2012-11-14
Original: 2012-11-14 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (red title bar): HOW I FEEL ABOUT SERIAL KILLERS.
A woman with brown hair sits reading a red book, eyes calm, thought bubble above her: "WELL, HE PROBABLY HAD A ROUGH CHILDHOOD AND ISN'T IN CONTROL OF HIS ACTIONS. ETHICS AND PSYCHOLOGY ARE UNCOMFORTABLE BEDFELLOWS."
Panel 2 (orange-red title bar): HOW I FEEL ABOUT PEOPLE WHO DON'T PICK UP AFTER THEIR DOGS.
The same woman, now furious with clenched fist and gritted teeth, thinks in a jagged bubble: "I HOPE YOU DIE OF SADNESS IN A HEAP OF YOUR FAMILY'S BODIES!" Beside her, a gray-haired woman in pink is being licked/nuzzled by a tan dog.
Votey:
Caption box: ALSO, PEOPLE WHO TOSS AWAY CIGARETTE BUTTS
A face in profile, mouth open mid-shout, thinks in a jagged bubble: "YOU ARE THIS GENERATION'S HITLER!"
A woman with brown hair sits reading a red book, eyes calm, thought bubble above her: "WELL, HE PROBABLY HAD A ROUGH CHILDHOOD AND ISN'T IN CONTROL OF HIS ACTIONS. ETHICS AND PSYCHOLOGY ARE UNCOMFORTABLE BEDFELLOWS."
Panel 2 (orange-red title bar): HOW I FEEL ABOUT PEOPLE WHO DON'T PICK UP AFTER THEIR DOGS.
The same woman, now furious with clenched fist and gritted teeth, thinks in a jagged bubble: "I HOPE YOU DIE OF SADNESS IN A HEAP OF YOUR FAMILY'S BODIES!" Beside her, a gray-haired woman in pink is being licked/nuzzled by a tan dog.
Votey:
Caption box: ALSO, PEOPLE WHO TOSS AWAY CIGARETTE BUTTS
A face in profile, mouth open mid-shout, thinks in a jagged bubble: "YOU ARE THIS GENERATION'S HITLER!"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic contrasting a person's calm tolerance of serial killers with her rage at minor public nuisances. Panel 1, titled "HOW I FEEL ABOUT SERIAL KILLERS," shows a brown-haired woman serenely reading a red book and thinking, "Well, he probably had a rough childhood and isn't in control of his actions. Ethics and psychology are uncomfortable bedfellows." Panel 2, titled "HOW I FEEL ABOUT PEOPLE WHO DON'T PICK UP AFTER THEIR DOGS," shows the same woman now enraged, fist clenched and teeth bared, thinking, "I hope you die of sadness in a heap of your family's bodies!" while a tan dog nuzzles a gray-haired woman beside her. The joke: she extends infinite empathy to murderers but murderous fury to petty offenders. Votey: a caption reads "Also, people who toss away cigarette butts," and a shouting face in profile thinks, "You are this generation's Hitler!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.