2010-03-30
Original: 2010-03-30 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A doctor in a white lab coat holds a banana that has been drawn on to resemble a pig (with a snout and ears), facing a patient whose face is partially visible at the right edge.
Doctor: "WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO TREAT YOU WITH CHEMOTHERAPY OR INFLATABLE BANANAPIG?"
Caption (below comic): I love treating epistemological anarchists
Votey:
A close-up of the banana-pig's face. It speaks.
Banana-pig: "TAKE THAT DR. PAUL KARL FEYERABEND."
A doctor in a white lab coat holds a banana that has been drawn on to resemble a pig (with a snout and ears), facing a patient whose face is partially visible at the right edge.
Doctor: "WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO TREAT YOU WITH CHEMOTHERAPY OR INFLATABLE BANANAPIG?"
Caption (below comic): I love treating epistemological anarchists
Votey:
A close-up of the banana-pig's face. It speaks.
Banana-pig: "TAKE THAT DR. PAUL KARL FEYERABEND."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Main panel: a smiling doctor in a white lab coat holds up a banana decorated to look like a pig, with a drawn-on snout and pointy ears. He addresses a patient whose face is just visible at the right edge of the frame, asking, "Would you like me to treat you with chemotherapy or inflatable bananapig?" A caption beneath reads: "I love treating epistemological anarchists." The joke is that an epistemological anarchist (a la Feyerabend's "anything goes") would have no principled reason to prefer real medicine over an absurd banana-pig. Votey (bonus panel): a close-up of the banana-pig's face declaring, "Take THAT, Dr. Paul Karl Feyerabend."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.