unsolvable-
Original: unsolvable- on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Bald man (younger): I'm just... having trouble coming up with my opening math lecture theme because-
Bald man (younger): You know what I do?
Panel 2:
Older bearded man: I start with an unsolved problem that is easily stated and I challenge everyone to turn in a solution by the end of the semester.
Panel 3:
Younger bald man: That's perfect!
Panel 4:
(A lecture hall, students seated facing a professor at the front by a chalkboard. A thought/speech bubble near the board reads:)
Professor: Why did my wife leave me?
Votey:
(Close-up of a man's face, sketched simply, with a large speech bubble.)
Man: I know it's not my personality, because she told me I don't have one.
Bald man (younger): I'm just... having trouble coming up with my opening math lecture theme because-
Bald man (younger): You know what I do?
Panel 2:
Older bearded man: I start with an unsolved problem that is easily stated and I challenge everyone to turn in a solution by the end of the semester.
Panel 3:
Younger bald man: That's perfect!
Panel 4:
(A lecture hall, students seated facing a professor at the front by a chalkboard. A thought/speech bubble near the board reads:)
Professor: Why did my wife leave me?
Votey:
(Close-up of a man's face, sketched simply, with a large speech bubble.)
Man: I know it's not my personality, because she told me I don't have one.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A younger bald man sits across a table from an older bearded man, saying he's having trouble coming up with his opening math lecture theme, then asks "You know what I do?" Panel 2: The older bearded man explains, "I start with an unsolved problem that is easily stated and I challenge everyone to turn in a solution by the end of the semester." Panel 3: The younger man enthuses, "That's perfect!" Panel 4: A lecture hall full of students faces the professor standing at a chalkboard; the problem he has written/posed reads, "Why did my wife leave me?" The joke: he has taken the advice and made his unsolved personal problem the class's semester challenge. Votey (bonus panel): A simply drawn close-up of the man's face with a speech bubble: "I know it's not my personality, because she told me I don't have one."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.