Okay, I can kinda see the first four panels being a decent bit on like, Friends or something like that, with the vocal inflections and the facial expressions to help the joke along. The words would need to be changed though, the pacing's wrong: instead of "Hearing Spice, Vision Spice..." and so on, adding "Spice" after every word, it should just be "Hearing, Vision, Smell, Touch, and Taste" delivered all in one breath. Slowing down the punchline makes it less funny, the joke should hit the audience all at once, like a kick or headbutt or some other sudden impact.
I'd also say to cut it after the forth panel. My reading is that at that point she's fed up with the game or whatever it is, and she's essentially insulting him, giving a semi-offensive wrong answer instead of the more jokingly wrong ones she gave previously. Bald should, in turn, get more visibly annoyed, instead of just stating the obvious "You're not even trying". Instead, we get words that sound like the spice girls' names, which is just lame. It's not like she's got the one name she remembers and then she loses steam, which might work. It looks like she's just saying random words.
The fact that this is a continuation of #1417 is confusing too, since it gives this comic a context in which groups of the same number are easily confused, which makes the reader see Hair as trying and failing the whole way through rather than not trying until the end.
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