2007-09-30
Original: 2007-09-30 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: An older scientist with gray hair and glasses, in a white lab coat, sits hunched over a microscope at a lab bench with flasks and a paper. An off-panel voice calls out.
Off-panel voice: "DOCTOR MATSON!"
Panel 2: A bald, frowning older man in a lab coat and glasses (Doctor Matson) is shown in close-up. A speech bubble from off-panel announces news to him.
Off-panel voice: "WE'VE DISCOVERED A CURE!"
Panel 3: The same man, now grinning broadly, eyes wide with excitement.
Doctor Matson: "COME TO ROOM 142!"
Panel 4: A wide shot of a doorway / window labeled "142". Through it, the grinning scientist in a lab coat is seen with his arms spread wide, bursting toward the viewer. A small bucket or container labeled with letters sits on top of the frame. Two other lab-coated figures (a brown-haired woman and a red-haired man) stand to the right, smiling.
Votey:
A loose, sketchy black-and-white drawing of a large lampshade-like shape (or a slumped, formless figure) sitting on the ground with motion/sketch lines around its base. A speech bubble points to it.
The shape: "Am I cured?"
Off-panel voice: "DOCTOR MATSON!"
Panel 2: A bald, frowning older man in a lab coat and glasses (Doctor Matson) is shown in close-up. A speech bubble from off-panel announces news to him.
Off-panel voice: "WE'VE DISCOVERED A CURE!"
Panel 3: The same man, now grinning broadly, eyes wide with excitement.
Doctor Matson: "COME TO ROOM 142!"
Panel 4: A wide shot of a doorway / window labeled "142". Through it, the grinning scientist in a lab coat is seen with his arms spread wide, bursting toward the viewer. A small bucket or container labeled with letters sits on top of the frame. Two other lab-coated figures (a brown-haired woman and a red-haired man) stand to the right, smiling.
Votey:
A loose, sketchy black-and-white drawing of a large lampshade-like shape (or a slumped, formless figure) sitting on the ground with motion/sketch lines around its base. A speech bubble points to it.
The shape: "Am I cured?"
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a gray-haired scientist in a lab coat hunches over a microscope at a cluttered lab bench; an off-panel voice yells "DOCTOR MATSON!" Panel 2: close-up of a bald, frowning scientist (Doctor Matson) as an off-panel voice announces "WE'VE DISCOVERED A CURE!" Panel 3: the same man now beams with excitement and says "COME TO ROOM 142!" Panel 4: a wide shot of a doorway marked "142" through which the grinning scientist lunges arms-wide toward the viewer, while two other lab-coated colleagues stand smiling to the side. Votey (bonus panel): a crude black-and-white sketch of a slumped, formless lampshade-like blob with motion lines, a speech bubble asking "Am I cured?" — the punchline that the "cured" patient is an unrecognizable, deformed mass.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.