2007-04-07
Original: 2007-04-07 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: SMBC PRESENTS
UNTRUE TRUISMS: EPISODE 1: "CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT"
Panel (single image): A large bottle labeled "BLEACH" sits tipped over on its side. Its cap is off, and a small amount of liquid has spilled out onto the surface, trailing toward the foreground. There is no cat or other character visible in the scene.
Votey:
A man with flame-like (orange) hair, seen in profile, thinks to himself in a thought bubble: "OKAY, THIS ONE HAS GOT TO GET ME SOME HATEMAIL."
UNTRUE TRUISMS: EPISODE 1: "CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT"
Panel (single image): A large bottle labeled "BLEACH" sits tipped over on its side. Its cap is off, and a small amount of liquid has spilled out onto the surface, trailing toward the foreground. There is no cat or other character visible in the scene.
Votey:
A man with flame-like (orange) hair, seen in profile, thinks to himself in a thought bubble: "OKAY, THIS ONE HAS GOT TO GET ME SOME HATEMAIL."
Alt text
Main comic: A yellow title banner reads "SMBC PRESENTS / UNTRUE TRUISMS: EPISODE 1: 'CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT'." Below it is a single panel showing a large bottle labeled BLEACH knocked over on its side with the cap off, a small puddle of spilled liquid trailing across the floor. Pointedly, there is no cat anywhere in the image — the gag is that the bottle of bleach, not curiosity, did the killing, undercutting the proverb.
Votey (aftercomic): The cartoonist, a man drawn in profile with orange flame-like hair, thinks in a thought bubble: "Okay, this one has got to get me some hatemail." He's bracing for backlash over the dark dead-cat joke.
Votey (aftercomic): The cartoonist, a man drawn in profile with orange flame-like hair, thinks in a thought bubble: "Okay, this one has got to get me some hatemail." He's bracing for backlash over the dark dead-cat joke.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.