Explain SMBC — the wiki for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

## The Joke A man dressed as a dramatic embodiment of "Force Majeure" -- complete with lightning bolts, fire, and a large contract document -- is shouting "I'm Force Majeure! Obviously Force Majeure!

## The Joke A group of business or political figures are discussing the problem of young people not buying cars or gasoline. One person notes that young people are instead using electric vehicles and

## The Joke A man is boasting about all the useless trivia he has accumulated: he can name more fad diets than philosophers, more Simpsons episodes than poems, more rules of plumber types than Shakes

## The Joke A man has an existential thought: "I'm going to die one day." He then chides himself, thinking he should try to think more positive things. In the third panel, his idea of "positive think

## The Joke A woman at a bar propositions a man by asking, "Want to have 'sex' tonight?" -- with the word "sex" in quotation marks. The man, instead of responding to the proposition itself, launches

## The Joke A group of characters are discussing how a Star Trek-style transporter works. One explains that you step into the teleporter, it scans your body, breaks it down, and rebuilds you somewher

## The Joke A professor presents a simple equation for emotional reactions: E = e / d, where E is your emotional reaction, e is the "emotional power" of an event, d is your distance from the event, a

## The Joke A superhero-villain exchange takes an unexpected turn. A villain (who appears to be a mad scientist type with a lizard-like appearance) says something along the lines of not needing to po

## The Joke A group of people are discussing unrealistic portrayals of women in media. One person brings up the complaint: "I worry about men watching porn." Another responds that women actually want

## The Joke A woman is at a store or restaurant and is asked for her ID. The clerk/server comments, "Wow! You look so young!" -- a compliment the woman appears to appreciate. But then the clerk follo

## The Joke An interviewer is asking an astronaut candidate why they want to go to space. The candidate responds "forever" -- not answering the question of "why" but rather "how long," implying they

## The Joke The comic is set in a Puritan-era community. A woman opens by exclaiming "For goodness' sake, why has Brother David become so popular?" -- expressing bewilderment at someone's rising soci

## The Joke A professor-like figure is giving a lecture about human mating strategies. He begins by noting that "it's only our first date" and explains that in the modern world, food is cheap and cal

## The Joke The comic is titled "19th Century Romance Novels" and presents a series of panels parodying the tropes of period romance fiction. Each panel introduces a character archetype in the exagge

## The Joke The comic follows a classic "rags to riches" fairy tale setup. A narrator describes how "once upon a time, a poor peasant" worked hard, lived humbly, and through determination eventually

## The Joke A man is sitting on a mountainside with a companion, lamenting: "I just feel like nobody really gets me." His friend responds with what amounts to a thorough statistical rebuttal: the man

## The Joke A job interviewer asks a candidate: "What would you bring to this company if we hired you?" The candidate's answer is blunt and literal: "Black-Suing, the falcon." The interviewer, taken

## The Joke The comic is titled "Know Your Philosophies of Self" and presents four panels, each depicting a different (mostly fictional) philosophical school of thought about the nature of identity.

## The Joke A couple is celebrating their dog's birthday. The woman announces: "Congratulations! You're 120 years old in dog years!" (meaning the dog is roughly 17 in human years, using the common "1

## The Joke The comic opens with a caption: "You ever wonder about the first person to discover the triboelectric effect?" The single large panel then depicts what this discovery might have looked li

## The Joke A person is confronting a robot, delivering an impassioned philosophical challenge about consciousness and the nature of mind. They ask increasingly pointed questions: "How do you know yo

## The Joke A person shouts "No! Stop!" at someone using a time machine. They warn: "You can't time travel! Whatever you change will have unforeseen consequences for the present!" The time traveler,

## The Joke The comic depicts the biblical story of Noah's Ark after the flood. In the first panel, someone announces "Behold, God's sign he will never do this again," referring to the rainbow -- the

## The Joke The comic shows what appears to be a tense confrontation scene, with one character (possibly a warrior or adventurer) facing another near a dark, gnarled tree. The first character challen

## The Joke The comic shows a man praying to God with two contradictory requests. First, he prays: "Dear God, please make me rich." God's hand descends from a cloud with the word "NAH" accompanied by

