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"Congratulations! Who's The Mother?"
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I've actually run into people who don't get this joke. For their benefit, a bit of explanation...
Prior to the Sexual Revolution, getting pregnant out of wedlock was a major no-no. Indeed; a lot of drama, both fictional and real, encircled unwed mothers, and the phrase "Who's the father?" was a deadly insult, insinuating that the mother in question was, at the very least, incautious, or perhaps even a prostitute or worse.
In the above comic, Pri has presumably become with child, Matt is responsible and Pri is, quite reasonably, annoyed about it (pregnancy can be a rather uncomfortable condition, to say the least).
Matt, noting the above situation and related corollaries, decides to attempt to defuse the situation with what is known in the current vernacular as 'a dad joke', reversing the phrasing of "who is the father" to "who is the mother" in an attempt to add humor to the situation by the use of whimsy with a touch of surrealism.
Pri is having nothing of this, as can be seen in the final panel.
Hopefully, this brings some degree of enlightenment.
Any questions?
I've actually run into people who don't get this joke. For their benefit, a bit of explanation...
Prior to the Sexual Revolution, getting pregnant out of wedlock was a major no-no. Indeed; a lot of drama, both fictional and real, encircled unwed mothers, and the phrase "Who's the father?" was a deadly insult, insinuating that the mother in question was, at the very least, incautious, or perhaps even a prostitute or worse.
In the above comic, Pri has presumably become with child, Matt is responsible and Pri is, quite reasonably, annoyed about it (pregnancy can be a rather uncomfortable condition, to say the least).
Matt, noting the above situation and related corollaries, decides to attempt to defuse the situation with what is known in the current vernacular as 'a dad joke', reversing the phrasing of "who is the father" to "who is the mother" in an attempt to add humor to the situation by the use of whimsy with a touch of surrealism.
Pri is having nothing of this, as can be seen in the final panel.
Hopefully, this brings some degree of enlightenment.
Any questions?
I got the joke and +fav'd accordingly
However, I also realize that not everyone has our rich cultural backgrounds and may be genuinely puzzled by certain things.
Case in point: A couple of years ago, I was showing The Sand Hog to a child of ten years or so, whose reaction was, "Wow! Are those REAL LIGHT BULBS? I've never seen one in person before!" Obviously, the kid had been raised on CFLs and LEDs, so what might seem mundane to someone of my generation would be exotic and rare to a youngster...
So, time spent expanding horizons is never wasted.
my grandmother said it best 'growing old ain't for sissies'
But I can understand some confusion about the mother gag. Wasn't there some families that paid a woman to use her body to grow the baby because the mother was unable or something because of her eggs? Or did they buy her eggs to fertilize in her own womb? Shoot I forgot which story I heard it from, but some tv show did an episode about it some time ago but I didn't pay much attention to it.
And I do recall the dumb blonde joke where a pregnant woman wanted to test who the mother of her child was for some reason.
2) Yeah, surrogacy is a thing for some parents, as well as donor eggs and sperm. Theoretically, a couple could use donor sperm, donor eggs and a surrogate mother and have a child that's genetically unrelated to 'em. Nifty, eh?
3) (grin) Which was more or less the point of my original joke.
Of course, now we have Maury!
https://youtu.be/ukQU3iiSMMI
My own question -- which is out-of-scope for the gag, and not one I seriously expected to be answered in strip -- was "How will Low react when she comes home?"
Halva stan, skulle jag säga.
Nor would Pippy have, and you know what I mean by that
She would have castrated me on the spot!
When I was a security guard working a nuke plant, the wife of one of the other guards had a baby. He brought in a bunch of Instamatic photos (you remember the little square ones). While poring over baby snaps, I said, "Good lookin' kid. Who's the father?"
Mrs. Whitehead : All of us?
Capt. Spaulding : All of us!
Mrs. Whitehead : But, that's bigamy!
Capt. Spaulding : Yes, and it's big of me too.
Capt. Spaulding : I'm sick of these conventional marriages. One woman and one man was good enough for your grandmother, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Nobody, not even your grandfather. Think! Think of the honeymoon! Strictly private. I wouldn't let another woman in on this. Well, maybe one or two. But, no men! I may not go myself.
This reminds me of a joke I heard on Hee Haw a long, LONG time ago. Junior and Archie are lying like hillbillies are often shown to do. Archie says, "Hey, Junior. Did you hear that Gordie got sent to jail."
Junior: "Why?"
Archie: "Bigamy. He had three wives."
Junior's line (He never could say it right.): "That's not bigamy. That's trigonometry."
https://youtu.be/RCn8HJ6FMi0