the-nihilist-channel
Original: the-nihilist-channel on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman in green shirt (sitting on a couch with a bowl of popcorn): HEY, WANNA WATCH "THE NIHILIST CHANNEL"?
Woman with blue hair: OOOH.
Panel 2:
Blue-haired woman: I DON'T GET IT. IT'S JUST RERUNS OF OLD SITCOMS.
Green-shirt woman: YOU HAVE TO WATCH UNTIL THE END.
Panel 3 (a sitcom playing on the TV, a smug man in a collared shirt):
Man on TV: SO I TOLD HER "TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT, HONEY."
Laugh track: HAHAHAHAHAHAH
Panel 4 (the two women seen from behind, watching the TV; the screen is now black with white text):
TV text (closing narration): Later, long after humanity and its works were dust, the Sun engulfed Earth, heaved its last gasp of energy out into an insouciant cosmos, and died.
Votey:
Tacking on this ending makes "Friends" a lot more watchable.
Woman in green shirt (sitting on a couch with a bowl of popcorn): HEY, WANNA WATCH "THE NIHILIST CHANNEL"?
Woman with blue hair: OOOH.
Panel 2:
Blue-haired woman: I DON'T GET IT. IT'S JUST RERUNS OF OLD SITCOMS.
Green-shirt woman: YOU HAVE TO WATCH UNTIL THE END.
Panel 3 (a sitcom playing on the TV, a smug man in a collared shirt):
Man on TV: SO I TOLD HER "TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT, HONEY."
Laugh track: HAHAHAHAHAHAH
Panel 4 (the two women seen from behind, watching the TV; the screen is now black with white text):
TV text (closing narration): Later, long after humanity and its works were dust, the Sun engulfed Earth, heaved its last gasp of energy out into an insouciant cosmos, and died.
Votey:
Tacking on this ending makes "Friends" a lot more watchable.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Two women sit on a couch in front of a TV. Panel 1: A woman in a green shirt holding a bowl of popcorn says, "Hey, wanna watch 'The Nihilist Channel'?" A woman with blue hair replies, "Oooh." Panel 2: The blue-haired woman says, "I don't get it. It's just reruns of old sitcoms." The green-shirt woman answers, "You have to watch until the end." Panel 3: The TV shows a smug sitcom man in a collared shirt saying, "So I told her 'take it or leave it, honey,'" over a laugh track reading "HAHAHAHAHAHAH." Panel 4: The two women are seen from behind watching the now-black TV screen, which displays solemn closing narration in white text: "Later, long after humanity and its works were dust, the Sun engulfed Earth, heaved its last gasp of energy out into an insouciant cosmos, and died." The joke is that the channel airs ordinary sitcom reruns but caps each episode with a bleak cosmic-nihilist epilogue. Votey (a single text panel beneath): "Tacking on this ending makes 'Friends' a lot more watchable."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.