2010-03-15
Original: 2010-03-15 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A blonde woman with a red bow and a red dress greets a man.
Woman: "Good morrow, my darling!"
Woman (to him): "Good day, Prince Lovington!"
Panel 2: The man, now shown wearing a yellow-and-purple royal toga, smiles at the woman.
Prince Lovington: "Indeed! Shall we away to my ball room, perchance to dance?"
Woman: "'Twould be my heart's delight!"
Panel 3: Close-up on Prince Lovington, whose face suddenly contorts.
Prince Lovington: "Ah, love, you are forever my =GHHK!="
Panel 4: The woman looks alarmed as the prince's face twists and darkens, gagging.
Prince Lovington: "GLHKKHK! GHK! CFLLHHKHK!"
Panel 5 (reveal): A young girl in a red heart shirt stands at a table with a pink toy castle. She is playing with two animal toys/pets, holding the dolls. The romance scene was the girl voicing her toys; one of the figures is being chewed/gagged on by a real cat or dog.
Figure: "GHHLK! GHLLKH!"
Votey:
A loose sketch of the woman doll's face, mouth open.
Woman: "Prince Lovington! Wherefore art thou =GHK!="
Woman: "Good morrow, my darling!"
Woman (to him): "Good day, Prince Lovington!"
Panel 2: The man, now shown wearing a yellow-and-purple royal toga, smiles at the woman.
Prince Lovington: "Indeed! Shall we away to my ball room, perchance to dance?"
Woman: "'Twould be my heart's delight!"
Panel 3: Close-up on Prince Lovington, whose face suddenly contorts.
Prince Lovington: "Ah, love, you are forever my =GHHK!="
Panel 4: The woman looks alarmed as the prince's face twists and darkens, gagging.
Prince Lovington: "GLHKKHK! GHK! CFLLHHKHK!"
Panel 5 (reveal): A young girl in a red heart shirt stands at a table with a pink toy castle. She is playing with two animal toys/pets, holding the dolls. The romance scene was the girl voicing her toys; one of the figures is being chewed/gagged on by a real cat or dog.
Figure: "GHHLK! GHLLKH!"
Votey:
A loose sketch of the woman doll's face, mouth open.
Woman: "Prince Lovington! Wherefore art thou =GHK!="
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. In the first two panels, a cartoon scene plays out like a fairy-tale romance: a blonde woman in a red bow and dress greets a man, calling him 'Prince Lovington,' and he, dressed in a royal yellow-and-purple toga, invites her to dance ('Shall we away to my ball room, perchance to dance?'). In the third panel the prince begins a sweet line ('Ah, love, you are forever my-') that abruptly breaks into garbled choking sounds: 'GHHK!' The fourth panel shows the woman alarmed as the prince's face twists and gags: 'GLHKKHK! GHK! CFLLHHKHK!' The final wide panel reveals the twist: it was all a little girl in a red heart shirt playing make-believe with toys and a pink castle, and the choking is because one of her pets (a cat or dog) is actually chewing on the prince doll, mangling her romantic story. Votey (bonus panel): a rough black-and-white sketch of the woman doll's face mid-cry, 'Prince Lovington! Wherefore art thou-GHK!', as the pet keeps gnawing.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.