happy-2
Original: happy-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (singing, with music notes): If you're happy and you know it, are you sure?
Panel 2:
A crowd of people. Someone in the crowd: P-pretty sure?
Panel 3:
Woman (singing): If you're happy and you know it, are you sure?
Panel 4:
Someone in the crowd: I think I am...
Panel 5:
Woman (singing): If you're happy and you know it... but you don't know what's below it...
Panel 6:
A bearded man in the crowd looks uneasy.
Panel 7:
Woman (singing): ...and psychology's inchoate... are you sure?
Panel 8:
The bearded man and others in the crowd look uncertain and uncomfortable.
Panel 9:
The woman, now standing at a chalkboard that reads "Affective Neuro," addresses the group: Welcome to "Introduction to Affective Neuroscience." Shout hooray!
Panel 10:
The seated audience, in silhouette, responds weakly: Hooray...
Votey:
Text in a hand-lettered box: This entire comic was drawn in order to show that I could rhyme the word "inchoate."
Woman (singing, with music notes): If you're happy and you know it, are you sure?
Panel 2:
A crowd of people. Someone in the crowd: P-pretty sure?
Panel 3:
Woman (singing): If you're happy and you know it, are you sure?
Panel 4:
Someone in the crowd: I think I am...
Panel 5:
Woman (singing): If you're happy and you know it... but you don't know what's below it...
Panel 6:
A bearded man in the crowd looks uneasy.
Panel 7:
Woman (singing): ...and psychology's inchoate... are you sure?
Panel 8:
The bearded man and others in the crowd look uncertain and uncomfortable.
Panel 9:
The woman, now standing at a chalkboard that reads "Affective Neuro," addresses the group: Welcome to "Introduction to Affective Neuroscience." Shout hooray!
Panel 10:
The seated audience, in silhouette, responds weakly: Hooray...
Votey:
Text in a hand-lettered box: This entire comic was drawn in order to show that I could rhyme the word "inchoate."
Alt text
A ten-panel comic. A gray-haired woman sings a twist on "If You're Happy and You Know It" to a crowd of students. She repeatedly asks "If you're happy and you know it, are you sure?" Crowd members answer hesitantly: "P-pretty sure?" and "I think I am..." She continues: "...but you don't know what's below it... and psychology's inchoate... are you sure?", and the students grow visibly uneasy and uncomfortable. In the final two panels she stands at a chalkboard labeled "Affective Neuro" and announces, "Welcome to 'Introduction to Affective Neuroscience.' Shout hooray!" The seated audience, shown in silhouette, manages only a deflated "Hooray..." The joke: she's unsettled the class's confidence in even knowing their own happiness before introducing the subject. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-lettered text box reads, "This entire comic was drawn in order to show that I could rhyme the word 'inchoate.'"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.