This Sunday’s adam@home…
http://www.ucomics.com/adamathome/2004/10/10/
Thank you.
The kids look down at the floor. Perhaps the gas tank is under the seats?
Hmmm…But why did the car seat stretch and/or their seatbelts move?
Oooh, I can’t tell you. It’s a terrible, dark, and horrible secret. It would kill you to hear it, it’s better if you never know.
(I read it and assumed the kids were thinking, “The gas tank is under the seat–it’s gonna blow through the seat and go up through the roof, like Dad said!” YMMV. :))
Yes, exactly. They’re imagining the gas literally “going through the roof” from under the car, as in an explosion, and that’s why they both moved to the outer part of the seat.
Moving to the edge of the seat will protect them from this? 
I was convinced it had something to do with the car getting bigger. Am I the only one who sees that seat as expanding? And how the heck would they move if they’re still strapped in to their seatbelts anyway, which apear to stretch three times the width of the kids?
Ok, ok, it sounds like I’m reading far too much into this.
Cut them some slack; they’re kids.
It was a fart joke! The kids moved to opposite sides of the car to get away from the stink.
See, that was my first impression too, before I started obsessing about the stretching seat!
fart joke
It looks like a fart joke to me.
Which would make it the first joke to appear in “Adam@Home” in four months!
It epitomizes the exentential relationship concerning the dichotomy of the underlying dual metaphors of the surrealism inherent in… aw f*ck it. Looks like a lame fart joke to me.
I go with the fart joke myself. But let me introduce all of you to
Comics I Don’t Understand a web page just for this type of discussion.
Naw, I think that’s just crappy art.
I thought all the comics on that page were perfectly understandable. Not necessarily funny, but understandable.
Like Bryan Elkers said, they’re kids. It’s the same logic my cousin used when we were going to our grandparents’ place up in the mountains (we were about 10 or so). There was a long drop from the side of the road, and from inside the car it looked like we were almost hanging off the edge. My cousin started freaking and his brother start ragging on him for it, telling him there was nothing to worry about. My cousin’s then yelled at him “that’s easy for you to say, you’re on the safe side!”
Fart joke.
Same here except for the return window cartoon with the (looks like) body parts littering the floor. Don’t quite get that one.
I thought the first panel was pretty funny.
I only got the Boondocks one. What was with the bartender and the bunny ears?