natural-scientists
Original: natural-scientists on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with dark curly hair: Do you think kids are natural scientists?
Man with orange hair: Of course!
Panel 2:
Woman with dark curly hair: Kids dress funny. Kids have weird hair.
Panel 3:
Woman with dark curly hair: Kids have no money. Very little power.
Panel 4:
Woman with dark curly hair: Kids will sit in front of a computer for hours and hours, staying up all night until their eyes hurt, and they seem to enjoy it!
Panel 5:
Man with orange hair: I meant, like... kids are curious and stuff.
Panel 6:
Woman with dark curly hair: So are roaches. What's that got to do with being a scientist?
Votey:
(Wordless. The woman with curly hair looks tired/annoyed in the upper left; a third figure seen from behind is hunched over, writing with a pen. A small inset of the orange-haired man's worried face appears in the lower left.)
Woman with dark curly hair: Do you think kids are natural scientists?
Man with orange hair: Of course!
Panel 2:
Woman with dark curly hair: Kids dress funny. Kids have weird hair.
Panel 3:
Woman with dark curly hair: Kids have no money. Very little power.
Panel 4:
Woman with dark curly hair: Kids will sit in front of a computer for hours and hours, staying up all night until their eyes hurt, and they seem to enjoy it!
Panel 5:
Man with orange hair: I meant, like... kids are curious and stuff.
Panel 6:
Woman with dark curly hair: So are roaches. What's that got to do with being a scientist?
Votey:
(Wordless. The woman with curly hair looks tired/annoyed in the upper left; a third figure seen from behind is hunched over, writing with a pen. A small inset of the orange-haired man's worried face appears in the lower left.)
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. An orange-haired man asks a woman with dark curly hair, 'Do you think kids are natural scientists?' He answers his own enthusiasm with 'Of course!' Instead of agreeing for the expected reasons, the woman deadpans a list of cynical traits: 'Kids dress funny. Kids have weird hair.' Then 'Kids have no money. Very little power.' Then 'Kids will sit in front of a computer for hours and hours, staying up all night until their eyes hurt, and they seem to enjoy it!' The man clarifies, 'I meant, like... kids are curious and stuff.' She flatly replies, 'So are roaches. What's that got to do with being a scientist?' The joke: her description of scientists is bleak and unflattering rather than idealized. Votey (wordless aftercomic): a loose sketch where the tired-looking woman watches a hunched figure scribbling away with a pen, while a small inset shows the orange-haired man looking worried.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.