theory
Original: theory on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with red hair, in a brown blazer over a green top, jabs an accusing finger at a man in a white lab coat (a scientist, seen from behind, dark hair, glasses).
Woman: YOU EXPERIMENTALISTS ARE INFERIOR! YOU'RE JUST A BUNCH OF STAMP COLLECTORS!
Panel 2:
Close-up of the man in the lab coat. He is wearing a blindfold over his eyes. There is electronic lab equipment behind him.
Man (blindfolded): WHAT DO THEORISTS DO THAT'S SO GREAT?
Panel 3:
Wide overhead view. The red-haired woman stands on a checkered floor, arms spread, looking exuberant/teary with joy as she gestures.
(No dialogue in this panel.)
Panel 4:
The woman (only her outstretched hand visible at left) continues speaking. The blindfolded man in the lab coat is visible at lower right on the checkered floor.
Woman: WE IMAGINE ALL THE STAMPS THAT *COULD* EXIST!
Votey:
A single hand-lettered caption panel.
Text: I'LL EXPLAIN IT TO YOU ONCE I CAN LOCATE SUFFICIENTLY OBTUSE JARGON.
A woman with red hair, in a brown blazer over a green top, jabs an accusing finger at a man in a white lab coat (a scientist, seen from behind, dark hair, glasses).
Woman: YOU EXPERIMENTALISTS ARE INFERIOR! YOU'RE JUST A BUNCH OF STAMP COLLECTORS!
Panel 2:
Close-up of the man in the lab coat. He is wearing a blindfold over his eyes. There is electronic lab equipment behind him.
Man (blindfolded): WHAT DO THEORISTS DO THAT'S SO GREAT?
Panel 3:
Wide overhead view. The red-haired woman stands on a checkered floor, arms spread, looking exuberant/teary with joy as she gestures.
(No dialogue in this panel.)
Panel 4:
The woman (only her outstretched hand visible at left) continues speaking. The blindfolded man in the lab coat is visible at lower right on the checkered floor.
Woman: WE IMAGINE ALL THE STAMPS THAT *COULD* EXIST!
Votey:
A single hand-lettered caption panel.
Text: I'LL EXPLAIN IT TO YOU ONCE I CAN LOCATE SUFFICIENTLY OBTUSE JARGON.
Alt text
A four-panel comic mocking the rivalry between theoretical and experimental physicists. Panel 1: a red-haired woman in a brown blazer points accusingly at a male scientist in a white lab coat (seen from behind) and yells, 'You experimentalists are inferior! You're just a bunch of stamp collectors!' Panel 2: a close-up reveals the lab-coated man is wearing a blindfold; he asks, 'What do theorists do that's so great?' Panel 3: an overhead shot shows the woman standing on a checkered floor, arms flung wide, beaming with teary pride. Panel 4: she answers, 'We imagine all the stamps that COULD exist!' The joke: the theorist's grand-sounding work is just imagining hypothetical versions of the very 'stamp collecting' she derides, while the experimentalist is literally blindfolded. The votey (bonus panel) is a single caption reading: 'I'll explain it to you once I can locate sufficiently obtuse jargon.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.