Sci
Original: Sci on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (pointing, distressed): YOU SIR! IN THE GLASSES! HELP ME! ARE YOU A SCIENTIST?
Bespectacled man: I...
Panel 2:
Woman (grabbing the man's coat): I MAKE SCIENCE VIDEOS AND WE'RE OUT OF GOOD STUFF. WE USED IT UP! EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT DUCK PENISES AND ENTANGLEMENT AND WHY THE SKY IS BLUE!
Man: MA'AM, LET GO OF MY COAT.
Panel 3:
Woman (frantic): COME ON HONEY! GET ME ANOTHER CREATURE WITH A WEIRD DONG OR SOME QUANTUM THING THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE! MAYBE A MATH PARADOX WITH INFINITIES I GOTTA HAVE IT BABY I HAVE NOTHING LEFT
Panel 4:
Woman (holding out papers): HERE! HERE! I WROTE A PAPER ABOUT A MINOR IMPROVEMENT IN FACTORING ALGORITHMS.
Man (taking the papers): THANK YOU! YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH I NEEDED THIS.
Panel 5:
The man holds the paper up to his face and inhales it.
Sound effect: snnnifffff...
Panel 6:
Man (eyes closed, blissful, sniffing the paper): likes... yes, mm I can already see the thumbnail.
Woman (now eager, holding a phone): [watching him]
Panel 7:
The man walks away looking dazed/satisfied.
Panel 8:
A wide street scene; a small figure stands alone.
Panel 9:
Another person (in an orange shirt) approaches the man: HEY! HEY MAN ARE YOU A SCIENTIST?! I GOT A INSTAGRAM AND—
Bespectacled man (walking off with the new person): JEEZ THIS NEIGHBORHOOD HAS GONE DOWNHILL.
Footer: PATREON.COM/ZACHWEINERSMITH SMBC-COMICS.COM
Votey:
Extreme close-up of the bespectacled man's face, one round glasses lens visible, looking dour and put-upon, with the woman's striped sleeve/the paper edge filling the left side of the frame.
Woman (pointing, distressed): YOU SIR! IN THE GLASSES! HELP ME! ARE YOU A SCIENTIST?
Bespectacled man: I...
Panel 2:
Woman (grabbing the man's coat): I MAKE SCIENCE VIDEOS AND WE'RE OUT OF GOOD STUFF. WE USED IT UP! EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT DUCK PENISES AND ENTANGLEMENT AND WHY THE SKY IS BLUE!
Man: MA'AM, LET GO OF MY COAT.
Panel 3:
Woman (frantic): COME ON HONEY! GET ME ANOTHER CREATURE WITH A WEIRD DONG OR SOME QUANTUM THING THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE! MAYBE A MATH PARADOX WITH INFINITIES I GOTTA HAVE IT BABY I HAVE NOTHING LEFT
Panel 4:
Woman (holding out papers): HERE! HERE! I WROTE A PAPER ABOUT A MINOR IMPROVEMENT IN FACTORING ALGORITHMS.
Man (taking the papers): THANK YOU! YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH I NEEDED THIS.
Panel 5:
The man holds the paper up to his face and inhales it.
Sound effect: snnnifffff...
Panel 6:
Man (eyes closed, blissful, sniffing the paper): likes... yes, mm I can already see the thumbnail.
Woman (now eager, holding a phone): [watching him]
Panel 7:
The man walks away looking dazed/satisfied.
Panel 8:
A wide street scene; a small figure stands alone.
Panel 9:
Another person (in an orange shirt) approaches the man: HEY! HEY MAN ARE YOU A SCIENTIST?! I GOT A INSTAGRAM AND—
Bespectacled man (walking off with the new person): JEEZ THIS NEIGHBORHOOD HAS GONE DOWNHILL.
Footer: PATREON.COM/ZACHWEINERSMITH SMBC-COMICS.COM
Votey:
Extreme close-up of the bespectacled man's face, one round glasses lens visible, looking dour and put-upon, with the woman's striped sleeve/the paper edge filling the left side of the frame.
Alt text
A multi-panel SMBC comic. A frantic woman accosts a bespectacled man on the street, demanding to know if he's a scientist. She explains she makes science videos and has run out of good material—'everyone knows about duck penises and entanglement and why the sky is blue'—and grabs his coat begging for fresh content while he says 'Ma'am, let go of my coat.' She thrusts papers at him: a paper about a minor improvement in factoring algorithms. He gratefully takes it, saying 'You don't know how much I needed this,' then holds the page to his face and deeply sniffs it ('snnniffff...'), eyes closed in bliss, murmuring 'likes... yes, I can already see the thumbnail'—casting the scientist as the addict and science content as the drug. The man walks off dazed; the woman, now eager with a phone, watches. A wide shot shows an empty street. Another person in an orange shirt then accosts him—'Hey! Hey man are you a scientist?! I got an Instagram and—'—as the man, walking away with them, mutters 'Jeez this neighborhood has gone downhill,' as if science-content creators are loitering addicts. Votey: an extreme close-up of the dour bespectacled man's face, the woman's striped sleeve and the paper edge crowding the frame.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.