2006-03-25
Original: 2006-03-25 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Patient (a man with red-orange hair, in a blue shirt): SO DOC, WHAT IS IT?
Panel 2:
Doctor (a man wearing a head mirror and lab coat, grinning): OH I'M JUST ITCHIN' TO TELL YOU!
Panel 3:
(The doctor grins broadly, leaning toward the patient. No dialogue.)
Panel 4:
(The doctor continues grinning, holding the dramatic pause. No dialogue.)
Panel 5:
(The doctor still grinning, drawing out the silence. No dialogue.)
Panel 6:
(The doctor's grin begins to relax/fade. No dialogue.)
Panel 7:
Patient: SO...
Panel 8:
Doctor (now deadpan): YOU HAVE HERPES.
Votey:
A close-up of the doctor's face, drawn in loose sketch style with a flat, unamused expression. Speech bubble: OF THE SENSE OF HUMOR
Patient (a man with red-orange hair, in a blue shirt): SO DOC, WHAT IS IT?
Panel 2:
Doctor (a man wearing a head mirror and lab coat, grinning): OH I'M JUST ITCHIN' TO TELL YOU!
Panel 3:
(The doctor grins broadly, leaning toward the patient. No dialogue.)
Panel 4:
(The doctor continues grinning, holding the dramatic pause. No dialogue.)
Panel 5:
(The doctor still grinning, drawing out the silence. No dialogue.)
Panel 6:
(The doctor's grin begins to relax/fade. No dialogue.)
Panel 7:
Patient: SO...
Panel 8:
Doctor (now deadpan): YOU HAVE HERPES.
Votey:
A close-up of the doctor's face, drawn in loose sketch style with a flat, unamused expression. Speech bubble: OF THE SENSE OF HUMOR
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired patient in a blue shirt sits across from a grinning doctor wearing a head mirror and lab coat. Panel 1, patient: "So doc, what is it?" Panel 2, doctor, beaming: "Oh I'm just itchin' to tell you!" Panels 3 through 6 are nearly identical close-ups of the doctor holding a long, grinning dramatic pause that slowly fades. Panel 7, patient, deadpan: "So..." Panel 8, the doctor, now flat-faced: "You have herpes." The joke is the over-long buildup to a blunt diagnosis. Votey: a loose sketch close-up of the doctor's deadpan face with a speech bubble completing the line: "Of the sense of humor."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.