"Now, that I didn't know," said Reg. "Your past has murkier things in it than I dreamed possible. A quality, I might add, that it shares with this soup."

A dry, absurdist comparison between a mysterious past and a bowl of murky soup. The joke lands through deadpan understatement, treating something ominous as merely unappetizing. It's a playful jab built entirely on that single mismatched comparison.

Context reviewed 24 September 2026