Happiness
Original: Happiness on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A blonde woman (wearing a smiley-face pin/badge) to a woman with dark hair in a red shirt: "Sorry you're feeling blue. You know, every time I feel sad, I think of one of my blessings, and then I put a tooth in the happiness jar."
Panel 2:
Blonde woman, smiling wide: "Later I count all the teeth and realize how good my life is."
Panel 3:
Dark-haired woman: "Where do the teeth come from?"
Panel 4:
Blonde woman: "That's the wonderful thing. It's not ABOUT the teeth. It's about HAPPINESS."
Panel 5:
The dark-haired woman peers into a jar full of teeth. Caption (her thought/observation): "They look like human teeth. Like adult human teeth."
Panel 6:
The blonde woman, smiling.
Panel 7:
The blonde woman holds out the jar of teeth (the smiley pin visible on her shirt).
Panel 8:
The dark-haired woman looks uneasy/disturbed.
Panel 9:
Close-up of the dark-haired woman's face, looking troubled.
Panel 10:
Wordless. A hand drops a tooth (a small white object) toward an open jar.
Votey:
A simple line-drawing of a smiling, content face. Speech bubble: "And yet, suddenly depression isn't my primary emotion."
A blonde woman (wearing a smiley-face pin/badge) to a woman with dark hair in a red shirt: "Sorry you're feeling blue. You know, every time I feel sad, I think of one of my blessings, and then I put a tooth in the happiness jar."
Panel 2:
Blonde woman, smiling wide: "Later I count all the teeth and realize how good my life is."
Panel 3:
Dark-haired woman: "Where do the teeth come from?"
Panel 4:
Blonde woman: "That's the wonderful thing. It's not ABOUT the teeth. It's about HAPPINESS."
Panel 5:
The dark-haired woman peers into a jar full of teeth. Caption (her thought/observation): "They look like human teeth. Like adult human teeth."
Panel 6:
The blonde woman, smiling.
Panel 7:
The blonde woman holds out the jar of teeth (the smiley pin visible on her shirt).
Panel 8:
The dark-haired woman looks uneasy/disturbed.
Panel 9:
Close-up of the dark-haired woman's face, looking troubled.
Panel 10:
Wordless. A hand drops a tooth (a small white object) toward an open jar.
Votey:
A simple line-drawing of a smiling, content face. Speech bubble: "And yet, suddenly depression isn't my primary emotion."
Alt text
A ten-panel SMBC comic. A cheerful blonde woman wearing a smiley-face pin comforts a glum dark-haired friend, explaining that whenever she feels sad she thinks of a blessing and then puts a tooth into her 'happiness jar,' and later counts the teeth to realize how good her life is. The friend asks, 'Where do the teeth come from?' The blonde replies it's not about the teeth, it's about happiness. The friend peers into a jar crammed with teeth and notes, 'They look like human teeth. Like adult human teeth.' The blonde keeps smiling and offers the jar; the friend grows increasingly disturbed. In the final wordless panel, a hand drops a tooth toward an open jar, implying the teeth come from unwilling people. Votey (bonus panel): a simple smiling face says, 'And yet, suddenly depression isn't my primary emotion.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.