Explain SMBC — the wiki for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

## The Joke A man tells his friend that years ago, he made a promise to his dying father that he would destroy his father's porn stash if he ever died. The friend notes that his father's porn was bei

## The Joke The comic shows a theater audience watching a performance. An audience member is commenting on the character in the play: "He's whining because he has a steady job, a house, kids, no debt

## The Joke A person describes their hobby as "creating vast neural networks of judgment." When someone says something reasonable but slightly off, this person protects them by imagining a massive un

## The Joke The comic contrasts how two different academic disciplines respond to the concept of the "soul." The top panel, labeled "Social Scientists," shows a group discussing the soul. One person

## The Joke A person shares an interesting historical tidbit: "Did you know that the ancient Romans used phallic drawings to mean 'good luck'?" The other person responds, "That's... that's weirdly ni

## The Joke An elderly woman cries out that her purse has been stolen. A superhero (dressed in a classic cape-and-mask outfit) appears and seemingly catches the criminal instantly. The woman is amaze

## The Joke The comic opens with someone asking, "Did you know if you gave up your morning coffee, you could save a bundle every year?" The listener responds with exaggerated indifference: "I don't c

## The Joke A couple is trying to decide where to eat. One person asks, "Where do you wanna eat tonight?" The other responds, "I don't care." The first person starts to get frustrated: "Don't gimme t

## The Joke A knight confronts a dragon, demanding that it give back the princess and surrender all the destiny crystals and its soul to "the word." The dragon, instead of fighting, offers practical

## The Joke The comic plays on the classic Superman/Clark Kent secret identity trope. In the first panel, someone asks Superman, "How come I never see you and Clark Kent in the same room at the same

## The Joke The comic presents a fictional "TV Show Idea: Seventeenth Century Medical Drama." It parodies modern medical dramas like Grey's Anatomy or House, but set in an era when medicine was essen

## The Joke The comic retells the story of the Garden of Eden with a mathematical twist. In the first panel, God confronts Adam and Eve: "God, forgive me!" / "Well, ok" / "She ate the fruit." God res

## The Joke The comic shows a series of people wearing tote bags and book bags with passive-aggressive statements on them. The first woman's bag reads: "I am silently correcting your grammar." The se

## The Joke A farmer in a straw hat holds an apple and delivers a product review: "It has a crunchy texture, good size, sweet taste, but makes you intensely aware of the repulsiveness of your naked b

## The Joke The comic features a conversation about electric eels. One character excitedly shares that electric eels can produce huge amounts of electricity through biological processes -- no batteri

## The Joke The comic shows a series of intentionally misleading graphs: truncated y-axes that make small differences look huge, cherry-picked time ranges that support whatever narrative you want, du

## The Joke A person in Hell is complaining to a devil about their punishment: "I don't get it. Sure she was tall, but the pitchforks and hot torture implements..." The devil interrupts to explain th

## The Joke This is a long-form comic about automation and job displacement. It follows a narrative arc through multiple panels showing various stages of automation anxiety. The comic begins with som

## The Joke This is a lengthy, multi-panel comic that explores the concept of open borders through a series of escalating absurd scenarios. The comic begins with a character advocating for open borde

## The Joke This long-form comic explores the concept of intelligence through a conversation between two characters, likely a parent and child or teacher and student, shown in a dark setting that sug

## The Joke A man sits across from a woman at what appears to be a table during a breakup conversation. He pleads: "Are you SURE you want to unsubscribe from my FAIRLY GOOD SEX and STRONG OPINIONS ON

## The Joke An AI or robot overlord is asked whether it is ethical to keep all the humans in a dream state. It responds that of course it is -- "they're happy." When challenged about whether the huma

## The Joke In the top half of the comic, a group of humans laughs at a comic drawn by dogs. The dog comic shows "Dog Perfume" called "eau de butts," poking fun at dogs' well-known obsession with sni

## The Joke The comic depicts the biblical scene of the serpent tempting Eve in the Garden of Eden, but instead of simply offering her the forbidden fruit, the snake delivers a philosophical argument

## The Joke A prospective student visits a college and asks what the criteria for entry are. The admissions officer proudly explains that "We let anyone in. No tests, no GPA, no fee. Fit, take no mon

