2007-06-13
Original: 2007-06-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man with brown curly hair holds up a pink card covered in a grid of X marks (resembling a bingo card with a label across the top). An orange-haired man gestures toward it. The brown-haired man's speech bubble shows a baby and a question mark (he is asking where babies come from / how the baby is made). The orange-haired man's speech bubble shows a stork-like bird (a pelican), giving the classic "the stork brings the baby" answer.
Panel 2: A woman with orange hair, hand raised as if explaining, faces the brown-haired man (seen from behind). His speech bubble again shows a baby and a question mark. Her speech bubble shows the stork/pelican bird — she gives the same stork answer.
Panel 3 (large bottom panel): The brown-haired man looks sweaty and disturbed, a thought cloud rising from his head. Inside the thought cloud, the orange-haired woman is depicted reclining and embracing/being intimate with a large white stork-pelican bird, beside a small table with lit candles — he has taken the "stork brings the baby" story literally and now imagines the woman literally having a romantic, candlelit encounter with the bird.
Votey: A simple black-and-white scene. A large bird (a swan/stork-like creature) with two dot eyes and a long neck sits with the brown-haired man beside it; he appears small and uneasy, sitting at a table-like ledge. The bird's long neck/body dominates the frame, continuing the absurd bird-as-romantic-partner gag.
Panel 2: A woman with orange hair, hand raised as if explaining, faces the brown-haired man (seen from behind). His speech bubble again shows a baby and a question mark. Her speech bubble shows the stork/pelican bird — she gives the same stork answer.
Panel 3 (large bottom panel): The brown-haired man looks sweaty and disturbed, a thought cloud rising from his head. Inside the thought cloud, the orange-haired woman is depicted reclining and embracing/being intimate with a large white stork-pelican bird, beside a small table with lit candles — he has taken the "stork brings the baby" story literally and now imagines the woman literally having a romantic, candlelit encounter with the bird.
Votey: A simple black-and-white scene. A large bird (a swan/stork-like creature) with two dot eyes and a long neck sits with the brown-haired man beside it; he appears small and uneasy, sitting at a table-like ledge. The bird's long neck/body dominates the frame, continuing the absurd bird-as-romantic-partner gag.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic about taking the "stork brings babies" myth literally. Panel 1: a brown-haired man holds up a pink bingo-style card and, via a speech bubble showing a baby and a question mark, asks where babies come from; an orange-haired man answers with a speech bubble showing a stork-like bird. Panel 2: an orange-haired woman gives the same answer — the man's bubble shows a baby and a question mark, hers shows the stork bird. Large bottom panel: the man, now sweaty with a worried thought cloud, imagines the woman reclining intimately with a giant white stork beside lit candles — he has concluded the woman must have literally had a romantic candlelit tryst with a bird to produce the baby. Votey (black-and-white aftercomic): the same uneasy man sits beside a huge long-necked swan/stork that fills the frame, extending the absurd bird-as-lover joke.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.