neighborhood
Original: neighborhood on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Real estate agent (a man, to a blonde woman in red): As you can see, this home comes with hardwood floors and proximity to institutions and shopping experiences valued by your particular political demographic.
Panel 2:
Agent: The main room has high ceilings, an open floorplan, and from every window you have a view of signage castigating the social movements you dislike most.
Panel 3:
Agent: The neighborhood has a park with a water-slide, baseball field, and people who are all within one standard deviation of your position on the political spectrum.
Panel 4 (exterior, agent gesturing toward a building):
(no dialogue)
Panel 5:
Woman: Is there a sense of community?
Agent: Once a week, local homeowners gather together to amplify each other's biases and "share" information from the same news sources.
Panel 6:
Woman: It sounds too good to be true!
Agent: If someone says it isn't, we exile them.
Votey:
A close-up of a delighted face. Caption (handwritten): Beyond the high walls of Suburbia
Real estate agent (a man, to a blonde woman in red): As you can see, this home comes with hardwood floors and proximity to institutions and shopping experiences valued by your particular political demographic.
Panel 2:
Agent: The main room has high ceilings, an open floorplan, and from every window you have a view of signage castigating the social movements you dislike most.
Panel 3:
Agent: The neighborhood has a park with a water-slide, baseball field, and people who are all within one standard deviation of your position on the political spectrum.
Panel 4 (exterior, agent gesturing toward a building):
(no dialogue)
Panel 5:
Woman: Is there a sense of community?
Agent: Once a week, local homeowners gather together to amplify each other's biases and "share" information from the same news sources.
Panel 6:
Woman: It sounds too good to be true!
Agent: If someone says it isn't, we exile them.
Votey:
A close-up of a delighted face. Caption (handwritten): Beyond the high walls of Suburbia
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic in which a real estate agent shows a home to a blonde woman in a red shirt. He pitches it as a perfectly politically homogeneous community. Across the panels he says the home comes with proximity to institutions and shopping valued by her particular political demographic; that every window has a view of signage castigating the social movements she dislikes most; and that the neighborhood's park and residents are all within one standard deviation of her position on the political spectrum. When she asks if there is a sense of community, he says local homeowners gather weekly to amplify each other's biases and 'share' information from the same news sources. Delighted, she says 'It sounds too good to be true!' and he replies, 'If someone says it isn't, we exile them.' The joke satirizes politically self-segregated, echo-chamber suburbs. Votey: a close-up of a grinning face beside the handwritten caption 'Beyond the high walls of Suburbia.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.