2013-08-08
Original: 2013-08-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Robot (on phone): HI, TECH SUPPORT? MY NEW DEVICE IS BROKEN. IT JUST KEEPS WOBBLING AROUND AND EMITTING THIS HIGH-PITCHED NOISE.
Panel 2:
Tech support agent (on screen, a robot): SORRY, MA'AM. PLEASE TRY TURNING IT OFF AND ON AGAIN.
Panel 3:
Robot (on phone): OKAY.
Panel 4:
Robot (on phone, holding a limp human in its other hand): OH GREAT, NOW IT'S NOT WORKING AT ALL!
Votey:
Tech support agent: HOW OLD IS YOUR OS?
Robot: 2 MILLION YEARS. WHY?
Robot (on phone): HI, TECH SUPPORT? MY NEW DEVICE IS BROKEN. IT JUST KEEPS WOBBLING AROUND AND EMITTING THIS HIGH-PITCHED NOISE.
Panel 2:
Tech support agent (on screen, a robot): SORRY, MA'AM. PLEASE TRY TURNING IT OFF AND ON AGAIN.
Panel 3:
Robot (on phone): OKAY.
Panel 4:
Robot (on phone, holding a limp human in its other hand): OH GREAT, NOW IT'S NOT WORKING AT ALL!
Votey:
Tech support agent: HOW OLD IS YOUR OS?
Robot: 2 MILLION YEARS. WHY?
Alt text
A four-panel comic drawn in muted greens and browns. A large gray robot is on the phone with tech support. Panel 1, the robot says: "Hi, tech support? My new device is broken. It just keeps wobbling around and emitting this high-pitched noise." Panel 2 shows the tech support agent (another robot) on a screen replying: "Sorry, ma'am. Please try turning it off and on again." Panel 3, the robot answers: "Okay." Panel 4 reveals the robot dangling a small, limp human by the head in its other hand, saying: "Oh great, now it's not working at all!" The joke: the robot's "new device" is a living human baby/person, and turning it "off and on" has killed it. The votey (black-and-white aftercomic) shows the tech support agent asking "How old is your OS?" and the robot replying "2 million years. Why?" — implying the robots are far-future machines for whom humanity is ancient, obsolete tech.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.