Fish
Original: Fish on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (holding a fishing rod, having reeled in a fish): MY GOD, I CAUGHT A TALKING FISH!
Panel 2:
Fish: GET ME FREE AND YOU MAY HAVE ANYTHING, BUT WHATEVER YOU GET, I WILL INSTANTLY GIVE IT TO YOUR NEIGHBOR. TWICE.
Panel 3:
Man (grinning, holding the fish): I WISH FOR A MAGIC BOX THAT GIVES ME ALL MY NEIGHBOR'S MONEY ONE SECOND AFTER I RECEIVE ANY MONEY.
Panel 4:
Caption: AND SO...
Panel 5:
Man (lying on his back in a vast field of gold, arms spread): INFINITE MONEY GLIIIIIIITCH!
Caption: THIS IS WHY MAGIC FISH HATE LOGICIANS.
Votey:
The fish (now buried, only its tail and an eye visible, speaking): CAN'T WAIT TILL INFINITE GOLD CREATED FROM NOTHING CAUSES THE PLANET TO COLLAPSE.
Man (holding a fishing rod, having reeled in a fish): MY GOD, I CAUGHT A TALKING FISH!
Panel 2:
Fish: GET ME FREE AND YOU MAY HAVE ANYTHING, BUT WHATEVER YOU GET, I WILL INSTANTLY GIVE IT TO YOUR NEIGHBOR. TWICE.
Panel 3:
Man (grinning, holding the fish): I WISH FOR A MAGIC BOX THAT GIVES ME ALL MY NEIGHBOR'S MONEY ONE SECOND AFTER I RECEIVE ANY MONEY.
Panel 4:
Caption: AND SO...
Panel 5:
Man (lying on his back in a vast field of gold, arms spread): INFINITE MONEY GLIIIIIIITCH!
Caption: THIS IS WHY MAGIC FISH HATE LOGICIANS.
Votey:
The fish (now buried, only its tail and an eye visible, speaking): CAN'T WAIT TILL INFINITE GOLD CREATED FROM NOTHING CAUSES THE PLANET TO COLLAPSE.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A bearded man holding a fishing rod has reeled in a fish and exclaims, "My God, I caught a talking fish!" Panel 2: The fish offers a deal: "Get me free and you may have anything, but whatever you get, I will instantly give it to your neighbor. Twice." Panel 3: The grinning man holds the fish and outsmarts the curse: "I wish for a magic box that gives me all my neighbor's money one second after I receive any money." Panel 4: A caption reads "And so...". Panel 5: The man lies on his back, arms spread, in an endless glittering field of gold coins, shouting "Infinite money glitch!" A caption reads, "This is why magic fish hate logicians." The joke: by chaining the curse back on itself, he triggers an unbounded loop of money duplicating between him and his neighbor. Votey (aftercomic): The fish, now buried so only its tail and one eye stick out of the gold, grumbles, "Can't wait till infinite gold created from nothing causes the planet to collapse."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.