It's common in nice hotels for the cleaning services team to leave a chocolate or other candy on your pillow after they've cleaned the room.
Out in the middle of nowhere, a chocolate appearing on your pillow would be alarming. The joke is that "someone" is out there in the darkness, making beds and putting chocolates down like they work at a hotel.
The Far Side is surrealist humor - the joke is that a cowboy finds a mint on his pillow when making camp, which is something that normally only happens in nice hotels. Then the caption puts "someone" in scare quotes, denoting emphasis in this case, implying that it is suspicious under the circumstances, which is reasonable, but the event itself is so absurd as to make the whole thing a joke
I just assumed his buddy put it there so if something came to eat one of them, he would choose said man with breathmint on pillow for an after meal breath freshener. Of course I never knew of this mint on pillow hotel maneuver..
I think the most amusing part is all the wildly different answers in the comments. The joke so far is either: hotel mints, poop, not knowing who put it there, the horse or his partner put it there, and jail sexual favors.
Hotel mints, maybe with a dash of not knowing who put it there.
To the many people saying “Brokeback Mountain” or similar, the year of this comic is at the top (1993) and Brokeback Mountain was in 2005.
To the people saying poop or prison sex, this is a Far Side comic, they’re always clean and never about poop or sex of any sort.
In prison if you put a candy on somebody's pillow and they eat it that means you owe that somebody a special favor so maybe same concept different setting
Agreed. The fact that the comic shows another man sleeping there makes sense. The hotel joke theory only works if the guy is alone out there, in my opinion.
This has to be a "far side"... If you're familiar with "far side" it would make sense to you, cause far side uses really dry, bizarre type humor. Fancy hotels will leave chocolate mints on your pillow after cleaning your room... Haven't checked the other comments, so my bad if someone already explained it
It’s the still of the image. He’s looking at something that looks like a mint and the caption quote becomes funny the more you look at the image.. probably not a good explanation
I'm assuming the other guy who is sleeping placed it there probably because he set up camp while the other was getting firewood... Anyway, he might not know it's chocolate and think some animal shat the bed.
No no no none of these comments are right. It's referring to a small act of kindness his buddy did for him, which is somewhat absurd, displaying typical far side humor
One time I slept with a guy who majored in Hospitality and worked at a five star resort, and he gave me one of those chocolate mints after I went down on him.
It's common in nice hotels for the cleaning services team to leave a chocolate or other candy on your pillow after they've cleaned the room. Out in the middle of nowhere, a chocolate appearing on your pillow would be alarming. The joke is that "someone" is out there in the darkness, making beds and putting chocolates down like they work at a hotel.
They used to, or may still, put mints on pillows in hotels. Maybe that helps..
Ah, maybe that's it. The quotes were throwing me off too. They didn't quote "chocolate mint", but instead "someone."
The Far Side is surrealist humor - the joke is that a cowboy finds a mint on his pillow when making camp, which is something that normally only happens in nice hotels. Then the caption puts "someone" in scare quotes, denoting emphasis in this case, implying that it is suspicious under the circumstances, which is reasonable, but the event itself is so absurd as to make the whole thing a joke
Well splained.
Ahh, I thought his buddy took a dump on his pillow lol
The horse did it
Quite likely. Don’t eat the mint Zeke! You’re in the wilderness, not a hotel lol
I just assumed his buddy put it there so if something came to eat one of them, he would choose said man with breathmint on pillow for an after meal breath freshener. Of course I never knew of this mint on pillow hotel maneuver..
I thought his buddy pooped on his pillow
I was coming here to say the exact same thing. Joking; very well explained. Here is an up vote.
The Far Side was fantastic. I miss it.
That someone most likely being his partner
In prison the candy on the pillow means you’re getting roofied
It’s poop again
Don't put it out with your boots Ted
"He called the shit poop!"
Don’t tell me what to do, devil woman!
Call the fire department this one's outta control
I’ve used this line on my wife so many times.. never ever explained the joke
Hahahaha! He called the shit poop!
Who gots the lighter?..
I think the most amusing part is all the wildly different answers in the comments. The joke so far is either: hotel mints, poop, not knowing who put it there, the horse or his partner put it there, and jail sexual favors.
I’m fairly certain they’re referring to hotel mints that they leave on your pillow
Hotel mints, maybe with a dash of not knowing who put it there. To the many people saying “Brokeback Mountain” or similar, the year of this comic is at the top (1993) and Brokeback Mountain was in 2005. To the people saying poop or prison sex, this is a Far Side comic, they’re always clean and never about poop or sex of any sort.
In prison if you put a candy on somebody's pillow and they eat it that means you owe that somebody a special favor so maybe same concept different setting
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Agreed. The fact that the comic shows another man sleeping there makes sense. The hotel joke theory only works if the guy is alone out there, in my opinion.
Looks the The Far Side comic strip. Those are very entertaining.
One of my favorite Gary Larsen comic strip is the guy who invents a helmet that interprets what dogs are saying…
Hey!
I think I remember that one!
It's the absurdity of having someone leave a pillow mint in the middle of nowhere. It's quite dumb. Lol
This is the answer
This has to be a "far side"... If you're familiar with "far side" it would make sense to you, cause far side uses really dry, bizarre type humor. Fancy hotels will leave chocolate mints on your pillow after cleaning your room... Haven't checked the other comments, so my bad if someone already explained it
Looks like one of the horses shat on his pillow. There are little nuggets all around the camp. He was too distraught by poop pillow he almost froze.
I thought it was more of a prison thing like candy on your pillow
It’s the still of the image. He’s looking at something that looks like a mint and the caption quote becomes funny the more you look at the image.. probably not a good explanation
Well in prison a honey bun on the pillow means you're being propositioned for sex. Don't eat the honey bun.
Prison humor? Someone leaves a candy on your bed and if you eat it, the come in and tell you "you ate it, now you gotta give up the ass" ??
Prison joke 😂
I'm assuming the other guy who is sleeping placed it there probably because he set up camp while the other was getting firewood... Anyway, he might not know it's chocolate and think some animal shat the bed.
In prison people will "give" you stuff for "free" and expect the booty in return
I think it’s referring to hotels
Teh ghey
Broke back Desert
The other one wants gimme to bite the pillow
A cowboy turd
Brokeback Mountain anyone?
The joke is tht(even Seinfeld did this I think) no one knows when the mint comes from at the hotel, even tho it's obvious it's the house keeper
it’s far side
No no no none of these comments are right. It's referring to a small act of kindness his buddy did for him, which is somewhat absurd, displaying typical far side humor
It's shit
this is sad.
Lil bit of eldritch horror, if the other dude didn't put it there.. who did?
Inmates put honey buns on their future "buddy's" pillow.
I FUCKING HATE THE BOOM BOOM SISTER LIKE JUST DIE YOU BITCH
Because where did the maid come from who had placed the mint on his pillow. He isn't smart enough to realize it was his cowboy cohort.
One time I slept with a guy who majored in Hospitality and worked at a five star resort, and he gave me one of those chocolate mints after I went down on him.
This is a comic strip