rebel
Original: rebel on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Mother (in bed, talking to her partner): How do you think our kids will rebel when they grow up? We're so socially tolerant now, I just don't see what their outlets are.
Panel 2:
Father (lying in bed reading a book): Probably just the usual stuff - piercings, alcohol, bad attitude...
Panel 3 (caption banner: 15 YEARS LATER...):
Grown daughter (earnestly, to her parents): Mom... Dad... I have a high degree of faith in governmental, religious, and corporate institutions.
Father (pointing angrily at the door): Get out of this house, YOU FREAK!
Votey:
Daughter (off-panel speech bubble): I value your insight, parents
Mother (in bed, talking to her partner): How do you think our kids will rebel when they grow up? We're so socially tolerant now, I just don't see what their outlets are.
Panel 2:
Father (lying in bed reading a book): Probably just the usual stuff - piercings, alcohol, bad attitude...
Panel 3 (caption banner: 15 YEARS LATER...):
Grown daughter (earnestly, to her parents): Mom... Dad... I have a high degree of faith in governmental, religious, and corporate institutions.
Father (pointing angrily at the door): Get out of this house, YOU FREAK!
Votey:
Daughter (off-panel speech bubble): I value your insight, parents
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A woman lies in bed beside her shirtless partner and asks, "How do you think our kids will rebel when they grow up? We're so socially tolerant now, I just don't see what their outlets are." Panel 2: Her partner, reading a book in bed, replies, "Probably just the usual stuff - piercings, alcohol, bad attitude..." Panel 3, labeled "15 YEARS LATER...": Their grown daughter earnestly tells her parents, "Mom... Dad... I have a high degree of faith in governmental, religious, and corporate institutions." The father points furiously at the door and shouts, "Get out of this house, YOU FREAK!" The joke: in a permissive society, the ultimate rebellion is sincere trust in institutions. Votey (bonus panel): The daughter's speech bubble adds, "I value your insight, parents," while the parents reply (handwritten), "God you're weird!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.