check-please
Original: check-please on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A woman with brown hair (back to viewer): NICE TO FINALLY MEET YOU IN PERSO-
The same brown-haired woman: WHAT?
A woman with blue-gray hair (facing viewer): OH MY GOD!
Woman with blue-gray hair: THERE IS A FINITE SEQUENCE OF SOUNDS I CAN MAKE THAT WILL RESULT IN US *TOTALLY DOING IT* TONIGHT. DETERMINING THE SEQUENCE IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE, BUT CONFIRMING THAT WE ARE *TOTALLY DOING IT* IS LITERALLY *ONE STEP*!
Caption below panel: The Sex Problem turns out to be NP-complete.
Votey:
The blue-gray-haired woman, smiling: THAT WAS THE RIGHT SEQUENCE!
A woman with brown hair (back to viewer): NICE TO FINALLY MEET YOU IN PERSO-
The same brown-haired woman: WHAT?
A woman with blue-gray hair (facing viewer): OH MY GOD!
Woman with blue-gray hair: THERE IS A FINITE SEQUENCE OF SOUNDS I CAN MAKE THAT WILL RESULT IN US *TOTALLY DOING IT* TONIGHT. DETERMINING THE SEQUENCE IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE, BUT CONFIRMING THAT WE ARE *TOTALLY DOING IT* IS LITERALLY *ONE STEP*!
Caption below panel: The Sex Problem turns out to be NP-complete.
Votey:
The blue-gray-haired woman, smiling: THAT WAS THE RIGHT SEQUENCE!
Alt text
A single-panel comic shows two women talking. A woman with brown hair, seen from behind, begins, "Nice to finally meet you in perso-" then says "What?" A woman with blue-gray hair facing her exclaims "Oh my god!" and launches into a speech: "There is a finite sequence of sounds I can make that will result in us TOTALLY DOING IT tonight. Determining the sequence is nearly impossible, but confirming that we are TOTALLY DOING IT is literally ONE STEP!" The caption reads: "The Sex Problem turns out to be NP-complete" - a joke that finding the right pickup line is hard, but verifying it worked is easy, mirroring NP-complete computational problems. In the votey (aftercomic), the blue-gray-haired woman is shown smiling happily, saying "That was the right sequence!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.