2012-09-08
Original: 2012-09-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with orange flame-like hair: HEY, YOU WANNA PLAY ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS-PENIS?
Woman with brown hair: GO TO HELL.
Panel 2:
Man with orange hair: WHAT? OH! OH, I'M SORRY. YOU HAVE THE WRONG IDEA. PENIS LOSES TO EVERY OTHER THROW, SO IT NEVER GETS USED. SO, IT'S NOT CREEPY.
Panel 3:
Woman: SORRY, I'M GONNA GO ANYWHERE ELSE NOW.
Man (calling after her, hand cupped to his mouth): SORRY, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND GAME THEORY!
Votey:
A hand-drawn diagram showing the rules of "rock-paper-scissors-penis." A rock, a pair of scissors, a sheet of paper, and a "3=D" (a crude text representation of a penis) are arranged with arrows indicating which throw beats which. The arrows show every other throw pointing toward (beating) the penis, illustrating that penis loses to everything.
Man with orange flame-like hair: HEY, YOU WANNA PLAY ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS-PENIS?
Woman with brown hair: GO TO HELL.
Panel 2:
Man with orange hair: WHAT? OH! OH, I'M SORRY. YOU HAVE THE WRONG IDEA. PENIS LOSES TO EVERY OTHER THROW, SO IT NEVER GETS USED. SO, IT'S NOT CREEPY.
Panel 3:
Woman: SORRY, I'M GONNA GO ANYWHERE ELSE NOW.
Man (calling after her, hand cupped to his mouth): SORRY, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND GAME THEORY!
Votey:
A hand-drawn diagram showing the rules of "rock-paper-scissors-penis." A rock, a pair of scissors, a sheet of paper, and a "3=D" (a crude text representation of a penis) are arranged with arrows indicating which throw beats which. The arrows show every other throw pointing toward (beating) the penis, illustrating that penis loses to everything.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic set in a dark forest. Panel 1: A smiling man with orange, flame-like hair asks a brown-haired woman, "Hey, you wanna play rock-paper-scissors-penis?" She replies flatly, "Go to hell." Panel 2: A close-up of the man, who earnestly explains, "What? Oh! Oh, I'm sorry. You have the wrong idea. Penis loses to every other throw, so it never gets used. So, it's not creepy." Panel 3: The woman walks away saying, "Sorry, I'm gonna go anywhere else now," while the small figure of the man cups his hand to his mouth and calls after her, "Sorry, you don't understand game theory!" The joke: he thinks the math makes his proposed game inoffensive, missing why it's off-putting. Votey: a crude hand-drawn diagram of the game's rules, showing a rock, scissors, paper, and a "3=D" penis symbol connected by arrows, with every other option's arrow pointing at the penis to show it loses to everything.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.