Explain SMBC — the wiki for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

This comic is about an autonomous drone created to teach financial literacy. The creator explains they built the drone, and when asked if it works, responds "It worked too well." The drone went rogue,

## The Joke A couple is sitting on their roof at night when one of them spots the English Language personified as a figure approaching their house. The other is alarmed: "Oh no, it's--" and the Engli

## The Joke A man begins telling a knock-knock joke to another person. When the second person responds with the expected "Who's there?", the first person is suddenly replaced by a serene golden Buddh

This comic shows a conversation between a couple discussing family planning. One partner says "I really think we should have two kids," and the other emphatically responds "No! Not five!" -- apparentl

This comic plays on the gap between romantic expectations and personal desires. In the first panel, a woman is presenting herself in lingerie, and her partner exclaims "Awww mannn..." in what appears

## The Joke A group of people are having a conversation, and one person urgently tells the others to keep their eyes straight ahead and not look down. The tension builds as someone insists they canno

## The Joke A teacher (likely meant to evoke a naturalist or biology professor) is lecturing in the Galapagos Islands about Darwin's finches, explaining how different species have beaks adapted for d

## The Joke Two aliens are observing a human couple as part of what appears to be a xenobiology or xenosociology experiment. They explain to a visitor that they take a human couple, alter their chemi

This comic reimagines the plot of Disney's *Frozen* from a Marxist, proletarian perspective. In the top panels, two characters who resemble working-class peasants react with despair to the events of t

## The Joke An alien is explaining to a human woman that spacefaring species achieved their intelligence through a brief evolutionary pulse in which larger, more powerful brains were selected for. Th

## The Joke The comic presents a "prank idea" for politicians: tell them about a classic scientific finding and frame it as wasteful government spending, then watch them go on TV and embarrass themse

## The Joke A father offers his baby some juice. The baby, who can only say "ga!", is met with an unexpectedly intense reaction: the father screams "THERE IS NO JUICE! NO JUICE AT ALL!" with a wild,

## The Joke A woman says to a man (who appears to be reading from a document): "There are two types of people: those who like the Oxford comma, morons and pedants." The joke hinges entirely on the ab

## The Joke The comic presents a graph with the x-axis labeled "How mad your spouse is at you" and the y-axis labeled "Use of adverbs that mean 'to a great extent.'" The curve shows an exponential re

This comic explores the idea of valuing kindness as the most important human trait. A character gives a speech saying they don't care about knowing everything or being a genius or having beauty or sta

## The Joke The comic depicts a scene reminiscent of the biblical story of Noah's Ark. A voice from heaven (represented by a golden circle, presumably God) commands a man named Steve: "Steve! Build a

## The Joke A police officer pulls over a driver and says, "I saw that parking job out there." The driver responds curtly, "Well, I don't like your attitude." The officer fires back: "Oh yeah? I don'

## The Joke A patient is telling their therapist about being watched by satellites, machines reporting to watchers, and constant surveillance. The therapist responds with a calm, clinical "Right. Of

This comic features a father and son discussing the philosophical implications of the multiverse. The dad finds the idea of a multiverse terrifying because if there are nearly infinite copies of him,

## The Joke The comic is set in a physics classroom. A professor announces, "Okay class, today we're going to talk about Earth as an ideal point mass," and draws a diagram on the chalkboard showing E

## The Joke The comic tells a melancholic story across several panels. A man recalls that when he was young, he learned programming on a solar-powered calculator and wrote a simple program: "10 PRINT

## The Joke A child asks their grandmother why she is inventing a way to convert coal into steam power. The grandmother, drawn to look like an imposing Victorian-era figure, replies matter-of-factly:

## The Joke The comic takes the political debate about building a border wall and derails it with a mathematical paradox. A character argues that they cannot build a border wall because of the "coast

## The Joke The comic features a group of friends discussing the multiverse. One character shares some bad news: they have just conducted a study on the cosmic microwave background and their data str

## The Joke The comic depicts what appears to be a time-travel scenario. A modern-day scientist, Dr. North, has traveled back in time and encounters a caveman. The caveman speaks in a stereotypical "

