beautiful
Original: beautiful on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A dinosaur lying on what appears to be a deathbed, wrapped in white cloth, surrounded by other dinosaurs.
Dying dinosaur: "I HAVE TO DIE IN JUST THE RIGHT WAY! SO HAIRLESS APES CAN FIND MY BONES AND MAKE ME A BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL STATUE!"
Another dinosaur (standing among a group in the foreground): "SO SAD. SO VERY SAD."
Votey:
"WAIT... SO ARE THE FOREGROUND DINOSAURS NAKED, OR WHAT.?"
A dinosaur lying on what appears to be a deathbed, wrapped in white cloth, surrounded by other dinosaurs.
Dying dinosaur: "I HAVE TO DIE IN JUST THE RIGHT WAY! SO HAIRLESS APES CAN FIND MY BONES AND MAKE ME A BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL STATUE!"
Another dinosaur (standing among a group in the foreground): "SO SAD. SO VERY SAD."
Votey:
"WAIT... SO ARE THE FOREGROUND DINOSAURS NAKED, OR WHAT.?"
Alt text
A cartoon of green dinosaurs gathered around a dying dinosaur who lies wrapped in a white cloth, like a person on a deathbed tended by family. The dying dinosaur cries out dramatically, "I have to die in just the right way! So hairless apes can find my bones and make me a beautiful beautiful statue!" One of the dinosaurs in the foreground group flatly comments, "So sad. So very sad." The joke: dinosaurs imagined consciously arranging their own deaths so that humans (the "hairless apes") would later find and display their fossils. The votey aftercomic is a blank panel with only text, posing the punchline question: "Wait... so are the foreground dinosaurs naked, or what.?" — noting that the clothed/wrapped dying dinosaur implies the unclothed dinosaurs in front are nude.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.