2013-11-04
Original: 2013-11-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic:
A man with gray hair and glasses, wearing a red shirt, plays a guitar on a dimly lit stage in front of a seated audience. He sings (in a large speech bubble):
"OH I GOT THE BLUES,
WORST BLUES THAT EVER BEEN,
PARASITES ON MY CORTEX,
DECREASIN' MY SEROTONIN!
OH I GOT THE BLUES
THE FREE-CHOICE-IS-AN-EVOLUTIONARY-MIRAGE BLUE-HOO-HOOS...
PARASITES MAKIN' ME SING BECAUSE THEIR LARVAE ARE IN MY SALIVA,
LORD, YOU KNOW I PAID SOME DUES"
Votey:
Close-up on the face of an audience member (large eyes, looking up). A speech bubble reads:
"DRINK YOUR BEVERAGES
THIS PART DOESN'T RHYME."
A man with gray hair and glasses, wearing a red shirt, plays a guitar on a dimly lit stage in front of a seated audience. He sings (in a large speech bubble):
"OH I GOT THE BLUES,
WORST BLUES THAT EVER BEEN,
PARASITES ON MY CORTEX,
DECREASIN' MY SEROTONIN!
OH I GOT THE BLUES
THE FREE-CHOICE-IS-AN-EVOLUTIONARY-MIRAGE BLUE-HOO-HOOS...
PARASITES MAKIN' ME SING BECAUSE THEIR LARVAE ARE IN MY SALIVA,
LORD, YOU KNOW I PAID SOME DUES"
Votey:
Close-up on the face of an audience member (large eyes, looking up). A speech bubble reads:
"DRINK YOUR BEVERAGES
THIS PART DOESN'T RHYME."
Alt text
A bluesman with gray hair, glasses, and a red shirt plays guitar on a dim stage before a seated audience. His sung lyrics fill a large speech bubble: "Oh I got the blues, worst blues that ever been, parasites on my cortex, decreasin' my serotonin! Oh I got the blues, the free-choice-is-an-evolutionary-mirage blue-hoo-hoos... parasites makin' me sing because their larvae are in my saliva, Lord, you know I paid some dues." The joke: his blues song reframes despair and lack of free will as caused by brain parasites. Votey: a close-up of an audience member's wide-eyed face, with a speech bubble continuing the song in deadpan spoken (non-rhyming) instruction: "Drink your beverages. This part doesn't rhyme."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.