2012-11-04
Explanation
This comic is titled "Advanced Sex Technique: The Consummate Lover" and presents a step-by-step guide to an absurd bedroom magic trick. Step 1: Go to the bathroom and secretly put on a condom. Step 2: Return and ask your partner for a condom. Step 3: Eat the entire condom (with a parenthetical warning: "Don't ever do this"). Step 4: Tense your entire body. Step 5: Drop your pants and say "Hocus pocus." Step 6: "Shock and awe" -- the partner is amazed to see the condom has apparently appeared on the man's penis, asking "You ate it then it appeared on your penis?" to which he replies "It's called foreshadowing, baby."
The humor works on multiple levels. First, the entire "technique" is ridiculous and medically dangerous -- hence the explicit warning not to actually eat a condom. Second, the punchline "It's called foreshadowing" is a literary term being misused as a sexual boast, creating an absurd juxtaposition of English class vocabulary with a crude magic trick. The word "foreshadowing" also contains a suggestive double meaning in context. The whole thing parodies the format of "sex tips" articles found in magazines, taking the genre to its most ludicrous possible extreme.
The votey panel shows the aftermath: the partner asks "So... should I call the hospital or..." and the man sheepishly replies "Yes, please" -- confirming that the stunt went exactly as badly as the warning suggested it would.