Ur
Original: Ur on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with flame-like red hair and beard (excited): WIFE! IMPORTANT NEWS!
Woman with reddish hair wearing glasses: WHAT?
Panel 2:
Man: 'UR' CAN BE USED TO REFER TO THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF SOMETHING, BECAUSE 'UR' WAS SUPPOSEDLY THE NAME OF THE FIRST CITY!
Panel 3:
Woman: OKAY?
Man: BUT UR WAS NOT THE FIRST CITY. THERE WAS AN EARLIER CITY CALLED URUK.
Panel 4:
Man: SO URUK WAS THE UR-UR!
Panel 5:
Man: WHICH MEANS PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW URUK WAS THE UR-UR ARE MAKING AN UR-UR-ERROR!
Panel 6:
Woman: STOP
Man: SPECIFICALLY THE URUK-OR-UR UR-UR-ERROR, WHICH IS OF COURSE THE CORE URUK-OR-UR UR-UR-ERROR.
Panel 7:
Man: NOW IF--OH WOW SHE'S GONE AGAIN.
Panel 8:
(Man, no dialogue, holding up one finger.)
Panel 9:
(Man, no dialogue.)
Panel 10:
Woman: GUESS WE'RE PAST THE UR-CORE-URUK-OR-UR UR-UR-ERROR HUMOR ERA.
(In the foreground, a person is shown writing/drawing at a desk.)
Votey:
A large face (the woman) with a speech bubble: UR MAD.?
Man with flame-like red hair and beard (excited): WIFE! IMPORTANT NEWS!
Woman with reddish hair wearing glasses: WHAT?
Panel 2:
Man: 'UR' CAN BE USED TO REFER TO THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF SOMETHING, BECAUSE 'UR' WAS SUPPOSEDLY THE NAME OF THE FIRST CITY!
Panel 3:
Woman: OKAY?
Man: BUT UR WAS NOT THE FIRST CITY. THERE WAS AN EARLIER CITY CALLED URUK.
Panel 4:
Man: SO URUK WAS THE UR-UR!
Panel 5:
Man: WHICH MEANS PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW URUK WAS THE UR-UR ARE MAKING AN UR-UR-ERROR!
Panel 6:
Woman: STOP
Man: SPECIFICALLY THE URUK-OR-UR UR-UR-ERROR, WHICH IS OF COURSE THE CORE URUK-OR-UR UR-UR-ERROR.
Panel 7:
Man: NOW IF--OH WOW SHE'S GONE AGAIN.
Panel 8:
(Man, no dialogue, holding up one finger.)
Panel 9:
(Man, no dialogue.)
Panel 10:
Woman: GUESS WE'RE PAST THE UR-CORE-URUK-OR-UR UR-UR-ERROR HUMOR ERA.
(In the foreground, a person is shown writing/drawing at a desk.)
Votey:
A large face (the woman) with a speech bubble: UR MAD.?
Alt text
A ten-panel SMBC comic. A man with flame-like red hair and beard excitedly tells his bespectacled wife he has important news: the prefix 'ur' refers to the original version of something, supposedly named after Ur, the first city. He then explains there was actually an earlier city called Uruk, so Uruk was the 'ur-ur,' meaning anyone who doesn't know this is making an 'ur-ur-error.' He keeps escalating the wordplay into absurd tongue-twisting nonsense ('the Uruk-or-ur ur-ur-error, which is of course the core Uruk-or-ur ur-ur-error') until he says 'Now if--oh wow she's gone again,' realizing his wife has left. He stands silently for two panels holding up a finger. In the final panel the wife, now reappeared, deadpans 'Guess we're past the ur-core-Uruk-or-ur ur-ur-error humor era,' while a figure is shown drawing at a desk in the foreground. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the wife's face with a speech bubble reading 'UR MAD.?', punning on the 'ur' joke ('you are / ur').
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.