2010-01-01
Original: 2010-01-01 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A group of men in business suits stand around a table at what appears to be a marketing meeting. One man on the left holds up a green tub/jar of pills labeled "PLACEBO!" (with a star design).
Man with gray hair and mustache: "THIS PRODUCT NEEDS A NEW NAME. NOBODY WANTS A PRODUCT THAT BY DEFINITION DOES NOTHING!"
Another man (to the right, with his hand on a colleague's shoulder): "WAIT! I'VE GOT AN IDEA!"
Product label: "PLACEBO!"
Votey:
A jar of pills shown with a relabeled product reading "HERBAL PLACEBO!"
Caption text below/around the relabeled jar: "NOW WITH HOMEOPATHY BAKED RIGHT IN!"
A group of men in business suits stand around a table at what appears to be a marketing meeting. One man on the left holds up a green tub/jar of pills labeled "PLACEBO!" (with a star design).
Man with gray hair and mustache: "THIS PRODUCT NEEDS A NEW NAME. NOBODY WANTS A PRODUCT THAT BY DEFINITION DOES NOTHING!"
Another man (to the right, with his hand on a colleague's shoulder): "WAIT! I'VE GOT AN IDEA!"
Product label: "PLACEBO!"
Votey:
A jar of pills shown with a relabeled product reading "HERBAL PLACEBO!"
Caption text below/around the relabeled jar: "NOW WITH HOMEOPATHY BAKED RIGHT IN!"
Alt text
A single-panel comic shows several men in business suits standing around a table in what looks like a corporate marketing meeting. On the left, one man holds up a green tub of pills labeled "PLACEBO!" with a star. A gray-haired man with a mustache says, "This product needs a new name. Nobody wants a product that by definition does nothing!" Another man, resting his hand on a colleague's shoulder, replies, "Wait! I've got an idea!" The votey (aftercomic) reveals the rebranded product: the same jar of pills now relabeled "HERBAL PLACEBO!", with the tagline "Now with homeopathy baked right in!" The joke: their fix for selling a do-nothing product is to add another do-nothing label (herbal/homeopathy) to make it sound legitimate.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.