2005-05-10

A man with reddish-brown hair in a yellow shirt and blue shorts strides into a green kitchen holding a cell phone, where a blonde woman in a pink top stands with her back to us. She asks, "How'd it go?" He answers cheerfully, "Well, I didn't hear anything negative!" A caption beneath reads: "I guess my humor wasn't taking the edge off my syphillis test results." The joke: he means he just got medical test results, and "negative" (a good result) collides with the upbeat phrasing, while his attempt at a humorous pun falls flat. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the woman now smiling slightly as she says, "Oh, wait, heh, I get it."