2012-05-27
Original: 2012-05-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Setting: An underwater chamber with a vaulted glass ceiling, beyond which is dark water (a fish or whale shape drifts overhead). A man with red hair in a blue suit stands beside a woman with glasses in a maroon/purple jacket. Shadowy figures mingle in the background.
Man (red hair): PERSONAL INJURY CASE IN SECTOR 6.283T.
Woman: ON IT. I CAN REACH THE SURFACE WITHIN 24 HOURS.
Caption below panel:
What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea?
Atlantis II. If you tell anyone, you die.
Votey:
A woman with glasses, smoking a cigarette, and a bearded man.
Woman (glasses, smoking): LAWYER JOKES? WHAT'S NEXT, JOKES ABOUT LASAGNA?
Bearded man: I'LL GO BACK TO PENIS JOKES TOMORROW.
Setting: An underwater chamber with a vaulted glass ceiling, beyond which is dark water (a fish or whale shape drifts overhead). A man with red hair in a blue suit stands beside a woman with glasses in a maroon/purple jacket. Shadowy figures mingle in the background.
Man (red hair): PERSONAL INJURY CASE IN SECTOR 6.283T.
Woman: ON IT. I CAN REACH THE SURFACE WITHIN 24 HOURS.
Caption below panel:
What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea?
Atlantis II. If you tell anyone, you die.
Votey:
A woman with glasses, smoking a cigarette, and a bearded man.
Woman (glasses, smoking): LAWYER JOKES? WHAT'S NEXT, JOKES ABOUT LASAGNA?
Bearded man: I'LL GO BACK TO PENIS JOKES TOMORROW.
Alt text
Main comic, single panel: Inside an underwater city beneath a vaulted glass dome, dark ocean water and a drifting fish-shape visible above. A red-haired man in a blue suit says to a bespectacled woman in a maroon jacket, "Personal injury case in Sector 6.283T." She replies, "On it. I can reach the surface within 24 hours." Shadowy figures mingle behind them. Caption beneath the panel: "What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Atlantis II. If you tell anyone, you die." The joke imagines an entire underwater civilization secretly populated by lawyers. Votey (black-and-white sketch aftercomic): A bespectacled woman smoking a cigarette says, "Lawyer jokes? What's next, jokes about lasagna?" A bearded man replies, "I'll go back to penis jokes tomorrow."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.