Dollars
Original: Dollars on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Waiter (standing, holding a bottle of wine, addressing a seated customer): "I can highly recommend this wine, sir. Which is 43 dollars good."
Customer (seated at table): "How about this one?"
Waiter: "Ah, yes. That one is 24 dollars good, which is a very reasonable amount of dollars good."
Customer: "Does it pair with the steak?"
Waiter: "The steak is 33 dollars good, which combined with the wine will make a sumptuous 57 dollars good."
Caption (below panel): You could always tell when the waiter had an economics degree.
Votey:
Waiter (in a speech bubble, leaning toward the seated customer): "May I suggest that my service was 20% of that many dollars good?"
Waiter (standing, holding a bottle of wine, addressing a seated customer): "I can highly recommend this wine, sir. Which is 43 dollars good."
Customer (seated at table): "How about this one?"
Waiter: "Ah, yes. That one is 24 dollars good, which is a very reasonable amount of dollars good."
Customer: "Does it pair with the steak?"
Waiter: "The steak is 33 dollars good, which combined with the wine will make a sumptuous 57 dollars good."
Caption (below panel): You could always tell when the waiter had an economics degree.
Votey:
Waiter (in a speech bubble, leaning toward the seated customer): "May I suggest that my service was 20% of that many dollars good?"
Alt text
An SMBC comic. In a single restaurant panel, a waiter holds a wine bottle and speaks to a seated diner, rating everything in units of "dollars good": he recommends a wine that is "43 dollars good," calls another "24 dollars good, a very reasonable amount of dollars good," and says the steak is "33 dollars good," which combined with the wine makes "a sumptuous 57 dollars good." A caption reads: "You could always tell when the waiter had an economics degree." Votey: the waiter leans in and adds, "May I suggest that my service was 20% of that many dollars good?" angling for a tip, while the diner sits silent with a flat expression.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.