2013-08-23
Original: 2013-08-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (top, off-panel shout): "OH GOD ARE YOU EATING YOUR OWN LEG? WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!"
Panel 2: A man with flame-like (reddish, wild) hair, looking gaunt and hollow-eyed, sits hunched and gnawing on his own leg. He says: "You indirectly trained me to play video games whenever you were away and then you went on a two month business trip!"
A woman standing in the doorway replies: "Where are the cats?!"
Panel 3 (a line graph): The vertical axis is labeled "THINGS THAT QUALIFY AS FOOD" and the horizontal axis is labeled "LENGTH OF TIME SPOUSE IS GONE." The plotted curve rises sharply upward as time increases.
Votey:
A continuation of the same rising graph (unlabeled axes). Points along the curve from low to high are annotated: "sauce packets" (near the bottom/start), "orange peels" (in the middle), and "baby blood" (at the top/end).
Panel 2: A man with flame-like (reddish, wild) hair, looking gaunt and hollow-eyed, sits hunched and gnawing on his own leg. He says: "You indirectly trained me to play video games whenever you were away and then you went on a two month business trip!"
A woman standing in the doorway replies: "Where are the cats?!"
Panel 3 (a line graph): The vertical axis is labeled "THINGS THAT QUALIFY AS FOOD" and the horizontal axis is labeled "LENGTH OF TIME SPOUSE IS GONE." The plotted curve rises sharply upward as time increases.
Votey:
A continuation of the same rising graph (unlabeled axes). Points along the curve from low to high are annotated: "sauce packets" (near the bottom/start), "orange peels" (in the middle), and "baby blood" (at the top/end).
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A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: an off-panel voice shouts, "OH GOD ARE YOU EATING YOUR OWN LEG? WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!" Panel 2: a gaunt, hollow-eyed man with wild reddish hair sits hunched on the floor gnawing on his own leg. He answers, "You indirectly trained me to play video games whenever you were away and then you went on a two month business trip!" A woman in the doorway responds, "Where are the cats?!" Panel 3: a line graph whose curve rises steeply; the vertical axis reads "THINGS THAT QUALIFY AS FOOD" and the horizontal axis reads "LENGTH OF TIME SPOUSE IS GONE," showing that the longer the spouse is away, the more desperate things he'll eat. Votey: the same rising graph, now with points labeled along the curve from low to high — "sauce packets" at the bottom, "orange peels" in the middle, and "baby blood" at the top — escalating from mildly sad to horrifying.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.