782: Desecration
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| Desecration |
 Title text: It gets worse! You know that wizened old monk with the gypsy wife whose voodoo shop we smash up every day after school? |
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In this comic, Megan and Rob are horrified to realize that the bones they dug up to make puppets were buried on top of an Indian burial mound. The joke is that what horrifies them is the thought that they were desecrating the burial mound by digging up bones that happened to be near it and by playing puppets on top of it, but they don't realize that it's worse: the bones they dug up are the Indian bones buried in the burial mound.
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- [Megan running towards Rob.]
- Megan: ROB! ROB!
- Rob: You look terrified! What's wrong?
- Megan: We've made a huge mistake!
- [Both standing in place, Megan has hands up in an explaining gesture.]
- Megan: Remember last week when we dug up all those Indian bones and made puppets out of them?
- Rob: Sure...
- [Megan is throwing her arms out.]
- Megan: It turns out they were buried over an ancient Indian burial ground!
- Rob: Oh my God!
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Oh god, I thought the tombstones were just there for decoration! I didn't think there'd actually be people buried under them! Davidy²²[talk] 02:33, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
(Personally I think the real explanation is something of a "Hot Apple Pie may be hot!" nature. While they apparently have no problem with unburrying indian bones from the ground, the realisation that they were in an indian burial ground (surprise, surprise!) causes them concern. Just like the (semi-mythical?) people who don't realise hot things are... hot. 178.98.77.240 00:20, 4 May 2013 (UTC) )
