scared
Original: scared on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child (to mother): Mom, sometimes at night I get scared of things.
Panel 2:
Mother: I'm gonna give you what my Grammy gave me when I was a kid and I was scared.
Panel 3:
Mother (holding up a skull): This is the "scared skull."
Panel 4:
Mother: Instead of having all that fear, just put the scared skull under your pillow and let it do the fearing for you at night!
Panel 5:
Child: Actually, I uh... I meant I'm sad, not scared.
Child: Oh! I'll go get the SADNESS SKULL!
(A child is shown in bed with the skull on the pillow beside her.)
Votey:
Caption: This is only not autobiographical because Kelly said no.
(A close-up of a person's face, wide-eyed and grimacing. A handwritten note with an arrow points to the face reading: "Boo to Kelly")
Child (to mother): Mom, sometimes at night I get scared of things.
Panel 2:
Mother: I'm gonna give you what my Grammy gave me when I was a kid and I was scared.
Panel 3:
Mother (holding up a skull): This is the "scared skull."
Panel 4:
Mother: Instead of having all that fear, just put the scared skull under your pillow and let it do the fearing for you at night!
Panel 5:
Child: Actually, I uh... I meant I'm sad, not scared.
Child: Oh! I'll go get the SADNESS SKULL!
(A child is shown in bed with the skull on the pillow beside her.)
Votey:
Caption: This is only not autobiographical because Kelly said no.
(A close-up of a person's face, wide-eyed and grimacing. A handwritten note with an arrow points to the face reading: "Boo to Kelly")
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. A child tells her mother, "Mom, sometimes at night I get scared of things." The mother replies, "I'm gonna give you what my Grammy gave me when I was a kid and I was scared." She holds up a skull and says, "This is the 'scared skull.'" She explains, "Instead of having all that fear, just put the scared skull under your pillow and let it do the fearing for you at night!" In the final panel the child says, "Actually, I uh... I meant I'm sad, not scared," and the mother enthusiastically responds, "Oh! I'll go get the SADNESS SKULL!" while the child is shown lying in bed beside a skull on the pillow. Votey (aftercomic): a caption reads, "This is only not autobiographical because Kelly said no," above a close-up of a wide-eyed, grimacing face with a handwritten note and arrow pointing at it saying "Boo to Kelly."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.