2009-10-25
Original: 2009-10-25 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A crowned, bearded king sits on a throne holding a scepter. A bespectacled court physician in a purple cap holds a feather quill and a stone tablet.
Physician: M'lord, you have a fatness of ye arse.
Panel 2:
A wide view of the throne room. The physician stands small at the bottom of the frame, looking up.
(No dialogue.)
Panel 3:
An orange banner across the top reads: MODERN DOCTORS:
A modern-day man in a suit and tie sits slumped in a chair. A modern doctor in a white coat holds a pen and clipboard.
Doctor: Mr. Prime Minister, you have acute steatopygia.
Votey:
A close-up of a man (the king/patient) speaking.
Man: Yes, doctors used stone tablet with quills. Shutup.
A crowned, bearded king sits on a throne holding a scepter. A bespectacled court physician in a purple cap holds a feather quill and a stone tablet.
Physician: M'lord, you have a fatness of ye arse.
Panel 2:
A wide view of the throne room. The physician stands small at the bottom of the frame, looking up.
(No dialogue.)
Panel 3:
An orange banner across the top reads: MODERN DOCTORS:
A modern-day man in a suit and tie sits slumped in a chair. A modern doctor in a white coat holds a pen and clipboard.
Doctor: Mr. Prime Minister, you have acute steatopygia.
Votey:
A close-up of a man (the king/patient) speaking.
Man: Yes, doctors used stone tablet with quills. Shutup.
Alt text
Three-panel comic contrasting old and new medical diagnoses. Panel 1: a medieval court physician in a purple cap, holding a quill and stone tablet, tells a crowned king on a throne, "M'lord, you have a fatness of ye arse." Panel 2: a wide shot of the throne room, the physician small at the bottom. Panel 3: an orange banner reads "MODERN DOCTORS:" and a modern doctor with a clipboard tells a slumped suited man, "Mr. Prime Minister, you have acute steatopygia" - the same diagnosis (fat buttocks) dressed up in clinical Greek-derived jargon. Votey: a close-up of a man saying, "Yes, doctors used stone tablet with quills. Shutup," pre-empting a nitpick about the anachronism.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.