oxytocin
Original: oxytocin on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Bald man (sitting at a bar): See, people think hormones do specific clear things. But, that's like expecting a particular tone to only be good for one kind of music. Nonsense!
Panel 2:
Bald man: For instance, oxytocin. Purportedly it creates love and affection. But did you know oxytocin is associated with rapidly sobering up?
Panel 3:
Bald man: And, it's associated with childbirth. But did you know you can release it in your own body by manually stimulating your nipples?
Panel 4:
Dark-haired man (looking uncomfortable): So... right now you're not trying to be sexy. Or...
Panel 5:
Bald man (deadpan, hands at his chest): I am preparing to drive you crazy!
(The dark-haired man has left; the bald man now sits alone at the bar while a bartender stands in the background.)
Votey:
The bald man, alone, says in a wistful tone: So... sober...
Bald man (sitting at a bar): See, people think hormones do specific clear things. But, that's like expecting a particular tone to only be good for one kind of music. Nonsense!
Panel 2:
Bald man: For instance, oxytocin. Purportedly it creates love and affection. But did you know oxytocin is associated with rapidly sobering up?
Panel 3:
Bald man: And, it's associated with childbirth. But did you know you can release it in your own body by manually stimulating your nipples?
Panel 4:
Dark-haired man (looking uncomfortable): So... right now you're not trying to be sexy. Or...
Panel 5:
Bald man (deadpan, hands at his chest): I am preparing to drive you crazy!
(The dark-haired man has left; the bald man now sits alone at the bar while a bartender stands in the background.)
Votey:
The bald man, alone, says in a wistful tone: So... sober...
Alt text
A five-panel comic set at a bar. A bald man earnestly lectures a dark-haired man about hormones, arguing they don't do single specific things, the way one musical tone isn't good for only one kind of music. He explains that oxytocin supposedly creates love and affection, but is also associated with rapidly sobering up, and with childbirth, and that you can release it in your own body by manually stimulating your nipples. The dark-haired man, looking increasingly uncomfortable, asks, 'So... right now you're not trying to be sexy. Or...' In the final panel the dark-haired man has fled, and the bald man sits alone at the bar declaring, 'I am preparing to drive you crazy!' while a bartender stands behind him. In the votey aftercomic, the bald man sits alone, deflated, murmuring 'So... sober...'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.