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Explanation
This comic presents "Prank idea #312211" -- trapping someone in a permanent bedmaking loop by giving them a three-sided fitted sheet. The man in the comic is shown struggling with a fitted sheet, saying "Nope, doesn't work. This must be the short side again somehow. God, I'm thirsty. Why is it so dark outside?"
The joke plays on the universally relatable frustration of putting on a fitted sheet, where it always seems like you are trying to stretch the short side over the long side of the mattress. With a standard rectangular four-cornered fitted sheet, people already struggle to figure out orientation. A three-sided fitted sheet would make this literally impossible -- there is no correct orientation for a three-cornered sheet on a four-cornered mattress. The victim's complaints about being thirsty and noticing it has gotten dark outside imply they have been trapped in this futile task for many hours, perhaps days, unable to stop trying because the sheet always seems like it is almost right. The humor lies in the absurd escalation of a mundane domestic annoyance into a Sisyphean torture device.