Zach often makes a joke in the comic, then adds a caption that turns the joke into something else entirely. He creates more layers in a one-panel comic than anyone else I’ve come across.

2.) The lawyer isn’t sorry for using the term “stupid bitches” in front of a woman, he’s sorry that he did not explain the term “jury.”

Second- The man and woman are BOTH defending someone, that someone is charged w/ probably sexual harassment or other sex-related crime in the workplace. The man, clearly sexist after saying “stupid bitches” are what make up the jury, thinks they’ll win. Since it’s a sexism suit, probably a crime committed by a man, the male in the comic is apologizing for filling the jury with females- all of which are likely to show no mercy on the person being charged. The caption (it does make it hard to understand) is being said by said defendee of the pair. So he now knows that he is screwed, since the jury, people deciding whether or not he goes to prison, is full of “stupid bitches” and are the reason he is charged with sexual harassment/discrimination in the first place.

In the second one, if the woman in the panel really IS a stupid b!tch, I would expect the caption to have a little more b!tch!ness in it. The stupid part is expressed.

To me, it’s definitely funnier with the caption. I think that’s true of a lot of the SMBCs, actually; it’s just that when you read SMBC only at CIDU, you see a lot of instances where the caption seems illogical or inexplicable. SMBC is very much a hit-or-miss kind of comic, but for me, it hits more often than it misses, and the hits are hilarious. I prefer that kind of comic over a comic that is a consistent level of “very mildly amusing.”