pictograms
Original: pictograms on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Two people (a woman with dark hair and a balding man with glasses) stand with their backs to the viewer, looking through a large observation window into a lab room. Beyond the glass, a scientist in a white coat holds up a smartphone next to a gorilla seated at a table.
Woman (speech bubble): INCREDIBLE. SHE SHOWED HIM THE PHONE. HE POINTED TO THE SYMBOL FOR "OFF SWITCH," THE SYMBOL FOR "ON SWITCH," AND THEN JUST SHRUGGED FOR TEN MINUTES.
Caption (below panel): We managed to prove that chimpanzees can do a rudimentary form of tech support.
Votey:
Close-up of the balding man's face, looking glum/deflated. A speech bubble (from off-panel, trailing toward the observation window) reads:
"Humans aren't special after all."
Two people (a woman with dark hair and a balding man with glasses) stand with their backs to the viewer, looking through a large observation window into a lab room. Beyond the glass, a scientist in a white coat holds up a smartphone next to a gorilla seated at a table.
Woman (speech bubble): INCREDIBLE. SHE SHOWED HIM THE PHONE. HE POINTED TO THE SYMBOL FOR "OFF SWITCH," THE SYMBOL FOR "ON SWITCH," AND THEN JUST SHRUGGED FOR TEN MINUTES.
Caption (below panel): We managed to prove that chimpanzees can do a rudimentary form of tech support.
Votey:
Close-up of the balding man's face, looking glum/deflated. A speech bubble (from off-panel, trailing toward the observation window) reads:
"Humans aren't special after all."
Alt text
Two researchers seen from behind look through a big observation window into a lab. Inside, a scientist in a white coat holds up a smartphone beside a seated gorilla. One researcher says: 'Incredible. She showed him the phone. He pointed to the symbol for "off switch," the symbol for "on switch," and then just shrugged for ten minutes.' A caption below reads: 'We managed to prove that chimpanzees can do a rudimentary form of tech support.' The joke: the ape's only ape-level achievement is mimicking unhelpful tech support. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the balding researcher's deflated face as a voice says, 'Humans aren't special after all.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.