2012-11-17
Original: 2012-11-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Green alien (Occauc): Stay! Meet Occauc. Guess what? We're willing to do your job... FOR FREE!
Panel 2:
Man: What?
Panel 3:
Occauc: It's true! I'm from Iordilae, a more advanced planet. We heard about poor Earthlings. I'm spreading some time in America Dindu Pro Bono work to help out.
Panel 4:
Man: So what happens to me?
Occauc: Oh, well... you can't really expect us to pay more than is needed for labor.
Panel 5:
Occauc: But your society will enjoy the economic benefits.
Panel 6:
Man: But... if you put us all out of work--
Occauc: Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to help you people by working for free.
Panel 7:
Man: Well... how can I be angry when you're going to be doing this?
Occauc: Oh! I don't mean it as I'm doing this out of kindness, but I also really want to just have a life experience on Earth! I wanna know what it's like to live a simple do-nothing existence.
Panel 8:
Man: I'm gonna have to live my entire life until I find a new job.
Occauc: That is SO charming.
Votey:
Occauc (smiling, leaning into a speech bubble): Can I watch?
Green alien (Occauc): Stay! Meet Occauc. Guess what? We're willing to do your job... FOR FREE!
Panel 2:
Man: What?
Panel 3:
Occauc: It's true! I'm from Iordilae, a more advanced planet. We heard about poor Earthlings. I'm spreading some time in America Dindu Pro Bono work to help out.
Panel 4:
Man: So what happens to me?
Occauc: Oh, well... you can't really expect us to pay more than is needed for labor.
Panel 5:
Occauc: But your society will enjoy the economic benefits.
Panel 6:
Man: But... if you put us all out of work--
Occauc: Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to help you people by working for free.
Panel 7:
Man: Well... how can I be angry when you're going to be doing this?
Occauc: Oh! I don't mean it as I'm doing this out of kindness, but I also really want to just have a life experience on Earth! I wanna know what it's like to live a simple do-nothing existence.
Panel 8:
Man: I'm gonna have to live my entire life until I find a new job.
Occauc: That is SO charming.
Votey:
Occauc (smiling, leaning into a speech bubble): Can I watch?
Alt text
An eight-panel comic. A green, oval-headed alien named Occauc visits a human man at his desk. Panel 1: the alien announces, "Stay! Meet Occauc. Guess what? We're willing to do your job... FOR FREE!" Panel 2: the man replies, "What?" Panel 3: the alien explains it comes from a more advanced planet, heard about poor Earthlings, and is doing pro bono work to help out. Panel 4: the man asks, "So what happens to me?" and the alien says you can't expect us to pay more than is needed for labor. Panel 5: the alien adds that society will enjoy the economic benefits. Panel 6: the man protests, "But... if you put us all out of work--" and the alien says, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to help you people by working for free." Panel 7: the man, resigned, says he can't be angry, and the alien gushes that it also just wants the life experience of living a simple do-nothing existence on Earth. Panel 8: the man, looking defeated, says he'll have to live his whole life until he finds a new job, and the alien beams, "That is SO charming." Votey: a close-up of the grinning alien's face leaning into a speech bubble that reads, "Can I watch?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.