2011-05-22
Original: 2011-05-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (top banner): EVERY CONVERSATION ABOUT MUSIC BY EVERYONE OVER THE AGE OF TWENTY-FIVE:
Panel 1:
A man with dark curly hair in a green shirt sits at a table with a red-haired woman in a blue shirt; two coffee mugs sit on the table in front of them.
Man: "I hate what teens listen to. Pop music peaked at the exact moment when I was most emotionally vulnerable to trite love songs."
Votey:
Close-up of the red-haired woman, drawn in a loose black-and-white sketch style.
Woman: "Now it's all about image. Not like it was in the days of glam rock."
Panel 1:
A man with dark curly hair in a green shirt sits at a table with a red-haired woman in a blue shirt; two coffee mugs sit on the table in front of them.
Man: "I hate what teens listen to. Pop music peaked at the exact moment when I was most emotionally vulnerable to trite love songs."
Votey:
Close-up of the red-haired woman, drawn in a loose black-and-white sketch style.
Woman: "Now it's all about image. Not like it was in the days of glam rock."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. The top banner caption reads: "Every conversation about music by everyone over the age of twenty-five." In the main panel, a man with dark curly hair in a green shirt sits at a table across from a red-haired woman in a blue shirt, two coffee mugs between them. The man says: "I hate what teens listen to. Pop music peaked at the exact moment when I was most emotionally vulnerable to trite love songs." The joke is that people over 25 mistake their own teenage emotional peak for an objective high point in music quality. The votey (bonus panel), drawn as a rough black-and-white sketch close-up of the woman, has her reply: "Now it's all about image. Not like it was in the days of glam rock" — the punchline being that glam rock was famously all about image, so her nostalgia is self-undermining.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.