2013-11-26
Original: 2013-11-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: I FEEL LIKE WE'RE NEGLECTING LITTLE BILLY.
Man: IT'S OKAY. HE'S SMALL.
[A man in a green shirt and a woman in a yellow shirt stand in a kitchen, talking to each other and not looking at the small boy standing in a doorway to the right.]
Caption below comic: Physicists make terrible parents.
Votey:
Boy: I'M NOT THAT SMALL.
Woman: COMPARED TO EARTH YOU'RE NOTHING.
Woman: I FEEL LIKE WE'RE NEGLECTING LITTLE BILLY.
Man: IT'S OKAY. HE'S SMALL.
[A man in a green shirt and a woman in a yellow shirt stand in a kitchen, talking to each other and not looking at the small boy standing in a doorway to the right.]
Caption below comic: Physicists make terrible parents.
Votey:
Boy: I'M NOT THAT SMALL.
Woman: COMPARED TO EARTH YOU'RE NOTHING.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. In the main panel, a man in a green shirt and a woman in a yellow shirt stand close together in a darkened kitchen, facing each other and ignoring a small, glum-looking boy who watches from a doorway to the far right. The woman says, "I feel like we're neglecting little Billy." The man replies, "It's okay. He's small." The caption beneath reads: "Physicists make terrible parents" — the joke being the man treats his son's importance as literally a matter of physical size. In the black-and-white votey panel, the small boy protests, "I'm not that small," and the woman flatly responds, "Compared to Earth you're nothing," extending the physicist's scale-relative dismissal.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.