2012-07-22
Original: 2012-07-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: Two bees stand inside a honeycomb hive.
First bee: MAY THIS HONEY PRESERVE THE QUEEN AND FEED THE YOUNGLINGS.
Second bee: IT WAS HARD... BUT LOVE MAKES HARD WORK EASY.
Panel 2: A close-up of one bee inside the hive. Sound effects appear in spiky burst shapes.
Sound effect: RUMBLE RUMBLE
Sound effect: CRACK
The honeycomb wall begins to break open, revealing blue sky and alarmed bees.
Panel 3: The hive is being torn apart. Two bees face each other amid the destruction as the wall is ripped away into the open sky.
First bee: I LOVE YOU, SUE!
Second bee: I LOVE YOU SALLY!
Scream from above: AAAH!!
Panel 4 (final): Outside in a sunny field, Winnie the Pooh sits contentedly eating from a honeycomb / hive he has torn open, honey dripping out. He is oblivious to the bees' tragedy.
Votey:
A single panel. A person lies in bed, half-asleep, with a thought bubble above their head.
Thought: I WONDER WHAT VEGANS THINK OF WINNIE THE POOH...
First bee: MAY THIS HONEY PRESERVE THE QUEEN AND FEED THE YOUNGLINGS.
Second bee: IT WAS HARD... BUT LOVE MAKES HARD WORK EASY.
Panel 2: A close-up of one bee inside the hive. Sound effects appear in spiky burst shapes.
Sound effect: RUMBLE RUMBLE
Sound effect: CRACK
The honeycomb wall begins to break open, revealing blue sky and alarmed bees.
Panel 3: The hive is being torn apart. Two bees face each other amid the destruction as the wall is ripped away into the open sky.
First bee: I LOVE YOU, SUE!
Second bee: I LOVE YOU SALLY!
Scream from above: AAAH!!
Panel 4 (final): Outside in a sunny field, Winnie the Pooh sits contentedly eating from a honeycomb / hive he has torn open, honey dripping out. He is oblivious to the bees' tragedy.
Votey:
A single panel. A person lies in bed, half-asleep, with a thought bubble above their head.
Thought: I WONDER WHAT VEGANS THINK OF WINNIE THE POOH...
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: two anthropomorphized cartoon bees stand inside a honeycomb hive; one says "May this honey preserve the queen and feed the younglings," the other replies "It was hard... but love makes hard work easy." Panel 2: a close-up of a bee as the hive shakes apart, with burst-shaped sound effects reading "RUMBLE RUMBLE" and "CRACK," and blue sky breaking through the cracking wall. Panel 3: the hive is being torn open into the open sky; two bees, separated by the destruction, cry out "I love you, Sue!" and "I love you Sally!" while a scream of "AAAH!!" comes from above. Panel 4: the reveal -- Winnie the Pooh sits in a sunny field, calmly eating honey from the torn-open hive he just destroyed, completely oblivious to the bees' deaths and heartbreak. The joke recasts a beloved children's-book moment as a tragedy from the bees' point of view. Votey (bonus panel): a person lies half-asleep in bed with a thought bubble reading "I wonder what vegans think of Winnie the Pooh..."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.