2015-01-24
Original: 2015-01-24 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man in a yellow hard hat (waving): HEY, BABYDOLL!
A woman with brown hair (looking distressed): OH GOD.
Panel 2:
The man in the hard hat, reciting in an elaborate poetic manner: I ENTER THE COURT THROUGH THE MIDDLE GATE -- AND MY QUEUE IS WET WITH GENTLE TEARS. THE FLOWERS STILL GROW IN THE COURTYARD, THOUGH TWO SPRINGS HAVE FLED SINCE LAST THEIR MASTER CAME. THE WINDOWS, THE PORCH, AND BAMBOO SCREEN ARE JUST AS THEY ALWAYS WERE, BUT AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE HOUSE, SOMEONE IS MISSING --
YOU!
Panel 3:
The woman (deadpan): WAS THAT THE 5TH CENTURY POET, PO CHU-I?
Panel 4:
The man (continuing earnestly): HIS USE OF COMMON LANGUAGE IN A POETIC CONTEXT IS SUBLIME, SUGAR-TITS.
Panel 5 (caption: LATER):
The woman, now seen with an older woman (her mother): HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT EVERY JOB REQUIRES A COLLEGE DEGREE NOW?
Panel 6:
The older woman: IT'S GREAT, ISN'T IT?
The younger woman: NO!
Votey:
Caption box: YOU RIGHT NOW:
Thought/speech bubble: GOD, ANOTHER STUPID PO CHU-I JOKE.
(A simple cartoon face with an irritated, grimacing expression.)
A man in a yellow hard hat (waving): HEY, BABYDOLL!
A woman with brown hair (looking distressed): OH GOD.
Panel 2:
The man in the hard hat, reciting in an elaborate poetic manner: I ENTER THE COURT THROUGH THE MIDDLE GATE -- AND MY QUEUE IS WET WITH GENTLE TEARS. THE FLOWERS STILL GROW IN THE COURTYARD, THOUGH TWO SPRINGS HAVE FLED SINCE LAST THEIR MASTER CAME. THE WINDOWS, THE PORCH, AND BAMBOO SCREEN ARE JUST AS THEY ALWAYS WERE, BUT AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE HOUSE, SOMEONE IS MISSING --
YOU!
Panel 3:
The woman (deadpan): WAS THAT THE 5TH CENTURY POET, PO CHU-I?
Panel 4:
The man (continuing earnestly): HIS USE OF COMMON LANGUAGE IN A POETIC CONTEXT IS SUBLIME, SUGAR-TITS.
Panel 5 (caption: LATER):
The woman, now seen with an older woman (her mother): HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT EVERY JOB REQUIRES A COLLEGE DEGREE NOW?
Panel 6:
The older woman: IT'S GREAT, ISN'T IT?
The younger woman: NO!
Votey:
Caption box: YOU RIGHT NOW:
Thought/speech bubble: GOD, ANOTHER STUPID PO CHU-I JOKE.
(A simple cartoon face with an irritated, grimacing expression.)
Alt text
A six-panel comic. Panel 1: a man in a yellow hard hat waves cheerfully and says "HEY, BABYDOLL!" while a brown-haired woman looks dismayed and says "OH GOD." Panel 2: the hard-hat man recites a long, flowery classical-Chinese-style poem about entering a court through the middle gate, flowers still growing in the courtyard though two springs have passed, and ending dramatically with "someone is missing -- YOU!" Panel 3: the woman asks flatly, "WAS THAT THE 5TH CENTURY POET, PO CHU-I?" Panel 4: the man earnestly explains, "HIS USE OF COMMON LANGUAGE IN A POETIC CONTEXT IS SUBLIME, SUGAR-TITS." Panel 5, labeled LATER: the woman, now talking to an older woman, says "HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT EVERY JOB REQUIRES A COLLEGE DEGREE NOW?" Panel 6: the older woman replies "IT'S GREAT, ISN'T IT?" and the younger woman shouts "NO!" -- the joke being that higher education has produced a blue-collar construction worker who romances his partner with refined poetry analysis. Votey (bonus panel): a caption reads "YOU RIGHT NOW:" above a simple irritated cartoon face thinking, "GOD, ANOTHER STUPID PO CHU-I JOKE."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.