2014-08-27
Original: 2014-08-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with dark hair stands in a kitchen-ish room, gesturing with his hands, talking to a woman with reddish hair who stands beside him.
Man: "Honey, I'm not sure dinner's gonna turn out great. Could you go out to the guests and *tamp down* expectations?"
Panel 2:
The woman addresses a row of dinner guests seated at a table.
Woman: "Steve is making mushroom lasagna. Soon, the living shall envy the dead."
Votey:
A hand-drawn parody of the Arby's logo (the word "Arby's" with the cowboy-hat-shaped flourish above it).
Caption beneath: "'The living shall envy the dead!'"
A man with dark hair stands in a kitchen-ish room, gesturing with his hands, talking to a woman with reddish hair who stands beside him.
Man: "Honey, I'm not sure dinner's gonna turn out great. Could you go out to the guests and *tamp down* expectations?"
Panel 2:
The woman addresses a row of dinner guests seated at a table.
Woman: "Steve is making mushroom lasagna. Soon, the living shall envy the dead."
Votey:
A hand-drawn parody of the Arby's logo (the word "Arby's" with the cowboy-hat-shaped flourish above it).
Caption beneath: "'The living shall envy the dead!'"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a dark-haired man in a kitchen gestures nervously to a red-haired woman and says, "Honey, I'm not sure dinner's gonna turn out great. Could you go out to the guests and tamp down expectations?" Panel 2: the woman stands before a table of dinner guests and announces in a deadpan tone, "Steve is making mushroom lasagna. Soon, the living shall envy the dead." The joke: asked to lower expectations, she delivers an absurdly apocalyptic warning. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn parody of the Arby's logo with its cowboy-hat flourish, captioned "'The living shall envy the dead!'" as a mock advertising slogan.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.