2006-10-12
Original: 2006-10-12 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A surgeon in scrubs and a head mirror holds a scalpel, smiling. A nurse in a surgical mask and a male patient look on.
Nurse: DOCTOR! AREN'T YOU GOING TO STERILIZE THAT SCALPEL?!
Surgeon: STERILIZE? WHAT IF HE WANTS TO HAVE KIDS SOME DAY?
Panel 2:
The surgeon and the patient both laugh hard, the background filled with "HAHAHA" text. The nurse stands between them, not laughing.
Panel 3:
Caption: LATER...
The surgeon stands with an elderly white-haired woman.
Elderly woman: HE DIED OF A MYSTERIOUS STAPH INFECTION... I WISH THERE WERE SOMETHING I COULD SAY TO MAKE IT BETTER...
Bottom caption: It was at this point that I made the mistake of telling her the scalpel joke.
Votey:
A hand-drawn man's face looks slightly to the side.
Man: You are the only one not laughing
A surgeon in scrubs and a head mirror holds a scalpel, smiling. A nurse in a surgical mask and a male patient look on.
Nurse: DOCTOR! AREN'T YOU GOING TO STERILIZE THAT SCALPEL?!
Surgeon: STERILIZE? WHAT IF HE WANTS TO HAVE KIDS SOME DAY?
Panel 2:
The surgeon and the patient both laugh hard, the background filled with "HAHAHA" text. The nurse stands between them, not laughing.
Panel 3:
Caption: LATER...
The surgeon stands with an elderly white-haired woman.
Elderly woman: HE DIED OF A MYSTERIOUS STAPH INFECTION... I WISH THERE WERE SOMETHING I COULD SAY TO MAKE IT BETTER...
Bottom caption: It was at this point that I made the mistake of telling her the scalpel joke.
Votey:
A hand-drawn man's face looks slightly to the side.
Man: You are the only one not laughing
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A grinning surgeon in scrubs holds an unsterilized scalpel; a masked nurse exclaims, "Doctor! Aren't you going to sterilize that scalpel?!" The surgeon replies, "Sterilize? What if he wants to have kids some day?" Panel 2: The surgeon and the male patient both burst out laughing (the background is covered in "HAHAHA"), while the nurse stands between them, stone-faced and not laughing. Panel 3: Labeled "Later...", the surgeon stands beside a grieving elderly woman who says, "He died of a mysterious staph infection... I wish there were something I could say to make it better..." A caption under the comic reads: "It was at this point that I made the mistake of telling her the scalpel joke." Votey: A loosely sketched man's face says to the woman, "You are the only one not laughing."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.