great-expectations
Original: great-expectations on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (a line graph):
Y-axis label: EXPECTED STAYING POWER DURING NEXT SEXUAL ENCOUNTER
X-axis label: CURRENT DESIRE FOR SEX
The red curve rises slowly at first then sweeps steeply upward to the top-right.
Panel 2 (a couple in bed):
A man with curly red hair, lying beside his partner: "Wow. You only lasted five minutes. Good thing you set aside 12 hours and a garden-shed full of new sex toys."
His partner, a woman with dark hair: "And yet 9PM *is* very close to bedtime."
Signature: smbc-comics.com
Votey:
A hand-drawn Venn diagram with two overlapping circles inside a rough square border.
Left circle labeled: Sex Joke
Right circle labeled: Graph joke
The overlapping middle region labeled: Art.
Y-axis label: EXPECTED STAYING POWER DURING NEXT SEXUAL ENCOUNTER
X-axis label: CURRENT DESIRE FOR SEX
The red curve rises slowly at first then sweeps steeply upward to the top-right.
Panel 2 (a couple in bed):
A man with curly red hair, lying beside his partner: "Wow. You only lasted five minutes. Good thing you set aside 12 hours and a garden-shed full of new sex toys."
His partner, a woman with dark hair: "And yet 9PM *is* very close to bedtime."
Signature: smbc-comics.com
Votey:
A hand-drawn Venn diagram with two overlapping circles inside a rough square border.
Left circle labeled: Sex Joke
Right circle labeled: Graph joke
The overlapping middle region labeled: Art.
Alt text
A two-part SMBC comic. The top panel is a line graph titled with a y-axis reading "Expected staying power during next sexual encounter" and an x-axis reading "Current desire for sex." A red curve climbs gently and then shoots steeply upward to the top right, implying the more you want sex, the more inflated your expectations of your own stamina become. The bottom panel shows a couple lying in bed; a red-haired man tells his dark-haired partner, "Wow. You only lasted five minutes. Good thing you set aside 12 hours and a garden-shed full of new sex toys." She replies, "And yet 9PM *is* very close to bedtime" — the punchline being that all that preparation will go unused because they're already tired. The votey (bonus panel) is a crude hand-drawn Venn diagram: one circle labeled "Sex Joke," another labeled "Graph joke," and their overlapping center labeled "Art," mocking the comic's own combination of the two.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.