carbon-bonding
Original: carbon-bonding on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (with orange/red hair and glasses): BABY, YOU AND I ARE LIKE TWO CARBON ATOMS THAT CAME TOGETHER TO FORM A SINGLE BOND.
Panel 2:
Woman (with glasses, looking moved): THAT IS SO WONDERFUL.
Panel 3 (header banner: LATER...):
Bearded man: WAIT... DON'T YOU HAVE A BOYFRIEND?
Woman: YEAH, BUT HE BASICALLY SAID I COULD GET WITH THREE OTHER PEOPLE.
Votey:
The orange-haired man (frowning): WELL, IF YOU DIDN'T WANT ME TO SLEEP AROUND, YOU SHOULD'VE SAID "SIGMA BOND."
Man (with orange/red hair and glasses): BABY, YOU AND I ARE LIKE TWO CARBON ATOMS THAT CAME TOGETHER TO FORM A SINGLE BOND.
Panel 2:
Woman (with glasses, looking moved): THAT IS SO WONDERFUL.
Panel 3 (header banner: LATER...):
Bearded man: WAIT... DON'T YOU HAVE A BOYFRIEND?
Woman: YEAH, BUT HE BASICALLY SAID I COULD GET WITH THREE OTHER PEOPLE.
Votey:
The orange-haired man (frowning): WELL, IF YOU DIDN'T WANT ME TO SLEEP AROUND, YOU SHOULD'VE SAID "SIGMA BOND."
Alt text
A four-panel comic playing on chemistry terminology. Panel 1: A young man with orange hair and glasses leans toward a woman with glasses and says, "Baby, you and I are like two carbon atoms that came together to form a single bond." Panel 2: The woman, looking touched, replies, "That is so wonderful." Panel 3, under a banner reading "Later...": The woman is now in bed with a different, bearded man. He asks, "Wait... don't you have a boyfriend?" She answers, "Yeah, but he basically said I could get with three other people." The joke: a single covalent bond is one of four bonds carbon can form, so being told they share only a "single bond" implies she's free to bond with three others. Votey panel: the orange-haired boyfriend frowns and says, "Well, if you didn't want me to sleep around, you should've said 'sigma bond.'" (A sigma bond is the single, exclusive type of bond, versus the additional pi bonds in double/triple bonds.)
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.