doggy

A six-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A red-haired woman in bed with a man says, "Oh God the dog saw us have sex again." Panel 2: Talking later with a curly-haired friend, she says, "Haha, I wonder what it'd say if it could talk. Probably SO grossed out." Panel 3: A narration caption states, "Their lovemaking has transitioned from passion to an elaborate performance, and the increased variety of sexual acts only measures the diminishment of their emotional engagement." Panel 4: The friend says the dog's eyes are "so empty"; the other agrees it's "probably blocking it out." Panel 5: The dog sits with a vacant, hollow stare and a completely empty thought bubble above its head, implying it has dissociated. Panel 6: The oblivious couple lies happily in bed next to the dog, the man giving a thumbs-up. The joke: the humans assume the dog is traumatized and blanking out the sight of their sex, hence its empty stare. The votey aftercomic shows a close-up of the dog's face with a thought bubble revealing what it's actually thinking: "Why don't they do more butt-sniffing?" — it isn't grossed out at all, it just finds human sex boring and uninteresting.