2008-09-13
Original: 2008-09-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A red-haired woman (holding a sheet of paper): I found this old list on your desk... do... do you feel you've given up on your dreams?
A balding man in a green shirt and glasses (gesturing emphatically): No! No! No, they've just changed since then. Here, let me fix the list.
Panel 2 (close-up of the list, a handwritten numbered list with items crossed out and replacements written in red above them):
2) SEE THE WORLD [crossed out], replaced with: Have boring domestic life
3) WRITE A NOVEL [crossed out], replaced with: Own several ties
Votey:
The balding man (speech bubble): I'm keeping that one.
The list, showing one item NOT crossed out at the bottom:
Sleep with beautiful woman
A red-haired woman (holding a sheet of paper): I found this old list on your desk... do... do you feel you've given up on your dreams?
A balding man in a green shirt and glasses (gesturing emphatically): No! No! No, they've just changed since then. Here, let me fix the list.
Panel 2 (close-up of the list, a handwritten numbered list with items crossed out and replacements written in red above them):
2) SEE THE WORLD [crossed out], replaced with: Have boring domestic life
3) WRITE A NOVEL [crossed out], replaced with: Own several ties
Votey:
The balding man (speech bubble): I'm keeping that one.
The list, showing one item NOT crossed out at the bottom:
Sleep with beautiful woman
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Panel 1: a red-haired woman holds up a sheet of paper and gently asks a balding, bespectacled man in a green shirt, "I found this old list on your desk... do... do you feel you've given up on your dreams?" He gestures defensively and insists, "No! No! No, they've just changed since then. Here, let me fix the list." Panel 2: a close-up of the handwritten to-do list of life dreams. Two ambitious items are crossed out and replaced in red with deflated, mundane versions: "SEE THE WORLD" becomes "Have boring domestic life," and "WRITE A NOVEL" becomes "Own several ties." Votey (aftercomic): the man points to one remaining item on the list and says, "I'm keeping that one." That uncrossed item reads: "Sleep with beautiful woman" — the dream he gets to keep is the woman he's talking to.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.