2014-05-06
Original: 2014-05-06 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Purple fish: I've been thinking of moving somewhere new.
Green fish: Oh, really? Why?
Panel 2:
(Close-up of the purple fish's face, looking troubled.)
Panel 3:
Green fish: We're pearlfish, Sally. We all live inside ANUSES.
(The purple fish, now named Sally, looks horrified, mouth agape. The background flashes red.)
Panel 4:
(Wide shot. The two fish float near the underside/rear of a large dark green creature in a dim seafloor scene. Sally and the green fish look downcast.)
Votey:
Hand-drawn note titled "Things I can't draw:"
- Humans
- Buildings
- Cats
- Fish
-> pearlfish
(A hand is drawn pointing to the word "pearlfish.")
Purple fish: I've been thinking of moving somewhere new.
Green fish: Oh, really? Why?
Panel 2:
(Close-up of the purple fish's face, looking troubled.)
Panel 3:
Green fish: We're pearlfish, Sally. We all live inside ANUSES.
(The purple fish, now named Sally, looks horrified, mouth agape. The background flashes red.)
Panel 4:
(Wide shot. The two fish float near the underside/rear of a large dark green creature in a dim seafloor scene. Sally and the green fish look downcast.)
Votey:
Hand-drawn note titled "Things I can't draw:"
- Humans
- Buildings
- Cats
- Fish
-> pearlfish
(A hand is drawn pointing to the word "pearlfish.")
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Two cartoon fish talk in dim blue water. Panel 1: a purple fish says "I've been thinking of moving somewhere new," and a green fish replies "Oh, really? Why?" Panel 2: a close-up of the purple fish looking uneasy. Panel 3: against a red flash, the green fish says "We're pearlfish, Sally. We all live inside ANUSES," and the purple fish (Sally) recoils in open-mouthed horror. Panel 4: a wide, gloomy shot of the two small fish hovering near the rear underside of a much larger dark creature on the seafloor, both looking dejected. The joke: pearlfish are real animals that live inside other animals' bodies, so Sally can't escape her unpleasant home. Votey aftercomic: a hand-drawn list titled "Things I can't draw:" reading Humans, Buildings, Cats, Fish, with an arrow from Fish to "pearlfish," and a sketch of a hand pointing at the word pearlfish, joking that the artist drew the pearlfish poorly.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.