trees
Original: trees on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Blonde woman: Trees are so lovely. Why can't we be more like them? Working together, nourishing their environment. Different species living side-by-side to make one whole ecosystem.
(A second person with dark hair listens beside her.)
Panel 2 (labeled "ELSEWHERE..."):
A small sapling/seedling: Please! Let me have some sunlight! I germinated late, and now I'm cold so cold, and so hungry!
A large tree (towering over it): STARVE, MOTHER FUCKER! STARVE!
Votey:
(A small tree/shrub looks up at the towering tree above it.)
Small tree: Papa, please!
Blonde woman: Trees are so lovely. Why can't we be more like them? Working together, nourishing their environment. Different species living side-by-side to make one whole ecosystem.
(A second person with dark hair listens beside her.)
Panel 2 (labeled "ELSEWHERE..."):
A small sapling/seedling: Please! Let me have some sunlight! I germinated late, and now I'm cold so cold, and so hungry!
A large tree (towering over it): STARVE, MOTHER FUCKER! STARVE!
Votey:
(A small tree/shrub looks up at the towering tree above it.)
Small tree: Papa, please!
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. In the first panel, a cheerful blonde woman gushes to a dark-haired companion: "Trees are so lovely. Why can't we be more like them? Working together, nourishing their environment. Different species living side-by-side to make one whole ecosystem." The second panel, captioned "ELSEWHERE...," cuts to a forest where a tiny seedling pleads upward, "Please! Let me have some sunlight! I germinated late, and now I'm so cold, and so hungry!" A huge tree looming over it snarls back, "STARVE, MOTHER FUCKER! STARVE!" The joke contrasts the romantic human view of forests as cooperative with the brutal competition for sunlight that actually drives them. Votey: a small tree gazes up at a much larger tree and cries, "Papa, please!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.