2008-01-23
Original: 2008-01-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: TIP FOR DOCTORS: DON'T TALK SO LOUDLY IN THE MRI ROOM
Panel 1: A man lies on his back inside an MRI machine, eyes closed. Offscreen voices (the doctors operating the machine) are heard through his head.
Voice 1: HEY! THIS THING LOOKS JUST LIKE A STARFISH! (followed by raucous laughter: AHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA...)
Voice 2: YEAH, EXCEPT YOU CAN OPERATE ON A STARFISH!
Votey:
A bespectacled doctor holding a chart speaks to a person whose back is to the viewer.
Doctor: WE THINK YOU'LL BE JUST FINE.
Panel 1: A man lies on his back inside an MRI machine, eyes closed. Offscreen voices (the doctors operating the machine) are heard through his head.
Voice 1: HEY! THIS THING LOOKS JUST LIKE A STARFISH! (followed by raucous laughter: AHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA...)
Voice 2: YEAH, EXCEPT YOU CAN OPERATE ON A STARFISH!
Votey:
A bespectacled doctor holding a chart speaks to a person whose back is to the viewer.
Doctor: WE THINK YOU'LL BE JUST FINE.
Alt text
A two-part comic. Main panel: a man lies on his back with eyes closed inside an MRI machine. A yellow title banner reads 'TIP FOR DOCTORS: DON'T TALK SO LOUDLY IN THE MRI ROOM.' Two speech bubbles, presumably from doctors he can overhear, say: 'Hey! This thing looks just like a starfish!' (with a big burst of 'AHAHAHA' laughter) and 'Yeah, except you can OPERATE on a starfish!' The joke: the patient overhears his doctors joking that his scan is so bad his condition is inoperable. Votey (small follow-up panel, black-and-white): a bespectacled doctor holding a chart faces a patient seen from behind and says reassuringly, 'We think you'll be just fine.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.