799: Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking
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?'
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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Discussion

Seems about right for celebrity idolatry. Davidy²²[talk] 20:36, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Stephen, if you reading this I apologise for everyone's insensitivity.

I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 08:52, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

How is this insensitivity?!141.101.98.185 11:04, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

More generally, this comic is a comment on the way religious people quote prophets out of context. ——172.69.63.127 20:32, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Holy shit he died 3 years ago wtfffff how has time passed that quickly Beanie (talk) 14:02, 23 April 2021 (UTC)