2011-07-23
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Explanation
This comic is part of SMBC's recurring "Bad Ass Activity" series, which humorously imagines applying action-movie tropes to mundane everyday situations. This installment is "#42: Using Catch-Phrases for Unimportant Occurrences."
A woman asks her partner to wash some utensils before dinner. He pauses dramatically, the panel goes dark like a movie scene, and he delivers the line "Spooner or later" -- a pun on "sooner or later" that references spoons, one of the utensils he's been asked to wash. The humor comes from the massive contrast between the cinematic delivery (dramatic shadows, intense framing) and the completely trivial domestic task, satirizing how action heroes always seem to have a quip ready for every situation.