Not so much victory as better defeat.

After they caught Willie Sutton, they asked him, "Why did you rob all those banks?"

He replied in all sincerity, "because that's where the money is."

I'm electrified by the commentary on this strip!

Technically, electrocution means death by electric shock. Electric Exuecution. But that's just me being a pedant.

Not just thrilling, also shocking. Great comic, as always

"Mmm...bacon." "OH NO! Bacon!" "Yes. Bacon." God, I love this website.

I hate to do this, but by the very definition of the word, you can't get electrocuted unless it kills you. Sorry.

Buzzell - How do we know this isn'y Zombie Rick? Is he not more dead than alive anyway?

On a more joyful note - a haiku to bacon (not mine own, alas!

Bacon! King of meats!
Only strips of pig, but fried
Tastebud Nirvana!

So the shocking story didn't contain any shocking on any side? I'm just going to assume the supervisor returned with a taser to make up for this deficit.

20 years ago we had Johnny Cash, Bob Hope and Steve Jobs .Now we have no Cash, no Hope and no Jobs. Please don''t let Kevin Bacon die...........

Heh, Scott's lines in panel 2 are probably my favorite.

Scott - You wrote the comic the way people talk, and therefore although technically innacurate it was the correct way to write it. No apologies needed although the explanation was appreciated.
As always, great comic. It's nice to see a victory of bacon.

You have to hand it to Rick. At the very least, he did the right thing. No bacon left behind...

Well now I'm afraid. I just had the though "Well Rick does have a point."

Re electrocution. You do hear it misused. For instance, last night I watched a TV show in which three people were made to disco dance for us, but one of them was said to be "electrocuted" several times while dancing, and we had to guess which, afterwards. It turned out that they weren't following the strict definition, which would have been a different show, with fewer rounds.

Now "The Critical Factor" appearing throughout a sketch show by Armstrong and Miller, a parody of a real contest from a while back called "The Krypton Factor", did do that. You may or may not find a playable video online of the varying assassinations of the losing player in each of, hmm, three rounds of "the Critical Factor". Four players. The survivor gets to play again...

A minor, pointless victory. Bacon.

Ah, the internet, where brilliant artists have to preemptively address critiques they know they'll otherwise get, just to make strangers laugh.
The price Scott pays for entertaining us is immense!
With great power...people get electrocuted.

Washing bacon...good save!

I'm trying to figure out if it was compassion or bacon-distraction that kept you from raining on Rick's victory parade by pointing out that he just called his boss stupid. Who am I kidding, we both know the answer.

@Huge BEST...LINE...EVER!!!!

C'mon people. Meanings drift. Decimate no longer means exactly 10%. Electrocute is shifting to also mean injure by electric shock.

Shift happens. You can't stop it...

So, did Rick simply rinse it off, or did he try to use soap?

Neither answer would surprise me.

Oh dear - pedant alert...... NOT "off of" please.

Not to engage HARDCORE PEDANT MODE, but…

electrocute |ɪˈlɛktrəkjuːt|
verb [ with obj. ]
injure or kill (someone) by electric shock: a man was electrocuted on the rail track.
DERIVATIVES
electrocution |-ˈkjuːʃ(ə)n|noun

If an electric shock injures you, you're being electrocuted. I assume all electric shocks injure you in some way, microscopically or macroscopically.

Throwing away bacon is a crime. Washing it off is the right thing to do. Period.

BACON!!!!!

I have my own haiku a la bacon!

*ahem*

bacon bacon ba
con bacon bacon bacon
bacon bacon fin

Last line of panel 4 = GOLD!