2010-03-28
Original: 2010-03-28 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with red/orange hair: How'd the blind date go?
Dark-skinned man: Weird. She was a vegetarian, so she can't eat meat.
Panel 2:
Man with red/orange hair: It's not that she CAN'T eat meat. She chooses not to.
Panel 3 (close-up on the dark-skinned man's face, looking troubled):
Man with red/orange hair (off-panel): That may have been the problem...
Panel 4:
The dark-skinned man sits at a table holding a bowl, the lower half of his face smeared with red, facing a woman with red/orange hair across from him.
The dark-skinned man: Why aren't you impressed? This is like magic to you!
Votey:
Close-up of the dark-skinned man, the lower half of his face smeared bloody red, eyes closed.
The man: Hocush pocush, woman!
Man with red/orange hair: How'd the blind date go?
Dark-skinned man: Weird. She was a vegetarian, so she can't eat meat.
Panel 2:
Man with red/orange hair: It's not that she CAN'T eat meat. She chooses not to.
Panel 3 (close-up on the dark-skinned man's face, looking troubled):
Man with red/orange hair (off-panel): That may have been the problem...
Panel 4:
The dark-skinned man sits at a table holding a bowl, the lower half of his face smeared with red, facing a woman with red/orange hair across from him.
The dark-skinned man: Why aren't you impressed? This is like magic to you!
Votey:
Close-up of the dark-skinned man, the lower half of his face smeared bloody red, eyes closed.
The man: Hocush pocush, woman!
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. In the first two panels, a man recounts a blind date to a red-haired friend: the date was a vegetarian who 'can't eat meat,' and the friend corrects him that she 'chooses not to.' The friend off-panel adds, 'That may have been the problem...' In the final panel, the man sits across a table from a red-haired woman, the lower half of his face smeared bloody red, holding a bowl, demanding 'Why aren't you impressed? This is like magic to you!' The joke: he literally ate meat (raw/bloody) at the table to show off, treating eating meat as an amazing 'magic trick' a vegetarian should admire. Votey: a close-up of the same man, mouth bloody, eyes closed, slurring 'Hocush pocush, woman!' as if casting a magic spell, mouth too full of meat to speak clearly.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.