screen-time
Original: screen-time on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Mother (standing): Okay, that's enough screen time! Let's go outside a while.
Daughter (red-haired girl on couch with tablet): SWINE!
Panel 2:
Mother: I have information from trusted sources that when YOU were a kid, every Saturday you watched 16 hours of cartoons.
Panel 3:
Daughter: How dare you limit my "screen time" you Pharisee!
Panel 4:
Daughter: Do these trusted sources have gray hair and a large supply of caramel hard candy?
Mother: Okay fine. Gimme my stupid hat and stupid coat.
Panel 5:
Grandmother (gray-haired woman, looking out from behind a fence/rooftop): We have to be careful, Nana. They're getting closer.
(The red-haired girl in a winter hat is shown small at the bottom, approaching.)
Votey:
Grandmother: Now, who wants licorice?
A small child (off to the side): NOBODY!
Mother (standing): Okay, that's enough screen time! Let's go outside a while.
Daughter (red-haired girl on couch with tablet): SWINE!
Panel 2:
Mother: I have information from trusted sources that when YOU were a kid, every Saturday you watched 16 hours of cartoons.
Panel 3:
Daughter: How dare you limit my "screen time" you Pharisee!
Panel 4:
Daughter: Do these trusted sources have gray hair and a large supply of caramel hard candy?
Mother: Okay fine. Gimme my stupid hat and stupid coat.
Panel 5:
Grandmother (gray-haired woman, looking out from behind a fence/rooftop): We have to be careful, Nana. They're getting closer.
(The red-haired girl in a winter hat is shown small at the bottom, approaching.)
Votey:
Grandmother: Now, who wants licorice?
A small child (off to the side): NOBODY!
Alt text
A four-tier comic. A mother tells her red-haired daughter, who is on the couch with a tablet, "Okay, that's enough screen time! Let's go outside a while." The daughter shouts "SWINE!" The mother says she has information from trusted sources that when the daughter was a kid she watched 16 hours of cartoons every Saturday. The daughter retorts, "How dare you limit my 'screen time' you Pharisee!" Then she asks slyly, "Do these trusted sources have gray hair and a large supply of caramel hard candy?" The mother, caught out, sighs, "Okay fine. Gimme my stupid hat and stupid coat." In the final wide panel, a gray-haired grandmother peeks anxiously over a fence, whispering, "We have to be careful, Nana. They're getting closer," as the bundled-up red-haired girl is seen approaching in the distance, revealing the grandmother is the daughter's secret cartoon-watching co-conspirator. Votey: The grandmother cheerfully asks, "Now, who wants licorice?" and a small grimacing child emphatically replies, "NOBODY!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.