Categorical Aperitif

Extra: Help! Captioning is, in part, the art of coming up with contexts into which pictures can fit and then constructing these contexts with an economical, yet hopefully amusing, set of words. It is always possible to come up with a possible context for a picture; however, it is not always easy to come up with a funny context. This is never more frustratingly true than when you come up against a picture that seems an obviously fertile ground for humor, yet you can't figure out what to do with it. Perhaps there's such a thing as a comic interference pattern—created when possibilities proliferate to the point of canceling each other out. I don't know. But I seem to have run up against an impasse with this one, ripe with possibility as it is; perhaps my mind simply rebels against contemplating what might be responsible for this particular state of affairs:

If you have suggestions on this one, feel free to leave 'em in comments. Please note that Categorical Aperitif is not responsible for any moral, intellectual, or conceptual damage caused by prolonged contemplation of any possible explanatory context for this image. Caption at your own risk.

Update: I see that the good Generik sent out an appeal to his armies of the night, and they responded in style. Dang, you people are good.

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