2009-07-21
Original: 2009-07-21 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Three Puritan-era men stand together. The first, an older man with long graying hair, gestures with his hands.
Older man with graying hair: "Let's do the water test. Put him in water. If he floats, he's a witch."
Balding man (center, in clerical collar, looking concerned): "But... don't you think... under the circumstances-"
Man in tall black Puritan hat (right): "Don't knock the test, Todd."
Caption below panel:
"Fun Fact:
The Second Coming happened briefly in 1693."
Votey:
A bearded man resembling Jesus rises from water, looking weary and exasperated.
Man (Jesus): "Every time I go down, they kill me!"
Three Puritan-era men stand together. The first, an older man with long graying hair, gestures with his hands.
Older man with graying hair: "Let's do the water test. Put him in water. If he floats, he's a witch."
Balding man (center, in clerical collar, looking concerned): "But... don't you think... under the circumstances-"
Man in tall black Puritan hat (right): "Don't knock the test, Todd."
Caption below panel:
"Fun Fact:
The Second Coming happened briefly in 1693."
Votey:
A bearded man resembling Jesus rises from water, looking weary and exasperated.
Man (Jesus): "Every time I go down, they kill me!"
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic. Three Puritan-era men stand together in front of a green background. An older man with long graying hair gestures and says, "Let's do the water test. Put him in water. If he floats, he's a witch." A balding man in a clerical collar at center looks worried and says, "But... don't you think... under the circumstances-" A man in a tall black Puritan hat at right cuts him off: "Don't knock the test, Todd." A caption reads, "Fun Fact: The Second Coming happened briefly in 1693." The joke: the Puritans are about to drown the returned Jesus as a suspected witch. In the black-and-white votey panel, a weary bearded Jesus rises from water, exclaiming, "Every time I go down, they kill me!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.