2010-01-17
Original: 2010-01-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic:
A hand-drawn line graph.
Y-axis label: "BELIEF IN A HIGHER POWER"
X-axis label: "SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION"
The curve starts low at the origin, rises to a peak early on, then descends steeply as scientific education increases. Near the bottom right it flattens out into a small wavy oscillation along the x-axis.
Text annotations with arrows pointing at the wavy portion of the curve:
"HOW CAN THAT BE?" (with arrows pointing down at the wave crests)
"OH THAT'S HOW" (with an arrow pointing along the curve into the wave troughs)
Votey:
A man with long hair lying down (apparently in bed), grinning.
Man: "TWO GRAPH JOKES IN ONE WEEK. GOD DAMN, I'M SEXY."
A hand-drawn line graph.
Y-axis label: "BELIEF IN A HIGHER POWER"
X-axis label: "SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION"
The curve starts low at the origin, rises to a peak early on, then descends steeply as scientific education increases. Near the bottom right it flattens out into a small wavy oscillation along the x-axis.
Text annotations with arrows pointing at the wavy portion of the curve:
"HOW CAN THAT BE?" (with arrows pointing down at the wave crests)
"OH THAT'S HOW" (with an arrow pointing along the curve into the wave troughs)
Votey:
A man with long hair lying down (apparently in bed), grinning.
Man: "TWO GRAPH JOKES IN ONE WEEK. GOD DAMN, I'M SEXY."
Alt text
A hand-drawn line graph titled with a y-axis of "Belief in a Higher Power" and an x-axis of "Scientific Education." The curve rises to an early peak, then drops sharply as scientific education increases, and at the far right it flattens into a small up-and-down wavy line wobbling along the x-axis. Arrows point at the wave: one labeled "How can that be?" pointing at the small bumps where belief ticks back up, and another labeled "Oh that's how" tracing the curve into the dips. The joke: as people learn more science, belief in a higher power falls, but at the very end it oscillates a little, with people asking "how can that be?" and then understanding why. Votey: a long-haired man lying in bed, grinning smugly, saying, "Two graph jokes in one week. God damn, I'm sexy."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.