the-room
Original: the-room on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An older man with gray hair and glasses speaks to a woman with dark hair. Between them is a doorway opening into a dim, nearly empty room containing only a small table with a piece of paper on it.
Man: "It's an empty room, except for a table with a complete set of Martin Gardner puzzles. The nearest water is all the way down the hall. They just wander in, and... that's it."
Caption (below panel): We discovered a way to humanely euthanize mathematicians.
Votey:
Hand-lettered text in a hand-drawn box reads: "SMBC: Now 98% jokes about killing mathematicians"
An older man with gray hair and glasses speaks to a woman with dark hair. Between them is a doorway opening into a dim, nearly empty room containing only a small table with a piece of paper on it.
Man: "It's an empty room, except for a table with a complete set of Martin Gardner puzzles. The nearest water is all the way down the hall. They just wander in, and... that's it."
Caption (below panel): We discovered a way to humanely euthanize mathematicians.
Votey:
Hand-lettered text in a hand-drawn box reads: "SMBC: Now 98% jokes about killing mathematicians"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. In the main panel, an older gray-haired man with glasses talks to a dark-haired woman; between them is a doorway into a dim, nearly empty room that contains only a small table holding a sheet of paper. The man says: "It's an empty room, except for a table with a complete set of Martin Gardner puzzles. The nearest water is all the way down the hall. They just wander in, and... that's it." A caption beneath the panel reads: "We discovered a way to humanely euthanize mathematicians." The joke: mathematicians will become so absorbed in the Martin Gardner recreational-math puzzles that they never leave for water and quietly waste away. The votey (bonus panel) is hand-lettered text reading: "SMBC: Now 98% jokes about killing mathematicians," a self-deprecating jab at the comic's recurring theme.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.