2008-01-03
Original: 2008-01-03 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bald man (seen from behind) faces a smiling red-haired woman in a green shirt. The woman responds with escalating realization.
Woman: "HAHA! I DON'T KNOW, WHY?"
Woman: "EH?"
Woman: "OH..."
Woman: "OH, GOD"
Woman: "WASN'T THAT THE SETUP TO A JOKE?"
Panel 2:
Caption (yellow box): "MOMENTS PRIOR..."
The same bald man, now facing the woman, asks a question. The woman is seen from behind/in profile.
Man: "WHY DID MY WIFE HAVE TO DIE?"
Votey:
A rough sketch of a person speaking, delivering a knock-knock joke.
Person: "KNOCK KNOCK"
Other: "WHO'S THERE?"
Person: "YOUR DEAD WIFE!"
A bald man (seen from behind) faces a smiling red-haired woman in a green shirt. The woman responds with escalating realization.
Woman: "HAHA! I DON'T KNOW, WHY?"
Woman: "EH?"
Woman: "OH..."
Woman: "OH, GOD"
Woman: "WASN'T THAT THE SETUP TO A JOKE?"
Panel 2:
Caption (yellow box): "MOMENTS PRIOR..."
The same bald man, now facing the woman, asks a question. The woman is seen from behind/in profile.
Man: "WHY DID MY WIFE HAVE TO DIE?"
Votey:
A rough sketch of a person speaking, delivering a knock-knock joke.
Person: "KNOCK KNOCK"
Other: "WHO'S THERE?"
Person: "YOUR DEAD WIFE!"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a bald man, seen from behind, faces a smiling red-haired woman in a green shirt who is mid-laugh. Her speech escalates from amusement to horror as she realizes her mistake: "Haha! I don't know, why? Eh? Oh... Oh, God. Wasn't that the setup to a joke?" Panel 2, captioned "MOMENTS PRIOR...": the same man earnestly asks the woman, "Why did my wife have to die?" — revealing she had laughed at a grieving man's genuine anguish, mistaking it for a joke's setup. Votey: a crude sketch of someone telling a tasteless knock-knock joke — "Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Your dead wife!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.