2014-10-18
Original: 2014-10-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: TEACHING PRANK #1618033: START AN ANALOGY, THEN LEAVE.
Panel 1:
An older woman with grey hair and round glasses, wearing a red shirt and holding a phone, stands at the front of a classroom in front of a green chalkboard covered in math diagrams. A bearded man in a green shirt stands in the background.
Woman (speaking): "Imagine simple harmonic motion as a horde of angry badgers. The ears are radians, and— OOP! My wife is calling me. Your T.A. will finish the lecture"
Votey:
A chalkboard diagram showing a triangular/conical figure with lines radiating from a point at the top down to a curved base. The diagram is labeled with nonsensical terms: an arrow points to the apex labeled "bees", a bracket on the left side labeled "teeth", an angle on the right labeled "Jupiter", and at the bottom right is a small crude drawing of a badger's face.
Panel 1:
An older woman with grey hair and round glasses, wearing a red shirt and holding a phone, stands at the front of a classroom in front of a green chalkboard covered in math diagrams. A bearded man in a green shirt stands in the background.
Woman (speaking): "Imagine simple harmonic motion as a horde of angry badgers. The ears are radians, and— OOP! My wife is calling me. Your T.A. will finish the lecture"
Votey:
A chalkboard diagram showing a triangular/conical figure with lines radiating from a point at the top down to a curved base. The diagram is labeled with nonsensical terms: an arrow points to the apex labeled "bees", a bracket on the left side labeled "teeth", an angle on the right labeled "Jupiter", and at the bottom right is a small crude drawing of a badger's face.
Alt text
An SMBC comic titled "Teaching Prank #1618033: Start an analogy, then leave." In the main panel, an older woman in a red shirt with grey hair and round glasses stands at the front of a classroom holding a phone, in front of a green chalkboard full of math diagrams; a bearded man in a green shirt waits in the back. She says: "Imagine simple harmonic motion as a horde of angry badgers. The ears are radians, and— OOP! My wife is calling me. Your T.A. will finish the lecture." The joke is that she bails on a deliberately incomprehensible analogy mid-sentence, leaving her teaching assistant to make sense of it. The votey (bonus panel) shows the resulting chalkboard diagram: a cone-like figure with radiating lines, absurdly labeled "bees" (apex), "teeth" (left bracket), and "Jupiter" (right angle), with a tiny doodle of an angry badger's face at the bottom right.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.