2012-08-20
Original: 2012-08-20 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A dark-skinned woman with black hair (the cat's owner) stands beside a smiling woman with reddish hair. The owner says: "LET ME SHOW YOU MY KITTY!"
Panel 2: A hand reaches toward a yellow cat sleeping on a purple bed. The cat (thought/spoken): "OH GOD YOU BITCH I'M SLEEPING NO!"
Panel 3: The red-haired woman grins. The owner holds up the yellow cat near her shoulder. Owner: "HE LOOOVES SITTING ON MY SHOULDER!" Cat: "OH FUCK ME NOT THIS."
Panel 4: The red-haired woman: "AWW! HE'S A LITTLE SHOULDER CAT!" The cat balances on the owner's shoulder, glaring. Cat: "I WAS SLEEPING! NOW I'M BALANCING ON YOUR SHOULDER TO AMUSE YOUR IDIOT FRIEND!"
Panel 5: Close-up of the owner smiling, the cat's ears visible at the edge. Owner: "HA! YOU KNOW THE WAY WE CLEAN UP AND TAKE CARE OF THEM, I BET THEY THINK THEY'RE IN CHARGE, AND WE'RE THE PETS!"
Panel 6: Both women laugh together. Women: "HAHAHA HAHAHA AHAHAH HAHA!!" The cat, perched on the owner's shoulder with a horrified open mouth: "I'M IN HELL! I'M IN HELLLL!"
Votey: A simple black-and-white drawing of a grinning face in a speech bubble: "WHO WANTS TO BE UPSIDE-DOWN?!" A separate thought/speech bubble answers: "NOBODY!"
Panel 2: A hand reaches toward a yellow cat sleeping on a purple bed. The cat (thought/spoken): "OH GOD YOU BITCH I'M SLEEPING NO!"
Panel 3: The red-haired woman grins. The owner holds up the yellow cat near her shoulder. Owner: "HE LOOOVES SITTING ON MY SHOULDER!" Cat: "OH FUCK ME NOT THIS."
Panel 4: The red-haired woman: "AWW! HE'S A LITTLE SHOULDER CAT!" The cat balances on the owner's shoulder, glaring. Cat: "I WAS SLEEPING! NOW I'M BALANCING ON YOUR SHOULDER TO AMUSE YOUR IDIOT FRIEND!"
Panel 5: Close-up of the owner smiling, the cat's ears visible at the edge. Owner: "HA! YOU KNOW THE WAY WE CLEAN UP AND TAKE CARE OF THEM, I BET THEY THINK THEY'RE IN CHARGE, AND WE'RE THE PETS!"
Panel 6: Both women laugh together. Women: "HAHAHA HAHAHA AHAHAH HAHA!!" The cat, perched on the owner's shoulder with a horrified open mouth: "I'M IN HELL! I'M IN HELLLL!"
Votey: A simple black-and-white drawing of a grinning face in a speech bubble: "WHO WANTS TO BE UPSIDE-DOWN?!" A separate thought/speech bubble answers: "NOBODY!"
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A dark-skinned woman proudly shows off her yellow cat to a red-haired friend, narrating cheerfully ("Let me show you my kitty!", "He looooves sitting on my shoulder!", "Aww, he's a little shoulder cat!"). The cat's actual thoughts, shown in its own snarling speech, are furious and profane: it was sleeping, it does NOT love this, and it's only balancing on her shoulder to amuse her "idiot friend." The owner then muses that because humans clean up after pets, the pets probably think THEY are in charge and the humans are the pets. In the final panel both women laugh hysterically while the cat, perched on the shoulder with a horrified open mouth, screams "I'M IN HELL! I'M IN HELLLL!" The joke: the owner's loving narration is wildly mismatched with the cat's miserable inner monologue. Votey aftercomic: a crude black-and-white sketch of a grinning face asking "Who wants to be upside-down?!" with the answer "Nobody!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.