what39s-really-attractive
Original: what39s-really-attractive on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Mother (to her daughter): Of course, the men in movies are nice and all, but what's REALLY attractive is a caring, communicative partner who helps you achieve your dreams.
Panel 2
Daughter: Jesus CHRIST. How bad is your Stockholm syndrome, Mom?
Panel 3
Daughter: That's like saying what's really fun is having a prudent budget and exercising proper oral hygiene.
Panel 4
Mother: No. It's not FUN. It's just a smart idea.
Panel 5
Daughter: How JUVENILE are you if you have to take all your careful choices and disciplined behaviors and put them in a box marked "FUN, FUN, FUN" in order to think you did the right thing.
Panel 6
Mother: Some rewarding tasks are awful. Some life dreams are stupid. Some wonderful partners are just ugly as sin. Get over it!
Panel 7
Daughter: No offense, Dad.
Panel 8
Father (to the mother and daughter, standing beside them): Hey, it's not my problem.
Votey:
A man with closed eyes and a faint smile says: Adulthood is about changing your standards so they don't appear to have been lowered.
Mother (to her daughter): Of course, the men in movies are nice and all, but what's REALLY attractive is a caring, communicative partner who helps you achieve your dreams.
Panel 2
Daughter: Jesus CHRIST. How bad is your Stockholm syndrome, Mom?
Panel 3
Daughter: That's like saying what's really fun is having a prudent budget and exercising proper oral hygiene.
Panel 4
Mother: No. It's not FUN. It's just a smart idea.
Panel 5
Daughter: How JUVENILE are you if you have to take all your careful choices and disciplined behaviors and put them in a box marked "FUN, FUN, FUN" in order to think you did the right thing.
Panel 6
Mother: Some rewarding tasks are awful. Some life dreams are stupid. Some wonderful partners are just ugly as sin. Get over it!
Panel 7
Daughter: No offense, Dad.
Panel 8
Father (to the mother and daughter, standing beside them): Hey, it's not my problem.
Votey:
A man with closed eyes and a faint smile says: Adulthood is about changing your standards so they don't appear to have been lowered.
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic showing a conversation between a mother and her grown daughter (and, at the end, the father). The mother, holding a bowl of food, says the men in movies are nice but what's REALLY attractive is a caring, communicative partner who helps you achieve your dreams. The daughter recoils and asks how bad the mother's Stockholm syndrome is. The daughter argues that's like saying having a prudent budget and good oral hygiene is fun. The mother insists it's not fun, it's just a smart idea. The daughter mocks how juvenile it is to label careful, disciplined choices "FUN, FUN, FUN" just to feel you did the right thing. The mother snaps back that some rewarding tasks are awful, some life dreams are stupid, and some wonderful partners are ugly as sin, so get over it. The daughter then adds "No offense, Dad," and a panel reveals the balding, mustached father standing right there, who shrugs and says "Hey, it's not my problem." Votey: a simple line-drawn man with closed eyes and a contented smile says, "Adulthood is about changing your standards so they don't appear to have been lowered."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.