2012-06-07
Original: 2012-06-07 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption banner): SOCIOLOGY IS NOT PERFECT.
A newspaper or journal page shows a headline reading: "Human nature gleaned via survey study of six wealthy American college students." Below it is a small line graph and columns of placeholder text.
Panel 2 (caption banner): BUT IT MERITS INVESTMENT. CLIMATOLOGY IS ALSO TOUGH, BUT YOU LIKE KNOWING THE WEATHER.
A blonde woman looks at a TV/monitor displaying a weather map. The screen text reads: "70% CHANCE OF RAIN - WEAR A WARM JACKET."
Panel 3 (caption banner): IMAGINE GETTING A SOCIOLOGY FORECAST.
The same woman, now wearing a spiked shoulder pad, looks at the same monitor. The screen text reads: "80% CHANCE OF DICKHEADS - WEAR SPIKES."
Votey:
A forecast banner reads: "TODAY: 100% CHANCE OF WEINER."
A newspaper or journal page shows a headline reading: "Human nature gleaned via survey study of six wealthy American college students." Below it is a small line graph and columns of placeholder text.
Panel 2 (caption banner): BUT IT MERITS INVESTMENT. CLIMATOLOGY IS ALSO TOUGH, BUT YOU LIKE KNOWING THE WEATHER.
A blonde woman looks at a TV/monitor displaying a weather map. The screen text reads: "70% CHANCE OF RAIN - WEAR A WARM JACKET."
Panel 3 (caption banner): IMAGINE GETTING A SOCIOLOGY FORECAST.
The same woman, now wearing a spiked shoulder pad, looks at the same monitor. The screen text reads: "80% CHANCE OF DICKHEADS - WEAR SPIKES."
Votey:
A forecast banner reads: "TODAY: 100% CHANCE OF WEINER."
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic about sociology as a forecasting science. Panel 1, captioned "SOCIOLOGY IS NOT PERFECT," shows a newspaper page with the headline "Human nature gleaned via survey study of six wealthy American college students" above a tiny graph. Panel 2, captioned "BUT IT MERITS INVESTMENT. CLIMATOLOGY IS ALSO TOUGH, BUT YOU LIKE KNOWING THE WEATHER," shows a blonde woman watching a weather monitor reading "70% CHANCE OF RAIN - WEAR A WARM JACKET." Panel 3, captioned "IMAGINE GETTING A SOCIOLOGY FORECAST," shows the same woman now wearing a spiked shoulder pad, watching the monitor display a fake sociology forecast: "80% CHANCE OF DICKHEADS - WEAR SPIKES." The joke imagines sociology delivering daily social forecasts the way meteorology delivers weather. Votey aftercomic: a forecast banner reading "TODAY: 100% CHANCE OF WEINER."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.