2008-09-16
Original: 2008-09-16 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (yellow banner at top): BEING UNEMPLOYED HAS MADE DATING A LOT HARDER
Man (with brown hair, green shirt, grinning and pointing): Are you my mom? Because I'd like to live at your place.
The woman beside him (with red/orange hair) looks unimpressed and uncomfortable.
Votey:
An older woman (the man's mother, wearing glasses) stands behind the same brown-haired man, with another figure in shadow in the foreground.
Older woman: You'll do better next time, sweetie.
Man (with brown hair, green shirt, grinning and pointing): Are you my mom? Because I'd like to live at your place.
The woman beside him (with red/orange hair) looks unimpressed and uncomfortable.
Votey:
An older woman (the man's mother, wearing glasses) stands behind the same brown-haired man, with another figure in shadow in the foreground.
Older woman: You'll do better next time, sweetie.
Alt text
Main comic: A single panel. A yellow banner caption at the top reads 'BEING UNEMPLOYED HAS MADE DATING A LOT HARDER.' A grinning brown-haired man in a green shirt points and delivers a pickup line in a speech bubble: 'Are you my mom? Because I'd like to live at your place.' The red-haired woman next to him gives an unimpressed, put-off expression. The joke is that an unemployed man's dating line accidentally reveals he just wants free housing. Votey (aftercomic, black-and-white): The same man stands looking dejected while his bespectacled elderly mother, behind him, consoles him: 'You'll do better next time, sweetie.' A shadowed figure looms in the foreground. The beat: his actual mom is comforting him after the line flopped, confirming he really does still live with her.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.