pro-tip
Original: pro-tip on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (top of comic):
RELATIONSHIP PRO TIP:
The best way to ruin romance is to append "BUT THAT WILL NOT SAVE YOU IN THE FINAL SHOWDOWN" to any compliment.
Panel 1:
Woman (brown hair, glasses, purple shirt): When I married you, I knew you were a good friend and a good lover, but you've also been a perfect father to our children.
Man (red hair and beard, green shirt): Thank you- I know you-
Panel 2:
Woman: BUT THAT WILL NOT SAVE YOU IN THE-
Panel 3:
Woman (continuing, eyes closed, intense): -SAVE YOU IN THE-
Man (alarmed): STOP IT! WHY!?
Votey:
Wordless panel. A simple line-drawn sketch of the bespectacled woman and the bearded man (now seated lower, like a child), drawn in a loose, scribbly style with no dialogue.
RELATIONSHIP PRO TIP:
The best way to ruin romance is to append "BUT THAT WILL NOT SAVE YOU IN THE FINAL SHOWDOWN" to any compliment.
Panel 1:
Woman (brown hair, glasses, purple shirt): When I married you, I knew you were a good friend and a good lover, but you've also been a perfect father to our children.
Man (red hair and beard, green shirt): Thank you- I know you-
Panel 2:
Woman: BUT THAT WILL NOT SAVE YOU IN THE-
Panel 3:
Woman (continuing, eyes closed, intense): -SAVE YOU IN THE-
Man (alarmed): STOP IT! WHY!?
Votey:
Wordless panel. A simple line-drawn sketch of the bespectacled woman and the bearded man (now seated lower, like a child), drawn in a loose, scribbly style with no dialogue.
Alt text
An SMBC comic. A top caption reads: "RELATIONSHIP PRO TIP: The best way to ruin romance is to append 'BUT THAT WILL NOT SAVE YOU IN THE FINAL SHOWDOWN' to any compliment." In the comic, a woman with brown hair, glasses, and a purple shirt tells a red-bearded man in a green shirt: "When I married you, I knew you were a good friend and a good lover, but you've also been a perfect father to our children." He starts to respond gratefully, but she keeps going, eyes squeezed shut and intense: "BUT THAT WILL NOT SAVE YOU IN THE-", repeating the menacing 'showdown' tagline from the caption. The man recoils in alarm, shouting "STOP IT! WHY!?" The votey is a wordless, loose pencil-style sketch of the same two characters.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.