chicken-noodle-soup
Original: chicken-noodle-soup on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Single panel. A man with gray hair and a mustache, gesturing with one hand, tells a long story:
Man: "We were stationed off the mainland when the terrorists came. I knew how but they were armed to the teeth and we had to protect the diplomats. Only thing they had to get out, but these were so many guns and they pushed us back and back and back until we found a noodle shop with concrete walls and we ABLE THE CAVE. I am the only one left but we held the line for six months after to the only words I knew how to say were 'CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP' and that is why I had them written across my back."
Caption box at bottom: "Improv Game: find a picture of a bad tattoo in Chinese characters and explain why it makes sense."
Votey:
Text (handwritten): "(Later, to his dismay, it turns out the tattoo just means "BRAVERY")"
Man: "We were stationed off the mainland when the terrorists came. I knew how but they were armed to the teeth and we had to protect the diplomats. Only thing they had to get out, but these were so many guns and they pushed us back and back and back until we found a noodle shop with concrete walls and we ABLE THE CAVE. I am the only one left but we held the line for six months after to the only words I knew how to say were 'CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP' and that is why I had them written across my back."
Caption box at bottom: "Improv Game: find a picture of a bad tattoo in Chinese characters and explain why it makes sense."
Votey:
Text (handwritten): "(Later, to his dismay, it turns out the tattoo just means "BRAVERY")"
Alt text
A single-panel comic shows a gray-haired man with a mustache, gesturing as he tells a rambling war story about being stationed off the mainland when terrorists attacked. He describes being pushed back by gunfire until his unit took refuge in a noodle shop with concrete walls, holding the line for six months, and says he is the only one left. He explains that the only words he knew how to say were "chicken noodle soup," which is why he had them tattooed in Chinese characters across his back. A caption at the bottom reveals this is an improv prompt: "Improv Game: find a picture of a bad tattoo in Chinese characters and explain why it makes sense." The votey (bonus panel) is handwritten text reading: "(Later, to his dismay, it turns out the tattoo just means 'BRAVERY')" — the punchline being his elaborate sentimental story was built around a tattoo that doesn't say what he thinks.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.