2010-02-04
Original: 2010-02-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with reddish-brown hair, wearing green scrubs, holds out a heart-shaped piece of paper to a man with dark brown hair seen from behind.
Woman: HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! I MADE YOU THIS!
Man: GYAH! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BUY A CARD!?
Woman: DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LITTLE MONEY A MED STUDENT MAKES?
The heart-shaped Valentine (homemade from a torn page of a medical text):
Label: (FIG. 6.3)
A line graph with a rising curve.
Y-axis: INCIDENCE OF RECTAL PROLAPSE IN ELDERLY POPULATION
Overlaid in red/blue handwriting across the y-axis area: MY LOVE... FOR YOU!!!
X-axis: TIME
Partial body text visible at the bottom of the torn page: "...OF THE EXTERNAL ANAL... ...8 MEN AND 41 WOM... ...TAL PROLAPSE, AN... ...IENCE WAS... ...R BIOP... ...STO..."
Votey:
The smiling woman, eyes closed, leaning happily.
Woman: I'M INSIDE OUT IN LOVE WITH YOU!
An off-panel speaker: YOU PEOPLE ARE GROSS.
A woman with reddish-brown hair, wearing green scrubs, holds out a heart-shaped piece of paper to a man with dark brown hair seen from behind.
Woman: HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! I MADE YOU THIS!
Man: GYAH! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BUY A CARD!?
Woman: DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LITTLE MONEY A MED STUDENT MAKES?
The heart-shaped Valentine (homemade from a torn page of a medical text):
Label: (FIG. 6.3)
A line graph with a rising curve.
Y-axis: INCIDENCE OF RECTAL PROLAPSE IN ELDERLY POPULATION
Overlaid in red/blue handwriting across the y-axis area: MY LOVE... FOR YOU!!!
X-axis: TIME
Partial body text visible at the bottom of the torn page: "...OF THE EXTERNAL ANAL... ...8 MEN AND 41 WOM... ...TAL PROLAPSE, AN... ...IENCE WAS... ...R BIOP... ...STO..."
Votey:
The smiling woman, eyes closed, leaning happily.
Woman: I'M INSIDE OUT IN LOVE WITH YOU!
An off-panel speaker: YOU PEOPLE ARE GROSS.
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Main comic: A woman in green medical scrubs holds out a homemade Valentine to a man seen from behind. She says, 'Happy Valentine's Day! I made you this!' He recoils: 'Gyah! Why can't you just buy a card!?' She replies, 'Do you have any idea how little money a med student makes?' The Valentine is a heart shape torn from a medical textbook page. On it is a line graph labeled '(Fig. 6.3),' with a rising curve. The y-axis reads 'Incidence of rectal prolapse in elderly population' and the x-axis reads 'Time.' Scrawled across the graph in red and blue handwriting is 'My love... for you!!!' Fragmentary clinical text about rectal prolapse is visible along the torn bottom edge. Votey (aftercomic): The same woman, smiling with eyes closed, gushes, 'I'm inside out in love with you!' An off-panel voice deadpans, 'You people are gross.' The joke: she romanticizes a gruesome textbook graph as a heartfelt gift, then puns on 'inside out' (rectal prolapse / being head-over-heels), grossing out a bystander.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.