2009-01-04
Original: 2009-01-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Setting: the deck of a ship at sea. Several crew members stand at the railing with the ocean behind them. A bearded ship's captain in a dark uniform with a gold-trimmed cap gestures emphatically toward a worried-looking man with reddish hair in a green shirt.
Captain: YOU THINK YOU GET SPECIAL TREATMENT JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE DIABETES?! WE HAVE JUST ENOUGH RATIONS TO LAST EVERYONE 30 DAYS, AND I'LL SEE TO IT THAT EACH MAN GETS AN EQUAL SHARE!
Caption (below panel): Many of the crew were not excited about the daily insulin injections.
Votey:
Panel: A close-up of the back of a person's head facing the captain, who stands at right in his uniform and cap.
Person: HM. NOT MUCH FLAVOR TO IT. WHAT EXACTLY IS PROGESTERONE?
Setting: the deck of a ship at sea. Several crew members stand at the railing with the ocean behind them. A bearded ship's captain in a dark uniform with a gold-trimmed cap gestures emphatically toward a worried-looking man with reddish hair in a green shirt.
Captain: YOU THINK YOU GET SPECIAL TREATMENT JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE DIABETES?! WE HAVE JUST ENOUGH RATIONS TO LAST EVERYONE 30 DAYS, AND I'LL SEE TO IT THAT EACH MAN GETS AN EQUAL SHARE!
Caption (below panel): Many of the crew were not excited about the daily insulin injections.
Votey:
Panel: A close-up of the back of a person's head facing the captain, who stands at right in his uniform and cap.
Person: HM. NOT MUCH FLAVOR TO IT. WHAT EXACTLY IS PROGESTERONE?
Alt text
A single-panel comic set on the deck of a ship at sea, crew members at the railing with the ocean behind them. A bearded captain in a dark gold-trimmed uniform and cap angrily jabs a finger toward a worried man with red hair in a green shirt, shouting: "You think you get special treatment just because you have diabetes?! We have just enough rations to last everyone 30 days, and I'll see to it that each man gets an EQUAL share!" A caption below reads: "Many of the crew were not excited about the daily insulin injections." The joke: the captain's egalitarian ration-sharing means everyone, sick or not, is forced to take the diabetic crewman's insulin. Votey: a close-up of a crew member (seen from behind) tasting something and remarking to the captain, "Hm. Not much flavor to it. What exactly is progesterone?" — extending the gag to other hormone medications being shared out equally.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.