2005-05-05

A red-backgrounded comic panel shows professor Sanders, an older grey-haired man in a yellow shirt, standing in front of a classroom (silhouetted student heads visible at the bottom) and pointing angrily as he yells: "Alright morons, we are just going to sit here until I find out who filed a student complaint against me! Was it you, fatty?! Or was it the ugly girl?!" A caption below reads: "Due to a clerical error, professor Sanders received his first ever student complaint one week before he was up for tenure." The votey aftercomic is a black-and-white close-up of Sanders looking sheepish and apologetic, saying: "I am so sorry. I thought fatty was your name." The joke: an abrasive, insult-hurling professor inadvertently proves exactly why a complaint was filed right before his tenure review, and the punchline reveals his obliviousness ran so deep he genuinely believed an insult was a student's actual name.