B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for May 15, 2022

The tipoff is when the lie detector didn’t start beeping in panel 2.

A lie detector, is only as go as the operator.

It did work. Thor really is brilliant. Peter told the true but doesn’t realize it.

Looks a lot like a portable TV than anything else, but I don’t see any screen. Still waiting for Mr. Farnsworth.

We’ll Philo that under “try again”.

A lie detector: is that something for golf?

Flattery will get you nowhere.

There is a slight difference between blatant lying and sarcasm. Tweak it to detect the latter and it’ll never shut up.

Thor: “How do you know? I haven’t even turned it on.”

I don’t know, BC. You may have been lying, but what you said was true.

He is also the world’s only inventor at the point

I swear, we don’t need lie detectors. We could sure use some truth detectors though. Rare and precious, the truth, these days.

Fun fact: William Moulton Marston is considered the inventor of the lie detector. He also invented Wonder Woman.

Like the sarcasm detector on the Simpsons…

It’s not hard to be the greatest when you’re the only one.

He is lying, I can tell, his lips are moving.

Assuming they are the only people in that world, and Thor the only inventor, logically that statement is true.

I hear one was actually invented. Odd coincidence that a prominent press secretary just resigned…

I use a LASER level myself.

It’s a lie detector, not a sarcasm detector.

Lie detectors can be easily fooled or disrupted by one simple trick: squeeze your anus as fast as you can multiple times or hard for a few seconds multiple times. It causes your blood pressure to skyrocket and your heart rate to increase, and not in a rythmatic pattern. That will thoroughly disrupt the recorded patterns used to determine if you are lying or not.