2008-08-19
Original: 2008-08-19 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman in a lab coat stands beside a chalkboard covered in physics equations (symbols including psi, integrals, epsilon, etc.).
Woman: WE'VE DONE IT! A GRAND UNIFIED THEORY! PHYSICS IS COMPLETE!
A man with reddish hair (back to viewer): SO... WHAT DO WE DO WITH ALL THE PHYSICISTS?
Panel 2:
The woman, now smiling reassuringly, places a hand on the shoulder of a balding man.
Woman: HAHAHA! IT'S NOT AS IF THERE'S SUDDENLY NO USE FOR THOUGHTFUL, INTELLIGENT PEOPLE.
Panel 3 (wide, no dialogue):
A grim industrial scene. Two of the physicists (the woman in blue and the red-haired man in a lab coat) sit slumped and dejected on the floor of a factory. A conveyor belt runs along the floor, feeding objects into a fiery furnace/incinerator. On the other side of the furnace, the conveyor belt carries a line of hamburgers being produced. The implication: the now-useless physicists are being fed into the furnace as fuel for a hamburger production line.
Votey:
A close-up of a single hamburger with a small flag stuck into the top bun. The flag reads: "100% SOMETHIN'!"
A woman in a lab coat stands beside a chalkboard covered in physics equations (symbols including psi, integrals, epsilon, etc.).
Woman: WE'VE DONE IT! A GRAND UNIFIED THEORY! PHYSICS IS COMPLETE!
A man with reddish hair (back to viewer): SO... WHAT DO WE DO WITH ALL THE PHYSICISTS?
Panel 2:
The woman, now smiling reassuringly, places a hand on the shoulder of a balding man.
Woman: HAHAHA! IT'S NOT AS IF THERE'S SUDDENLY NO USE FOR THOUGHTFUL, INTELLIGENT PEOPLE.
Panel 3 (wide, no dialogue):
A grim industrial scene. Two of the physicists (the woman in blue and the red-haired man in a lab coat) sit slumped and dejected on the floor of a factory. A conveyor belt runs along the floor, feeding objects into a fiery furnace/incinerator. On the other side of the furnace, the conveyor belt carries a line of hamburgers being produced. The implication: the now-useless physicists are being fed into the furnace as fuel for a hamburger production line.
Votey:
A close-up of a single hamburger with a small flag stuck into the top bun. The flag reads: "100% SOMETHIN'!"
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: A woman in a lab coat stands by a chalkboard full of physics equations and announces, "We've done it! A grand unified theory! Physics is complete!" A red-haired man asks, "So... what do we do with all the physicists?" Panel 2: The woman cheerfully puts a hand on a colleague's shoulder and says, "Hahaha! It's not as if there's suddenly no use for thoughtful, intelligent people." Panel 3: A bleak factory interior. Two of the physicists sit slumped and miserable on the floor beside a conveyor belt that feeds into a blazing furnace; on the far side, the same belt churns out a row of hamburgers, implying the obsolete physicists are being incinerated to make burgers. Votey: A close-up of a single hamburger with a tiny flag stuck in the bun reading "100% Somethin'!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.