2011-12-29
Original: 2011-12-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: REDUCTIONISM — THE ULTIMATE FORM OF SARCASM
Panel 1:
A man holding a bouquet of red roses faces a woman (seen from behind, in the foreground). The woman speaks.
Woman: "Please let these plant genitals indicate my remorse for forgetting that Earth has gone around the sun five times since we agreed to legal pair bonding."
Votey:
Close-up on the woman's face, one eyebrow slightly raised.
Woman: "Let the half inch elevation of my eyebrow indicate that you're a dick."
Panel 1:
A man holding a bouquet of red roses faces a woman (seen from behind, in the foreground). The woman speaks.
Woman: "Please let these plant genitals indicate my remorse for forgetting that Earth has gone around the sun five times since we agreed to legal pair bonding."
Votey:
Close-up on the woman's face, one eyebrow slightly raised.
Woman: "Let the half inch elevation of my eyebrow indicate that you're a dick."
Alt text
An SMBC comic titled "REDUCTIONISM — THE ULTIMATE FORM OF SARCASM." In the single panel, a man holds out a bouquet of red roses to a woman whose head is seen from behind in the foreground. The woman says, "Please let these plant genitals indicate my remorse for forgetting that Earth has gone around the sun five times since we agreed to legal pair bonding." The humor is in reducing flowers and a five-year wedding anniversary to coldly literal scientific terms. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up shows the woman's face with one eyebrow slightly raised as she says, "Let the half inch elevation of my eyebrow indicate that you're a dick" — answering his over-reductionist apology in the same flat, literal style.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.