Scheduling
by Jeff
Image text: 'How about a little ... *family growth*?' 'Dude, that's not until round two.'
This comic starts out with a cliched pornographic movie set up. A strong pizza delivery guy mistakenly enters a house where a French maid is dressed in what appears in the comic to be lace. The pizza delivery got has a "hot sausage" pizza, in which the hot sausage is a double entendre for his penis.
Then in the second frame, the pizza delivery guy turns the pizza sideways which ruins all chances he had of ever delivering that pizza. Literally, I'm not making another sexual innuendo there.
Then the second cliche porn set up enters the picture as a plumber enters then delivers his sexual inneundo that Mrs. Jones "needs her plumbing fixed". But, then because this is xkcd instead of turning into some wild Pay-Per-View porn movie, they discover the game Agricola and decide to play that instead.
Agricola is a turn based game in which each player is a farmer and spouse. Each player is dedicated to expanding their farm and accomplishing all the tasks on the farm. This is where the sexual innuendo comes in from the image text. "Family Growth" is obviously a sexual innuendo, but in Agricola you cannot complete actual family growth until after you expand your farm and farm house to accommodate the kiddies.
In the last frame we see Mr. and Mrs. Jones come home. You can tell Mr. Jones because he has the briefcase. When they come home to interrupt the game, the French Maid, the Pizza Delivery Guy and the Plumber are all playing Agricola on the floor.
August 11th, 2010
You seem to have missed the innuendo in the “man of the house” coming home early to ravish the French maid — thus making all three porn-cliché characters.
August 12th, 2010
Good call, I missed that one. Stinkin’ “Monsieur”.
August 11th, 2010
Good explanation; Jeff’s shorter explanations are sometimes a refreshing change. Plus you don’t get comments about how Berg is tired and sleepy and yadda yadda yadda.
So to clarify, the 3 characters were there to do the following:
- Pizza Guy planning to do the daughter
- French Maid planning to do Mr. Jones
- Plumber planning to do Mrs. Jones
And everyone came on the wrong day, since there was no daughter having a party, and Mr. Jones and Mrs. Jones both came home together.
August 11th, 2010
What’s the story about having the “starting player?” I get the wanting the grain part but why is it better to have starting player as well?
August 11th, 2010
Starting player missed out on the grain, but will have first/next dibs on whatever the best resource in the next round is.
August 11th, 2010
Oh. That makes sense. Thanks!
August 12th, 2010
You’re an idiot.
August 13th, 2010
and I want a shrubbery.
September 28th, 2010
Eki Eki Eki Tapang?
November 2nd, 2011
I read it as Mrs Jones is the Maid, and in the last frame Mr Jones and his daughter come home…
December 6th, 2011
No, the maid is a callgirl. The plumber is an escort. The pizza-guy is a male stripper (for the daughter’s “party” – implied to be along the lines of a sorority or bachelorette party.)