marriage
Original: marriage on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A woman with gray/black hair in a teal shirt sits across from a man with red flame-like hair and a long red beard. They are mid-argument.
Woman: BUT I HATE YOU.
Man: LOOK, I NOT ONLY HATE YOU, I HATE THE CHILDREN TOO. NOBODY SAID THIS WAS GOING TO BE EASY, BUT IF WE HIT THREE MORE MONTHS, WE GET THE BRONZE LOVE EAGLE.
Woman: FINE. FINE.
Caption (below panel): A lot of divorce could be prevented by merit badges.
Votey:
A wordless image of the "Bronze Love Eagle" — a heart-shaped, eagle-like figure cast in bronze/gold, shown striding forward on two legs with wings and clawed feet, its body and a wing rendered as heart shapes.
A woman with gray/black hair in a teal shirt sits across from a man with red flame-like hair and a long red beard. They are mid-argument.
Woman: BUT I HATE YOU.
Man: LOOK, I NOT ONLY HATE YOU, I HATE THE CHILDREN TOO. NOBODY SAID THIS WAS GOING TO BE EASY, BUT IF WE HIT THREE MORE MONTHS, WE GET THE BRONZE LOVE EAGLE.
Woman: FINE. FINE.
Caption (below panel): A lot of divorce could be prevented by merit badges.
Votey:
A wordless image of the "Bronze Love Eagle" — a heart-shaped, eagle-like figure cast in bronze/gold, shown striding forward on two legs with wings and clawed feet, its body and a wing rendered as heart shapes.
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic. A gray-haired woman in a teal shirt sits facing a red-haired, red-bearded man, the two locked in a tense conversation seen from the side. The woman says, 'But I hate you.' The man replies, 'Look, I not only hate you, I hate the children too. Nobody said this was going to be easy, but if we hit three more months, we get the Bronze Love Eagle.' The woman relents: 'Fine. FINE.' A caption below reads: 'A lot of divorce could be prevented by merit badges.' The joke: marriage is reframed as a scouting-style endurance challenge with rewards. The votey (bonus image) shows the Bronze Love Eagle itself — a wordless bronze figurine of a heart-shaped, eagle-like creature striding forward on two clawed legs, with wings and a heart for a body.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.