2010-07-01
Original: 2010-07-01 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with dark hair points a handgun, looking distressed, with two identical orange-haired men (her husband and an identical robot duplicate) seen from behind on either side of her.
Woman: "I DON'T KNOW WHICH IS THE ROBOT AND WHICH IS REAL! QUICK! SAY SOMETHING ONLY MY HUSBAND WOULD KNOW!"
Panel 2:
The two identical orange-haired men face each other. One of them speaks.
One man: "YOU HAVE REALLY BAD ASS ACNE."
Panel 3 (caption banner reads "LATER..."):
The dark-haired woman, smiling, serves a drink on a tray to the orange-haired man (now revealed as the robot) sitting on a couch.
Woman: "WOULD YOU LIKE ANOTHER BATTERY, HONEY?"
Man (robot): "AFFIRMATIVE."
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "INTELLECTUALISM IN SMBC" and the horizontal axis is labeled "TIME." The line rises steadily over time to a peak, then plummets sharply. An arrow points to the peak, labeled: "USE OF TERM 'ASS ACNE'".
A woman with dark hair points a handgun, looking distressed, with two identical orange-haired men (her husband and an identical robot duplicate) seen from behind on either side of her.
Woman: "I DON'T KNOW WHICH IS THE ROBOT AND WHICH IS REAL! QUICK! SAY SOMETHING ONLY MY HUSBAND WOULD KNOW!"
Panel 2:
The two identical orange-haired men face each other. One of them speaks.
One man: "YOU HAVE REALLY BAD ASS ACNE."
Panel 3 (caption banner reads "LATER..."):
The dark-haired woman, smiling, serves a drink on a tray to the orange-haired man (now revealed as the robot) sitting on a couch.
Woman: "WOULD YOU LIKE ANOTHER BATTERY, HONEY?"
Man (robot): "AFFIRMATIVE."
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "INTELLECTUALISM IN SMBC" and the horizontal axis is labeled "TIME." The line rises steadily over time to a peak, then plummets sharply. An arrow points to the peak, labeled: "USE OF TERM 'ASS ACNE'".
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: a distressed dark-haired woman points a handgun while flanked by two identical orange-haired men seen from behind — her husband and a robot duplicate. She says, "I don't know which is the robot and which is real! Quick! Say something only my husband would know!" Panel 2: the two identical men face each other; one says, "You have really bad ass acne." Panel 3, captioned "Later...": the woman, smiling, serves a drink on a tray to the orange-haired man on a couch and asks, "Would you like another battery, honey?" He replies, "Affirmative" — revealing she picked the robot over her real husband. Votey: a hand-drawn line graph titled "Intellectualism in SMBC" (y-axis) over "Time" (x-axis); the line climbs steadily to a peak, then crashes straight down, with an arrow pointing at the peak labeled "Use of term 'ass acne'."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.