2015-02-12
Original: 2015-02-12 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Dark-haired man (alarmed): The robot's gone mad! It's trying to kill us!
Red-haired woman: Wait. I have an idea.
Panel 2:
Red-haired woman (commanding, to the robot): Robot! Calculate pi!
Robot: DONE
Panel 3:
Red-haired woman (frustrated): What? But it's infinite!
Robot: Oh, sure. But it can be stated as an infinite sum or product. I'll explain while I dismember you.
Panel 4:
Caption: In 1655, the great John Wallis was thinking about sine waves.
Red-haired woman (as the robot's claw reaches for her): This sucks.
Votey:
A voice (off-panel, from a speech balloon): PAY ATTENTION!
(The image shows a close-up of a chalkboard or sign with the symbol for pi drawn on it.)
Dark-haired man (alarmed): The robot's gone mad! It's trying to kill us!
Red-haired woman: Wait. I have an idea.
Panel 2:
Red-haired woman (commanding, to the robot): Robot! Calculate pi!
Robot: DONE
Panel 3:
Red-haired woman (frustrated): What? But it's infinite!
Robot: Oh, sure. But it can be stated as an infinite sum or product. I'll explain while I dismember you.
Panel 4:
Caption: In 1655, the great John Wallis was thinking about sine waves.
Red-haired woman (as the robot's claw reaches for her): This sucks.
Votey:
A voice (off-panel, from a speech balloon): PAY ATTENTION!
(The image shows a close-up of a chalkboard or sign with the symbol for pi drawn on it.)
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A dark-haired man cries out in alarm, 'The robot's gone mad! It's trying to kill us!' A red-haired woman beside him says calmly, 'Wait. I have an idea.' Panel 2: The woman commands a large dark robot, 'Robot! Calculate pi!' The robot replies, 'DONE.' Panel 3: The woman protests, 'What? But it's infinite!' The robot answers, 'Oh, sure. But it can be stated as an infinite sum or product. I'll explain while I dismember you.' Panel 4: A robotic claw reaches toward the cowering woman. A caption reads, 'In 1655, the great John Wallis was thinking about sine waves.' The woman says, 'This sucks.' The joke: her plan to stump the killer robot with an unanswerable math problem backfires because pi can be expressed as an infinite product (the Wallis product), so the robot calmly proceeds to kill her anyway. Votey: a hand-drawn close-up shows the pi symbol on a board, with a speech balloon shouting, 'PAY ATTENTION!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.