Funny / Overly Sarcastic Productions Miscellaneous Myths

Greece's mightiest hero, ladies and gentlemen.

Underworld Myths video

• When talking about how Isis and Nephthys put Osiris back together:
  Red: Unfortunately, Osiris ends up missing a... very important piece. *gags*
• Young Horus and Anubis are depicted to be listening in on their parents, and when the latter start rebuilding Osiris' most essential component, their dialogue gets replaced by hieroglyphs with the two kids suggesting that they're talking about "really gross grown-up stuff". Translating said hieroglyphs...
  Nephthys: Don't you think that's too big?
  Isis: I know what I'm doing!
• Horus and Set end up fighting over what Set did to Osiris, and they both lose... important organs.
  Horus: Agh! My eye!
  Set: AGH! MY NUT!
  Nut: You called?
• Izanagi picks the worst time to start making puns:
  Red: But unfortunately, one of the kids^note Kagu-tsuchi turns out to be a little...
  Izanagi: Too hot to handle! He really warms the heart. Really lights up my life. He's positively radiant.
  Izanami: (weakly) Izanagi, I'm dying...
  Izanagi: What? But I'm just warming up!
  Izanami: (angrily) IZANAGI!
  Izanagi: Wow, come on, where's the fire?
• Red's summarization of Asu-shu-namir's myth:
  Red: So the lesson of this particular legend is if you're gender non-binary, you're magic, Ishtar loves you, and even the queen of hell thinks you're hot.

Pygmalion and Galatea

• Red's exasperation with Pygmalion's... odd expectations of a woman. Namely that they don't do things like speak or have sex.
  Red: I don't know how to tell you this, buddy, but we do have a word for that now. Several words, actually.
  Pygmalion: STOOOP!
• Red draws comparisons between Pygmalion's adoration of Galatea with the modern obsession of waifus, especially with Japanese body pillows. This later leads to this gem of a line:
  Red: He begs [Aphrodite] to bring his waifu to life-u.
• Aphrodite gets introduced to the chorus of "Single Ladies".

Amaterasu and the Cave

• Red assures the audience that's she's not kidding or exaggerating when she mentions how the gods suggested that Ame-no-Uzume lure Amaterasu out of the cave with a striptease.
• Amaterasu's reaction to said "enthusiastically naked dawn goddess" is priceless, complete with her sunfire flaring up.
• And Red's suggestion that Amaterasu’s reaction to Ame-no-Uzume means the myth can be read as a literal Coming-Out Story.
• The ending song on that video is "Here comes the sun" by Nina Simone , which Red sings. The alternate ending song for that myth, which Red admits she felt was too hilarious to include? "Don't let the sun go down on me" by Elton John.

Sisyphus Captures Death

• The representation of Sisyphus' scheme to take advantage of Persephone's kind nature by ensuring his wife doesn't bury him properly is him casually noting that as an angry Thanatos looms over him... and then when he gets his body back, casually walking back in his house as his wife shrieks in terror.
• Ares takes offense when Death Takes a Holiday, as without death, war has no meaning. He proceeds to have a slightly Soldier-esque/Sarge-esque outburst:
  Ares: What are you knuckleheads doing? Getting stabbed means you're out!
• After Thanatos gets imprisoned in Sisyphus' castle, it takes a month for Ares and Hades to figure out that the missing Thanatos might be found somewhere in the vicinity of the troublesome mortal Hades dispatched him to take care of.
  Athena: Uh, duh, you guys.
  Aphrodite: Well, we can't all have cities with fully developed legal systems.
• Thanatos manages to loom ominously even while stuffed in a box.
  LOOOM
• Sisyphus' fraudulently peaceful fate karmically comes full circle when he finally dies of old age and finds himself face to face with all three death gods he's pissed off, all of whom are giving him a different variety of Death Glare (Thanatos is cracking his knuckles, Persephone is trembling with rage, and Hades is just exasperated).

The Poetic Edda

• Red beforehand tells the audience to set aside their Marvel-based assumptions about the Norse pantheon before the video begins.
  Red: Just to confirm: Odin's not a neglectful father, Loki's not a misunderstood puppy dog, and Thor is not a chick!
• Red's pronunciation problems seem to be consistent: consider her attempt to pronounce "Völuspá" in the Poetic Edda summarization.
  Red: Before we go any further, I'd like to apologize profusely for my complete inability to pronounce Icelandic words. With that in mind, this is the vURLSHbAa.
  Subtitles: (Not quite, Red.)
  Red: So the V-Vu... ...*dismayed sigh*
  Red, later in the video: Now that's where the creation myth basically ends, and the narrator for the Vuh... Vöurshbuh...
  Subtitles: (Keep trying.)
  Red: Hmmmmph...
• Red brings up how mythological Loki was "nowhere near as cute as Tom Hiddleston would have you believe", at which moment mythological Loki shows up and insists that he was definitely cute... While trying to cover up a picture of Tom Hiddleston. Someone's jealous.
• Thor is none too pleased with having to dress up as Freya to get his hammer Mjölnir back from the king of the frost giants. On the way to Jotunheim accompanied by Loki, who's posing as his maidservant, Thor has a sudden realization:
  Thor: Wait a minute, you're the shapeshifter! Why the Hel couldn't you be Freya?!
  Loki: Ooh, look! Jotunheim!
  • The idea of dressing Thor up as Freya isn't Loki's idea. It's Heimdall's. Loki thinks this is the best idea ever and is laughing his ass off as it is explained.
• ”What follows is Seven stanzas of dwarf names, some of which seem... suspiciously... famili— TOLKIEN YOU HACK!”
• Loki’s "best horse mom" mug - a literal Mythology Gag.
• A ferryman who takes a disliking to Thor taunts him with "Doth Mother know that you weareth her drapes?"

