2012-10-21
Original: 2012-10-21 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man at the door (holding a bowl of candy, woman beside him): AND WHAT ARE YOU THIS HALLOWEEN, LITTLE GIRL?
Panel 2:
Little girl (wearing a lab coat, holding a wrench): I'M A QUANTUM MECHANIC!
Panel 3:
A child in a devil costume holding a roll of toilet paper: HOW'D IT GO?
The girl in the lab coat: GREAT. BUT THEY'RE GONNA HATE THE SUPERPOSITION OF TRICK AND TREAT.
Votey:
The word "TRICK" hand-lettered, but the central letters are wobbly/overlapping so it ambiguously reads as both "TRICK" and "TREAT" superimposed.
Man at the door (holding a bowl of candy, woman beside him): AND WHAT ARE YOU THIS HALLOWEEN, LITTLE GIRL?
Panel 2:
Little girl (wearing a lab coat, holding a wrench): I'M A QUANTUM MECHANIC!
Panel 3:
A child in a devil costume holding a roll of toilet paper: HOW'D IT GO?
The girl in the lab coat: GREAT. BUT THEY'RE GONNA HATE THE SUPERPOSITION OF TRICK AND TREAT.
Votey:
The word "TRICK" hand-lettered, but the central letters are wobbly/overlapping so it ambiguously reads as both "TRICK" and "TREAT" superimposed.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A man holding a bowl of candy, with a woman beside him, answers his door and asks a little girl, "And what are YOU this Halloween, little girl?" Panel 2: The girl, dressed in a lab coat and holding a wrench, beams and declares, "I'm a quantum mechanic!" Panel 3: Later, outside at night, a friend in a devil costume holding a roll of toilet paper asks, "How'd it go?" The lab-coat girl replies, "Great. But they're gonna hate the superposition of trick and treat." Votey: the word "TRICK" is hand-lettered with the middle letters smeared and overlapping so it simultaneously reads as both "trick" and "treat," a visual pun on quantum superposition.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.