babies
Original: babies on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Each panel is labeled with a profession and shows a parent holding up their baby, asking a question framed in that profession's terms.
Panel 1 (ECONOMISTS):
Parent: How's my little 2% decrease in average happiness?
Panel 2 (BIOLOGISTS):
Parent: How's my little r > 0.5?
Panel 3 (CHEMISTS):
Parent: How's my little complex molecule generator?
Panel 4 (PHYSICISTS):
Parent: How's my little increase in entropy?
Panel 5 (STATISTICIANS):
Parent: How's my little regression toward the mean?
Panel 6 (MATHEMATICIANS):
Parent: How's my little toroid?
Panel 7 (PHILOSOPHERS):
Parent: I have a kuid? ["kid" spelled oddly / philosophically]
Votey:
Label: CARTOONISTS
Speech bubble: DO SOMETHING FUNNY
A bearded cartoonist's face looks up at the speech bubble; a baby's hand reaches in from the right edge.
Panel 1 (ECONOMISTS):
Parent: How's my little 2% decrease in average happiness?
Panel 2 (BIOLOGISTS):
Parent: How's my little r > 0.5?
Panel 3 (CHEMISTS):
Parent: How's my little complex molecule generator?
Panel 4 (PHYSICISTS):
Parent: How's my little increase in entropy?
Panel 5 (STATISTICIANS):
Parent: How's my little regression toward the mean?
Panel 6 (MATHEMATICIANS):
Parent: How's my little toroid?
Panel 7 (PHILOSOPHERS):
Parent: I have a kuid? ["kid" spelled oddly / philosophically]
Votey:
Label: CARTOONISTS
Speech bubble: DO SOMETHING FUNNY
A bearded cartoonist's face looks up at the speech bubble; a baby's hand reaches in from the right edge.
Alt text
A tall SMBC comic with seven stacked panels, each labeled with a profession at the top and showing a parent affectionately holding up their baby while cooing a question phrased in that field's jargon. ECONOMISTS: "How's my little 2% decrease in average happiness?" BIOLOGISTS: "How's my little r > 0.5?" CHEMISTS: "How's my little complex molecule generator?" PHYSICISTS: "How's my little increase in entropy?" STATISTICIANS: "How's my little regression toward the mean?" MATHEMATICIANS: "How's my little toroid?" PHILOSOPHERS: the parent muses "I have a kuid?" — questioning the very existence of the child. The joke is each discipline reducing a baby to its own abstract terminology. Votey: labeled CARTOONISTS, a bearded cartoonist looks up at a speech bubble reading "DO SOMETHING FUNNY" while a baby's hand reaches in from the side — the cartoonist's only demand of his kid is comedy.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.