opinions
Original: opinions on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A dark-haired boy sits at a desk with a tall stack of books, doing homework with a pencil and paper.
Off-panel voice: "Gee Jonny, why do you study so hard?"
Panel 2: View from behind. The dark-haired boy (Jonny) sits at the desk facing a window/wall, with a red-haired boy standing beside him.
Panel 3: The red-haired boy speaks, looking earnest.
Red-haired boy: "If you master a difficult scientific topic, people will believe your half-formed ideas on literally any topic!"
Panel 4: Jonny (dark hair) grins widely while the red-haired boy looks on, annoyed/skeptical.
Jonny: "How should government be run? What's human nature? Economics, race relations, gender... it's all gonna be on the table for me, baby!"
Panel 5: The red-haired boy asks a question, looking concerned.
Red-haired boy: "What about the intrinsic value of learning?"
Panel 6: Jonny, grinning slyly with a hand near his face.
Jonny: "I'll have opinions on that too!"
Votey: A close-up sketch of an angry, sneering face.
Face (in speech bubble): "It's for losers!"
Off-panel voice: "Gee Jonny, why do you study so hard?"
Panel 2: View from behind. The dark-haired boy (Jonny) sits at the desk facing a window/wall, with a red-haired boy standing beside him.
Panel 3: The red-haired boy speaks, looking earnest.
Red-haired boy: "If you master a difficult scientific topic, people will believe your half-formed ideas on literally any topic!"
Panel 4: Jonny (dark hair) grins widely while the red-haired boy looks on, annoyed/skeptical.
Jonny: "How should government be run? What's human nature? Economics, race relations, gender... it's all gonna be on the table for me, baby!"
Panel 5: The red-haired boy asks a question, looking concerned.
Red-haired boy: "What about the intrinsic value of learning?"
Panel 6: Jonny, grinning slyly with a hand near his face.
Jonny: "I'll have opinions on that too!"
Votey: A close-up sketch of an angry, sneering face.
Face (in speech bubble): "It's for losers!"
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A dark-haired boy named Jonny sits at a desk with a huge stack of books, studying hard, while another voice asks why he studies so much. A red-haired boy explains: if you master a difficult scientific topic, people will believe your half-formed ideas on literally any topic. Jonny grins greedily and rattles off subjects he'll get to pontificate on: how government should be run, human nature, economics, race relations, gender, "it's all gonna be on the table for me, baby!" The red-haired boy asks, "What about the intrinsic value of learning?" Jonny smirks and replies, "I'll have opinions on that too!" The joke skewers experts who leverage credentials in one field to opine confidently on everything. Votey (aftercomic): a rough close-up of an angry, scowling face whose speech bubble snaps, "It's for losers!" — dismissing the intrinsic value of learning.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.