2008-12-07
Original: 2008-12-07 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: TEENAGE ANXIETY: A NEW SOURCE OF INCOME?
Panel (single panel): A teenage boy with orange/red hair, wearing a green shirt, stands at a grocery store checkout counter facing a female cashier with glasses, brown hair, and a red shirt. A small pink box sits on the counter. In the background a woman in a green apron stands near shelving.
Boy: Uh... I... I think you rung up the box of, uh... condoms, uh, 126 times.
Cashier: Box of what?
Boy: Nothing! Nothing!
Checkout register sound effect: BEE-BOOP! BEE-BOOP!
Votey:
A handwritten personal check dated Dec 6, 2008.
Pay line: Groceries store
Amount in numbers (boxed): 14,276.42
Amount in words: Fourteen-thousand two-hundred seventy six dollars
From (top left): Mr. & Mrs. Todd Jones and Todd Jones Jr. / Pay to the order of
Signature: Todd Jones Jr.
Notes line (bottom left): For only groceries
Panel (single panel): A teenage boy with orange/red hair, wearing a green shirt, stands at a grocery store checkout counter facing a female cashier with glasses, brown hair, and a red shirt. A small pink box sits on the counter. In the background a woman in a green apron stands near shelving.
Boy: Uh... I... I think you rung up the box of, uh... condoms, uh, 126 times.
Cashier: Box of what?
Boy: Nothing! Nothing!
Checkout register sound effect: BEE-BOOP! BEE-BOOP!
Votey:
A handwritten personal check dated Dec 6, 2008.
Pay line: Groceries store
Amount in numbers (boxed): 14,276.42
Amount in words: Fourteen-thousand two-hundred seventy six dollars
From (top left): Mr. & Mrs. Todd Jones and Todd Jones Jr. / Pay to the order of
Signature: Todd Jones Jr.
Notes line (bottom left): For only groceries
Alt text
An SMBC comic titled "Teenage Anxiety: A New Source of Income?" In a single panel, a teenage boy with red hair in a green shirt stands at a grocery checkout, where a small pink box sits on the counter in front of a bespectacled female cashier in a red shirt. The boy nervously says, "Uh... I... I think you rung up the box of, uh... condoms, uh, 126 times." The cashier asks, "Box of what?" and the boy immediately panics: "Nothing! Nothing!" The register chirps "BEE-BOOP! BEE-BOOP!" The joke: he's so embarrassed to admit the cashier accidentally overcharged him 126 times for condoms that he abandons the dispute rather than say the word out loud. Votey: a hand-drawn personal check dated Dec 6, 2008, signed by "Todd Jones Jr." from the account of "Mr. & Mrs. Todd Jones and Todd Jones Jr.," made out to "Groceries store" for $14,276.42 ("Fourteen-thousand two-hundred seventy six dollars"), with the memo line reading "For only groceries" -- the absurd bill he paid rather than correct the mistake.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.