2007-11-15
Original: 2007-11-15 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A balding man with his arm around a young red-haired boy speaks to him.
Man: "Remember, son, just because you're adopted, it doesn't mean you're any different than the other kids. Well, except their birth parents loved them. But, I guess you already knew that."
Caption (below panel): "I listened to the rock music fade silently into the breeze as Dad sped away from the orphanage."
Votey:
The man, now wearing a graduation-style cap, drives a car and grins while shouting back over his shoulder. A small figure stands in a doorway in the background as the car speeds off.
Man (driving): "And party e-ve-ry day!"
A balding man with his arm around a young red-haired boy speaks to him.
Man: "Remember, son, just because you're adopted, it doesn't mean you're any different than the other kids. Well, except their birth parents loved them. But, I guess you already knew that."
Caption (below panel): "I listened to the rock music fade silently into the breeze as Dad sped away from the orphanage."
Votey:
The man, now wearing a graduation-style cap, drives a car and grins while shouting back over his shoulder. A small figure stands in a doorway in the background as the car speeds off.
Man (driving): "And party e-ve-ry day!"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Main panel: a smiling balding man in a yellow shirt has his arm around a young red-haired boy and tells him, "Remember, son, just because you're adopted, it doesn't mean you're any different than the other kids. Well, except their birth parents loved them. But, I guess you already knew that." A caption beneath reads: "I listened to the rock music fade silently into the breeze as Dad sped away from the orphanage." The joke: the supposedly comforting speech is cruel, and the caption reveals the man abandoned the boy back at the orphanage. Votey (black-and-white aftercomic): the same man, now in a graduation cap, gleefully drives away from a small figure standing in a doorway, shouting back, "And party e-ve-ry day!" — gloating as he ditches the kid.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.