2012-11-26
Original: 2012-11-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: GET TO KNOW YOUR CUTLERY-RELATED INTIMACY METAPHORS
Panel 1 — labeled "SPOONING":
Two stick figures lie nestled together, one curled behind the other, in the classic spooning cuddle position.
Panel 2 — labeled "FORKING":
The two stick figures embrace face-to-face. A pink box reading CENSORED covers their midsections.
Panel 3 — labeled "SPORKING":
The two stick figures are positioned together. Two speech bubbles:
Left figure: "I'M TRYING TO SLEEP!"
Right figure: "LOOK, THIS THING HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN!"
Votey:
Label at top reads UNCENSORED. The panel shows the same view as the "FORKING" panel but with the pink CENSORED box removed, revealing only the two stick-figure legs/bodies crossing in an X — nothing explicit, just the plain line art that was underneath.
Panel 1 — labeled "SPOONING":
Two stick figures lie nestled together, one curled behind the other, in the classic spooning cuddle position.
Panel 2 — labeled "FORKING":
The two stick figures embrace face-to-face. A pink box reading CENSORED covers their midsections.
Panel 3 — labeled "SPORKING":
The two stick figures are positioned together. Two speech bubbles:
Left figure: "I'M TRYING TO SLEEP!"
Right figure: "LOOK, THIS THING HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN!"
Votey:
Label at top reads UNCENSORED. The panel shows the same view as the "FORKING" panel but with the pink CENSORED box removed, revealing only the two stick-figure legs/bodies crossing in an X — nothing explicit, just the plain line art that was underneath.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic titled "Get to know your cutlery-related intimacy metaphors," each panel a pun on a utensil. Panel 1, "Spooning," shows two stick figures cuddled together front-to-back. Panel 2, "Forking," shows the two figures embracing face-to-face with a pink "CENSORED" box over their middles. Panel 3, "Sporking," shows the figures together while one says "I'm trying to sleep!" and the other replies "Look, this thing has a mind of its own!" The votey aftercomic is labeled "UNCENSORED" and re-shows the forking panel with the censor box removed, revealing nothing explicit at all — just two plain crossing stick-figure lines underneath, the joke being there was nothing to censor.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.