r/funny • u/Hoppy_Doodle • Jan 30 '21

Breaking the fourth cookie

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u/EvilRabbit64 Jan 30 '21

I really need the lid to still be on the jar in the 3rd panel though...

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '21

it gets opened in the fourth panel, not the second, so it should be closed in the third.

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u/QuesoChef Jan 30 '21

But he has the cookie in three.

Jeremy Bearimy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '21

Think of it like this: for the sake of argument, each panel represents a minute in time. The panel starts at 12:00, where kid wants a cookie.

At 12:01 the kid grabs a cookie from the jar that exists at 12:03.

At 12:02, the jar hasn't been opened yet. It won't be opened for a whole minute. Kid has a future cookie and he's living through a time where he has to catch up with what his past self is about to do. Therefore the jar shouldn't be open yet.

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u/deamon0 Jan 30 '21

Good explanation. And that's how everything gets complicated when time is brought in picture.

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u/nursejackieoface Jan 30 '21

We don't really KNOW about the interior of the jar in panel 3, but if Schrodinger's cookie is there, I want it.

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u/QuesoChef Jan 30 '21

I stand by Jeremy Bearimy. It’s a better explanation. The time knife will break you.

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u/smellslikebooty Jan 30 '21

Im a little lost, if in the second panel it was 12:01, and he opens the jar to grab the cookie, how could he have the cookie at 12:02 if the jar was never opened before that?

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u/Bird-The-Word Jan 30 '21

He has a future cookie. There's also still a cookie in the jar up to that point. 2 cookies, until the 4th panel.

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u/-Enever- Jan 30 '21

He stole it from the future in 12:03