2011-04-01
Original: 2011-04-01 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title/header (above the panel):
FACT:
NORMAL SENTENCE - EUPHEMISM = CREEPY
Panel:
A man with brown hair (seen mostly from behind/profile, in a green shirt) leans close to a woman with long red hair in a purple tank top. They face each other intimately against a purple background.
Man (speech bubble): "I'M SORRY, I CAN'T... I'M SAVING MY PENIS FOR MARRIAGE."
Votey:
Handwritten text on a plain bordered panel:
FACT:
"SELF" = PENIS
Examples:
"JUST BE YOURSELF"
"THAT'S SELFISH"
"TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE."
FACT:
NORMAL SENTENCE - EUPHEMISM = CREEPY
Panel:
A man with brown hair (seen mostly from behind/profile, in a green shirt) leans close to a woman with long red hair in a purple tank top. They face each other intimately against a purple background.
Man (speech bubble): "I'M SORRY, I CAN'T... I'M SAVING MY PENIS FOR MARRIAGE."
Votey:
Handwritten text on a plain bordered panel:
FACT:
"SELF" = PENIS
Examples:
"JUST BE YOURSELF"
"THAT'S SELFISH"
"TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE."
Alt text
A header reads: "FACT: NORMAL SENTENCE - EUPHEMISM = CREEPY." Below it, a single panel shows a brown-haired man in a green shirt leaning in close and intimate with a red-haired woman in a purple top against a purple background. Instead of a euphemism, the man states bluntly in a speech bubble: "I'm sorry, I can't... I'm saving my penis for marriage." The joke: stripping the polite euphemism out of an intimate moment makes it abrupt and creepy. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-lettered note reads "FACT: 'SELF' = PENIS" followed by "Examples: 'JUST BE YOURSELF', 'THAT'S SELFISH', 'TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE.'" — recasting common phrases by substituting the crude meaning.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.