2010-05-18
Original: 2010-05-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic:
A hand-drawn line graph.
Y-axis label: BRUTALITY OF RITE OF MANHOOD RITUALS
X-axis label: TIME
The curve rises from low on the left to high on the right. Three points are labeled along the curve, in increasing order of brutality:
- (lowest, near the start of the curve) BAR MITZVAH
- (middle of the curve) HANG YOUR BODY ON HOOKS UNTIL YOU PASS OUT FROM PAIN
- (highest, top right of the curve) PRETEND TO LIKE BASEBALL FOR 80 YEARS
Votey:
A single panel. A person with long dark hair, smiling, speaks from what appears to be a bed.
Speaker (person with long hair): "THIS IS WAY BETTER THAN MEMORIZING BATTING AVERAGES!"
A hand-drawn line graph.
Y-axis label: BRUTALITY OF RITE OF MANHOOD RITUALS
X-axis label: TIME
The curve rises from low on the left to high on the right. Three points are labeled along the curve, in increasing order of brutality:
- (lowest, near the start of the curve) BAR MITZVAH
- (middle of the curve) HANG YOUR BODY ON HOOKS UNTIL YOU PASS OUT FROM PAIN
- (highest, top right of the curve) PRETEND TO LIKE BASEBALL FOR 80 YEARS
Votey:
A single panel. A person with long dark hair, smiling, speaks from what appears to be a bed.
Speaker (person with long hair): "THIS IS WAY BETTER THAN MEMORIZING BATTING AVERAGES!"
Alt text
Main comic: a hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis reads "BRUTALITY OF RITE OF MANHOOD RITUALS" and the horizontal axis reads "TIME." A curve rises from bottom-left to top-right, with three rituals labeled in order of increasing brutality: "BAR MITZVAH" (lowest), "HANG YOUR BODY ON HOOKS UNTIL YOU PASS OUT FROM PAIN" (middle), and "PRETEND TO LIKE BASEBALL FOR 80 YEARS" (highest). The joke ranks a lifetime of feigning interest in baseball as more brutal than ritual body suspension. Votey: a smiling person with long dark hair lies in bed and says, "THIS IS WAY BETTER THAN MEMORIZING BATTING AVERAGES!" implying they're enjoying the hook-suspension ritual more than baseball fandom.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.