2014-02-20
Original: 2014-02-20 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (exterior of a building labeled "BIRTHING CENTER"):
Caption: Taking narcotics to ease labor pain will make you feel sort of drunk.
Panel 2 (a man with glasses speaking to a woman in a hospital bed):
Man: So when deciding what you want, consider what you're like when drunk. Are you a happy drunk? Are you a sad drunk?
Panel 3 (the woman in bed):
Woman: Hmm.
Panel 4 (close on the man and woman):
Woman: Get me to Taco Bell now or there will be blood!
Panel 5 (the man with glasses, alone):
(no dialogue)
Panel 6 (a hand filling out a form on a clipboard):
Form line: Narcotics? YES
Votey:
Woman (angry): Why you gotta tell 'em about birthday 2008?!
Man: I'm not alone now.
Caption: Taking narcotics to ease labor pain will make you feel sort of drunk.
Panel 2 (a man with glasses speaking to a woman in a hospital bed):
Man: So when deciding what you want, consider what you're like when drunk. Are you a happy drunk? Are you a sad drunk?
Panel 3 (the woman in bed):
Woman: Hmm.
Panel 4 (close on the man and woman):
Woman: Get me to Taco Bell now or there will be blood!
Panel 5 (the man with glasses, alone):
(no dialogue)
Panel 6 (a hand filling out a form on a clipboard):
Form line: Narcotics? YES
Votey:
Woman (angry): Why you gotta tell 'em about birthday 2008?!
Man: I'm not alone now.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1 shows the exterior of a building with an orange sign reading "BIRTHING CENTER," with the caption: "Taking narcotics to ease labor pain will make you feel sort of drunk." Panel 2 shows a bespectacled man at the bedside of a woman in labor, asking her to decide on pain medication by considering what she's like when drunk: "Are you a happy drunk? Are you a sad drunk?" Panel 3, the woman thinks, "Hmm." Panel 4, she snaps: "Get me to Taco Bell now or there will be blood!" Panel 5 shows the man's resigned face. Panel 6 shows a hand checking "YES" next to "Narcotics?" on a form, implying her drunk-style answer settled the decision. Votey aftercomic: in a black-and-white panel the angry woman shouts, "Why you gotta tell 'em about birthday 2008?!" and a sheepish man replies, "I'm not alone now," the joke being he has dirt on her drunken behavior too.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.