Cu Chulainn

• To represent the titular hero enduring a lot of cheating from the opposing army, one thing he gets hit with is *TWENTY-NINE SIMULTANEOUS RIGHT HOOKS*, which he takes while barely flinching.
• Later on, when the queen of that army hires a guy to kill Cu Chulainn, she references that attack.
  Queen Medb: And he just tanked 29 right hooks!
  Lugaid: ...Who does that?
• And the account of Chulainn distracting Aife by pulling a Look Behind You is played humorously as well. Scathach's face when he suddenly jumps into the fray is priceless as well.
  Cu Chulainn: Is that YOUR chariot going over that cliff?
  Aife: (turns around) BINKY NO!
  • And then Cu Chulainn... makes a kid with Aife as part of their agreement, and she accepts...
  Red: ...and spares her life, on the condition that she call off her blood feud with Scathach (shocked voice) and also have his kid. Which... she does. ...cool?... How old is he again?
• "Then he hulks out and kills these three guys but is brought down by the power of boobs."
  • The fact that whilst in his warp spasm, Chulainn (as a giant hulk made of sinew) looks away in embarrassment from the sight of boobs.
• Lugh, Cu Chulainn's father shows up to provide some Deus ex Machina. He does so by declaring "It is I, your fairy dadmother" and then knocks him out.

Eros and Psyche

• The video starts off with her describing Psyche as a Princess ("plot twist?"), who's beautiful ("plot twist?") and lonely ("plot twist?!")
  Red: But she's not just any lonely, beautiful Princess - she's a lonely, beautiful Princess even more beautiful than Aphrodite! Oh, that ain't good.
• Red sums up Aphrodite's hatred of Psyche for being prettier than her:
  Red: My god, it's just like high school.
• Red's response to Aphrodite's plan to make Psyche fall in love with a hideous monster is Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
• Aphrodite tasks Psyche with four tasks to win back Eros's love. Then a title card shows up for about two seconds to tell us that Psyche's sisters fell off a cliff and died.
• The card of Eros in prison, sick of his mom’s antics:
  Eros: Seriously, Mom, I'm fine! Stop torturing my girlfriend!!!
• Red’s description of the final task:
  Red: So last but not least, Aphrodite gives up on the subtlety and literally tells Psyche to go to hell!
• When Eros goes to Zeus to make Psyche immortal, this exchange occurs:
  Eros: Zeus, if you make this work, Aphrodite is going to be a grandmother.
  Zeus: OH MY ME THAT'S HILARIOUS
  Aphrodite: But—
  Zeus: (His words completely stomped over Aphrodite's) SIT DOWN.

Heracles

• The opening features Red discussing how most Greek Heroes have Hubris as their tragic flaw, with Heracles and Perseus as the main exceptions—Heracles because his flaw is Wrath instead and Perseus because he doesn't appear to have any flaws.
• Hera doesn't recognize the infant Heracles and nurses him, only to realize that he's a toothy baby when he, as Red describes it, "boob noms" a little too hard.
• Heracles heads off to fight the Erymanthian Boar with the caption "ALL RIGHTY THEN LET'S GO FIGHT A PIG", only to immediately follow up with him getting drunk with a centaur, with the caption changing to "JUST KIDDING LET'S GO GET SMASHED WITH A MAN HORSE".
• Eurystheus sends Heracles off to retrieve the girdle of Hippolyta, a task that Heracles is rather enthusiastic about.
  Eurystheus: Go retrieve the girdle of Hippolyta.
  Heracles: ...Is this just a transparent attempt to get me laid, dude?
• When trekking across the desert to steal the cattle of Geryon, Heracles gets so grumpy and overheated that he fires an arrow at the sun, giving a disoriented scream of "MY KINGDOM FOR A JUICE BOX!"
• When Deianara smears some poisonous centaur blood on the inside of Heracles' shirt, he's concerned... because he's never worn a shirt before.
  Heracles: But what if my pecs can't breathe?
  Deianara: You'll be fine.

Pwyll, Prince of Dyved

• Pwyll is pronounced "Pwish", much to Red's exasperation and the comment sections amusement.
• Arawn collapses into a pit of Manly Tears when he learns that Pwyll never did anything inappropriate with his wife in the year that the two were disguised as each other. Meanwhile, Arawn's wife is annoyed, because she really wants to be intimate with her husband again and this isn't helping.
• "We regret to inform you that you ate the baby, ma'am."
  • In a heartwarming scene, Pwyll and Rhiannon are reunited with their son... and then Rhiannon goes to strangle her maids for framing her for eating her baby.

Anansi Wins Stories

• "Tell TvTropes I said 'You're Welcome'."

Kali Tries To Kill Everything

• Shiva's oddly calm reaction to Kali's universe destroying dance-rampage, followed by him dramatically diving under her feet to shield the world from her onslaught.
  Red: When Kali realizes she just boogied all over her husband, she bleps in surprise and immediately calms down and stops destroying the universe.
• Red's choice for a closing song? A soft-voiced, gentle rendition of Dancing Queen.

Hou Yi and Chang'e

• Hou Yi is introduced because the Jade Emperor's 10 sons, have (Red speculates for the punnage) turned into 10 actual suns, and Hou Yi is there to snipe them out of the sky. The Jade Emperor gets pissed, but Hou Yi was confused about what he expected to happen when he sent the divine archer after them.

