2011-07-02
Original: 2011-07-02 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A woman with brown hair reads from an open purple book.
Woman (reading aloud): "Once you truly understand mathematics, you will see beauty everywhere."
Panel 2: Caption bar reads "LATER..." A shirtless man with orange/red hair and round glasses sits in a chair, looking back over his shoulder toward the woman (seen from behind/profile in the foreground).
Man: I noticed you've been staring at me all day. You like what you see, baby?
Panel 3: The woman, blushing with closed eyes, gazes at the shirtless man. Red dashed lines (representing her line of sight / a mathematical curve) trace from her eyes across the man's rounded belly. A formula is written in red along the bottom: x = r cos^-1(1 - y/r) - sqrt(2ry - y^2).
Woman: Sooo... beautiful...
Votey:
Top caption: SEXIEST ABS?
A close-up line drawing of a large rounded belly forming a smooth curved arc.
Bottom caption: CYCLOID ABS.
Woman (reading aloud): "Once you truly understand mathematics, you will see beauty everywhere."
Panel 2: Caption bar reads "LATER..." A shirtless man with orange/red hair and round glasses sits in a chair, looking back over his shoulder toward the woman (seen from behind/profile in the foreground).
Man: I noticed you've been staring at me all day. You like what you see, baby?
Panel 3: The woman, blushing with closed eyes, gazes at the shirtless man. Red dashed lines (representing her line of sight / a mathematical curve) trace from her eyes across the man's rounded belly. A formula is written in red along the bottom: x = r cos^-1(1 - y/r) - sqrt(2ry - y^2).
Woman: Sooo... beautiful...
Votey:
Top caption: SEXIEST ABS?
A close-up line drawing of a large rounded belly forming a smooth curved arc.
Bottom caption: CYCLOID ABS.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a brown-haired woman reads aloud from a book, "Once you truly understand mathematics, you will see beauty everywhere." Panel 2, labeled "LATER," shows a shirtless man with orange hair and round glasses turning to face her, saying, "I noticed you've been staring at me all day. You like what you see, baby?" Panel 3: the woman blushes and murmurs "Sooo... beautiful..." while red dashed lines trace the curve of his rounded belly, labeled with the parametric equation of a cycloid (x = r cos^-1(1 - y/r) - sqrt(2ry - y^2)) -- she is admiring the mathematical curve, not the man. The joke: thanks to mathematics she finds beauty in his belly's shape. Votey aftercomic: a close-up line drawing of a big rounded belly arc, captioned "SEXIEST ABS?" above and "CYCLOID ABS." below.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.