I've noticed that a lot of those "characters from such and such in quarantine" memes are emphasizing characters who are going it alone.

So.

Disney parents in quarantine.
MUFASA
--Made a schedule on Day 3 and has stuck to it

--Everyone is fully dressed for Zoom class meetings

--Prepares healthy meals every night

--Other parents want to throw him to wildebeests
BOB PARR

--Grouses about how quarantines are making childhood illegal

--Hosts backyard birthday parties with more than ten people

--Has at least one Google Classroom-related meltdown per week
FLORA AND FAUNA

--Have enormous Pinterest boards full of elaborate crafts and recipes

--Almost completed one craft without anyone crying

--Constantly posting about how someday we’ll look back on all this togetherness as the best days of our lives
MERRYWEATHER

--Ready to kick her co-parents to the curb if they do THAT THING again

--YOU KNOW WHICH THING AND THEY KNOW WHICH THING

--Hoping that the 17th schedule is the one that will stick

--Day drinking
SULTAN

--Letting his kids have infinite screen time so he can paint miniatures in the basement

--Vaguely hoping kids are telling the truth when they say they already turned in their work

--Intends reply to teacher emails when he can give them the mental energy they deserve
LADY TREMAINE

--Lets her children outside without masks

--Writes icy posts on NextDoor when she sees other people’s children without masks

--Wants a haircut
MARLIN

--Has anxiety attacks when his kids play in the back yard

--Hoarder

--Changes kids’ answers for them while checking their work

--Called the cops on Bob's birthday party
DR. FINKELSTEIN

--Just wants his teens to make some goshdarn soup for dinner while he works from home

--Has to keep reminding kids they can’t go to Memorial Day Town because Dad is in a high-risk group

--Please stop poisoning him for five minutes so he can get some work done
MAURICE
--Everyone’s still in pajamas at 5 pm

--Assignments always late because he can’t remember what day it is

--Kids live in terror of the moments when he comes up with a “much simpler way to do this project”

--This is seriously the best he can do
MOTHER GOTHEL

--Posting on half a dozen social media platforms about how hard it is to parent during a quarantine

--Jokes about all her bad parenting habits as if she only just now picked them up

--Hasn't actually interacted with her kids in a week
CHICHA

--Homeschooled before any of this went down

--Hooking up friends with virtual field trips

--Will slap the next person who says her life hasn’t changed at all
CHIEF TUI

--Resigned to being treated like history’s greatest tyrant for forcing kids to do schoolwork

--Reminding kids for the 500th time to stay socially distant while they play outside

--501st

--502nd

--Screw it, what time is Merryweather’s virtual happy hour again?
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