2011-02-24
Original: 2011-02-24 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title: CULTURE IS WEIRD
Panel 1: Two people stand talking in a dimly lit room.
Person on the left (a woman with dark hair): "Dude! Did you see the version of Superman from India?"
Person on the right (a man, smiling): "Yeah! It's soooo ridiculous!"
Below the panel, two side-by-side lists:
THINGS AMERICAN SUPERMAN DOES
-Flies
-Breathes nothing in space
-Lifts anything
-Looks human; is alien
-Gets powers from the yellow sun
-Has muscles; never exercises
-Sees through walls
-Shoots lasers from eyes
-Grows weak next to a particular rock
-Hears specific sounds at long distance
-Is invincible
-Freezes things with breath
-Lives forever
-Has Telescopic vision
-Has Microscopic vision
THINGS INDIAN SUPERMAN DOES
-Flies
-Breathes nothing in space
-Lifts anything
-Looks human; is alien
-Gets powers from the yellow sun
-Has muscles; never exercises
-Sees through walls
-Shoots lasers from eyes
-Grows weak next to a particular rock
-Hears specific sounds at long distance
-Is invincible
-Freezes things with breath
-Lives forever
-Has Telescopic vision
-Has Microscopic vision
-Dances
Votey:
Caption: ALSO THIS:
A man (drawn in black-and-white) speaks: "I won't eat haggis! It's made of random animal parts. No, I'll stick to good old American hot dogs."
Panel 1: Two people stand talking in a dimly lit room.
Person on the left (a woman with dark hair): "Dude! Did you see the version of Superman from India?"
Person on the right (a man, smiling): "Yeah! It's soooo ridiculous!"
Below the panel, two side-by-side lists:
THINGS AMERICAN SUPERMAN DOES
-Flies
-Breathes nothing in space
-Lifts anything
-Looks human; is alien
-Gets powers from the yellow sun
-Has muscles; never exercises
-Sees through walls
-Shoots lasers from eyes
-Grows weak next to a particular rock
-Hears specific sounds at long distance
-Is invincible
-Freezes things with breath
-Lives forever
-Has Telescopic vision
-Has Microscopic vision
THINGS INDIAN SUPERMAN DOES
-Flies
-Breathes nothing in space
-Lifts anything
-Looks human; is alien
-Gets powers from the yellow sun
-Has muscles; never exercises
-Sees through walls
-Shoots lasers from eyes
-Grows weak next to a particular rock
-Hears specific sounds at long distance
-Is invincible
-Freezes things with breath
-Lives forever
-Has Telescopic vision
-Has Microscopic vision
-Dances
Votey:
Caption: ALSO THIS:
A man (drawn in black-and-white) speaks: "I won't eat haggis! It's made of random animal parts. No, I'll stick to good old American hot dogs."
Alt text
Title: "Culture Is Weird." In a dim room, a dark-haired woman tells a smiling man, "Dude! Did you see the version of Superman from India?" He replies, "Yeah! It's soooo ridiculous!" Beneath them are two identical side-by-side lists headed "Things American Superman Does" and "Things Indian Superman Does" — both listing the same powers (flies, breathes nothing in space, lifts anything, looks human but is alien, gets powers from the yellow sun, has muscles but never exercises, X-ray vision, eye lasers, weakened by a particular rock, super-hearing, invincible, freeze breath, immortal, telescopic and microscopic vision). The only difference: the Indian Superman list adds one extra item at the bottom, "-Dances," which the characters mock despite the two versions being otherwise identical — the joke being people ridicule a foreign culture's version of something that's just as absurd as their own. Votey (a black-and-white follow-up panel) captioned "Also this:": a man declares, "I won't eat haggis! It's made of random animal parts. No, I'll stick to good old American hot dogs" — hot dogs likewise being made of random animal parts.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.