topology
Original: topology on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child (off-panel, calling out): MOM, DAD, WHY DO YOU HAVE A GIANT INFLATABLE KLEIN BOTTLE HIDDEN IN THE CLOSET?!
Panel 2:
Father (gesturing toward two parents standing together): COMPROMISE. I'LL SAY NOTHING MORE. NOW GO WASH YOUR HANDS.
(A young child in a red dress stands in the foreground; the two parents stand behind.)
Panel 3 (Venn diagram):
Left circle (red): HAVING SEX INSIDE
Right circle (blue): HAVING SEX OUTSIDE
Overlapping region label (pointing to the intersection): HAVING SEX NEAR A NON-ORIENTABLE SURFACE
Votey:
Close-up of a smiling man's face with glasses.
Man: Thanks, math
Child (off-panel, calling out): MOM, DAD, WHY DO YOU HAVE A GIANT INFLATABLE KLEIN BOTTLE HIDDEN IN THE CLOSET?!
Panel 2:
Father (gesturing toward two parents standing together): COMPROMISE. I'LL SAY NOTHING MORE. NOW GO WASH YOUR HANDS.
(A young child in a red dress stands in the foreground; the two parents stand behind.)
Panel 3 (Venn diagram):
Left circle (red): HAVING SEX INSIDE
Right circle (blue): HAVING SEX OUTSIDE
Overlapping region label (pointing to the intersection): HAVING SEX NEAR A NON-ORIENTABLE SURFACE
Votey:
Close-up of a smiling man's face with glasses.
Man: Thanks, math
Alt text
Main comic, three panels. Panel 1: A child calls out from off-panel, "Mom, Dad, why do you have a giant inflatable Klein bottle hidden in the closet?!" Panel 2: Two parents stand together; the father says, "Compromise. I'll say nothing more. Now go wash your hands." A small child in a red dress stands in front of them. Panel 3: A Venn diagram with a red circle labeled "Having sex inside" and a blue circle labeled "Having sex outside." An arrow points to the purple overlapping region, labeled "Having sex near a non-orientable surface" — the joke being that a Klein bottle is a non-orientable surface with no distinct inside or outside, so it resolves the parents' inside-vs-outside compromise. Votey: A close-up of a smiling, bespectacled man's face who says, "Thanks, math."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.