time-traveling-punishment
Original: time-traveling-punishment on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Father (a man with glasses): "Sally, your recent behavior has been atrocious. I am implementing a new punishment. I call... 'The Time Travel Method.'"
Panel 2:
Father: "Every time you misbehave, I'm setting your technology back one year."
Panel 3:
Father: "If you misbehave twice in one day, it goes back 10 years. Thrice, it goes back 100 years."
Panel 4:
Father: "Conversely, if you behave well-"
Sally (a girl with red hair): "Your plan is stupid and you're stupid."
Panel 5:
Father: "That's one year. Stupid. Ten."
Sally: "Stupid! A hundred! Stupid! A thousand!"
Panel 6:
Sally: "Stuuuuupid!"
Father: "Ten thousand!"
Panel 7 (caption: "TWO WEEKS LATER:"):
Father: "Your teacher says you've stopped doing your homework?"
Sally: "The alphabet hasn't been invented yet."
Signature: Smbc-comics.com
Votey:
Large hand-drawn, primitive-looking lettering scrawled across the panel reads: "Mother Fucker!" The girl is shown in a crude, cave-painting-like illustration style, with what appears to be a drawing of a figure and a curved line beside her.
Father (a man with glasses): "Sally, your recent behavior has been atrocious. I am implementing a new punishment. I call... 'The Time Travel Method.'"
Panel 2:
Father: "Every time you misbehave, I'm setting your technology back one year."
Panel 3:
Father: "If you misbehave twice in one day, it goes back 10 years. Thrice, it goes back 100 years."
Panel 4:
Father: "Conversely, if you behave well-"
Sally (a girl with red hair): "Your plan is stupid and you're stupid."
Panel 5:
Father: "That's one year. Stupid. Ten."
Sally: "Stupid! A hundred! Stupid! A thousand!"
Panel 6:
Sally: "Stuuuuupid!"
Father: "Ten thousand!"
Panel 7 (caption: "TWO WEEKS LATER:"):
Father: "Your teacher says you've stopped doing your homework?"
Sally: "The alphabet hasn't been invented yet."
Signature: Smbc-comics.com
Votey:
Large hand-drawn, primitive-looking lettering scrawled across the panel reads: "Mother Fucker!" The girl is shown in a crude, cave-painting-like illustration style, with what appears to be a drawing of a figure and a curved line beside her.
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic. A bespectacled father tells his red-haired daughter, Sally, about a new punishment he calls 'The Time Travel Method': every time she misbehaves, he sets her technology back one year; twice in a day sets it back 10 years, three times 100 years. When he starts to mention rewards for good behavior, Sally interrupts: 'Your plan is stupid and you're stupid.' He keeps tallying ('That's one year. Stupid. Ten.') while she escalates ('Stupid! A hundred! Stupid! A thousand! Stuuuuupid!') and he counts up to ten thousand years. Caption: 'Two weeks later.' The father asks why her teacher says she's stopped doing homework. Sally, now sent back ten thousand years technologically, replies: 'The alphabet hasn't been invented yet.' Votey: the words 'Mother Fucker!' are scrawled in crude, primitive, cave-painting-style lettering, alongside a rough caveman-era drawing of the girl, illustrating that her insults have regressed to pre-writing scribbles.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.