2007-03-13
Original: 2007-03-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A cheerful superhero with flame-orange hair and a heart on his chest (referred to in the caption as "Buttercup Man") laughs wildly ("HA HA HA" fills the yellow background) while jovially stabbing a masked, bald man wearing a green bandana over his face. The hero clutches what he believes is a flower but is actually a dagger, which is plunged into the victim, producing a spray of blood.
Caption (narration):
In an effort to clean up the city, we switched Buttercup Man's flower with a dagger.
He thinks he's tickling.
Votey:
A man (drawn in a simple line-art style, with a flower on his chest) speaks:
"NO, IT'S TRUE. YOU CAN'T TICKLE YOURSELF. WATCH."
He reaches a hand toward himself, fingers wiggling as if to tickle.
A cheerful superhero with flame-orange hair and a heart on his chest (referred to in the caption as "Buttercup Man") laughs wildly ("HA HA HA" fills the yellow background) while jovially stabbing a masked, bald man wearing a green bandana over his face. The hero clutches what he believes is a flower but is actually a dagger, which is plunged into the victim, producing a spray of blood.
Caption (narration):
In an effort to clean up the city, we switched Buttercup Man's flower with a dagger.
He thinks he's tickling.
Votey:
A man (drawn in a simple line-art style, with a flower on his chest) speaks:
"NO, IT'S TRUE. YOU CAN'T TICKLE YOURSELF. WATCH."
He reaches a hand toward himself, fingers wiggling as if to tickle.
Alt text
A single-panel comic. A grinning superhero with bright orange hair and a heart on his costume laughs maniacally, the yellow background filled with "HA HA HA." He happily jabs a dagger into a bald masked man in a green bandana, drawing a spray of blood, but the hero appears to think he is holding a harmless flower. Caption: "In an effort to clean up the city, we switched Buttercup Man's flower with a dagger. He thinks he's tickling." The joke is that the cheerful hero is unknowingly killing villains, believing he's only tickling them. Votey: a line-drawn man with a flower on his chest declares, "No, it's true. You can't tickle yourself. Watch," reaching toward himself with wiggling fingers.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.