2013-08-03
Original: 2013-08-03 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A muscular bald man, shown shirtless from the waist up, flexes against a blue sky.
Man: *GASP* I have 6 prominent abdominal muscles, but look at the gaps between them! If I do enough THOUSANDS of pushups, perhaps I can fill in the gaps.
Panel 2: The man, now seen at a beach, stands looking serious and muscular.
Panel 3: A small child on the beach looks up admiringly at the man, who now stands holding an ice cream cone, his body softer and rounder, his belly larger.
Child: WOW, DAD! You must be the strongest man alive.
Dad: OH YEAH.
Votey:
A close-up of the child's face, smiling. A speech bubble (from off-panel, the dad) reads:
Dad: It's called a ONE-PACK.
Man: *GASP* I have 6 prominent abdominal muscles, but look at the gaps between them! If I do enough THOUSANDS of pushups, perhaps I can fill in the gaps.
Panel 2: The man, now seen at a beach, stands looking serious and muscular.
Panel 3: A small child on the beach looks up admiringly at the man, who now stands holding an ice cream cone, his body softer and rounder, his belly larger.
Child: WOW, DAD! You must be the strongest man alive.
Dad: OH YEAH.
Votey:
A close-up of the child's face, smiling. A speech bubble (from off-panel, the dad) reads:
Dad: It's called a ONE-PACK.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. In the first panel a muscular bald man flexes against a blue sky and says, "*GASP* I have 6 prominent abdominal muscles, but look at the gaps between them! If I do enough THOUSANDS of pushups, perhaps I can fill in the gaps." The next panels show him at a beach, still serious and muscular. In the final main panel his physique has changed completely: he is now soft, round, and big-bellied, holding an ice cream cone. A small admiring child says, "WOW, DAD! You must be the strongest man alive," and the dad replies, "OH YEAH." The joke: instead of filling the gaps between his six-pack abs with muscle, he filled them in with fat, merging them into one smooth belly. The votey aftercomic is a close-up of the child's smiling face as the dad's off-panel voice delivers the punchline: "It's called a ONE-PACK."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.