Painterly three stacked cushions in blue, cream and burgundy against blue-grey.

Original artwork, not a still

Emo Philips

I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off me, you two!"

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

This is a classic misdirection joke: the setup sounds like heartbreak over infidelity, but the punchline reveals 'crushed' meant something purely physical, being squashed under two people's weight. The comedy relies entirely on that last-second twist upending the sympathetic reading the first half invites.

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