2013-03-23
Original: 2013-03-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A robed, hooded figure in an ancient game-show-like setting stands before a row of curtained booths, holding a scepter topped with a red orb. An onlooker (a bald man with a beard) watches from the left foreground.
Hooded figure: "Okay, Cuidightheach! You have ten choices. Behind one of the curtains is a giant wheel of cheese! Behind the others is a savage flogging! What our audience wants to know is... 'Which you gonna pick?'"
Panel 2:
Caption banner: "5000 years later..."
A modern man in a suit and tie (balding, with a fringe of hair) gives a tour, gesturing toward standing stones. Several tourists watch from the foreground (a blonde person, a dark-haired person, and another onlooker).
Tour guide: "We believe the inner ring of Stonehenge was used for celestial timekeeping."
Votey:
A rough black-and-white sketch of a stern, frowning bearded face.
Caption: "The cheese was a metaphor for more flogging."
A robed, hooded figure in an ancient game-show-like setting stands before a row of curtained booths, holding a scepter topped with a red orb. An onlooker (a bald man with a beard) watches from the left foreground.
Hooded figure: "Okay, Cuidightheach! You have ten choices. Behind one of the curtains is a giant wheel of cheese! Behind the others is a savage flogging! What our audience wants to know is... 'Which you gonna pick?'"
Panel 2:
Caption banner: "5000 years later..."
A modern man in a suit and tie (balding, with a fringe of hair) gives a tour, gesturing toward standing stones. Several tourists watch from the foreground (a blonde person, a dark-haired person, and another onlooker).
Tour guide: "We believe the inner ring of Stonehenge was used for celestial timekeeping."
Votey:
A rough black-and-white sketch of a stern, frowning bearded face.
Caption: "The cheese was a metaphor for more flogging."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: in an ancient setting, a robed hooded figure holding a scepter with a red orb stands before a row of curtained booths, like a primitive game show. A bald bearded man watches. The hooded figure says: "Okay, Cuidightheach! You have ten choices. Behind one of the curtains is a giant wheel of cheese! Behind the others is a savage flogging! What our audience wants to know is... 'Which you gonna pick?'" Panel 2: a banner reads "5000 years later..." A modern, suited tour guide gestures toward the standing stones of Stonehenge while tourists watch, saying: "We believe the inner ring of Stonehenge was used for celestial timekeeping." The joke: Stonehenge was actually an ancient flogging-or-cheese game show, not an astronomical instrument. Votey aftercomic: a crude sketch of a stern bearded face with the caption "The cheese was a metaphor for more flogging" — revealing the game was rigged so every choice led to flogging.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.