2012-11-20
Original: 2012-11-20 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: On graph paper, a wide, smiling angle (a happy face drawn into the vertex of a large obtuse-ish angle) cheers on a small right angle beside it, which has a tiny square right-angle marker at its corner.
Smiling angle: "PUSH SWEETIE, PUSH!"
Panel 2: The smiling angle has narrowed considerably and now looks frowning/unhappy, while the small right angle below it (with its right-angle square marker) gives a slightly nervous smile.
(no dialogue)
Panel 3: The angle has closed down even further into a very narrow, thin acute angle, looking distressed with squiggly worried eyes. Beside it sits the small right angle, looking on with a flat expression.
Thin/narrowing angle: "HONEY, WAIT!"
Panel 4: The angle has collapsed almost completely flat into a thin sliver, looking shocked and upset, drawn with motion lines as it shrinks away. The right angle (its right-angle square marker visible) sits to the right with a downturned, sad mouth.
Collapsing angle: "YOU WERE MY BEST FRIEND!"
Votey:
A woman speaks to a man who is slumped over, drooling, having clearly been absorbed in the math joke.
Woman: "YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE."
Man (drooling, barely conscious): "gr ghashloo......"
Smiling angle: "PUSH SWEETIE, PUSH!"
Panel 2: The smiling angle has narrowed considerably and now looks frowning/unhappy, while the small right angle below it (with its right-angle square marker) gives a slightly nervous smile.
(no dialogue)
Panel 3: The angle has closed down even further into a very narrow, thin acute angle, looking distressed with squiggly worried eyes. Beside it sits the small right angle, looking on with a flat expression.
Thin/narrowing angle: "HONEY, WAIT!"
Panel 4: The angle has collapsed almost completely flat into a thin sliver, looking shocked and upset, drawn with motion lines as it shrinks away. The right angle (its right-angle square marker visible) sits to the right with a downturned, sad mouth.
Collapsing angle: "YOU WERE MY BEST FRIEND!"
Votey:
A woman speaks to a man who is slumped over, drooling, having clearly been absorbed in the math joke.
Woman: "YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE."
Man (drooling, barely conscious): "gr ghashloo......"
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic drawn on graph paper, personifying geometric angles with cartoon faces. Panel 1: a wide, cheerful angle encourages a small right angle (marked with the tiny square right-angle symbol), shouting "PUSH SWEETIE, PUSH!" as if coaching it. Panel 2: the cheering angle has narrowed and now frowns. Panel 3: the angle has shrunk into a thin, distressed acute angle with worried eyes, crying "HONEY, WAIT!" Panel 4: the angle has collapsed almost flat into a sliver, shocked and devastated, drawn with motion lines, wailing "YOU WERE MY BEST FRIEND!" The joke: an angle measurement shrinking toward zero degrees, dramatized as a tragic separation. Votey (aftercomic): a woman tells a slumped, drooling man, "YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE," and he mumbles incoherently, "gr ghashloo......" — implying he's been overly absorbed in the math pun.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.