class-2
Original: class-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Professor (a woman with dark hair, standing at a lectern): "Welcome to Pass/Fail Contemporary Media Studies for Non-Majors!"
Panel 2 (close-up on the professor, wide-eyed, grinning):
Professor: "TWIST! There is no such class."
Professor (lower caption): "We all know why you're here. You think you'll get perfect grades with no effort. And you're right! We tricked you into taking it so that all the other classes would contain only motivated students."
Panel 3:
Professor: "This is the flypaper and you are the flies!"
Professor: "Your assignment is to come here twice a week for 3 hours to sit and feel shame for a brief moment. The rest of campus will experience what university life could be in an ideal world. Do that, and you'll receive your precious pass."
Panel 4:
Professor: "For God's sake, you're all texting aren't you?"
A student (raising a hand): "Is any of this gonna be on a test?"
Votey:
A phone/tablet screen displays a speech bubble.
Voice from the screen: "Okay, you fail."
Professor (a woman with dark hair, standing at a lectern): "Welcome to Pass/Fail Contemporary Media Studies for Non-Majors!"
Panel 2 (close-up on the professor, wide-eyed, grinning):
Professor: "TWIST! There is no such class."
Professor (lower caption): "We all know why you're here. You think you'll get perfect grades with no effort. And you're right! We tricked you into taking it so that all the other classes would contain only motivated students."
Panel 3:
Professor: "This is the flypaper and you are the flies!"
Professor: "Your assignment is to come here twice a week for 3 hours to sit and feel shame for a brief moment. The rest of campus will experience what university life could be in an ideal world. Do that, and you'll receive your precious pass."
Panel 4:
Professor: "For God's sake, you're all texting aren't you?"
A student (raising a hand): "Is any of this gonna be on a test?"
Votey:
A phone/tablet screen displays a speech bubble.
Voice from the screen: "Okay, you fail."
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. In panel 1, a dark-haired professor stands at a lectern before a crowd and announces, "Welcome to Pass/Fail Contemporary Media Studies for Non-Majors!" In panel 2, a wide-eyed close-up of the professor grinning: "TWIST! There is no such class." She explains the students only signed up expecting easy perfect grades, and that she tricked them into this fake class so all the other classes would contain only motivated students. In panel 3 she declares, "This is the flypaper and you are the flies!" Their assignment is to come twice a week for three hours, sit and feel a brief moment of shame so the rest of campus can experience an ideal university, and they'll receive their pass. In panel 4 she exclaims, "For God's sake, you're all texting aren't you?" while a student raises a hand and asks, "Is any of this gonna be on a test?" Votey: a phone screen shows a speech bubble reading "Okay, you fail."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.