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Explanation
The Joke
The comic shows a scene set in heaven, with clouds, an angel, and what appears to be a large golden petri dish with a bottle of wine next to it. God (off-panel or represented by the speech) excitedly pitches an idea: "Okay, it's gonna take some doing but hear me out, hear me out: meat that makes more meat." The angel responds, "You're weird when you're drunk, God." The caption below reads, "Shortly before the first animal evolved."
The joke reimagines the origin of animal life as a drunken brainstorm by God. When you strip away all the elegance and complexity of biology, animal life can be reduced to the absurd concept of "meat that makes more meat" -- that is, self-replicating organic tissue. The golden dish and wine bottle suggest God has been drinking and tinkering in his heavenly laboratory, and animal life was not a grand divine plan but rather a tipsy, half-baked idea that somehow stuck.
The Humor
The comedy comes from the juxtaposition of the profound (the origin of animal life) with the mundane (a drunk person having a silly idea). The phrase "meat that makes more meat" is a hilariously reductive but technically accurate description of what animals are -- organisms that consume resources and use them to grow and reproduce, creating more of themselves. By framing one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth as the product of divine inebriation, the comic both deflates the grandeur of creation myths and highlights how genuinely strange biological self-replication would sound if someone were pitching it for the first time. The angel's weary response suggests this is not the first time God has come up with bizarre ideas while drunk.