Screenplay
Original: Screenplay on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with flame-like red hair and beard (off-panel, on the left): So you won't buy my screenplay?
Seated man (gray-haired, glasses, holding papers): Obviously not.
Red-haired man: But it's educational! I made the talking cells super cute!
Panel 2 (the screenplay's scene — two cartoon cells/blobs):
Left cell (smiling): We've been through so much. It was so unlikely for us to even be here. Now we have a chance. So ask yourself, are you a CANCER or a CAN'TCER?
Votey:
A cartoon blob/cell with a big smile speaks:
Cell: Now that we've learned the true meaning of friendship, let's make MORE friends!
Man with flame-like red hair and beard (off-panel, on the left): So you won't buy my screenplay?
Seated man (gray-haired, glasses, holding papers): Obviously not.
Red-haired man: But it's educational! I made the talking cells super cute!
Panel 2 (the screenplay's scene — two cartoon cells/blobs):
Left cell (smiling): We've been through so much. It was so unlikely for us to even be here. Now we have a chance. So ask yourself, are you a CANCER or a CAN'TCER?
Votey:
A cartoon blob/cell with a big smile speaks:
Cell: Now that we've learned the true meaning of friendship, let's make MORE friends!
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic about a bad screenplay pitch. Panel 1: A man with flame-like red hair and beard (mostly off-panel) pitches to a seated gray-haired man in glasses who is reviewing papers. Red-hair: "So you won't buy my screenplay?" Seated man: "Obviously not." Red-hair: "But it's educational! I made the talking cells super cute!" Panel 2 shows a scene from the screenplay: two cute cartoon cells (white blobs with faces). The smiling left cell delivers an inspirational pep talk: "We've been through so much. It was so unlikely for us to even be here. Now we have a chance. So ask yourself, are you a CANCER or a CAN'TCER?" — revealing the cute cells are cancer cells. Votey: A single big-smiling cartoon blob cell announces, "Now that we've learned the true meaning of friendship, let's make MORE friends!" — i.e. the cancer is about to spread/metastasize.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.