## The Joke A man watches the news, which is full of horror, murders, and famine. His reaction to this parade of suffering is not compassion or despair but rather a self-centered realization: "So you

## The Joke The comic shows a woman with glasses confronting a figure who appears to be Jesus Christ. She says to him: "I mean, take a statistical approach here. What's more likely: you're Jesus Chri

## The Joke An elderly couple sits together reflecting on the progression of their forgetfulness over the years. At first, the man would forget little things like where his keys were. Then he would f

## The Joke The comic depicts a man dressed as an early aviation pioneer -- complete with a military-style uniform, goggles, and a grand mustache -- standing on a hilltop and delivering an inspiratio

## The Joke A person is showing someone videos on a device. The first is "a video of a naked woman dancing." The second is "a video of your grandma then masticating a piece of chewing tobacco." Then

## The Joke A character who appears to be a supervillain or intimidating figure (wearing a mask or face covering) confronts someone with the classic threat: "Talk. Talk or suffer the consequences." T

## The Joke The comic shows a meeting between two people, apparently in a screenwriting or creative writing context. One person has developed a sophisticated AI-powered screenwriting software that an

## The Joke Superman is visiting an elderly couple (one of whom is named Agnes) and insisting that they "say them" -- referring to specific words. The couple is having an argument about terminology:

## The Joke A woman is talking to a robot, pointing out that despite robots' claims of superiority, their understanding of humans is fundamentally flawed. She notes that humans forget that their smar

## The Joke A child runs to their father yelling "Daddy! A hornet got into our house!" The father, adopting a heroic pose with a cape, says "Stand back, kids!" and charges toward the hornet with a dr

## The Joke The comic shows a bearded man standing in a used car lot, festooned with colorful pennant banners, delivering a speech that begins in the style of profound literary prose: "There is a wis

## The Joke A president is delivering a State of the Union address, but instead of the usual optimistic spin, the speech is relentlessly, brutally honest. The president announces that "the state of o

## The Joke A man is down on one knee proposing to a woman, ring box open, in the classic marriage proposal pose. But instead of delivering a heartfelt, personalized speech, he announces: "In order t

## The Joke A robot announces to a human that they have created an upgraded version of him. The human is alarmed, asking why, and pointing out that he doesn't want to be replaced. The robot draws an

## The Joke The comic is titled "Mathematicians Fare Poorly in War." A medieval archer asks a fellow soldier about the symbol drawn on his shield. The shield has a circle inscribed in a square with g

## The Joke A doctor delivers unexpected news to expectant parents: she is sorry to say the baby is fine, but the body is building something around it -- a placenta that is "gaining sentience." The d

## The Joke A woman catches her partner reading her private data on a device. He protests that he is not doing anything wrong -- he doesn't have the right to store her data without sharing it, and be

## The Joke A man prays to God, asking "Dear Lord, how do I get fit?" God begins to answer through what appears to be a TV or screen: "My son... pushups are an excellent full body--" but before God c

## The Joke A woman explains to a group that "according to that theory, the entire cosmos -- everything -- is made of quantum bits." Someone asks a follow-up: "Wait, so when I went inside that video

## The Joke A woman tries to comfort someone by saying "It's okay, sweetie. Everybody has accidents sometimes." A man standing nearby immediately responds "Not me." The woman turns to him, annoyed: "

## The Joke A dominatrix tells her submissive client: "I'm gonna put you in this goggle. You will sit here, in darkness, thinking dirty thoughts, until I come back for you." The submissive obediently

## The Joke A character dressed as Hamlet quotes the famous line from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Horatio respon

## The Joke Two people are having a political discussion. One accuses the other of voting for an increasingly conservative candidate with ever more extreme policies, asking how he could possibly supp

## The Joke A character explains the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (also known as the frequency illusion) to a friend: "There's this idea called the frequency illusion where once you learn a new word, yo

## The Joke Two people are debating the ethics of creating sentient artificial beings. One argues: "I don't see how you can be against creating thinking beings -- existence is beautiful, and you'd be