May 5, 2008
#419: Forks and Spoons explain

Megan: A spoon crossed with a fork is a spork.
Off-panel Megan’s voice: Our lab has successfully crossed a spork with a spoon. [Diagram showing the fractions of fork and spoon in each item.]
[Chart showing possible combinations of spoons a forks.]
Megan, facing audience: With your funding, we could create hybrids in proportions corresponding to any binary fraction.
[Fork-Spoon Spectrum.]
Audience member: You’re toying with powerful forces here.
Megan: We know what we’re doing.
Two weeks later:
[Picture of a destroyed lab, with a scientific poster and lab equipment. Two dead bodies, blood everywhere, and a spoon-fork hybrid hopping away can be seen.]
Hop hop hop