## The Joke The comic presents three code snippets as if they were the source code of the human brain, each containing TODO comments left by Evolution. The first snippet initializes the limbic system

## The Joke The comic depicts an elaborate scene at what appears to be a dramatic public event -- possibly a trial, hearing, or theatrical performance. A series of characters deliver increasingly ove

## The Joke A person prays to God asking why, if there are really exact mathematical statements that cannot be proved from a reasonable axiom set, God would create such incompleteness. God, shown on

## The Joke Two people discuss the threat of rogue AI conquering and enslaving humanity. One worries about this scenario, and the other proposes a simple solution: computer servers need cooling, so w

## The Joke A distinguished-looking man stands at a podium on a grand stage, thanking the audience for the introduction. He then delivers what sounds like the setup to a profound literary remark: "An

## The Joke A man visits a website labeled "Porn" which presents the standard age-verification prompt: "Prove you are over 18." But instead of granting access, the site responds with "Sorry, you are

## The Joke A news report declares that strong artificial intelligence will be humanity's final invention. A determined person vows to stop this by defeating the AI before it is completed. They rush

## The Joke A woman tells a man wearing a hat (who appears to be an ant or ant-like creature in human form), "Sally, we need to break up." She then asks, "Why? Is it because I'm not conventionally fi

## The Joke The comic features Jesus speaking with a modern person. In the first panel, the person asks Jesus, "How many cars should I have?" Jesus responds that the person does not need them and sho

## The Joke Two unicorns are shown in an intimate encounter. One unicorn exclaims "Oh God, baby, that is so hot, so hot!" while the other says "Oh God, oh God... I'm gonna..." and a third voice (or t

## The Joke A man is sitting alone, thinking warmly about his friend: "Gosh, what a good friend I've got." His internal monologue continues with genuine affection: "I love him. We're really brothers.

## The Joke The comic is titled "New Game" and presents a challenge: state an obvious fact to a nerd and see how long it takes them to find a citation that contradicts it. In the scene, someone state

## The Joke A patient has apparently just had a colonoscopy, and someone (presumably a nurse or family member) asks, "Are you okay?" The doctor immediately launches into a self-pitying tirade: "Are Y

## The Joke Two politicians are debating at podiums. A woman challenges her opponent: "Now you're saying higher top marginal tax rates are good? Yesterday you said they were bad!" The man responds in

## The Joke The comic depicts a human lying in bed at night, being visited by an alien (or possibly a robot or AI entity). The human asks why the aliens are so concerned about humans when the aliens

## The Joke A politician stands at a podium declaring, "I say, people should be paid a living wage!" The audience appears to be a mix of ordinary citizens. In the second panel, we see that one of the

## The Joke The comic shows a parent and child playing a game where they each pull a piece of paper from a container labeled "Sad Thoughts" and try not to get choked up while reading it aloud. The ch

## The Joke A woman tells her friends: "Once we'd had three amazing dates, I confess that I e-stalked him." Her friends react with mild surprise, and one says: "Well, I guess you can learn too much.

## The Joke A person asks "You know why dogs sniff each other's anuses? It's gross." Another person responds with a thought experiment: "Imagine you could find out someone's economic status, social s

## The Joke The comic opens with a dramatic breakup scene: a man is on his knees pleading "But Sally! I can change! Please don't leave me! Please, I love--" and Sally walks away saying "Bye!" In the

## The Joke The comic presents a long theological and philosophical conversation between a person and God about the nature of the universe. The person asks God: "Dear God, is reality a computer simul

## The Joke Someone poses the question: "People say a nice car is sexy, or a big bank account, or an expensive watch. No, no. You know what really makes a man sexy?" The expected answer would be some

## The Joke A person asks why scientists always portray their work unrealistically in movies, saying it would be "so much better if they went for accuracy." A scientist responds with what accuracy wo

## The Joke A physicist is at a chalkboard filled with complex equations, and announces the conclusion: that one could go to a pay-by-weight salad bar and earn money by eating cheese, which is "clear

## The Joke A man is complaining about a media personality who makes his entire living by infuriating people, and notes that "now he's making me angry." The comic then shows a progression: the man de