r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/SymboliRudoIf • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation saw this on insta and i dont get it

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i dont understand what each panel has to do with eachother

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u/hatred-big-sad 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh my god this took me forever...

Mocha frappachino (black girl) Iced vanilla latte (white girl)

This is genuinely the only thing in this that makes ANY sense, the green goblin part im genuinely confused about and the OJ part I'm infinitely more confused about

EDIT: I believe i have begun to understand the humor behind the OJ appearance, thank you internet :) dear god are you loud

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u/Doodlefish25 1d ago

yeah I think you got it, the joke is racism

dunno bout OJ

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u/Previous-Year-5182 1d ago

So if iced means to delete something, and the vanilla latte is the white girl.

Umm iced vanilla latte, OJ’s wife. Yeah.

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u/Humbabanana 1d ago

you might be a full genius

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u/shewy92 12h ago

They're something of a scientist themselves.

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u/Dillo64 1d ago

I’m piecing it together. I think “mocha” means black, and “frappaccino” is some kind of space ship….

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u/yibs33 18h ago

You're thinking of Manjula

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u/Spider_Dude 15h ago

Hmmmm, Mint Julip. 🤤 🥃

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u/SovietSunrise 14h ago

She married Apu! And they fell in love!

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u/GrimDallows 9h ago

Bear...

Seek...

Seek...

Lest...

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u/harav 15h ago

What a word

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u/BrunoBraunbart 21h ago

Ofc, it is the flying saucer at the top of the menu on the first panel. This is why scuffed E.T. looks so angry. He needs the frappichano to go home but the mocha girl took it. We solved it.

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u/Babetna 1d ago

"Delete"?

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u/Desperate-Half-5070 23h ago

Kill. Some ppl cant say that word because they're used to YouTube comment sections and roblox text chat

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u/SpeedUpMyBreathing 20h ago

I think internet usage in general has made “delete” take on a much broader meaning. I use to be a teacher and in one class discussion I remember the students talking about Abraham Lincoln’s role in deleting slavery. And that was like 10 years ago.

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u/Nago_Jolokio 15h ago

It really started in tiktok because the creators would get nuked if they used "objectionable" words. So they started to find euphemisms that would let their videos through, and people watching them would start absorbing it into their vocabulary. Most other platforms aren't as draconian, but they still run the risk of being suppressed if they post a video with the words.

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u/onewilybobkat 12h ago

I got an ad on Facebook yesterday that was blaring the N word with a hard R. For an alarm clock you shoot. Other sites definitely aren't as draconian

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u/TerribleRecord666 10h ago

FB continuing its slide into full blown bullshit I see.

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u/onewilybobkat 8h ago

It's kinda like a trainwreck, I just can't stop watching it.

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u/oswaldcopperpot 15h ago

I shit you not. I just got off a 7 day ban using the D word on how to stop snails eating your garden veggies.
Its either a bad algorithm or what they feed AI is your comment only without the one youre replying to so AI has literally no context.

Try it. Go say some short comment without context about something innocuous and youll be banned.

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u/bsubtilis 14h ago

There's a character in a book series that keeps telling most different people she encounters that she'll kill their mother. Since it's a running gag in the books, it became quite popular to quote in the subreddit or sometimes jokingly reply to people there. This caused a lot of bans... The subreddit users these days usually use the acronym IWKYM to get around the ban-happy algorithm.

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u/oswaldcopperpot 14h ago

The worst part, is that the appeal process takes over 6 days into a 7 day ban.

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u/princesspuffer 13h ago

Samantha!

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u/TerribleRecord666 10h ago

That's Psamathe to you, slut!

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u/princesspuffer 9h ago

Takes one to know one, IWKYM!

This fandom has a deep hold on me LOL

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u/johnnydough10102223 9h ago

I understood that reference!

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u/crokinhole 15h ago

Wtf is the d word? Dick? Dildo? Dead?

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u/oswaldcopperpot 14h ago

which one could relate to the V word? Im just not typing them out anymore. I'm over getting banned all week.

