parenting
Original: parenting on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (titled "FIRST YEAR PARENTING"):
Parent (a man with long hair and a beard): "I can't let my daughter have a poofy pink dress! She'll think she can't be an engineer!"
Panel 2 (titled "SECOND YEAR PARENTING"):
Parent (excitedly, to a young girl): "Oh my god, you can fit an entire ratchet set in this poofy pink dress!"
Signature: smbc-comics.com
Votey:
A thought/speech bubble at the top reads: "Where the hell's my ratchet set?"
Below, the bearded parent (now wearing glasses) sits across from the young girl, who has a slightly guilty or mischievous expression.
Parent (a man with long hair and a beard): "I can't let my daughter have a poofy pink dress! She'll think she can't be an engineer!"
Panel 2 (titled "SECOND YEAR PARENTING"):
Parent (excitedly, to a young girl): "Oh my god, you can fit an entire ratchet set in this poofy pink dress!"
Signature: smbc-comics.com
Votey:
A thought/speech bubble at the top reads: "Where the hell's my ratchet set?"
Below, the bearded parent (now wearing glasses) sits across from the young girl, who has a slightly guilty or mischievous expression.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic about parenting. Panel 1, labeled "FIRST YEAR PARENTING," shows a long-haired bearded parent declaring, "I can't let my daughter have a poofy pink dress! She'll think she can't be an engineer!" Panel 2, labeled "SECOND YEAR PARENTING," shows the same parent enthusiastically telling a young girl, "Oh my god, you can fit an entire ratchet set in this poofy pink dress!" The joke: the parent's anti-stereotype principle quickly gives way to discovering the dress is practically useful for storing tools. Votey: a thought bubble reads "Where the hell's my ratchet set?" as the bespectacled parent sits looking at the girl, who wears a guilty, knowing expression, implying she hid the tools in her dress.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.