2009-07-23
Original: 2009-07-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An elderly pope sits on a toilet in an ornate bathroom, his papal mitre (white pointed hat with a cross) resting on a side table next to a roll of toilet paper. He looks distressed.
Pope: OH, NO! I'M GOING TO BE HERE FOR AT LEAST 20 MINUTES, AND I DIDN'T BRING ANYTHING TO READ! IT'S LIKE... IT'S LIKE...
Caption (below panel): 20 minutes later, Pope Eugenius proposed the idea of Purgatory.
Votey:
Two people sit at a desk, one behind the other, in a sketchy hand-drawn style.
First person: SO, A POOP JOKE?
Second person: PUR-GA-TOR-Y. FOUR SYLLABLES!
An elderly pope sits on a toilet in an ornate bathroom, his papal mitre (white pointed hat with a cross) resting on a side table next to a roll of toilet paper. He looks distressed.
Pope: OH, NO! I'M GOING TO BE HERE FOR AT LEAST 20 MINUTES, AND I DIDN'T BRING ANYTHING TO READ! IT'S LIKE... IT'S LIKE...
Caption (below panel): 20 minutes later, Pope Eugenius proposed the idea of Purgatory.
Votey:
Two people sit at a desk, one behind the other, in a sketchy hand-drawn style.
First person: SO, A POOP JOKE?
Second person: PUR-GA-TOR-Y. FOUR SYLLABLES!
Alt text
A cartoon shows an elderly pope sitting on a toilet in an ornate bathroom, looking distressed, with his white papal mitre and a roll of toilet paper on a side table beside him. He exclaims, "Oh, no! I'm going to be here for at least 20 minutes, and I didn't bring anything to read! It's like... it's like..." A caption beneath reads: "20 minutes later, Pope Eugenius proposed the idea of Purgatory." The joke equates being stuck on the toilet with no reading material to the in-between waiting place of Purgatory. The votey (a small hand-drawn bonus panel) shows two people at a desk; one asks, "So, a poop joke?" and the other defensively replies, "Pur-ga-tor-y. Four syllables!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.