2011-09-28
Original: 2011-09-28 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child: Why do bad things happen to good people?
Man (with glasses, green shirt): God works in mysterious ways.
Panel 2:
(Two gray/green aliens stand over a glowing green dish-like device.)
First alien: Why does this simulation work 6% more efficiently?
Second alien (holding a control): We let bad things happen to good people.
Votey:
Alien (close-up): We can get it to 7% if we make candy tastier than vegetables.
Child: Why do bad things happen to good people?
Man (with glasses, green shirt): God works in mysterious ways.
Panel 2:
(Two gray/green aliens stand over a glowing green dish-like device.)
First alien: Why does this simulation work 6% more efficiently?
Second alien (holding a control): We let bad things happen to good people.
Votey:
Alien (close-up): We can get it to 7% if we make candy tastier than vegetables.
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Panel 1: A young child asks a bespectacled man in a green shirt, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" The man replies, "God works in mysterious ways." Panel 2: The scene cuts to two aliens standing over a glowing green simulation device. One alien asks, "Why does this simulation work 6% more efficiently?" The other, holding a controller, answers, "We let bad things happen to good people." The joke reframes the religious platitude as aliens running humanity as a simulation, where suffering is an efficiency optimization. Votey (aftercomic): A close-up of one alien adding, "We can get it to 7% if we make candy tastier than vegetables."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.