ancient-times
Original: ancient-times on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
An older man sits in an armchair, gesturing as he tells a story to two children sitting on the floor in front of him.
Man: "When I was a boy, we didn't have social media. If you wanted to see a dog bite a man on the ass, you had to hope someone, somewhere, had a large camera within reach. The dog-and-man's only hope would be exposed to a long roll of tape that roll of tape was then stored in a container that would be sent to a television studio. The studio's engineers would watch hours and hours of tape, discerning which such video was best. These would be played once a day in a great broadcast throughout the nation."
Caption (below panel): "The older I get, the stranger the past seems."
Votey:
Close-up on the same older man's face, looking distraught/teary-eyed.
Man: "Those were hard times, kids. Hard, hard times."
An older man sits in an armchair, gesturing as he tells a story to two children sitting on the floor in front of him.
Man: "When I was a boy, we didn't have social media. If you wanted to see a dog bite a man on the ass, you had to hope someone, somewhere, had a large camera within reach. The dog-and-man's only hope would be exposed to a long roll of tape that roll of tape was then stored in a container that would be sent to a television studio. The studio's engineers would watch hours and hours of tape, discerning which such video was best. These would be played once a day in a great broadcast throughout the nation."
Caption (below panel): "The older I get, the stranger the past seems."
Votey:
Close-up on the same older man's face, looking distraught/teary-eyed.
Man: "Those were hard times, kids. Hard, hard times."
Alt text
A single-panel comic showing an older man seated in an armchair, leaning forward and gesturing as he tells a long-winded story to two small children sitting on the floor before him. His speech bubble reads: "When I was a boy, we didn't have social media. If you wanted to see a dog bite a man on the ass, you had to hope someone, somewhere, had a large camera within reach. The dog-and-man's only hope would be exposed to a long roll of tape that roll of tape was then stored in a container that would be sent to a television studio. The studio's engineers would watch hours and hours of tape, discerning which such video was best. These would be played once a day in a great broadcast throughout the nation." A caption below reads: "The older I get, the stranger the past seems." The joke is that he is reverently describing the convoluted old-media path that produced shows like America's Funniest Home Videos. The votey is a close-up of the man's face looking teary and distraught, saying: "Those were hard times, kids. Hard, hard times."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.