2011-08-19
Explanation
This comic is about the debate over whether herbal tea is "real" tea. In the first panel, a woman reacts with disgust to being served herbal tea, asking "What the hell is this?" The man cheerfully explains it is herbal tea, claiming it is "basically the same as tea, but better for you." The woman objects that it is "made from completely different everything," while the man insists it is similar because it is "a hot drink in a cup" and "it's even called tea."
The final panel cuts to "Later," where the couple is in bed. The woman says, "Ahh, that was good," to which the man responds, "What was good? We haven't even--" before the woman declares, "I love herbal sex!" The punchline applies the man's own flawed logic back at him: if herbal tea counts as tea simply because it is a hot drink in a cup with the word "tea" in the name, then by the same reasoning, something can be called "sex" without actually being sex. The comic satirizes the way "herbal tea" stretches the definition of tea by showing how absurd that logic becomes when applied to other domains.