Parental Disapproval Cartoons and Comics

"These must be some other kind of patriotic work she can do."

"Quit parentalizing me!"

"But, sweetheart, why do you have to marry a doctor? Why can't you marry a fireman?"

"It seems like your parents are finally comfortable enough with our relationship to openly criticize it."

"You're wrong. It's not your ethnicity that bothers my father Jon, it's your gender!"

"Oh, you silly girl, you! Don't tell me you brought home another husband."

"Oh my God! He's unicellular!"

"I've been against it from the start, but who am I? Only her mother."

Lazy Groundhog.

The tulip knew it was in trouble when called by its scientific name.

'Are you familiar with the term "adverse selection"?'

"Rapunzel, you've let me down, you've let your mother down, and now you've let your hair down."

'No hunting, no gathering, just doodling all day. There's no future in that!'

'Last night my parents said they didn't mind a bit and it was perfectly OK with them if I smoked... so I quit.'

'Dancer! What the hell are you doing...?'

'Glastonbury? You've been up to no good in some young man's bedsit, haven't you! Mud sticks, y'know.'

'So this is your new boyfriend, dear? Well, there are worse than him. Uhm...wait a minute...uhm...no, there are not.'

'This new boyfriend of yours is from the wrong side of the pay gap.'

'After hours of rehearsing together, little Judy Barlow is going to play 'Three Blind Mice' while her father screams, 'Keep that racket down, will ya?''

'You'll have to come up with something new...Nobody notices you anymore.'

'We've been able to trace that annoying tsk tsk sound to your mother's cell phone.'

'Why does our daughter always go out with the black sheep of the family?'

"You want to be a comedian? You can't be serious!"

"Well, my new boyfriend likes to read. He's a bookie."

"I'm not a big fan of our daughter's new love interest! He's too sophisticated to be much of a wild-boar, isn't he?!"