914: Ice

Ice

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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.

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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 [1].

In the comic, 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: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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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)

well, he did staple it to his head...172.70.80.238 03:28, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

There is this possibility where beret guy’s kidneys are harvested but due to his “superpowers” he had unlimited kidneys and the thief just gave up on the 1001-th kidney ^April_fools^update!(talk) 01:25, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
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