ideal-2
Original: ideal-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (looking up, praying): Dear God, what makes an ideal marriage?
God (voice from above, in a speech bubble): Three people, minimum.
Panel 2:
Man: I thought you weren't down with that sort of thing.
God: Think of the children!
Panel 3:
God: You guys have been doubling parental childcare responsibilities every twenty years for the last century, but the standard total number of parents has stayed at two!
Panel 4:
God: Are you INSANE? You're gonna hands-on raise a family using only two adults who both have full-time jobs? Do you hate yourselves?
Panel 5 (man stands alone in a dim room, listening):
(no dialogue)
Panel 6 (man runs off excitedly):
(no dialogue)
Caption under the panels: WIFE! I WAS PRAYING TONIGHT AND I THINK WE NEED TO ADD A DUDE TO OUR MARRIAGE WHO LIKES CHILDCARE AND BAKING.
Final panel: The wife throws her arms up joyfully while two small children stand behind her; the man's profile is at the right edge.
Wife: God is good! God is GOOD!
Votey:
God (in a speech bubble): Goooood. Now, get busy down there.
Man (looking up, praying): Dear God, what makes an ideal marriage?
God (voice from above, in a speech bubble): Three people, minimum.
Panel 2:
Man: I thought you weren't down with that sort of thing.
God: Think of the children!
Panel 3:
God: You guys have been doubling parental childcare responsibilities every twenty years for the last century, but the standard total number of parents has stayed at two!
Panel 4:
God: Are you INSANE? You're gonna hands-on raise a family using only two adults who both have full-time jobs? Do you hate yourselves?
Panel 5 (man stands alone in a dim room, listening):
(no dialogue)
Panel 6 (man runs off excitedly):
(no dialogue)
Caption under the panels: WIFE! I WAS PRAYING TONIGHT AND I THINK WE NEED TO ADD A DUDE TO OUR MARRIAGE WHO LIKES CHILDCARE AND BAKING.
Final panel: The wife throws her arms up joyfully while two small children stand behind her; the man's profile is at the right edge.
Wife: God is good! God is GOOD!
Votey:
God (in a speech bubble): Goooood. Now, get busy down there.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired man prays upward and asks God what makes an ideal marriage. God's disembodied voice replies, 'Three people, minimum.' When the man says he thought God wasn't down with that sort of thing, God says 'Think of the children!' and launches into a rant: humans have been doubling parental childcare responsibilities every twenty years for the last century while the standard number of parents has stayed at two, and asks if they're insane to raise a family with only two adults who both work full-time jobs. The man stands listening in a dim room, then bolts off excitedly. A caption reads: 'WIFE! I WAS PRAYING TONIGHT AND I THINK WE NEED TO ADD A DUDE TO OUR MARRIAGE WHO LIKES CHILDCARE AND BAKING.' In the final panel the wife throws her arms up in joy with two small kids behind her, shouting 'God is good! God is GOOD!' Votey: God's speech bubble adds, 'Goooood. Now, get busy down there.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.