2008-11-10
Original: 2008-11-10 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Patient (a man with reddish-brown hair, wearing a teal hospital gown, with a stitched surgical scar on his lower back): Thank you for the appendectomy, but I... I can't afford-
Doctor (a man in a white coat with gray hair and a head mirror): Hey, look, I knew you couldn't pay. By doing that operation, I got something of value much greater than if I squeezed a couple of dollars out of you.
Votey:
Patient: Oh, and could I have my kidney-
Doctor: OH HO HO! YOU GOT ME!
Patient: So.
Doctor: NO.
Patient (a man with reddish-brown hair, wearing a teal hospital gown, with a stitched surgical scar on his lower back): Thank you for the appendectomy, but I... I can't afford-
Doctor (a man in a white coat with gray hair and a head mirror): Hey, look, I knew you couldn't pay. By doing that operation, I got something of value much greater than if I squeezed a couple of dollars out of you.
Votey:
Patient: Oh, and could I have my kidney-
Doctor: OH HO HO! YOU GOT ME!
Patient: So.
Doctor: NO.
Alt text
A two-panel comic in a hospital room. Panel 1: a patient with reddish-brown hair in a teal hospital gown, a stitched scar on his lower back, gestures to a gray-haired doctor in a white coat and head mirror. The patient says, 'Thank you for the appendectomy, but I... I can't afford-' The doctor cuts him off generously: 'Hey, look, I knew you couldn't pay. By doing that operation, I got something of value much greater than if I squeezed a couple of dollars out of you.' Votey (a small black-and-white follow-up panel): the patient asks, 'Oh, and could I have my kidney-' The doctor laughs, 'OH HO HO! YOU GOT ME!' The patient deadpans 'So.' and the doctor flatly replies 'NO.' — revealing the doctor's noble speech was cover for harvesting the patient's kidney.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.