love-4
Original: love-4 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with gray hair in a pink shirt: "Humans don't just have physiological responses to emotion. We have emotional responses to physiology!"
(A man with dark curly hair listens.)
Panel 2:
Woman: "If you meet someone and find your heart racing and your eyes dilated, you will assume you're attracted to them, even if you aren't!"
Panel 3:
Man: "So we can decide who falls in love with whom! If you know two people who should be together, you can ensure that they find each other attractive!"
Panel 4:
Woman (holding up a bow and arrow with a syringe taped to it labeled "Amphetamines"): "I call it 'Cupid's arrow'!"
Votey:
Woman (off-panel speaker, smiling close-up): "It's also great if you want your employees to *love* their work!"
Woman with gray hair in a pink shirt: "Humans don't just have physiological responses to emotion. We have emotional responses to physiology!"
(A man with dark curly hair listens.)
Panel 2:
Woman: "If you meet someone and find your heart racing and your eyes dilated, you will assume you're attracted to them, even if you aren't!"
Panel 3:
Man: "So we can decide who falls in love with whom! If you know two people who should be together, you can ensure that they find each other attractive!"
Panel 4:
Woman (holding up a bow and arrow with a syringe taped to it labeled "Amphetamines"): "I call it 'Cupid's arrow'!"
Votey:
Woman (off-panel speaker, smiling close-up): "It's also great if you want your employees to *love* their work!"
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. A gray-haired woman in a pink shirt explains to a curly-haired man that humans not only have physiological responses to emotion but also emotional responses to physiology: if you meet someone and your heart races and pupils dilate, you'll assume you're attracted to them even if you aren't. The man realizes this means you could decide who falls in love with whom by making two people find each other attractive. In the final panel the woman triumphantly holds up a bow whose 'arrow' is a large syringe labeled 'Amphetamines,' declaring, "I call it 'Cupid's arrow'!" Votey: a close-up of the smiling woman adding, "It's also great if you want your employees to *love* their work!" The joke: forcing the physiological arousal of stimulant drugs to manufacture feelings of love or job satisfaction.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.