2007-03-28
Original: 2007-03-28 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: SMBC PRESENTS PRACTICAL JOKING TIPS
Subtitle: TYPICAL PRACTICAL JOKES LAST A MOMENT. GREAT PRACTICAL JOKES LAST A LIFETIME.
Panel 1:
A red-haired woman speaking to a younger red-haired person (a child) across a table, on which sits a sombrero.
Woman: "Now that you've entered womanhood... here is your menstruation sombrero, I... don't think I need to tell you how it works."
Votey:
Caption: 10 YEARS LATER
The same woman, now older, leans in toward the now-grown daughter.
Woman: "GOTCHA!"
The daughter looks back, taken aback.
Subtitle: TYPICAL PRACTICAL JOKES LAST A MOMENT. GREAT PRACTICAL JOKES LAST A LIFETIME.
Panel 1:
A red-haired woman speaking to a younger red-haired person (a child) across a table, on which sits a sombrero.
Woman: "Now that you've entered womanhood... here is your menstruation sombrero, I... don't think I need to tell you how it works."
Votey:
Caption: 10 YEARS LATER
The same woman, now older, leans in toward the now-grown daughter.
Woman: "GOTCHA!"
The daughter looks back, taken aback.
Alt text
An SMBC comic titled "SMBC Presents: Practical Joking Tips," subtitled "Typical practical jokes last a moment. Great practical jokes last a lifetime." In the single panel, a red-haired mother sits across a table from her red-haired child, a sombrero resting on the table between them. She says: "Now that you've entered womanhood... here is your menstruation sombrero, I... don't think I need to tell you how it works." The joke is that she's pretending the sombrero is a real menstrual product and deliberately won't explain it. Votey (aftercomic): a caption reads "10 years later," and the now-older mother leans toward her grown daughter and shouts "Gotcha!" — revealing the whole thing was a decade-long practical joke.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.