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Original: verbatim on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Older man (the dad): Who wants to play my new trivia game?
A younger man: Sure!
Panel 2:
Dad: And so... okay, first question. "What's wrong with... young people these days?"
(The younger man holds a small yellow card.)
Panel 3:
Dad (reading): The answer is "They don't save enough and they're on their phone all damn day Googling at movie girls or what have you."
Panel 4:
Younger man: Wow. Verbatim.
(He looks at the card he is holding, which has handwriting on it.)
Panel 5:
Dad (reading from a yellow card): My turn to read. "What type of warming is probably not real because scientists are all compromised by the government?"
Younger man (covering his face with his hand): Oh my God, Dad.
Panel 6:
Younger woman: Is this entire trivia game just your opinions on stuff?
Panel 7:
Dad: It was either that or state my opinions in conversation.
Younger woman: You made the right choice.
Votey:
A close-up of the younger man's exasperated/amused face.
Off-panel voice (the dad): There's an expansion pack about the gays!
Older man (the dad): Who wants to play my new trivia game?
A younger man: Sure!
Panel 2:
Dad: And so... okay, first question. "What's wrong with... young people these days?"
(The younger man holds a small yellow card.)
Panel 3:
Dad (reading): The answer is "They don't save enough and they're on their phone all damn day Googling at movie girls or what have you."
Panel 4:
Younger man: Wow. Verbatim.
(He looks at the card he is holding, which has handwriting on it.)
Panel 5:
Dad (reading from a yellow card): My turn to read. "What type of warming is probably not real because scientists are all compromised by the government?"
Younger man (covering his face with his hand): Oh my God, Dad.
Panel 6:
Younger woman: Is this entire trivia game just your opinions on stuff?
Panel 7:
Dad: It was either that or state my opinions in conversation.
Younger woman: You made the right choice.
Votey:
A close-up of the younger man's exasperated/amused face.
Off-panel voice (the dad): There's an expansion pack about the gays!
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic. An older man (the dad) cheerfully announces a homemade trivia game to a younger couple; the younger man agrees to play. The dad reads the first "question card": "What's wrong with young people these days?" then reads the supposed answer verbatim: that they don't save enough and are on their phones all day. The younger man, holding the card, deadpans "Wow. Verbatim." The dad reads another card asking which type of "warming" is probably fake because scientists are compromised by the government, and the younger man face-palms, saying "Oh my God, Dad." The younger woman asks if the whole trivia game is just the dad's opinions on stuff. The dad replies it was either that or just state his opinions in conversation, and she concedes he made the right choice. The joke: the dad has disguised his political opinions as a trivia game. Votey panel: a close-up of the younger man's exasperated face as the dad's voice adds, "There's an expansion pack about the gays!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.