2013-10-06
Original: 2013-10-06 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (title/instruction):
FUNTIME ACTIVITY: GO THROUGH SOMEONE'S MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH AND CHANGE QUOTATIONS' SOURCES TO HISTORY'S VILLAINS
Panel 2 (a person speaking at a podium/presentation, with an audience visible):
WHY IS EVERYONE LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT?
Panel 3 (a projected slide / motivational quote on screen):
"THE ONLY LIMIT TO YOUR IMPACT IS YOUR IMAGINATION AND COMMITMENT."
-JOSEPH STALIN
Votey:
A handwritten-style quote card reads:
"EVERY GREAT ADVANCE IN SCIENCE HAS ISSUED FROM A NEW AUDACITY OF IMAGINATION."
-TROFIM LYSENKO
FUNTIME ACTIVITY: GO THROUGH SOMEONE'S MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH AND CHANGE QUOTATIONS' SOURCES TO HISTORY'S VILLAINS
Panel 2 (a person speaking at a podium/presentation, with an audience visible):
WHY IS EVERYONE LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT?
Panel 3 (a projected slide / motivational quote on screen):
"THE ONLY LIMIT TO YOUR IMPACT IS YOUR IMAGINATION AND COMMITMENT."
-JOSEPH STALIN
Votey:
A handwritten-style quote card reads:
"EVERY GREAT ADVANCE IN SCIENCE HAS ISSUED FROM A NEW AUDACITY OF IMAGINATION."
-TROFIM LYSENKO
Alt text
A three-part SMBC comic. A header reads: "FUNTIME ACTIVITY: GO THROUGH SOMEONE'S MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH AND CHANGE QUOTATIONS' SOURCES TO HISTORY'S VILLAINS." Below, a speaker stands before an audience whose faces look uneasy or alarmed; the speaker says, "WHY IS EVERYONE LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT?" A presentation slide shows an inspirational quote: "The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment," attributed to Joseph Stalin. The joke is that an upbeat motivational line has been credited to a notorious dictator, which is why the audience is horrified. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-lettered quote card reading "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination," attributed to Trofim Lysenko, the Soviet pseudoscientist whose ideas caused agricultural disaster.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.