2009-08-08
Original: 2009-08-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A woman with reddish-brown hair stands close to a man with red hair in a red shirt. The man clutches his chest, grimacing.
Man: OOF!
Panel 2: The woman now stands behind the man, who has flames erupting from the top of his head. He looks dazed.
Panel 3: The woman holds a jug labeled "HORSE URINE" over the man's flaming head and pours it onto him to put out the fire.
Panel 4: The man, now soaked and bedraggled, slumps. The woman stands beside him.
Man: OKAY, OKAY, POINT TAKEN.
Banner: THE DAY PRIOR...
Bottom panel: The same man (in a green shirt) and woman (in a purple/green outfit) stand apart, both looking unhappy. The man holds a folded item.
Man: I WISH YOU WOULDN'T BE SO PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE.
Votey:
Banner: TWO DAYS PRIOR...
The woman sits at a table, thinking, with a thought bubble above her head.
Woman (thought): BOY, I HOPE I FIND A USE FOR ALL THIS HORSE URINE.
Man: OOF!
Panel 2: The woman now stands behind the man, who has flames erupting from the top of his head. He looks dazed.
Panel 3: The woman holds a jug labeled "HORSE URINE" over the man's flaming head and pours it onto him to put out the fire.
Panel 4: The man, now soaked and bedraggled, slumps. The woman stands beside him.
Man: OKAY, OKAY, POINT TAKEN.
Banner: THE DAY PRIOR...
Bottom panel: The same man (in a green shirt) and woman (in a purple/green outfit) stand apart, both looking unhappy. The man holds a folded item.
Man: I WISH YOU WOULDN'T BE SO PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE.
Votey:
Banner: TWO DAYS PRIOR...
The woman sits at a table, thinking, with a thought bubble above her head.
Woman (thought): BOY, I HOPE I FIND A USE FOR ALL THIS HORSE URINE.
Alt text
A four-panel comic plus a banner-titled bottom panel. Panel 1: a man with red hair in a red shirt clutches his chest, wincing, beside a woman; he yells "OOF!" Panel 2: flames erupt from the top of the man's head as the woman stands behind him. Panel 3: the woman calmly pours a jug labeled "HORSE URINE" over his burning head to douse the flames. Panel 4: the man, now soaked and defeated, says "Okay, okay, point taken." An orange banner reads "THE DAY PRIOR..." and the bottom panel shows the same couple standing apart looking unhappy; the man says "I wish you wouldn't be so passive-aggressive." The joke: her over-the-top response (keeping horse urine on hand to dump on him) is itself extremely passive-aggressive, told in reverse chronological order. Votey: a panel titled "TWO DAYS PRIOR..." shows the woman sitting at a table thinking, "Boy, I hope I find a use for all this horse urine" - revealing she had the urine before the argument even happened.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.