2011-09-13
Original: 2011-09-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title caption (orange banner at top): SCIENTISTS HAVE MUCH BETTER PICKUP LINES
Panel 1:
A man with dark skin, glasses, and a yellow shirt under a gray jacket sits at a table giving a thumbs-up and gesturing as he talks to a woman with reddish-brown hair and glasses (seen from behind/in profile).
Man: So... now that we've had this memetic interaction, how 'bout we go have a genetic interaction?
Votey:
A loosely sketched panel. The man, smiling with his eyes closed, leans in.
Woman (off-panel, speech bubble): You want me to watch you run PCR?
Man: Aww yeah...
Panel 1:
A man with dark skin, glasses, and a yellow shirt under a gray jacket sits at a table giving a thumbs-up and gesturing as he talks to a woman with reddish-brown hair and glasses (seen from behind/in profile).
Man: So... now that we've had this memetic interaction, how 'bout we go have a genetic interaction?
Votey:
A loosely sketched panel. The man, smiling with his eyes closed, leans in.
Woman (off-panel, speech bubble): You want me to watch you run PCR?
Man: Aww yeah...
Alt text
An SMBC comic titled "Scientists have much better pickup lines." In the single main panel, a man with glasses and a yellow shirt under a gray jacket sits at a table, giving a thumbs-up and gesturing as he flirts with a woman who has reddish-brown hair and glasses, shown from behind. He says: "So... now that we've had this memetic interaction, how 'bout we go have a genetic interaction?" In the votey aftercomic, sketched in rough black-and-white, the smiling man leans in with eyes closed as the woman (off-panel) asks, "You want me to watch you run PCR?" and he replies, "Aww yeah..." PCR being a lab technique for amplifying DNA, the joke is that his idea of seduction is a science demonstration.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.