2014-01-16
Original: 2014-01-16 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A rousing speech delivered over a close-up of a human foot and toes.
Speaker (the toes, rallying their fellow toes): "Brothers! Sisters! For too long have we slaved under the yoke of the central nervous system!"
Panel 2:
Speaker: "For too long have we obeyed its demands even when it clamped us into shoes and shoecases for no reason!"
Panel 3:
Responding toe: "Oh sure, we're allowed to send signals back, but they take a whole second to get there!"
Panel 4:
A toe raises a doubt: "Do you think eyes have to wait that long? Or ears?"
Panel 5:
Speaker (defiant): "NO!"
Panel 6:
Speaker: "Let us rise up! Let us send a message! We will not be tricked with for another moment!"
Panel 7:
The toes, triumphant: "HUZZAH!"
Panel 8: Cut to a man walking, who has just stubbed his toe.
Man (in pain): "OW! OW!"
Panel 9: A woman asks the man what is wrong.
Woman: "What's the matter?"
Man: "The cramp. The cramp."
Votey:
A handwritten note reads:
"Things I can't draw:
- cats
- cars
- feet" (with "feet" underlined)
Speaker (the toes, rallying their fellow toes): "Brothers! Sisters! For too long have we slaved under the yoke of the central nervous system!"
Panel 2:
Speaker: "For too long have we obeyed its demands even when it clamped us into shoes and shoecases for no reason!"
Panel 3:
Responding toe: "Oh sure, we're allowed to send signals back, but they take a whole second to get there!"
Panel 4:
A toe raises a doubt: "Do you think eyes have to wait that long? Or ears?"
Panel 5:
Speaker (defiant): "NO!"
Panel 6:
Speaker: "Let us rise up! Let us send a message! We will not be tricked with for another moment!"
Panel 7:
The toes, triumphant: "HUZZAH!"
Panel 8: Cut to a man walking, who has just stubbed his toe.
Man (in pain): "OW! OW!"
Panel 9: A woman asks the man what is wrong.
Woman: "What's the matter?"
Man: "The cramp. The cramp."
Votey:
A handwritten note reads:
"Things I can't draw:
- cats
- cars
- feet" (with "feet" underlined)
Alt text
A nine-panel comic shown over extreme close-ups of a human foot and its toes, treated as a crowd of revolutionaries giving and reacting to a speech. The toes declare: "Brothers! Sisters! For too long have we slaved under the yoke of the central nervous system! For too long have we obeyed its demands even when it clamped us into shoes and shoecases for no reason!" Another toe complains, "Oh sure, we're allowed to send signals back, but they take a whole second to get there!" One asks, "Do you think eyes have to wait that long? Or ears?" A defiant "NO!" rings out, followed by "Let us rise up! Let us send a message! We will not be tricked with for another moment!" and a triumphant "HUZZAH!" The final panels cut away from the toes to a man walking, who suddenly yells "OW! OW!" A woman asks, "What's the matter?" and he answers, "The cramp. The cramp." The joke: the toes' grand revolt manifests in the body as nothing more than a sudden foot cramp. Votey: a hand-drawn note reading "Things I can't draw: cats, cars, feet" with "feet" underlined, the artist confessing the rough foot art was the real reason for the abstract close-ups.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.