2010-09-21
Original: 2010-09-21 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: PARENTING TIP: PREACH WHAT YOU PRACTICE
Panel 1:
A balding, bespectacled man in a green shirt speaks to a red-haired child seen from behind.
Man: "Son... when life gives you lemons, use them as an excuse never to put in the work needed to achieve your dreams."
Votey:
Caption box: ALSO...
Text box: "If life gives you oranges, hey, that's solid. You could strive for strawberries, but man, it'd be embarrassing if you failed."
Panel 1:
A balding, bespectacled man in a green shirt speaks to a red-haired child seen from behind.
Man: "Son... when life gives you lemons, use them as an excuse never to put in the work needed to achieve your dreams."
Votey:
Caption box: ALSO...
Text box: "If life gives you oranges, hey, that's solid. You could strive for strawberries, but man, it'd be embarrassing if you failed."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Top banner reads "PARENTING TIP: PREACH WHAT YOU PRACTICE." In the main panel, a balding man in glasses and a green shirt leans toward a red-haired child shown from behind and says: "Son... when life gives you lemons, use them as an excuse never to put in the work needed to achieve your dreams." It subverts the usual optimistic 'make lemonade' adage into an excuse for giving up. The votey (bonus panel) adds, under a caption "ALSO...": "If life gives you oranges, hey, that's solid. You could strive for strawberries, but man, it'd be embarrassing if you failed." -- doubling down on the joke that the father is teaching his son to avoid effort and risk.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.