## The Joke The comic is titled "Know Your Coffee Styles" and presents a grid of four coffee types in the style of an educational infographic. The first three are real: French coffee (dark-roasted, s

## The Joke The comic opens with a scene at the shore where early land animals are emerging from the ocean. One creature on the beach says "Look at four-legs over there!" while another yells "Get out

## The Joke The comic explores the psychology of nostalgia and how memory distorts our perception of the past. In the first panel, someone asks "At what age were you happiest?" and a woman lying on t

## The Joke The comic opens with a woman angrily shouting at someone across a table: "How DARE you?! This is a first date, a FIRST DATE! Do you think I have no self respect?!" The reader is led to as

## The Joke The comic begins with a presenter (possibly a scientist or engineer) explaining a problem: "For millennia, humanity has suffered from precious cute puppy face." The issue, they explain, i

## The Joke A person is sitting in what appears to be a coffee shop, laughing hysterically ("HAHAHAHAHA!") at something. Their companion asks them to calm down, saying "Buy yourself a cup of coffee,

## The Joke A person asks a robot, "Can you teach me to love?" The robot responds seriously: "No. Machine love is not a product of physical urges. It's the hardest aspect of the human brain." The hum

## The Joke The comic is divided into two panels labeled "Before Having Kids" and "After Having Kids." In the first panel, a woman watches a child misbehaving and thinks, "How can she be so careless?

## The Joke The comic features a conversation between several people about veganism. One person declares, "I don't eat any creature that feels pain." Another responds, "I'm a positive vegan -- I don'

## The Joke A woman presents cookies to a gathering, saying "Oh my God Dave, these are the best cookies I've ever had." Her friend immediately calls out "LIAR!" The woman then tries to argue that mak

## The Joke A person stands in front of an elevator declaring all the apps they don't need -- one that tells them to get off the couch, one that helps them eat a balanced diet, one that organizes the

## The Joke A couple stands on a beach at sunset in a romantic scene. The man declares, "I'm so in love with you. The sea, the sand, the emptiness." The woman responds, "Promise me. I'll never forget

## The Joke A large, muscular figure (presumably Hades or another underworld deity) describes an elaborate punishment to a newly arrived soul: "You will be sent to wander, where you will be forced to

## The Joke A man says to a woman, "Help me put this condom on and then we'll make love." The woman, wearing large glasses, asks: "Is that procedure commutative?" The man responds with a confused "Wh

## The Joke A job interviewer asks the classic question: "So what's your greatest weakness?" The interviewee launches into the standard rehearsed non-answer: "Like many correct, but also cynical peop

## The Joke The comic is set on April 14, 1912 -- the date the Titanic struck an iceberg. An officer on the ship shouts, "We're going to sink! Quick! Women and children off the boat first!" But the m

## The Joke A cloaked figure (Death/the Grim Reaper) is playing a video game and describes the rules to another character: "I give you two amulets. I cast down drain. Near three skulls appear." The o

## The Joke A couple is watching sports on TV. The announcer exclaims, "Oh! Took him down hard! That's gotta hurt!" The man on the couch says dismissively, "I don't see how you enjoy this stuff. It's

## The Joke A demon in Hell welcomes a new arrival, saying "Welcome to Hell!" and introduces them to their roommate. The roommate turns out to be "Dave from college." The demon describes Dave's quali

## The Joke A man is enthusiastically arguing that genetically modifying babies is not just ethically acceptable but mandatory. A woman sitting at a table responds approvingly with "Good. Gooood." Th

## The Joke A financial advisor-type figure lectures someone, saying "It's really not responsible to have kids before you have enough savings to do that. You need to get an education, get a good job,

## The Joke The comic presents a parenting dilemma about Santa Claus. In the first panel, two parents debate: one says "We should tell him Santa exists" while the other counters "We should tell him S

## The Joke A woman makes the common cynical observation about politics: "Have you noticed that politicians gather in giant groups, debate all the time, make speeches, run campaigns, but nothing ever

## The Joke A man on a couch tells his partner "Dad, do you believe that you have to find your soulmate?" and proceeds to argue that soulmates are not real because they are "made by spending time tog

## The Joke A father is giving life advice to his young son in stages. First, he tells the boy that kids at school will make fun of him for being "uncool" but that he does not have to do anything and