the-greatest-generation
Original: the-greatest-generation on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with dark hair gestures emphatically while talking to a man.
Woman: Older generations are hard to understand. They constantly compare us to past lives. Like, who gives a damn about the biggest house the world's ever seen? Damn blender. Who cares?
Man: Yeah.
Panel 2:
The woman turns to the man (a younger man with light hair).
Woman: Hey, did you see Dan posted a picture of himself, like, literally learning Buddhism in Tibet?
Man: Goddammit. How is it possible? Top that?
Votey:
A man's face looks distressed and overwhelmed. His thought bubble reads: "Maybe if I take on enough credit card debt I can achieve total oneness with the universe."
A woman with dark hair gestures emphatically while talking to a man.
Woman: Older generations are hard to understand. They constantly compare us to past lives. Like, who gives a damn about the biggest house the world's ever seen? Damn blender. Who cares?
Man: Yeah.
Panel 2:
The woman turns to the man (a younger man with light hair).
Woman: Hey, did you see Dan posted a picture of himself, like, literally learning Buddhism in Tibet?
Man: Goddammit. How is it possible? Top that?
Votey:
A man's face looks distressed and overwhelmed. His thought bubble reads: "Maybe if I take on enough credit card debt I can achieve total oneness with the universe."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. In the first panel, a dark-haired woman talks animatedly to a man, complaining that older generations are hard to understand because they constantly compare younger people to the past, asking who cares about owning the biggest house or fanciest blender ever made; the man just says "Yeah." In the second panel, the same woman immediately turns and excitedly tells the man, "Hey, did you see Dan posted a picture of himself literally learning Buddhism in Tibet?" The man reacts with frustrated envy: "Goddammit. How is it possible to top that?" — revealing she has fallen into the exact status-comparison habit she just criticized. Votey aftercomic: a close-up of a distressed man's face with a thought bubble reading, "Maybe if I take on enough credit card debt I can achieve total oneness with the universe."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.