excuse-me-2
Original: excuse-me-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with brown hair and a mustache (standing beside a woman with red hair, presumably his wife): EXCUSE ME SIR, COULD YOU TAKE A QUICK PAINTING OF MY WIFE AND I?
Panel 2:
Man with blue hair and glasses: YOU MEAN A PHOTO?
Man with brown hair: NO, JUST A QUICK WATERCOLOR.
(The brown-haired man hands the blue-haired man a sheet of paper and brushes.)
Panel 3:
Man with brown hair: PLEASE DON'T PUSH A NORMAL COURTESY BEYOND ITS BOUNDS, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OUR SOCIETY'S EVER GREATER AWKWARDNESS ABOUT FACE-TO-FACE ENCOUNTERS.
Panel 4:
Man with brown hair: TRY TO CAPTURE THE PLAY OF SHADOWS ON MY WIFE'S HAIR.
Man with blue hair and glasses: NO PROBLEM, SIR!
Votey:
(No text. A crude, messy watercolor painting depicting the couple's two faces, framed like a finished portrait.)
Man with brown hair and a mustache (standing beside a woman with red hair, presumably his wife): EXCUSE ME SIR, COULD YOU TAKE A QUICK PAINTING OF MY WIFE AND I?
Panel 2:
Man with blue hair and glasses: YOU MEAN A PHOTO?
Man with brown hair: NO, JUST A QUICK WATERCOLOR.
(The brown-haired man hands the blue-haired man a sheet of paper and brushes.)
Panel 3:
Man with brown hair: PLEASE DON'T PUSH A NORMAL COURTESY BEYOND ITS BOUNDS, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OUR SOCIETY'S EVER GREATER AWKWARDNESS ABOUT FACE-TO-FACE ENCOUNTERS.
Panel 4:
Man with brown hair: TRY TO CAPTURE THE PLAY OF SHADOWS ON MY WIFE'S HAIR.
Man with blue hair and glasses: NO PROBLEM, SIR!
Votey:
(No text. A crude, messy watercolor painting depicting the couple's two faces, framed like a finished portrait.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A man with brown hair and a mustache, standing next to a red-haired woman, asks a blue-haired man wearing glasses, "Excuse me sir, could you take a quick painting of my wife and I?" Panel 2: The blue-haired man replies, "You mean a photo?" The brown-haired man says, "No, just a quick watercolor," while handing him a sheet of paper and paintbrushes. Panel 3: Close-up on the blue-haired man's resigned face as the brown-haired man continues, "Please don't push a normal courtesy beyond its bounds, taking advantage of our society's ever greater awkwardness about face-to-face encounters." Panel 4: The brown-haired man adds, "Try to capture the play of shadows on my wife's hair," and the blue-haired man agrees, "No problem, sir!" The joke flips the modern "could you take a quick photo of us" favor into an absurdly demanding request to produce an original watercolor painting on the spot. The votey (bonus panel) shows the result: a crude, blotchy, amateurish watercolor of the couple's two faces, framed like a portrait.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.