dongworld
Original: dongworld on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with flame-like orange hair: The weirdest thing about Freudianism is that it made itself true for a while.
Woman (dark-haired): What?
Panel 2:
Man: Freud had all these freaky human sex theories that just weren't true. But they were intellectually popular, so novelists and filmmakers started adding Freudian elements to their stories.
Panel 3:
Man: Like if a literary scholar in the year 3000 looks at the past, there'll be this period from about 1890 to 1970 where a bunch of the most popular books have children with weird incest fantasies or adults who think firing a gun is something about penises.
Panel 4:
Woman: Like throughout history if you read a poem that talked about a pen and said it was a sublimated metaphorical dick, you'd almost certainly be wrong EXCEPT if it was the 1930s, during which time the pen is 100% a dick.
Panel 5:
Man: Huh.
Panel 6 (silhouettes against black):
Man: For a brief moment, our world was alive with wieners.
Woman: Oh for the dongs of yore.
Votey:
Caption (speech from off-panel, over a drawing of crossed legs/lower body): Comic book boxes really are vaginas, though.
Man with flame-like orange hair: The weirdest thing about Freudianism is that it made itself true for a while.
Woman (dark-haired): What?
Panel 2:
Man: Freud had all these freaky human sex theories that just weren't true. But they were intellectually popular, so novelists and filmmakers started adding Freudian elements to their stories.
Panel 3:
Man: Like if a literary scholar in the year 3000 looks at the past, there'll be this period from about 1890 to 1970 where a bunch of the most popular books have children with weird incest fantasies or adults who think firing a gun is something about penises.
Panel 4:
Woman: Like throughout history if you read a poem that talked about a pen and said it was a sublimated metaphorical dick, you'd almost certainly be wrong EXCEPT if it was the 1930s, during which time the pen is 100% a dick.
Panel 5:
Man: Huh.
Panel 6 (silhouettes against black):
Man: For a brief moment, our world was alive with wieners.
Woman: Oh for the dongs of yore.
Votey:
Caption (speech from off-panel, over a drawing of crossed legs/lower body): Comic book boxes really are vaginas, though.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A man with flame-like orange hair talks with a dark-haired woman in what looks like a museum at night. He explains that the weirdest thing about Freudianism is that it made itself true for a while: Freud's freaky human sex theories weren't true, but they were intellectually popular, so novelists and filmmakers started adding Freudian elements to their stories. He imagines a literary scholar in the year 3000 finding that books from about 1890 to 1970 are full of children with incest fantasies or adults who think firing a gun is about penises. The woman adds that normally reading a pen as a sublimated metaphorical dick would be wrong, except in the 1930s when 'the pen is 100% a dick.' He says 'Huh.' In the final panel the two appear as silhouettes against black; he muses, 'For a brief moment, our world was alive with wieners,' and she replies, 'Oh for the dongs of yore.' The votey (aftercomic) shows a line drawing of a person's lower body with a speech bubble adding deadpan: 'Comic book boxes really are vaginas, though.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.