2011-11-10
Original: 2011-11-10 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A young man with reddish hair sits relaxed on a couch in a dim room. A shadowy, horned demonic figure looms in the dark beside him.
Panel 2:
Demon: YOU SEEM TO BE ENJOYING YOURSELF.
Man: MMHM.
Panel 3:
Demon: YOU HAVE NO NOTION OF DEATH OR STRUGGLE.
Man: YEAH, THIS GAME IS PRETTY EASY.
Panel 4:
Demon: YOU HAVEN'T GOT TO WORK THE EARTH FOR FOOD OR BUILD IRON IT FOR SHELTER.
Man: YEAH, I LIVE WITH MY PARENTS, SO... YEAH.
Panel 5:
Demon: YOU HAVE NO AWARENESS OF YOUR OWN NAKEDNESS.
Man: MEH. YEAH.
Panel 6:
Demon: BUT WHAT IF YOU COULD HAVE MORE?
Man: EH?
Panel 7:
Demon: I COULD GIVE YOU KNOWLEDGE OF MANY THINGS!
Panel 8:
Man: THUMBS DOWN. HOMEWORK SUCKS.
Panel 9:
Demon: BUT WITH MORE KNOWLEDGE, YOU COULD BE MORE POWERFUL. AS POWERFUL AS A GOD.
Man: MY DAD HAS WAYYY MORE POWER THAN ME AND HE'S INTO HIS 20S FOR 25 YEARS, SO...
Panel 10:
Demon: NO. I CAN TAKE YOU TO A MAGICAL TREE WHOSE FRUIT WILL ENLIGHTEN YOU!
Man: OH-CHILLAXIN!
Panel 11:
Demon: NO THANKS, DUDE. I'M ALREADY PREEEETTY ENLIGHTENED.
Panel 12: The demon throws up its arms in frustration.
Demon: BAH!
Panel 13: A bright sky/cloud scene.
Demon: YOU MADE EARTH SO SLOWLY IT'S IN HEAVEN SO SLOWLY IT DIDN'T NOTICE!
Man: SLAM!
Votey: A banner/scroll reading: "AND SO SAYING, THE LORD DID A VICTORY DANCE"
Panel 2:
Demon: YOU SEEM TO BE ENJOYING YOURSELF.
Man: MMHM.
Panel 3:
Demon: YOU HAVE NO NOTION OF DEATH OR STRUGGLE.
Man: YEAH, THIS GAME IS PRETTY EASY.
Panel 4:
Demon: YOU HAVEN'T GOT TO WORK THE EARTH FOR FOOD OR BUILD IRON IT FOR SHELTER.
Man: YEAH, I LIVE WITH MY PARENTS, SO... YEAH.
Panel 5:
Demon: YOU HAVE NO AWARENESS OF YOUR OWN NAKEDNESS.
Man: MEH. YEAH.
Panel 6:
Demon: BUT WHAT IF YOU COULD HAVE MORE?
Man: EH?
Panel 7:
Demon: I COULD GIVE YOU KNOWLEDGE OF MANY THINGS!
Panel 8:
Man: THUMBS DOWN. HOMEWORK SUCKS.
Panel 9:
Demon: BUT WITH MORE KNOWLEDGE, YOU COULD BE MORE POWERFUL. AS POWERFUL AS A GOD.
Man: MY DAD HAS WAYYY MORE POWER THAN ME AND HE'S INTO HIS 20S FOR 25 YEARS, SO...
Panel 10:
Demon: NO. I CAN TAKE YOU TO A MAGICAL TREE WHOSE FRUIT WILL ENLIGHTEN YOU!
Man: OH-CHILLAXIN!
Panel 11:
Demon: NO THANKS, DUDE. I'M ALREADY PREEEETTY ENLIGHTENED.
Panel 12: The demon throws up its arms in frustration.
Demon: BAH!
Panel 13: A bright sky/cloud scene.
Demon: YOU MADE EARTH SO SLOWLY IT'S IN HEAVEN SO SLOWLY IT DIDN'T NOTICE!
Man: SLAM!
Votey: A banner/scroll reading: "AND SO SAYING, THE LORD DID A VICTORY DANCE"
Alt text
A tall black-bordered SMBC comic. A young man with reddish hair lounges contentedly on a couch in a dark room while a shadowy horned demon (a tempter figure) looms beside him. The demon tries one temptation after another: it notes the man is enjoying himself, has no notion of death or struggle, doesn't have to toil for food or shelter, and has no awareness of his own nakedness. The man shrugs each off, unbothered ('yeah, I live with my parents, so... yeah'). The demon then offers him MORE: knowledge of many things (the man gives a thumbs down, 'homework sucks'), power like a god (the man says his dad has way more power and has been in his 20s for 25 years), and a magical tree whose fruit will enlighten him (the man says 'no thanks, I'm already preeetty enlightened'). The demon throws up its arms in frustration shouting 'BAH!' The final panel shows a bright sky of clouds: the gag is that the man's total contentment quietly turned Earth into heaven so gradually no one noticed. Votey: a hand-drawn banner/scroll reading 'AND SO SAYING, THE LORD DID A VICTORY DANCE.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.