It came to pass that Pharaoh’s butler and baker offended him in some way, possibly by forgetting to grovel sufficiently when bringing him his wine and cake, and so he threw them in prison. As luck would have it, they landed in Joseph’s prison, and he was put in charge of them. After a year in prison, they both had a dream on the same night. Since apparently not having someone tell you what your dream meant was a big problem in Egypt, they were both very depressed that no dream interpreters had offended Pharaoh recently. Joseph saw that they were upset, even though they hadn't even received their daily beatings yet, and asked them what their problem was. After hearing of this whole dream interpretation thing, Joseph offered to interpret the dreams for them.

The butler had dreamed of a vine with three branches that sprouted grapes. In this dream, the butler took the grapes, made grape juice, and gave Pharaoh a cup of it. Joseph stated that this meant that the butler would get his old job back in three days. Then, Joseph gave the butler a business card and asked him to put a good word in with Pharaoh, since he was getting kind of tired of hanging out in a prison all day every day.

The baker, seeing that the butler’s dream meant he was getting out of that shithole of a prison, asked Joseph to interpret his dream too. The baker’s dream was of him holding three baskets of bread on his head. Birds came and ate the bread from the top basket. Joseph told him this meant that Pharaoh would have him hanged in three days, and birds would eat his flesh. For some reason, the baker was not thrilled by this interpretation.

Fortunately for the butler, and unfortunately for the baker, both of Joseph’s predictions came true. Unfortunately for Joseph, the butler later accidentally used the business card Joseph had given him to write down his phone number for this cute girl at the Pyramid Club, and so never got around to mentioning Joseph to Pharaoh.