2008-06-20
Original: 2008-06-20 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A salesman with red/orange hair, wearing a red shirt and yellow-and-green striped tie, leans forward earnestly toward a customer (a man seen from behind, dark brown hair, blue jacket) who is carrying a briefcase. The salesman holds a finger near his own mouth, pitching intently.
Salesman: COULD YOUR REFRIGERATOR BE... ALIVE?!
Customer: NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT.
Caption (below panel): The world wasn't ready for my at-home Turing tests.
Votey:
A hand-drawn sketch of the same red-haired salesman's face, looking worried/uneasy. A speech bubble points at him.
Speech bubble: Maybe you should talk to it more
A salesman with red/orange hair, wearing a red shirt and yellow-and-green striped tie, leans forward earnestly toward a customer (a man seen from behind, dark brown hair, blue jacket) who is carrying a briefcase. The salesman holds a finger near his own mouth, pitching intently.
Salesman: COULD YOUR REFRIGERATOR BE... ALIVE?!
Customer: NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT.
Caption (below panel): The world wasn't ready for my at-home Turing tests.
Votey:
A hand-drawn sketch of the same red-haired salesman's face, looking worried/uneasy. A speech bubble points at him.
Speech bubble: Maybe you should talk to it more
Alt text
A comic. In a single panel, a red-haired salesman in a red shirt and striped tie leans eagerly toward a customer seen from behind who is holding a briefcase. The salesman, finger raised near his mouth, asks excitedly, 'COULD YOUR REFRIGERATOR BE... ALIVE?!' The customer flatly replies, 'NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT.' A caption below reads: 'The world wasn't ready for my at-home Turing tests.' Votey (aftercomic): a loose hand-drawn sketch of the same salesman's worried face, with a speech bubble aimed at him reading, 'Maybe you should talk to it more.' The joke: he treats selling refrigerators as administering Turing tests, and is being told to befriend the appliance.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.