a-legal-scholar
Original: a-legal-scholar on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Red-haired man: I want her dad to think I'm impressive when I pick Sally up for prom.
Friend (a man in a yellow shirt): That's easy. He's a legal scholar.
Panel 2:
Friend: Get some obscure law textbook and act like it's light reading for you. He'll think you're a genius.
Panel 3:
Red-haired man (smiling confidently): Perfect.
Panel 4 (caption: LATER...):
The red-haired man stands before Sally's father, an older bearded man wearing glasses.
Red-haired man: I'm here for Sally.
He holds up a blue book titled "Sodomy Law."
Votey:
Close-up of Sally's father's face, looking wary and unimpressed.
Sally's father: Of course, these rules no longer apply
Red-haired man: I want her dad to think I'm impressive when I pick Sally up for prom.
Friend (a man in a yellow shirt): That's easy. He's a legal scholar.
Panel 2:
Friend: Get some obscure law textbook and act like it's light reading for you. He'll think you're a genius.
Panel 3:
Red-haired man (smiling confidently): Perfect.
Panel 4 (caption: LATER...):
The red-haired man stands before Sally's father, an older bearded man wearing glasses.
Red-haired man: I'm here for Sally.
He holds up a blue book titled "Sodomy Law."
Votey:
Close-up of Sally's father's face, looking wary and unimpressed.
Sally's father: Of course, these rules no longer apply
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A red-haired young man tells his friend in a yellow shirt, "I want her dad to think I'm impressive when I pick Sally up for prom." The friend replies, "That's easy. He's a legal scholar." Panel 2: The friend advises, "Get some obscure law textbook and act like it's light reading for you. He'll think you're a genius." Panel 3: The red-haired man grins and says, "Perfect." Panel 4, captioned "LATER...": The young man stands before Sally's bearded, bespectacled father and says, "I'm here for Sally," while proudly holding up a blue book whose title reads "Sodomy Law" — an unfortunate choice of obscure legal reading to flaunt to a date's father. The votey aftercomic shows a close-up of the father's wary, unimpressed face as he says, "Of course, these rules no longer apply" — a deadpan reference to the legal invalidation of sodomy laws.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.