2014-12-26
Original: 2014-12-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (yellow banner at top): YOU EVER WISH CHARLES DICKENS NAMED HIS CHARACTERS DURING A TIME WHEN SWEARING WAS MORE SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE?
Panel 1: Two elderly people stand against a dark brown background. On the left, an old man with long gray hair wearing a dark blue coat and purple cravat. On the right, an old woman with gray hair and round spectacles, wearing a dark green dress with a white collar.
Old man: EVENING, MRS. CHILLYBITCH.
Old woman: WHAT IS IT, MR. THIMBLECOCK?
Votey:
A close-up line-drawing of a man's face looking annoyed/intense.
Speech (from off-panel): LORD THIMBLECOCK.
Panel 1: Two elderly people stand against a dark brown background. On the left, an old man with long gray hair wearing a dark blue coat and purple cravat. On the right, an old woman with gray hair and round spectacles, wearing a dark green dress with a white collar.
Old man: EVENING, MRS. CHILLYBITCH.
Old woman: WHAT IS IT, MR. THIMBLECOCK?
Votey:
A close-up line-drawing of a man's face looking annoyed/intense.
Speech (from off-panel): LORD THIMBLECOCK.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. A yellow caption banner reads: "You ever wish Charles Dickens named his characters during a time when swearing was more socially acceptable?" Below, against a dark background, stand two grim-faced elderly Victorian-looking people: an old man in a blue coat with a purple cravat, and an old woman with round spectacles in a green dress. The man greets her, "Evening, Mrs. Chillybitch." She replies, "What is it, Mr. Thimblecock?" The joke is the absurdly crude character names. Votey (bonus panel): a tight black-and-white close-up of the man's annoyed face, with a speech bubble correcting her: "Lord Thimblecock."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.