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2007-09-21

Original: 2007-09-21 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Title banner: BETTER PARENTING THROUGH SCIENCE

Father (a smiling man with stubble, holding a cardboard box): SON, GUESS WHAT I GOT YOU FOR YOUR 13th BIRTHDAY?!

Son (a boy in a green shirt, seen from behind): *sigh* IS IT THE SAME THING I GET EVERY—

Father (interrupting, presenting the box): BOX OF ELECTRONS!

Votey:

The father's grinning face leans in.
Father: I think there's some entropy in there too!

Alt text

A three-line comic titled 'BETTER PARENTING THROUGH SCIENCE.' In a dim room, a smiling stubbled father holds out a cardboard box to his son and says, 'Son, guess what I got you for your 13th birthday?!' The boy, seen from behind in a green shirt, sighs and replies, 'Is it the same thing I get every—' before the father cuts him off, beaming, 'Box of electrons!' In the votey (aftercomic), a sketchy close-up of the father's grinning face adds, 'I think there's some entropy in there too!' The joke: every gift is just a box of ordinary matter dressed up as science.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.