fairy-tales
Original: fairy-tales on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with reddish hair (reading a book): My gosh. Have you read these old Grimm's fairy tales?
Woman with dark hair: Yes. They're so pleasant!
Panel 2:
Woman with dark hair: Here's how all modern kids' stories go:
Panel 3:
Woman with dark hair: We've burned down the forests, eaten all the fish, damned the sky, and we've been super racist, sexist, and at war for the last 100 centuries and YOU need to fix it.
Panel 4:
Woman with dark hair: Old stories are all about how kids who don't behave get eaten by witches and kids who do behave turn out to be princesses.
Panel 5:
Woman with dark hair: What's more likely to give you a lifelong anxiety problem? Book A or book B?
Panel 6:
Woman with reddish hair: What's the alternative?
Woman with dark hair: I'm working on a Nietzschean book for kids entitled "There is no moral truth so here are some funny hippos."
Votey:
A round-bodied cartoon character with arms raised exclaims: I TEACH YOU THE OVERHIPPO!
Woman with reddish hair (reading a book): My gosh. Have you read these old Grimm's fairy tales?
Woman with dark hair: Yes. They're so pleasant!
Panel 2:
Woman with dark hair: Here's how all modern kids' stories go:
Panel 3:
Woman with dark hair: We've burned down the forests, eaten all the fish, damned the sky, and we've been super racist, sexist, and at war for the last 100 centuries and YOU need to fix it.
Panel 4:
Woman with dark hair: Old stories are all about how kids who don't behave get eaten by witches and kids who do behave turn out to be princesses.
Panel 5:
Woman with dark hair: What's more likely to give you a lifelong anxiety problem? Book A or book B?
Panel 6:
Woman with reddish hair: What's the alternative?
Woman with dark hair: I'm working on a Nietzschean book for kids entitled "There is no moral truth so here are some funny hippos."
Votey:
A round-bodied cartoon character with arms raised exclaims: I TEACH YOU THE OVERHIPPO!
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. Two women talk; one has reddish hair, the other dark hair. The reddish-haired woman holds a book and says, "My gosh. Have you read these old Grimm's fairy tales?" The dark-haired woman replies, "Yes. They're so pleasant!" She then explains, "Here's how all modern kids' stories go:" and recites, "We've burned down the forests, eaten all the fish, damned the sky, and we've been super racist, sexist, and at war for the last 100 centuries and YOU need to fix it." She continues, "Old stories are all about how kids who don't behave get eaten by witches and kids who do behave turn out to be princesses. What's more likely to give you a lifelong anxiety problem? Book A or book B?" The reddish-haired woman asks, "What's the alternative?" The dark-haired woman answers, "I'm working on a Nietzschean book for kids entitled 'There is no moral truth so here are some funny hippos.'" In the votey, a round cartoon figure throws its arms up and declares, "I TEACH YOU THE OVERHIPPO!" — a pun on Nietzsche's Übermensch (overman).
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.