2012-01-21
Explanation
A young man addresses his own penis directly, laying out the dire situation: they are out of clean underwear, the only available pants are sweatpants, and there will be attractive women in his lecture today. He sternly warns his penis not to cause any problems. The penis remains silent (shown as a close-up of his clothed crotch), and the man interprets this non-response -- "I take your flaccidness for a yes" -- as agreement.
The final panel shows the inevitable outcome: the man is sitting next to a woman in lecture, visibly embarrassed, pleading "Don't blame me! I'm on your side!" to the woman while clearly having an unwanted erection visible through his sweatpants. The comic humorously personifies the male experience of involuntary arousal as a battle between a man and his own anatomy, treating the penis as an uncooperative entity with its own agenda that simply cannot be reasoned with.