parenting-2
Original: parenting-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (header banner): HOW YOU IMAGINE PARENTING:
Little girl (orange hair): Daddy let's play pretend kingdom!
Dad (in red shirt): Of course! Let's play all day! I'll make a map and we'll wear blanket-capes and make swords from sticks!
Panel 2 (header banner): WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY LIKE:
The girl now wears a paper crown and holds a small pink Pikachu toy; the dad also wears a crown and looks exhausted.
Girl: Daddy you be pink Pikachu.
Dad: But I've been a Pokemon for 7 hours. Please.
Girl: I told you, POKEMON CAN'T TALK!
Votey:
A close-up of the dad's weary, sweating face, eyes downcast.
Dad (small caption above): Pokemon controls me, and I control you.
Little girl (orange hair): Daddy let's play pretend kingdom!
Dad (in red shirt): Of course! Let's play all day! I'll make a map and we'll wear blanket-capes and make swords from sticks!
Panel 2 (header banner): WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY LIKE:
The girl now wears a paper crown and holds a small pink Pikachu toy; the dad also wears a crown and looks exhausted.
Girl: Daddy you be pink Pikachu.
Dad: But I've been a Pokemon for 7 hours. Please.
Girl: I told you, POKEMON CAN'T TALK!
Votey:
A close-up of the dad's weary, sweating face, eyes downcast.
Dad (small caption above): Pokemon controls me, and I control you.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic contrasting imagined versus real parenting. First panel, labeled 'HOW YOU IMAGINE PARENTING': a little orange-haired girl excitedly says 'Daddy let's play pretend kingdom!' and her cheerful dad in a red shirt replies, 'Of course! Let's play all day! I'll make a map and we'll wear blanket-capes and make swords from sticks!' Second panel, labeled 'WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY LIKE': both now wear paper crowns; the girl holds a small pink Pikachu toy and orders, 'Daddy you be pink Pikachu.' The visibly exhausted dad pleads, 'But I've been a Pokemon for 7 hours. Please.' The girl snaps, 'I told you, POKEMON CAN'T TALK!' The votey aftercomic is a close-up of the dad's weary, sweating, defeated face with a thought-caption: 'Pokemon controls me, and I control you.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.