2011-12-31
Original: 2011-12-31 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Villain (a shadowy figure with flame-like hair): Good evening Professor. Remember when I saved your English class due to poor grammar after that... I TURNED... TO EVIL
Panel 2:
Professor (an older bald man with a beard): Are you going to kill me?
Villain: No, Professor. You'll do that for me. You see, I'm about to send you a text message. If you text back, you explode. Otherwise, you go free.
Panel 3:
Professor: I don't understand. Why would I.
(Sound effect on the professor's phone: beep beep beep)
Panel 4:
The professor looks at his phone in alarm.
Panel 5:
BOOM!
Votey:
A tombstone reads: "HERE LIES PROFESSOR JONES. FOR HIM, THEIR WAS NO ESCAPE"
Villain (a shadowy figure with flame-like hair): Good evening Professor. Remember when I saved your English class due to poor grammar after that... I TURNED... TO EVIL
Panel 2:
Professor (an older bald man with a beard): Are you going to kill me?
Villain: No, Professor. You'll do that for me. You see, I'm about to send you a text message. If you text back, you explode. Otherwise, you go free.
Panel 3:
Professor: I don't understand. Why would I.
(Sound effect on the professor's phone: beep beep beep)
Panel 4:
The professor looks at his phone in alarm.
Panel 5:
BOOM!
Votey:
A tombstone reads: "HERE LIES PROFESSOR JONES. FOR HIM, THEIR WAS NO ESCAPE"
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic in a dark setting. In the first panel, a shadowy villain with flame-like red hair leans toward an older bald, bearded man, saying: "Good evening Professor. Remember when I saved your English class due to poor grammar? After that... I TURNED... TO EVIL." In the second panel the professor asks, "Are you going to kill me?" The villain replies that no, the professor will do it himself: he is about to receive a text message, and if he texts back, he explodes; otherwise he goes free. In the third panel the professor's phone beeps and he says, confused, "I don't understand. Why would I." -- ending the sentence with a period instead of a question mark, the same kind of grammar slip the villain hates. In the fourth panel the professor stares at his phone in alarm. In the fifth panel: BOOM, an explosion. Votey: a hand-drawn tombstone reads "HERE LIES PROFESSOR JONES. FOR HIM, THEIR WAS NO ESCAPE" -- with "their" misused in place of "there," a final grammar joke.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.