number-one-dad
Original: number-one-dad on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (dark hair): I can't take it, wife!
Panel 2:
Woman (dark hair, distressed): The kids are making me crazy! I'm behind on everything! The house is a disaster!
Other woman (curly dark hair): I am tapping the fuck out, man! I surrender! I give up on parenting!
Panel 3 (caption):
AND SO...
Panel 4:
Parent (shouting, arms raised): HEY KIDS! WHO WANTS MACARONI AND 8 HOURS OF CARTOONS?!
Kids (cheering): HOORAYYYYYY!
Panel 5:
Kid: BEST DAD EVER!
Votey:
Child's face, looking up, asking: BUT WHY ONLY 8?
Woman (dark hair): I can't take it, wife!
Panel 2:
Woman (dark hair, distressed): The kids are making me crazy! I'm behind on everything! The house is a disaster!
Other woman (curly dark hair): I am tapping the fuck out, man! I surrender! I give up on parenting!
Panel 3 (caption):
AND SO...
Panel 4:
Parent (shouting, arms raised): HEY KIDS! WHO WANTS MACARONI AND 8 HOURS OF CARTOONS?!
Kids (cheering): HOORAYYYYYY!
Panel 5:
Kid: BEST DAD EVER!
Votey:
Child's face, looking up, asking: BUT WHY ONLY 8?
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic about parental burnout. Two frazzled parents declare they can't take it anymore — one says the kids are making her crazy and the house is a disaster, the other says she's "tapping the fuck out" and giving up on parenting. "And so..." a parent throws their arms up and shouts to the kids, "HEY KIDS! WHO WANTS MACARONI AND 8 HOURS OF CARTOONS?!" The kids cheer "HOORAYYYYYY!" and one declares "BEST DAD EVER!" — the joke being that surrendering to junk food and screens reads to the kids as the best parenting ever. Votey: a close-up of a child's upturned face asking, "But why only 8?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.