yesss
Original: yesss on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A Victorian gentleman with a mustache, beard, and bowler-style hat, dressed in a gray suit and dark cravat, reads a letter or note he is pulling from an envelope. He looks pleased.
Gentleman: yes yes...
Panel 2 (inset, sepia-toned): A stern Victorian woman in a long dark dress stands with her arms crossed.
Panel 3 (caption: EARLIER...): A young person with curly dark hair, dressed in a high-collared Victorian outfit, holds a written note and touches their chin thoughtfully, smiling slightly.
Panel 4 (close-up of the same note being held up): The note, written in elegant cursive, reads:
Note: Send prudes.
Votey: Close-up of the Victorian gentleman's face in thought.
Gentleman (thought): I HOPE HE DOESN'T SHARE THESE.
Gentleman: yes yes...
Panel 2 (inset, sepia-toned): A stern Victorian woman in a long dark dress stands with her arms crossed.
Panel 3 (caption: EARLIER...): A young person with curly dark hair, dressed in a high-collared Victorian outfit, holds a written note and touches their chin thoughtfully, smiling slightly.
Panel 4 (close-up of the same note being held up): The note, written in elegant cursive, reads:
Note: Send prudes.
Votey: Close-up of the Victorian gentleman's face in thought.
Gentleman (thought): I HOPE HE DOESN'T SHARE THESE.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic set in Victorian times. Panel 1: a mustachioed gentleman in a gray suit and hat eagerly pulls a note from an envelope, murmuring "yes yes...". A sepia inset panel shows a stern woman with arms crossed. Panel 3, captioned "EARLIER...", shows a curly-haired young person holding up a handwritten note while thinking. Panel 4 is a close-up of that note, written in fancy cursive: "Send prudes." The joke is a Victorian-era version of texting "send nudes," inverted to request prudish, modest people instead. Votey: a close-up of the gentleman's face as he thinks, "I HOPE HE DOESN'T SHARE THESE."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.