Explain SMBC — the wiki for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

This is a promotional comic rather than a traditional joke strip. It announces the launch day for "A City on Mars," a book by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (the SMBC creator and his wife). The comic-form

This is an extended comic promoting BAHFest (the Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses), an event created by Zach Weinersmith where participants compete to present the most convincing-sounding but deliber

This comic is a promotional image celebrating an opinion piece published in The New York Times by Zach and Kelly Weinersmith. The image shows a screenshot of the NYT website displaying their guest ess

This comic explores the relationship between facial expressions and emotions, with a robot serving as the vehicle for the philosophical inquiry. In the opening panel, the premise is established: robot

This is a promotional image for the "A City on Mars" book tour by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. It lists three tour dates and locations: - New York, NY on November 8 at 7 pm at The Strand Bookstore, in

In this comic, a group of people are having a philosophical discussion about consciousness and selfhood. One character argues that there isn't a "seat of consciousness" in the brain, saying "you're no

In this comic, a student approaches a professor and asks about infinity: "Can you explain the infinite?" The professor explains that you have to distinguish "potential infinite from actual infinite" -

This comic depicts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, standing naked among lush greenery. One of them delivers a skeptical rant about the Genesis creation story: "I mean the whole thing is crazy. A l

This comic shows a well-dressed man smugly explaining to someone: "Oh no, I wasn't being rude. I'm just high status in our culture and thus exempted from a variety of behavioral norms." The caption b

This comic is about the politics of science funding, specifically using the example of "mittening" -- a made-up concept referring to putting mittens on every person on Earth. In the first panel, some

This comic follows a man who is obsessed with social status and impression management. In the opening panels, he explains that as a "social ape," he's driven to compare all his actions to others, noti

This comic shows a woman furiously yelling at someone: "You glorified autocomplete! You stochastic parrot! You absolute poorly-compressed JPEG!" The caption reads: "Discovery: Phrases meant to descri

This comic is a multi-panel debate about the merits and absurdities of democracy. It opens with a character saying "I hate democracy -- it produces political farce and incompetent leaders and bad dec

This comic is simply a screenshot of an academic paper titled "To Each According to Their Space-Need: Communes in Outer Space," published in what appears to be a legitimate academic journal. The pape

This comic features a human confronting a robot (or AI) about the nature of creativity. In the first panel, the human declares: "AI may be clever but it'll never write a song so beautiful that it move

This comic features two characters walking through a beautiful autumn forest, discussing conspiracy theories. The first character says: "Oh my god, nobody actually believes all those conspiracy theor

This comic shows a man at a door introducing himself: "Hello! I'm your new self-esteem bot. I have a methodology in which I'm always slightly less cool than you. I'll turn yours with my slightly less

This comic is a multi-panel strip about a child's Halloween costume choice that takes a dark, absurd turn. In the first panel, someone asks a little girl what she is dressed as, and she answers: "I'm

This comic is a four-panel strip about someone who has "jailbroken" an advanced AI model. In the first panel, the person celebrates triumphantly: "Ahahaha I've done it! I've jailbroken the most advanc

This comic features a conversation between a person and God about the purpose of sleep and dreams. The person asks: "God, why do we have sleep and dreams?" God answers: "Because real life is too inten

This is a single-panel comic with a caption below. A woman approaches a man on the street and says: "Hi, we've never met, but I want to tell you that everything that happens in your life after this co

This is a short comic strip set in what appears to be a pizza restaurant. A delivery person or customer has dropped the pizza and says: "Oh no, I dropped the pizza. I'll have to get a new one and come

This comic features a confrontation between a humanities-minded person and a scientist or economist. The scientist is at a blackboard with the equation "maximize f+S=m+e" (representing something like

This single-panel comic shows a couple sitting together at what appears to be a restaurant or bar, holding hands across the table. One partner says: "Lately when we make love, there's a lot of touchin

This single-panel comic is set in what appears to be a medieval tavern. A person stands on a table addressing the crowd, declaring: "Okay, new rule! Whenever the local water supply may be contaminated

This comic features a conversation between a robot and a human about sadness. The robot says: "Robot, I'm sad." The human asks: "Have you considered rational mechanisms? That the odds of your bare exi

This single-panel comic shows a person on a beach encountering a genie (depicted as a classic golden, ethereal figure emerging from what may be a lamp). The person declares: "I wish to live forever!"

