subject
Original: subject on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Young woman (orange hair): I'd like to have octuplets so I can use 4 for experimental drugs and 4 for placebo control.
Panel 2:
Young woman: Are you crazy?
Older woman (mom): You have to randomize for each experiment! You can't assign 4 of them to permanent status as control! Offspring? That's not double-blind!
Panel 3:
Mom raises both hands, eyes wide, looking shocked.
Panel 4:
Young woman: I have so much to learn from you, mom.
Mom: Yes you do, subject #6.
Votey:
Young woman (off-panel, speech bubble): I'm 7.
Mom: Not this decade you aren't.
Young woman (orange hair): I'd like to have octuplets so I can use 4 for experimental drugs and 4 for placebo control.
Panel 2:
Young woman: Are you crazy?
Older woman (mom): You have to randomize for each experiment! You can't assign 4 of them to permanent status as control! Offspring? That's not double-blind!
Panel 3:
Mom raises both hands, eyes wide, looking shocked.
Panel 4:
Young woman: I have so much to learn from you, mom.
Mom: Yes you do, subject #6.
Votey:
Young woman (off-panel, speech bubble): I'm 7.
Mom: Not this decade you aren't.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic between a young woman with orange hair and her mother, an older woman in a pink shirt. Panel 1: the young woman says she'd like to have octuplets so she can use 4 for experimental drugs and 4 for placebo control. Panel 2: she asks "Are you crazy?" and her mom passionately objects on scientific grounds: "You have to randomize for each experiment! You can't assign 4 of them to permanent status as control! Offspring? That's not double-blind!" Panel 3: the mom throws up both hands, eyes wide. Panel 4: the young woman says "I have so much to learn from you, mom," and the mom replies, "Yes you do, subject #6" - revealing the daughter is herself one of the mom's experimental subjects. Votey: a small black-and-white panel where the daughter protests "I'm 7" (i.e., subject #7), and the mom retorts, "Not this decade you aren't."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.