2014-07-24
Original: 2014-07-24 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Red-haired woman: WHO ARE YOU?
Blonde woman (entering): YOUR MIRROR IMAGE FROM A MIRROR UNIVERSE!
Panel 2:
Red-haired woman: OH GOD. IS THIS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE IT TURNS OUT I'M THE EVIL ONE AND YOU'RE THE GOOD ONE?
Blonde woman: NAH.
Panel 3:
Blonde woman: LOOK. YOU'RE JUST SORT OF AVERAGE. NOTHING EXTREME. NO MOUNTAINS TO MAKE VALLEYS, SO TO SPEAK.
Panel 4:
Blonde woman: LIKE, YOU SIT ON THE COUCH EVERY NIGHT WATCHING TV. I LIE IN BED ALL NIGHT WATCHING MOVIES. YOU LIKE EGG SALAD AND I LIKE POTATO SALAD. I WORK A NOT-SO-BAD JOB AND YOU WORK A NOT-SO-GOOD JOB.
Panel 5:
Red-haired woman: NOW I'M DEPRESSED.
Panel 6 (no dialogue): The two women stand together.
Panel 7:
Red-haired woman: NOT A LOT THOUGH, HUH?
Blonde woman: NAH, NOT REALLY.
Votey:
Blonde woman: SO, YOU WANNA HAVE SEX?
Red-haired woman: A LITTLE, YEAH.
Red-haired woman: WHO ARE YOU?
Blonde woman (entering): YOUR MIRROR IMAGE FROM A MIRROR UNIVERSE!
Panel 2:
Red-haired woman: OH GOD. IS THIS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE IT TURNS OUT I'M THE EVIL ONE AND YOU'RE THE GOOD ONE?
Blonde woman: NAH.
Panel 3:
Blonde woman: LOOK. YOU'RE JUST SORT OF AVERAGE. NOTHING EXTREME. NO MOUNTAINS TO MAKE VALLEYS, SO TO SPEAK.
Panel 4:
Blonde woman: LIKE, YOU SIT ON THE COUCH EVERY NIGHT WATCHING TV. I LIE IN BED ALL NIGHT WATCHING MOVIES. YOU LIKE EGG SALAD AND I LIKE POTATO SALAD. I WORK A NOT-SO-BAD JOB AND YOU WORK A NOT-SO-GOOD JOB.
Panel 5:
Red-haired woman: NOW I'M DEPRESSED.
Panel 6 (no dialogue): The two women stand together.
Panel 7:
Red-haired woman: NOT A LOT THOUGH, HUH?
Blonde woman: NAH, NOT REALLY.
Votey:
Blonde woman: SO, YOU WANNA HAVE SEX?
Red-haired woman: A LITTLE, YEAH.
Alt text
A multi-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired woman is confronted by a blonde woman who declares, "Your mirror image from a mirror universe!" The red-haired woman asks if this is the trope where she's the evil one and the blonde is good. The blonde says "Nah," explaining that the red-haired woman is just average, nothing extreme, "no mountains to make valleys." She elaborates: one sits on the couch watching TV while the other lies in bed watching movies, one likes egg salad and the other potato salad, one has a not-so-bad job and the other a not-so-good job. The red-haired woman says, "Now I'm depressed." After a silent beat, she asks, "Not a lot though, huh?" and the blonde replies, "Nah, not really." The joke is that the mirror-universe counterpart is comically mediocre rather than dramatically opposite. Votey (a small bonus panel): the blonde asks, "So, you wanna have sex?" and the red-haired woman answers, "A little, yeah" — an underwhelming, low-key version of the classic mirror-universe seduction.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.