quote
Original: quote on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A woman with blonde hair in a red top, smiling and gesturing, sits across a table from a man in a suit who looks uncertain.
Woman: "Want to have 'sex' tonight?"
Panel 2: Close on the man, looking troubled.
Man: "I... are you one of those people who uses quotation marks for emphasis or are you using quotations to imply a hidden and terrible form of the word contained inside?"
Panel 3: The woman (seen from behind/side) faces the man, who still looks dismayed.
Man: "Because if it's the first thing ewwwwww."
Votey: Hand-lettered text reads "Humiliate with punctuation." Below it, a rough sketch shows a man's face looking distressed/recoiling.
Woman: "Want to have 'sex' tonight?"
Panel 2: Close on the man, looking troubled.
Man: "I... are you one of those people who uses quotation marks for emphasis or are you using quotations to imply a hidden and terrible form of the word contained inside?"
Panel 3: The woman (seen from behind/side) faces the man, who still looks dismayed.
Man: "Because if it's the first thing ewwwwww."
Votey: Hand-lettered text reads "Humiliate with punctuation." Below it, a rough sketch shows a man's face looking distressed/recoiling.
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: a smiling blonde woman in a red top across a table asks a uneasy-looking man in a suit, "Want to have 'sex' tonight?" -- with the word sex in quotation marks. Panel 2: a close-up of the worried man replying, "I... are you one of those people who uses quotation marks for emphasis or are you using quotations to imply a hidden and terrible form of the word contained inside?" Panel 3: the man, still dismayed, adds, "Because if it's the first thing ewwwwww." The joke: scare-quotes around "sex" make it sound like a euphemism for something horrifying. Votey (aftercomic): hand-lettered caption "Humiliate with punctuation" above a loose sketch of a man's distressed, recoiling face.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.