I opened up a can of worms… they just wiggle… hardly the chaos that’s been advertised…
Why It’s Funny
This joke plays on the common idiom of ‘opening a can of worms’ as a metaphor for starting a massive, uncontrollable problem. By taking the phrase literally and focusing on the mundane reality of the worms, it creates a funny anticlimax that highlights how confusing adult figures of speech can be.
