(Strip Number 5110, Original Publication Date, 25 March 1989)
Panel 1: We end the dinner with the adults toasting the good old days.
Panel 2: We then get a failed attempt at unmooring the strip from the late eighties when they namedrop Joan Baez, the Beatles, love ins, sit-ins and flower power.
Panel 3: Having noticed that the tie-dyed utopia Elly seems to have wanted has failed to materialize, John wonders what did they accomplish doing all of that and what they've produced as a legacy really.
Panel 4: As Liz smiles at them, Mike says a cruel world that ruins everything: "Us."
Summary: This is because we're dealing with Lynn's need to slam her children over the head with how little they appreciate all she does and all she did. Most people see two kids who have trouble picturing and caring about a world that didn't have them in it yet. Elly sees monsters who want to destroy all she builds up because of that need to feel great by feeling like shit.