Okay so I looked it up and as far as I can tell it doesn’t have a caption. But the general consensus is that it is a play on the idea of a bed of nails. So instead of a person on a bed of nails it is a porcupine on a soft bed. Definitely one of the more surreal ones.
Neat!
Good job!
I have no idea what’s going on here. I’m dumb aren’t I?
Not dumb, it at least not dumber than me. I’ve read a lot of Larson cartoons and I’m not sure about this one.
Grew up with his comics and read all the books. I have no idea what’s going on. Someone had to have removed the caption.
Oh wow, there’s examples where I get to be the one saying: what?
The core premise is on-brand. A porcupine stuck to a mattress. But he’s not in the hospital, like it’s an embarrassing accident. There’s no domestic setting with one sitcom animal telling the other “Dear, help - I’m stuck again.” The other porcupines are holding their hands together like they might be clapping, but there’s no onomatopoeia, and no circus diving board adjacent. It’s just a bare mattress in an open field. (And before being colorized it must have been a bare mattress below a naked horizon.)
I’m guessing it’s just a very early comic. Some germ of an idea that was not crystallized to later standards.
I always assume this one is a reference to someone laying on a bed of nails.
I think it’s analogous to the bed of nails, but I think it’s meant to be an air mattress. It would explain the look of concentration and the look of concern from the onlookers. Definitely a hazardous stunt for a porcupine.
A scenario with ample imagery to draw on for context cues.
I expect the deeper underlying answer is that the man had a deadline.
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