Dreams
Original: Dreams on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child: Papa, what's the key to a happy life?
Father: Achieving your dreams.
Panel 2:
Father: So, while you're still young, still ahead of all your crossroads... pick out some shitty SHITTY dreams.
Panel 3:
Child: I'm gonna be the member of a friend group who speaks only in trivia and movie quotations, and then cries at night but doesn't understand why.
Panel 4:
Father: Atta boy!
Votey:
Child (off-panel, thought/speech): Thanks Dad.
Father: Please express your emotions in the form of a Simpsons quote.
Child: Papa, what's the key to a happy life?
Father: Achieving your dreams.
Panel 2:
Father: So, while you're still young, still ahead of all your crossroads... pick out some shitty SHITTY dreams.
Panel 3:
Child: I'm gonna be the member of a friend group who speaks only in trivia and movie quotations, and then cries at night but doesn't understand why.
Panel 4:
Father: Atta boy!
Votey:
Child (off-panel, thought/speech): Thanks Dad.
Father: Please express your emotions in the form of a Simpsons quote.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired child and their bespectacled father stand together at night under a starry sky. Panel 1: in silhouette, the child asks, 'Papa, what's the key to a happy life?' The father replies, 'Achieving your dreams.' Panel 2, now in color, the father holding a cup says, 'So, while you're still young, still ahead of all your crossroads... pick out some shitty SHITTY dreams.' Panel 3: a close-up of the child, who declares, 'I'm gonna be the member of a friend group who speaks only in trivia and movie quotations, and then cries at night but doesn't understand why.' Panel 4: the smiling father responds, 'Atta boy!' The joke: the father's loving advice is to aim deliberately low and embrace a pathetic, emotionally stunted future. Votey (bonus panel): the child says 'Thanks Dad,' and the father adds, 'Please express your emotions in the form of a Simpsons quote.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.