There appears to be no caption for this cartoon; at least none that Google Image Search came up with.
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It doesn’t need a caption; the silly antics (eating, smoking, reading comics, scalpel battles) in which (almost) all the doctors and nurses are engaging are sufficiently entertaining. Only the “mother” nurse (next to the patient) is alarmed, but I think she is the reason the comic “works”, she embodies the normal reaction that the reader would be presumed to have. If absolutely everyone were cavorting around, then it would just be a nonsensical circus around an oblivious patient.
might it b a caption contest?
I think it needs a caption. And although I don’t have one I can almost imagine what it might be about. Something about a ADHD generation.
“it would just be a nonsensical circus”
It still kind of looks that way to me. Why are they doing this? It seems highly out of the ordinary and arbitrary. I think that for the ‘joke’ to work, there must be a reason of some sort. In fact, it almost looks like the ‘mother’ nurse is saying something…IS there a missing caption that would explain these antics? Anyone got any suggestions? How about:
– ‘Places everyone! The anesthetic is wearing off!’
– ‘OK, yes, this is a bypass…but “coronary”, not of normal procedures. C’mon!’
– Back stage at the operating theatre.
New Yorker didn’t run this as part of a Caption Contest, but that doesn’t mean we can’t.
Unofficially, of course.
When anesthesiologists fail to turn off the anesthetic.
How nurses pass time, and patients pass too.
This is the last time we get invite over nurses from the children’s hospital.
Elective surgeons.
While the staffroom is being renovated, please use an EMPTY operating room.
I found the actual caption for this one (can’t seem to include a screenshot here, though):
“He’s waking up! Places, people!” (Stan was pretty close!)
i would have thought that it is staff room at the hospital and the “mother nurse” is calling out,”OK, who’s called ‘next’ on the nap bed?”
@ Powers – I’m very impressed, both that you were able to find the original (from 25-Sep-2014, more than five years ago), and that the “real” caption actually improves the comic. (On the other hand, some of the alternate captions offered above are even better.)
I just discovered that on The New Yorker‘s website, the caption is not part of the image (so reposting a direct image link would not have helped), which explains how it got disassociated.
P.S. I‘d still like to know how madmup & Powers found that original page.
That is a problem with the New Yorker website; that’s why I search for other instances of the same comic.
Unfortunately, the several that I found must have also been people who downloaded it from the New Yorker site without the caption. Somehow the New Yorker site itself didn’t come up for me.
“That is a problem with the New Yorker website”
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was on purpose. It means you have to link to their page instead of taking their comics.
Oh, definitely, Arthur: I meant it was MY problem, not theirs.
Of course I just use screen capture now. The only time I have a problem with a New Yorker comic is when I receive a comic from another source.
A few years ago, GoComics also made saving comics more difficult. I swear, they’re targeting me personally!
“Stan almost got it exact.”
OK, that’s it! I’m applying for a job at the New Yorker! Can anyone draw? We’ll apply as a team.
@Kilby – not sure how Powers got it, but I use a reverse image lookup plugin called TinEye.
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It doesn’t need a caption; the silly antics (eating, smoking, reading comics, scalpel battles) in which (almost) all the doctors and nurses are engaging are sufficiently entertaining. Only the “mother” nurse (next to the patient) is alarmed, but I think she is the reason the comic “works”, she embodies the normal reaction that the reader would be presumed to have. If absolutely everyone were cavorting around, then it would just be a nonsensical circus around an oblivious patient.
might it b a caption contest?
I think it needs a caption. And although I don’t have one I can almost imagine what it might be about. Something about a ADHD generation.
“it would just be a nonsensical circus”
It still kind of looks that way to me. Why are they doing this? It seems highly out of the ordinary and arbitrary. I think that for the ‘joke’ to work, there must be a reason of some sort. In fact, it almost looks like the ‘mother’ nurse is saying something…IS there a missing caption that would explain these antics? Anyone got any suggestions? How about:
– ‘Places everyone! The anesthetic is wearing off!’
– ‘OK, yes, this is a bypass…but “coronary”, not of normal procedures. C’mon!’
– Back stage at the operating theatre.
New Yorker didn’t run this as part of a Caption Contest, but that doesn’t mean we can’t.
Unofficially, of course.
When anesthesiologists fail to turn off the anesthetic.
How nurses pass time, and patients pass too.
This is the last time we get invite over nurses from the children’s hospital.
Elective surgeons.
While the staffroom is being renovated, please use an EMPTY operating room.
I found the actual caption for this one (can’t seem to include a screenshot here, though):
“He’s waking up! Places, people!” (Stan was pretty close!)
I went to https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06 and had to flip through the comics to get to it (it’s 15 out of 17).
Some of the services billed under “Hospital Miscellaneous Charges”
Stan almost got it exact. The caption is “He’s waking up! Places, people!”
Here’s the comic on the New Yorker web site: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a18494
i would have thought that it is staff room at the hospital and the “mother nurse” is calling out,”OK, who’s called ‘next’ on the nap bed?”
@ Powers – I’m very impressed, both that you were able to find the original (from 25-Sep-2014, more than five years ago), and that the “real” caption actually improves the comic. (On the other hand, some of the alternate captions offered above are even better.)
I just discovered that on The New Yorker‘s website, the caption is not part of the image (so reposting a direct image link would not have helped), which explains how it got disassociated.
P.S. I‘d still like to know how madmup & Powers found that original page.
That is a problem with the New Yorker website; that’s why I search for other instances of the same comic.
Unfortunately, the several that I found must have also been people who downloaded it from the New Yorker site without the caption. Somehow the New Yorker site itself didn’t come up for me.
“That is a problem with the New Yorker website”
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was on purpose. It means you have to link to their page instead of taking their comics.
Oh, definitely, Arthur: I meant it was MY problem, not theirs.
Of course I just use screen capture now. The only time I have a problem with a New Yorker comic is when I receive a comic from another source.
A few years ago, GoComics also made saving comics more difficult. I swear, they’re targeting me personally!
“Stan almost got it exact.”
OK, that’s it! I’m applying for a job at the New Yorker! Can anyone draw? We’ll apply as a team.
@Kilby – not sure how Powers got it, but I use a reverse image lookup plugin called TinEye.