This comic features a job interview scenario where the interviewer asks the classic question: "So what would be your greatest weakness?" The interviewee, who has been established in the first panel as

This comic shows a person lying in bed surrounded by loved ones in what appears to be a deathbed scene. The person says: "It's over. I want you to pull the plug." The caption below reads: "It's always

This comic explores the concept of the multiverse through a conversation between two characters. One explains that if multiverse theory is real, then there's "a universe where everything that's physic

This comic reimagines the Batman-Alfred dynamic as a vehicle for political commentary. Batman asks Alfred: "Am I just making everything worse?" Alfred responds with a lengthy, thoughtful analysis expl

This is a long-form comic that appears to depict an extended social scenario exploring awkwardness and social dynamics across many panels. The strip follows multiple characters through a series of soc

This single-panel comic is captioned "Me, learning about homonyms in another language" and shows a bearded man staring at a tablet or book with mounting frustration, exclaiming: "By what means do they

This comic depicts an attempt to train an AI content filter to distinguish between sexual and non-sexual images. An authority figure states: "Good day. In an effort to train a new generation noise gat

This comic shows two characters discussing social media and historical content. One says: "Oh my, can you believe the latest gossip to Facebook?" and "You don't have to read a bunch of gunk on your ti

This comic is about the strangeness of food preferences when you actually think about what foods are. One character offers another some cheese, and the second character enthusiastically responds: "Oh

This single-panel comic shows a scene at what appears to be a religious temple or church, where indigenous South American figures (wearing traditional headdresses and face paint) are raiding the build

## The Joke A parent tells their child something along the lines of "you're still prepared to stick with stern autumn hues and be mad about dad parenting style" — that is, the parent is discussing th

## The Joke A character addresses a "dear all-powerful computer" and asks whether emergent properties exist in nature. The computer responds that yes, emergent properties are everywhere. The human cl

## The Joke A person enters a lab and asks the scientist: "Are you in here using advanced molecular engineering to create new organisms never before dreamed of by God or nature?" The scientist confir

## The Joke Superman announces that he is putting tiny bells on every chipmunk in France. The other heroes react with confusion: "Close — you'll never, never, never do that, Superman." Wonder Woman a

## The Joke A man prays to God, asking why he is so unhappy right now. God responds: "Like, this current moment?" The man says he means in general — his whole series of life. God clarifies: "Wait, yo

## The Joke A teacher explains a geometric proof to a child: if you have two concentric circles (one inside the other), and every point on the inner circle can be mapped to exactly one point on the o

## The Joke This is not a traditional comic but a promotional announcement. The text reads: "For one afternoon only, the Weinersmiths are commandeering the Barnes and Noble Instagram account to promo

## The Joke A warrior declares: "If I cut off your head, I gain your powers!" The other character responds calmly: "My powers? You want my powers? Go nuts, bro." After the beheading occurs, the warri

## The Joke A student approaches a professor and says: "Professor, I know I'm failing and I would give you anything for a good grade." The professor tells her to listen carefully. The student, antici

## The Joke A woman cheerfully declares: "I've always been inspired by nature!" The caption below reads: "Sally explains why she ate her young during a high stress season." ## The Humor The comic t

## The Joke A woman sits at a table and delivers a series of melancholy statements: "I was a bad teacher. I was never happy. I was never loved. Nothing was ever meaningful to me." Below the panel, th

## The Joke A panicked boss stands over an employee who is slumped motionless on his desk, exclaiming: "Ohmygod. Ohmygod. He's not breathing. Back away. Back to your office." The employee has an "#1

## The Joke A teacher stands at a chalkboard with "2+2 = ?" written on it. Instead of answering "4," the teacher writes: "We can say for certain that we are looking for an integer with a lower bound