Scott Meyer

How to Appreciate an Unrealistic Premise

Added 2025-06-30 07:00:02 +0000 UTC

WARNING: this commentary gets a little blue.

Sometimes a comic will come directly from an entire conversation. Other times, the bit that makes the comic is just the usable tip of a funnier, but unusable iceberg.

Here’s an example.

Ric mentioned his love of romantic comedies. We joked around about this. Eventually, he said that liking romantic comedies doesn’t mean he believes in true love or love at first sight. After all, he likes Star Wars but doesn’t believe in the Force.

As you can guess, that’s where this comic came from.

The conversation continued, and somehow we found our way to the topic of some ridiculous right-wing influencer who, a few months back, claimed that the female orgasm is a myth. We played with the idea that this guy just has never seen one, so he believes they aren’t possible.

That led to us imagining Han Solo saying , “Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe that women are capable of having an orgasm.” Then Leia stands up and silently leaves the room.

Then we went on a Bigfoot tangent. That each society has its own name for the female orgasm. In England, it’s called a “feminine crisis,” but nobody we find credible has seen one, and all of the purported films of them are obviously fake.

In the end, we imagined a very special episode of In Search Of, that closed with Leonard Nimoy, wearing only a towel, sitting on the corner of a bed, exhausted, talking about how no amount of effort could create concrete proof while his lab partner takes a shower in the next room.