2006-07-10
Original: 2006-07-10 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Setting: a backyard pool party on a sunny day. Purple silhouetted partygoers mingle in the background near a wooden fence.
A blonde woman in a red one-piece swimsuit reaches up and presses a paper bag onto the head of a man in a gray t-shirt. The bag has a smiling face drawn on it.
Woman: "THERE!"
Caption (below panel): "Now nobody else feels depressed!"
Votey:
Close-up of two faces. On the left, a woman with a distressed, frowning, teary expression. On the right, the man's head now covered by the paper bag with its drawn-on smiling face.
Woman: "Stop it! Your tears are making the bag soggy!"
Setting: a backyard pool party on a sunny day. Purple silhouetted partygoers mingle in the background near a wooden fence.
A blonde woman in a red one-piece swimsuit reaches up and presses a paper bag onto the head of a man in a gray t-shirt. The bag has a smiling face drawn on it.
Woman: "THERE!"
Caption (below panel): "Now nobody else feels depressed!"
Votey:
Close-up of two faces. On the left, a woman with a distressed, frowning, teary expression. On the right, the man's head now covered by the paper bag with its drawn-on smiling face.
Woman: "Stop it! Your tears are making the bag soggy!"
Alt text
Main comic, single panel: At a sunny backyard pool party with purple silhouetted guests in the background, a blonde woman in a red swimsuit presses a paper bag with a drawn-on smiley face down onto the head of a man in a gray t-shirt, declaring "THERE!" The caption reads: "Now nobody else feels depressed!" The joke: she has hidden his sad face behind a fake-happy bag so the party stays cheerful. Votey (aftercomic): a black-and-white close-up of the same two people. The woman now has a frowning, teary face, while the man's head is still inside the smiley-face bag. She snaps, "Stop it! Your tears are making the bag soggy!" — the forced cheer has spread her own distress, and the man is silently crying inside the bag.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.