biology-2
Original: biology-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (header: WHAT NORMAL PEOPLE DO):
A woman points upward.
Woman: HEY LOOK! A BIRD'S NEST!
Panel 2 (header: WHAT NORMAL PEOPLE THINK BIOLOGISTS DO):
A bearded man gestures toward a nest.
Bearded man: AH, A FINE EXAMPLE OF THE NEST-BUILDING TECHNIQUE OF T. MIGRATORIUS, THE AMERICAN ROBIN.
Panel 3 (header: WHAT BIOLOGISTS ACTUALLY DO):
A woman thinks while looking at a nest.
Woman (thinking): I WONDER HOW BIRD BRAINS ARE STRUCTURED. IF I REPLACED HER HEAD WITH ROBINS, THEN SIMULATED A BEAR ATTACK...
Votey:
A close-up of the same woman, now grinning with a slightly unhinged expression. A thought bubble above her head reads: AN ELECTRIC BEAR.
A woman points upward.
Woman: HEY LOOK! A BIRD'S NEST!
Panel 2 (header: WHAT NORMAL PEOPLE THINK BIOLOGISTS DO):
A bearded man gestures toward a nest.
Bearded man: AH, A FINE EXAMPLE OF THE NEST-BUILDING TECHNIQUE OF T. MIGRATORIUS, THE AMERICAN ROBIN.
Panel 3 (header: WHAT BIOLOGISTS ACTUALLY DO):
A woman thinks while looking at a nest.
Woman (thinking): I WONDER HOW BIRD BRAINS ARE STRUCTURED. IF I REPLACED HER HEAD WITH ROBINS, THEN SIMULATED A BEAR ATTACK...
Votey:
A close-up of the same woman, now grinning with a slightly unhinged expression. A thought bubble above her head reads: AN ELECTRIC BEAR.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic contrasting expectations of biologists with reality, each panel labeled. Panel 1 — "WHAT NORMAL PEOPLE DO": a woman points up and says "Hey look! A bird's nest!" Panel 2 — "WHAT NORMAL PEOPLE THINK BIOLOGISTS DO": a bearded man points at a nest and pedantically identifies it as "a fine example of the nest-building technique of T. migratorius, the American robin." Panel 3 — "WHAT BIOLOGISTS ACTUALLY DO": a woman stares at the nest, thinking, "I wonder how bird brains are structured. If I replaced her head with robins, then simulated a bear attack..." The joke is that a real biologist's mind goes straight to a bizarre, macabre experiment. Votey (aftercomic): a tight close-up of the same woman now grinning wide-eyed and slightly deranged, with a thought bubble reading "AN ELECTRIC BEAR," suggesting her experimental fantasy has escalated even further.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.