2008-09-21
Original: 2008-09-21 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title text (above the comic): I HATE WHEN I GET MY PHRASES MIXED
Panel 1: A doctor with flame-like orange hair wearing a white coat and a head mirror sits at a table, grinning. Across from him, a balding man in an orange shirt eats from a fork with something red on it, looking at a red dish in front of him.
Doctor: AH, THE MIRACLE OF LIFE!
Panel 2: The same doctor (seen from behind, orange hair) sits beside a hospital bed where a woman with brown hair in a green gown holds a newborn baby. She looks at him with a flat, unimpressed expression.
Doctor: YOU GONNA EAT THAT?
Votey:
Panel 1: A storefront sign reads "DISCOUNT BROTHEL." A man stands facing a woman with curly hair.
Man: I LOVE YOU!
Panel 2: A man stands near a mailbox at the entrance to a house. A woman in the doorway greets him.
Woman: HONEY, YOU'RE HOME!
Man: FIFTY BUCKS.
Panel 1: A doctor with flame-like orange hair wearing a white coat and a head mirror sits at a table, grinning. Across from him, a balding man in an orange shirt eats from a fork with something red on it, looking at a red dish in front of him.
Doctor: AH, THE MIRACLE OF LIFE!
Panel 2: The same doctor (seen from behind, orange hair) sits beside a hospital bed where a woman with brown hair in a green gown holds a newborn baby. She looks at him with a flat, unimpressed expression.
Doctor: YOU GONNA EAT THAT?
Votey:
Panel 1: A storefront sign reads "DISCOUNT BROTHEL." A man stands facing a woman with curly hair.
Man: I LOVE YOU!
Panel 2: A man stands near a mailbox at the entrance to a house. A woman in the doorway greets him.
Woman: HONEY, YOU'RE HOME!
Man: FIFTY BUCKS.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic titled "I HATE WHEN I GET MY PHRASES MIXED." The joke conflates the awe of childbirth with the appetite for a meal. Panel 1: A red-haired doctor in a white coat and head mirror sits at a table grinning at a balding man in an orange shirt who is eating something red off a fork, with a red dish before him. The doctor says, "Ah, the miracle of life!" Panel 2: The same doctor sits beside a hospital bed where a brown-haired woman in a green gown cradles her newborn baby, eyeing him warily. The doctor asks, "You gonna eat that?" -- having swapped the dinner-table line into the delivery room. Votey (black-and-white bonus comic): Panel 1: Outside a storefront marked "DISCOUNT BROTHEL," a man says to a curly-haired woman, "I love you!" Panel 2: At a house with a mailbox out front, a woman greets a man in the doorway, "Honey, you're home!" and he replies, "Fifty bucks" -- mixing up his wife with the prostitute.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.