good-3
Original: good-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption: MODERN PARENTING):
A young child with curly brown hair stands facing an adult man with glasses, gray hair, and a red shirt.
Child: "I DON'T WANNA BRUSH MY TEETH! WHY DO YOU MAKE ME?!"
Man: "*SIGH* LISTEN THERE ARE BACTERIA ON YOUR TEETH, AND WHEN THEY CONSUME SUGAR THEY EXCRETE-"
Child: "I DON'T WANNA BRUSH MY TEETH!"
Panel 2 (caption: OUR WISE ANTECEDENTS):
The same curly-haired child stands facing an older woman with gray hair and a red shirt.
Child: "I WON'T WANNA-"
Woman: "HAVE YOU HEARD THE STORY OF THE KID WHO DIDN'T ACT RIGHT AND THEN GOT LEFT IN THE WOODS AND EATEN BY WITCHES?"
Votey:
A single panel showing a speech bubble pointing down at a small egg-shaped object.
Off-panel speaker: "THIS IS THE ONE GOOD THING."
A young child with curly brown hair stands facing an adult man with glasses, gray hair, and a red shirt.
Child: "I DON'T WANNA BRUSH MY TEETH! WHY DO YOU MAKE ME?!"
Man: "*SIGH* LISTEN THERE ARE BACTERIA ON YOUR TEETH, AND WHEN THEY CONSUME SUGAR THEY EXCRETE-"
Child: "I DON'T WANNA BRUSH MY TEETH!"
Panel 2 (caption: OUR WISE ANTECEDENTS):
The same curly-haired child stands facing an older woman with gray hair and a red shirt.
Child: "I WON'T WANNA-"
Woman: "HAVE YOU HEARD THE STORY OF THE KID WHO DIDN'T ACT RIGHT AND THEN GOT LEFT IN THE WOODS AND EATEN BY WITCHES?"
Votey:
A single panel showing a speech bubble pointing down at a small egg-shaped object.
Off-panel speaker: "THIS IS THE ONE GOOD THING."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic comparing parenting styles. Panel one, captioned MODERN PARENTING, shows a curly-haired child yelling "I don't wanna brush my teeth! Why do you make me?!" at a bespectacled man in a red shirt, who sighs and begins a science explanation: "Listen, there are bacteria on your teeth, and when they consume sugar they excrete-" The child cuts him off, repeating "I don't wanna brush my teeth!" Panel two, captioned OUR WISE ANTECEDENTS, shows the same child starting "I won't wanna-" before an older gray-haired woman in a red shirt interrupts: "Have you heard the story of the kid who didn't act right and then got left in the woods and eaten by witches?" The joke contrasts patient modern reasoning, which the child ignores, with old-fashioned scary fairy-tale threats. Votey aftercomic: a speech bubble points down at a small egg-shaped object and an off-panel voice says "This is the one good thing."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.