2011-08-09
Original: 2011-08-09 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Bald man (pointing across a barren landscape): LOOK! THIS VEIN OF SILICA FORMS A NATURALLY OCCURRING PIECE OF OPTICAL FIBER! IF YOU PUT SOMETHING ON IT, YOU CAN SEE ITS IMAGE AT THE OTHER END, 40 METERS AWAY!
Panel 2:
Woman with long red-brown hair (placing a draped blue cloth onto the silica vein): I WONDER WHAT STRANGE MAGIC THE ANCIENT PEOPLE THOUGHT IT HELD...
Panel 3:
Caption banner: 50,000 YEARS EARLIER...
A bearded caveman (gesturing to a woman in a yellow garment standing near a small blue object on the ground): OKAY, STAND RIGHT THERE FOR A SECOND. I NEED TO GO GRAB SOMETHING.
Votey:
Caption: KELLY'S REACTION:
(A drawing of a woman with glasses and short hair giving a flat, unimpressed, deadpan stare.)
Bald man (pointing across a barren landscape): LOOK! THIS VEIN OF SILICA FORMS A NATURALLY OCCURRING PIECE OF OPTICAL FIBER! IF YOU PUT SOMETHING ON IT, YOU CAN SEE ITS IMAGE AT THE OTHER END, 40 METERS AWAY!
Panel 2:
Woman with long red-brown hair (placing a draped blue cloth onto the silica vein): I WONDER WHAT STRANGE MAGIC THE ANCIENT PEOPLE THOUGHT IT HELD...
Panel 3:
Caption banner: 50,000 YEARS EARLIER...
A bearded caveman (gesturing to a woman in a yellow garment standing near a small blue object on the ground): OKAY, STAND RIGHT THERE FOR A SECOND. I NEED TO GO GRAB SOMETHING.
Votey:
Caption: KELLY'S REACTION:
(A drawing of a woman with glasses and short hair giving a flat, unimpressed, deadpan stare.)
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A bald man stands with a red-haired woman in a barren, rocky landscape, pointing into the distance and exclaiming that a vein of silica forms a naturally occurring optical fiber that can transmit an image 40 meters away if you place something on it. Panel 2: Close-up of the woman draping a blue cloth onto the silica vein, musing aloud, 'I wonder what strange magic the ancient people thought it held...' Panel 3: A banner reads '50,000 years earlier...' A bearded caveman tells a woman in a yellow garment standing beside a small blue object, 'Okay, stand right there for a second. I need to go grab something.' The joke: the 'ancient magic' was just a prehistoric guy using the natural fiber-optic to set up a remote prank or peek. Votey aftercomic: labeled 'Kelly's reaction,' showing a woman with glasses and short hair giving a flat, deadpan, unimpressed stare.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.