Arachne

• Red's rendition of the story which can be summed up as "Athena Desperately Tries To Choke Back On Her Greek God Reactions When Faced With Someone Too Dumb to Live."
• Athena scopes out the situation disguised as an old woman.
  "Old Woman": Hello missy. What's this I hear?
  Arachne: Just a little light blasphemy!
• Arachne's expression after Athena drops her mortal disguise perfectly encapsulates the feeling of Oh, Crap!.
• After destroying Arachne's distasteful tapestry of Zeus' (read: Athena's father) sexual proclivities, Athena whacks Arachne over the head with a weaving shuttle, and Red guesses she did so while yelling "WHAT. WERE. YOU. THINKING?!" to emphasize the point.
  Athena: Considering your audience is essential when creating any form of art! [schrippp]
• Arachne retains her sass even after being turned into a spider.
  Arachne: [woven into a cobweb] WHAT THE HECK
  Athena: Aw, you're fine. You can still make your art!
  Arachne: [begins weaving something else]
  Athena: You better not be drawing dicks.

Aphrodite

• Red apparently had a bit of a field day censoring the various pictures depicting the titular goddess. Pixellation wasn't enough; she tossed up various text bits that are worth a good chuckle, such as a later one griping that there are no pictures of the goddess that have her clothed above the waist.
• Red refers to the Aphrodite Backstory where she gets created when Ouranos' severed testicles fall into the sea as the "bath bomb ballsack" version.
• When discussing how Aphrodite mainly stopping being a war goddess when she got to Greece, you can see bandages covering a wound on her wrist, likely caused by a man named Diomedes.
• When the war goddess version of Aphrodite is introduced to the rest of Greece, their reaction is "Athenian Gasp!"
• In the brief description of the Judgement of Paris, Red notes that Zeus enlisted the help of Paris for judging who among Hera, Athena and Aphrodite is the most beautiful because he realized there would be no safe answer for him personally. This is accompanied by all three goddesses looking expectantly at Zeus, who responds with "Nnnnope!"

Dionysus

• We get this exchange:
  Orphic Dionysus: Yeah, I died one time, no big.
  Dionysus: I thought I died once. Turns out that's just what happens when you make daiquiris with Hephaestus's special stash.
• During the explanation of the Dionysia and how Pisistratus imported it to Athens, there's a part where the tyrant is explaining just what Dionysus would do to the junk of those who refused to worship him. Dionysus himself is hovering over Pisistratus' shoulder, first looking confused and then very concerned when the tyrant tells the crowd what he's going to do to them.
  Red: This is not a joke, and is also the reason why the Dionysia would feature a parade with people carrying sculpted junk.

Tam Lin

• Bonny Janet getting "caught" in Carterhaugh.
  Tam Lin: What are you doing in my haunted glen at this time of night? Don't you know the stories?
  Janet: Aw, jeez, looks like I left my rings and cloak at home! Well, I'm sure I can think of something to offer you... [Tam Lin stares at her] Look, you're cute and everyone at my dad's castle is like, super old.
  Red: So Janet and Tam Lin do what young attractive singles do —
  [Sexy Discretion Shot of the moon over Carterhaugh]
  Janet: Yahtzee!
  Tam Lin: Aw man.

The Theogony

• When talking about Zeus and Metis making Kronos vomit up his children, Red visualizes this by drawing Kronos doing a Spit Take after drinking some tea, with said children flying out with the spit.
• Zeus and Hera birthing Hephaestus and Ares is visualized with a drawing of Hera nonchalantly tossing Hephaestus over her shoulder while tenderly holding Ares. Zeus appears to be doing a Double Take at this.
• Red attempts to differentiate what Zeus did to Metis... but does relent that it was an ironic, stupid and horrible move on his part.
  Red: Zeus, wanting to remain super-cool-badass-god-of-everything forever, solves the problem [of Gaia's prediction of the two birthing a smarter and stronger daughter and son who would supplant him] by eating Metis, but not in like a murder way, more like a... subsuming-her-essence-into-himself-so-she-can-give-him-wisdom-and-advice way... is that better...? Eh, still a huge dick move.
• Red reasons that Aphrodite spent the next few millennia after her birth "showering with a Thousand-Yard Stare." Well, you probably would too after learning you were conceived from a pair of severed testicles being thrown into the ocean.
• Once Zeus manages to dodge the prophecy of his child overthrowing him:
  Red: Zeus, having successfully dodged the destiny of being supplanted by his own kid by learning the lessons of history his father had failed to internalize, proceeds to flagrantly bang his way across the Mediterranean secure in the knowledge that this could literally never go badly for him.
  (Kratos appears in the corner of the screen)
  Red: Ever. (ominous closing-up on Kratos) Eeeeeeeeeeeeeever.

Momotarō

• In the episode, his second companion is a monkey.
  Red: No, not that one.
  Sun Wukong: This isn't China.

Theseus and Pirithous

• In the video (where the latter wants to steal Persephone and marry her), we get this line as they sit down to dinner, invited by 'a slightly livid Hades':
  Red: May as well get to know your future husband-in-law before kidnapping and marrying his wife.
• Red retitles the myth as "Theseus and Pirithous' Excellent Adventure", complete with the guitar riff.
• Zeus' reaction to Hades kidnapping Persephone to marry her is "About time that boy got a girlfriend," while also in the act of kidnapping a pair of women.

