2010-09-11
Original: 2010-09-11 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with dark hair sits at a computer, smiling. A man with red/flame-like hair stands beside him holding a red cup.
Dark-haired man: I MADE AN ALGORITHM THAT CONVERTS IMAGES TO ONLY TWO COLORS.
Panel 2:
Close-up of the red-haired man, looking intense.
Red-haired man: GIVE IT TO ME.
Panel 3:
The dark-haired man (now looking uneasy) and the red-haired man.
Dark-haired man: WHY?
Red-haired man: MY PARENTS ARE COLORBLIND.
Dark-haired man: I UNDERSTAND.
Panel 4 (banner reads "SOON..."):
A domestic scene. The red-haired man stands in the background. In the foreground, an older man with a mustache leans over a worried-looking woman with brown hair seated at a computer.
Woman: I FOUND A FOLDER MARKED "XXX" BUT IT'S JUST THOUSANDS OF VIDEOS OF A GREEN SCREEN.
Older man: YOU MEAN A RED SCREEN.
Woman: NO, I MEAN OH MY GOD.
Votey:
Handwritten text on an orange background: "COLORBLIND PEOPLE" with "rule" written below, where the letters of "rule" are drawn in different colors (a green '5'-like r, a 'u', and an 'l'/'e' partly outlined in green), evoking the kind of red-green confusion a colorblind person experiences.
A man with dark hair sits at a computer, smiling. A man with red/flame-like hair stands beside him holding a red cup.
Dark-haired man: I MADE AN ALGORITHM THAT CONVERTS IMAGES TO ONLY TWO COLORS.
Panel 2:
Close-up of the red-haired man, looking intense.
Red-haired man: GIVE IT TO ME.
Panel 3:
The dark-haired man (now looking uneasy) and the red-haired man.
Dark-haired man: WHY?
Red-haired man: MY PARENTS ARE COLORBLIND.
Dark-haired man: I UNDERSTAND.
Panel 4 (banner reads "SOON..."):
A domestic scene. The red-haired man stands in the background. In the foreground, an older man with a mustache leans over a worried-looking woman with brown hair seated at a computer.
Woman: I FOUND A FOLDER MARKED "XXX" BUT IT'S JUST THOUSANDS OF VIDEOS OF A GREEN SCREEN.
Older man: YOU MEAN A RED SCREEN.
Woman: NO, I MEAN OH MY GOD.
Votey:
Handwritten text on an orange background: "COLORBLIND PEOPLE" with "rule" written below, where the letters of "rule" are drawn in different colors (a green '5'-like r, a 'u', and an 'l'/'e' partly outlined in green), evoking the kind of red-green confusion a colorblind person experiences.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a dark-haired man at a computer smiles and tells a red-haired man holding a cup, "I made an algorithm that converts images to only two colors." Panel 2: close-up of the red-haired man looking intense, demanding, "Give it to me." Panel 3: the dark-haired man asks "Why?"; the red-haired man replies "My parents are colorblind"; the dark-haired man says "I understand." Panel 4, under a banner reading "SOON...": in a home, the red-haired man stands in back while a worried brown-haired woman at a computer tells an older mustached man, "I found a folder marked 'XXX' but it's just thousands of videos of a green screen." He says, "You mean a red screen." She answers, "No, I mean OH MY GOD" — the joke being that to colorblind parents, the son's porn collection looked like blank screens. Votey: handwritten on an orange background, "COLORBLIND PEOPLE" above the word "rule" drawn in mismatched red and green letters that are hard to read, mimicking colorblind confusion.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.