I found this cartoon on the internet, and I am not sure that it would make sense to anyone who has not studied Spanish.
A tilde is that squiggly mark that appears over the letter "n" in numerous Spanish words. It gives the "n" a "ny" sound. "Jalapeño" is one word with a tilde over the "n". A few other common words with a tilde are "señor" (mister), "baño" (bathroom), and "año" (year). In Spanish, when you tell how old you are, you say that you have a certain number of years. When I was teaching, I would usually have a student who would leave off the tilde, and instead of saying "I have fourteen years", would be stating an anatomical impossibility!
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