King Arthur

• On Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History of the Kings of Britain"
  Red: Arthur takes the throne at the ripe old age of fifteen, and proceeds to spend the next several years conquering his way through a truly ridiculous amount of northern Europe, including but not limited to Ireland, Iceland, Norway and Gaul, which, if you've ever read an Asterix book, you already know is dominated by the Roman Empire. So by conquering Gaul, Arthur's pretty much declared war on the Roman Empire.
  Caption: We Interrupt this program to bring you outrage
  Blue: What the heck, Geoffrey? That's not even slightly historically viable!
• The final summary of the Arthurian love triangle:
  Red: So, the moral of this complex, century-spanning story is: if Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot had all just been honest about their feelings and entered into a mutually supportive romantic relationship, we could have called it a poly-armoury. Thank you and good night! *cut to credits*
• Merlin is briefly discussed, including the character rewrite that turns him into The Antichrist, born of an incubus and a Christian virgin mother. His mother and her confessor priest decide to take matters into their own hands and baptize him in a bid to save his soul and their lives. This is portrayed as them shoving a loudly ranting newborn into the baptismal fountain... right in the middle of his Evil Gloating.
  Baby Merlin: I WILL DESTROY YOU ALLGHBLBLBLBL—
• During the first appearance of the titular Green Knight, King Arthur eventually accepts the wager looking utterly exasperated, and Red calls him King "I'm getting too old for this fairy nonsense" Arthur.
  Arthur: Let's get this over with.
• Gawain intervenes, stating that Arthur is far too important to risk.
  Red: Um... points for self-awareness, I guess.
• The tale of Gawain and the Green Knight also ramps up the "poly-armoury" with Gawain having to kiss the Green Knight three times due to an "I give you whatever I get and you give me whatever you get" deal, as the Green Knight's wife keeps flirting with Gawain and he can't sleep with her nor can he turn her down.
  Green Knight: (after Gawain kisses him on the cheek) Aw! Who'd you get this from? (BIG grin)
  Gawain: Mmmmmnobody.
  • When lady Bertilac lays the moves on Gawain, Red notes that Gawain can't fully turn her down cause chivalry, but he can't sleep with her either because cheating would be wrong, Lancelot.
• Then there's the suspiciously really close relationship between Lancelot and Galehaut.
  Arthur: If you surrender, I'll introduce you [to Lancelot].
  Galehaut: DEAL.

Huitzilopochtli

• Coatlicue gets her head cut off by her daughter Coyolxauhqui, but her neck sprouts two huge snakes.
  Coatlicue: YOU ARE SO GROUNDED

The Five Suns

• The way the First Sun bit it was a pissed-off Tezcatlipoca summoning a rain of jaguars... very vocal jaguars.
  Raining Jaguars: MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW
• What got Tezcatlipoca so pissed off in the first place? Quetzalcoatl smacking him out of the sky after the two have a very serious disagreement:
  Tezcatlipoca: Personally, I think that midichlorians deepen the lore in a compelling way.
  Quetzalcoatl: *GASP* You take that BACK!
  Tezcatlipoca: NEVER!
  Quetzalcoatl: [whacks him out of the sky] You were my BROTHER!
• Her reaction when finding out about Cipactli and how the gods built the earth from its still living body which is only kept docile with regular sacrifices.
  Red: So in the Aztec cosmology, the earth itself is a starving primordial monster that wants nothing more than to eat everything at all times.... lets file that under Yikes! and move on...
• Also gets a callback later.
  Red: And remember to pour one out for Cipactli once in a while, blood sacrifices keep the planet from eating your feet!

Bellerophon

• Red: Now, most of you probably know what the Pegasus is, but his origins are a little wackier than you might think.
  [cut to a bird seated at a candlelit table, making sexy eyes at a horse]
  Red: Yep, even wackier than that.
• At one point in the video, Red skips over an unimportant part by saying, "...but after a confusing incident involving some divine intervention from Poseidon and a whole bunch of naked women..." This never gets followed up on.^{Actual context}Bellerophon goes to Poseidon for help who summons a tidal wave that follows him around. When he uses it to threaten Iobates though, every woman in the palace proceeds to run out, start stripping in front of him and beg him to not kill them. He is promptly forced to dismiss the tidal wave or risk loose control over it, but the event still spooked Iobates enough that he stops trying to have him killed.

Hippolytus

• Poseidon's initial reaction to hearing that the titular character's dad wants him punished for supposedly raping his stepmother is "Oh crap, that's a crime now?"

Hermes

• The first segment of the video is intro'd by a very particular set of lyrics that hilariously and very appropriately sets the tone: "Here comes trouble!"
• Red having way too much fun with the fact that Hermes starts his trickery "literally the day he was born."
  Baby Hermes: MISCHIEF TIME!
• Also, Hermes' conception:
  Maia: Zeus, you dick.
  Hera: (on Olympus) What?!
  Zeus: Nothing, Hera dear!
  Maia: I live in a cave to avoid this crap!
• Even as a baby, Hermes is a snarky little troll.
  Apollo: WHERE ARE MY COWS?!
  Hermes: Now what would I, a mere infant, know of these "cows" you speak of?
• And as a god-sized cherry on top, Zeus is just laughing his head off at said trickery.
  • Even better? That's actually true to the original myth. Hermes was basically made messenger to keep him too busy to prank others.
• There's a brief shot of Heracles while Red is discussing Greek mythos and its fascination with underdogs, with him heroically running and the caption "ALL RIGHTY THEN LET'S GO FIGHT A PIG!"

