2012-09-21
Original: 2012-09-21 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Red-haired woman (in pink shirt): Isn't it amazing how you're part of an unbroken chain of reproduction going back to the dawn of life?
Panel 2:
Dark-haired woman (in glasses, green shirt): Not really. Sure, there's an unbroken reproductive chain, but all of your genes were in tons of individuals who had no offspring.
Panel 3:
Dark-haired woman: Plus, it's entirely likely that a bunch of your ancestors only got to reproduce through violence or treachery, while the ancestors you'd have liked had some of their genes drop out of the pool.
Panel 4:
Dark-haired woman: So your observation could be restated as "Isn't it amazing that you have a small percentage of the genes that have ever existed, many of which were transmitted to your body by means you would find repulsive."
Panel 5:
(The red-haired woman gazes with a smitten expression.)
Panel 6:
Red-haired woman: Yeah, but isn't it amazing!
Dark-haired woman: Stop it! I'm trying to stick my science in your beauty!
Votey:
Dark-haired woman (holding her hands apart to indicate a size): My science is THIS big.
Red-haired woman (in pink shirt): Isn't it amazing how you're part of an unbroken chain of reproduction going back to the dawn of life?
Panel 2:
Dark-haired woman (in glasses, green shirt): Not really. Sure, there's an unbroken reproductive chain, but all of your genes were in tons of individuals who had no offspring.
Panel 3:
Dark-haired woman: Plus, it's entirely likely that a bunch of your ancestors only got to reproduce through violence or treachery, while the ancestors you'd have liked had some of their genes drop out of the pool.
Panel 4:
Dark-haired woman: So your observation could be restated as "Isn't it amazing that you have a small percentage of the genes that have ever existed, many of which were transmitted to your body by means you would find repulsive."
Panel 5:
(The red-haired woman gazes with a smitten expression.)
Panel 6:
Red-haired woman: Yeah, but isn't it amazing!
Dark-haired woman: Stop it! I'm trying to stick my science in your beauty!
Votey:
Dark-haired woman (holding her hands apart to indicate a size): My science is THIS big.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A cheerful red-haired woman in a pink shirt asks a dark-haired woman in glasses and a green shirt: "Isn't it amazing how you're part of an unbroken chain of reproduction going back to the dawn of life?" The dark-haired woman launches into a deadpan, deflating reply: "Not really. Sure, there's an unbroken reproductive chain, but all of your genes were in tons of individuals who had no offspring." She continues: "Plus, it's entirely likely that a bunch of your ancestors only got to reproduce through violence or treachery, while the ancestors you'd have liked had some of their genes drop out of the pool." She concludes by restating the cheerful observation cynically: "Isn't it amazing that you have a small percentage of the genes that have ever existed, many of which were transmitted to your body by means you would find repulsive." In the next panel the red-haired woman just gazes back with a love-struck smile. She says "Yeah, but isn't it amazing!" and the dark-haired woman, now flustered, snaps: "Stop it! I'm trying to stick my science in your beauty!" Votey (aftercomic): a single black-and-white panel of the dark-haired woman holding her hands apart to show a size and saying, "My science is THIS big." The joke flips a romantic comeback into innuendo, treating dry scientific cynicism as a form of flirtation.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.