2014-12-12
Original: 2014-12-12 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Green troll: If trolls are exposed to the sun, we die.
Woman with dark hair: That sounds dumb.
Panel 2:
Green troll: A photon isn't like a char [character], it's a photon. And a photon's a photon. It's not the "same" photon. All photons are the same! How would a troll body tell a sun photon from a photon reflected off of the moon?
Panel 3:
Woman with dark hair: Almost no photons leave the sun, make it through the atmosphere without "touching" anything, then hit the troll.
Green troll: This is just a fairytale that costs trolls a lot of high quality work time. This is physics 101, man! I'm telling you!
Panel 4 (later):
Woman with dark hair: Where'd you get the awesome troll sculpture?
Green troll: Made 'em myself.
Votey:
Green troll: With my mind.
(Close-up on the troll's smug face.)
Green troll: If trolls are exposed to the sun, we die.
Woman with dark hair: That sounds dumb.
Panel 2:
Green troll: A photon isn't like a char [character], it's a photon. And a photon's a photon. It's not the "same" photon. All photons are the same! How would a troll body tell a sun photon from a photon reflected off of the moon?
Panel 3:
Woman with dark hair: Almost no photons leave the sun, make it through the atmosphere without "touching" anything, then hit the troll.
Green troll: This is just a fairytale that costs trolls a lot of high quality work time. This is physics 101, man! I'm telling you!
Panel 4 (later):
Woman with dark hair: Where'd you get the awesome troll sculpture?
Green troll: Made 'em myself.
Votey:
Green troll: With my mind.
(Close-up on the troll's smug face.)
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A green, pointy-eared troll argues with a dark-haired woman. Panel 1: the troll says trolls die if exposed to the sun; the woman replies "That sounds dumb." Panel 2: the troll launches into a physics rant insisting a photon is just a photon and a troll's body couldn't tell a sun photon from one reflected off the moon. Panel 3: the woman points out that almost no photons leave the sun, pass through the atmosphere untouched, and hit the troll; the troll insists it's all a fairytale costing trolls work time and that it's "physics 101." Panel 4, labeled LATER: the woman asks where he got an awesome troll sculpture, and he says he made it himself. Votey: a close-up of the troll's smug face as he adds, "With my mind." The joke: the troll's claim that sunlight harms trolls is actually true (he was turned to a sculpture, i.e. petrified to stone) despite his confident physics-based denial.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.