Io

• The video accurately sums up Zeus in a single sentence:
  Zeus: Rejoice, mortal, for I have decreed that we shall bang!
• Heracles and his family tree, which has Red commenting on how much incest keeps popping up in the family line, most of it from Zeus, Zeus 2: Electric Boogaloo, and Zeus 3: This Time It's Personal.
• The transformed Io explains things to her father by writing with her hoof in the dirt. In the usual version, she just writes her name. Here, she elaborates:
  KICK ZEUS IN THE—

Narcissus

• Red chooses to present two of Narcissus' well known myths as a Romance Game. Problem? Both of your player character options (Echo and Amenias) are destined to die and not get with their target.
  Red: Doesn't matter what you do, that boy is nothing but bad endings.
• Narcissus is such an unrepentant jackass to everyone that it almost wraps around to being funny. He won't accept a confession from anyone uglier than him, preemptively rejects Nemesis on the grounds that he's not into the "disappointed albatross" look, and nonchalantly gives the heartbroken Ameinias a sword to kill himself with since he obviously won't get over the sting of rejection.
  Narcissus: I understand this must be devastating. Go put yourself out of my misery.
  Ameinius: (preparing to stab himself) Maybe I could just see other people?
  Narcissus: Nope. Die now.
• The moment Narcissus falls for himself:
  Narcissus: (while staring at his reflection) I may be used to one-sided relationships, but I don't like being on this side.

Atlantis

• The ending of the video, in which Red states that the weirdest thing she learned while researching the topic is learning that Timaeus and Critias weren't just random names made up for the Waking the Dragons arc of Yu-Gi-Oh!
  Red: Yu-Gi-Oh! knew more about Atlantis than I did... that one... that one kinda stung.
• Red explaining how Blue is terrified to watch Aquaman (2018):
  Blue: The deeper you go, the more nightmares there are. There's always a BIGGER FISH!

Utgard-Loki

• The increasingly silly embarrassments that Thor and Loki face while trying to impress Utgard-Loki, including Thor failing to pick up a cat and then losing a wrestling match to an old lady.
• "Odin didn't raise no quitter, but he definitely raised a fool or two."
• "Well, I never would have suggested this to the mighty Thor if he hadn't proved himself to be a colossal wuss..."
• It turns out that Utgard-Loki is mostly a sneaky trickster and master of illusions. This backfires spectacularly because of how overpowered Thor is, followed up by the increasingly horrified looks on the giant's face when he realizes how OP Thor actually is.
  Red: The drinking horn that Thor failed to empty was actually connected to the ocean, which is clearly undrinkable, but through his valiant efforts to get drunk, he managed to lower the world's water level several feet. This is the first time Utgard-Loki is like "Oh balls, I might be in over my head."
• "Unorthodox display of hubris, but very well."

Animal Brides

• In the Animal Brides video, Red is just so done with the self-centered, entitled pricks who manipulate and/or coerce these "animal brides" into marrying them, to the point of playing Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" as bumper music.
• For the Swan Bride myth, the peasant hunter's Imagine Spot of the beautiful swan-woman he is in love with has her saying "My diet is mostly bugs."
  • The same segment has him dying of grief within a year - and his tombstone reads "How could this happen to me? I've made my mistakes, got nowhere to run, the night goes-"
• One of Red's guitar strings unexpectedly breaks during the end credits.
  Red: "Oh F-!

Jorogumo

• For the Jorogumo myth, Red talks about how the titular yokai is deviating from the usual creepy spider myth by also shapeshifting into a beautiful woman. Cue Blue showing up to talk about another case of this happening.
  Red: Tolkien's crippling arachnophobia did not die for this.
  • Even better, it's Blue taking Red aside to whisper the factoid to her, but you can still make out what he's saying without subtitles.

El Dorado

• The "cha-ching!" sound used as a swearing bleep.
• The sheer amount of totally deserved misfortune that befalls the Spaniards trying to reach it.
  • First of all, the sacred lake filled with golden artifacts that no one can get to. First in 1545, they try to drain the lake via bucket chain, which does let them extract a modest but nonetheless profitable amount of gold from the lowered shores. Next in 1580, an entrepreneur tries to make a notch to lower the lake further, and the notch collapses, killing most of the workers and bankrupting the company. Finally in 1898, a company manages to drain the entire lake....turning it into four feet of muck that swiftly turned to concrete under the sun and imprisoned the gold within it, leaving them unable to make back their money and bankrupting the company. At that point they gave up trying to extract the gold and made the lake a protected site in 1965.
  Red: Gee, it's almost like this [lake] is deeply sacred somehow and f*cking with it is just asking for trouble!
  • The natives repeatedly tricking conquistadors into going to dangerous places by spreading rumors that it's the way to El Dorado. And yet, even though the majority of these expeditions result in everyone dying, the conquistadors keep falling for it.
  Red: I feel like the third time I got bricked into my own basement, I would stop falling for the Amontillado gambit...
  • And the clincher? The conquistadors don't find as much gold as they like, but it turns out to be the only place in the world where platinum is abundant, which they throw away as scrap, not knowing that a single pile of the stuff would eventually be worth an entire city of gold. It gets so bad that people eventually use platinum to counterfeit gold coins and Spain winds up dumping their entire nation's supply of platinum into the ocean. Red is positively gleeful at the irony.
  Red: This whole debacle is such an incredibly apt metaphor for the flaws inherent in the colonial system and how the lust for gold literally blinded them to the true, unique value of the New World that if I'd read it in a book, I would've called the writer a hack!
  Audience: OHHH the colonizers dismissed the incredibly valuable and unique resource of the colony as worthless scrap because they're too busy digging for their own personal currency they've arbitrarily assigned value to? Yeah! Nice! And I bet the "real" treasure was the friends they made along the way, right?
  Red: I swear, nothing owns Colonial Spain harder than it owned itself.
• Special shoutout to sir Walter Raleigh of England who heard an account from a guy who was probably confused for another guy. This guy had allegedly been on an expedition to find El Dorado led by a guy who had died 38 years before this alleged expedition, and on the way he had been taken to El Dorado.
  Sir Raleigh: I have never heard anything more legit in my entire life, let's go!
  Red: It’s all a bit Don Quixote, but whatever lets roll with it!

