2006-08-14
Original: 2006-08-14 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with curly red hair, wearing a green shirt, stands in a dimly lit room and addresses a younger person (a son, seen from behind, with orange/red hair and a blue shirt) who is holding a piece of paper.
Man: HEY SON! WHATCHA GOT THERE?
Son: *sigh* JUST DREAMS...
The paper the son holds reads:
- LEARN ENGLISH
- MOVE TO AMERICA
Panel 2 (close-up of the full paper):
Things I wish dad would do:
- LEARN ENGLISH
- MOVE TO AMERICA
- NEVER COME HOME
Votey:
A roughly-drawn close-up of the father's head with a speech bubble.
Father: So far, the only English I know is this sentence.
A man with curly red hair, wearing a green shirt, stands in a dimly lit room and addresses a younger person (a son, seen from behind, with orange/red hair and a blue shirt) who is holding a piece of paper.
Man: HEY SON! WHATCHA GOT THERE?
Son: *sigh* JUST DREAMS...
The paper the son holds reads:
- LEARN ENGLISH
- MOVE TO AMERICA
Panel 2 (close-up of the full paper):
Things I wish dad would do:
- LEARN ENGLISH
- MOVE TO AMERICA
- NEVER COME HOME
Votey:
A roughly-drawn close-up of the father's head with a speech bubble.
Father: So far, the only English I know is this sentence.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel one: a curly red-haired man in a green shirt cheerfully asks a younger person seen from behind (the son, with orange hair and a blue shirt) who is holding a sheet of paper, "HEY SON! WHATCHA GOT THERE?" The son sighs and says, "*sigh* JUST DREAMS..." The visible top of the paper reads "- LEARN ENGLISH / - MOVE TO AMERICA." Panel two zooms in on the full list, titled "Things I wish dad would do:" with three items: "- LEARN ENGLISH, - MOVE TO AMERICA, - NEVER COME HOME" — revealing the wishes are pointedly about getting rid of his father. Votey (aftercomic): a rough sketch of the father's head with a speech bubble admitting, "So far, the only English I know is this sentence," implying he cannot actually speak English at all.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.