312: The Wizlements

Explanation
In the original strip, Wiz only lists seven elements, and the punchline is the same. Here, the list is replaced by the lyrics to "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer. The author's description is also a reference to a Lehrer song, being "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park".

The author writes
The king became concerned when several poisoned pigeons were found floating in the park's lake.

Original strip: The Wizard of Id 2017-11-14.

Transcript
Wiz: Let's see. We have antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, and nitrogen, and rhenium, and nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium... Wiz: And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium, and lanthanum, and osmium, and astatine, and radium... Wiz: And gold, protactinium, and indium, and gallium, and iodine, and thorium, and thulium, and thallium. There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium... {The Wiz's poofy smoke apparition buddy is starting to look alarmed.} Wiz: And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium, and strontium, and silicon, and silver, and samarium. And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium... Wiz: There's holmium, and helium, and hafnium, and erbium. And phosphorous, and francium, and fluorine, and terbium. And manganese, and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium... Wiz: Dysprosium, and scandium, and cerium, and cesium. And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium, palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium... Wiz: And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, and cadmium, and calcium, and chromium, and curium. There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium... Wiz: And also mendelevium, einsteinium, and nobelium, and argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium. And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium. {We see the Wiz is studying a beaker containing a brown liquid.} Poofy smoke apparition: Brewing up a new experiment? Wiz: Testing city water.