2010-11-12
Original: 2010-11-12 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A girl holds a football for a round-headed boy to kick (a Peanuts-style scene). Wordless setup.
Panel 2 (devil figure speaking to the boy):
Boy: MY GOD
Devil: YES. YOU KICKED IT.
Panel 3:
Devil: YOU FEEL AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF POWER FOR YOUR ACHIEVEMENT.
Boy: YES...
Panel 4:
Devil: ONLY HAVING ACCOMPLISHED THE IMPOSSIBLE, YOU NOW FEEL SMALL TASKS ARE UNWORTHY OF YOU.
Panel 5:
Devil: IT'LL CLOUD YOUR FOCUS AND POISON YOUR RELATIONSHIPS. WORST OF ALL, WHEN YOU'RE A LONELY OLD FAILURE OF A MAN, YOU'LL HAUNT YOURSELF THE MOST. IS THAT YOU WANTED THIS.
Panel 6:
Devil: YOU WANTED THAT LITTLE BAUBLE OF SUCCESS, WHICH MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO PLANT THE SEEDS OF FUTURE GROWTH.
Panel 7 (caption: 60 YEARS LATER.):
An old man sits alone.
Old man: GOOD GRIEF.
Votey: A close-up of the old man's face, bald and unshaven, with a deeply sad, downturned frowning expression.
Panel 2 (devil figure speaking to the boy):
Boy: MY GOD
Devil: YES. YOU KICKED IT.
Panel 3:
Devil: YOU FEEL AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF POWER FOR YOUR ACHIEVEMENT.
Boy: YES...
Panel 4:
Devil: ONLY HAVING ACCOMPLISHED THE IMPOSSIBLE, YOU NOW FEEL SMALL TASKS ARE UNWORTHY OF YOU.
Panel 5:
Devil: IT'LL CLOUD YOUR FOCUS AND POISON YOUR RELATIONSHIPS. WORST OF ALL, WHEN YOU'RE A LONELY OLD FAILURE OF A MAN, YOU'LL HAUNT YOURSELF THE MOST. IS THAT YOU WANTED THIS.
Panel 6:
Devil: YOU WANTED THAT LITTLE BAUBLE OF SUCCESS, WHICH MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO PLANT THE SEEDS OF FUTURE GROWTH.
Panel 7 (caption: 60 YEARS LATER.):
An old man sits alone.
Old man: GOOD GRIEF.
Votey: A close-up of the old man's face, bald and unshaven, with a deeply sad, downturned frowning expression.
Alt text
A parody of the classic Peanuts football gag. A girl holds a football for a round-headed boy, who actually manages to kick it. A devil-like figure then appears and tells him: "Yes. You kicked it. You feel an overwhelming sense of power for your achievement." The boy agrees. The devil warns that having accomplished the impossible, the boy will now feel small tasks are beneath him, that it will cloud his focus and poison his relationships, and that when he is a lonely old failure of a man, this success will haunt him most, because the little bauble of success made it impossible for him to plant the seeds of future growth. Caption: "60 years later." The boy, now a sad bald old man sitting alone, says, "Good grief." Votey: a close-up of the old man's deeply sad, unshaven, frowning face.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.