2013-08-03
Explanation
The comic features a muscular man at a beach or pool, flexing and admiring his own prominent abdominal muscles. He notices gaps between the muscles and thinks that if he does enough pushups, perhaps he can fill in those gaps with even more muscle. His child, swimming nearby, looks up and says, "Wow, Dad! You must be the strongest man alive." The father smugly replies, "Oh yeah."
The humor plays on the absurdity of someone who is already extremely muscular being dissatisfied with the small gaps between their well-defined abs, treating bodybuilding with an almost obsessive perfectionism. The child's innocent admiration contrasts with the father's neurotic self-criticism -- to anyone else, he looks incredible, but he is fixated on tiny imperfections. This is a relatable commentary on body image issues and how even very fit people can be unsatisfied with their appearance.
The votey shows the child saying "It's called a one-pack," which is a humorous twist -- instead of the typical "six-pack" abs that bodybuilders aspire to, the joke suggests that the father's goal of filling all the gaps between his muscles would result in one solid mass of abdominal muscle, a "one-pack." This is both a funny visual concept and a gentle deflation of the father's extreme fitness ambitions.