10 Comments

1. 

   I just don’t understand what is not to be understood about this panel: it seems like a fairly standard bit of comic surrealism.

   P.S. The bird on the right is disappointed by the “traditional” menu selection. We all know that birds don’t (usually) eat pizza, but given the alternative, it’s easy for us all to understand why this bird feels the way it does.

   P.P.S. Of course, cats don’t usually eat lasagne, either, but sometimes suspension of disbelief is required to keep a worn-out running gag working.

2. 

   Alrighty then, I’m happy to add a Seems CIDU but there’s no joke to get, just absurdism category to this.

3. 

   Forget it, Kilby, it’s CIDU. :)

4. 

   Now if it were sea gulls — Sea gulls DO eat pizza, as many patrons of beach-side pizza stands have found out.

5. 

   All right, but the wording is still weird. If it was “I’d rather have pizza today” or “I was expecting to order a pizza” that’d be one thing. But “I thought you said you were ordering a pizza”? That seems pretty clear that the other bird said something close to “Let’s order a pizza”. How do we get from that to the stereotypical worm?

6. 

   Powers: Instead of ordering an exotic pizza, as expected, he’s fetching a quotidian worm.

7. 

   RIght, Ed, but what did he say to make the other bird think he was going to order a pizza?

8. 

   What about the defenestration of Prague? Can we joke about that?

9. 

   @That’s Me 8: If you want to joke about the defenestration of Prague, Hus going to stop you?

10. 

    jokes about a diet of worms?

    was expecting Martin Luther?