From HarveyH, who asks “Is he trying to figure out which bathroom to go to? What’s the joke?”
I think yes, to start with, he is trying to choose which one to use. So I thought this was trying for a statement on some contemporary sociopolitical issues. But then it turns into weird physics? The sign on the left keeps changing, and may reflect what happens in the room on the right; which is some kind of void or wormhole? I dunno, is that what you see too?
Okay, I get the individual nominated items. But what is the “plot”, what happens at the end? I figured Girl’s offer meant she was going to prepare something more anodyne, but … did she?
From Brian in STL:
A choreography that some of us are very familiar with! But what is that remark at the end?
… looking for CIDUs from *you*.
The “pointillism” is a nice joke. But is it the joke for the whole thing?
Oh wait, I started to ask about “punch line” but then connected that phrase to the boxing gloves and the guy knocked to the floor … could the punch be the punch line?? Nah.
So what is this about?
P.S, Bonus identification quiz! “Twenty-one decisions in a row, and only five on points, the rest was all K.O. Jackson and Johnson, Murphy and Bronson, one by one they come and one by one to Dreamland they go!”
Not precisely a CIDU, but raises the question, Are these linked by anything besides alluding to Houdini?
We’ve had a couple other Ancestry.com panels from Argyle Sweater recently (do you remember “dachsund”?), but I think they landed in LOL or OY collections, as they did not present major interpretative difficulties. This one, however, has us stumped!
Suggested by BillR. After some pondering we think we have most of an explanation – but it wasn’t something you can just crank out.
Comics I Don't Understand 