2009-12-20
Original: 2009-12-20 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
The comic is told in reverse chronological order, with each panel labeled by day of the week.
Panel 1 (label: FRIDAY.): A person at a podium addresses a panel of seated senators. Speaker (at podium): "So, senators, that report we released was fake - a test of your true feelings. And, well, we're not exactly floored over here." The senators look unimpressed/displeased.
Panel 2 (label: THURSDAY.): A newspaper with the headline: "SENATE REVOKES ALL FUNDING FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH"
Panel 3 (label: WEDNESDAY.): A journal cover reading "JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY" with the headline: "ALL DISEASE IN ELECTED OFFICIALS CURED"
Votey: A newspaper/scroll reading: "WORLD PEACE ACHIEVED; PHYSICS FUNDS CANCELLED"
Panel 1 (label: FRIDAY.): A person at a podium addresses a panel of seated senators. Speaker (at podium): "So, senators, that report we released was fake - a test of your true feelings. And, well, we're not exactly floored over here." The senators look unimpressed/displeased.
Panel 2 (label: THURSDAY.): A newspaper with the headline: "SENATE REVOKES ALL FUNDING FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH"
Panel 3 (label: WEDNESDAY.): A journal cover reading "JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY" with the headline: "ALL DISEASE IN ELECTED OFFICIALS CURED"
Votey: A newspaper/scroll reading: "WORLD PEACE ACHIEVED; PHYSICS FUNDS CANCELLED"
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic told in reverse chronological order, each panel labeled with a day of the week. FRIDAY (top): A person stands at a podium addressing a row of stern, unimpressed senators, saying, "So, senators, that report we released was fake - a test of your true feelings. And, well, we're not exactly floored over here." THURSDAY (middle): A newspaper headline reads, "SENATE REVOKES ALL FUNDING FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH." WEDNESDAY (bottom): A cover of the "Journal of Epidemiology" announces, "ALL DISEASE IN ELECTED OFFICIALS CURED." Read backward in time, the joke is that once politicians were cured of all disease, they immediately defunded all medical research-revealing their selfishness, which the podium speaker confirms was the real test. Votey (aftercomic): A newspaper reading, "WORLD PEACE ACHIEVED; PHYSICS FUNDS CANCELLED," extending the joke-once a field solves the problem that benefits the powerful, its funding is cut.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.