Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

Emo Philips’s line is a characteristically dark, absurdist one-liner that treats waking up as a grim ordeal. The “leather straps” suggest bondage or restraint—an image of being tied down by life’s obligations, depression, or mere routine. By framing the effort to start the day as literally “chewing through” restraints, the joke exaggerates ordinary reluctance into a cartoonish survival scenario. The humor comes from the mismatch between a familiar feeling (some days you don’t want to face the world) and the grotesquely physical metaphor, which both satirizes self-help optimism and gives comic shape to despair without directly confessing it.