2009-07-08
Original: 2009-07-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A female teacher stands at a green chalkboard, gesturing to a drawing of a DNA double helix labeled "DNA!". Two children sit facing her.
Teacher: "AND THE GENES ARE PASSED FROM THE PARENTS TO THE KIDS! THAT'S WHY CHINESE PEOPLE HAVE CHINESE BABIES, AND INDIAN PEOPLE HAVE INDIAN BABIES."
Panel 2: Close-up of a red-haired girl looking distressed and teary, sweating nervously.
Panel 3: Close-up of the teacher looking concerned.
Teacher: "WHAT'S THE MATTER, SUSIE?"
Panel 4: The classroom, with the red-haired girl (Susie) seated among other children, all looking at her.
Susie: "MY MOM JUST HAD TWO BOYS AT THE SAME TIME."
Votey: A black-and-white sketch. A bespectacled woman and a man lie in bed.
Woman: "WHY ARE YOU GOOGLING 'LITTLE GIRLS'?"
Man: "REFERENCE! REFERENCE!"
Teacher: "AND THE GENES ARE PASSED FROM THE PARENTS TO THE KIDS! THAT'S WHY CHINESE PEOPLE HAVE CHINESE BABIES, AND INDIAN PEOPLE HAVE INDIAN BABIES."
Panel 2: Close-up of a red-haired girl looking distressed and teary, sweating nervously.
Panel 3: Close-up of the teacher looking concerned.
Teacher: "WHAT'S THE MATTER, SUSIE?"
Panel 4: The classroom, with the red-haired girl (Susie) seated among other children, all looking at her.
Susie: "MY MOM JUST HAD TWO BOYS AT THE SAME TIME."
Votey: A black-and-white sketch. A bespectacled woman and a man lie in bed.
Woman: "WHY ARE YOU GOOGLING 'LITTLE GIRLS'?"
Man: "REFERENCE! REFERENCE!"
Alt text
A four-panel color SMBC comic. Panel 1: a teacher at a green chalkboard with a drawn DNA helix labeled "DNA!" tells two seated kids that genes pass from parents to kids, "that's why Chinese people have Chinese babies, and Indian people have Indian babies." Panel 2: close-up of a red-haired girl looking upset and teary. Panel 3: the teacher asks with concern, "What's the matter, Susie?" Panel 4: in the classroom full of kids, Susie answers, "My mom just had two boys at the same time" — having taken the lesson to mean parents only produce children resembling themselves, so two boys at once contradicts it. Votey (black-and-white sketch): a man and a bespectacled woman lie in bed; she asks, "Why are you Googling 'little girls'?" and he replies defensively, "Reference! Reference!" — a darkly comic jab at the cartoonist drawing children.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.