2014-11-03

A three-panel comic. Panel 1: An older balding man complains pompously, with narration reading "The longer I'm a parent, the more adults seem like babies with a veneer of respectability." He says he wanted his cookie to be ART, complaining it's not about the cookie but about the low quality of workmanship among "your generation." Panel 2: A younger couple watches him. Narration: "This is generally a good thing." The woman says "Jesus Christ, what an asshole," while the man coos "Aww, look at his pouty lower lip!" treating him like a fussy baby. Panel 3: Narration: "But it has led to some problems." The woman teases the older man, "You're just mad because you need a tickle tickle tickle!" while he recoils and shouts "POLICE! POLICE!" The votey shows a close-up of the older man's grumpy face as he yells into a speech bubble, "Officer! This man needs a nap!" — turning the baby-talk back on the situation. The joke: once you see adults as babies, you start condescending to them like toddlers, which causes its own problems.