2009-05-26
Original: 2009-05-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Two tribal men stand together; the one on the right holds a spear. Facing them is a person with flame-like orange hair.
Tribal man (left): WE EAT OUR ENEMIES, THEREBY GAINING THEIR ABILITIES.
Orange-haired person: THAT'S RIDICULOUS! IT'S PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE!
Caption banner: SOON...
Panel 2:
The two tribal men now sit, each holding and eating a piece of what appears to be the orange-haired person.
Tribal man (left): DO YOU KNOW ANTHROPOLOGY YET?
Tribal man (right): NOPE. BETTER KEEP EATING.
Votey:
Title banner: THE DAY BEFORE SMBC BEGAN
A simple line-drawn figure sits at a table eating from a plate, smiling. Two labels with arrows point at the scene.
Label (arrow pointing to the figure): GARY LARSON
Label (arrow pointing to the plate of food): SEX OFFENDER
Two tribal men stand together; the one on the right holds a spear. Facing them is a person with flame-like orange hair.
Tribal man (left): WE EAT OUR ENEMIES, THEREBY GAINING THEIR ABILITIES.
Orange-haired person: THAT'S RIDICULOUS! IT'S PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE!
Caption banner: SOON...
Panel 2:
The two tribal men now sit, each holding and eating a piece of what appears to be the orange-haired person.
Tribal man (left): DO YOU KNOW ANTHROPOLOGY YET?
Tribal man (right): NOPE. BETTER KEEP EATING.
Votey:
Title banner: THE DAY BEFORE SMBC BEGAN
A simple line-drawn figure sits at a table eating from a plate, smiling. Two labels with arrows point at the scene.
Label (arrow pointing to the figure): GARY LARSON
Label (arrow pointing to the plate of food): SEX OFFENDER
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: two prehistoric tribal men, one holding a spear, talk to a person with flame-like orange hair. A tribal man says, "We eat our enemies, thereby gaining their abilities." The orange-haired person scoffs, "That's ridiculous! It's physically impossible!" A banner reads "Soon..." Panel 2: the two tribal men now sit eating chunks of the orange-haired person. One asks, "Do you know anthropology yet?" The other replies, "Nope. Better keep eating." The joke: their cannibalism-grants-abilities belief leads them to keep eating the skeptic in a futile bid to absorb academic knowledge. Votey (bonus panel): titled "The day before SMBC began," a crude line drawing shows a smiling figure eating at a table; an arrow labels the figure "Gary Larson" and another arrow labels the food on his plate "sex offender" — implying Gary Larson (creator of The Far Side) ate a sex offender to gain his abilities, just before SMBC started.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.