spawning
Original: spawning on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Credits: Written by Zach Weinersmith. Art by Abby Howard.
Panel 1: A salmon swimming in a river, excited.
Salmon: It is time! We must swim upriver to spawn!
Panel 2: Salmon leaping up a waterfall.
Salmon: Oh boy! Finally, after all this time, to experience love.
Panel 3: A salmon mid-leap out of the rushing water.
Salmon: Ynee!
Panel 4: A brown bear lunges into the water with its mouth open, roaring, as salmon leap around it.
Bear: Hrrrwwlleh!
Panel 5: Close-up of the bear with a salmon clamped in its jaws.
Salmon (in the bear's mouth): Is this love??
Panel 6: The salmon, still in the bear's mouth, with other salmon leaping in the water below.
Salmon: It's not great!
Votey:
A black-and-white close-up of the bear's face with a fish held sideways in its mouth.
Fish: I'd leave, but I'm really invested in this relationship.
Panel 1: A salmon swimming in a river, excited.
Salmon: It is time! We must swim upriver to spawn!
Panel 2: Salmon leaping up a waterfall.
Salmon: Oh boy! Finally, after all this time, to experience love.
Panel 3: A salmon mid-leap out of the rushing water.
Salmon: Ynee!
Panel 4: A brown bear lunges into the water with its mouth open, roaring, as salmon leap around it.
Bear: Hrrrwwlleh!
Panel 5: Close-up of the bear with a salmon clamped in its jaws.
Salmon (in the bear's mouth): Is this love??
Panel 6: The salmon, still in the bear's mouth, with other salmon leaping in the water below.
Salmon: It's not great!
Votey:
A black-and-white close-up of the bear's face with a fish held sideways in its mouth.
Fish: I'd leave, but I'm really invested in this relationship.
Alt text
A six-panel color comic about salmon spawning, credited 'Written by Zach Weinersmith, Art by Abby Howard.' Panel 1: an excited red-and-green salmon in a river says, 'It is time! We must swim upriver to spawn!' Panel 2: the salmon leaps up a waterfall saying, 'Oh boy! Finally, after all this time, to experience love.' Panel 3: a salmon bursts out of the churning water crying 'Ynee!' Panel 4: a large brown bear plunges into the river with its mouth wide open, roaring 'Hrrrwwlleh!', as salmon leap around it. Panel 5: a close-up of the bear with a salmon caught crosswise in its jaws; the trapped salmon asks, 'Is this love??' Panel 6: the salmon, still clamped in the bear's mouth above the leaping fish, deadpans, 'It's not great!' The joke: the salmon's romantic quest 'to experience love' ends with it being eaten by a bear. Votey (a black-and-white aftercomic): a close-up of the bear's face with the fish held sideways in its mouth, the fish saying, 'I'd leave, but I'm really invested in this relationship.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.