favorite
Original: favorite on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child: Mom, dad, do you... did you have a favorite kid when we were little?
Panel 2:
Parent: I guess now that you're older and have kids of your own, well, you can appreciate the truth.
Panel 3:
Parent: Billy was our favorite.
Panel 4:
Child (alarmed): Billy?! Billy?!
Parent: The neighbor's kid?
Panel 5:
Parent: So athletic and handsome...
Parent: ...but a real thinker, too!
Votey:
Parent: Honestly, you're like, number 84?
(The adult child stares back, wide-eyed and stunned.)
Child: Mom, dad, do you... did you have a favorite kid when we were little?
Panel 2:
Parent: I guess now that you're older and have kids of your own, well, you can appreciate the truth.
Panel 3:
Parent: Billy was our favorite.
Panel 4:
Child (alarmed): Billy?! Billy?!
Parent: The neighbor's kid?
Panel 5:
Parent: So athletic and handsome...
Parent: ...but a real thinker, too!
Votey:
Parent: Honestly, you're like, number 84?
(The adult child stares back, wide-eyed and stunned.)
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. An adult child with brown hair asks their parents, "Mom, dad, do you... did you have a favorite kid when we were little?" A parent replies, "I guess now that you're older and have kids of your own, well, you can appreciate the truth." Then, smiling fondly: "Billy was our favorite." The child reacts in alarm: "Billy?! Billy?!" The parent clarifies, "The neighbor's kid?" and gushes, "So athletic and handsome... but a real thinker, too!" The joke: the favorite child wasn't even one of their own kids. Votey (aftercomic): the parent adds, "Honestly, you're like, number 84?" while the child's face is frozen in wide-eyed, devastated shock.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.