2009-04-08
Original: 2009-04-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title (top banner): DO NOT DATE A SCIENTIST
Panel 1 — label banner: NORMAL PERSON
A man with graying hair in a green shirt flees in terror, clutching at his collar. Behind him, a group of bald, spear- and axe-wielding tribesmen chase him across a grassy landscape.
Man in green shirt: AAAAAH!
Panel 2 — label banner: ANTHROPOLOGIST
The same green-shirted man, now shown calmly taking notes on a notepad even as the bald tribesmen attack him from behind with spears and clubs (one spear has struck his shoulder, drawing blood).
Notepad (his handwriting): "The indigenous population of the island has an acute propensity for murder."
Votey:
Close-up of the back of the man's head and his hand still writing in the notepad.
Notepad (his handwriting): "Cannibalism's practiced ritually after combat."
Panel 1 — label banner: NORMAL PERSON
A man with graying hair in a green shirt flees in terror, clutching at his collar. Behind him, a group of bald, spear- and axe-wielding tribesmen chase him across a grassy landscape.
Man in green shirt: AAAAAH!
Panel 2 — label banner: ANTHROPOLOGIST
The same green-shirted man, now shown calmly taking notes on a notepad even as the bald tribesmen attack him from behind with spears and clubs (one spear has struck his shoulder, drawing blood).
Notepad (his handwriting): "The indigenous population of the island has an acute propensity for murder."
Votey:
Close-up of the back of the man's head and his hand still writing in the notepad.
Notepad (his handwriting): "Cannibalism's practiced ritually after combat."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic titled "DO NOT DATE A SCIENTIST." Panel one, labeled "NORMAL PERSON," shows a gray-haired man in a green shirt running away screaming "AAAAAH!" while a group of bald, spear- and axe-wielding tribesmen chase him. Panel two, labeled "ANTHROPOLOGIST," shows the same man being attacked from behind by the tribesmen — a spear in his shoulder drawing blood — yet calmly jotting field notes that read: "The indigenous population of the island has an acute propensity for murder." The joke: where a normal person panics, the scientist coolly documents his own murder. Votey (bonus panel): a close-up of the back of his head as his hand keeps writing, adding the note "Cannibalism's practiced ritually after combat."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.