Tag: science reference

This is a two-panel hand-drawn comic featuring sheep characters in a therapy setting. In the top panel, a sheep therapist holding a notepad sits across from Dolly the sheep, who is reclining on a therapy couch. The therapist says, 'Dolly, you only talk about your mother. Tell me about your father too.' In the bottom panel, Dolly stares blankly at the therapist, who now has a confused question mark floating above their head. The joke relies on the real-world reference to Dolly the sheep, the first successfully cloned mammal, who was created using genetic material from a single mother sheep, meaning she has no biological father, making the therapist's request impossible to fulfill.

Dolly the Sheep Therapy Pun

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This meme features a pun in its title 'The Nimh-rod', combining NIMH (the National Institute of Mental Health which ran famous 1970s rat utopia experiments) and the slang term 'nimrod' meaning a foolish person. The top text sets up a joke: a person says 'I wanna live in a utopia!', followed by 'Rats:' to introduce the rat response. The accompanying scene is a screenshot from SpongeBob SquarePants where Mr. Krabs and Squidward exchange awkward looks with the text 'How do we tell him?' overlaid, referencing that the NIMH rat utopia experiments ended in societal collapse even with unlimited resources, implying the speaker is naive to the fact that utopias are functionally unworkable for social species, and the rats already know this negative outcome.

The Nimh-rod Utopia Meme

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This is a two-panel black and white screenshot meme featuring the deadpan comedic character Philomena Cunk. In the first panel, Cunk delivers the setup line "Since light travels faster than sound," while maintaining a serious, matter-of-fact expression as if explaining a scientific fact. The second panel delivers the punchline: "people may appear bright until you hear them speak." The joke relies on a pun using the double meaning of the word "bright": first referencing the visual brightness related to the speed of light, then referencing perceived intelligence, which is revealed to be false once the person speaks and exposes their lack of sense.

Philomena Cunked Light vs Sound Burn Joke

This is a two-panel black and…