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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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Posts and discussion about the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Hugo Award-winning author Zach Weinersmith (and related works)

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2002-11-26 (midwest.social)

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Readers looking for intent beyond Ed Being a Dick will be sorely disappointed.

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[–] atocci@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Man yeah I don't get this one either. Is he putting bees in his dentures? Is there a punch line here?

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, he's putting bees in his dentures.

the joke is just making fun of that old adage, "deep down he knew it was the right thing to do" commonly intoned while a character is sacrificing something for the greater good while obviously ed here is committing an unquestionably violent, horrific act for no good reason.