fundamental
Original: fundamental on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (praying, looking up): Dear God, what are the most fundamental things in nature?
Panel 2:
God (off-panel voice in speech bubble): Fundamental? What's fundamental mean?
Panel 3:
God: Like, the fundamental constants. The relations between basic entities that result in the rules of the cosmos.
Panel 4:
God: I... hmm. You know, now that I look at my control panel, there ARE a couple dozen knobs and switches!
Panel 5:
Man (wide-eyed): They're so shiny!
Panel 6:
God: Step away from the control board.
Panel 7:
Man: What's gravity? Do humans like gravity? I can crank that one up.
Panel 8:
God: Jeez, all right, don't get fussy.
Panel 9:
Man (leaning in toward the board): Step away from the control board.
Panel 10:
(Silhouette of the man, no dialogue.)
Panel 11:
God: There's also a sodomy rules switch. The last guy here set it to "not okay."
Panel 12:
God: That one you can go ahead and flip.
Votey:
Text (the man, having knocked something over): Oh shit, spilled my Mountain Dew!
(A cup tumbles off the edge, its contents spilling down.)
Man (praying, looking up): Dear God, what are the most fundamental things in nature?
Panel 2:
God (off-panel voice in speech bubble): Fundamental? What's fundamental mean?
Panel 3:
God: Like, the fundamental constants. The relations between basic entities that result in the rules of the cosmos.
Panel 4:
God: I... hmm. You know, now that I look at my control panel, there ARE a couple dozen knobs and switches!
Panel 5:
Man (wide-eyed): They're so shiny!
Panel 6:
God: Step away from the control board.
Panel 7:
Man: What's gravity? Do humans like gravity? I can crank that one up.
Panel 8:
God: Jeez, all right, don't get fussy.
Panel 9:
Man (leaning in toward the board): Step away from the control board.
Panel 10:
(Silhouette of the man, no dialogue.)
Panel 11:
God: There's also a sodomy rules switch. The last guy here set it to "not okay."
Panel 12:
God: That one you can go ahead and flip.
Votey:
Text (the man, having knocked something over): Oh shit, spilled my Mountain Dew!
(A cup tumbles off the edge, its contents spilling down.)
Alt text
A twelve-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired man prays: "Dear God, what are the most fundamental things in nature?" God (an unseen voice) replies "Fundamental? What's fundamental mean?" then explains it means the fundamental constants and rules of the cosmos. God realizes: "now that I look at my control panel, there ARE a couple dozen knobs and switches!" The man, eyes wide, gasps "They're so shiny!" and starts reaching toward the divine control board. God repeatedly warns "Step away from the control board." The man asks if he can crank up gravity; God grumbles "Jeez, all right, don't get fussy." God adds that there's a "sodomy rules switch" the last person set to "not okay," and says "That one you can go ahead and flip." Votey: the man has knocked over a cup, which tumbles off an edge spilling liquid, as he exclaims "Oh shit, spilled my Mountain Dew!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.