2014-07-23
Original: 2014-07-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption): SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS BY THE SEA SHORE.
Sign on the stand: SHELLS
Panel 2 (caption): MOLLUSC MOLTINGS MOSTLY MAKE MEASLY MONEY.
(A woman sits at a desk looking dismayed at a computer.)
Panel 3 (caption): THE LADY LATER LACKS LUCRE AND LEANS ON LOANS.
(A woman talks on the phone while reading a document.)
Panel 4 (caption): SHE BARTERS HER BUSINESS TO BARELY BYPASS BANKRUPTCY.
Sign: SOLD
(A woman hands over a SOLD sign to a smiling man.)
Panel 5 (caption): LURID OUT TACKY TOURIST TRINKETS TURN IN TEN TIMES THE TAKE.
Sign: UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
(T-shirts on display hangers.)
Panel 6 (caption): SHE SHELVES T-SHIRTS BY THE SEA SHORE.
Sign: 40% OFF!
Votey:
Thought/speech text: I LOVE THE STABILITY!
(A smiling woman.)
Sign on the stand: SHELLS
Panel 2 (caption): MOLLUSC MOLTINGS MOSTLY MAKE MEASLY MONEY.
(A woman sits at a desk looking dismayed at a computer.)
Panel 3 (caption): THE LADY LATER LACKS LUCRE AND LEANS ON LOANS.
(A woman talks on the phone while reading a document.)
Panel 4 (caption): SHE BARTERS HER BUSINESS TO BARELY BYPASS BANKRUPTCY.
Sign: SOLD
(A woman hands over a SOLD sign to a smiling man.)
Panel 5 (caption): LURID OUT TACKY TOURIST TRINKETS TURN IN TEN TIMES THE TAKE.
Sign: UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
(T-shirts on display hangers.)
Panel 6 (caption): SHE SHELVES T-SHIRTS BY THE SEA SHORE.
Sign: 40% OFF!
Votey:
Thought/speech text: I LOVE THE STABILITY!
(A smiling woman.)
Alt text
A tall six-panel SMBC comic that retells a tongue-twister business story, each panel topped with an alliterative caption. Panel 1, 'SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS BY THE SEA SHORE,' shows a beachside stand with a sign reading SHELLS. Panel 2, 'MOLLUSC MOLTINGS MOSTLY MAKE MEASLY MONEY,' shows a woman at a desk staring unhappily at a computer. Panel 3, 'THE LADY LATER LACKS LUCRE AND LEANS ON LOANS,' shows her on the phone reading a document with a worried look. Panel 4, 'SHE BARTERS HER BUSINESS TO BARELY BYPASS BANKRUPTCY,' shows her handing a SOLD sign to a smiling man. Panel 5, 'LURID OUT TACKY TOURIST TRINKETS TURN IN TEN TIMES THE TAKE,' shows colorful T-shirts on display under an UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT sign. Panel 6, 'SHE SHELVES T-SHIRTS BY THE SEA SHORE,' returns to the beachside shop, now selling shirts with a 40% OFF! sign. The joke: the alliterative seashell businesswoman fails and her business is flipped into a far more profitable cheap-tourist-shirt shop. The votey panel shows a smiling woman thinking 'I LOVE THE STABILITY!' as the punchline.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.