platypus
Original: platypus on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
First speaker (a divine/God-like figure): Dear God, what's the deal with the platypus?
Second speaker: It's a mammal, but it lays eggs. It's got a cloaca and bears like a bird. But it has fur and lives in the water.
Panel 2:
Second speaker: You're amazing, ape.
Panel 3:
Second speaker: You're like ten seconds out of the trees and you drive around in metal boxes. You think it's perfectly normal animal behavior.
Panel 4:
Second speaker: You get your food from a giant box-shaped cave built by other talking apes. None of you knows where the food came from.
Panel 5:
Second speaker: Your dominant form of communication is entering vibrations of squiggles into a mechanical brain and sending it to other mechanical brains.
Panel 6:
Second speaker: And you're weirded out by a mammal with a beak? You're part of a longterm plan to make oceans into soup.
Panel 7:
First speaker: Then why do you make us this way?
Panel 8:
Second speaker: You're part of a longterm plan to make oceans into soup.
Votey:
A TV screen with handwritten text reading: By the way, slow down. Let it simmer.
First speaker (a divine/God-like figure): Dear God, what's the deal with the platypus?
Second speaker: It's a mammal, but it lays eggs. It's got a cloaca and bears like a bird. But it has fur and lives in the water.
Panel 2:
Second speaker: You're amazing, ape.
Panel 3:
Second speaker: You're like ten seconds out of the trees and you drive around in metal boxes. You think it's perfectly normal animal behavior.
Panel 4:
Second speaker: You get your food from a giant box-shaped cave built by other talking apes. None of you knows where the food came from.
Panel 5:
Second speaker: Your dominant form of communication is entering vibrations of squiggles into a mechanical brain and sending it to other mechanical brains.
Panel 6:
Second speaker: And you're weirded out by a mammal with a beak? You're part of a longterm plan to make oceans into soup.
Panel 7:
First speaker: Then why do you make us this way?
Panel 8:
Second speaker: You're part of a longterm plan to make oceans into soup.
Votey:
A TV screen with handwritten text reading: By the way, slow down. Let it simmer.
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic. A human (the first speaker) asks a divine, God-like figure about the platypus: "Dear God, what's the deal with the platypus?" God describes it as a mammal that lays eggs, has a cloaca, bears like a bird, yet has fur and lives in water. God then turns the strangeness back on humanity, calling the human "ape": humans drove out of the trees ten seconds ago and ride around in metal boxes thinking it's normal animal behavior; they get food from giant box-shaped caves built by other talking apes without knowing where it came from; they communicate by entering vibrations of squiggles into mechanical brains and sending them to other mechanical brains. God concludes: "And you're weirded out by a mammal with a beak?" The human asks why God made them this way, and God replies, "You're part of a longterm plan to make oceans into soup." Votey panel: a TV screen with handwritten text: "By the way, slow down. Let it simmer."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.