2010-08-02
Original: 2010-08-02 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A bald scientist in a lab coat stands beside a blueprint/diagram on an easel.
Scientist: "THANKS TO MY INVENTION, NO LONGER WILL WE SCIENTISTS BE LIMITED BY OUR IMAGINATIONS."
Panel 2: A close-up of a green device being held up.
Scientist (off-panel): "THIS IS THE LOGOGEN-EPLEX!"
Panel 3: The scientist grins and gestures.
Scientist: "IT INSERTS SUPERFLUOUS SYLLABLES DIRECTLY INTO OTHERWISE CLEAR WORDING!"
Panel 4: A white speech bubble with handwritten-style text spoken by the scientist.
Scientist: "We used a ruler."
Panel 5: The scientist holds the green device (now a megaphone) up to his mouth.
Device sound effect: "BRMP!"
Panel 6: A speech bubble with the transformed, inflated wording.
Voice: "We utilized a linear distance analyzer."
Panel 7: An audience of several people. One man in the back raises his hand.
Audience member: "BUT, HOW WILL THIS SQUARE WITH OUR ATTEMPTS TO MAKE SCIENCE MORE ACCESSIBLE?"
Panel 8: The scientist, seen from behind/side, looks down, dismayed.
Scientist: "OH... IT WON'T SQUARE..."
Panel 9: Close-up of the scientist's face, now nervous/wide-eyed.
Scientist: "IT'LL HYPOCUBE."
Panel 10: The audience members stare in dawning horror, faces tense, one covering their mouth.
Votey:
Handwritten title text: "BEHOLD THE HYPOCUBE!"
Below it, a crudely hand-drawn square (a plain box outline) with a single dot inside.
Scientist: "THANKS TO MY INVENTION, NO LONGER WILL WE SCIENTISTS BE LIMITED BY OUR IMAGINATIONS."
Panel 2: A close-up of a green device being held up.
Scientist (off-panel): "THIS IS THE LOGOGEN-EPLEX!"
Panel 3: The scientist grins and gestures.
Scientist: "IT INSERTS SUPERFLUOUS SYLLABLES DIRECTLY INTO OTHERWISE CLEAR WORDING!"
Panel 4: A white speech bubble with handwritten-style text spoken by the scientist.
Scientist: "We used a ruler."
Panel 5: The scientist holds the green device (now a megaphone) up to his mouth.
Device sound effect: "BRMP!"
Panel 6: A speech bubble with the transformed, inflated wording.
Voice: "We utilized a linear distance analyzer."
Panel 7: An audience of several people. One man in the back raises his hand.
Audience member: "BUT, HOW WILL THIS SQUARE WITH OUR ATTEMPTS TO MAKE SCIENCE MORE ACCESSIBLE?"
Panel 8: The scientist, seen from behind/side, looks down, dismayed.
Scientist: "OH... IT WON'T SQUARE..."
Panel 9: Close-up of the scientist's face, now nervous/wide-eyed.
Scientist: "IT'LL HYPOCUBE."
Panel 10: The audience members stare in dawning horror, faces tense, one covering their mouth.
Votey:
Handwritten title text: "BEHOLD THE HYPOCUBE!"
Below it, a crudely hand-drawn square (a plain box outline) with a single dot inside.
Alt text
A vertical SMBC comic. Panel 1: A bald scientist in a lab coat stands by a blueprint and announces, "Thanks to my invention, no longer will we scientists be limited by our imaginations." Panel 2: He holds up a green gun-shaped device: "This is the Logogen-eplex!" Panel 3: Grinning, he explains, "It inserts superfluous syllables directly into otherwise clear wording!" Panel 4: A plain speech bubble reads, "We used a ruler." Panel 5: He fires the green device, now used like a megaphone, with the sound "BRMP!" Panel 6: The same statement, now inflated, reads, "We utilized a linear distance analyzer." Panel 7: An audience of several people listens; one raises his hand and asks, "But, how will this square with our attempts to make science more accessible?" Panel 8: The scientist looks down, dismayed: "Oh... it won't square..." Panel 9: Close-up of his nervous, wide-eyed face: "It'll hypocube." Panel 10: The audience stares in horror at the implied invented, needlessly-complicated word. Votey (aftercomic): Handwritten text reads "Behold the hypocube!" above a crudely drawn plain square box with a single dot inside it, the underwhelming reveal of the supposedly fancy "hypocube."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.