commute-2
Original: commute-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with orange/red hair: And I was reading that Heisenberg discovered a new kind of math where operations in ONE direction don't work in the OTHER direction. As if you're in a world where five times six doesn't equal six times five!
Woman with green hair: AAAAAAAAH!
Caption text below panel (left): Non-commutative math is the LEAST weird idea in history!
Caption text below panel (right, partial): Did you know that if you turn left then walk two steps you're in a different position and orientation than if you walked two steps and turned left?!
Panel 2:
Man (gesturing, in distance): Did you know that if you turn left then walk two steps you're in a different position and orientation than if you walked two steps and turned left?!
Panel 3:
Man: Did you know that if you eat noodles then cook them it's different from cooking them then eating them?
Panel 4:
Man: Did you know that if you put on pants then underwear it's different from underwear then pants?! Mind-blowing!
Panel 5 (close-up of woman with glasses and green hair, looking aghast).
Panel 6 (close-up of man with orange hair, looking deadpan; the woman's hand gestures at edge).
Panel 7 (silhouettes against black):
Woman: Stop and I'll give up.
Man: No! The other way around!
Votey:
(No dialogue. A single panel shows a man standing, wearing his underwear OVER his pants, with the underwear's waistband and leg openings visible on the outside of his trousers.)
Man with orange/red hair: And I was reading that Heisenberg discovered a new kind of math where operations in ONE direction don't work in the OTHER direction. As if you're in a world where five times six doesn't equal six times five!
Woman with green hair: AAAAAAAAH!
Caption text below panel (left): Non-commutative math is the LEAST weird idea in history!
Caption text below panel (right, partial): Did you know that if you turn left then walk two steps you're in a different position and orientation than if you walked two steps and turned left?!
Panel 2:
Man (gesturing, in distance): Did you know that if you turn left then walk two steps you're in a different position and orientation than if you walked two steps and turned left?!
Panel 3:
Man: Did you know that if you eat noodles then cook them it's different from cooking them then eating them?
Panel 4:
Man: Did you know that if you put on pants then underwear it's different from underwear then pants?! Mind-blowing!
Panel 5 (close-up of woman with glasses and green hair, looking aghast).
Panel 6 (close-up of man with orange hair, looking deadpan; the woman's hand gestures at edge).
Panel 7 (silhouettes against black):
Woman: Stop and I'll give up.
Man: No! The other way around!
Votey:
(No dialogue. A single panel shows a man standing, wearing his underwear OVER his pants, with the underwear's waistband and leg openings visible on the outside of his trousers.)
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic. An orange-haired man excitedly explains to a green-haired woman that Heisenberg discovered a kind of math where operations in one direction don't work in the other, 'as if five times six doesn't equal six times five.' The woman screams 'AAAAAAAAH!' Captions and following panels show him piling on more examples of non-commutative operations: turning left then walking two steps versus walking then turning; eating noodles then cooking them versus cooking then eating; and putting on pants then underwear versus underwear then pants ('Mind-blowing!'). The woman looks increasingly horrified through close-ups. In the final panel, shown as white-and-black silhouettes, she says 'Stop and I'll give up,' and he replies 'No! The other way around!' Votey aftercomic: a single wordless panel of a man standing with his underwear pulled on OVER his pants, the underwear visible on the outside, illustrating the pants-then-underwear ordering joke.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.