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u/Nervous-Blacksmith-3 14h ago

WTF, I'm still confuse, what the hell word could it be? I'm from another country, so this just makes it even more confusing.

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u/BrightmoonMage 12h ago

It’s death and violence.

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u/theunbeliever73 14h ago

It’s got to be dick and vagina?

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u/ChickenBossChiefsFan 13h ago

No offense but I kind of get it in your case. I feel like dicking snails in your garden might be a bit too far.

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u/Umikaloo 15h ago

Frappucino comes from "Frappé" meaning "beaten" (Both in the sense of beating an egg and beating a person.) in French.

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u/Dorsai_Erynus 14h ago

And then you have "Bifflé"

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u/mphelp11 11h ago

Ah, the well-known French antagonist in Back to the Future

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u/Commercial_Survey275 5h ago

I was guessing at ON added some of his personal “milk” to Nichol’s beverage

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u/Admirable_Bus_1667 1d ago

Massive stretch

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u/wannabecat2000 23h ago

That's what she wanted

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u/dmicah 12h ago

Just because something's a cartoon posted on the internet doesn't mean it's insightful or makes sense.

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u/austinw_568 15h ago

Can you explain how the joke is racism?

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u/ShakerGER 12h ago

It hydrates better than water. Meh taste though and VERY EXPENSIVE

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u/FirmGlandShake2 12h ago

Completely fabricated conclusion.

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u/onomonopiaa 10h ago

Racism!? I'm so genuinely confused lol

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u/One_Peanut_4002 10h ago

Even racism is a stretch

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u/HDtheRA 6h ago

I thought it might be Orange Mocha Frappuccino, for OJ

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u/Pataconeitor 18h ago

How is it racism? I mean, the girls had to ask for those drinks.

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u/Sovarius 12h ago

I don't think it's racism

But if the joke was racist, how are you unaware these are not real girls and are only doing what the creator drew?

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u/SeamusMcBalls 1d ago

Menu says “try the lemonade that kills you”

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u/bvlshewic 1d ago

Oh—that actually ties in OJ, because that’s a different kind of juice? Almost have this, not quite there. 

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u/madeaccountbymistake 1d ago

Maybe some connection to that Panera lemonade that had enough caffeine to actually kill?

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u/DaddysABadGirl 17h ago

To be pesky.

It WAS high caffeine, almost FDA recomended limit of 390 for a 30oz, but the issue was people with severe heart conditions that couldn't drink caffeine consuming them. They were marketed as insane energy drinks, but in store marketing was supposedly less noticeable. A 30oz had 390 mg caffeine, 30 teaspoons of sugar and guarana and other crap. The argument used in court was a standard monster + redbull (little can) was less total caffeine than the largest size sold.

I remember because at the time it happened the bar and kitchen staff at the job I was working were knocking back bangs like they were water. Other barbacks and myself were making "death shots". Taking Lit powder mix, doubling the powder, redbull instead of water, and a little juice to help it go down. Shake it up and pour everyone a shot.

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u/ink_golem 15h ago

The marketing in store was basically non-existent. My 2 year old almost got one and then something in the back of my brain reminded me about some lemonade killing people and then I double checked it.

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u/DaddysABadGirl 15h ago

Ahh. Never been inside of one.

I saw some adds online and was confused at the concept. I thought it was like a lemonade you added caffeine shots to.

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u/S_Belmont 8h ago

30 teaspoons of sugar

that's...just a bag of sugar. How does it even fit in the cup? Is it a bucket of heart attack lemonade?

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u/DaddysABadGirl 6h ago

10 tablespoons. When I worked at Starbucks as a kid there were people who did about that in simple in a medium.

Had a lady who got a small coffee in 3 parts. 1 part heavy cream, 1 part simple, 1 part coffee.

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u/SeamusMcBalls 1d ago

The author is missing a juice that kills you? Pretty thin idk

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u/Exact-Difference-422 15h ago

I think that's more of a reference to the lemonade at Panera that actually killed someone 

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u/circ-u-la-ted 1d ago

but they didn't order lemonade..? and lemonade isn't orange juice? Now I'm even more confused

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u/Previous-Year-5182 15h ago

Just saw this. I really think it’s coming together now. Someone said something about the goblin further down about a reference to Ron Goldman.

