pain-2
Original: pain-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Speaker (off-panel): Neural imaging shows that being rejected from a group causes literal physical pain.
Panel 2 (red-haired man in a suit, smiling):
Speaker (off-panel): So are you really completely positive you want to kick me out?
Panel 3 (a group of club members, including a police officer and others, gathered at a table):
Club members: Yes! You are BANISHED from Masochism Club!
Panel 4 (the red-haired man stands with his arms spread, suit open to reveal pink underwear, blissfully enjoying the rejection):
Red-haired man: Ooooh, yes, that's gooood. Goooooooooooooo--
Police officer (in a speech bubble): STOP IT!
Votey:
A close-up of the red-haired man's face in profile, eyes closed in pleasure.
Text (his speech): Gettin' my rocks off, not takin' my socks off
Speaker (off-panel): Neural imaging shows that being rejected from a group causes literal physical pain.
Panel 2 (red-haired man in a suit, smiling):
Speaker (off-panel): So are you really completely positive you want to kick me out?
Panel 3 (a group of club members, including a police officer and others, gathered at a table):
Club members: Yes! You are BANISHED from Masochism Club!
Panel 4 (the red-haired man stands with his arms spread, suit open to reveal pink underwear, blissfully enjoying the rejection):
Red-haired man: Ooooh, yes, that's gooood. Goooooooooooooo--
Police officer (in a speech bubble): STOP IT!
Votey:
A close-up of the red-haired man's face in profile, eyes closed in pleasure.
Text (his speech): Gettin' my rocks off, not takin' my socks off
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. In the first two panels, a smiling red-haired man in a suit listens as someone off-panel explains that neural imaging shows being rejected from a group causes literal physical pain, then asks, 'So are you really completely positive you want to kick me out?' In the third panel, a group of club members at a table -- including a uniformed police officer -- shout, 'Yes! You are BANISHED from Masochism Club!' In the fourth panel, the man stands with arms spread and his suit thrown open to reveal pink underwear, ecstatically enjoying the rejection: 'Ooooh, yes, that's gooood. Goooooooo--' while the officer yells, 'STOP IT!' The joke: a masochist gets off on being banished from the masochism club, so they can never successfully expel him. Votey: a close-up of the man's blissful face in profile, eyes closed, saying, 'Gettin' my rocks off, not takin' my socks off.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.