Comics I Don’t Understand

”I think so, Brain, but what if the chicken won’t wear the nylons?”

Cidu Bill on Apr 28th 2008

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Herman, chickens, comic strips, comics, humor | 26 responses so far

26 Responses to “”I think so, Brain, but what if the chicken won’t wear the nylons?””

Kaitlyn Apr 28th 2008 at 12:13 am 1

Chickens think?

Perhaps they’re thinking of passing them off as their own, so they won’t have to hatch eggs or see their babies taken away.

Of course, there is often a great difference between store-bought eggs and fresh laid ones.

I think the comic would be better if there was a road in between them and the eggs. Or just a road.
Kevin Andresen Apr 28th 2008 at 12:26 am 2

While I like Kaitlyn’s child-saving multi-level thinking, my thought was that the one hen is just drawn to sit on the eggs, because Herman’s usually pretty simple (although I admit I haven’t read the strip lately). Nevertheless, I’m adopting the switcheroo interpretation.
Count Shrimpula Apr 28th 2008 at 12:47 am 3

They’re pondering having omelettes?
Pete Apr 28th 2008 at 12:49 am 4

Pinky rocks, I just have to say.
Kit Apr 28th 2008 at 01:05 am 5

I don’t have a clue about the cartoon, but your headline cracked me up!
arik1969 Apr 28th 2008 at 01:44 am 6

I think Kaitlyn is right - the comic would have been much better if there was just the chickens and a road. Has that take on the old joke been done before? Maybe, but the image is pretty funny anyway.
Quesselin Apr 28th 2008 at 02:59 am 7

My first thought was that they’re considering what came first, them or the eggs.
bAT L. Apr 28th 2008 at 04:31 am 8

I see this every now and then on TV. A couple is sitting in a park, or other public place with other couples around, and see a young couple pushing a stroller with one or two babies inside. One from the couple (usually the male) leans over to the other one and says something very close to the line in the comic. The implication here is that the couple starts thinking of having children and, in the case of the chickens here, are thinking about soon getting “laid”. The joke would be on the applying of a cliche to something other than what would usually perpetrate the cliche.

Then again, these appear to both be hens. I think.

On a side note, here’s another one for the headline made me laugh way more than the comic could have award!
Kaitlyn Apr 28th 2008 at 10:56 am 9

Yeah, the headline was hilarious.

Quesselin, I love your interpretation.
Terry Apr 28th 2008 at 11:28 am 10

Nobody seems to have noticed that the egg carton is upside down. That implies to me that the eggs are broken, or the carton is empty. In which case, I just don’t get the joke.
Kevin Andresen Apr 28th 2008 at 12:01 pm 11

ooo, Terry, you’ve now given me two new thoughts:

- They’ve never seen an egg carton before and it’s starting to dawn on them where their eggs are going.

- They’ve never seen an egg carton before and they’re thinking, “what a lovely way to keep our eggs all in one place as we sit on them.” (I wonder a chick will develop properly with its egg standing on end. ???)

And, btw, I HAD noticed the carton was probably upside-down and had successfully suppressed that thought until you forced me to look at the truth. Why couldn’t it be that “Grade A” is just printed upside-down?
Terry Apr 28th 2008 at 12:03 pm 12

The dimples on the top of the domes are the raised parts that the eggs sit in in a paper pulp carton.
Kaitlyn Apr 28th 2008 at 01:31 pm 13

Oh.

It is upside down.

Now it makes less sense.
Michael Apr 28th 2008 at 01:47 pm 14

I think the upside down writing is just some artistic license used to de-emphasise it. I think you’re just supposed to get that this is an egg carton, but if the writing were right side up you would notice it more and think it was somehow an integral part of the joke.

My first thought was that the chickens think they’ve just discovered an easier way of getting their eggs than actually having to lay them. Seems like if you went through childbirth every day or two, this would seem like a pretty good option to you.

But Kevin’s first thought could also work for me.
Dave Van Domelen Apr 28th 2008 at 06:46 pm 15

The chickens have realized that the farmer has lied to them…their eggs are NOT going off to colonize a distant island. They’re being eaten!

SOYLENT GREEN IS CHICKENS!
Sal Apr 28th 2008 at 06:58 pm 16

I don’t get the headline. Could someone please explain it?
Kaitlyn Apr 28th 2008 at 07:53 pm 17

Sal - L’Eggs
Tim Apr 28th 2008 at 07:56 pm 18

Sal,
Go to this link, I think you’ll get it then.

http://www.sph.umich.edu/~rwatt/ponderin.htm
Sal Apr 28th 2008 at 08:49 pm 19

OK now I get it. i am so out of touch with modern TV cartoons. I haven’t watched Saturday morning television since they took Ren and Stimpy off.
John Apr 28th 2008 at 10:06 pm 20

Is this cartoon made better or worse by the fact that there are multiple possible answers to the captioned question?

–Let’s get laid!

–So that’s what’s been happening to our eggs!

–Hey, we can sit on this big clutch of eggs, without even having to lay them!

–Which came first, us or them?

–That would make one heck of a nest.

–Are you hungry too?
Pete Apr 29th 2008 at 12:23 am 21

SOYLENT GREEN IS CHICKENS!
Now that’s funny!
pepperjackcandy Apr 29th 2008 at 10:05 pm 22

They’ve never seen an egg carton before and it’s starting to dawn on them where their eggs are going.

That was my interpretation.

SOYLENT GREEN IS CHICKENS!

LOL!
Shawn Apr 30th 2008 at 08:02 am 23

Like money bags falling out of an armored car, the eggs fell off of a truck and the chickens are pondering whether to take them and cash in, somehow.
Sylvie May 1st 2008 at 06:42 am 24

Ummmm… she thinks: we will do things with the Rooster again to lay more eggs (whoopie!)
Canaduck May 22nd 2008 at 12:56 am 25

“Kaitlyn — April 28, 2008 @ 12:13 am

Chickens think?”

Quite well, actually. They’re surprisingly clever birds. See: http://www.chickenindustry.com/cfi/intelligence/

“Michael — April 28, 2008 @ 1:47 pm

My first thought was that the chickens think they’ve just discovered an easier way of getting their eggs than actually having to lay them. Seems like if you went through childbirth every day or two, this would seem like a pretty good option to you.”

Not to be unnecessarily picky, but the eggs that people eat are not the equivalent of childbirth; they’re unfertilized. They’re basically the same as a woman’s menstrual period.

I STILL don’t get this comic.
Michael May 22nd 2008 at 01:24 am 26

@Canaduck: Tell that to the hen. I’d think the physical effort for producing a chicken’s egg would be the same whether it was fertilized or not. — It’s not quite the same as a female human expelling an unfertilized egg.