clean-2
Original: clean-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (offscreen/asking): What are you doing?
Woman (with dark hair): Achieving perpetual cleanliness.
Panel 2:
Woman: If I attach an elastic band to everything in my life, it will automatically return to its proper place once I'm finished with it.
(A bespectacled man with a mustache stands in the background.)
Panel 3:
Mustached man: You could just, like, neaten up once in a while.
Panel 4:
Woman: Come closer, father.
Panel 5:
Mustached man: What the-
Panel 6:
(No dialogue. The mustached father is yanked violently across the room by an elastic band attached to him, flying through the air toward the woman, who stands scowling in a doorway.)
Votey:
(No dialogue. A red splat fills the panel beside the woman's face.)
Sound effect: SPLAT!
Man (offscreen/asking): What are you doing?
Woman (with dark hair): Achieving perpetual cleanliness.
Panel 2:
Woman: If I attach an elastic band to everything in my life, it will automatically return to its proper place once I'm finished with it.
(A bespectacled man with a mustache stands in the background.)
Panel 3:
Mustached man: You could just, like, neaten up once in a while.
Panel 4:
Woman: Come closer, father.
Panel 5:
Mustached man: What the-
Panel 6:
(No dialogue. The mustached father is yanked violently across the room by an elastic band attached to him, flying through the air toward the woman, who stands scowling in a doorway.)
Votey:
(No dialogue. A red splat fills the panel beside the woman's face.)
Sound effect: SPLAT!
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A dark-haired woman explains to her bespectacled, mustached father that she is 'achieving perpetual cleanliness' by attaching an elastic band to everything in her life so each thing automatically snaps back to its proper place when she's done. He suggests she could just neaten up once in a while. She says, 'Come closer, father.' He says 'What the-' and is then violently yanked across the room by an elastic band, flying through the air toward her as she stands scowling in a doorway. Votey: a close-up of the woman's face with a large red splat beside it and the sound effect 'SPLAT!', implying the father slammed into the wall.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.