2013-02-02
Original: 2013-02-02 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Mother (angry, gray hair, yellow turtleneck): DAMMIT! DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND? IF THE AMERICANS FIND OUT YOU HAVE SO MUCH OIL, THEY'LL INVADE!
Panel 2 (banner reads "EARLIER..."):
Child (holding a bottle of medication): MOM, WHY DO I HAVE TO TAKE ACNE MEDICATION?
Votey:
A woman looking out a window: DAMN!
(Outside the window, a military tank is rolling up.)
Mother (angry, gray hair, yellow turtleneck): DAMMIT! DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND? IF THE AMERICANS FIND OUT YOU HAVE SO MUCH OIL, THEY'LL INVADE!
Panel 2 (banner reads "EARLIER..."):
Child (holding a bottle of medication): MOM, WHY DO I HAVE TO TAKE ACNE MEDICATION?
Votey:
A woman looking out a window: DAMN!
(Outside the window, a military tank is rolling up.)
Alt text
Two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A woman with gray hair and a yellow turtleneck, face contorted in anger, fist clenched, shouts, "Dammit! Don't you understand? If the Americans find out you have so much oil, they'll invade!" Panel 2, labeled "EARLIER...": A young child holding a bottle of acne medication asks, "Mom, why do I have to take acne medication?" The joke: the mother treats her child's oily skin as a strategic oil reserve that would trigger an American invasion. Votey (bonus panel, black-and-white): The woman looks out a window and says "Damn!" as a military tank rolls up outside.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.