grounded
Original: grounded on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Mother: SO, BILLY, WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS YOU TOLD ME A LIE TODAY.
Billy: YES MOMMY. AM I GROUNDED?
Panel 2:
(Large text filling the panel as the mother shouts) ACTUALLY LOCUSSTS!
Panel 3 (caption: EARLIER...):
The mother sits at a desk, hand to her face, reading a book titled BIBLE BASED PARENTING.
Votey:
Mother (shouting): I HOPE YOU'VE LEARNED YOUR LESSON SO I DON'T HAVE TO DROWN YOU!
Mother: SO, BILLY, WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS YOU TOLD ME A LIE TODAY.
Billy: YES MOMMY. AM I GROUNDED?
Panel 2:
(Large text filling the panel as the mother shouts) ACTUALLY LOCUSSTS!
Panel 3 (caption: EARLIER...):
The mother sits at a desk, hand to her face, reading a book titled BIBLE BASED PARENTING.
Votey:
Mother (shouting): I HOPE YOU'VE LEARNED YOUR LESSON SO I DON'T HAVE TO DROWN YOU!
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A mother says to her son, "So, Billy, what you're saying is you told me a lie today." The small red-haired boy, Billy, replies, "Yes mommy. Am I grounded?" Panel 2: The mother, face wide with rage, screams in giant lettering, "ACTUALLY LOCUSSTS!" Panel 3, captioned "EARLIER...": the mother sits at a desk, hand pressed to her face, reading a book titled "BIBLE BASED PARENTING" — the joke being she's modeling discipline on the plagues God inflicted on Egypt. Votey (bonus panel): a rough sketch of the mother shouting, "I hope you've learned your lesson so I don't have to drown you!" — escalating to the Flood.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.