phonemes
Original: phonemes on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
The main comic is set against a solid black background. It depicts an intimate/sexual scene entirely through white speech bubbles — no characters are drawn. Two people are talking dirty, but the turn-on is exotic linguistics/phonemes rather than conventional dirty talk.
Panel 1:
Speaker A: "OH YEAH, BABY! OH! OH! NOW, USE RARE PHONEMES WHILE YOU MAKE LOVE!"
Speaker A: "GO! GO!"
Panel 2:
Speaker A: "MORE! MORE!"
Speaker B: "I'M SO CLOSE! SO CLOSE!"
Panel 3:
Speaker A: "GO! BVNN!"
Speaker B: "THHH!"
Panel 4:
Speaker B: "A VOICELESS DENTAL FRICATIVE? GET OFF OF ME."
Panel 5:
Speaker A: "IT'S IN VERY FEW LANGUAGES!"
Speaker B: "OH YEAH, JUST A NORMAL SPANISH AND ENGLISH!"
Panel 6:
Speaker B: "YOU SAID 'RARE PHONEMES.' THAT IS RARE AMONG LANGUAGES!"
Speaker A: "FORGET IT. BE IN THE BATHROOM."
Panel 7:
Speaker A: "ARE YOU MAKING CLICK CONSONANTS IN THERE?!"
Speaker B: "I AM FINISHING THE JOB!"
Votey:
Hand-lettered in an ornate calligraphic script: "Today's comic is a love letter to Ryan North"
Panel 1:
Speaker A: "OH YEAH, BABY! OH! OH! NOW, USE RARE PHONEMES WHILE YOU MAKE LOVE!"
Speaker A: "GO! GO!"
Panel 2:
Speaker A: "MORE! MORE!"
Speaker B: "I'M SO CLOSE! SO CLOSE!"
Panel 3:
Speaker A: "GO! BVNN!"
Speaker B: "THHH!"
Panel 4:
Speaker B: "A VOICELESS DENTAL FRICATIVE? GET OFF OF ME."
Panel 5:
Speaker A: "IT'S IN VERY FEW LANGUAGES!"
Speaker B: "OH YEAH, JUST A NORMAL SPANISH AND ENGLISH!"
Panel 6:
Speaker B: "YOU SAID 'RARE PHONEMES.' THAT IS RARE AMONG LANGUAGES!"
Speaker A: "FORGET IT. BE IN THE BATHROOM."
Panel 7:
Speaker A: "ARE YOU MAKING CLICK CONSONANTS IN THERE?!"
Speaker B: "I AM FINISHING THE JOB!"
Votey:
Hand-lettered in an ornate calligraphic script: "Today's comic is a love letter to Ryan North"
Alt text
A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic shown entirely as white speech bubbles on a black background, with no characters drawn — an intimate scene where the turn-on is rare linguistic phonemes instead of dirty talk. Two unseen lovers, A and B, talk during sex. A: 'Oh yeah, baby! Oh! Now, use rare phonemes while you make love! Go! Go!' B: 'I'm so close!' A demands more, then B produces 'THHH!' A complains: 'A voiceless dental fricative? Get off of me — it's in very few languages!' B fires back: 'Oh yeah, just a normal Spanish and English! You said rare phonemes, and that IS rare among languages!' A: 'Forget it. Be in the bathroom.' Final panel: A shouts 'Are you making click consonants in there?!' and B replies 'I am finishing the job!' The joke turns sexual escalation into a pedantic linguistics argument. The votey (after-comic) reads, in ornate calligraphic handwriting: 'Today's comic is a love letter to Ryan North.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.