adult-2
Original: adult-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A figure in a trenchcoat, fedora, and sunglasses (with a tuft of flame-like red hair poking out from under the hat) stands at a movie theater box-office window, arm outstretched.
Trenchcoat figure: HELLO GOOD SIR! WE, I MEAN I, WOULD LIKE ONE TICKET TO "STICKY HEAT," WHICH IS THE KIND OF R-RATED FILM FAVORED BY WE ADULTS.
Box-office clerk (a man with dark curly hair, seen from behind at the ticket counter): ALL RIGHT, MR. ADULTSTEIN. THAT'S JUST FINE.
Clerk (thought bubble): POOR GUY
Caption (below panel): Sufferers from Adolescent Triad Delusion believe themselves to be three children in a trenchcoat.
Votey:
Close-up of the trenchcoat figure's face under the fedora, mouth open mid-speech.
Trenchcoat figure: WE, I MEAN I, SHALL HAVE 3 BAGS OF GUMMI BEARS. HA. THEY REMIND ME OF BEING A CHILD WHICH I AM NOT.
A figure in a trenchcoat, fedora, and sunglasses (with a tuft of flame-like red hair poking out from under the hat) stands at a movie theater box-office window, arm outstretched.
Trenchcoat figure: HELLO GOOD SIR! WE, I MEAN I, WOULD LIKE ONE TICKET TO "STICKY HEAT," WHICH IS THE KIND OF R-RATED FILM FAVORED BY WE ADULTS.
Box-office clerk (a man with dark curly hair, seen from behind at the ticket counter): ALL RIGHT, MR. ADULTSTEIN. THAT'S JUST FINE.
Clerk (thought bubble): POOR GUY
Caption (below panel): Sufferers from Adolescent Triad Delusion believe themselves to be three children in a trenchcoat.
Votey:
Close-up of the trenchcoat figure's face under the fedora, mouth open mid-speech.
Trenchcoat figure: WE, I MEAN I, SHALL HAVE 3 BAGS OF GUMMI BEARS. HA. THEY REMIND ME OF BEING A CHILD WHICH I AM NOT.
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic at a movie theater box office. On the left stands a figure in a long gray trenchcoat, gray fedora, and dark sunglasses, with a tuft of red hair sticking out from under the hat; the coat bulges oddly, hinting at multiple people stacked inside. The figure points toward a ticket window and announces, "HELLO GOOD SIR! WE, I MEAN I, WOULD LIKE ONE TICKET TO 'STICKY HEAT,' WHICH IS THE KIND OF R-RATED FILM FAVORED BY WE ADULTS." The dark-haired clerk, seen from behind at the counter, replies, "ALL RIGHT, MR. ADULTSTEIN. THAT'S JUST FINE," while thinking "POOR GUY." A caption below reads: "Sufferers from Adolescent Triad Delusion believe themselves to be three children in a trenchcoat." The joke inverts the classic trope: rather than kids pretending to be an adult, this is an adult who genuinely believes he is three children in a trenchcoat. The votey (bonus panel) is a black-and-white close-up of the trenchcoated figure's face, mouth open, declaring, "WE, I MEAN I, SHALL HAVE 3 BAGS OF GUMMI BEARS. HA. THEY REMIND ME OF BEING A CHILD WHICH I AM NOT."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.