2013-01-22
Original: 2013-01-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Off-panel speaker (a person with a pointed nose, partially visible): "Sure, 20 years from now you'll think more about the things you DID than the things you didn't do."
Panel 2:
Woman with dark curly hair and round glasses, wearing a green tank top: "However, that may not be because they matter more. It's possible they're just easier to remember."
Panel 3:
Woman (continuing): "By focusing on things you'll remember, you're really just paying a cost now to future you." (A bald man in a blue shirt stands listening.)
Panel 4:
Woman: "But statistically, future you is likely to be wealthier than present you. Thus, present you is paying to subsidize a more affluent person's happiness." (The bald man listens.)
Panel 5:
Woman, now holding a slice of pie and reading comics: "And that's why I'm eating pie and reading comics all weekend."
Panel 6:
Off-panel speaker (the pointed-nose person from panel 1, partially visible): "This may have some repercussions for future you."
Woman (eyes wide, frustrated): "FUCK THAT RICH BITCH!"
Votey:
Two stick figures stand at opposite ends of an arrow labeled "TIME." The left stick figure shouts "FASCIST!" and the right stick figure shouts "HIPPIE!"
Off-panel speaker (a person with a pointed nose, partially visible): "Sure, 20 years from now you'll think more about the things you DID than the things you didn't do."
Panel 2:
Woman with dark curly hair and round glasses, wearing a green tank top: "However, that may not be because they matter more. It's possible they're just easier to remember."
Panel 3:
Woman (continuing): "By focusing on things you'll remember, you're really just paying a cost now to future you." (A bald man in a blue shirt stands listening.)
Panel 4:
Woman: "But statistically, future you is likely to be wealthier than present you. Thus, present you is paying to subsidize a more affluent person's happiness." (The bald man listens.)
Panel 5:
Woman, now holding a slice of pie and reading comics: "And that's why I'm eating pie and reading comics all weekend."
Panel 6:
Off-panel speaker (the pointed-nose person from panel 1, partially visible): "This may have some repercussions for future you."
Woman (eyes wide, frustrated): "FUCK THAT RICH BITCH!"
Votey:
Two stick figures stand at opposite ends of an arrow labeled "TIME." The left stick figure shouts "FASCIST!" and the right stick figure shouts "HIPPIE!"
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A woman with dark curly hair, round glasses, and a green tank top argues with an off-panel person about the future. Panel 1, the off-panel person says that in 20 years she'll think more about things she did than things she didn't do. Panels 2-4, the woman counters: maybe those memories just matter more because they're easier to remember, so by focusing on memorable things she's paying a cost now for future her; and since future her will statistically be wealthier, present her is subsidizing a richer person's happiness. Panel 5, she's now lounging with a slice of pie and comics, concluding 'And that's why I'm eating pie and reading comics all weekend.' Panel 6, the off-panel person warns 'This may have some repercussions for future you,' and she snarls, wide-eyed, 'FUCK THAT RICH BITCH!' Votey: a crude black-and-white drawing of two stick figures at opposite ends of an arrow labeled 'TIME'; the left one yells 'FASCIST!' and the right one yells 'HIPPIE!' -- present self and future self insulting each other across time.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.