2008-05-16
Original: 2008-05-16 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (no text): An orange butterfly lands on a pink flower against a purple-and-green hilly landscape.
Panel 2:
Caption banner: 1,000,000 RANDOM CONSEQUENCES LATER...
A bearded man holding a sheet of paper addresses someone whose head is visible at the right edge.
Bearded man: I CALL IT CHAOS THEORY!
Votey:
A man (drawn in loose black-and-white sketch style) recoils, mouth open, as a tornado tears toward him.
Man: AAAH!
Panel 2:
Caption banner: 1,000,000 RANDOM CONSEQUENCES LATER...
A bearded man holding a sheet of paper addresses someone whose head is visible at the right edge.
Bearded man: I CALL IT CHAOS THEORY!
Votey:
A man (drawn in loose black-and-white sketch style) recoils, mouth open, as a tornado tears toward him.
Man: AAAH!
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic about chaos theory. Panel 1: an orange butterfly settles onto a pink flower in a purple-and-green landscape, no text. Panel 2: a yellow caption banner reads '1,000,000 RANDOM CONSEQUENCES LATER...' Below it, a bearded man holding a piece of paper proudly tells a listener at the panel's edge, 'I CALL IT CHAOS THEORY!' The joke is the classic butterfly-effect chain from a tiny butterfly to a grand theory. Votey (bonus panel, rough black-and-white sketch): the man screams 'AAAH!' as a tornado bears down on him, implying the butterfly's flap actually triggered a disaster.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.