One day, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy were sitting in the Shady Shoals nursing home.

Mermaid Man then asked, "Barnacle Boy? Why aren't we dead?"

"What!" Barnacle Boy exclaimed, taken aback. "Why do you want to know that, you old coot!"

"Because of the deaths recently," Mermaid Man explained. "We're old, why not us?"

"Don't say that!" Barnacle Boy shouted. "Then, we'll ACTUALLY die!"

...

Mermaid Man didn't reply.

"Well?"

Mermaid Man fell over. "I'm dying!" he shouted. "All I wanted to know was where my tater tots were!"

"That's no want you wanted to-" Then, Barnacle Boy fell over.

They both had heart attacks.

They died...

Mermaid Man died with a bowl of tater tots on him...