potion
Original: potion on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with green hair (Charlotte), holding a bottle of glowing liquid over a cauldron in a lab/kitchen: "The potion is complete. Tonight my date will find me to be the most attractive person he's ever met."
Panel 2 (caption banner): LATER...
Charlotte: "Hello there, Paul."
Man (Paul): "Charlotte? WHAT?!"
Panel 3:
Paul: "What is wrong with your camera?! Is it possessed by Satan?"
Panel 4:
Paul (holding up a phone showing Charlotte's photo): "Mother of GOD, look at your profile photos! I thought they looked fine but now it's like you're a ten and the camera divides by two!"
Panel 5:
Charlotte stands at a table looking disappointed/annoyed, the glowing potion bottle in front of her, saying nothing.
Votey:
Charlotte (thought/speech): "There's got to be a better way to get someone to love you by chemical means."
Woman with green hair (Charlotte), holding a bottle of glowing liquid over a cauldron in a lab/kitchen: "The potion is complete. Tonight my date will find me to be the most attractive person he's ever met."
Panel 2 (caption banner): LATER...
Charlotte: "Hello there, Paul."
Man (Paul): "Charlotte? WHAT?!"
Panel 3:
Paul: "What is wrong with your camera?! Is it possessed by Satan?"
Panel 4:
Paul (holding up a phone showing Charlotte's photo): "Mother of GOD, look at your profile photos! I thought they looked fine but now it's like you're a ten and the camera divides by two!"
Panel 5:
Charlotte stands at a table looking disappointed/annoyed, the glowing potion bottle in front of her, saying nothing.
Votey:
Charlotte (thought/speech): "There's got to be a better way to get someone to love you by chemical means."
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a green-haired woman holds a bottle of glowing yellow liquid over a cauldron in a lab and declares, "The potion is complete. Tonight my date will find me to be the most attractive person he's ever met." Panel 2, labeled "LATER...": she greets a man, "Hello there, Paul," and he reacts in shock, "Charlotte? WHAT?!" Panel 3: the man, wide-eyed, says, "What is wrong with your camera?! Is it possessed by Satan?" Panel 4: he holds up a phone showing her photo and exclaims, "Mother of GOD, look at your profile photos! I thought they looked fine but now it's like you're a ten and the camera divides by two!" The joke: instead of making her look more attractive, the potion made her so attractive in person that cameras can't capture it, making her photos look comparatively bad. Panel 5: she stands looking unimpressed beside the potion. Votey panel: a close-up of the woman saying, "There's got to be a better way to get someone to love you by chemical means."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.