2014-09-22
Original: 2014-09-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with dark hair: It's called the Pinocchio illusion.
Panel 2:
Man with dark hair: Put your finger on your nose.
Panel 3:
Man with dark hair: Now, we vibrate your bicep. This tells your brain that your fingertip is moving forward.
Panel 4:
Man with dark hair: Your brain knows you didn't "tell" your finger to move forward, so it logically concludes that your nose is growing.
Panel 5:
Woman (finger on nose, eyes wide): UHHAAAAA
Panel 6:
Man with dark hair: Right?
Panel 7:
Woman (finger still on nose, looking thoughtful): The nose wasn't the first organ you tried this on, was it?
Man with dark hair (gesturing emphatically): EVERYTHING is research! EVERYTHING!
Votey:
Handwritten note in a sketched box:
Science + Wieners
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joke
Man with dark hair: It's called the Pinocchio illusion.
Panel 2:
Man with dark hair: Put your finger on your nose.
Panel 3:
Man with dark hair: Now, we vibrate your bicep. This tells your brain that your fingertip is moving forward.
Panel 4:
Man with dark hair: Your brain knows you didn't "tell" your finger to move forward, so it logically concludes that your nose is growing.
Panel 5:
Woman (finger on nose, eyes wide): UHHAAAAA
Panel 6:
Man with dark hair: Right?
Panel 7:
Woman (finger still on nose, looking thoughtful): The nose wasn't the first organ you tried this on, was it?
Man with dark hair (gesturing emphatically): EVERYTHING is research! EVERYTHING!
Votey:
Handwritten note in a sketched box:
Science + Wieners
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joke
Alt text
A seven-panel comic. A man with dark hair excitedly explains the "Pinocchio illusion" to a woman. He tells her to put her finger on her nose, then says vibrating her bicep tricks her brain into thinking her fingertip is moving forward, so the brain logically concludes her nose is growing. The woman, finger pressed to her nose with wide startled eyes, exclaims "UHHAAAAA." He asks "Right?" Now looking thoughtful and suspicious, she asks, "The nose wasn't the first organ you tried this on, was it?" He throws his arms up insisting "EVERYTHING is research! EVERYTHING!" Votey aftercomic: a hand-drawn box with the scrawled note reading "Science + Wieners" written as a fraction over a line, with "joke" underneath — i.e., the (Science + Wieners) / joke equation, signaling the implied dirty punchline.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.