2013-03-29
Explanation
This comic is about the social awkwardness of taking polite offers too literally. A host welcomes a guest into his home, saying "Make yourself at home. You can have anything in the fridge." The guest, a red-haired man, responds with an enthusiastic "Really?!" and immediately starts grabbing the host'''s laptop. When the host protests -- "What'''re you doing with my laptop?" -- the guest coolly replies, "I believe you mean MY laptop," taking the invitation to "make yourself at home" completely literally by claiming ownership of everything in the house.
The humor comes from the absurd escalation of a common pleasantry. "Make yourself at home" is a stock phrase that nobody actually means literally, but the guest treats it as a binding legal transfer of property. The joke satirizes both the emptiness of polite social scripts and the kind of person who would exploit them.
The votey panel adds a final twist where the guest declares "Also 99.99999% of the fridge is mine," showing that even the original, more modest offer about the fridge has been weaponized -- the guest is now claiming near-total ownership of the fridge contents too, leaving the host with virtually nothing from his own hospitality.