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2015-02-27

Original: 2015-02-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Title caption (yellow banner): SOMETIMES, IT'S BETTER THAT WE DON'T KNOW HISTORY

Panel 1:
Pharaoh (a man wearing a blue-and-gold striped nemes headdress with a golden cobra, angry-faced, gesturing): ARCHITECT! BUILD ME A STRUCTURE THAT MAKES IT LOOK LIKE THE DESERT GOT A BONER WHILE SLEEPING!
Pharaoh: THERE, I SHALL RESIDE FOR ETERNITY!
(A bald man, seen from behind, listens.)

Votey:
Pharaoh (off-panel speech bubble, close-up of his face): PUT MY FACE ON A CAT!

Alt text

A yellow title banner reads "Sometimes, it's better that we don't know history." In the main panel, an angry Egyptian pharaoh in a blue-and-gold striped nemes headdress with a golden cobra ornament shouts at a bald man (seen from behind) who is his architect: "Architect! Build me a structure that makes it look like the desert got a boner while sleeping! There, I shall reside for eternity!" The joke imagines the pyramids as the pharaoh's crude self-aggrandizing demand. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the pharaoh's face shows him adding another command in a speech bubble: "Put my face on a cat!" (a nod to the Sphinx).

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.