2007-10-13
Original: 2007-10-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Doctor (in white coat, seated at a desk): "W-we recommend removing the railroad spike from your brain."
Patient (a person with a railroad spike driven through their head, holding a notepad): "Ah, so you favor a surgical approach as well."
Caption (below panel): For serious medical conditions, it's always good to get a second opinion.
Votey:
A crudely-drawn figure wearing glasses, scribbling notes, with a speech bubble reading: "I say two spikes."
Doctor (in white coat, seated at a desk): "W-we recommend removing the railroad spike from your brain."
Patient (a person with a railroad spike driven through their head, holding a notepad): "Ah, so you favor a surgical approach as well."
Caption (below panel): For serious medical conditions, it's always good to get a second opinion.
Votey:
A crudely-drawn figure wearing glasses, scribbling notes, with a speech bubble reading: "I say two spikes."
Alt text
A single-panel comic in a doctor's office. A nervous doctor in a white coat sits at a desk and stammers, "W-we recommend removing the railroad spike from your brain," speaking to a patient who has an actual railroad spike driven sideways straight through their skull. The patient, calmly taking notes on a pad, replies, "Ah, so you favor a surgical approach as well" — as if weighing competing expert recommendations. The caption reads: "For serious medical conditions, it's always good to get a second opinion." Votey (aftercomic): a roughly sketched figure in glasses, scribbling notes, declares, "I say two spikes" — the joke being that the patient's other consulted expert recommends adding a second spike rather than removing the first.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.