2006-07-18
Original: 2006-07-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: SMBC PRESENTS: TOMMY, THE OFFICE PRANKSTER
Panel 1:
Tommy (a smiling young man with blond hair, wearing a shirt and tie): "Hey kids! I'm Tommy, the office prankster!"
Panel 2:
Tommy (holding a gun and placing it on a desk): "Today, I'm switching my boss' desk pistol with this novelty gun!"
Panel 3:
Tommy (grinning): "In a half hour, I'll burst in, pretending to be a robber! Hoohoo!"
Panel 4:
Caption: 30 MINUTES LATER...
(Tommy, wearing a black mask and pointing the gun, bursts in on his gray-haired boss. A red 'BANG' flash erupts from the boss firing a real gun back at Tommy.)
Votey:
(Close-up of Tommy's masked face, looking dazed/dying)
Tommy: "Do I still get severance?"
Panel 1:
Tommy (a smiling young man with blond hair, wearing a shirt and tie): "Hey kids! I'm Tommy, the office prankster!"
Panel 2:
Tommy (holding a gun and placing it on a desk): "Today, I'm switching my boss' desk pistol with this novelty gun!"
Panel 3:
Tommy (grinning): "In a half hour, I'll burst in, pretending to be a robber! Hoohoo!"
Panel 4:
Caption: 30 MINUTES LATER...
(Tommy, wearing a black mask and pointing the gun, bursts in on his gray-haired boss. A red 'BANG' flash erupts from the boss firing a real gun back at Tommy.)
Votey:
(Close-up of Tommy's masked face, looking dazed/dying)
Tommy: "Do I still get severance?"
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic titled 'SMBC PRESENTS: TOMMY, THE OFFICE PRANKSTER.' Panel 1: a cheerful blond man in shirt and tie says, 'Hey kids! I'm Tommy, the office prankster!' Panel 2: he places a gun on a desk, saying, 'Today, I'm switching my boss' desk pistol with this novelty gun!' Panel 3: grinning, he says, 'In a half hour, I'll burst in, pretending to be a robber! Hoohoo!' Panel 4, captioned '30 minutes later...': Tommy, now wearing a black robber's mask and pointing the gun, bursts in on his gray-haired boss, who fires back with a real gun in a red 'BANG' flash. The joke: the boss kept his real pistol and shot the supposed robber. Votey aftercomic: a close-up of Tommy's masked, dazed face as he asks, 'Do I still get severance?'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.