Characters
Maybe this cow is trying to communicate with us in the only way it knows how – with its feces.
— Tina • Bob's Burgers
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Tina considers an animal’s waste as a possible message. The tentative opening keeps the idea speculative, while the final detail gives the proposed communication an absurdly unpromising form. The joke comes from applying a thoughtful search for meaning to something usually treated very differently.
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