2013-08-17
Explanation
This comic presents the premise "History becomes more sensible when you imagine its participants as any other mammal." The single panel shows two dogs acting out a historical scenario: one dog urgently reports "Bad news, Doggy Neville Chamberlain! Doggy Hitler has urinated on the Sudetenland!" The other dog (Doggy Neville Chamberlain) calmly responds "Well, I guess it's his, then."
The joke brilliantly reimagines the 1938 Munich Agreement -- one of history's most infamous acts of appeasement -- through the lens of dog behavior. In the real historical event, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain allowed Adolf Hitler to annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in an attempt to avoid war, a decision widely criticized as naive appeasement. By recasting this as dogs, the comic points out that Chamberlain's logic ("he claimed it, so I guess it's his") makes perfect sense in the animal world, where territorial marking through urination is a legitimate way to claim territory. The absurdity of the appeasement policy becomes both more understandable and more ridiculous when viewed through this animal lens.
The votey panel extends the joke with Doggy Chamberlain asking "Would he like to piss anywhere else?" -- a perfect canine equivalent of Chamberlain's historical willingness to keep conceding territory to Hitler, essentially inviting further aggression. This mirrors the real criticism that appeasement only emboldened Hitler to make more demands, leading eventually to World War II. The comic is a clever fusion of history, political satire, and animal behavior humor.