2013-11-15
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Explanation
This comic depicts an anthropomorphized sea cucumber on a date with a human woman. The sea cucumber nervously exclaims "Oh God I'm so nervous I'm firing Cuvierian tubules out of my anus!" The woman looks deeply uncomfortable. The caption reads "Sea cucumber never gets a second date."
The humor is rooted in real biology: sea cucumbers actually do expel Cuvierian tubules (sticky, toxic threads) from their anus as a defense mechanism when threatened or stressed. The comic imagines this real biological response applied to a social situation -- a nervous first date -- where such behavior would obviously be a dealbreaker. It's a classic SMBC move of taking an obscure scientific fact and placing it in an everyday human context to comic effect.