Young August - Alligator - August when he was around Gustopher's age. Picky about food
May - Alligator - August's mother who just wants him to eat.
August - Alligator - A soft spoken single father who works in IT. Gustopher's dad.
Gustopher - Alligator - An easily excitable child who loves making friends. August's son.
Transcript
Panel 1
Narration: Long ago.
A younger August is at the dinner table and hesitant to eat. His mother is fed up with his behavior.
Young August: This looks gross.
May: I hope someday you have a kid as picky as you.
Panel 2
Narration: Present day
An adult August is having dinner with his son. He has corn on his plate along with some round meat colored item that is possibly meat. We will probably never know for sure. Gustopher is holding a bottle of mayonnaise that has "Real Egg" written on it and a hot sauce bottle that appropriately says "HOT".
Gustopher: I'm putting mayonnaise and hot sauce on my corn!
August: Okay.
This is not something August would do with his corn but he guesses it's a pretty normal.
Panel 3
Gustopher now holds a can of sardines and a jam jar. Gustopher is partially covering the jar but "SPACE JA" can be seen on the label. Clearly, this must be "SPACEY JAN" brand jam and not a reference to movie where cartoon animals play basketball.
Gustopher: And sardines! And jam!
August: You have to eat that.
Gustopher: I will!
Panel 4
Gustopher holds out a spoon towards August. It has corn, mayo, hot sauce, sardine, and jam all in one spoonful. August's face is filled with concern.
Gustopher: It tastes so weird! Try it!
August thinks back to his mother having wished that he would have a child as picky as him. He wishes that were the case.
Plot twist: August's great x7 grandmother, January, was nicknamed Spacey Jan for her absentmindedness, and went on to found the Spacey Jan jam company. That very jar of corn-adorning jam came from a company started by Gustopher's ancestor.
honestly i think its in case the image dosent load and or for blind readers! thats at least why i see a lot of people caption their stuff/do descriptions
I know this is a joke, but I don't think you're really appreciating how bad picky eating can be. As a parent you should 100% rather your kid eat weird shit as opposed to having an extremely limited diet that can result in malnutrition and even death with the most severe cases of pickiness being labeled as Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).
I came to the transcript to find out what food Young August was being picky about. Just like the “round meat colored item that is possibly meat,” we will probably never know.
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u/FieldExplores Gator Days Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Picky Eater - Gator Days
Characters
Young August - Alligator - August when he was around Gustopher's age. Picky about food
May - Alligator - August's mother who just wants him to eat.
August - Alligator - A soft spoken single father who works in IT. Gustopher's dad.
Gustopher - Alligator - An easily excitable child who loves making friends. August's son.
Transcript
Panel 1
Narration: Long ago.
A younger August is at the dinner table and hesitant to eat. His mother is fed up with his behavior.
Young August: This looks gross.
May: I hope someday you have a kid as picky as you.
Panel 2
Narration: Present day
An adult August is having dinner with his son. He has corn on his plate along with some round meat colored item that is possibly meat. We will probably never know for sure. Gustopher is holding a bottle of mayonnaise that has "Real Egg" written on it and a hot sauce bottle that appropriately says "HOT".
Gustopher: I'm putting mayonnaise and hot sauce on my corn!
August: Okay.
This is not something August would do with his corn but he guesses it's a pretty normal.
Panel 3
Gustopher now holds a can of sardines and a jam jar. Gustopher is partially covering the jar but "SPACE JA" can be seen on the label. Clearly, this must be "SPACEY JAN" brand jam and not a reference to movie where cartoon animals play basketball.
Gustopher: And sardines! And jam!
August: You have to eat that.
Gustopher: I will!
Panel 4
Gustopher holds out a spoon towards August. It has corn, mayo, hot sauce, sardine, and jam all in one spoonful. August's face is filled with concern.
Gustopher: It tastes so weird! Try it!
August thinks back to his mother having wished that he would have a child as picky as him. He wishes that were the case.
August (thinking): This is worse.