2009-11-25
Original: 2009-11-25 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Patient: How'd it go, doc?
Doctor (an older man with glasses, holding a napkin): Imagine this napkin represents your lungs.
Panel 2:
(Close-up: the doctor's hands hold the yellow napkin while pressing a lit cigarette against it, burning a charred black hole into the paper. The patient watches, frowning.)
Panel 3:
Patient: So, smoking finally did me in.
Doctor: Uh, pretty much, yeah.
(The doctor looks shifty, holding the cigarette hidden behind his back.)
Panel 4:
Caption banner: EARLIER...
Doctor (seated at a desk, gesturing toward a napkin with a burn mark, a lit cigarette in his other hand): Whoops!
Votey:
A hand-drawn toe tag / label reads:
CAUSE OF DEATH: SECOND HAND SMOKE
Patient: How'd it go, doc?
Doctor (an older man with glasses, holding a napkin): Imagine this napkin represents your lungs.
Panel 2:
(Close-up: the doctor's hands hold the yellow napkin while pressing a lit cigarette against it, burning a charred black hole into the paper. The patient watches, frowning.)
Panel 3:
Patient: So, smoking finally did me in.
Doctor: Uh, pretty much, yeah.
(The doctor looks shifty, holding the cigarette hidden behind his back.)
Panel 4:
Caption banner: EARLIER...
Doctor (seated at a desk, gesturing toward a napkin with a burn mark, a lit cigarette in his other hand): Whoops!
Votey:
A hand-drawn toe tag / label reads:
CAUSE OF DEATH: SECOND HAND SMOKE
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A patient asks his older, bespectacled doctor "How'd it go, doc?" The doctor holds up a yellow napkin and says "Imagine this napkin represents your lungs." Panel 2: Close-up of the doctor's hands burning a charred black hole into the napkin with a lit cigarette as the patient frowns. Panel 3: The patient says "So, smoking finally did me in," and the doctor, looking guilty and hiding the cigarette behind his back, says "Uh, pretty much, yeah." Panel 4: A banner reads "EARLIER..." The doctor sits at a desk holding a lit cigarette, having accidentally burned the napkin, saying "Whoops!" The joke: the doctor ruined the demonstration napkin himself and is covering it up. Votey: A hand-drawn toe tag labeled "CAUSE OF DEATH: SECOND HAND SMOKE."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.