799: Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking

Title text: Guys? The Town is supposed to be good, and I thou--' 'PHYSICIST STEPHEN HAWKING DECLARES NEW FILM BEST IN ALL SPACE AND TIME' 'No, I just heard that--' 'SHOULD SCIENCE PLAY A ROLE IN JUDGING BEN AFFLECK?' 'I don't think--' 'WHAT ABOUT MATT DAMON?'

Explanation

Stephen Hawking is a renowned theoretical physicist, and quite possibly the world's smartest human being. He is almost completely paralyzed due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and communicates with a speech generation box, as shown in the first panel. In this comic, he asks Cueball and Megan if they want to go see a movie, but they take it as a scientific declaration that they should go see a movie and have it published in a newspaper. In the final panel, Hawking is shown hanging his head in sadness since all he wanted to do was see a movie with his friends.

The title text continues the joke, with innocuous comments by Hawking interpreted as important revelations.

Transcript

[Stephen Hawking is facing a pair of people. His voice appears in a square machine readable font.]

Stephen Hawking: I thought maybe later we should go see a movie.

[The two people are running.]

[The front page of a newspaper appears instead of a third panel.]

Name of the paper - The Times

Main headline. - Physicist Stephen Hawking Suggests We See More Films

[A picture of Stephen Hawking is in the center of the page.]

Picture's caption. - Smartest Man Alive

Secondary headline. - What Does He Know That We Don't?

Large quote in article body. - Is this a warning?

[Stephen Hawking is sitting alone, looking depressed.]

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