2010-12-02
Explanation
This comic shows an elderly grandmother confronting a young boy named Billy, demanding to know "Why? Why, Billy?!" while Billy protests his innocence, claiming he was only making faces at her. The scene suggests the grandmother is accusing Billy of some misbehavior, but the real humor is deliberately ambiguous about who is actually at fault.
The caption below reads: "Fact: If you spend your whole life being good and kind, when you reach old age, just once, you can ruin an annoying child's life." The joke suggests that the grandmother, having accumulated a lifetime of goodwill, has enough moral credit stored up to frame an annoying child for something he did not do. It plays on the idea that elderly people are automatically trusted over children, and that a truly devious grandparent could weaponize that trust.