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Original: pro on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (sitting): Ugh, I don't see how you can enjoy pro wrestling.
Man: It's too realistic.
Panel 2:
Man: People run around a tiny stage for a brief period enacting a fate that was allotted to them beforehand.
Panel 3:
Woman: Wow. You've completely ruined it.
Man: I mean have you not been listening to Hulk Hogan this whole time?
(In the background, on a TV screen, a silhouetted wrestler stands by the ropes saying:) You better believe all things are impermanent, brother!
Votey:
Caption (in a thought/speech bubble above a man's head): Hulkamania is just another form of ennui.
(Below, a man's face looks downcast/contemplative.)
Woman (sitting): Ugh, I don't see how you can enjoy pro wrestling.
Man: It's too realistic.
Panel 2:
Man: People run around a tiny stage for a brief period enacting a fate that was allotted to them beforehand.
Panel 3:
Woman: Wow. You've completely ruined it.
Man: I mean have you not been listening to Hulk Hogan this whole time?
(In the background, on a TV screen, a silhouetted wrestler stands by the ropes saying:) You better believe all things are impermanent, brother!
Votey:
Caption (in a thought/speech bubble above a man's head): Hulkamania is just another form of ennui.
(Below, a man's face looks downcast/contemplative.)
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: A man in a red shirt and a woman sitting in front of a TV. She says, "Ugh, I don't see how you can enjoy pro wrestling." He replies, "It's too realistic." Panel 2: Close-up of the man explaining, "People run around a tiny stage for a brief period enacting a fate that was allotted to them beforehand." Panel 3: The TV glows showing a silhouetted wrestler at the ropes who declares, "You better believe all things are impermanent, brother!" The woman says, "Wow. You've completely ruined it," and the man answers, "I mean have you not been listening to Hulk Hogan this whole time?" The joke reframes pro wrestling as a meditation on fate and impermanence. Votey: A man's downcast face with a thought bubble reading, "Hulkamania is just another form of ennui."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.