the-netherworld
Original: the-netherworld on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A museum curator in a top hat, glasses, and dark coat presents a small object to a group of visitors.
Curator: This is a recording cylinder from the year 1897. No one knows whence it came. Some say it contains sounds... FROM THE NETHERWORLD.
Panel 2 (caption banner): SOME YEARS EARLIER...
The scene shifts to the past. A man cranks a phonograph/dictaphone with a large horn.
Panel 3: Two friends approach the recording horn, from which wavy sound lines emanate.
Friend 1 (cut off): Hey, wanna record ourselves doing it?
Friend 2 (cut off): I'll get Franklin to crank the dictaphone!
Panel 4: One man claps his hands eagerly.
Man: Wait, you wanna record ourselves doing it?
The other (the one fetching help): I'll get Franklin to crank the dictaphone!
Votey: A close-up of a person lying down, head visible at the bottom of the panel, with a curved form (a body/blanket) and a speech line rising up.
Speech: OOO Call me Grover Cleveland and spank me... OOO
Curator: This is a recording cylinder from the year 1897. No one knows whence it came. Some say it contains sounds... FROM THE NETHERWORLD.
Panel 2 (caption banner): SOME YEARS EARLIER...
The scene shifts to the past. A man cranks a phonograph/dictaphone with a large horn.
Panel 3: Two friends approach the recording horn, from which wavy sound lines emanate.
Friend 1 (cut off): Hey, wanna record ourselves doing it?
Friend 2 (cut off): I'll get Franklin to crank the dictaphone!
Panel 4: One man claps his hands eagerly.
Man: Wait, you wanna record ourselves doing it?
The other (the one fetching help): I'll get Franklin to crank the dictaphone!
Votey: A close-up of a person lying down, head visible at the bottom of the panel, with a curved form (a body/blanket) and a speech line rising up.
Speech: OOO Call me Grover Cleveland and spank me... OOO
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a museum curator in a top hat and glasses holds up a small recording cylinder for a crowd, saying, "This is a recording cylinder from the year 1897. No one knows whence it came. Some say it contains sounds... FROM THE NETHERWORLD." A caption then reads "SOME YEARS EARLIER..." and the scene flashes back to the 1890s, where a man operates an old phonograph with a large horn. Two friends decide to record themselves "doing it," and one says he'll get Franklin to crank the dictaphone, implying they recorded themselves having sex onto the mysterious cylinder. The votey (bonus panel) shows a close-up of a reclining person, with a speech line floating up that reads, "OOO Call me Grover Cleveland and spank me... OOO" — the supposedly haunted 'netherworld' recording is actually their playful dirty talk.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.