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The "ages" identified and experiences typical at that age:
 
The "ages" identified and experiences typical at that age:
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*0-3 - "[Non-sentient]" - Babies/toddlers are not self-sufficient and not intelligently communicative, which means they lack many of the elements that we associate with human intelligence. Sentience is difficult to clearly define, but it's often (and somewhat erroneously) correlated with self-awareness. There's disagreement about when self-awareness emerges in children, but some sources argue that it occurs around 2-3 years old.  
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*0-3 - "[Non-sentient]" - Babies/toddlers are not self-sufficient and not intelligently communicative. The formal definition of "sentient" implies an ability to perceive or feel things (something babies & toddlers can do) but one alternative definition of the word (which Randall appears to be using here) implies self-awareness and, more specifically, awareness of one's own awareness. Babies of very young ages lack this, although there is some argument as to exactly when they become self-aware.
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*4-12 - "Everything is exciting!" - During this period, children are growing rapidly and learning many things for the first time. Between the newness of their experiences and a general lack of emotional inhibition, children of this age frequently exhibit a level of enthusiasm and excitement about the world which is rarely found in adults.  
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*4-12 - "Everything is exciting!" - Children learn language and everything they see and learn is new and interesting. Children of this age are characterized with fascination with the world around them, with an attitude that everything is exciting.
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*13-17 - "Everything sucks!" - As children grow to be teenagers, they frequently have prolonged periods of personal and emotional turmoil. This age range includes the transition from childhood to adulthood, which carries multiple social, personal and biological implications. Many children of this age tend to encounter hard truths of life and lose much of the naivete of youth. This often leads to strongly cynical attitudes about life in general.  
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*13-17 - "Everything sucks!" - As children grow to be teenagers their attitude that everything is exciting often turns into cynicism to the world around them, leading to the attitude that "everything sucks!" Teenagers tend to rebel against authority figures (parents, teachers, etc.) thinking they now know best. Additionally, they tend to be negative about everything they experience in the world.
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*18-22 - "Woooo college! Wooooo—" [vomit] - This age is typically a young adult's first foray into the freedom of adulthood (frequently in college). With many of the restrictions of childhood removed, but lacking the experience and maturity of someone older, young adults will often take things to excess, including partying and drinking (which accounts for the vomiting).
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*18-22 - "Woooo college! Wooooo—" [vomit] - This age is a young adult's first foray into the freedom of the world (which often happens in college). For many young adults (whether in college or not) this results in parties or excessive drinking.  Excessive drinking results in vomiting.
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*23-30 - "Relationships are ''hard''!" - Having grown out of the young adult stage, people in their twenties experience their first "adult" relationships, and generally encounter a great deal of difficulty and often no small amount of heartbreak.
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*23-30 - "Relationships are hard!" - Having grown out of the young adult stage, people in their twenties experience their first "adult" relationships. These relationships, unlike the dating they may have done while in school, tend to be complicated.
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*31-42 - "So are careers!" - Growing now into their thirties, many people become increasingly concerned about building careers. The more serious one becomes about a serious and long-term vocation, the more complexity they're likely to encounter.  
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*31-42 - "So are careers!" - Growing now into their thirties, people realize that not only are relationships hard but careers are, too. They experience real-world job stress, sometimes at the same time as beginning their families.
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*43-54 - "No daughter of ''mine'' is going out dressed like that!" - This is the general age range in which people might be the parents of teenagers. This phrase is a cliche, implying a parent is forbidding their daughter from wearing revealing clothing in public. This sort of interaction represents an older person who is focused on preventing perceived impropriety or danger, and is often thought of as an oppressive killjoy by the younger generation.
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*43-54 - "No daughter of mine is going out dressed like that!" - In this age, people who are parents experience the teenage experience from the other perspective. That teenage experience is projected forward to parental experience of having a teenager of their own. This quote is a cliche of a parent yelling at their daughter because the daughter's outfit is far too skimpy for the parent's taste. It is entirely plausible that the now-parent heard this same remark when ''she'' was a teenager.
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*55-75+ - "[More sex than anyone is comfortable admitting]" - For people with kids, this age is known as the "empty nest" phase, where their children have moved out on their own. For many people, this is also when retirement occurs. Both of these things bring about a significant increase in both free time and privacy. While many young people don't like to think about their parents being sexually active (and some would prefer to assume that older people don't have sex at all), there are many people who remain sexually active well into their later years.
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*55-75+ - "[More sex than anyone is comfortable admitting]" - For people with kids, this age is known as the "empty nest" phase, where their children have moved out on their own. The freedom of not having kids in the house might bring about re-found passions. For people with kids or without, this age brings the onset of retirement with fewer responsibilities and copious free-time. How that free-time is spent is a subject most younger people aren't comfortable talking about.
  
 
The title text is a joke about the shortsightedness of many people (at any age) in believing their current age to be ideal.
 
The title text is a joke about the shortsightedness of many people (at any age) in believing their current age to be ideal.
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:[A number line labeled "age." The start point is 0, with points labeled 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70, and the line continues past the width of the panel. There are interstitial, non-labeled points. Above the line are labeled brackets, with the rightmost one trailing off in a dotted line. They are (approximated):]
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:A number line labeled "age." The start point is 0, with points labeled 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70, and the line continues past the width of the panel. There are interstitial, non-labeled points. Above the line are labeled brackets. They are (approximated):
 
::0-3: [Non-sentient]
 
::0-3: [Non-sentient]
 
::4-12: "Everything is exciting!"
 
::4-12: "Everything is exciting!"

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