cat-2
Original: cat-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: (A silhouette of a cat-like creature's head against a black background; narration text.)
Narrator: He started life as a normal cat. That was before I grafted human tissue to his brain.
Panel 2: (A more humanoid, hunched cat-creature in silhouette against an orange/tan background; narration continues.)
Narrator: He began to develop, walking upright first. Then facial expressions. He became humanoid. Once, he was nothing. He had no self-reflection, no analysis of his own mind. In short, no consciousness.
Panel 3: (A silhouetted figure gesturing dramatically with raised hands.)
Narrator: Now, he is a MAN! You see! A man like you or I! I have given mind! I have given soul! I AM GOD!
Panel 4: (A parody of a Garfield comic strip. A scowling orange cat sits on a table; a man in a blue shirt stands behind it with arms raised, shouting.)
Garfield (thought/speech): I hate Mondays.
Man: I AM GOD!
Votey:
(Close-up on the grumpy orange Garfield cat resting its chin on its paws, eyes half-lidded, with a speech bubble above.)
Garfield: GOD MUST BE ABOLISHED.
Narrator: He started life as a normal cat. That was before I grafted human tissue to his brain.
Panel 2: (A more humanoid, hunched cat-creature in silhouette against an orange/tan background; narration continues.)
Narrator: He began to develop, walking upright first. Then facial expressions. He became humanoid. Once, he was nothing. He had no self-reflection, no analysis of his own mind. In short, no consciousness.
Panel 3: (A silhouetted figure gesturing dramatically with raised hands.)
Narrator: Now, he is a MAN! You see! A man like you or I! I have given mind! I have given soul! I AM GOD!
Panel 4: (A parody of a Garfield comic strip. A scowling orange cat sits on a table; a man in a blue shirt stands behind it with arms raised, shouting.)
Garfield (thought/speech): I hate Mondays.
Man: I AM GOD!
Votey:
(Close-up on the grumpy orange Garfield cat resting its chin on its paws, eyes half-lidded, with a speech bubble above.)
Garfield: GOD MUST BE ABOLISHED.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic parodying a mad-scientist origin story. In the first three panels, an unseen narrator describes, over silhouettes of an increasingly humanoid cat-creature, how he grafted human tissue onto a normal cat's brain: 'He started life as a normal cat... I grafted human tissue to his brain. He began to develop, walking upright... He became humanoid... Once he had no consciousness. Now, he is a MAN! ... I have given mind! I have given soul! I AM GOD!' The final panel reveals the punchline as a Garfield comic strip: a grumpy orange cat (Garfield) sits on a table thinking 'I hate Mondays,' while the scientist (a man in a blue shirt) stands behind him with arms raised triumphantly shouting 'I AM GOD!' The joke is that the godlike scientist has merely created the unimpressed, Monday-hating Garfield. Votey aftercomic: a close-up of the surly Garfield cat resting his chin on his paws with a speech bubble reading 'GOD MUST BE ABOLISHED.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.