2013-12-26
Original: 2013-12-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (standing over a man, in a commanding tone): "PRONOUNCE IT 'NOOKULAR!'"
Man (older, gray-haired, distressed): "BUT IT'S HUMILIATING! IT HAS TWO SYLLAB- AAH!"
Woman: "NOOKULAR! NOOKULAR!"
Man: "OH, IT HURTS SO GOOO..."
Sound effect: "crack!"
Caption (below panel): Every physicist has the same fantasy. If they say otherwise, they are lying.
Votey:
Woman (off-panel speaker, in large hand-lettered text over a close-up of the man's face): "NOW MAKE ME USE π ACCURATE TWO DIGITS."
Woman (standing over a man, in a commanding tone): "PRONOUNCE IT 'NOOKULAR!'"
Man (older, gray-haired, distressed): "BUT IT'S HUMILIATING! IT HAS TWO SYLLAB- AAH!"
Woman: "NOOKULAR! NOOKULAR!"
Man: "OH, IT HURTS SO GOOO..."
Sound effect: "crack!"
Caption (below panel): Every physicist has the same fantasy. If they say otherwise, they are lying.
Votey:
Woman (off-panel speaker, in large hand-lettered text over a close-up of the man's face): "NOW MAKE ME USE π ACCURATE TWO DIGITS."
Alt text
Main comic: A woman stands menacingly over an older gray-haired man, dominating him in a mock-BDSM scene. She commands, "PRONOUNCE IT 'NOOKULAR!'" The man protests in anguish, "BUT IT'S HUMILIATING! IT HAS TWO SYLLAB- AAH!" as she repeats "NOOKULAR! NOOKULAR!" and he moans "OH, IT HURTS SO GOOO..." with a "crack!" sound effect. A caption reads: "Every physicist has the same fantasy. If they say otherwise, they are lying." The joke: physicists are tormented by the common mispronunciation of "nuclear" as "nucular," framed here as a kinky humiliation fantasy. Votey (aftercomic): An extreme close-up of the man's sweating, pained face as the woman demands, "NOW MAKE ME USE π ACCURATE TWO DIGITS." — forcing him to use only two digits of pi, another mathematical indignity.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.