2013-01-17
Original: 2013-01-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (with brown hair, dark shirt): Hey, I'd like to talk to you about how biological science makes me find human mating behavior dull.
Panel 2:
Man: Of course, I will be encoding my intelligence and status in that conversation simply by having it, thus demonstrating my quality as a mate. I call this metamating.
Panel 3:
Woman (with orange hair, glasses, green shirt): Are you actually going to do that?
Panel 4:
Woman: No need to. The previous statements on mating and metamating actually contained the desirability of me as both a mate and metamate.
Panel 5:
Woman (smiling, against a red background): So... do you wanna hyper-metamate?
Panel 6:
Man: Would that still involve boobs?
Woman: Yes.
Man: Okay then.
Votey:
Man: Did any of those prefixes denote sodomy?
Man (with brown hair, dark shirt): Hey, I'd like to talk to you about how biological science makes me find human mating behavior dull.
Panel 2:
Man: Of course, I will be encoding my intelligence and status in that conversation simply by having it, thus demonstrating my quality as a mate. I call this metamating.
Panel 3:
Woman (with orange hair, glasses, green shirt): Are you actually going to do that?
Panel 4:
Woman: No need to. The previous statements on mating and metamating actually contained the desirability of me as both a mate and metamate.
Panel 5:
Woman (smiling, against a red background): So... do you wanna hyper-metamate?
Panel 6:
Man: Would that still involve boobs?
Woman: Yes.
Man: Okay then.
Votey:
Man: Did any of those prefixes denote sodomy?
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic showing a conversation between an orange-haired woman in glasses and a green shirt, and a brown-haired man in a dark shirt, against purple and red backgrounds. Panel 1: The man says, "Hey, I'd like to talk to you about how biological science makes me find human mating behavior dull." Panel 2: He continues, "Of course, I will be encoding my intelligence and status in that conversation simply by having it, thus demonstrating my quality as a mate. I call this metamating." Panel 3: The woman asks, "Are you actually going to do that?" Panel 4: She answers her own framing, "No need to. The previous statements on mating and metamating actually contained the desirability of me as both a mate and metamate." Panel 5: Smiling against a red background, she asks, "So... do you wanna hyper-metamate?" Panel 6: The man asks, "Would that still involve boobs?" She replies "Yes," and he says "Okay then." The joke escalates abstract evolutionary-psychology jargon into ever-more-meta layers, only to collapse back to base physical attraction. Votey: A black-and-white panel of a man asking, "Did any of those prefixes denote sodomy?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.