2014-07-06
Original: 2014-07-06 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child (a young blond boy, leaving a movie theater with a bespectacled man): WOW! THAT THOR MOVIE WAS SO COOL. I WANNA READ REAL NORSE MYTHOLOGY!
Man: AH, THAT'S GREAT! LET'S GO BUY YOU A BOOK!
Panel 2 (caption: SOON...):
Child (now reading a book): LOKI DOES A LOT MORE TYING HIS BALLS TO A GOAT'S BEARD AND PLAYING TUG-OF-WAR THAN THEY PORTRAY IN THE MOVIE.
Man: WELL, THAT'S HOLLYWOOD FOR YOU.
Votey:
Caption: LOOK IT UP.
(A close-up of the man's face staring deadpan at the reader.)
Child (a young blond boy, leaving a movie theater with a bespectacled man): WOW! THAT THOR MOVIE WAS SO COOL. I WANNA READ REAL NORSE MYTHOLOGY!
Man: AH, THAT'S GREAT! LET'S GO BUY YOU A BOOK!
Panel 2 (caption: SOON...):
Child (now reading a book): LOKI DOES A LOT MORE TYING HIS BALLS TO A GOAT'S BEARD AND PLAYING TUG-OF-WAR THAN THEY PORTRAY IN THE MOVIE.
Man: WELL, THAT'S HOLLYWOOD FOR YOU.
Votey:
Caption: LOOK IT UP.
(A close-up of the man's face staring deadpan at the reader.)
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel one: a young blond boy walks out of a movie theater with a bespectacled man and exclaims, "WOW! That Thor movie was so cool. I wanna read real Norse mythology!" The man replies, "Ah, that's great! Let's go buy you a book!" Panel two, labeled "Soon...": the boy sits reading a book and says, "Loki does a lot more tying his balls to a goat's beard and playing tug-of-war than they portray in the movie." The man, looking slightly uneasy, answers, "Well, that's Hollywood for you." Votey aftercomic: a deadpan close-up of the man's face staring straight at the reader, captioned "LOOK IT UP." The joke is that the absurd genital tug-of-war detail is genuinely from the original Norse myths.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.