2013-10-15
Original: 2013-10-15 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (bearded, with glasses): Before we agree to a second date, you should know I've not taken my lack of empathy, my apathy for reality, and my profound narcissism for confidence.
Panel 2:
Woman: That's okay. I've mistaken your brutal honesty for emotional maturity.
Panel 3:
Man (silhouette): Would you like to spend the next six months slouching toward the realization that all that glittered was pyrite?
Woman (silhouette): Let's shoot for three months.
Panel 4:
Man (on phone): Hey! Guess who got a girlfriend?
Votey:
Man (smiling, in a speech bubble): Damn I write good dialog.
Man (bearded, with glasses): Before we agree to a second date, you should know I've not taken my lack of empathy, my apathy for reality, and my profound narcissism for confidence.
Panel 2:
Woman: That's okay. I've mistaken your brutal honesty for emotional maturity.
Panel 3:
Man (silhouette): Would you like to spend the next six months slouching toward the realization that all that glittered was pyrite?
Woman (silhouette): Let's shoot for three months.
Panel 4:
Man (on phone): Hey! Guess who got a girlfriend?
Votey:
Man (smiling, in a speech bubble): Damn I write good dialog.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic about a cynical courtship. Panel 1: A bearded man with glasses tells a woman, "Before we agree to a second date, you should know I've mistaken my lack of empathy, my apathy for reality, and my profound narcissism for confidence." Panel 2: The woman replies, "That's okay. I've mistaken your brutal honesty for emotional maturity." Panel 3: Now shown as silhouettes, the man asks, "Would you like to spend the next six months slouching toward the realization that all that glittered was pyrite?" The woman answers, "Let's shoot for three months." Panel 4: The man, on the phone, gleefully says, "Hey! Guess who got a girlfriend?" Votey: A smiling man (the cartoonist's stand-in) admires his own writing in a speech bubble: "Damn I write good dialog."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.