2014-07-31
Original: 2014-07-31 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A woman with orange hair sits across a table from a man at a bar.
Woman: Yeah, I got one. *ackem* So, a man walking into a bar...
Panel 2 (caption over the man's face): The bar is the only place that feels like home.
Panel 3 (caption over the man): But it only feels like home when he's drunk.
Panel 4 (caption over the man): The drunk version of the man lives in that bar.
Panel 5 (caption over the man): The sober man has no home.
Panel 6 (caption over the man): The sober man only allows himself to realize this during the twenty steps from the bar's door to the glass of beer and whiskey, and it is very painful.
Panel 7: The woman pauses, uncertain.
Woman: ...W-where was this joke?
Panel 8 (the man, looking deadpan): Oh, sorry. I'll do the short version.
Panel 9: The man delivers the joke.
Man: A man walks into a bar and says, "Ouch."
Votey: The woman throws her head back, laughing uproariously: "HA HA HA HA!"
Woman: Yeah, I got one. *ackem* So, a man walking into a bar...
Panel 2 (caption over the man's face): The bar is the only place that feels like home.
Panel 3 (caption over the man): But it only feels like home when he's drunk.
Panel 4 (caption over the man): The drunk version of the man lives in that bar.
Panel 5 (caption over the man): The sober man has no home.
Panel 6 (caption over the man): The sober man only allows himself to realize this during the twenty steps from the bar's door to the glass of beer and whiskey, and it is very painful.
Panel 7: The woman pauses, uncertain.
Woman: ...W-where was this joke?
Panel 8 (the man, looking deadpan): Oh, sorry. I'll do the short version.
Panel 9: The man delivers the joke.
Man: A man walks into a bar and says, "Ouch."
Votey: The woman throws her head back, laughing uproariously: "HA HA HA HA!"
Alt text
A nine-panel SMBC comic. An orange-haired woman sitting at a bar tells the man across from her: "Yeah, I got one. *ackem* So, a man walking into a bar..." Instead of a normal joke, the next several panels are bleak, introspective captions laid over a close-up of the man's somber face: "The bar is the only place that feels like home." / "But it only feels like home when he's drunk." / "The drunk version of the man lives in that bar." / "The sober man has no home." / "The sober man only allows himself to realize this during the twenty steps from the bar's door to the glass of beer and whiskey, and it is very painful." The woman, confused, asks: "...W-where was this joke?" The man replies deadpan, "Oh, sorry. I'll do the short version," then says: "A man walks into a bar and says, 'Ouch.'" Votey aftercomic: a black-and-white close-up of the woman throwing her head back in huge laughter, "HA HA HA HA!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.