2011-06-26
Original: 2011-06-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An older bald man (with a fringe of gray hair) speaks dismissively.
Man: PFF. How can anyone believe psychics. They just say the vague and obvious and pass it off as clairvoyance.
Panel 2:
Caption banner: LATER...
The same man now sits in an armchair watching a financial pundit on a television screen. The pundit (a man in a suit and tie) is speaking.
TV Pundit: The market is headed for a downturn at some point in the future.
Votey:
Title text above the panel: THERE SHOULD BE COMBO PUNDIT / PSYCHICS
A panel shows a man with glasses and slicked-back hair in a suit.
Man: I predict a good winter market. Now, would you like to speak with your mom from beyond the pale of death?
An older bald man (with a fringe of gray hair) speaks dismissively.
Man: PFF. How can anyone believe psychics. They just say the vague and obvious and pass it off as clairvoyance.
Panel 2:
Caption banner: LATER...
The same man now sits in an armchair watching a financial pundit on a television screen. The pundit (a man in a suit and tie) is speaking.
TV Pundit: The market is headed for a downturn at some point in the future.
Votey:
Title text above the panel: THERE SHOULD BE COMBO PUNDIT / PSYCHICS
A panel shows a man with glasses and slicked-back hair in a suit.
Man: I predict a good winter market. Now, would you like to speak with your mom from beyond the pale of death?
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic mocking how financial pundits and psychics make the same kind of vague, unfalsifiable predictions. Panel 1: A scornful older bald man says, "Pff. How can anyone believe psychics. They just say the vague and obvious and pass it off as clairvoyance." Panel 2, labeled "Later...": The same man sits in an armchair watching a TV pundit in a suit, who declares, "The market is headed for a downturn at some point in the future" -- a prediction just as vague as the psychics he scorned. Votey (aftercomic): Titled "There should be combo pundit/psychics," a bespectacled man in a suit says, "I predict a good winter market. Now, would you like to speak with your mom from beyond the pale of death?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.