Getting-high

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getting-high

Title text: To generalize, I am high on eukaryotes.

Votey

Explanation

The adjective "high" is used figuratively to mean intoxication from a typically illegal non-alcohol substance, a "drug". A parent would certainly be disappointed and worried if their child used such a substance. The phrase "high on life" means "very happy", only instead of addictive chemicals, the cause for being high is simply living a good life. However, the boy depicted in the comic turns out to be more literally "high on life", using different lifeforms such as Colorado River toads and fly agaric mushrooms which produce chemicals that give him his fix.

Transcript

[An angry mother walks into her son's room.]

Mother: "Bobby? Are you getting high in here?"

[The son looks at his mother.]

Son: "The only thing I'm high on is life."

[The son holds a toad on one hand and a mushroom on the other.]

Son: "Specifically, kingdoms animalia and fungi."

Votey Transcript

[The son speaks.]

Son: "Nature is so beautiful"

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