2006-09-18
Original: 2006-09-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner (yellow): SMBC PRESENTS "HOW TO DEBATE" EPISODE 1: USING YOUR SOURCES
Panel 1:
A woman with red/auburn hair in a green shirt, gesturing: "You believe in the moon landing?! Scientists proved it was a fake!¹ I have a brother² who's an expert³ in photography⁴ who said the pictures couldn't⁵ possibly be real⁶."
Below the panel:
Bibliography:
1) Heard it somewhere. ³
2) Sort of.
3) Not actually true.
Votey:
A different person (a man with a long face and pointed chin) speaks in a speech bubble: "Moon landers can't melt steel beams!"
Panel 1:
A woman with red/auburn hair in a green shirt, gesturing: "You believe in the moon landing?! Scientists proved it was a fake!¹ I have a brother² who's an expert³ in photography⁴ who said the pictures couldn't⁵ possibly be real⁶."
Below the panel:
Bibliography:
1) Heard it somewhere. ³
2) Sort of.
3) Not actually true.
Votey:
A different person (a man with a long face and pointed chin) speaks in a speech bubble: "Moon landers can't melt steel beams!"
Alt text
An SMBC comic titled "SMBC PRESENTS 'HOW TO DEBATE' EPISODE 1: USING YOUR SOURCES." In the main panel, a woman with auburn hair and a green shirt gestures emphatically as she argues: "You believe in the moon landing?! Scientists proved it was a fake! I have a brother who's an expert in photography who said the pictures couldn't possibly be real." Several of her words carry footnote superscripts. Below the panel, a mock "Bibliography" undercuts her claims: 1) Heard it somewhere. 2) Sort of. 3) Not actually true. The joke is that her confident sourcing is built entirely on hearsay and falsehoods. Votey (aftercomic): a separate man with a long, pointed face declares in a speech bubble, "Moon landers can't melt steel beams!" — mashing up moon-landing denial with the "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" conspiracy slogan into nonsense.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.