Krishna

• The problem that has Vishnu incarnating as Krishna: "too many gosh-darn evil kings running around."
  King #1: So I've been considering the benefits of tyranny.
  King #2: Yoooo me too!
  King #3: Dude it's the best right?
  Vishnu: [frowning down at Earth] Hmm.
  • Devaki and Vasudeva's boggled expressions when an extremely loud prophetic voice puts a damper on their wedding.
• Vishnu and Shesha bicker over whose incarnation Balarama is, while the kid in question looks up at them in bemusement.
• The newborn Krishna flips his Evil Uncle Kansa the bird.
• Putana asks to breastfeed the infant Krishna. Why?
  Red: She has actually poisoned her boobs! How dastardly.
  Putana flashes a wicked grin.
• Shortly afterward, he survives the poisoned breast milk by sucking Putana's life force through her nipples, and Red calls it merely the first in the list of Krishna using his almighty powers to eat stuff he shouldn't.
  Red: [as Krishna burps fire] Next stop, dirt.
  Krishna Eats Some Dirt
  Red: What, you thought I was joking?
  • Followed by:
  Krishna Discovers Capitalism
• Once Arishtasura's ghost thanks Krishna for freeing him from his curse:
  Red: Kansa should try hiring bad guys that don't secretly want to die.
• Kansa invites Krishna and Balarama to a festival as part of another murder plot. Krishna promptly becomes the center of attention, illustrated by him smiling and waving amid flowers and confetti while Kansa looks on indignantly from a palace window.
• When Krishna is challenged to a fight with the unbeatable wrestler Chanura, "Red Sun" starts playing. And much like Sundowner, Chanura realizes he's bitten off waaaaaaay more than he can chew just a bit too late.
• Also, how Chanura gets the otherwise supremely chill Krishna to fight him.
  Chanura: And your dad sucks.
  Krishna: (still smiling serenely) Perish.
• Chanura's partner attempts to taunt Krishna's older brother Balarama into joining the fight. Unfortunately for him, Balarama has no chill and without hesitation tackles him then kills him.
• When Chanura is trying and failing to get Krishna to fight him, in the background is the Navy SEAL copypasta.
• Krishna just casually snapping Chanura's neck with that same serene smile on his face.
  Red: What, you thought this would be hard? This is Krishna we're talking about.
• Immediately followed up by Krishna's prophesied battle with his uncle which ends...pretty much how you'd expect.
  Kansa: FACE ME, CHILD OF PROPHECY!
  (Krishna snaps his neck with the same serene smile still on his face)
• After Krishna fulfills his prophecy, among the things he does is duplicate himself to have sex with 16,000 princesses at the same time.
  Red: Sit down, Aphrodite, there's a new love god in town, and he's got you beat on sheer numbers!

Enki and Ninma

• Since Enki's solution to every disabled person Ninma makes is to place them in the king's court, Red ponders that this king better be a good ruler.
  King: So I've been thinking of this Droit du Seigneur thing...

Tantalus

• When Red notes that Tantalus was a son of Zeus, she says that it was about as common as being left-handed.
• After his son Pelops was resurrected and given a prosthetic ivory arm, Red notes that he went on to father the House of Atreus, a long line of kings with tragic lives, and also produced Agamemnon, which Red just assumes was added to Tantalus' rap sheet.
  Agamemnon: What a beautiful day to be the worst person alive!
  Hades: *to an already annoyed-looking Tantalus, about Agamemnon* He just tricked his wife into bringing their daughter to the front so he could kill her. So we're making your pool unpleasantly cold now.
• How Red initially describes the Poet Pindar's version of the myth:
  Pindar: No, no, no, I know what they told you, but Pelops wasn't killed at that dinner, see, what happened was Poseidon took one look at him and got outrageously horny!
• How, in that case, did the cannibalism story arise? Out of the assumption that Poseidon's subsequent elopement with Pelops was a Deadly Euphemism.
  Woman 1: I hear he was "taken to Olympus by Poseidon."
  Woman 2: Oh yeah he's dead as hell.
• Red pointing out the reason people like Tantalus get condemned to Tartarus is that violating hospitality is the thing Zeus gets rather cheesed about, being the god of rulership, storms, and hospitality. As shown by a cartoon:
  Zeus: (Frying a guy with a Bolt of Divine Retribution) "WIPE YOUR FEET."
• Red also gets confused with the inherently flawed logic of the third version, where Tantalus was punished for trying to steal a golden dog created to guard baby Zeus by Hephaestus...AKA a son of Zeus...who was a baby at the time.
  Red: Look, there's like five absurdities in that story, but the point is, he stole a dog. Who does that!? He deserves whatever he gets.

Atalanta

• Atalanta explains that, if anyone wants to marry her, they have to beat her in a foot race. And if they lose:
  Atalanta: *holding a sword while smiling* and here's what you get for second place~
  Random Suitor: Sweet, free sword!

Sekhmet/The Eye of Ra

• Red explains that the gods and goddesses of Egypt technically could age like mortals. Case in point: Ra, the Sun God, became old as well. More specifically, he started to go senile, resulting in him no longer being taken seriously. As payback, Ra created the bloodthirsty lioness goddess Sekhmet from his eye, which is how the Eye of Ra symbol came to be.
• When Ra tries to stop Sekhmet from killing anymore mortals, her response is...
  Sekhmet: Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know my illustrious father was such a giant baby!

