2012-03-26
Original: 2012-03-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (header banner): TYPICAL COMING OUT
A young woman with red hair, seen between the out-of-focus shoulders/heads of two parents in the foreground.
Woman: "MOM, DAD I'M GAY."
Panel 2 (header banner): MAD SCIENTIST COMING OUT
The same red-haired woman, now wearing a white lab coat, protective goggles, and black gloves, holding a large ray-gun device. The device is labeled "THE ORIENTATOR." She stands between the same two parents.
Woman: "MOM, DAD, EVERYONE'S GAY."
Votey:
A man with glasses, drawn in a loose sketch style.
Man: "PEOPLE WHO WERE HIT INDIRECTLY ONLY BECAME \"PRETTY GAY.\""
A young woman with red hair, seen between the out-of-focus shoulders/heads of two parents in the foreground.
Woman: "MOM, DAD I'M GAY."
Panel 2 (header banner): MAD SCIENTIST COMING OUT
The same red-haired woman, now wearing a white lab coat, protective goggles, and black gloves, holding a large ray-gun device. The device is labeled "THE ORIENTATOR." She stands between the same two parents.
Woman: "MOM, DAD, EVERYONE'S GAY."
Votey:
A man with glasses, drawn in a loose sketch style.
Man: "PEOPLE WHO WERE HIT INDIRECTLY ONLY BECAME \"PRETTY GAY.\""
Alt text
Two-panel SMBC comic contrasting a typical coming out with a mad scientist's version. Panel 1, banner "TYPICAL COMING OUT": a red-haired woman stands between her two parents (shown as blurry foreground shoulders) and says, "Mom, Dad, I'm gay." Panel 2, banner "MAD SCIENTIST COMING OUT": the same woman, now in a lab coat, goggles, and black gloves, hefts a large ray gun labeled "THE ORIENTATOR" and announces, "Mom, Dad, everyone's gay" — implying she has used the device to make everyone gay rather than merely revealing her own orientation. Votey aftercomic: a sketchy man in glasses adds, "People who were hit indirectly only became 'pretty gay.'"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.