2011-06-10
Original: 2011-06-10 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with red hair and glasses (to a man, in profile): "Pff! A chemist? Go back to your little beakers and tubes, sweetie. This is a physics conference."
Panel 2 (caption banner): EARLIER...
Red-haired woman (now seen from behind): "What do you study?"
Man with glasses: "One atom. How about you?"
Red-haired woman: "Two."
Votey:
Man with glasses: "Sometimes three."
Red-haired woman (off-panel): "Eww! A biologist?!"
Woman with red hair and glasses (to a man, in profile): "Pff! A chemist? Go back to your little beakers and tubes, sweetie. This is a physics conference."
Panel 2 (caption banner): EARLIER...
Red-haired woman (now seen from behind): "What do you study?"
Man with glasses: "One atom. How about you?"
Red-haired woman: "Two."
Votey:
Man with glasses: "Sometimes three."
Red-haired woman (off-panel): "Eww! A biologist?!"
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Panel 1: a red-haired woman with glasses sneers at a man (shown in profile) at a party, saying "Pff! A chemist? Go back to your little beakers and tubes, sweetie. This is a physics conference." Panel 2, labeled EARLIER, flashes back to their first meeting: she asks "What do you study?" He answers "One atom. How about you?" She replies "Two." The joke is that physicists studying such tiny numbers of atoms look down on chemists. Votey (aftercomic, sketch style): the man adds "Sometimes three," and the woman recoils off-panel with "Eww! A biologist?!" — escalating the snobbery so that studying even three atoms counts as lowly biology.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.