2007-02-07
Original: 2007-02-07 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner (yellow): SMBC FOR KIDS!
Subtitle: ~EPISODE ONE~
DON'T GIVE IN TO PEER PRESSURE!
Panel (single):
A boy with red hair and glasses (addressed as Billy), nervous, with hands clasped, speaks to a larger boy with curly brown hair who is making an angry fist.
Red-haired boy (Billy): BILLY... IT'D BE REALLY *REALLY COOL* IF YOU'D GIVE BACK MY ASTHMA MEDICATION.
Curly-haired boy: NEVER!
Votey:
The curly-haired boy holds up an inhaler labeled "INSULIN" while a smiling man (an adult) looks down approvingly.
Man: GOOD BOY.
Subtitle: ~EPISODE ONE~
DON'T GIVE IN TO PEER PRESSURE!
Panel (single):
A boy with red hair and glasses (addressed as Billy), nervous, with hands clasped, speaks to a larger boy with curly brown hair who is making an angry fist.
Red-haired boy (Billy): BILLY... IT'D BE REALLY *REALLY COOL* IF YOU'D GIVE BACK MY ASTHMA MEDICATION.
Curly-haired boy: NEVER!
Votey:
The curly-haired boy holds up an inhaler labeled "INSULIN" while a smiling man (an adult) looks down approvingly.
Man: GOOD BOY.
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic under a yellow banner reading "SMBC FOR KIDS! ~Episode One~ Don't give in to peer pressure!" In a sunny outdoor scene, a small nervous boy with red hair and glasses clasps his hands and pleads with a larger, angry boy who has curly brown hair and a clenched fist: "Billy... it'd be really REALLY COOL if you'd give back my asthma medication." The big boy snaps back, "Never!" The joke inverts the usual peer-pressure lesson: refusing the request is framed as standing firm against peer pressure, even though it means keeping another kid's life-saving medicine. Votey (a small black-and-white follow-up panel): the curly-haired boy proudly holds up an inhaler mislabeled "INSULIN" while a smiling adult man looks down at him and says, "Good boy" rewarding the cruelty and underscoring that the adult has no idea what the medication even is.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.