zimbardo
Original: zimbardo on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A woman with dark curly hair sits at a desk reading a paper. A red "PSYCH" stamp is on it.
Woman: I HATE THESE STUPID ZIMBARDO PRISON EXPERIMENTS!
Panel 2:
Woman: THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO SHOW THAT PEOPLE WILL JUST BLINDLY OBEY AUTHORITY. BUT THEY AREN'T ACTUAL EXPERIMENTS. THE EXPERIMENTER INTERFERED IN THE EXPERIMENT HIMSELF!
Panel 3:
Woman: AND YET, DESPITE BEING ADVERSE TO IT, PEOPLE STARTED BELIEVING THEM BECAUSE... BECAUSE...
Panel 4:
Woman: BECAUSE THEY WERE TOLD TO, BY AUTHORITY FIGURES.
Panel 5:
Woman: WHICH PROVES...
(sound effect: clap clap clap)
Panel 6: A man in a suit, head thrown back, laughing maniacally; the woman recoils in shock.
Man: HAHAHAHAHA! ZIMBARDO! YOU GENIUS!!
Votey:
A close-up of the laughing man's face, now serious.
Man: YOU HAVE ONLY REACHED ZIMBARDO LEVEL 2.
Woman: I HATE THESE STUPID ZIMBARDO PRISON EXPERIMENTS!
Panel 2:
Woman: THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO SHOW THAT PEOPLE WILL JUST BLINDLY OBEY AUTHORITY. BUT THEY AREN'T ACTUAL EXPERIMENTS. THE EXPERIMENTER INTERFERED IN THE EXPERIMENT HIMSELF!
Panel 3:
Woman: AND YET, DESPITE BEING ADVERSE TO IT, PEOPLE STARTED BELIEVING THEM BECAUSE... BECAUSE...
Panel 4:
Woman: BECAUSE THEY WERE TOLD TO, BY AUTHORITY FIGURES.
Panel 5:
Woman: WHICH PROVES...
(sound effect: clap clap clap)
Panel 6: A man in a suit, head thrown back, laughing maniacally; the woman recoils in shock.
Man: HAHAHAHAHA! ZIMBARDO! YOU GENIUS!!
Votey:
A close-up of the laughing man's face, now serious.
Man: YOU HAVE ONLY REACHED ZIMBARDO LEVEL 2.
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A woman with dark curly hair at a desk reads a paper stamped "PSYCH" and complains: "I hate these stupid Zimbardo prison experiments! They're supposed to show that people will just blindly obey authority. But they aren't actual experiments — the experimenter interfered in the experiment himself!" She continues: "And yet, despite being adverse to it, people started believing them because... because..." Then, realizing the irony: "Because they were told to, by authority figures. Which proves..." Clapping is heard. In the final panel a man in a suit laughs maniacally — "Hahahaha! Zimbardo! You genius!!" — as she recoils, the joke being that the flawed experiment proves its own point by being believed on authority. Votey: a close-up of the man's now-serious face saying, "You have only reached Zimbardo level 2."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.