2013-02-26
Original: 2013-02-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (title banner): GOOD PARENTING
Parent (a man in profile with glasses): Well, the bacteria in your mouth eat sugar and then excrete acid, which harms your enamel.
(A child holding a candy bar listens.)
Panel 2 (title banner): EFFECTIVE PARENTING
Parent: If you eat that candy bar, more bacteria will shit in your mouth.
(The child grimaces and pulls the candy bar away from their mouth.)
Votey:
Caption (top): In your mouth all the time
(Inside a dark, open mouth with a green deposit on the tongue, a speech-bubble voice exclaims:) Oh yeah. Take it! Take it!
Parent (a man in profile with glasses): Well, the bacteria in your mouth eat sugar and then excrete acid, which harms your enamel.
(A child holding a candy bar listens.)
Panel 2 (title banner): EFFECTIVE PARENTING
Parent: If you eat that candy bar, more bacteria will shit in your mouth.
(The child grimaces and pulls the candy bar away from their mouth.)
Votey:
Caption (top): In your mouth all the time
(Inside a dark, open mouth with a green deposit on the tongue, a speech-bubble voice exclaims:) Oh yeah. Take it! Take it!
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic about parenting. Panel one, titled GOOD PARENTING, shows a bespectacled parent in profile telling a child who holds a candy bar: 'Well, the bacteria in your mouth eat sugar and then excrete acid, which harms your enamel.' Panel two, titled EFFECTIVE PARENTING, shows the same parent saying: 'If you eat that candy bar, more bacteria will shit in your mouth.' The child recoils, pulling the candy away in disgust. The votey aftercomic, captioned 'In your mouth all the time,' shows a close-up of a dark open mouth with a green smear on the tongue, with a voice crying out, 'Oh yeah. Take it! Take it!' — voicing the bacteria gleefully defecating, the gross punchline that makes the scientific framing land emotionally.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.