2011-10-17
Original: 2011-10-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A father (older man with gray hair, glasses, mustache, red shirt) raises a finger lecturing his young son.
Father: "THOSE WHO DO NOT STUDY HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT."
Panel 2: The son (dark-haired boy).
Son: "SO, IF WE DON'T STUDY HISTORY, IT'LL BE BAD BECAUSE WE WON'T SEE WHAT'S COMING?"
Panel 3: The father, smiling.
Father: "RIGHT."
Panel 4: The son, thinking.
Son: "BUT THEN IF WE DO STUDY HISTORY, WE AREN'T DOOMED TO REPEAT IT. SO, IT WAS A WASTE OF TIME TO LEARN IT IN THE FIRST PLACE."
Panel 5: The father, hand on chin, looking stumped, facing the son.
Father: "HMM... I'M GONNA HAVE TO ASK YOUR MOTHER FOR A BETTER TRUISM."
Panel 6: The mother (woman with glasses, dark hair, green vest over white shirt) has arrived, gesturing, with the father beside her. The son faces them.
Mother: "THOSE WHO DO NOT STUDY HISTORY GET SMACKED."
Votey:
The son: "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
The mother (off-panel speech bubble): "REMEMBER THE LAST TIME YOU DIDN'T STUDY HISTORY?"
Father: "THOSE WHO DO NOT STUDY HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT."
Panel 2: The son (dark-haired boy).
Son: "SO, IF WE DON'T STUDY HISTORY, IT'LL BE BAD BECAUSE WE WON'T SEE WHAT'S COMING?"
Panel 3: The father, smiling.
Father: "RIGHT."
Panel 4: The son, thinking.
Son: "BUT THEN IF WE DO STUDY HISTORY, WE AREN'T DOOMED TO REPEAT IT. SO, IT WAS A WASTE OF TIME TO LEARN IT IN THE FIRST PLACE."
Panel 5: The father, hand on chin, looking stumped, facing the son.
Father: "HMM... I'M GONNA HAVE TO ASK YOUR MOTHER FOR A BETTER TRUISM."
Panel 6: The mother (woman with glasses, dark hair, green vest over white shirt) has arrived, gesturing, with the father beside her. The son faces them.
Mother: "THOSE WHO DO NOT STUDY HISTORY GET SMACKED."
Votey:
The son: "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
The mother (off-panel speech bubble): "REMEMBER THE LAST TIME YOU DIDN'T STUDY HISTORY?"
Alt text
A six-panel color comic. A gray-haired father in glasses lectures his young son: "Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it." The son reasons it out: if not studying history is bad because you won't see what's coming, and the father agrees, then studying history means you aren't doomed to repeat it, so learning it was a waste of time in the first place. The father, stumped, rubs his chin: "Hmm... I'm gonna have to ask your mother for a better truism." The mother, in glasses and a green vest, arrives and delivers the new version: "Those who do not study history get smacked." Votey (black-and-white sketch aftercomic): the boy asks "How do you know?" and the mother replies, "Remember the last time you didn't study history?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.