2008-03-07

A single-panel SMBC comic set in a forest. A red-haired camp counselor in a vest stands beside a big tree, addressing a small group of young campers seen from behind. He says confidently, 'So, if you see poison ivy, make sure to grab it and hold it back so it can't poison you.' One camper starts to object, 'I don't think-', but the counselor cuts in, 'Hey! Who has two weekends of counselor training? Huh?!' A caption beneath the panel adds more of his terrible advice: 'Now, these scorpions? They go in the left eye.' The joke is an overconfident, dangerously incompetent authority figure. Votey (a small black-and-white follow-up panel): the counselor keeps gesturing and lecturing while a wide-eyed baby-like creature holds up a rattle; he declares, 'Now, as I recall, the rattle is the dangerous part,' mistaking a baby's rattle toy for a rattlesnake's rattle.