2009-10-13
Original: 2009-10-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (a single panel showing three scientists in lab coats seated around a table covered with papers):
Woman with red hair and glasses: "We need to make terminology more accessible."
Man with glasses (center): "What for?"
Woman with red hair: "Well, for example, you never see a kid reading an ecology text with a smile on her face."
Man with gray hair (right): "Yeah, that's a fair point."
Caption beneath the panel: "Laugh if you must, but biology is a lot more fun since we changed 'mate' to 'bonerize.'"
Votey:
A person sits in front of a computer monitor that displays an image of two fish.
Person: "And yet, somehow, David Attenborough is less hypnotic now."
Woman with red hair and glasses: "We need to make terminology more accessible."
Man with glasses (center): "What for?"
Woman with red hair: "Well, for example, you never see a kid reading an ecology text with a smile on her face."
Man with gray hair (right): "Yeah, that's a fair point."
Caption beneath the panel: "Laugh if you must, but biology is a lot more fun since we changed 'mate' to 'bonerize.'"
Votey:
A person sits in front of a computer monitor that displays an image of two fish.
Person: "And yet, somehow, David Attenborough is less hypnotic now."
Alt text
Main comic: A single panel shows three scientists in lab coats sitting around a table strewn with papers. A red-haired woman in glasses says, 'We need to make terminology more accessible.' A man in glasses in the center asks, 'What for?' She replies, 'Well, for example, you never see a kid reading an ecology text with a smile on her face.' A gray-haired man on the right says, 'Yeah, that's a fair point.' A caption below reads: 'Laugh if you must, but biology is a lot more fun since we changed "mate" to "bonerize."' Votey: A person sits at a computer whose screen shows two fish, saying, 'And yet, somehow, David Attenborough is less hypnotic now.' The joke is that renaming the scientific term 'mate' to the silly word 'bonerize' makes biology more engaging but ruins the dignity of nature documentary narration.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.