2008-11-28
Original: 2008-11-28 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A white-bearded old man (Noah-like) sits beside a woman with brown hair, holding a small red scorpion in his hand. She holds out another scorpion toward him.
Woman: "You uh... you decided to keep two kinds of each scorpion?"
Man: "The tsetse flies will have friends now!"
Panel 2:
A dim, rainy scene aboard the ark showing several animals lined up: a brown ape-like creature, a green sea-serpent/dinosaur, a white unicorn, and a turtle/tortoise in the background.
Votey:
The same white-bearded man lies in bed next to the woman.
Man: "So, which diseases do I have now?"
Woman: "Two of each kind!"
A white-bearded old man (Noah-like) sits beside a woman with brown hair, holding a small red scorpion in his hand. She holds out another scorpion toward him.
Woman: "You uh... you decided to keep two kinds of each scorpion?"
Man: "The tsetse flies will have friends now!"
Panel 2:
A dim, rainy scene aboard the ark showing several animals lined up: a brown ape-like creature, a green sea-serpent/dinosaur, a white unicorn, and a turtle/tortoise in the background.
Votey:
The same white-bearded man lies in bed next to the woman.
Man: "So, which diseases do I have now?"
Woman: "Two of each kind!"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic parodying Noah's Ark. Panel one: a white-bearded old man holds a small red scorpion while a brown-haired woman beside him holds out another scorpion and asks, "You uh... you decided to keep two kinds of each scorpion?" He cheerfully replies, "The tsetse flies will have friends now!" Panel two: a dim, rainy interior of the ark showing a lineup of animals he has gathered, including an ape-like creature, a green sea-serpent, a unicorn, and a tortoise, implying he indiscriminately collected pests and dangerous creatures too. Votey (bonus panel): the bearded man lies in bed with the woman and asks, "So, which diseases do I have now?" She answers, "Two of each kind!" The joke turns the "two of every kind" Ark premise into a punchline about catching paired diseases.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.