2011-05-20
Original: 2011-05-20 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Bald man with round glasses in a suit (a teller/salesman): YOUR TRANSACTION IS COMPLETE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO PURCHASE ANY HAPPINESS?
Panel 2:
Woman with red hair: OH, NO THANKS. MONEY CAN'T BUY HAPPINESS.
Panel 3:
The bald man holds up a pink bill across a counter to the red-haired woman.
Bald man: THAT'S WHY WE CREATED "HAPPY BUCKS." THEY CAN BE EXCHANGED FOR REGULAR MONEY ANY TIME, AND THERE'S NO SOCIAL STIGMA ATTACHED TO WANTING LOTS OF THEM.
Panel 4:
The woman holds the pink bill and looks at it.
Woman: CAN HAPPY BUCKS BUY HAPPINESS?
Bald man: I'VE NEVER HEARD A TRUISM SAYING THEY CAN'T.
Panel 5:
The woman, looking excited/intense.
Woman: I'LL TAKE TEN THOUSAND!
Votey:
A piece of pink "Happy Buck" currency featuring a large smiling face in the center, the numeral "1" in each corner. A banner across the top reads: PRINT YOUR OWN! A banner at the bottom reads: Yay.
Bald man with round glasses in a suit (a teller/salesman): YOUR TRANSACTION IS COMPLETE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO PURCHASE ANY HAPPINESS?
Panel 2:
Woman with red hair: OH, NO THANKS. MONEY CAN'T BUY HAPPINESS.
Panel 3:
The bald man holds up a pink bill across a counter to the red-haired woman.
Bald man: THAT'S WHY WE CREATED "HAPPY BUCKS." THEY CAN BE EXCHANGED FOR REGULAR MONEY ANY TIME, AND THERE'S NO SOCIAL STIGMA ATTACHED TO WANTING LOTS OF THEM.
Panel 4:
The woman holds the pink bill and looks at it.
Woman: CAN HAPPY BUCKS BUY HAPPINESS?
Bald man: I'VE NEVER HEARD A TRUISM SAYING THEY CAN'T.
Panel 5:
The woman, looking excited/intense.
Woman: I'LL TAKE TEN THOUSAND!
Votey:
A piece of pink "Happy Buck" currency featuring a large smiling face in the center, the numeral "1" in each corner. A banner across the top reads: PRINT YOUR OWN! A banner at the bottom reads: Yay.
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. A bald man in a suit with round glasses stands behind a counter as a bank teller or salesman, speaking to a red-haired woman. Panel 1, the man: "Your transaction is complete. Would you like to purchase any happiness?" Panel 2, the woman: "Oh, no thanks. Money can't buy happiness." Panel 3, the man holds up a pink dollar bill: "That's why we created 'Happy Bucks.' They can be exchanged for regular money any time, and there's no social stigma attached to wanting lots of them." Panel 4, the woman examines the pink bill: "Can Happy Bucks buy happiness?" The man: "I've never heard a truism saying they can't." Panel 5, the woman, now wide-eyed and eager: "I'll take ten thousand!" The joke: by renaming money so no proverb applies to it, they make her enthusiastically want it. Votey: a close-up of a pink "Happy Buck" bill with a big smiling face in the center and a "1" in each corner; a banner on top reads "Print your own!" and a small banner below reads "Yay."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.