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Chew

Original: Chew on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1 (single panel)

A man with red flame-like hair and a beard (pink shirt) speaks while a woman with brown hair and glasses (green shirt) looks on with an increasingly annoyed expression.

Man: "I CAME TO KICK ASS AND CHEW BUBBLEGUM, AND I'M ALL OUT OF BUBBLEGUM."

Man: "THEREFORE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO KICK ASS AND CHEW BUBBLEGUM."

Man: "I SHOULD HAVE SAID 'I CAME TO KICK ASS XOR CHEW BUBB-"

Woman (interrupting, exasperated): "STOP! STOP IT!"

Caption (below panel): I became insufferable after learning first-order logic.

Votey:

Handwritten caption inside a hand-drawn box: "SUDDENLY REGRETTING NOT MAKING A T-SHIRT OF 'I CAME TO KICK ASS AND CHEW BUBBLE GUM AND I'M ALL OUT OF GUM THEREFORE I CANNOT KICK ASS AND CHEW BUBBLEGUM'"

Alt text

A single-panel comic. A man with red flame-like hair and a beard (pink shirt) earnestly lectures a brown-haired woman in glasses (green shirt), who grows visibly annoyed. He says: "I came to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of bubblegum. Therefore it is impossible to kick ass and chew bubblegum. I should have said 'I came to kick ass XOR chew bubb-'" The woman cuts him off, shouting "Stop! Stop it!" A caption below reads: "I became insufferable after learning first-order logic." The joke pedantically dismantles the classic action-movie one-liner using formal logic (noting the original implies a conjunction that fails when one part is impossible, and should be an exclusive-or). Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn box containing the text "Suddenly regretting not making a t-shirt of 'I came to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I'm all out of gum therefore I cannot kick ass and chew bubblegum.'"

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.