2013-10-22
Original: 2013-10-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title (top banner): THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LEARN ENDOCRINOLOGY
Panel 1:
A professor (an older woman with gray hair and glasses) speaks, gesturing.
Professor: SO, 17a-HYDROXYLASE ACTS ON PROGESTERONE WHICH BECOMES 17a-HYDROXYPROGESTERONE WHICH CAN EITHER GET 21-HYDROXYLASE TO BECOME 11-DEOXYCORTISOL OR GET 17,20-LYASE TO BECOME ANDROSTENEDIONE.
Panel 2:
A student (seated, among a small group of classmates) raises a hand.
Student: I'M CONFUSED.
Panel 3:
The professor responds, gesturing.
Professor: OH, GORRY. IT'S A LITTLE TRICKY AT FIRST, BUT I BROUGHT ALONG THIS HELPFUL DIAGRAM.
Panel 4:
No dialogue. A wildly overcomplicated, chaotic metabolic-pathway diagram fills the panel: a dense tangle of boxes, arrows, and colored lines crisscrossing in every direction, completely illegible.
Votey:
A smiling person looks up at a large speech bubble.
Speech bubble: ENDOCRINOLOGY JOKES!
Panel 1:
A professor (an older woman with gray hair and glasses) speaks, gesturing.
Professor: SO, 17a-HYDROXYLASE ACTS ON PROGESTERONE WHICH BECOMES 17a-HYDROXYPROGESTERONE WHICH CAN EITHER GET 21-HYDROXYLASE TO BECOME 11-DEOXYCORTISOL OR GET 17,20-LYASE TO BECOME ANDROSTENEDIONE.
Panel 2:
A student (seated, among a small group of classmates) raises a hand.
Student: I'M CONFUSED.
Panel 3:
The professor responds, gesturing.
Professor: OH, GORRY. IT'S A LITTLE TRICKY AT FIRST, BUT I BROUGHT ALONG THIS HELPFUL DIAGRAM.
Panel 4:
No dialogue. A wildly overcomplicated, chaotic metabolic-pathway diagram fills the panel: a dense tangle of boxes, arrows, and colored lines crisscrossing in every direction, completely illegible.
Votey:
A smiling person looks up at a large speech bubble.
Speech bubble: ENDOCRINOLOGY JOKES!
Alt text
A four-panel comic titled 'THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LEARN ENDOCRINOLOGY.' Panel 1: An older woman professor with glasses rattles off a dense run of biochemistry: '17a-hydroxylase acts on progesterone which becomes 17a-hydroxyprogesterone which can either get 21-hydroxylase to become 11-deoxycortisol or get 17,20-lyase to become androstenedione.' Panel 2: A seated student among classmates raises a hand and says 'I'm confused.' Panel 3: The professor cheerfully replies, 'Oh, gorry. It's a little tricky at first, but I brought along this helpful diagram.' Panel 4: The 'helpful diagram' is an absurdly chaotic, illegible tangle of boxes and colored arrows crisscrossing in all directions a hopeless mess that visually conveys how overwhelming the subject is. Votey (aftercomic): A smiling person gazes up at a big speech bubble reading 'ENDOCRINOLOGY JOKES!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.