2009-09-14
Original: 2009-09-14 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: Caption: "1922, ARABIA" — Silhouette of explorers riding camels across the desert at sunset.
Panel 2: Caption: "WE HAD HEARD THE LEGENDS" — An explorer in a fedora and adventuring gear peers through a doorway into a dimly lit temple.
Panel 3: Caption: "IT WAS SAID THAT THE TEMPLE OF THOTHOTEP HELD A ROCK THAT MADE MEN LAUGH SIMPLY BY HOLDING IT ALOFT." — Two explorers (one in a fedora, one gray-haired) walk among rows of statues inside the temple.
Panel 4: Caption: "WE DID NOT BELIEVE IT... UNTIL WE FOUND THE MYSTERIOUS STONE." — A group of explorers gathers around. The lead explorer in the fedora says: "TAKE IT OUT SLOWLY."
Panel 5: Caption: "THE LEGENDS WERE TRUE." — The gray-haired explorer holds up a glowing yellow stone, laughing, while another explorer laughs alongside.
Panel 6: A man (red/orange hair, glasses, seen from behind) presents a small case. Another man (brown hair, green shirt) says: "AND THAT VERY STONE... IS IN THIS LITTLE CASE." The red-haired man replies: "ODD... I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE LARGER."
Panel 7: Close-up of the brown-haired man smirking knowingly.
Panel 8: The brown-haired man opens the case to reveal the yellow stone, which has text on it reading: "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID."
Votey:
A woman lying in bed turns to a tired-looking man and says: "THAT WENT ON SO LONG I WAS TIRED BY THE END."
Panel 2: Caption: "WE HAD HEARD THE LEGENDS" — An explorer in a fedora and adventuring gear peers through a doorway into a dimly lit temple.
Panel 3: Caption: "IT WAS SAID THAT THE TEMPLE OF THOTHOTEP HELD A ROCK THAT MADE MEN LAUGH SIMPLY BY HOLDING IT ALOFT." — Two explorers (one in a fedora, one gray-haired) walk among rows of statues inside the temple.
Panel 4: Caption: "WE DID NOT BELIEVE IT... UNTIL WE FOUND THE MYSTERIOUS STONE." — A group of explorers gathers around. The lead explorer in the fedora says: "TAKE IT OUT SLOWLY."
Panel 5: Caption: "THE LEGENDS WERE TRUE." — The gray-haired explorer holds up a glowing yellow stone, laughing, while another explorer laughs alongside.
Panel 6: A man (red/orange hair, glasses, seen from behind) presents a small case. Another man (brown hair, green shirt) says: "AND THAT VERY STONE... IS IN THIS LITTLE CASE." The red-haired man replies: "ODD... I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE LARGER."
Panel 7: Close-up of the brown-haired man smirking knowingly.
Panel 8: The brown-haired man opens the case to reveal the yellow stone, which has text on it reading: "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID."
Votey:
A woman lying in bed turns to a tired-looking man and says: "THAT WENT ON SO LONG I WAS TIRED BY THE END."
Alt text
An eight-panel comic framed as a 1920s adventure tale. Captions over silhouetted explorers on camels and inside a temple recount the legend of the Temple of Thothotep, which supposedly held "a rock that made men laugh simply by holding it aloft." Explorers find and lift a glowing yellow stone, laughing; "the legends were true." In the present day, one man tells another that this very stone is in a little case; the other, seen from behind, says "Odd... I thought it would be larger." The first man smirks, opens the case, and reveals the small yellow stone, engraved with the words "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID" — the punchline being the rock literally is a 'that's what she said' joke. Votey: a woman in bed tells a tired man, "That went on so long I was tired by the end" — another double-entendre.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.