If it weren’t a “picture” but an actual person who had been injured it’d make sense. “Doc, can he be saved.” … “Well, his soul might be salvagible but his body is going to die”.
But … ?????????picture???????
You can save a digital picture to the cloud or to a hard drive. That’s not the job of either the docduck or the clergyduck.
Well, my first thought was that the doctor was passing the duck.
However, since my laptop would not come up with the email/name/website area and I could not send out and had to open my other laptop, I had a chance to think – It is not a medical situation so the doctor can not save the picture, but perhaps the minister/priest can save it as he saves souls?
To elaborate: the humor comes from the fact that in panels 1 and 2, you assume that the doctor means purple duck is asking the wrong person, because they should be asking a computer expert, not a doctor. But, surprise, they should be asking a priest, to save the picture’s soul. (Whether the doctor has misunderstood the purple duck’s request, or we, the reader have, is unclear.)
If the joke is merely that photographer duck wants to know how to save (i.e., permanently store) a photo on a tablet, then the joke’s setup is awkward. Since Photoduck has presumably taken the picture with his camera, then the common methods for getting the photo to the tablet are going to implicitly save the file. Furthermore, if you couldn’t find the “Save” option in a tablet-based photo editor, you would not ask “Can this picture be saved?,” you would ask “How do I save…”.
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However, I did not assume that Photoduck was asking about the act of saving an edited photo. My interpretation was that Photoduck was asking if the picture could be savaged. It may be under- or over-exposed. It might be poorly focused. There may be a highly distracting object in the foreground that needs to be removed. It may be an actual physical photograph that has been damaged in some way.
Of course, salvaging poor-quality pictures is not Dr. Duck’s area of expertise. We are expecting a response on the lines of “Darn it, Jim– I’m a doctor, not a graphics artist.” And therein lines the joke. Dr. Duck interprets “saved” as meaning “redeemed and saved from the fires of hell, and turns the request over to Clergy Duck.
Is the whole “duck face” pursed-lips thing still a thing? Perhaps this is a comment on that meme being dead and hence needs last rites…
ja: “My interpretation was that Photoduck was asking if the picture could be savaged.”
My interpretation was that he was asking if it could be un-savaged…
[ducks]
I see now that the 3rd duck is supposed to be clergy, but I initially thought it was a really poor drawing of the LINUX penguin.
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If it weren’t a “picture” but an actual person who had been injured it’d make sense. “Doc, can he be saved.” … “Well, his soul might be salvagible but his body is going to die”.
But … ?????????picture???????
You can save a digital picture to the cloud or to a hard drive. That’s not the job of either the docduck or the clergyduck.
Well, my first thought was that the doctor was passing the duck.
However, since my laptop would not come up with the email/name/website area and I could not send out and had to open my other laptop, I had a chance to think – It is not a medical situation so the doctor can not save the picture, but perhaps the minister/priest can save it as he saves souls?
To elaborate: the humor comes from the fact that in panels 1 and 2, you assume that the doctor means purple duck is asking the wrong person, because they should be asking a computer expert, not a doctor. But, surprise, they should be asking a priest, to save the picture’s soul. (Whether the doctor has misunderstood the purple duck’s request, or we, the reader have, is unclear.)
If the joke is merely that photographer duck wants to know how to save (i.e., permanently store) a photo on a tablet, then the joke’s setup is awkward. Since Photoduck has presumably taken the picture with his camera, then the common methods for getting the photo to the tablet are going to implicitly save the file. Furthermore, if you couldn’t find the “Save” option in a tablet-based photo editor, you would not ask “Can this picture be saved?,” you would ask “How do I save…”.
.
However, I did not assume that Photoduck was asking about the act of saving an edited photo. My interpretation was that Photoduck was asking if the picture could be savaged. It may be under- or over-exposed. It might be poorly focused. There may be a highly distracting object in the foreground that needs to be removed. It may be an actual physical photograph that has been damaged in some way.
Of course, salvaging poor-quality pictures is not Dr. Duck’s area of expertise. We are expecting a response on the lines of “Darn it, Jim– I’m a doctor, not a graphics artist.” And therein lines the joke. Dr. Duck interprets “saved” as meaning “redeemed and saved from the fires of hell, and turns the request over to Clergy Duck.
Is the whole “duck face” pursed-lips thing still a thing? Perhaps this is a comment on that meme being dead and hence needs last rites…
ja: “My interpretation was that Photoduck was asking if the picture could be savaged.”
My interpretation was that he was asking if it could be un-savaged…
[ducks]
I see now that the 3rd duck is supposed to be clergy, but I initially thought it was a really poor drawing of the LINUX penguin.