2014-10-30
Original: 2014-10-30 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man in an orange shirt smiles.
Caption: JACK SPRAT COULD EAT NO FAT.
Panel 2: A woman with reddish hair smiles.
Caption: HIS WIFE COULD EAT NO LEAN.
Panel 3: A plate of food on a table.
Caption: THESE TRAITS WERE AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT.
A genetics cross (Punnett-style) is shown with two parents labeled NF and NL, with lines descending to offspring below.
Panel 4: A doctor (a man in a white coat) holds up a book/pamphlet to a couple (a woman with reddish hair and a man).
Caption: LIL' SPRAT GOT EACH BAD GENE.
The pamphlet reads: SOMETHING SOMETHING GENETIC DISORDER (small text).
Votey:
A hand-drawn panel of a woman's face. A speech bubble reads: THIS COMIC DRAWN WHILE SICK. DO NOT LICK YOUR SCREEN.
Caption: JACK SPRAT COULD EAT NO FAT.
Panel 2: A woman with reddish hair smiles.
Caption: HIS WIFE COULD EAT NO LEAN.
Panel 3: A plate of food on a table.
Caption: THESE TRAITS WERE AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT.
A genetics cross (Punnett-style) is shown with two parents labeled NF and NL, with lines descending to offspring below.
Panel 4: A doctor (a man in a white coat) holds up a book/pamphlet to a couple (a woman with reddish hair and a man).
Caption: LIL' SPRAT GOT EACH BAD GENE.
The pamphlet reads: SOMETHING SOMETHING GENETIC DISORDER (small text).
Votey:
A hand-drawn panel of a woman's face. A speech bubble reads: THIS COMIC DRAWN WHILE SICK. DO NOT LICK YOUR SCREEN.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic retelling the 'Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean' nursery rhyme as a genetics lesson. Panel 1: a smiling man in an orange shirt, captioned 'JACK SPRAT COULD EAT NO FAT.' Panel 2: a smiling woman with reddish hair, captioned 'HIS WIFE COULD EAT NO LEAN.' Panel 3: a plate of food, captioned 'THESE TRAITS WERE AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT,' with a genetic cross diagram showing parents labeled NF and NL and lines branching down to offspring. Panel 4: a doctor in a white coat holds up a pamphlet labeled 'genetic disorder' to the worried couple, captioned 'LIL' SPRAT GOT EACH BAD GENE' — the joke being that inheriting both dominant traits left their child with a serious genetic disorder. Votey: a loosely hand-drawn sketch of a woman's face with a speech bubble reading 'THIS COMIC DRAWN WHILE SICK. DO NOT LICK YOUR SCREEN.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.