2013-11-05
Original: 2013-11-05 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Child: DAD, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU THREW A BALL AND IT ALMOST REACHED SPACE, BUT THEN IT CAME DOWN THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE AND STARTED BURNING UP?
Father (an older balding man with glasses, sitting in a red armchair): IN THAT CASE, THE BALL WOULD BE A METAPHOR FOR LIFE.
Votey:
Father (close-up of his face): SORRY, DID YOU WANT PHYSICS OR METAPHYSICS?
Child: DAD, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU THREW A BALL AND IT ALMOST REACHED SPACE, BUT THEN IT CAME DOWN THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE AND STARTED BURNING UP?
Father (an older balding man with glasses, sitting in a red armchair): IN THAT CASE, THE BALL WOULD BE A METAPHOR FOR LIFE.
Votey:
Father (close-up of his face): SORRY, DID YOU WANT PHYSICS OR METAPHYSICS?
Alt text
A young child with reddish-brown hair stands at the lower left, looking up and asking, "Dad, what would happen if you threw a ball and it almost reached space, but then it came down through the atmosphere and started burning up?" An older balding man with glasses, wearing a green shirt and seated in a red armchair, replies flatly, "In that case, the ball would be a metaphor for life." In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the father's deadpan face shows him adding, "Sorry, did you want physics or metaphysics?" The joke: the dad reflexively answers a science question with a pretentious philosophical metaphor, then offers to clarify which kind of answer the kid actually wanted.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.