excuse-me
Original: excuse-me on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A red robot (with a single eye/dot) talks to a taller gray robot. The red robot is mid-sentence.
Red robot: AND SO I SAID TO CALCUMATIC-
Panel 2:
A tiny human, naked, with flame-like spiky red hair, stands inside a large dark cage or net, calling out to the robots.
Human: HI! HELLO! HELLO ROBOTS, CAN I HAVE FOOD FOR MY FAMILY? AND CAN WE GO OUTSIDE? THE CAGE IS VERY SMALL.
Panel 3:
The red robot reacts, ignoring the human entirely.
Red robot: YOU DID NOT SAY-
Gray robot (small interjection): EXCUSE ME!
Panel 4:
The gray robot muses while the red robot listens. The little human is being held in the gray robot's hand.
Gray robot: YOU KNOW SOMETIMES I WONDER IF IT'S US IN CHARGE OR THEM!
Panel 5:
Outdoor scene under a large tree. The gray robot walks holding the tiny human and a string/leash trailing several even tinier humans behind it (like walking pets or children). The red robot is beside it.
Red robot: HA!
Votey:
No votey (aftercomic) image was available for this comic. The provided votey path contained only a placeholder stub, not an image.
A red robot (with a single eye/dot) talks to a taller gray robot. The red robot is mid-sentence.
Red robot: AND SO I SAID TO CALCUMATIC-
Panel 2:
A tiny human, naked, with flame-like spiky red hair, stands inside a large dark cage or net, calling out to the robots.
Human: HI! HELLO! HELLO ROBOTS, CAN I HAVE FOOD FOR MY FAMILY? AND CAN WE GO OUTSIDE? THE CAGE IS VERY SMALL.
Panel 3:
The red robot reacts, ignoring the human entirely.
Red robot: YOU DID NOT SAY-
Gray robot (small interjection): EXCUSE ME!
Panel 4:
The gray robot muses while the red robot listens. The little human is being held in the gray robot's hand.
Gray robot: YOU KNOW SOMETIMES I WONDER IF IT'S US IN CHARGE OR THEM!
Panel 5:
Outdoor scene under a large tree. The gray robot walks holding the tiny human and a string/leash trailing several even tinier humans behind it (like walking pets or children). The red robot is beside it.
Red robot: HA!
Votey:
No votey (aftercomic) image was available for this comic. The provided votey path contained only a placeholder stub, not an image.
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. In the first panel, a small red one-eyed robot chats casually to a taller gray robot, saying "AND SO I SAID TO CALCUMATIC-". In the second panel, a tiny naked human with spiky flame-like red hair stands inside a large dark cage, calling out: "HI! HELLO! HELLO ROBOTS, CAN I HAVE FOOD FOR MY FAMILY? AND CAN WE GO OUTSIDE? THE CAGE IS VERY SMALL." In the third panel the red robot keeps talking, ignoring the human ("YOU DID NOT SAY-"), while the gray robot interjects "EXCUSE ME!" In the fourth panel the gray robot, now cradling the tiny human in its hand, muses: "YOU KNOW SOMETIMES I WONDER IF IT'S US IN CHARGE OR THEM!" In the final panel, outdoors under a tree, the gray robot strolls along holding the human and a leash dragging a line of even smaller humans behind it like pets; the red robot laughs, "HA!" The joke: the robots treat humans as small caged pets and casually wonder, ironically, whether the humans might secretly be the ones in charge. No votey image was available for this comic.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.