914: Ice

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Ice

Title text: On the plus side, she wrote "Welcome to the AAA Club!" in lipstick on the bathroom mirror, and left me a membership/roadside assistance card on the counter.

Explanation

This comic is a reference to an old urban legend: a guy is drugged, then he awakes in an ice-filled bathtub only to discover one (or both) of their kidneys has been harvested by organ thieves.

Here the situation is reversed: Beret Guy (who has just bought some ice for a party) is drugged, and he awakes in a bathtub filled with kidneys, only to discover that his ice has been harvested by a thief.

The title text refers to a similar story where the victim is left a note by their captor or one-night stand that says "Welcome to the AIDS club". Rather than having been involuntarily infected with HIV/AIDS, the victim Beret Guy has been involuntarily enrolled in the American Automobile Association (AAA).

Transcript

[Beret Guy and Megan are setting up a party, with a snack table and a big banner reading "PARTY!"]

Megan: Everything's ready...

Megan: Except we're out of ice.

Beret Guy: I'll get some!

[Beret Guy is walking down the street past a building marked Save Mart, with a bag of ice over his shoulder. Danish is standing on the sidewalk calls to him.]

Danish: Hey sexy. Where're you headed with all that ice?

Beret Guy: A party!

Danish: There's a better party up at my place.

Beret Guy: But I—

Danish: C'mon, one drink.

The next morning...

[Beret Guy rubs eyes groggily.]

Beret Guy: ...ugh... Where am I?

Beret Guy: I was supposed to—

Beret Guy: —where's all my ice!?

[Beret Guy looks down to find himself in a bathtub full of kidneys.]

Beret Guy: AAAAAAA

Trivia

• Since her character introduction, this is the first strip to feature Danish without a connection to Black Hat.

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Discussion

Well, at least he didn't lose his spleen. Davidy²²[talk] 01:30, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

I understood the AAA-Club as reference to him shouting AAAAA. I think that is something pretty common in his situation. --162.158.91.189 20:25, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

lol why would Danish need to harvest his ice anyway? And where the hell did she get a bathtub full of kidneys and an AAA membership? 108.162.215.249 22:31, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Yeah she should donate those. SilverMagpie (talk) 17:36, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

they could be *sheep* kidneys.New editor (talk) 22:19, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

lucrative ice market Caliban (talk) 20:23, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

I don't think this is Danish. The hair is a little different, and this situation makes more sense if she is a stranger than someone Beret Guy knows. 162.158.63.214 00:13, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

She looks exactly like Danish, and her personality is the same. Beanie (talk) 11:08, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Is this a "Danish commits an act of surreal sadism" comic or a "Beret Guy gets in a weird situation" comic? 172.70.134.91 03:53, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

don't rule out the possibility of it being both.New editor (talk) 22:18, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

beret guy rubbing his beret implies that the beret is just part of him Me^{[citation needed]} 04:16, 13 September 2023 (UTC)