evidence
Original: evidence on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Flame-haired man: Why won't people accept that reptiles rule the government from Buckingham Palace?
Bespectacled man: Lack of evidence?
Panel 2:
Flame-haired man (agitated): WRONG. There's no GOOD evidence. There are pages and pages and pages of stuff people have said!
Panel 3:
Flame-haired man: If one piece of bad evidence is only as good as one-millionth of a piece of good evidence, to prove the reptile theory all we have to do is get people to say they're pretty sure it's true ten million times.
Panel 4:
Bespectacled man: You don't get gold by piling shit really high.
Flame-haired man (angry, blushing): You can't prove that!
Votey:
Flame-haired man (off-panel, shouting): We just need enough so that it goes supernova.
(The bespectacled man stares blankly, sweating, saying nothing.)
Flame-haired man: Why won't people accept that reptiles rule the government from Buckingham Palace?
Bespectacled man: Lack of evidence?
Panel 2:
Flame-haired man (agitated): WRONG. There's no GOOD evidence. There are pages and pages and pages of stuff people have said!
Panel 3:
Flame-haired man: If one piece of bad evidence is only as good as one-millionth of a piece of good evidence, to prove the reptile theory all we have to do is get people to say they're pretty sure it's true ten million times.
Panel 4:
Bespectacled man: You don't get gold by piling shit really high.
Flame-haired man (angry, blushing): You can't prove that!
Votey:
Flame-haired man (off-panel, shouting): We just need enough so that it goes supernova.
(The bespectacled man stares blankly, sweating, saying nothing.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Two men talk. Panel 1: a man with flame-like orange hair asks why people won't accept that reptiles rule the government from Buckingham Palace; a bespectacled man replies, 'Lack of evidence?' Panel 2: the orange-haired man insists 'WRONG. There's no GOOD evidence. There are pages and pages and pages of stuff people have said!' Panel 3: he reasons that if one piece of bad evidence equals one-millionth of a piece of good evidence, then proving the reptile theory just requires getting people to say they're pretty sure it's true ten million times. Panel 4: the bespectacled man deadpans, 'You don't get gold by piling shit really high,' and the orange-haired man, blushing with anger, shouts 'You can't prove that!' The joke skewers the idea that heaps of weak evidence can add up to strong proof. Votey (bonus panel): a close-up of the bespectacled man staring blankly and sweating as the orange-haired man yells off-panel, 'We just need enough so that it goes supernova.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.