2011-09-15
Original: 2011-09-15 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A woman with red hair covers her face with both hands, looking distressed.
Panel 2: She continues to hold her face, frustrated.
Panel 3:
Man (dark-skinned): What are you doing?
Red-haired woman: You know the thing trick?
Panel 4:
Red-haired woman: You make a pinhole with a finger like this, and it eliminates all the light that doesn't hit your pupil at a 90 degree angle, so you can see things clearly even without glasses.
Man: Okay?
Panel 5:
Red-haired woman: And you know how you can't focus on your own nose, since it's inside your focal length?
Man: Yeah, I... um.
Panel 6: The man covers his own face with his hand, dismayed.
Panel 7: A blue-haired bystander appears, watching.
Panel 8: The man, red-haired woman, and blue-haired figure stand together; the man covers his face.
Panel 9: A small group of onlookers has gathered, watching the scene.
Panel 10: The crowd grows; the man still has his face in his hand.
Panel 11: A large crowd of people in silhouette has assembled.
Panel 12: Outside, in front of a building, the man covers his face while the red-haired woman and others stand around.
Panel 13 (captioned EARLIER):
Red-haired woman: I wanna steal the giant laser from the physics department. Can you distract 25 nerds for half an hour?
Votey:
Thought bubble (the red-haired woman, in a different drawing style, holding her chin in thought): WHAT COULD I DO THAT ISN'T BOOBS...
Panel 2: She continues to hold her face, frustrated.
Panel 3:
Man (dark-skinned): What are you doing?
Red-haired woman: You know the thing trick?
Panel 4:
Red-haired woman: You make a pinhole with a finger like this, and it eliminates all the light that doesn't hit your pupil at a 90 degree angle, so you can see things clearly even without glasses.
Man: Okay?
Panel 5:
Red-haired woman: And you know how you can't focus on your own nose, since it's inside your focal length?
Man: Yeah, I... um.
Panel 6: The man covers his own face with his hand, dismayed.
Panel 7: A blue-haired bystander appears, watching.
Panel 8: The man, red-haired woman, and blue-haired figure stand together; the man covers his face.
Panel 9: A small group of onlookers has gathered, watching the scene.
Panel 10: The crowd grows; the man still has his face in his hand.
Panel 11: A large crowd of people in silhouette has assembled.
Panel 12: Outside, in front of a building, the man covers his face while the red-haired woman and others stand around.
Panel 13 (captioned EARLIER):
Red-haired woman: I wanna steal the giant laser from the physics department. Can you distract 25 nerds for half an hour?
Votey:
Thought bubble (the red-haired woman, in a different drawing style, holding her chin in thought): WHAT COULD I DO THAT ISN'T BOOBS...
Alt text
A tall multi-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired woman buries her face in her hands, looking distressed. A dark-skinned man asks 'What are you doing?' She replies, 'You know the thing trick?' and launches into an explanation: 'You make a pinhole with a finger like this, and it eliminates all the light that doesn't hit your pupil at a 90 degree angle, so you can see things clearly even without glasses.' The man says 'Okay?' She continues, 'And you know how you can't focus on your own nose, since it's inside your focal length?' The man, now clearly uncomfortable, mutters 'Yeah, I... um,' and covers his own face. Over the following panels a crowd steadily gathers and grows into a large group of silhouetted onlookers, all while the man keeps his face in his hand, mortified. A final flashback panel labeled EARLIER reveals the setup: the woman had asked him, 'I wanna steal the giant laser from the physics department. Can you distract 25 nerds for half an hour?' The implication is that her long-winded optics lecture is the chosen distraction. The votey, drawn in a simpler black-and-white style, shows the woman holding her chin in thought above a thought bubble reading 'WHAT COULD I DO THAT ISN'T BOOBS...', revealing she struggled to come up with a non-sexual way to distract the nerds and landed on optics trivia.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.