2007-10-05
Original: 2007-10-05 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: PARENTING STRATEGY: ALWAYS PUT A GOOD SPIN ON THINGS
Panel 1:
A man with a mustache, wearing a collared shirt and tie, leans down toward a small boy, gesturing with one hand.
Man: It's a good thing your dog ran away. He HATED you!
Votey:
Close-up of the same mustached man, now grinning.
Man: He's in a better place now.
Panel 1:
A man with a mustache, wearing a collared shirt and tie, leans down toward a small boy, gesturing with one hand.
Man: It's a good thing your dog ran away. He HATED you!
Votey:
Close-up of the same mustached man, now grinning.
Man: He's in a better place now.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic titled "PARENTING STRATEGY: ALWAYS PUT A GOOD SPIN ON THINGS." In the main panel, a smiling mustached man in a shirt and tie crouches toward a small boy and cheerfully says, "It's a good thing your dog ran away. He HATED you!" The boy listens silently, his back to the viewer. In the votey aftercomic, a hand-drawn close-up of the same man, now grinning widely, adds, "He's in a better place now" — the dark implication being that the dog is dead, undercutting the supposedly upbeat spin.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.