2009-02-18
Original: 2009-02-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: LESSON LEARNED
DO NOT EDUCATE YOUR CHILDREN
Panel 1:
Child: MOMMY, I HAVE A QUESTION.
Mother: SURE.
Panel 2:
Child (holding up a sheet of paper, a calendar page reading "FEBRUARY"): YOU AND DADDY GOT MARRIED ON FEBRUARY TWENTY-FOURTH OF THIS YEAR. AND THEN I WAS BORN JULY SEVENTEENTH.
Panel 3:
Child: YOU ALSO SAY THAT GESTATION TIME IS NINE MONTHS, BUT THAT ONLY LOVING MARRIED COUPLES CAN HAVE BABIES.
Panel 4:
Child (pointing accusingly): SO WERE YOU LYING THEN, OR ARE YOU LYING NOW?!
Banner: LATER...
Panel 5 (the mother and father lying in bed at night):
Mother: I WENT WITH "TIME MACHINE," AND HAD TO SPEND TWO HOURS EXPLAINING HOW IT OPERATES.
Father: I JUST SAID "RELATIVITY," AND TOOK OFF RUNNING.
Votey:
The child calls out to the father, who is running away into the distance.
Child: DADDY, WHY DO BOYS HAVE-
DO NOT EDUCATE YOUR CHILDREN
Panel 1:
Child: MOMMY, I HAVE A QUESTION.
Mother: SURE.
Panel 2:
Child (holding up a sheet of paper, a calendar page reading "FEBRUARY"): YOU AND DADDY GOT MARRIED ON FEBRUARY TWENTY-FOURTH OF THIS YEAR. AND THEN I WAS BORN JULY SEVENTEENTH.
Panel 3:
Child: YOU ALSO SAY THAT GESTATION TIME IS NINE MONTHS, BUT THAT ONLY LOVING MARRIED COUPLES CAN HAVE BABIES.
Panel 4:
Child (pointing accusingly): SO WERE YOU LYING THEN, OR ARE YOU LYING NOW?!
Banner: LATER...
Panel 5 (the mother and father lying in bed at night):
Mother: I WENT WITH "TIME MACHINE," AND HAD TO SPEND TWO HOURS EXPLAINING HOW IT OPERATES.
Father: I JUST SAID "RELATIVITY," AND TOOK OFF RUNNING.
Votey:
The child calls out to the father, who is running away into the distance.
Child: DADDY, WHY DO BOYS HAVE-
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic under a banner reading "LESSON LEARNED: DO NOT EDUCATE YOUR CHILDREN." A young girl asks her red-haired mother a question. Holding up a February calendar page, she points out that her parents married on February 24th of this year and she was born July 17th, yet her mother says gestation takes nine months and only loving married couples can have babies. The girl angrily points and demands, "So were you lying then, or are you lying now?!" After a "LATER..." banner, the parents lie awake in bed at night. The mother says she answered with "time machine" and spent two hours explaining how it operates; the father says he just said "relativity" and took off running. Votey: the little girl calls out to her father as he sprints away into the distance, "Daddy, why do boys have-", and he flees before she can finish.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.