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Original: show on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
Man: Dear God, is this the best of all possible worlds?

Panel 2:
God (offscreen, in a speech balloon): Definitely. It's great. Everyone gets a soul, gets to live forever, gets to watch THE EARTH SHOW!

Panel 3:
Man: Wait, Earth? Hell no, Earth is shit.
Man: I mean the universe.

Panel 4:
God: The what?

Panel 5:
Man: NOTHING.

Panel 6:
Man: So do I or don't I have a soul?
(Offscreen laughter fills the panel: HA HA HA HA HAHAHAHA HA HA HAHA HA HAHA)

Panel 7:
Man (looking distressed amid the laughter): The what?!

Panel 8:
God: Agh! Sorry, I didn't mean for the canned laughter to get through.

Panel 9:
Man (flat, resigned): This is hell.

Panel 10:
Man stands silent as offscreen laughter erupts again: HA HA HAHA HAHAHA HA HA HAHA
God (small): Sorry!

Votey:
Caption at top: HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
A single round cookie with bite marks / holes is shown sinking below a waterline, like a dunked cookie disappearing into liquid.

Alt text

A ten-panel black-and-white SMBC comic. A man asks an offscreen God, 'Dear God, is this the best of all possible worlds?' God enthusiastically answers, 'Definitely. It's great. Everyone gets a soul, gets to live forever, gets to watch THE EARTH SHOW!' The man recoils: 'Wait, Earth? Hell no, Earth is shit. I mean the universe.' God replies, 'The what?' The man backpedals: 'NOTHING.' He then asks, 'So do I or don't I have a soul?' as bursts of canned sitcom laughter (HA HA HA HAHAHA) flood the panels. Distressed, he echoes 'The what?!' God apologizes: 'Agh! Sorry, I didn't mean for the canned laughter to get through.' The man stares blankly and says, 'This is hell,' while the laugh track erupts again and God meekly says 'Sorry!' Votey: under a big caption 'HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!', a single cookie sinks below a waterline into liquid, like a cookie being dunked and drowning.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.