skeptical
Original: skeptical on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (glasses, suit): YOU SHOULDN'T TELL YOUR KIDS SANTA IS REAL.
Woman (red hair, green sweater): WHY?
Panel 2:
Man: EVENTUALLY, THEY'LL FIND OUT YOU'RE WRONG. THAT YOU LIED ABOUT IT. THEN THEY'LL BE SKEPTICAL OF EVERYTHING.
Panel 3 (the woman, close on her face, delivering a long run-on rant):
Woman: AND SANTA IS REAL AND THE EASTER BUNNY AND THE TOOTH FAIRY AND THE KEEBLER ELVES AND THE YETI AND ELVIS IS STILL ALIVE BECAUSE HE'S THE LOCH NESS MONSTER NOW AND THE...
Panel 4:
A young girl with red hair and a heart on her shirt grins excitedly. The woman (seen from behind) gestures toward her, an empty speech-bubble tail trailing off as she continues the rant to her daughter.
Votey:
Voice (off-panel, speech bubble): WHAT ABOUT HOMEOPATHY?
A scowling, annoyed face replies: HELL NO.
Man (glasses, suit): YOU SHOULDN'T TELL YOUR KIDS SANTA IS REAL.
Woman (red hair, green sweater): WHY?
Panel 2:
Man: EVENTUALLY, THEY'LL FIND OUT YOU'RE WRONG. THAT YOU LIED ABOUT IT. THEN THEY'LL BE SKEPTICAL OF EVERYTHING.
Panel 3 (the woman, close on her face, delivering a long run-on rant):
Woman: AND SANTA IS REAL AND THE EASTER BUNNY AND THE TOOTH FAIRY AND THE KEEBLER ELVES AND THE YETI AND ELVIS IS STILL ALIVE BECAUSE HE'S THE LOCH NESS MONSTER NOW AND THE...
Panel 4:
A young girl with red hair and a heart on her shirt grins excitedly. The woman (seen from behind) gestures toward her, an empty speech-bubble tail trailing off as she continues the rant to her daughter.
Votey:
Voice (off-panel, speech bubble): WHAT ABOUT HOMEOPATHY?
A scowling, annoyed face replies: HELL NO.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a man in glasses and a suit tells a red-haired woman in a green sweater, "You shouldn't tell your kids Santa is real." She asks, "Why?" Panel 2: the man explains, "Eventually, they'll find out you're wrong. That you lied about it. Then they'll be skeptical of everything." Panel 3: a close-up of the woman's face as she launches into a run-on rant: "And Santa is real and the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy and the Keebler Elves and the Yeti and Elvis is still alive because he's the Loch Ness Monster now and the..." Panel 4: the punchline reveals she is delivering this escalating, absurd stream of lies to her own delighted little red-haired daughter, the speech bubble trailing off as she keeps going. Votey aftercomic: a sketchy panel where an off-panel voice asks, "What about homeopathy?" and a scowling face snaps back, "Hell no."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.