2012-06-03
Original: 2012-06-03 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man: Should I spend another year in this job I hate, or should I take this new possibility with all the risk it entails?
Panel 2 ("inner child"):
Man: What do you say, inner child?
Inner child: You should watch cartoons and eat a mountain of cookies.
Panel 3 ("inner teenager"):
Man: Okay. What do you say, inner teenager?
Inner teenager: Making tough decisions is for conformists, loser.
Panel 4 ("inner young adult"):
Man: Uh huh. Okay. What do you say, inner young adult?
Inner young adult: I'm busting my ass to get this law degree, man! The hell aren't you a millionaire yet? Jesus.
Panel 5 ("inner self"):
Man: What do you say, inner self?
Inner self: You're consulting imaginary parts of your psyche because you're afraid to admit you've already made the cowardly choice in your heart.
Panel 6:
(The man sits silently in the dark, no dialogue.)
Panel 7:
(The man sits on a couch in front of a glowing television, alone.)
Votey:
Woman (laughing hard): Haha hahaha!
Man: Oh God, my stomach.
Man: Should I spend another year in this job I hate, or should I take this new possibility with all the risk it entails?
Panel 2 ("inner child"):
Man: What do you say, inner child?
Inner child: You should watch cartoons and eat a mountain of cookies.
Panel 3 ("inner teenager"):
Man: Okay. What do you say, inner teenager?
Inner teenager: Making tough decisions is for conformists, loser.
Panel 4 ("inner young adult"):
Man: Uh huh. Okay. What do you say, inner young adult?
Inner young adult: I'm busting my ass to get this law degree, man! The hell aren't you a millionaire yet? Jesus.
Panel 5 ("inner self"):
Man: What do you say, inner self?
Inner self: You're consulting imaginary parts of your psyche because you're afraid to admit you've already made the cowardly choice in your heart.
Panel 6:
(The man sits silently in the dark, no dialogue.)
Panel 7:
(The man sits on a couch in front of a glowing television, alone.)
Votey:
Woman (laughing hard): Haha hahaha!
Man: Oh God, my stomach.
Alt text
A tall multi-panel SMBC comic. A bald man asks himself whether to stay another year in a job he hates or take a risky new opportunity. He then consults a series of inner voices, each drawn as a faintly glowing head beside him. His 'inner child' tells him to watch cartoons and eat a mountain of cookies. His 'inner teenager' (a figure with reddish hair) sneers that making tough decisions is for conformists. His 'inner young adult' rants that he's busting his ass for a law degree so why isn't the man a millionaire yet. Finally his 'inner self' delivers the gut punch: he's consulting imaginary parts of his psyche only because he's afraid to admit he's already made the cowardly choice in his heart. In the last panels the man sits silently in the dark, then is shown alone on a couch staring at a glowing TV. Votey: A separate black-bordered panel shows a woman laughing uncontrollably ('Haha hahaha!') while a man clutches his side saying 'Oh God, my stomach.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.