2007-01-16
Original: 2007-01-16 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: SMBC PRESENTS: "THE EXISTENTIALIST CONUNDRUM"
Panel 1:
Professor (an older bearded man with glasses, gesturing): So you see, we can self-determine the nature of our own existence by exercising free will over our perception of reality!
Panel 2:
Student (a young man seen from behind): So, you've "self-determined" yourself to be an assistant professor at community college?
Votey:
A man (the professor) at a fast-food drive-thru window labeled "McDo..." speaking to the cashier: I will you to give me a burger for 99 cents!
Panel 1:
Professor (an older bearded man with glasses, gesturing): So you see, we can self-determine the nature of our own existence by exercising free will over our perception of reality!
Panel 2:
Student (a young man seen from behind): So, you've "self-determined" yourself to be an assistant professor at community college?
Votey:
A man (the professor) at a fast-food drive-thru window labeled "McDo..." speaking to the cashier: I will you to give me a burger for 99 cents!
Alt text
A comic titled "SMBC Presents: The Existentialist Conundrum." An older bearded professor with glasses gestures enthusiastically as he lectures: "So you see, we can self-determine the nature of our own existence by exercising free will over our perception of reality!" A young student, seen from behind, replies dryly: "So, you've 'self-determined' yourself to be an assistant professor at community college?" In the votey aftercomic, the same professor leans out of a car at a fast-food drive-thru window (labeled "McDo...") and demands of the cashier: "I will you to give me a burger for 99 cents!" — comically applying his theory of willing reality into being to score a cheap burger.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.