2012-06-04

A four-panel comic drawn in Victorian-era style with a man in a top hat and overcoat (Charles) and a red-haired woman in a blue dress with a white collar (Marie). Panel 1: Charles says, "Marie... before we go any further... I should tell you... I have bodily functions." Panel 2: Marie reacts, "What? But Charles—" and Charles adds, "Some of them are pooping!" Panel 3: Marie demands, "How many?!" Charles answers, "I don't know! At least one..." Panel 4: Marie, furious, shouts, "Damn you! Damn you Charles! How could you do this to me?!" A caption banner reads: "Sometimes, I wish there had been Victorian TV soap operas." The joke parodies overwrought soap-opera melodrama applied to the mundane fact of having bodily functions. Votey: A black-and-white sketch of Charles in his top hat and monocle. An off-panel voice asks, "Are any of them peeing?" Charles replies, "...No."