repetition
Original: repetition on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An older man with glasses (in the foreground, back to us) complains while two kids play a video game on a couch in the background.
Man: "How do kids do it? They sit and play the same repetitive games for hours. Every stupid level is exactly the same, but they keep going!"
Panel 2:
Caption: "LATER..."
The same older man now sits in an armchair watching TV. The TV speaks.
TV: "Today - corruption among leaders, trouble in the Middle East, celebrities continue to have foibles."
Man: "WHAT?!"
Votey:
A close-up of the same man's face, wide-eyed and aghast, sweating.
Man: "What.? A 0.1% change in polling averages.?!"
An older man with glasses (in the foreground, back to us) complains while two kids play a video game on a couch in the background.
Man: "How do kids do it? They sit and play the same repetitive games for hours. Every stupid level is exactly the same, but they keep going!"
Panel 2:
Caption: "LATER..."
The same older man now sits in an armchair watching TV. The TV speaks.
TV: "Today - corruption among leaders, trouble in the Middle East, celebrities continue to have foibles."
Man: "WHAT?!"
Votey:
A close-up of the same man's face, wide-eyed and aghast, sweating.
Man: "What.? A 0.1% change in polling averages.?!"
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: An older man with glasses, seen from behind, grumbles about kids while two children play a video game on a couch behind him. He says: "How do kids do it? They sit and play the same repetitive games for hours. Every stupid level is exactly the same, but they keep going!" Panel 2: Labeled "LATER...", the same man now sits in an armchair watching TV. The TV reports: "Today - corruption among leaders, trouble in the Middle East, celebrities continue to have foibles." The man, riveted, exclaims "WHAT?!" The joke: the man mocks kids for fixating on repetitive games, then does exactly the same thing with repetitive, unchanging news. Votey (aftercomic): An extreme close-up of the man's wide-eyed, sweating, aghast face as he reacts to trivial news: "What.? A 0.1% change in polling averages.?!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.