2010-04-20
Original: 2010-04-20 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (title banner): HOW TO BECOME A GREAT SCIENTIST
A bespectacled man with dark hair, wearing a green polo shirt, sits intently reading a large open book, with a stack of papers and another book in front of him.
Panel 2 (title banner): HOW TO BECOME A WEALTHY SCIENTIST
Two men face each other. On the right, a balding bespectacled man in a dark suit and red tie speaks; on the left we see the back of another man's head.
Balding man: ...SO I CREATED A THEORY THAT THE EARTH CAN BE THOUGHT OF AS A GIANT SUPER-ORGANISM.
Other man: WHAT IMPLICATIONS WOULD THAT HAVE?
Balding man: PROBABLY 3 TO 4 PUBLISHING DEALS.
Votey:
The balding bespectacled man again, in a single panel.
Other man (off-panel): WHAT'S THE ORGANISM CALLED?
Balding man: EARTHA-SAURUS!
A bespectacled man with dark hair, wearing a green polo shirt, sits intently reading a large open book, with a stack of papers and another book in front of him.
Panel 2 (title banner): HOW TO BECOME A WEALTHY SCIENTIST
Two men face each other. On the right, a balding bespectacled man in a dark suit and red tie speaks; on the left we see the back of another man's head.
Balding man: ...SO I CREATED A THEORY THAT THE EARTH CAN BE THOUGHT OF AS A GIANT SUPER-ORGANISM.
Other man: WHAT IMPLICATIONS WOULD THAT HAVE?
Balding man: PROBABLY 3 TO 4 PUBLISHING DEALS.
Votey:
The balding bespectacled man again, in a single panel.
Other man (off-panel): WHAT'S THE ORGANISM CALLED?
Balding man: EARTHA-SAURUS!
Alt text
A two-panel comic contrasting science with money. The first panel has a banner reading "HOW TO BECOME A GREAT SCIENTIST" and shows a bespectacled man in a green shirt absorbed in reading a thick book amid stacks of papers. The second panel's banner reads "HOW TO BECOME A WEALTHY SCIENTIST" and shows a balding man in a suit and red tie talking to another man whose back is to us. The balding man says, "...so I created a theory that the Earth can be thought of as a giant super-organism." The other asks, "What implications would that have?" The balding man replies, "Probably 3 to 4 publishing deals." The joke: a wealthy scientist measures his theory's worth in book deals, not insight. Votey (a small bonus panel): the other man asks off-panel, "What's the organism called?" and the balding scientist grins and answers, "Eartha-saurus!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.