2012-01-20
Original: 2012-01-20 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Caption (narration, theatrical announcement style): "Wife was unavailable due to lack of intimacy in recent interactions. Tonight, the role of wife will be played by a squirt of vaseline and a quiet sense of foreboding."
(The scene shows a balding man lying in bed under blue covers, holding a purple booklet labeled "PLAYBILL". His wife appears to be asleep beside him, facing away.)
Votey:
In a rough black-and-white sketch, the man lies in bed grinning happily as he speaks to the figure beside him.
Man: "YOUR UNDERSTUDY WAS AMAZING!"
Caption (narration, theatrical announcement style): "Wife was unavailable due to lack of intimacy in recent interactions. Tonight, the role of wife will be played by a squirt of vaseline and a quiet sense of foreboding."
(The scene shows a balding man lying in bed under blue covers, holding a purple booklet labeled "PLAYBILL". His wife appears to be asleep beside him, facing away.)
Votey:
In a rough black-and-white sketch, the man lies in bed grinning happily as he speaks to the figure beside him.
Man: "YOUR UNDERSTUDY WAS AMAZING!"
Alt text
A balding man lies in bed at night under blue covers, holding a purple theater "PLAYBILL" booklet, with his wife asleep beside him facing away. A narration caption reads: "Wife was unavailable due to lack of intimacy in recent interactions. Tonight, the role of wife will be played by a squirt of vaseline and a quiet sense of foreboding." The joke: he frames masturbating to a Playbill as a theatrical performance where a substitute stands in for his unavailable wife. Votey (aftercomic), a rough black-and-white sketch: the man lies in bed grinning at the figure beside him and says, "YOUR UNDERSTUDY WAS AMAZING!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.