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2009-09-21

Original: 2009-09-21 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Caption (orange banner at top): WHEN CONFRONTING YOUR HUSBAND ABOUT HIS BODY IMAGE PROBLEM, CHOOSE YOUR PHRASING CAREFULLY

Woman (sitting on a couch, to the man): Steve... let's talk about the elephant in the room.

Man (foreground, looking glum): [no dialogue]

Votey:
Woman (defensive, leaning in): No! It's a metaphor for a big problem! A big jiggly tub of problem!

Alt text

An orange caption banner reads: "When confronting your husband about his body image problem, choose your phrasing carefully." Below, a woman sits on a couch and says to a glum-looking man in the foreground, "Steve... let's talk about the elephant in the room." The joke is that her tactful opener lands as a fat insult. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the woman scrambling to explain, defensive: "No! It's a metaphor for a big problem! A big jiggly tub of problem!" — making it far worse.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.