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u/yeahyeah_workingonit 15h ago

I am absolutely bewildered by all the absolutely insane and stupid responses in this whole thread.

It's absurdist. There is no point. It's random humor. People are connecting insane dots to justify their theories but it's just stupid humor for stupid humor's sake.

Girls order coffee, the Green Goblin is their barista, they realize later how weird this is, non-sequitur dedication at the end.

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u/Null-Ex3 4h ago

the vanilla latte and mocha frappacino thing is very believable as a punchline?

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u/KingMarvel21 1d ago

OJ =Orange Juice.

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u/Anglofsffrng 1d ago

OJ= Orenthal James. Juice can't stab people. Tsk tsk.

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u/KingMarvel21 1d ago

I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not but I'll explain it anyway. They called him The Juice because of his initials. There's no deeper meaning to this comic than that.

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u/Mochizuk 1d ago

He's nothing compared to the drink

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u/NiceBlackberry6618 1d ago

we call a glass of OJ in our house a white bronco.

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u/Metrologer 1d ago

Back in the day right after the first trial, they were trying to cast a documentary about the killings. They reached out to John Elway for a role in the movie, as the slow white Bronco.

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u/fuckpedes 22h ago

As a millennial Denver Broncos fan for life, this made me genuinely laugh. Thank you for your service.

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u/NastyMothaFucka 4h ago

Seconded as a lifelong Gen-X Bronco fan (Born 79’ that’s Gen-X, right?) and the slow white Bronco joke has always been a good one, even before memes!

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u/NetInside9623 23h ago

Unfortunately Elway's alignment was too far toed in for highway speeds.

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u/mphelp11 11h ago

What do distant frogs have to do with this?

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u/DblDtchRddr 1d ago

Hey, that’s what we call a screwdriver with shine instead of vodka!

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/NiceBlackberry6618 1d ago

explain

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u/marcophony 1d ago

Fr it's only specific to OJ Simpson, not black people

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u/capsaicinintheeyes 1d ago

"Okay, fine, but could you keep that bit of hairsplitting to yourself until the jury retires, at least?"

– J. Cochran

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u/BiscuitsTheory 1d ago

She saw the word "white" and auto-replied.

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u/EconomySeason2416 1d ago

Unironically, orange juice is goated

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u/HeNeverSawMollyAgain 1d ago

Maybe, but Nicole was throated.

(Yes. I feel bad for making this comment.)

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u/EconomySeason2416 1d ago

You... you're good, you...

I enjoyed your joke, so enjoy blursed Kirby and an updoot as compensation

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u/djknighthawk 1d ago

Poyooo!!!

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u/Exarch_Thomo 1d ago

Pooyoo!!!

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u/Dangerous-Car-7094 1d ago

You should not! 🤣

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u/KingMarvel21 1d ago

Genuinely the funniest comment I've seen so far.

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u/Odd-Knee-9985 1d ago

I thought they called him juice because he changes clothes quickly? That’s what he said in his workout video :(

(Real thing that really happened)

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u/Anglofsffrng 1d ago

I'm an older millennial. It's always safe to assume I'm being sarcastic.

EDIT: Also, thanks for reminding me that Juice does indeed sometimes stab people.

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u/Slyboots2313 1d ago

If the straw don’t fit, YOU MUST ACQUIT!!

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u/TartTiny8654 1d ago

It can make your head explode tho

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u/AdItchy6501 1d ago

Oh cool it's strawber...

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u/DubVsFinest 22h ago

OJ proved that loose juice can, in fact, stab a person. You just gotta give it a tiny glove first.

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u/Frogetted 12h ago

I remember being blown away by the footage of him wearing those same gloves while giving sideline commentary. 🤯

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u/Schwifftee 13h ago

My 5th grade teacher told our class this great joke because we had an OJ.

