2013-05-18
Original: 2013-05-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bearded, muscular man with long curly gray hair (depicted as Zeus, holding a yellow lightning bolt) speaks to a dark-haired person seen from behind.
Zeus: "DROP YOUR THONG, HOP IN A POND. I'M GONNA TURN INTO A DUCK AND WE GON' GET IT ON."
Caption (below panel): Sometimes I remember that Zeus never rapped, and I get sad.
Votey:
A hand-drawn picture of a flip-flop sandal (thong-style footwear) with the label: "THONGS!"
A bearded, muscular man with long curly gray hair (depicted as Zeus, holding a yellow lightning bolt) speaks to a dark-haired person seen from behind.
Zeus: "DROP YOUR THONG, HOP IN A POND. I'M GONNA TURN INTO A DUCK AND WE GON' GET IT ON."
Caption (below panel): Sometimes I remember that Zeus never rapped, and I get sad.
Votey:
A hand-drawn picture of a flip-flop sandal (thong-style footwear) with the label: "THONGS!"
Alt text
A single SMBC panel shows a muscular, bearded man with long curly gray hair and a yellow lightning bolt (Zeus) leaning toward a dark-haired person seen from behind. In a large speech bubble he delivers rap-style lyrics: "Drop your thong, hop in a pond. I'm gonna turn into a duck and we gon' get it on." A caption below reads: "Sometimes I remember that Zeus never rapped, and I get sad." The joke riffs on Zeus's mythological habit of seducing mortals by transforming into animals, reimagined as a smooth pickup rap. Votey (aftercomic): a rough black-and-white drawing of a flip-flop sandal labeled "THONGS!" — a pun on the word "thong" from the rap.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.