Orphan and Apple

Listen up, you silly goose! You're probably scratching your head like a confused squirrel, huh? This joke is dark, like your coffee when you've had a rough morning. It's a play on the word "picked". When you talk about an apple, "picked" means it's harvested from a tree. But for an orphan, "picked" can mean being chosen for adoption by a family. The humor, if you can even call it that, comes from the sad, dark irony that an apple gets chosen, but many orphans don't. See? Not so hard, even for you.