The comic lampoons by exaggeration the inability of many engineers to cut to the chase. I'm definitely guilty of this myself. (Recognizing the problem is just the first step to cure... :-)
why is it that he associates himself with only the ovum?
"so there I were, in the uterus and entering the uterus, when I smacked into me and- unlike the rest of my potential family members who were doomed to die in a hostile environment- I fused with myself to become my first cell!