noun
Original: noun on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A caption box at the top reads "IN THE SHADOWS, WHO IS THERE?" A man with dark hair stands in a dimly lit room and says, "OH NO. IT'S..."
Panel 2: A large bold word fills the panel: "ENGLISH!" The man continues: "NICE TRICK YOU GOT THERE. BE A REALLLLLLY SHAME IF SOMEONE CAME AND VERBED'EM." (label beneath: "English: Language")
Panel 3: The man, looking distressed: "ARE YOU VERBING ME?!"
Panel 4: Reply: "I'M NOT!" The man: "NO!" / "STOP VERBING ME!"
Panel 5: The man clutches his head, screaming: "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! I CAN'T AAAAAAAAAAA!" Another voice: "DON'T VERB SO LOUDLY!" The bold word "English" appears again.
Panel 6: The man, mouth wide open, screaming, against a red background. (label: "English Language")
Panel 7: A dark, ominous panel — a shadowy silhouette looms.
Panel 8: A small figure sits hunched alone in the dark. Caption: "I'D BETTER HANG IT UP NOW, LIKE HE USED TO."
Votey:
A black silhouette of a person's head and shoulders sits beneath a speech bubble that reads, "Stop gurgling!"
Panel 2: A large bold word fills the panel: "ENGLISH!" The man continues: "NICE TRICK YOU GOT THERE. BE A REALLLLLLY SHAME IF SOMEONE CAME AND VERBED'EM." (label beneath: "English: Language")
Panel 3: The man, looking distressed: "ARE YOU VERBING ME?!"
Panel 4: Reply: "I'M NOT!" The man: "NO!" / "STOP VERBING ME!"
Panel 5: The man clutches his head, screaming: "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! I CAN'T AAAAAAAAAAA!" Another voice: "DON'T VERB SO LOUDLY!" The bold word "English" appears again.
Panel 6: The man, mouth wide open, screaming, against a red background. (label: "English Language")
Panel 7: A dark, ominous panel — a shadowy silhouette looms.
Panel 8: A small figure sits hunched alone in the dark. Caption: "I'D BETTER HANG IT UP NOW, LIKE HE USED TO."
Votey:
A black silhouette of a person's head and shoulders sits beneath a speech bubble that reads, "Stop gurgling!"
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic parodying horror/possession movies, where the menacing force is the English language itself "verbing" nouns. A dark-haired man in a shadowy room reacts in growing terror as a booming bold word "ENGLISH" (labeled "Language") torments him. He cries out lines like "Nice trick you got there, be a realllllly shame if someone came and verbed'em," "Are you verbing me?!" and "Stop verbing me!" before clutching his head and screaming "I can't take it anymore!" while another voice begs "Don't verb so loudly!" The final panels show him screaming against a red background, a looming dark silhouette, and the man sitting hunched alone in the dark with the caption "I'd better hang it up now, like he used to" — the joke being that English's habit of turning nouns into verbs is treated as a creeping supernatural horror. Votey: a plain black silhouette of a head and shoulders sits below a speech bubble reading "Stop gurgling!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.