man sits in a plain room and politely says, "I have some concerns about after school programs" — the absurdly ordinary payoff to his desperate escape.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.