2014-06-06
Explanation
The Joke
A child asks "Mom, where do babies come from?" The mother answers, "The stork." The child then asks, "Where do baby storks come from?" The mother answers, "Humanity." She explains that long ago, each species stole reproduction from the other, and now they live in an uneasy peace preserved by mutual dependence. But she adds ominously that one day they will find where the storks make human babies, and "we will seize it," outnumber the storks, overwhelm them, and wipe them out. The child then asks, "Then what's that naked wrestling thing you and Daddy do every Thursday night?" The mother responds, "Training for war."
The Humor
The comic takes the classic "where do babies come from" conversation and escalates it absurdly. Instead of using the stork story as a gentle deflection, the mother treats it as literal truth and constructs an elaborate mythology around it -- a cold-war-style biological arms race between humans and storks, complete with plans for genocide. The punchline lands when the child asks about sex and the mother, fully committed to her fiction, reframes it as military preparation. The humor lies in how far a parent will go to avoid explaining sex to their child, building an entire interspecies geopolitical drama rather than just having the talk.