anything-3
Original: anything-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (red-haired, in a red tank top): "Professor... I would do ANYTHING for a better grade."
Panel 2:
Woman: "Would you take over my lab course for pre-med students who will complain if you do anything other than teach them nothing then reward them with a perfect score?"
(The professor, an older bearded man, stands with his back partly turned.)
Panel 3:
Woman: "But I... but that would be so DEGRADING."
Panel 4:
Professor (bearded man with glasses): "It is the only way to bring me pleasure now."
Panel 5:
Woman (arms crossed, looking uneasy): "I think I'm gonna throw up."
Votey:
Caption (no speaker, text only): "No, those hands are not drawn badly. He's actually holding two tiny puppet hands."
Woman (red-haired, in a red tank top): "Professor... I would do ANYTHING for a better grade."
Panel 2:
Woman: "Would you take over my lab course for pre-med students who will complain if you do anything other than teach them nothing then reward them with a perfect score?"
(The professor, an older bearded man, stands with his back partly turned.)
Panel 3:
Woman: "But I... but that would be so DEGRADING."
Panel 4:
Professor (bearded man with glasses): "It is the only way to bring me pleasure now."
Panel 5:
Woman (arms crossed, looking uneasy): "I think I'm gonna throw up."
Votey:
Caption (no speaker, text only): "No, those hands are not drawn badly. He's actually holding two tiny puppet hands."
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired woman in a red tank top tells an older bearded professor, "Professor... I would do ANYTHING for a better grade." In the next panel she continues, "Would you take over my lab course for pre-med students who will complain if you do anything other than teach them nothing then reward them with a perfect score?" The woman, looking dismayed, says, "But I... but that would be so DEGRADING." The bearded professor in glasses calmly replies, "It is the only way to bring me pleasure now." In the final panel the woman, arms crossed and queasy, says, "I think I'm gonna throw up." The joke flips the expected seduction setup: she is the one propositioning him, and what he requests is the tedious, soul-crushing labor of teaching entitled pre-med students. Votey: a plain caption-only panel reading, "No, those hands are not drawn badly. He's actually holding two tiny puppet hands." -- a self-aware aside about the professor's awkwardly drawn hands in the final panel.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.