2008-05-25
Original: 2008-05-25 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with brown hair (the boy's mother), leaning down toward a young boy with red-orange hair who looks unhappy.
Mother: "Honey, I know some kids at school said some mean things to you. But, I'm gonna tell you a little story about someone else who also got called bad names."
Caption below the panel:
Halfway through, Mom realized that there isn't a story about a "little fatass duckling."
Votey:
The mother, drawn in a simple sketchy style, looking dismayed.
Mother: "Geez. I guess you're screwed."
A woman with brown hair (the boy's mother), leaning down toward a young boy with red-orange hair who looks unhappy.
Mother: "Honey, I know some kids at school said some mean things to you. But, I'm gonna tell you a little story about someone else who also got called bad names."
Caption below the panel:
Halfway through, Mom realized that there isn't a story about a "little fatass duckling."
Votey:
The mother, drawn in a simple sketchy style, looking dismayed.
Mother: "Geez. I guess you're screwed."
Alt text
A mother with brown hair leans down toward her sullen red-haired young son and says, "Honey, I know some kids at school said some mean things to you. But, I'm gonna tell you a little story about someone else who also got called bad names." A caption underneath reads: Halfway through, Mom realized that there isn't a story about a "little fatass duckling" — the obvious analogy to The Ugly Duckling falls apart because the cruel nickname the boy got isn't "ugly." Votey: the mother, drawn loosely, looks dismayed and admits, "Geez. I guess you're screwed."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.