2008-12-16
Original: 2008-12-16 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title (above the comic): COURTESY LESSONS: HOLDING THE DOOR
Panel 1 (header banner): RIGHT WAY
Scene: A man (brown hair, blue shirt) holds open a door for a smiling woman (red hair, green top) on the other side. She gestures pleasantly toward the doorway. The door is plain.
Panel 2 (header banner): WRONG WAY
Scene: The same man holds open the same door for the same woman, but the door now bears a sign showing a woman's silhouette and the word LADIES — it is the door to the ladies' restroom. He is still grinning; she still gestures.
Votey:
Scene: Two men sit side by side in what appears to be a prison cell, vertical bars behind them.
Left man: WHAT'RE YOU IN FOR?
Right man: CHIVALRY.
Panel 1 (header banner): RIGHT WAY
Scene: A man (brown hair, blue shirt) holds open a door for a smiling woman (red hair, green top) on the other side. She gestures pleasantly toward the doorway. The door is plain.
Panel 2 (header banner): WRONG WAY
Scene: The same man holds open the same door for the same woman, but the door now bears a sign showing a woman's silhouette and the word LADIES — it is the door to the ladies' restroom. He is still grinning; she still gestures.
Votey:
Scene: Two men sit side by side in what appears to be a prison cell, vertical bars behind them.
Left man: WHAT'RE YOU IN FOR?
Right man: CHIVALRY.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic titled "COURTESY LESSONS: HOLDING THE DOOR." Top panel, labeled "RIGHT WAY": a smiling man in a blue shirt holds open a plain door for a red-haired woman who gestures pleasantly. Bottom panel, labeled "WRONG WAY": the identical scene, but the door now has a sign reading "LADIES" with a woman's silhouette — the man is cheerfully holding open the women's restroom door for her. The votey (bonus panel) shows two men sitting in a prison cell behind bars; one asks, "WHAT'RE YOU IN FOR?" and the other answers, "CHIVALRY," implying the door-holder was arrested for following the man into the ladies' room.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.