2014-04-23
Original: 2014-04-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic:
A single-panel hand-drawn line graph.
Y-axis label: "ODDS OF FIGHTING SOMEONE ONLINE"
X-axis label: "LEVEL OF AGREEMENT"
The curve is U-shaped: high on the far left, dipping low across the middle, and shooting sharply up again on the far right.
Annotation pointing to the left (high) end of the curve: "DISAGREE ON FUNDAMENTAL NATURE OF REALITY."
Annotation pointing to the right (high) end of the curve: "DISAGREE EXCLUSIVELY ON APPROPRIATE WAY TO SAY THINGS."
Signature: (smbc-comics.com)
Votey:
A second hand-drawn line graph.
Y-axis label: "ODDS OF GRAPH JOKE"
X-axis label: "AGE"
The red curve runs low and flat at first, then jumps sharply upward at a single point and continues rising.
Annotation (in blue) with an arrow pointing to the sharp jump: "BIRTH OF CHILD"
A single-panel hand-drawn line graph.
Y-axis label: "ODDS OF FIGHTING SOMEONE ONLINE"
X-axis label: "LEVEL OF AGREEMENT"
The curve is U-shaped: high on the far left, dipping low across the middle, and shooting sharply up again on the far right.
Annotation pointing to the left (high) end of the curve: "DISAGREE ON FUNDAMENTAL NATURE OF REALITY."
Annotation pointing to the right (high) end of the curve: "DISAGREE EXCLUSIVELY ON APPROPRIATE WAY TO SAY THINGS."
Signature: (smbc-comics.com)
Votey:
A second hand-drawn line graph.
Y-axis label: "ODDS OF GRAPH JOKE"
X-axis label: "AGE"
The red curve runs low and flat at first, then jumps sharply upward at a single point and continues rising.
Annotation (in blue) with an arrow pointing to the sharp jump: "BIRTH OF CHILD"
Alt text
A hand-drawn SMBC comic showing a single line graph. The vertical axis reads "ODDS OF FIGHTING SOMEONE ONLINE" and the horizontal axis reads "LEVEL OF AGREEMENT." The plotted curve is U-shaped: it starts high on the left, dips to a minimum in the middle, and rises steeply again on the right. The high left end is labeled "DISAGREE ON FUNDAMENTAL NATURE OF REALITY," and the high right end is labeled "DISAGREE EXCLUSIVELY ON APPROPRIATE WAY TO SAY THINGS." The joke: you're most likely to fight online either with people who share none of your premises, or with people who agree with you on almost everything and only quibble over wording. The votey is a second graph with vertical axis "ODDS OF GRAPH JOKE" and horizontal axis "AGE." The line stays flat and low, then jumps abruptly upward, with a blue arrow labeling the jump "BIRTH OF CHILD" — the author joking that having a kid made him much more likely to make graph jokes.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.