2012-11-25
Original: 2012-11-25 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Handwritten text inside a framed assessment card: "If you were at Arby's right now, how much would you spend?"
Below the question is a blank line for a written answer.
Caption (below the panel): "We managed to get the depression severity assessment down to a single question."
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "SADNESS" and the horizontal axis is labeled "ARBY'S SPENDING." The curve is U-shaped: sadness is high at the left end (low spending), drops to a minimum in the middle, and rises again at the right end (high spending). An arrow points to the left/high end of the curve labeled "TOO POOR FOR ARBY'S." Another arrow points to the right/high end of the curve labeled "ARBYPHRENIA."
Handwritten text inside a framed assessment card: "If you were at Arby's right now, how much would you spend?"
Below the question is a blank line for a written answer.
Caption (below the panel): "We managed to get the depression severity assessment down to a single question."
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "SADNESS" and the horizontal axis is labeled "ARBY'S SPENDING." The curve is U-shaped: sadness is high at the left end (low spending), drops to a minimum in the middle, and rises again at the right end (high spending). An arrow points to the left/high end of the curve labeled "TOO POOR FOR ARBY'S." Another arrow points to the right/high end of the curve labeled "ARBYPHRENIA."
Alt text
A single-panel comic showing a framed clinical assessment card with one handwritten question: "If you were at Arby's right now, how much would you spend?" followed by a blank answer line. The caption reads: "We managed to get the depression severity assessment down to a single question." The joke is that willingness to spend at Arby's supposedly maps onto depression severity. In the votey aftercomic, a hand-drawn U-shaped graph plots SADNESS (vertical axis) against ARBY'S SPENDING (horizontal axis): sadness is high when spending is too low (an arrow labels this left end "TOO POOR FOR ARBY'S") and high again when spending is too high (an arrow labels this right end "ARBYPHRENIA"), with a happy minimum of moderate Arby's spending in between.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.