2010-10-30
Original: 2010-10-30 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Apartment Manager (a balding man in a green shirt holding a sheet of paper): "Water and gas are paid for, but you're responsible for electric."
Panel 2:
Man with glasses (in a yellow shirt, grinning manically): "FOOL! I'll attach a flywheel to the showerhead which will spin a dynamo, which will charge my capacitor bank, which will connect to all the wiring in my apartment!"
Panel 3:
Man with glasses (gesturing to himself triumphantly): "I've bypassed your system entirely, apartment manager! For you didn't reckon on my being..."
Panel 4:
Apartment Manager: "We had assumed nobody would spend so much money and time just to save a few dollar..."
Man with glasses (dramatically): "...AN ENGINEER!"
Votey:
Man with glasses (laughing, beside a large boxy contraption with a hose and cables): "HAHAHA! Now, every six months, I can turn on a light bulb!"
Apartment Manager (a balding man in a green shirt holding a sheet of paper): "Water and gas are paid for, but you're responsible for electric."
Panel 2:
Man with glasses (in a yellow shirt, grinning manically): "FOOL! I'll attach a flywheel to the showerhead which will spin a dynamo, which will charge my capacitor bank, which will connect to all the wiring in my apartment!"
Panel 3:
Man with glasses (gesturing to himself triumphantly): "I've bypassed your system entirely, apartment manager! For you didn't reckon on my being..."
Panel 4:
Apartment Manager: "We had assumed nobody would spend so much money and time just to save a few dollar..."
Man with glasses (dramatically): "...AN ENGINEER!"
Votey:
Man with glasses (laughing, beside a large boxy contraption with a hose and cables): "HAHAHA! Now, every six months, I can turn on a light bulb!"
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A balding apartment manager in a green shirt holds a paper and tells a tenant, a man with glasses in a yellow shirt, "Water and gas are paid for, but you're responsible for electric." Panel 2: The tenant grins maniacally and declares, "FOOL! I'll attach a flywheel to the showerhead which will spin a dynamo, which will charge my capacitor bank, which will connect to all the wiring in my apartment!" Panel 3: He gestures to himself: "I've bypassed your system entirely, apartment manager! For you didn't reckon on my being..." Panel 4: The manager says, "We had assumed nobody would spend so much money and time just to save a few dollar..." as the tenant triumphantly finishes, "...AN ENGINEER!" Votey: The man laughs beside a large, crude boxy machine with a hose and dangling cables, saying, "HAHAHA! Now, every six months, I can turn on a light bulb!" The joke: his elaborate engineering scheme produces almost no usable power.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.