while-you-were-sleeping
Original: while-you-were-sleeping on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
The main comic is set almost entirely in darkness, lit only by speech bubbles, suggesting a couple attempting intimacy in a dark bedroom. The dialogue alternates between a woman and a man.
Woman: Baby! Now that the kid is asleep, I am gonna rock you so hard.
Man: Ow! Don't just-- now bend over and-- ow! Ah! Stepped on a leg!
Woman: That's, uh... your punishment for being too sexy.
Man: Yeah, you've been ow ow boom oh my god, when was the last time we had a banana?
Woman: Ooooh, I've been bad.
Man: Um... um you've got a nice banana.
Woman: Just... uh... you get over here... against the wall and... ah, dammit. The playhouse is in the way. Let me just--
(A bright yellow toy lights up, playing music.)
Toy: DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DAH DAH DOO!
Man: Shit. It's playing Yankee Doodle. The song is, like, ten minutes long.
Woman: Right okay... um, let's see...
Man: I can work with it if you keep going!
Toy: YANKEE DOODLE WENT TO TOWN, RIDING ON A HOTTIE!
Woman: There we go!
LATER (two people stand talking, fully lit):
First person: So, what's sex like after kids?
Second person: It's more spontaneous.
Votey:
Text (a caption above a dark, indistinct figure): ART WAS GOOD TILL THE LAST PANEL.
Woman: Baby! Now that the kid is asleep, I am gonna rock you so hard.
Man: Ow! Don't just-- now bend over and-- ow! Ah! Stepped on a leg!
Woman: That's, uh... your punishment for being too sexy.
Man: Yeah, you've been ow ow boom oh my god, when was the last time we had a banana?
Woman: Ooooh, I've been bad.
Man: Um... um you've got a nice banana.
Woman: Just... uh... you get over here... against the wall and... ah, dammit. The playhouse is in the way. Let me just--
(A bright yellow toy lights up, playing music.)
Toy: DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DAH DAH DOO!
Man: Shit. It's playing Yankee Doodle. The song is, like, ten minutes long.
Woman: Right okay... um, let's see...
Man: I can work with it if you keep going!
Toy: YANKEE DOODLE WENT TO TOWN, RIDING ON A HOTTIE!
Woman: There we go!
LATER (two people stand talking, fully lit):
First person: So, what's sex like after kids?
Second person: It's more spontaneous.
Votey:
Text (a caption above a dark, indistinct figure): ART WAS GOOD TILL THE LAST PANEL.
Alt text
An SMBC comic. Most panels are nearly pitch black, lit only by the glowing speech bubbles of a couple fumbling through sex in a dark bedroom after their kid has fallen asleep. The woman says she'll rock him hard; the man keeps yelping as he steps on toys, exclaiming 'Ow! Stepped on a leg!' and confusedly asking when they last had a banana while trying to compliment her 'nice banana.' As they reposition against the wall, a bright yellow children's toy suddenly lights up and plays music: 'DOO DOO DOO... DAH DAH DOO!' The man groans that it's Yankee Doodle, a ten-minute-long song, but offers to 'work with it.' The toy sings 'Yankee Doodle went to town, riding on a hottie,' and the woman cheerfully says 'There we go!' In a final fully-lit panel labeled LATER, two friends stand talking; one asks 'So, what's sex like after kids?' and the other answers 'It's more spontaneous.' Votey: a self-deprecating caption over a crude dark figure reads 'ART WAS GOOD TILL THE LAST PANEL,' joking that the cartoonist's drawing quality slipped by the end.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.