precarious
Original: precarious on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man lies reclined on a therapist's couch.
Reclining man: "I guess I'm just depressed about my precarious position."
Panel 2: A therapist sits in a chair holding a notepad.
Therapist: "What do you mean?"
Panel 3: The reclining man again.
Reclining man: "Think about it. We're cartoon men, our gender can be altered with just six stray lines."
Panel 4: A close-up of the therapist, now drawn with long flame-like (red) hair, looking shocked.
Therapist: "WHAT?!"
Votey:
A speech bubble at the top reads: "It's true."
Below it is a loose line-drawing sketch of a face/head being drawn, illustrating the idea of a character built from a few stray lines.
Reclining man: "I guess I'm just depressed about my precarious position."
Panel 2: A therapist sits in a chair holding a notepad.
Therapist: "What do you mean?"
Panel 3: The reclining man again.
Reclining man: "Think about it. We're cartoon men, our gender can be altered with just six stray lines."
Panel 4: A close-up of the therapist, now drawn with long flame-like (red) hair, looking shocked.
Therapist: "WHAT?!"
Votey:
A speech bubble at the top reads: "It's true."
Below it is a loose line-drawing sketch of a face/head being drawn, illustrating the idea of a character built from a few stray lines.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a man reclines on a therapist's couch saying, "I guess I'm just depressed about my precarious position." Panel 2: a therapist in a suit, holding a notepad, asks, "What do you mean?" Panel 3: the reclining man explains, "Think about it. We're cartoon men, our gender can be altered with just six stray lines." Panel 4: a shocked close-up of the therapist, who has suddenly sprouted long flame-like red hair, exclaiming "WHAT?!" — the few added lines have visibly changed the character's apparent gender, which is the joke. Votey: a small speech bubble reads "It's true," above a loose sketch of a face being drawn from just a handful of stray lines.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.