2012-09-15
Original: 2012-09-15 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with dark hair and glasses (seated at a desk, holding a paper): Oh, that's gonna be embarrassing.
Man with brown hair (yellow shirt, seen from behind): What is?
Panel 2:
Woman with glasses (now writing on the paper): I got tired of lazy math students, so now, every time someone submits a graph with an unlabeled axis, I write in "my level of arousal" in their handwriting and post it on my door.
Panel 3:
(No dialogue. The man in the yellow shirt looks toward the viewer with an uneasy, unsettled expression.)
Panel 4 (a sheet of paper / graph):
A hand-drawn graph. The vertical (y) axis is labeled: My level of arousal. The horizontal (x) axis is labeled: Armadillo population density. The plotted line rises steeply from lower-left to upper-right.
Votey:
Another hand-drawn graph. At the top is the equation: A = g^3 + 1. The vertical (y) axis is labeled: My level of arousal. The horizontal (x) axis is labeled: graph jokes. The curve rises sharply (cubically) from left to right.
Woman with dark hair and glasses (seated at a desk, holding a paper): Oh, that's gonna be embarrassing.
Man with brown hair (yellow shirt, seen from behind): What is?
Panel 2:
Woman with glasses (now writing on the paper): I got tired of lazy math students, so now, every time someone submits a graph with an unlabeled axis, I write in "my level of arousal" in their handwriting and post it on my door.
Panel 3:
(No dialogue. The man in the yellow shirt looks toward the viewer with an uneasy, unsettled expression.)
Panel 4 (a sheet of paper / graph):
A hand-drawn graph. The vertical (y) axis is labeled: My level of arousal. The horizontal (x) axis is labeled: Armadillo population density. The plotted line rises steeply from lower-left to upper-right.
Votey:
Another hand-drawn graph. At the top is the equation: A = g^3 + 1. The vertical (y) axis is labeled: My level of arousal. The horizontal (x) axis is labeled: graph jokes. The curve rises sharply (cubically) from left to right.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A woman with dark hair and glasses sits at a desk holding a paper and says, "Oh, that's gonna be embarrassing." A man with brown hair in a yellow shirt, seen from behind, asks, "What is?" Panel 2: The woman, now writing on the paper, explains: "I got tired of lazy math students, so now, every time someone submits a graph with an unlabeled axis, I write in 'my level of arousal' in their handwriting and post it on my door." Panel 3: The man looks toward the viewer with an uneasy, disturbed expression. Panel 4: A hand-drawn graph on a sheet of paper, with the y-axis labeled "My level of arousal" and the x-axis labeled "Armadillo population density," the line climbing steeply upward. The joke: she sabotages careless students' unlabeled graphs by relabeling an axis with an embarrassing, irrelevant variable. The votey (bonus panel) shows another hand-drawn graph with the equation "A = g^3 + 1" at top, the y-axis labeled "My level of arousal" and the x-axis labeled "graph jokes," the curve rising sharply, a self-referential gag about how arousing the cartoonist finds graph jokes themselves.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.