2010-04-24
Original: 2010-04-24 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A balding man with glasses, wearing a green polo shirt, gestures toward a baby in a yellow outfit seated in a high chair. The baby has its arms raised excitedly.
Man: AND MOVE HOWEVER YOU LIKE... OCCUPY POTENTIALLY ANY POSITION IN REALITY SINCE YOU HAVEN'T BEEN OBSERVED... ANNNND -
Panel 2: Close-up of the man grinning widely.
Man: COLLAPSE THE WAVEFUNCTION!
Panel 3: The man (seen from behind/side) looks at the baby, who now sits quietly and smiles back at him.
Panel 4: A woman with brown hair in a blue top looks concerned. The man holds the baby.
Woman: WHY CAN'T YOU JUST PLAY PEEKABOO?
Man: HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO FEEL SUPERIOR BY PLAYING PEEKABOO?
Votey: A panel with the caption "AT THE PTA MEETING." The same man speaks smugly.
Man: WELL MY TWO YEAR OLD DOES QUANTUM MECHANICS.
Man: AND MOVE HOWEVER YOU LIKE... OCCUPY POTENTIALLY ANY POSITION IN REALITY SINCE YOU HAVEN'T BEEN OBSERVED... ANNNND -
Panel 2: Close-up of the man grinning widely.
Man: COLLAPSE THE WAVEFUNCTION!
Panel 3: The man (seen from behind/side) looks at the baby, who now sits quietly and smiles back at him.
Panel 4: A woman with brown hair in a blue top looks concerned. The man holds the baby.
Woman: WHY CAN'T YOU JUST PLAY PEEKABOO?
Man: HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO FEEL SUPERIOR BY PLAYING PEEKABOO?
Votey: A panel with the caption "AT THE PTA MEETING." The same man speaks smugly.
Man: WELL MY TWO YEAR OLD DOES QUANTUM MECHANICS.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. A balding man in glasses and a green polo coaches a baby in a high chair as if it were a quantum particle: 'And move however you like... occupy potentially any position in reality since you haven't been observed... annnnd -' Close-up of him grinning: 'Collapse the wavefunction!' He looks at the baby, who simply sits and smiles. In the last panel a worried woman asks, 'Why can't you just play peekaboo?' and he replies, 'How am I supposed to feel superior by playing peekaboo?' The joke: he's reframing the baby game peekaboo as quantum physics purely to feel intellectually superior. Votey (aftercomic), captioned 'At the PTA meeting,' shows the same man smugly bragging, 'Well MY two year old does quantum mechanics.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.