flowers-2
Original: flowers-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: Two cavemen stand in a cave over the body of another caveman lying dead on the ground. The first caveman (bearded, holding a club): "OH NO, ACCIDENTALLY MURDERED PAG." The second caveman: "QUICK, COVER UP SMELL SO NO ONE NOTICE."
Panel 2 (captioned "LATER..."): A modern lecture/interview setting. A woman in a dark suit speaks: "AND WE FIND THAT EVEN THE EARLIEST BURIAL CEREMONIES USED FLOWERS." Two listeners react, one saying: "AWWW."
Votey:
The woman continues her lecture: "THERE ARE ALSO OCHRE PHALLUSES DRAWN ON HIS FACE, WHICH APPEAR TO BE SOME KIND OF VIRILITY RITE." Beside the speech bubble is a close-up drawing of the dead caveman's serene face covered in crude doodles.
Panel 2 (captioned "LATER..."): A modern lecture/interview setting. A woman in a dark suit speaks: "AND WE FIND THAT EVEN THE EARLIEST BURIAL CEREMONIES USED FLOWERS." Two listeners react, one saying: "AWWW."
Votey:
The woman continues her lecture: "THERE ARE ALSO OCHRE PHALLUSES DRAWN ON HIS FACE, WHICH APPEAR TO BE SOME KIND OF VIRILITY RITE." Beside the speech bubble is a close-up drawing of the dead caveman's serene face covered in crude doodles.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: Inside a prehistoric cave, two cavemen stand over a third caveman lying dead on the ground. One says, "Oh no, accidentally murdered Pag." The other replies, "Quick, cover up smell so no one notice." Panel 2, captioned "Later...": In a modern academic interview, a woman in a suit explains, "And we find that even the earliest burial ceremonies used flowers," while listeners coo "Awww" approvingly. The joke is that what scholars interpret as a touching ancient ritual was really just cavemen sloppily hiding a murder. Votey (aftercomic): The lecturer adds, "There are also ochre phalluses drawn on his face, which appear to be some kind of virility rite," shown beside a close-up of the dead caveman's peaceful face crudely scribbled with phallus doodles, implying the cavemen also defaced the corpse as a prank rather than a sacred rite.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.