heart-attack
Original: heart-attack on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Waiter: ...OR FOR AN EXTRA TEN DOLLARS, YOU CAN TRY THE NEW "HEART ATTACK BURGER."
Panel 2
Customer: OOOH, WHAT MAKES IT A HEART ATTACK?
Panel 3
(A burger on a plate: bun, fried egg, bacon, and a syringe.)
Waiter (caption): A FRIED EGG, BACON, AND A SYRINGE FULL OF POTASSIUM CHLORIDE.
Panel 4
Customer: BUT WHY... WHY WOULD...
Waiter: LOOK AT YOUR MENU.
Panel 5
(A menu/sign on the table next to a fork.)
Menu: Welcome to LITERAL BURGER!
Panel 6
Customer: WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND THEN?
Waiter: I'D AVOID THE "DEATH BY CHOCOLATE" DESSERT.
Panel 7
(The customer, a bald man in a green shirt, sits looking uneasy.)
Votey:
Waiter (off-panel, speech bubble): DEATH IS PRORATED OVER THE COURSE OF THIRTY YEARS.
(A close-up of a wincing, grimacing face wearing sunglasses.)
Waiter: ...OR FOR AN EXTRA TEN DOLLARS, YOU CAN TRY THE NEW "HEART ATTACK BURGER."
Panel 2
Customer: OOOH, WHAT MAKES IT A HEART ATTACK?
Panel 3
(A burger on a plate: bun, fried egg, bacon, and a syringe.)
Waiter (caption): A FRIED EGG, BACON, AND A SYRINGE FULL OF POTASSIUM CHLORIDE.
Panel 4
Customer: BUT WHY... WHY WOULD...
Waiter: LOOK AT YOUR MENU.
Panel 5
(A menu/sign on the table next to a fork.)
Menu: Welcome to LITERAL BURGER!
Panel 6
Customer: WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND THEN?
Waiter: I'D AVOID THE "DEATH BY CHOCOLATE" DESSERT.
Panel 7
(The customer, a bald man in a green shirt, sits looking uneasy.)
Votey:
Waiter (off-panel, speech bubble): DEATH IS PRORATED OVER THE COURSE OF THIRTY YEARS.
(A close-up of a wincing, grimacing face wearing sunglasses.)
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic set in a restaurant called "Literal Burger," where every menu item is dangerously literal. A waiter tells a seated bald man in a green shirt that for an extra ten dollars he can try the new "Heart Attack Burger." The customer asks what makes it a heart attack, and a panel shows the burger: a bun with a fried egg, bacon, and a syringe sticking out of it. The waiter explains it contains a fried egg, bacon, and a syringe full of potassium chloride. The alarmed customer stammers "But why... why would..." and the waiter simply says "Look at your menu." A sign on the table reads "Welcome to Literal Burger!" The customer asks what the waiter would recommend instead, and the waiter replies, "I'd avoid the 'Death by Chocolate' dessert." The final panel shows the customer looking deeply uneasy. In the votey aftercomic, a wincing, grimacing face in sunglasses appears as the waiter adds, "Death is prorated over the course of thirty years."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.