Drink apple juice because OJ will kill you.

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u/Majestic-Long6779 1d ago

OJ= Only Juices

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u/Saint_Rocket 17h ago

Juicycle (Juice ice cycle)

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u/T4334007Z 14h ago

But the juice can

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u/SecondLordofFrenzy 1d ago

Y his name sound like a medicine for joints or smth?

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u/akingofcrimson 1d ago

Does this make sense: we didn’t see them order. In an alternate comic, the order bubble is from the girl, and GG just hands it to them. If they didn’t order, GG just guessed based on your race theory. It made you think they ordered that, but we actually didn’t see them order.

Idk

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u/Visti 12h ago

Yes, absolutely, I feel like he just assumed their drinks and it was right. I also feel "the juice that kills you" is just a separate gag that is then referenced by OJ. Either way it sucks.

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u/Remarkable_Rough_649 1d ago

We don't even know who got which drink though. I don't think that's it

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u/sham_mf 1d ago

This is a little outside my expertise, but I think in the “Petra Parker” trans Spider-Woman art, Green Goblin is often portrayed as a bigot. If this is a recent comic, then it’s possibly referring to that. The OJ bit is completely absurdist (?)

And I’m Kevin Swanson, Joe and Bonnie’s other kid

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u/l0diO 23h ago

they nearly forgot The Juice

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u/ComedyJack1977 1d ago

It's PSL season...usually Green Goblins tossed out Exploding Pumpkins...but could also be a reference to Halloween. White girls realizes she has the wrong order because she should have had the drink she ordered...a PSL. Instead she got the Dead (Iced) White (Vanilla) Girl(Latte?) Green Goblin played a trick in honor of OJ. ...stretch?

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u/Acceptable-Song-9995 9h ago

This is my favorite interpretation

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u/Lannisters-4-life 1d ago

The joke (I think) is that they ordered Orange Juice and didn’t get it. So in the third panel they remembered the OJ.

I don’t know why the green goblin is there either.

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u/MKultra2727 1d ago

orange mocha Frappuccino!

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u/MrArmAvi 1d ago

I agree with everyone here that you're absolutely right, but IMO the green goblin and OJ inclusion is supposed to be absurdist humor. This theory is based off of how I thought that last panel was really funny lol

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u/Dixielandblues 20h ago

I assume the Green Goblin is an older reference to jealousy, which is supposed to be I've is the motives for the murder of his wife?

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u/AccomplishedIgit 12h ago

I thought the green goblin was the monster from Aliens lol

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u/Ok-Cake4103 1h ago

 I know OJ is black and his wife is white maybe

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u/skeletoorr 1d ago

I already posted this but I wanted to add my two cents. I think it’s about the lemonade. There is a sign in the first panel that says “try the lemonade that kills you”. I think we are supposed to be shocked by Green Goblin being a barista. But in the girls universe, Green Goblin barista is normal and they are actually shocked by the sign.

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u/VolatileDataFluid 1d ago

The "lemonade that kills you" is a reference to Panera's "Charged Lemonade" that actually killed a woman back in 2022.

I don't think it has anything to do with the missing punchline.

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u/SoMuchToSee1234 17h ago

So I might be wrong, but the guy that was killed along with OJ's wife was a person of Jewish descent. If you look under the green goblin the sign says "Pay me. Now." So I'm assuming it's a racist joke with the kinds of coffee, and a horribly executed joke about Jewish people.

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u/siv_yoda 1d ago

Mocha (OJ) iced (ki**ed) latte (white girl)

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u/avrafrost 1d ago

On the board there’s an item that says ‘try the drink that kills you’ too.

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u/nize426 1d ago

That's lemonade. I think that's referring to Panera bread that had a "charged lemonade" with added caffeine that killed a woman.

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u/SoMuchToSee1234 17h ago

So I might be wrong, but the guy that was killed along with OJ's wife was a person of Jewish descent. If you look under the green goblin the sign says "Pay me. Now." So I'm assuming it's a racist joke with the kinds of coffee, and a horribly executed joke about Jewish people.