1852

The White House Correspondents' Dinner is sometimes described as a "nerd prom". This description is both cringeworthy and grotesque, because it's meant to sound self-deprecatory while it's actually a means of basking in the social cachet that comes with membership in the White House Correspondents' Association. Randall likes to do this a lot, where he makes it look like knowing about science presents all these tiresome yet wacky obstacles to functioning in everyday society. At the same time, there's a subtextual assertion of superiority: he isn't wrapped up in anything so banal as election results, because he's been busy pondering the LAWS OF SCIENCE. He has carefully posted this as far from an election as possible, to make it extra clear that he is in no way beholden to the political cycles that dominate the lives of you lesser beings.

At least there's some attempt at art in it? It's the first one to have color since 1845.