one-wish-2
Original: one-wish-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man: A GENIE! Do I get three wishes?
Green genie: No. You get one.
Panel 2:
Green genie: You used your second wish to forget all of the consequences of the first wish.
Panel 3:
Man (now naked, standing inside a large lamp/urn full of gerbils, holding a small genie lamp): Why am I naked and where did all these gerbils come from?
Panel 4:
Green genie: I'm pretty sure I included myself in the second wish.
(Wide final panel: a beach scene. The naked man stands inside a big purple urn, his lower half hidden, holding a golden lamp; the green genie's tail trails across the sand and water back toward him.)
Votey:
Man (smiling): I wish I hadn't used the second wish.
Man: A GENIE! Do I get three wishes?
Green genie: No. You get one.
Panel 2:
Green genie: You used your second wish to forget all of the consequences of the first wish.
Panel 3:
Man (now naked, standing inside a large lamp/urn full of gerbils, holding a small genie lamp): Why am I naked and where did all these gerbils come from?
Panel 4:
Green genie: I'm pretty sure I included myself in the second wish.
(Wide final panel: a beach scene. The naked man stands inside a big purple urn, his lower half hidden, holding a golden lamp; the green genie's tail trails across the sand and water back toward him.)
Votey:
Man (smiling): I wish I hadn't used the second wish.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic set on a beach. A man meets a green genie. Panel 1 — Man: "A GENIE! Do I get three wishes?" Genie: "No. You get one." Panel 2 — Genie: "You used your second wish to forget all of the consequences of the first wish." Panel 3 — The man is now suddenly naked, standing inside a large purple urn that is full of gerbils and holding a small golden lamp; he asks, "Why am I naked and where did all these gerbils come from?" Panel 4 — The genie replies, "I'm pretty sure I included myself in the second wish," his long tail trailing across the sand back toward the urn. The joke: he made multiple wishes, then wished to forget the chaotic consequences, so he can no longer remember why his life is now absurd. Votey (bonus panel): a close-up of the man smiling and saying, "I wish I hadn't used the second wish" — a wish he can't even understand the point of, because he's forgotten what the second wish erased.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.