2009-05-31
Original: 2009-05-31 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
George (a man in an 18th-century blue and gold coat, identified as "George"): OH, YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE WORDS! I HAD THIS HAND GESTURE WORKED OUT THAT LOOKED LIKE A COBRA!
Other man (in black 18th-century coat and round spectacles, holding up a yellow flag): *sigh* NO, GEORGE. IT'S "DON'T TREAD ON ME."
[The yellow flag the second man holds shows a coiled snake rising from a patch of ground, with text beneath it reading:] DON'T F[CENSORED] WITH THE SNAKE!
Votey:
[A roughly drawn flag with stars in a box in the upper-left corner and horizontal stripes.] STARS [scrawled] AND OH SH[CENSORED] IT'S STRIPES!
George (a man in an 18th-century blue and gold coat, identified as "George"): OH, YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE WORDS! I HAD THIS HAND GESTURE WORKED OUT THAT LOOKED LIKE A COBRA!
Other man (in black 18th-century coat and round spectacles, holding up a yellow flag): *sigh* NO, GEORGE. IT'S "DON'T TREAD ON ME."
[The yellow flag the second man holds shows a coiled snake rising from a patch of ground, with text beneath it reading:] DON'T F[CENSORED] WITH THE SNAKE!
Votey:
[A roughly drawn flag with stars in a box in the upper-left corner and horizontal stripes.] STARS [scrawled] AND OH SH[CENSORED] IT'S STRIPES!
Alt text
A two-panel cartoon parodying early American flag design. In the main panel, a man in a blue-and-gold colonial coat (called "George," evoking George Washington) gestures excitedly and says he can't change the words because he had worked out a hand gesture that looked like a cobra. A second man in a black coat and round spectacles, holding up a yellow Gadsden-style flag with a coiled snake, sighs and corrects him: "No, George. It's 'Don't tread on me.'" The flag's actual caption, though, reads "DON'T F*** WITH THE SNAKE!" The votey shows a crudely drawn American flag with a star field and stripes, captioned "STARS" and "AND OH SH** IT'S STRIPES!", joking that the flag's design was made up sloppily on the spot.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.