2007-02-17
Original: 2007-02-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: Three masked surgeons in scrubs stand around an operating table in an OR, with a bag of blood hanging on an IV stand and an organ (a liver) visible on the table.
Surgeon (older, gray-haired): "Wait... was this liver on the inside or outside when we started?"
Surgeon (woman with glasses and orange hair): "Eesh... anybody got a coin?"
Caption between panels: "SUBSEQUENTLY..."
Panel 2: A distressed man with dark hair turns toward another person, speaking against a yellow background.
Man: "My wife died of WHAT?!"
Panel 3: The woman surgeon with glasses and orange hair looks down at something in her hands (a coin she has just flipped).
Woman: "Tails."
Votey: A black-and-white panel. A large dog sits on a bed holding a bone in its mouth labeled "TAILS." A man stands in a doorway in the background looking on.
Dog: "Arf?"
Surgeon (older, gray-haired): "Wait... was this liver on the inside or outside when we started?"
Surgeon (woman with glasses and orange hair): "Eesh... anybody got a coin?"
Caption between panels: "SUBSEQUENTLY..."
Panel 2: A distressed man with dark hair turns toward another person, speaking against a yellow background.
Man: "My wife died of WHAT?!"
Panel 3: The woman surgeon with glasses and orange hair looks down at something in her hands (a coin she has just flipped).
Woman: "Tails."
Votey: A black-and-white panel. A large dog sits on a bed holding a bone in its mouth labeled "TAILS." A man stands in a doorway in the background looking on.
Dog: "Arf?"
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: three masked surgeons in scrubs stand around an operating table with a hanging blood bag and an organ on the table. The gray-haired surgeon asks, "Wait... was this liver on the inside or outside when we started?" An orange-haired surgeon in glasses replies, "Eesh... anybody got a coin?" A caption reads "SUBSEQUENTLY..." Panel 2: a distraught man exclaims, "My wife died of WHAT?!" Panel 3: the orange-haired surgeon looks down at a flipped coin and flatly says, "Tails." The joke: the surgeons literally flip a coin to decide their botched operation's outcome. Votey (black-and-white): a big dog sits on a bed holding a bone labeled "TAILS" in its mouth and says "Arf?" while a man watches from a doorway, a pun callback on "tails."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.