2010-07-13
Original: 2010-07-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Young man with red/orange hair and round glasses: "Mom, Dad... I'm gay."
Panel 2:
Parents seated at a table (a woman with brown hair and an older man with glasses): "How gay are we talkin'?"
Panel 3:
Young man: "6.4 homohms."
Panel 4:
The father holds up a tablet/device showing a bell curve with a point marked "= PRETTY GAY."
Father: "That is within acceptable bounds."
Caption (below comic): There were some advantages to having engineering parents.
Votey:
A hand-drawn bell curve (normal distribution) on a whiteboard-style square. Labels along the curve, from the peak rightward: "Pretty gay" (arrow pointing to the peak), "totally gay" (arrow pointing to the upper-right slope), and "Absolute gay" (arrow pointing to the far right tail near the baseline). A dashed vertical line drops from the peak down to the baseline.
Young man with red/orange hair and round glasses: "Mom, Dad... I'm gay."
Panel 2:
Parents seated at a table (a woman with brown hair and an older man with glasses): "How gay are we talkin'?"
Panel 3:
Young man: "6.4 homohms."
Panel 4:
The father holds up a tablet/device showing a bell curve with a point marked "= PRETTY GAY."
Father: "That is within acceptable bounds."
Caption (below comic): There were some advantages to having engineering parents.
Votey:
A hand-drawn bell curve (normal distribution) on a whiteboard-style square. Labels along the curve, from the peak rightward: "Pretty gay" (arrow pointing to the peak), "totally gay" (arrow pointing to the upper-right slope), and "Absolute gay" (arrow pointing to the far right tail near the baseline). A dashed vertical line drops from the peak down to the baseline.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a young man with orange hair and round glasses says, "Mom, Dad... I'm gay." Panel 2: his two parents sit at a table; one asks, "How gay are we talkin'?" Panel 3: the young man replies, "6.4 homohms" (a pun on 'ohms,' the unit of electrical resistance). Panel 4: the father holds up a tablet displaying a bell curve marked "= PRETTY GAY" and says, "That is within acceptable bounds." Caption: "There were some advantages to having engineering parents." The joke is that his engineer parents react to his coming out by treating it as a measurable quantity on a calibrated scale. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn bell curve labeled like a measurement scale, with "Pretty gay" at the peak, "totally gay" on the upper-right slope, and "Absolute gay" at the far right tail of the distribution.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.