2007-05-01
Original: 2007-05-01 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A boy with reddish-orange hair sits at a desk in a classroom, taking a test. The test paper reads: "(1) How many valence electrons in a hydrogen atom?" His answer "Two." is crossed out and corrected in red to "one."
Panel 2: Caption at top: "LATER..." The boy walks alone through a desert landscape with palm trees, mountains, and a body of water.
Panel 3: The boy crouches in the desert and picks up a golden oil lamp from the sand.
Panel 4: A genie erupts from the lamp.
Genie: "YOU MAY HAVE ANYTHING YOU WISH!"
Panel 5: The boy responds.
Boy: "I WISH I'D GOT THAT QUESTION RIGHT."
A giant explosion fills the panel: "BOOM!"
Votey:
Caption at top: "HEAVEN..." A bearded man's face in profile speaks.
Man: "YOU KNOW WHAT? NEXT UNIVERSE, NO GENIES."
Panel 2: Caption at top: "LATER..." The boy walks alone through a desert landscape with palm trees, mountains, and a body of water.
Panel 3: The boy crouches in the desert and picks up a golden oil lamp from the sand.
Panel 4: A genie erupts from the lamp.
Genie: "YOU MAY HAVE ANYTHING YOU WISH!"
Panel 5: The boy responds.
Boy: "I WISH I'D GOT THAT QUESTION RIGHT."
A giant explosion fills the panel: "BOOM!"
Votey:
Caption at top: "HEAVEN..." A bearded man's face in profile speaks.
Man: "YOU KNOW WHAT? NEXT UNIVERSE, NO GENIES."
Alt text
A five-panel comic. Panel 1: a red-haired boy takes a classroom test; the question "How many valence electrons in a hydrogen atom?" shows his answer "Two" crossed out and corrected in red to "one." Panel 2, labeled "LATER," shows the boy walking alone through a palm-tree desert. Panel 3: he picks up a golden lamp from the sand. Panel 4: a genie bursts out shouting "YOU MAY HAVE ANYTHING YOU WISH!" Panel 5: instead of wishing for riches, the boy says "I WISH I'D GOT THAT QUESTION RIGHT," and a giant "BOOM!" explosion fills the panel. The votey panel, captioned "HEAVEN," shows a bearded man (apparently God) in profile sighing, "YOU KNOW WHAT? NEXT UNIVERSE, NO GENIES." The joke: the boy wastes a literal wish-granting genie on academic regret and apparently dies from it, prompting God to swear off genies.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.