accurate
Original: accurate on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with glasses (to a woman beside him): Why do they always portray scientists unrealistically in movies? It'd be so much better if they went for accuracy.
Panel 2:
The woman: Hmm...
Panel 3:
A bald, wild-eyed scientist in a lab coat holds up a glowing vial: I wish we didn't obsess over applications for research. Will my death ray annihilate all life on Earth? Maybe? But I really just want to know if physics ALLOWS death rays. It's all in this 214-slide PowerPoint deck, which is entirely made of bullet-points I'll be reading aloud.
Votey:
The wild-eyed scientist (now snarling): Twist! It's the boredom that will kill you!
Man with glasses (to a woman beside him): Why do they always portray scientists unrealistically in movies? It'd be so much better if they went for accuracy.
Panel 2:
The woman: Hmm...
Panel 3:
A bald, wild-eyed scientist in a lab coat holds up a glowing vial: I wish we didn't obsess over applications for research. Will my death ray annihilate all life on Earth? Maybe? But I really just want to know if physics ALLOWS death rays. It's all in this 214-slide PowerPoint deck, which is entirely made of bullet-points I'll be reading aloud.
Votey:
The wild-eyed scientist (now snarling): Twist! It's the boredom that will kill you!
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A man with round glasses talks to a woman, saying "Why do they always portray scientists unrealistically in movies? It'd be so much better if they went for accuracy." Panel 2: The woman thinks, "Hmm..." Panel 3: A bald, manic scientist in a lab coat holds up a glowing vial and rants: "I wish we didn't obsess over applications for research. Will my death ray annihilate all life on Earth? Maybe? But I really just want to know if physics ALLOWS death rays. It's all in this 214-slide PowerPoint deck, which is entirely made of bullet-points I'll be reading aloud." The joke: an accurately portrayed scientist is mundane and tediously academic rather than dramatically villainous. Votey: A close-up of the same scientist, now baring his teeth menacingly, declaring: "Twist! It's the boredom that will kill you!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.