Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24693225-20150206010822/@comment-4241330-20170307023726

Here's my interpretation of A Sob Story.

Pop watches TV on the couch. Cub is shown playing with his toy car, until accidentally running over his thumb with it. Cub begins crying loudly. Pop, not knowing why Cub is in tears, checks his diaper.

Cub continues to cry, so Pop makes funny faces in an attempt to cheer him up. He accidentally steps on a tack, causing him to hop around on one foot. This gets Cub to start laughing. Pop thinks the problem is solved and heads back to the couch for more TV time. Cub looks back at his bloody thumb and cries some more.

Pop reluctantly hops off the couch to check on his son, when he steps on the toy car and slips. Cub laughs again. So in order to keep him happy, Pop inflicts painful acts on himself - which include electrocution with a fork and toaster, burning his hand with an iron, and slamming the door on his foot. As a grand finale, he dresses up like a clown and hops into Flaky's yard, which scares her into calling the police, and in turn leads to policeman Lumpy firing a taser gun into his eye.

By the end of it all, Pop lays on a hospital bed in a full body cast. Cub comes to show him his patched-up thumb. However, the TV goes off. Pop now begins to cry. Cub attempts to turn it on with a remote, but instead causes the bed to crush Pop.

Moral: Crying won't solve anything.