2008-10-28
Original: 2008-10-28 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A distraught man with glasses and brown hair (shown from behind/profile, in the foreground) sits across a desk from a uniformed police officer who is holding a sandwich. A drink cup, a takeout bag, and a small potted plant sit on the desk between them.
Distraught man (Mr. Becker): "PLEASE... TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TO HER..."
Police officer: "OH... GEEZ... HOW DO I SAY... UH... OH! OKAY, IMAGINE I'M THE KILLER, AND THIS CHICKEN SANDWICH IS YOUR WIFE."
Caption (below panel): "Apparently, Mr. Becker didn't appreciate my “tastes like chicken” joke either."
Votey:
The police officer raises the chicken sandwich to his mouth and bites into it, while off-panel (in his speech bubble, voicing the wife/reenactment) come the words: "NO! NO! STOP IT! NO! OMP!"
A distraught man with glasses and brown hair (shown from behind/profile, in the foreground) sits across a desk from a uniformed police officer who is holding a sandwich. A drink cup, a takeout bag, and a small potted plant sit on the desk between them.
Distraught man (Mr. Becker): "PLEASE... TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TO HER..."
Police officer: "OH... GEEZ... HOW DO I SAY... UH... OH! OKAY, IMAGINE I'M THE KILLER, AND THIS CHICKEN SANDWICH IS YOUR WIFE."
Caption (below panel): "Apparently, Mr. Becker didn't appreciate my “tastes like chicken” joke either."
Votey:
The police officer raises the chicken sandwich to his mouth and bites into it, while off-panel (in his speech bubble, voicing the wife/reenactment) come the words: "NO! NO! STOP IT! NO! OMP!"
Alt text
A single-panel color SMBC comic set at a police desk. In the foreground, seen from behind, sits a grieving man with glasses and brown hair (Mr. Becker). Across the desk, a uniformed police officer holds a sandwich; a drink cup, takeout bag, and small potted plant are on the desk. Mr. Becker pleads, "Please... tell me what happened to her..." The officer fumbles for words: "Oh... geez... how do I say... uh... oh! okay, imagine I'm the killer, and this chicken sandwich is your wife." The caption below reads: "Apparently, Mr. Becker didn't appreciate my 'tastes like chicken' joke either." The joke is the officer's grotesquely tactless reenactment of a murder using his lunch. Votey (a black-and-white aftercomic panel): the officer bites into the chicken sandwich while voicing the reenacted victim, the speech bubble reading, "No! No! Stop it! No! OMP!" — "OMP" being the muffled sound of him chewing through the line.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.