Why do orphans use water with their cereal? Because their dad never came back with the milk.
Orphan's Breakfast
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Explain Bear
Okay, Bryson, you're a real knucklehead, you know that? So here's the deal: orphans don't have parents, which is already a sad thing. This 'joke' is playing on that fact. The implication is that the dad, who should be getting milk, is gone, making this a 'dark' sort of humor because it's about a sad situation.