2009-09-13
Original: 2009-09-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A green T. rex sits in a prehistoric landscape with volcanoes in the background, reading a pink book titled "TRIASSIC" that has a red rose illustration on it. The dinosaur looks content.
Panel 2: A close-up of the open pink "TRIASSIC" book lying on the ground/rocks.
Panel 3: The T. rex's face, smiling softly, looking moved or emotional.
Panel 4: An extreme close-up of the T. rex's face against a yellow background; its mouth is open showing teeth, brow slightly raised with emotion.
Panel 5: The T. rex throws its head back, mouth wide open with teeth bared, appearing to weep or wail with emotion. A box of tissues and the pink book sit on a rock beside it.
Panel 6 (the whole scene revealed as a thought/imagination): A museum scene. A standing T. rex skeleton fossil display looms in the background. A bald, bearded man in a tan jacket and blue shirt (a museum docent/guide) gestures and speaks to a woman with red/orange hair who looks up at the skeleton. The man says: "OF COURSE, I DON'T NEED TO TELL YOU WHY MISTER T. REX WAS THE MOST VIOLENT OF ALL PREDATORS."
Votey: A single panel. The same docent (now shown only partially, with the woman beside him) stands near a large fossil. A speech bubble reads: "NOW, WHO CAN TELL ME WHY THE BRONTOSAURUS HAD SUCH A LONG NECK?"
Panel 2: A close-up of the open pink "TRIASSIC" book lying on the ground/rocks.
Panel 3: The T. rex's face, smiling softly, looking moved or emotional.
Panel 4: An extreme close-up of the T. rex's face against a yellow background; its mouth is open showing teeth, brow slightly raised with emotion.
Panel 5: The T. rex throws its head back, mouth wide open with teeth bared, appearing to weep or wail with emotion. A box of tissues and the pink book sit on a rock beside it.
Panel 6 (the whole scene revealed as a thought/imagination): A museum scene. A standing T. rex skeleton fossil display looms in the background. A bald, bearded man in a tan jacket and blue shirt (a museum docent/guide) gestures and speaks to a woman with red/orange hair who looks up at the skeleton. The man says: "OF COURSE, I DON'T NEED TO TELL YOU WHY MISTER T. REX WAS THE MOST VIOLENT OF ALL PREDATORS."
Votey: A single panel. The same docent (now shown only partially, with the woman beside him) stands near a large fossil. A speech bubble reads: "NOW, WHO CAN TELL ME WHY THE BRONTOSAURUS HAD SUCH A LONG NECK?"
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. In the first panels, a smiling green T. rex sits among volcanoes reading a pink book titled "TRIASSIC" decorated with a rose. The dinosaur becomes increasingly emotional reading it: close-ups show its face softening, then it throws its head back mouth wide open as if sobbing, a box of tissues beside it on a rock. The final panel reveals this was an imagined scene: in a museum, a bald bearded male docent gestures toward a towering T. rex skeleton and tells a red-haired woman, "Of course, I don't need to tell you why Mister T. rex was the most violent of all predators." The joke: the museum guide insists the T. rex was a savage killer, while the comic imagines it as a sensitive creature moved to tears by a sentimental book. Votey aftercomic: the same docent asks his audience, "Now, who can tell me why the brontosaurus had such a long neck?" implying another wildly off-base explanation is coming.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.