the-real-me
Original: the-real-me on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (red-haired, hand on chest, emotional): WHAT I LOVE ABOUT YOU, MECHATRON-9X, IS THAT YOU SEE THE REAL ME.
(A boxy mechanical camera-like robot looms at the right side of the panel.)
Panel 2:
Mechatron-9X (the boxy camera robot, single round lens): YOU ARE TALKING MEAT.
Panel 3:
Woman (clasping hands near her face, delighted): IT'S LIKE YOU'VE KNOWN ME MY WHOLE LIFE!
(The robot looms at the right.)
Votey:
Mechatron-9X (close-up of the boxy camera robot): CAN WE GO DUTCH?
Woman (red-haired, hand on chest, emotional): WHAT I LOVE ABOUT YOU, MECHATRON-9X, IS THAT YOU SEE THE REAL ME.
(A boxy mechanical camera-like robot looms at the right side of the panel.)
Panel 2:
Mechatron-9X (the boxy camera robot, single round lens): YOU ARE TALKING MEAT.
Panel 3:
Woman (clasping hands near her face, delighted): IT'S LIKE YOU'VE KNOWN ME MY WHOLE LIFE!
(The robot looms at the right.)
Votey:
Mechatron-9X (close-up of the boxy camera robot): CAN WE GO DUTCH?
Alt text
A three-panel comic. A red-haired woman gazes lovingly toward a boxy, camera-like robot with a single round lens. Panel 1: hand on her chest, she says, "What I love about you, Mechatron-9X, is that you see the real me." Panel 2: a close-up of the robot, which replies flatly, "You are talking meat." Panel 3: the woman clasps her hands by her face, delighted, exclaiming, "It's like you've known me my whole life!" The joke is that the robot's dehumanizing description of her as "talking meat" reads to her as being deeply seen. Votey (bonus panel): a close-up of the robot's lens as it adds, "Can we go Dutch?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.