Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for November 27, 2016

Sung to the tune of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, if you’re uncultured.

Gilbert & Sullivan as sung by Sideshow Bob.

It looks like Dana may be suffering some kind of creator breakdown due to the election, hence all the rerun strips.

Am I the only who’s trying to actually hear Marigolds singing voice in my mind? Ooh I bet it sounds lovely!

It’s a song from Sergeant Pepper, duh.

I had a chance recently to ask Dana about the repeats. She said that they’re only from before the comic started national syndication and that any changes in dialogue or the artwork is because she works closer with an editor now, so sometimes they recommend changes.

BRILLIANT Penzance parody!

Well, what about The Doctor’s version?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00T_ft5RCdc

I sang Sir Joseph Porter in high school, but this is from Pirates of Penzance. When our girls were at home we wore out a VHS tape of that.

I saw “Pirates of Penzance” not too long ago, and this is perfect. The scansion is right on the money, and the words fit right in with the cadence. Very well done, Dana.

Main issue with singing in text – you need to know the song that fits.

This is actually a variation of the original Sunday comic (see Dec 2, 2012, for the original). Some of the words in the song are different and the drawing is slightly different (scarf and legwarmers have been added).

Who here would download this song?

I know I would.

Were the attempts at triple rhymes any more accurate?

There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,

Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium,And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,There’s strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.

There’s holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.

And lead, praseodymium and platinum, plutonium,Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

There’s sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium,And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium,And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium.

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,And there may be many others but they haven’t been discovered.

With JanC above, allow me to congratulate on the parody, Dana. This is not any easy song to do anything with, and I do love it!

Best Sunday comic ever. Phoebe’s face in the last panel is the icing on the cake.

And as a happy coincident – I am actually listening to G&S right now! but H.M.S. Pinafore, not Pirates – Tho’ Pirates is next in the queue.

Unicorns know Gilbert & Sullivan? But of course!

G&S earworm. Sigh.

and no one has mentioned Tom Lehrer’s version (AKA The Elements"

Clever and hilarious, as always. Keep ’em coming—this is one of the best strips that exists.

A bit ashamed to admit it, I recognised this not from knowing the original opera, but instead from the Mordin Solus rendition from the game Mass Effect.I am not ashamed to claim It is a game everyone must play through though, otherwise they’d be “uncultured”.

Perfect! Just PERFECT!! I gotta save this one!

I could’ve sworn the original lyrics of this parody were different. “I am the very model of a modern magic unicorn, I’ve information, magic, and I never wear a uniform.”

This is my absolute favorite strip, the parody of I Am the Very Model is brilliant!