Joke
Original: Joke on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Robot (a yellow boxy robot head on a post): AND THEN THE MAN SAID "NOTHING I DIDN'T TELL YOU THE FIRST TIME!"
Robot: THAT JOKE IS NOT FUNNY!
Panel 2:
Robot: BECAUSE IT IS OFFENSIVE?
Panel 3:
Robot: NO, BECAUSE FUNNY IS AN EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION IN HUMANS AND THERE ARE NO HUMANS ANYMORE.
Panel 4 (black panel, two robot silhouettes):
Robot: HA HA HA HA HA
Robot: HA HA HA HA HA
Votey:
"HA HA HA HA HA"
TRANSLATION: THEIR DEMISE WAS MERCIFUL FOR ALL INVOLVED.
Robot (a yellow boxy robot head on a post): AND THEN THE MAN SAID "NOTHING I DIDN'T TELL YOU THE FIRST TIME!"
Robot: THAT JOKE IS NOT FUNNY!
Panel 2:
Robot: BECAUSE IT IS OFFENSIVE?
Panel 3:
Robot: NO, BECAUSE FUNNY IS AN EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION IN HUMANS AND THERE ARE NO HUMANS ANYMORE.
Panel 4 (black panel, two robot silhouettes):
Robot: HA HA HA HA HA
Robot: HA HA HA HA HA
Votey:
"HA HA HA HA HA"
TRANSLATION: THEIR DEMISE WAS MERCIFUL FOR ALL INVOLVED.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic featuring boxy yellow robots mounted on posts (with a small one-eyed robot watching in the first panels). Panel 1: One robot says, "AND THEN THE MAN SAID 'NOTHING I DIDN'T TELL YOU THE FIRST TIME!'" then adds, "THAT JOKE IS NOT FUNNY!" Panel 2: A reply: "BECAUSE IT IS OFFENSIVE?" Panel 3: "NO, BECAUSE FUNNY IS AN EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION IN HUMANS AND THERE ARE NO HUMANS ANYMORE." Panel 4: A pitch-black panel showing two robot silhouettes saying "HA HA HA HA HA" / "HA HA HA HA HA" in a flat, mechanical way. Votey: text reads "HA HA HA HA HA" with the note "TRANSLATION: THEIR DEMISE WAS MERCIFUL FOR ALL INVOLVED." The joke is that the robots, having outlived humanity, mechanically recite laughter that is really an ominous statement about how humans were wiped out.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.