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2014-02-01

Original: 2014-02-01 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1 (single panel):

A woman with long black hair and round glasses (the babysitter) speaks to two children.

Woman: I BELIEVE WE CAN DECREASE THE DISORDER OF YOUR BODIES BY INTRODUCING ENERGY INTO THEM.

A blonde child holds up a fork. Both children are smeared with brown stains (dirt or mud). A red-haired child stands to the right.

Caption (below panel): Chemists make the best babysitters.

Votey:

Close-up of the black-haired, glasses-wearing woman speaking.

Woman: IT'S SAFE TO MODEL YOU AS WATER, RIGHT?

Alt text

A single-panel comic. A stern woman with long black hair and round glasses leans toward two grubby children, both smeared with brown stains. The blonde child holds up a fork. Her speech bubble reads: "I believe we can decrease the disorder of your bodies by introducing energy into them." A caption beneath the panel reads: "Chemists make the best babysitters." The joke is that she's describing cleaning the messy kids in the language of thermodynamics. The votey (bonus panel) shows a close-up of the same woman adding: "It's safe to model you as water, right?" — treating the children as a physics simplification.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.