2012-12-18
Original: 2012-12-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (yellow shirt, gesturing): EVERYONE THINKS THEY'RE BORN SPECIAL, BUT NOBODY IS.
Panel 2:
Woman (yellow shirt): YOU DON'T START SPECIAL. YOU ACHIEVE IT BY HARD WORK, THOUGHT, AND STRUGGLE.
Panel 3:
Man (glasses, blue shirt, smiling and pointing): WHAT ABOUT THAT BABY BORN WITH A GIGANTIC TELEPATHIC SUPERBRAIN?
Panel 4:
(No dialogue. The man and woman watch a diapered baby at a chalkboard covered in advanced mathematical equations, writing with a piece of chalk.)
Panel 5:
Woman (yellow shirt, scowling): I HATE THAT BABY SO MUCH.
Votey:
The baby (speech bubble): BUT I LOVE YOU.
Woman (off-panel speech bubble): DAMMIT!
Woman (yellow shirt, gesturing): EVERYONE THINKS THEY'RE BORN SPECIAL, BUT NOBODY IS.
Panel 2:
Woman (yellow shirt): YOU DON'T START SPECIAL. YOU ACHIEVE IT BY HARD WORK, THOUGHT, AND STRUGGLE.
Panel 3:
Man (glasses, blue shirt, smiling and pointing): WHAT ABOUT THAT BABY BORN WITH A GIGANTIC TELEPATHIC SUPERBRAIN?
Panel 4:
(No dialogue. The man and woman watch a diapered baby at a chalkboard covered in advanced mathematical equations, writing with a piece of chalk.)
Panel 5:
Woman (yellow shirt, scowling): I HATE THAT BABY SO MUCH.
Votey:
The baby (speech bubble): BUT I LOVE YOU.
Woman (off-panel speech bubble): DAMMIT!
Alt text
A five-panel comic. A woman in a yellow shirt lectures a man in glasses and a blue shirt: 'Everyone thinks they're born special, but nobody is. You don't start special. You achieve it by hard work, thought, and struggle.' The man smiles and points off-panel, asking, 'What about that baby born with a gigantic telepathic superbrain?' The next panel shows a diapered baby standing at a green chalkboard densely covered in advanced mathematical equations, holding a piece of chalk, as the couple watches. In the final panel the woman scowls bitterly and says, 'I hate that baby so much.' Votey: The same baby, now sitting cross-legged with a serene expression, says, 'But I love you.' The woman's off-panel voice replies, 'Dammit!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.