2009-06-05
Original: 2009-06-05 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic (single panel):
A red-haired man in a tuxedo (the narrator), standing with one hand behind his head, smiling: "YOU JUST DON'T MEAN THAT MUCH TO ME."
A blonde woman, seen from behind in the foreground: "TED?! MY GOD! YOU ASSUMED A NEW IDENTITY, SEDUCED ME, MADE ME LOVE YOU, AND NOW YOU'RE LEAVING ME, USING THE SAME LINE I USED WHEN I LEFT YOU ALL THOSE YEARS AGO! I SUPPOSE YOU THINK THAT'S CLEVER. WELL, YOU'LL GET YOURS IN DUE TIME, MY LOVE. ALL IN DUE TIME."
Caption (bottom): "It was at this point that she kicked me in the balls."
Votey:
A person leaning on a desk and writing, grinning: "WHEN PEOPLE THINK \"FUNNY,\" THEY THINK \"TONS OF WORDS!\""
A red-haired man in a tuxedo (the narrator), standing with one hand behind his head, smiling: "YOU JUST DON'T MEAN THAT MUCH TO ME."
A blonde woman, seen from behind in the foreground: "TED?! MY GOD! YOU ASSUMED A NEW IDENTITY, SEDUCED ME, MADE ME LOVE YOU, AND NOW YOU'RE LEAVING ME, USING THE SAME LINE I USED WHEN I LEFT YOU ALL THOSE YEARS AGO! I SUPPOSE YOU THINK THAT'S CLEVER. WELL, YOU'LL GET YOURS IN DUE TIME, MY LOVE. ALL IN DUE TIME."
Caption (bottom): "It was at this point that she kicked me in the balls."
Votey:
A person leaning on a desk and writing, grinning: "WHEN PEOPLE THINK \"FUNNY,\" THEY THINK \"TONS OF WORDS!\""
Alt text
Single-panel comic. A grinning red-haired man in a tuxedo, one hand casually behind his head, says to a blonde woman shown from behind: "You just don't mean that much to me." She replies with an enormous, dramatic speech bubble that dwarfs his: "Ted?! My God! You assumed a new identity, seduced me, made me love you, and now you're leaving me, using the same line I used when I left you all those years ago! I suppose you think that's clever. Well, you'll get yours in due time, my love. All in due time." A caption beneath reads: "It was at this point that she kicked me in the balls." The humor is in the absurdly long, soap-opera revenge monologue versus his flippant one-liner. Votey: a person leaning over a desk, writing and grinning, says: "When people think 'funny,' they think 'tons of words!'" — a self-aware jab at the comic's wall-of-text bubble.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.