2005-12-29
Original: 2005-12-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (holding a knife, hand raised defensively): IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE OFFICER! IT'S KETCHUP!
Caption (below panel): That's right - they broke my ketchup bottle, so I shot them!
Votey:
Man (close-up, deadpan): So, I stabbed them.
Man (holding a knife, hand raised defensively): IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE OFFICER! IT'S KETCHUP!
Caption (below panel): That's right - they broke my ketchup bottle, so I shot them!
Votey:
Man (close-up, deadpan): So, I stabbed them.
Alt text
Main comic, single panel: A smiling man in a green polo shirt stands with one hand raised in a placating gesture, gripping a bloody knife in his other hand. Behind and below him lie two bloodied, fallen figures. A dark silhouette of a police officer's head and shoulder fills the lower right foreground. The man says, 'IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE OFFICER! IT'S KETCHUP!' A caption below reads: 'That's right - they broke my ketchup bottle, so I shot them!' The joke is the man's flailing, contradictory excuses for an obvious double homicide. Votey: a rough black-and-white close-up of the man's face, expression flat and resigned, calmly adding, 'So, I stabbed them.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.