2008-12-27
Original: 2008-12-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner (yellow): LIFE TIP: NOTHING IS DIFFERENT ANYWHERE
Panel: A lecture hall or seminar room. A woman with glasses and pulled-back hair stands at a lectern facing a small audience of older, academic-looking people seated in rows.
Woman at lectern (to the audience): "Have you considered that maybe you only believe S = ∫<BF | +Φ BB − ¾ Φ² <BB>> because you're PMSing?"
(The equation is a string of physics-style integral and field-theory notation rendered as a comic gag.)
Votey:
Panel: A bald man with glasses and a goatee gestures with his hand toward a person seen in silhouette/profile at the right edge.
Man: "Okay, yes, your unified field theory is correct, but could you explain it in a more sexy way?"
Panel: A lecture hall or seminar room. A woman with glasses and pulled-back hair stands at a lectern facing a small audience of older, academic-looking people seated in rows.
Woman at lectern (to the audience): "Have you considered that maybe you only believe S = ∫<BF | +Φ BB − ¾ Φ² <BB>> because you're PMSing?"
(The equation is a string of physics-style integral and field-theory notation rendered as a comic gag.)
Votey:
Panel: A bald man with glasses and a goatee gestures with his hand toward a person seen in silhouette/profile at the right edge.
Man: "Okay, yes, your unified field theory is correct, but could you explain it in a more sexy way?"
Alt text
A two-part SMBC comic. The main panel has a yellow title banner reading 'LIFE TIP: NOTHING IS DIFFERENT ANYWHERE.' Below, a woman with glasses stands at a lectern addressing a small audience of older academics seated in rows in a lecture hall. She asks, 'Have you considered that maybe you only believe' followed by a string of intimidating physics field-theory equations 'because you're PMSing?' — absurdly applying a dismissive, sexist put-down to a rigorous mathematical argument. The votey (aftercomic) shows a bald, goateed man with glasses gesturing toward a silhouetted figure and saying, 'Okay, yes, your unified field theory is correct, but could you explain it in a more sexy way?' — doubling down on the joke that serious science is being met with shallow, dismissive demands.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.