Perseus

• When Red explains that Perseus and his mother were taken in by Dictys and his wife:
  Perseus: Mom, how come none of the other kids have two moms?
  Danae: Because you're special.
  Zeus: THAT IS NOT WHAT MAKES HIM SPECIAL
  Dictys: You get to decide that when you raise him.

Typhon

• It's incredulously ironic that when compared to his nemesis Zeus, Typhon is more romantic and faithful to his spouse Echidna than the lightning God would ever be to Hera.
• Describing the battle Zeus vs Typhon, Red references Bohemian Rhapsody:
  Red: Zeus charges off after Typhon, and a truly epic battle commences — earthquakes, volcanoes, fire everywhere, thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening me! You know, the works.
• The very colorful similes Red uses to describe Zeus.
  Red: But when Zeus goes in for the kill, Typhon surprise-grapples him and turns the tables by ripping out his tendons like he's a misbehaving chicken leg.
  Later.
  Red: Hermes and Pan sneak into the cave, retrieve [Zeus'] tendons, and restring him like the world's horniest ukulele.

Loki's Wager

• When Loki cuts off Sif's hair, she merely looks confused, as though unaware of her haircut and wondering "Where did all these piles of blonde hair come from?" Meanwhile, her husband Thor is grabbing onto Loki, screaming with rage in his face. Loki's response is to nervously say, "Okay, calm down."
• Freyr is at first confused by Skíðblaðnir, until it folds out on top of him, complete with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure "To be continued".
• Odin asks if Draupnir's (the ring that makes eight copies of itself every nine days) copies also make copies. In the background, Brokk is screaming about the consequences that would have, complete with a whiteboard of math showing that the earth would be covered in gold rings in 6 months. Sindri merely says that they don't.
• Loki's speech bubbles after the dwarves sew his mouth shut.
• Red's justification for why the dwarves are tall pretty boys in this story is that in Norse texts they might have been referred to also as "Svartalfar", dark elves^note There are scant references to dark elves in Norse mythology, but we're not sure if they are the same as the dwarves. Also, the dwarves in the story are sons of Ivalde, who's also Idunn's father. "Hot dwarves could very well be canon and you can't stop me".

Pride Tales

• "You ever do something so sweet and so gay that people are still talking about it 2,000 years later?"
• After Pele kills Hopoe, Hi'iaka's censored girlfriend, Red chastises Pele for contributing to the Bury Your Gays trope.
• The story of Tamamizu is mostly just a mix of heartwarming and sad, but Red's comment that Tamamizu is "kind of dying inside" when their beloved gets a boyfriend becomes pretty funny when we see Tamamizu's forced-smile-dead-eyes expression with internal screaming in the background.
• When mentioning how the Toltec civilization was a bit more okay with male homosexuality than most others in Mesoamerica, Red represents this by giving a Toltec statue an "I may be straight but I don't hate" shirt.
• She mentions a theory that Xochipilli (a god of male homosexuality) has a wife in the goddess Mayahuel, of which the only evidence is that they're sitting near each other on a page of the Aztec codex. Red concludes that shippers are responsible.

The Book of Invasions

• Red explaining how the word "Fomoire" is The Unpronouncable as she searched through the entire Internet and there is not a single concise way of saying it correctly before telling the comment section to fight over it.
  Red: Look. It's spelled like this, and it's pronounced one of these ways [collage of several pronunciation guides].
• Since the book was written in Christian times, the Tuatha Dé Danann are described not as a pantheon of gods but as powerful sorcerers. Red illustrates this by having king Nuada wear a shirt saying "Extremely Human Person".
• The Christianization is also lampooned later when Red demonstrates how the Christianized narrative completely falls apart due to multiple different sets of people having claim to being the first to arrive on Ireland and trying to shoehorn the whole thing into the timeline of the Bible just makes a mess of things. As one can tell, Red is not a fan.

Ares' Abduction

• After the titular god is kidnapped, he's shown spending the entire time he's captured screaming the Navy SEAL copypasta.
• Red explains the giants' plan to kidnap and marry Hera, goddess of marriage, and Artemis, who has forsworn forever the company of men.
  Red: And I'm not here to critique anyone's kidnapping plans, but of all the goddesses you could have chosen, way to pick ones who are 100% guaranteed to not be down with it.
• Also, Artemis' incredibly wooden flirting (remember she's forsworn relationships), which somehow works anyway.
• When Artemis jumps between Ephialtes and Otus, making them throw spears at each other, she's shown with the "MENACING" Unsound Effect surrounding her.
• Red mentions that one of the suspected reasons why Ares gets such bad treatment in the myths is because he embodies everything dark and unpleasant about war, like cruelty, pain, fear, and destruction, but he's still worshipped because these things are an inescapable part of war. Ares isn't liked but he's necessary... except for the Spartans who absolutely loved Ares, for obvious reasons.
• Otus' illustration of "Operation Waifu."
  Otus: Any questions?
  Ephialtes: Why don't I have pecs?

