2012-05-03
Original: 2012-05-03 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title caption: THIS IS WHY I'M NOT NOSTALGIC FOR YOUNG ROMANCE.
Panel 1: A young man with brown hair (blue shirt) looks dismayed. A blonde woman beside him speaks earnestly.
Blonde woman: I WILL LOVE YOU AS LONG AS THE SUN BEARS LIGHT. I WILL BE BY YOUR SIDE AS LONG AS MANKIND TREADS EARTH. FOR YOU, I WOULD CRUSH MOUNTAINS, DRAIN OCEANS, TRAVEL LIGHTYEARS...
Panel 2: The blonde woman (now in a pink shirt) smiles and holds up a tablet/game device.
Blonde woman: COOL! HEY, YOU WANNA LISTEN TO MY FAVORITE BAND, THE FUNKY BOYS?
Panel 3: Close-up of the brown-haired man looking deeply troubled and disappointed, holding the tablet.
Panel 4: The man (blue shirt) stands talking to two other people: a person with dark curly hair and a person with orange hair in a purple shirt.
Brown-haired man: I JUST DON'T BELIEVE WE'RE SOULMATES.
Votey:
Caption: ADULT ROMANCE...
A person (off-panel, large speech bubble) says: I STILL HAVE DREAMS.
A smiling woman replies: HOW IMMATURE.
Panel 1: A young man with brown hair (blue shirt) looks dismayed. A blonde woman beside him speaks earnestly.
Blonde woman: I WILL LOVE YOU AS LONG AS THE SUN BEARS LIGHT. I WILL BE BY YOUR SIDE AS LONG AS MANKIND TREADS EARTH. FOR YOU, I WOULD CRUSH MOUNTAINS, DRAIN OCEANS, TRAVEL LIGHTYEARS...
Panel 2: The blonde woman (now in a pink shirt) smiles and holds up a tablet/game device.
Blonde woman: COOL! HEY, YOU WANNA LISTEN TO MY FAVORITE BAND, THE FUNKY BOYS?
Panel 3: Close-up of the brown-haired man looking deeply troubled and disappointed, holding the tablet.
Panel 4: The man (blue shirt) stands talking to two other people: a person with dark curly hair and a person with orange hair in a purple shirt.
Brown-haired man: I JUST DON'T BELIEVE WE'RE SOULMATES.
Votey:
Caption: ADULT ROMANCE...
A person (off-panel, large speech bubble) says: I STILL HAVE DREAMS.
A smiling woman replies: HOW IMMATURE.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic titled "This is why I'm not nostalgic for young romance." Panel 1: a dismayed young man in a blue shirt sits beside a blonde woman who declares grandly, "I will love you as long as the sun bears light. I will be by your side as long as mankind treads Earth. For you, I would crush mountains, drain oceans, travel lightyears..." Panel 2: the woman, now cheerful, holds up a tablet and asks, "Cool! Hey, you wanna listen to my favorite band, The Funky Boys?" Panel 3: a close-up of the man looking crushed and disappointed by the mundane shift. Panel 4: he stands with two friends and says glumly, "I just don't believe we're soulmates." The joke: young love makes cosmic promises but collapses over trivial mismatched tastes. Votey aftercomic, captioned "Adult romance...": a person says "I still have dreams," and a smiling woman dismissively replies, "How immature." The joke flips: in adult romance, having any dreams at all is treated as the immature flaw.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.