baa
Original: baa on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (musical notes around the dialogue):
Human businessman (singing): Baa baa black sheep, have you a commodity?
Panel 2 (a black sheep sitting in a dark room/chair):
Sheep (singing): Yes sir, yes sir, wool in great quantity.
Panel 3 (the sheep handing over a document to the businessman; the document reads "Agreement for ONE Kiloton of Grade A Wool."):
Sheep (singing): One for the market,
Panel 4 (the sheep, now wearing a pink shirt, eyes closed):
Sheep (singing): One for myself.
Panel 5 (a view of a hillside with a storage container/bunker built into a hill):
Sheep (singing): One to drive up prices by sitting on the shelf.
Panel 6 (a child and an older man reading together in an armchair; the man holds a purple book titled "Economically Modernized Nursery Rhymes"):
Child: I feel you've missed the point of nursery rhymes.
Man: In tomorrow's song Humpty Dumpty's careless behavior drives up insurance premiums.
Votey:
A close-up of the black sheep's face, looking annoyed.
Sheep: Where's my money, you baaaastard!?
Human businessman (singing): Baa baa black sheep, have you a commodity?
Panel 2 (a black sheep sitting in a dark room/chair):
Sheep (singing): Yes sir, yes sir, wool in great quantity.
Panel 3 (the sheep handing over a document to the businessman; the document reads "Agreement for ONE Kiloton of Grade A Wool."):
Sheep (singing): One for the market,
Panel 4 (the sheep, now wearing a pink shirt, eyes closed):
Sheep (singing): One for myself.
Panel 5 (a view of a hillside with a storage container/bunker built into a hill):
Sheep (singing): One to drive up prices by sitting on the shelf.
Panel 6 (a child and an older man reading together in an armchair; the man holds a purple book titled "Economically Modernized Nursery Rhymes"):
Child: I feel you've missed the point of nursery rhymes.
Man: In tomorrow's song Humpty Dumpty's careless behavior drives up insurance premiums.
Votey:
A close-up of the black sheep's face, looking annoyed.
Sheep: Where's my money, you baaaastard!?
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic reimagining the nursery rhyme "Baa Baa Black Sheep" as a story about market speculation. The verses are sung as dialogue (shown with musical notes). Panel 1: a human businessman at a desk sings, "Baa baa black sheep, have you a commodity?" Panel 2: a black sheep sitting in a dark room replies, "Yes sir, yes sir, wool in great quantity." Panel 3: the sheep hands the man a document reading "Agreement for ONE Kiloton of Grade A Wool" while singing "One for the market,". Panel 4: the sheep, in a pink shirt, sings "One for myself." Panel 5: a hillside bunker is shown as the sheep sings the punchline, "One to drive up prices by sitting on the shelf." Panel 6: a child reading with an older man in an armchair says, "I feel you've missed the point of nursery rhymes," and the man, holding a purple book titled "Economically Modernized Nursery Rhymes," replies, "In tomorrow's song Humpty Dumpty's careless behavior drives up insurance premiums." Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the irritated black sheep's face demanding, "Where's my money, you baaaastard!?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.