2012-03-23
Explanation
This comic takes the form of a pseudo-scientific infographic about a deliberately absurd topic. It presents a graph showing "Penis Volume of Typical Individual" over a 24-hour period, with the y-axis ranging from minimum to maximum and the x-axis showing time of day from 12AM to 12AM. The graph shows volume at maximum during sleep (due to nocturnal erections), dropping at wake time, fluctuating with small spikes throughout the day, and rising again after the end of work back toward maximum during sleep.
Below the graph, the comic presents seemingly legitimate statistics: average flaccid volume of 72 cubic centimeters, average erect volume of 175 cubic centimeters, and 228,000,000 human males in North America. It then uses these figures to derive a deliberately shocking "fact": that every night while you sleep, 23.5 billion cubic centimeters of penis appear. The humor lies in applying rigorous scientific methodology and presentation to calculate something utterly trivial and uncomfortable, arriving at a number designed to make the reader recoil at the sheer aggregate volume.
The votey panel poses a bonus homework-style question: "What is the gravitational force of the additional wang-volume on the Moon?" This extends the absurdist scientific treatment even further, suggesting that the aggregate volume is so enormous it could theoretically exert a measurable gravitational pull, parodying the way physics textbooks pose increasingly contrived word problems.