2007-04-01
Original: 2007-04-01 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bearded man with messy brown hair, wearing a green jacket, stands and gestures angrily across a table at another man (seen from behind, short brown hair, glasses). On the table between them sit two children's books.
Bearded man: "LOOK, HALF OF MARRIAGES TODAY END IN DIVORCE! IT'S NOT INAPPROPRIATE MATERIAL FOR KIDS! IT'S INFORMATION THEY NEED TO KNOW!"
Other man: "NO."
Inset / book cover (a children's book on the table):
Title: "MAYBE IT IS YOUR FAULT"
(Cover art shows a smiling green cartoon baby standing between a blue-rattle symbol with a male sign and a pink balloon with a female sign.)
Votey:
A hand-drawn children's book page. Text reads: "IF WE HADN'T LOVED YOU WE'D HAVE HAD TIME TO BE TWO" beside two simple frowning cartoon faces.
A bearded man with messy brown hair, wearing a green jacket, stands and gestures angrily across a table at another man (seen from behind, short brown hair, glasses). On the table between them sit two children's books.
Bearded man: "LOOK, HALF OF MARRIAGES TODAY END IN DIVORCE! IT'S NOT INAPPROPRIATE MATERIAL FOR KIDS! IT'S INFORMATION THEY NEED TO KNOW!"
Other man: "NO."
Inset / book cover (a children's book on the table):
Title: "MAYBE IT IS YOUR FAULT"
(Cover art shows a smiling green cartoon baby standing between a blue-rattle symbol with a male sign and a pink balloon with a female sign.)
Votey:
A hand-drawn children's book page. Text reads: "IF WE HADN'T LOVED YOU WE'D HAVE HAD TIME TO BE TWO" beside two simple frowning cartoon faces.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. In the main panel, a bearded man in a green jacket stands and angrily gestures across a table at another man (shown from behind, with glasses), shouting: "Look, half of marriages today end in divorce! It's not inappropriate material for kids! It's information they need to know!" The other man flatly replies "No." On the table sit children's books; one cover, shown enlarged, reads "MAYBE IT IS YOUR FAULT" with a cheerful green cartoon baby flanked by male and female gender symbols. The joke: the man is defending grimly guilt-tripping children's books as appropriate. The votey (bonus panel) shows another hand-drawn book page reading "IF WE HADN'T LOVED YOU WE'D HAVE HAD TIME TO BE TWO" next to two frowning faces, doubling down on the bleak blame-the-kids theme.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.