2010-10-06
Original: 2010-10-06 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man in a dark suit and glasses stands over the body of a dead man (a younger man with reddish hair in a white lab coat, lying on the floor). A woman with brown hair stands across from the suited man.
Woman: WE KNOW ENEMY NATIONS WANTED PROFESSOR CARROLL DEAD, BUT IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE FOUL PLAY... NO ASSASSIN COULD MAKE A MAN SUDDENLY DIE OF HEART ATTACK, ANEURYSM, AND STROKE ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
Panel 2 (banner reads "EARLIER..."):
A close-up of a balding man's face in profile on the left. On the right, a smiling man with glasses and a purple suit with a bow tie holds his hands together.
Smiling man in purple: YOU'LL RECEIVE 20 BILLION DOLLARS FOR YOUR REACTOR PHYSICS EXPERIMENT. ALL WE ASK IS THAT YOU PRONOUNCE IT "NOOKULAR."
Votey:
The same two men face to face. The smiling man (now bald, scowling) on the right; the man in profile on the left strains painfully.
Man in profile (straining): NOOOOOO... KYOOOOO... LURRR.
Sound effect from his head: POP!
A man in a dark suit and glasses stands over the body of a dead man (a younger man with reddish hair in a white lab coat, lying on the floor). A woman with brown hair stands across from the suited man.
Woman: WE KNOW ENEMY NATIONS WANTED PROFESSOR CARROLL DEAD, BUT IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE FOUL PLAY... NO ASSASSIN COULD MAKE A MAN SUDDENLY DIE OF HEART ATTACK, ANEURYSM, AND STROKE ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
Panel 2 (banner reads "EARLIER..."):
A close-up of a balding man's face in profile on the left. On the right, a smiling man with glasses and a purple suit with a bow tie holds his hands together.
Smiling man in purple: YOU'LL RECEIVE 20 BILLION DOLLARS FOR YOUR REACTOR PHYSICS EXPERIMENT. ALL WE ASK IS THAT YOU PRONOUNCE IT "NOOKULAR."
Votey:
The same two men face to face. The smiling man (now bald, scowling) on the right; the man in profile on the left strains painfully.
Man in profile (straining): NOOOOOO... KYOOOOO... LURRR.
Sound effect from his head: POP!
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A suited investigator and a woman stand over the corpse of a red-haired man in a lab coat. The woman says they know enemy nations wanted Professor Carroll dead, but it doesn't look like foul play, because no assassin could make a man suddenly die of heart attack, aneurysm, and stroke all at the same time. Panel 2, labeled "EARLIER...": A grinning man in a purple suit and bow tie offers a balding man (seen in profile) 20 billion dollars for his reactor physics experiment, asking only that he pronounce it "nookular." Votey (aftercomic): The man in profile strains to say the word, forcing out "NOOOOOO... KYOOOOO... LURRR" until his head goes POP! — implying the effort of pronouncing it correctly killed him.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.