2012-02-15
Original: 2012-02-15 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A smiling bald man in a suit: "WELCOME TO YOUR NEW JOB?"
Panel 2:
The man, gesturing to a desk: "HERE'S THE PLACE WHERE YOU SIT ALL DAY!"
Panel 3:
The man pointing at office equipment (a monitor and a device): "HERE'S THAT THING YOU LOOK INTO ALL DAY, AND THAT OTHER THING YOU WASH YOUR HANDS INTO."
Panel 4:
The man, smiling: "I SEE YOU'RE WEARING CLOTHES, WHICH IS GOOD BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO WEAR CLOTHES HERE ALL THE TIME."
Panel 5:
The man, smiling: "IF YOU DO GOOD WORK, YOU CAN WORK HERE FOR FIFTY YEARS!"
Panel 6:
A sleeping orange cat lies on its side, a sweat/motion drop above it.
Panel 7:
Two people (a woman with dark hair and a man with red hair) look down fondly at the sleeping cat. One of them: "AWW, LOOK — HE'S HAVING A NIGHTMARE."
Votey:
Close-up of the sleeping cat's face with a thought bubble above it: "LET'S REVIEW YOUR INSURANCE POLICY OPTIONS."
A smiling bald man in a suit: "WELCOME TO YOUR NEW JOB?"
Panel 2:
The man, gesturing to a desk: "HERE'S THE PLACE WHERE YOU SIT ALL DAY!"
Panel 3:
The man pointing at office equipment (a monitor and a device): "HERE'S THAT THING YOU LOOK INTO ALL DAY, AND THAT OTHER THING YOU WASH YOUR HANDS INTO."
Panel 4:
The man, smiling: "I SEE YOU'RE WEARING CLOTHES, WHICH IS GOOD BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO WEAR CLOTHES HERE ALL THE TIME."
Panel 5:
The man, smiling: "IF YOU DO GOOD WORK, YOU CAN WORK HERE FOR FIFTY YEARS!"
Panel 6:
A sleeping orange cat lies on its side, a sweat/motion drop above it.
Panel 7:
Two people (a woman with dark hair and a man with red hair) look down fondly at the sleeping cat. One of them: "AWW, LOOK — HE'S HAVING A NIGHTMARE."
Votey:
Close-up of the sleeping cat's face with a thought bubble above it: "LET'S REVIEW YOUR INSURANCE POLICY OPTIONS."
Alt text
A tall black-and-white comic. In the first five panels, a smiling bald man in a suit cheerfully gives a new-job orientation: "Welcome to your new job?" / "Here's the place where you sit all day!" / pointing at office equipment, "Here's that thing you look into all day, and that other thing you wash your hands into." / "I see you're wearing clothes, which is good because you have to wear clothes here all the time." / "If you do good work, you can work here for fifty years!" The next panel reveals an orange cat sleeping on its side with a stress sweat-drop, twitching. In the final panel two people — a dark-haired woman and a red-haired man — look down lovingly at the cat and say, "Aww, look — he's having a nightmare." The joke: the soul-crushing job orientation was the cat's nightmare. Votey: a close-up of the sleeping cat's dreaming face with a thought bubble reading, "Let's review your insurance policy options" — capping the corporate-dread nightmare.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.