2006-06-16
Original: 2006-06-16 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bald man in a white tank top with tattoos (a skull on his shoulder, others on his chest) holds a broken bottle by the neck, its jagged edges pointed toward another man whose head we see from behind. The bald man shouts.
Bald man: YOU WANNA SAY THAT TO MY FACE, PUNK?!
Panel 2 (labeled "MOMENTS PRIOR..."):
The same two men stand calmly. The man (with light reddish-brown hair, in a green shirt) speaks politely while the bald man holds an intact bottle to his own mouth.
Man in green shirt: SAY, WOULD YOU MIND BREAKING THAT BOTTLE AND THREATENING ME WITH THE JAGGED EDGES WHILE SHOUTING A RHETORICAL QUESTION?
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "punchline funnyness" and the horizontal axis is labeled "# of words." A red curve rises steeply upward to the right, indicating that punchline funniness increases as the number of words increases.
A bald man in a white tank top with tattoos (a skull on his shoulder, others on his chest) holds a broken bottle by the neck, its jagged edges pointed toward another man whose head we see from behind. The bald man shouts.
Bald man: YOU WANNA SAY THAT TO MY FACE, PUNK?!
Panel 2 (labeled "MOMENTS PRIOR..."):
The same two men stand calmly. The man (with light reddish-brown hair, in a green shirt) speaks politely while the bald man holds an intact bottle to his own mouth.
Man in green shirt: SAY, WOULD YOU MIND BREAKING THAT BOTTLE AND THREATENING ME WITH THE JAGGED EDGES WHILE SHOUTING A RHETORICAL QUESTION?
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "punchline funnyness" and the horizontal axis is labeled "# of words." A red curve rises steeply upward to the right, indicating that punchline funniness increases as the number of words increases.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a bald, tattooed man in a white tank top brandishes a broken bottle by its neck, jagged edges aimed at another man seen from behind, and yells, "YOU WANNA SAY THAT TO MY FACE, PUNK?!" Panel 2, labeled "MOMENTS PRIOR...": the same two men stand calmly; the bald man drinks from an intact bottle while the other man, with reddish hair and a green shirt, politely asks, "Say, would you mind breaking that bottle and threatening me with the jagged edges while shouting a rhetorical question?" The joke: the aggressive bar-fight threat was actually a courteous favor he requested. Votey: a hand-drawn line graph with a red curve rising steeply upward; the y-axis reads "punchline funnyness" and the x-axis reads "# of words," implying more words make the punchline funnier.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.