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Yesterday’s Bizarro, in a truncated version:

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This is funny as it stands, but it takes a considerable amount of pop-cultural knowledge to comprehend. The keys are the reference to motels and to stabbing: Psycho.

Here’s the original full cartoon, which makes the movie reference somewhat clearer via a caption:

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But only somewhat clearer.

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