2011-04-15
Original: 2011-04-15 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title caption (top): ANY JOKE THAT ENDS WITH A PUN CAN BE CONVERTED TO AN ACTION MOVIE SCENE
Panel 1: A man with dark hair (in a dim hallway) speaks to a man in a suit with bandaged/wrapped hands.
Dark-haired man: SO, WHATEVER BECAME OF DOMINGO?
Bandaged man: HE WAS MY FRIEND... BUT HE GOT TOO SMART.
Panel 2:
Bandaged man: FIVE YEARS AGO, WE TIED HIM IN LOOPS, AND CUT HIS HEAD INTO STRIPS.
Dark-haired man: WHY DO YOU ASK?
Panel 3: (A sound effect "CLICK" appears at a doorway.)
Dark-haired man: ARE YOU SURE HE'S DEAD?
Panel 4:
Bandaged man: WHY DID YOUR VOICE SUDDENLY CHANGE? YOU SOUND LIKE DOMINGO... BUT... BUT HE'S DEAD!
Panel 5:
Dark-haired man: DEAD?
Bandaged man: DEAD! NO STRING COULD SURVIVE THAT!
Panel 6: (Action sequence — the bandaged/wrapped figure, revealed to be made of cord/rope, lunges and fights; a gun fires in a burst of light.)
Final panel: The rope-like figure stands over the fallen man in a spreading pool of blood.
Rope figure: SORRY PATRON. I'M A FRAYED KNOT.
Votey: A close-up of a person's lower torso/groin area drawn to resemble a mushroom cap.
Text: OH... MR. BOND... I BELIEVE YOU'LL FIND I'M A FUN GUY.
Panel 1: A man with dark hair (in a dim hallway) speaks to a man in a suit with bandaged/wrapped hands.
Dark-haired man: SO, WHATEVER BECAME OF DOMINGO?
Bandaged man: HE WAS MY FRIEND... BUT HE GOT TOO SMART.
Panel 2:
Bandaged man: FIVE YEARS AGO, WE TIED HIM IN LOOPS, AND CUT HIS HEAD INTO STRIPS.
Dark-haired man: WHY DO YOU ASK?
Panel 3: (A sound effect "CLICK" appears at a doorway.)
Dark-haired man: ARE YOU SURE HE'S DEAD?
Panel 4:
Bandaged man: WHY DID YOUR VOICE SUDDENLY CHANGE? YOU SOUND LIKE DOMINGO... BUT... BUT HE'S DEAD!
Panel 5:
Dark-haired man: DEAD?
Bandaged man: DEAD! NO STRING COULD SURVIVE THAT!
Panel 6: (Action sequence — the bandaged/wrapped figure, revealed to be made of cord/rope, lunges and fights; a gun fires in a burst of light.)
Final panel: The rope-like figure stands over the fallen man in a spreading pool of blood.
Rope figure: SORRY PATRON. I'M A FRAYED KNOT.
Votey: A close-up of a person's lower torso/groin area drawn to resemble a mushroom cap.
Text: OH... MR. BOND... I BELIEVE YOU'LL FIND I'M A FUN GUY.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic in noir/action-movie style. Top caption reads: "Any joke that ends with a pun can be converted to an action movie scene." In a dim hallway, a dark-haired man asks a suited man with bandaged, rope-wrapped hands, "So, whatever became of Domingo?" The wrapped man replies it was his friend who got too smart, and that five years ago they tied him in loops and cut his head into strips. The dark-haired man asks, "Are you sure he's dead?" The wrapped man notices the other's voice has changed and sounds like Domingo, insisting "But he's dead! No string could survive that!" A violent gunfight erupts. In the final panel, a figure made entirely of frayed cord stands over a man lying dead in a spreading pool of blood and says, "Sorry, patron. I'm a frayed knot" (a pun on "afraid not"). Votey: a black-and-white panel showing a person's lower body drawn to look like a mushroom, captioned "Oh... Mr. Bond... I believe you'll find I'm a fun guy" (a pun on "fungi").
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.