taxonomy
Original: taxonomy on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with dark curly hair and a green sweater stands grinning, arms raised triumphantly, holding a bird in each hand — a gray parrot-like bird in his left hand and a white chicken-like bird in his right. Two other people watch him: a younger person in the foreground lower-left looking up at him, and a woman with glasses on the right looking on skeptically.
Man (shouting): "DINOSAURS! DINOSAURS!"
Caption (below panel): Dad spent seven years in that sanitarium before we remembered he was a taxonomist.
Votey:
A close-up of the same man, looking wild-eyed and frazzled.
Man: "I'M NOT INSANE! I JUST LIKE COMPARING AVIAN BONE STRUCTURE!"
Off-screen voice (small speech bubble): "suuure..."
A man with dark curly hair and a green sweater stands grinning, arms raised triumphantly, holding a bird in each hand — a gray parrot-like bird in his left hand and a white chicken-like bird in his right. Two other people watch him: a younger person in the foreground lower-left looking up at him, and a woman with glasses on the right looking on skeptically.
Man (shouting): "DINOSAURS! DINOSAURS!"
Caption (below panel): Dad spent seven years in that sanitarium before we remembered he was a taxonomist.
Votey:
A close-up of the same man, looking wild-eyed and frazzled.
Man: "I'M NOT INSANE! I JUST LIKE COMPARING AVIAN BONE STRUCTURE!"
Off-screen voice (small speech bubble): "suuure..."
Alt text
A man with dark curly hair in a green sweater stands grinning ecstatically, arms thrown up in the air, holding a bird aloft in each hand — a gray bird in one hand, a white bird in the other. He shouts "DINOSAURS! DINOSAURS!" Two relatives watch him with concern: a young person looking up at him and a woman in glasses eyeing him skeptically. The caption below reads: "Dad spent seven years in that sanitarium before we remembered he was a taxonomist." In the votey aftercomic, a rough black-and-white close-up shows the same man looking wild-eyed and disheveled, protesting: "I'M NOT INSANE! I JUST LIKE COMPARING AVIAN BONE STRUCTURE!" A small off-screen voice replies, "suuure..." The joke: his manic insistence that birds are dinosaurs (technically true) got him committed, when he was really just being an enthusiastic taxonomist.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.