2010-12-04
Original: 2010-12-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Red-haired man (entering a living room): UGH. I GOT FIRED FROM MY JOB AT THE PET STORE.
Man seated in an orange armchair: FOR WHAT?
Red-haired man: A SPOONERISM.
Seated man: WHAT'S THAT?
Panel 2:
Red-haired man: IT'S WHEN YOU SWITCH THE FIRST LETTERS OF TWO WORDS.
Seated man (now leaning over the back of the armchair): HOW CAN YOU GET FIRED FOR THAT?
Panel 3:
Red-haired man: WELL, WE HAVE THIS PUPPY WHO'S SMALL, BUT TOUGH... AND WE WERE SHOWING HIM TO THIS ELDERLY WOMAN, WHEN...
Panel 4:
Red-haired man (gritting his teeth, holding the puppy, beside a shocked elderly woman): I MEANT CAPABLE RUNT! CAPABLE RUNT!
Votey:
A woman (the red-haired man's friend/partner, leaning her face on her hand): IT'S A PLAY ON WORDS! JUST LIKE IN SHAKESPEARE.
(The red-haired man sits below her, looking glum.)
Red-haired man (entering a living room): UGH. I GOT FIRED FROM MY JOB AT THE PET STORE.
Man seated in an orange armchair: FOR WHAT?
Red-haired man: A SPOONERISM.
Seated man: WHAT'S THAT?
Panel 2:
Red-haired man: IT'S WHEN YOU SWITCH THE FIRST LETTERS OF TWO WORDS.
Seated man (now leaning over the back of the armchair): HOW CAN YOU GET FIRED FOR THAT?
Panel 3:
Red-haired man: WELL, WE HAVE THIS PUPPY WHO'S SMALL, BUT TOUGH... AND WE WERE SHOWING HIM TO THIS ELDERLY WOMAN, WHEN...
Panel 4:
Red-haired man (gritting his teeth, holding the puppy, beside a shocked elderly woman): I MEANT CAPABLE RUNT! CAPABLE RUNT!
Votey:
A woman (the red-haired man's friend/partner, leaning her face on her hand): IT'S A PLAY ON WORDS! JUST LIKE IN SHAKESPEARE.
(The red-haired man sits below her, looking glum.)
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A red-haired man comes home and tells his friend, who is sitting in an orange armchair, that he got fired from his job at the pet store for 'a spoonerism.' The friend asks what that is. The red-haired man explains it's when you switch the first letters of two words, and asks how that could get you fired. He recounts: they had a puppy who was 'small, but tough,' and were showing it to an elderly woman, when... Final panel: the red-haired man, teeth gritted and holding the puppy next to a horrified elderly woman, shouts 'I MEANT CAPABLE RUNT! CAPABLE RUNT!' (the spoonerized version of an offensive phrase). Votey (black-and-white aftercomic): the man's friend, chin propped on her hand, reassures him, 'It's a play on words! Just like in Shakespeare,' while he sits below looking glum.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.