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2010-12-28

Original: 2010-12-28 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Main comic:

Single panel. Two people sit at a small round dining table with empty plates, as if on a date. A person with brown hair is seen from behind in the foreground. Across the table, a man with reddish-orange hair and glasses, wearing a green shirt, gestures with both hands as he explains something.

Man with red hair and glasses: "You get two football clubs. They football at each other. Then, whoever footballs hardest is the king of football."

Caption below the panel: "Fun dating activity: Trick a nerd into claiming he likes a sport, then ask him to explain the rules."

Votey:

Title text at the top: "EVERY POST-GAME INTERVIEW EVER:"

Below it, a black-and-white panel showing an interviewer facing an athlete.

Interviewer: "So, how'd you win?"

Athlete: "We out-footballed the other footballers."

Alt text

A single-panel SMBC comic. Two people sit across from each other at a small round table with empty plates, like a date. The foreground figure with brown hair is seen from behind. Facing us, a man with reddish hair and glasses in a green shirt gestures earnestly while explaining: "You get two football clubs. They football at each other. Then, whoever footballs hardest is the king of football." A caption reads: "Fun dating activity: Trick a nerd into claiming he likes a sport, then ask him to explain the rules" - the joke being he clearly knows nothing about the sport. The votey aftercomic is a black-and-white panel titled "EVERY POST-GAME INTERVIEW EVER:" showing an interviewer asking an athlete "So, how'd you win?" and the athlete vacantly answering "We out-footballed the other footballers," mocking the empty circularity of real sports interviews.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.