2012-02-07
Original: 2012-02-07 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bald, crying caveman baby lies on a fur, screaming.
Baby: WAAAAAAH!
Panel 2:
A bearded caveman gestures in frustration while a cavewoman stands beside him.
Bearded caveman: Dammit! Little Gorky won't shut up for two seconds!
Cavewoman: So draw him some animals.
Panel 3:
The bearded caveman, seen from behind, shouts and gestures wildly toward an unseen child (whose mouth is visible at the left edge).
Bearded caveman: Here's a stupid ox, you little shit! Are you happy yet?! HUH?
Panel 4:
A banner reads "35,000 YEARS LATER." A bespectacled lecturer stands at a podium beside a projected image of a cave painting of an animal.
Lecturer: Clearly, they were a people profoundly in tune with nature.
Votey:
Close-up of the bearded caveman's angry face as he yells.
Bearded caveman: Shut up or I'll invent a pictographic language to tell you to shut up!
A bald, crying caveman baby lies on a fur, screaming.
Baby: WAAAAAAH!
Panel 2:
A bearded caveman gestures in frustration while a cavewoman stands beside him.
Bearded caveman: Dammit! Little Gorky won't shut up for two seconds!
Cavewoman: So draw him some animals.
Panel 3:
The bearded caveman, seen from behind, shouts and gestures wildly toward an unseen child (whose mouth is visible at the left edge).
Bearded caveman: Here's a stupid ox, you little shit! Are you happy yet?! HUH?
Panel 4:
A banner reads "35,000 YEARS LATER." A bespectacled lecturer stands at a podium beside a projected image of a cave painting of an animal.
Lecturer: Clearly, they were a people profoundly in tune with nature.
Votey:
Close-up of the bearded caveman's angry face as he yells.
Bearded caveman: Shut up or I'll invent a pictographic language to tell you to shut up!
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic about the origins of cave art. Panel 1: a bald caveman baby lies on a fur screaming "WAAAAAAH!" Panel 2: a frustrated bearded caveman says "Dammit! Little Gorky won't shut up for two seconds!" and a cavewoman beside him replies "So draw him some animals." Panel 3: the bearded caveman, shouting at the unseen child, yells "Here's a stupid ox, you little shit! Are you happy yet?! HUH?" Panel 4: a banner reads "35,000 YEARS LATER"; a scholarly lecturer at a podium gestures to a projected cave painting of an animal and says "Clearly, they were a people profoundly in tune with nature." The joke: cave paintings revered as spiritual art were actually a furious parent's attempt to shut up a crying kid. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the angry caveman's face yelling, "Shut up or I'll invent a pictographic language to tell you to shut up!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.