atm
Original: atm on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (with dark, curly shoulder-length hair): Ugh. It's so much work to say the entire term "ATM machine."
Panel 2:
Man (with red/orange hair and round glasses): What if we shortened it to "ATMM"?
Panel 3:
Woman (smiling broadly): Genius!
Panel 4:
Caption banner: THE HORRIBLE FUTURE:
Elderly person (gray hair, round glasses, pointing): Sir, can you tell me where the local ATMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
[The word trails off into an endless string of the letter M filling the panel.]
Votey:
An elderly person with eyes closed asks via speech bubble: Where is the ATM^10^10^10 machine? [The exponent stack on "ATM" indicates an absurdly, astronomically large number of M's.]
Woman (with dark, curly shoulder-length hair): Ugh. It's so much work to say the entire term "ATM machine."
Panel 2:
Man (with red/orange hair and round glasses): What if we shortened it to "ATMM"?
Panel 3:
Woman (smiling broadly): Genius!
Panel 4:
Caption banner: THE HORRIBLE FUTURE:
Elderly person (gray hair, round glasses, pointing): Sir, can you tell me where the local ATMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
[The word trails off into an endless string of the letter M filling the panel.]
Votey:
An elderly person with eyes closed asks via speech bubble: Where is the ATM^10^10^10 machine? [The exponent stack on "ATM" indicates an absurdly, astronomically large number of M's.]
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a woman with dark curly hair complains, "Ugh. It's so much work to say the entire term 'ATM machine.'" Panel 2: a man with red hair and round glasses suggests, "What if we shortened it to 'ATMM'?" Panel 3: the woman beams and replies, "Genius!" Panel 4, under a banner reading "THE HORRIBLE FUTURE": an elderly person asks a passerby, "Sir, can you tell me where the local ATMMMMM..." and the word degenerates into an enormous unbroken wall of the letter M filling the entire panel, the joke being that abbreviating 'ATM machine' to 'ATMM' compounds over generations into an impossibly long word. Votey (bonus panel): a sketchy line drawing of an elderly person with closed eyes asking, "Where is the ATM^10^10^10 machine?" the towering stack of exponents on ATM showing the number of M's has grown astronomically huge.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.