The Minotaur

• Pasiphae flirting with The Cretan Bull with the Memetic Mutation pick-up line "Ya like jazz?"
  • The Cretan Bull refuses, taking out a chart and, whilst holding a pointing stick in its mouth, demonstrate to Pasiphae that "no" it won't make out with bipeds, because "yes" it would rather make out with quadrupeds (specifically quadruped cows).
• Said Cretan Bull is perpetually drawn with Bishie Sparkles because yes, it is that pretty.
• Daedalus' reaction to Pasiphae's commission for a cow suit to get around the Bull's standards. And then he builds it anyway.
• Red just decides to skip that part of the myth, jumping straight to Pasiphaë holding a newborn minotaur.
  Red: Oh, hey, where'd that thing come from?
• The Oracle of Delphi's pronouncement on the Minotaur and what Minos should do with him: "HE'S A GROWING BOY WHO NEEDS HIS SPACE."
• Minos locks Daedalus and Icarus in a tower with a supply box labeled "For Non-Escape Plans ONLY".
• Red is about to say Icarus and Daedalus's escape "is a story for another time" before realizing she technically told that story 4 years prior.
• The logistical problem of feeding the Minotaur.
  An indignant Minos on the phone: What do you mean you can't deliver to my labyrinth? Put your manager on!
• Red remarking that Athens shouldn't be so proud that Theseus is their heroic founder, with him uncomfortably looking over a long list of his What the Hell, Hero? and Nice Job Breaking It, Hero moments.

The Wild Hunt

• Stith Thompson's Index of Folkloric Classification system used as an urban fantasy police code.
  "Code E-221! E-221! We got a dead wife haunting husband on his second marriage!"
• After a brief look into the Einherjar (Odin's army of the dead), Red notes how awkward it must be for, say, Haakon the Good to sit down at dinner with Eric Bloodaxe, his murderer.
  • Red also takes a quick aside to admire Eric's amazing name. His wife, Gunnhildr, Mother of Kings, was also pretty cool.
• The tale of the village girl helping Frau Holle and her sister serve as a Right Way/Wrong Way Pair object lesson. The village girl is helpful and considerate towards Frau Holle, and receives a boon of producing gold every time she speaks. The sister is rude and dismissive of Frau Holle, and is instead cursed to produce toads when she speaks... or in OSP's rendition, an infamous singing amphibian.
  Michigan J. Frog: *leaping out of the sister's mouth in top hat and cane* HELLO MAH BABY HELLO MAH HONEY
• After listing the similarities between three female figures related to the Hunt, Red calls it #JustGirlyThings.
• Red follows the etymology of Harlequin from Herla Cyning, "King Herla", theorized to be another name for Odin, and realizes that Odin seems to be the origin of every western European folkloric figure.
  Red: All roads lead to Odin, apparently.

The Zodiac

• Red's confusion over Capricorn's allegedly being based on Pricius, a time-traveling goat-fish who Red doesn't believe actually existed, with "The Hall of the Mountain King" playing in the background as an "Unscripted Rant Timer" appears and her frustration over a lack of primary sources increases.
  • The comment section, naturally, concludes that Pricius must have used his powers to accidentally erase himself from the timeline.

Hades and Persephone

• While it's also a bit of a Tear Jerker and possibly mild Nightmare Fuel, Red's rant at the beginning about how unfairly demonized Hades (and also Hera) is by people in the modern-day when pretty much all of the other gods (especially Zeus and Apollo) are prone to doing far, far worse can get pretty funny in places.
  Red, imitating an uninformed individual: "Lord of the Underworld"? We all know what that means! Cartoon Lucifer, king of Hell, Token evil divinity, blatant bad guy easy peasy! And he kidnapped his wife? What an asshole! No wonder nobody hangs out with this guy! Man, what a jerk! Anyway, I just LOVE Apollo! He's the hottest thing since hotness! And isn't it tragic how many of his true loves die? Wonder why that keeps happening...
• Throughout the summation of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, both Homer and Red repeatedly remind the audience that the whole "Hades kidnapping Persephone" thing was all Zeus' fault, and Red even features an illustration of Demeter, Helios and Hekate pointing fingers at Zeus (who's just casually eating a sandwich). Accompanying the fingers is a giant arrow with the words "REAL VILLAIN" written on it.
• Demeter wrapping herself in a grumpy blanket burrito while Persephone's missing, a cute Call-Back to the Iliad video.
• Red admits that Hades, for as nice as he is, did still trick Persephone into staying bound to the Underworld with the pomegranate seeds.
  • She goes on to comment that the reason the pomegranates bind Persephone to the Underworld is unexplained—not because there's no explanation, but because this particular part of the hymn's manuscript was torn at some point.
• When Zeus finally shows up at the end of the hymn, he simply announces "All's well that ends well". This is accompanied by Demeter looking ready to kill him and Persephone trying to hold her back.
• When talking about Despoina, who may be one of Persephone's older incarnations, Red brings up the side note that everyone involved in Despoina's conception, Despoina herself included, was a horse—Demeter turns into a horse to escape Poseidon, Poseidon turns into a horse to chase her down and assault her and Despoina is born initially as a talking horse. This is accompanied by an image of a very uncomfortable-looking Demeter staring at a horse wearing a veil and saying "Greetings, mother."
  Red: That is too many horses. Put those back.
• Red's epic anger at the two different sides of Sadly Mythtaken regarding the myth—both the viewpoint of Hades violently assaulting Persephone (he didn't) and the viewpoint that Persephone wasn't originally kidnapped and instead walked into the Underworld entirely of her own accord and the kidnapping part was just a later retcon to strip her of her agency (she didn't and it wasn't). Red proceeds to briefly rant about how cytogenesis of this nature spreads more misinformation.
  Red: Cite your sources or admit you don't have any!
• Red supplying a Spoof Aesop:
  Red: But all justifications and recontextualization aside...don't kidnap your loved ones. Even if their dad tells you to. We know better now.

Quetzalcoatl

• The video includes a bit where Red is talking about the deities of the lost civilization of Teotihuacán, and when she briefly mentions that the Flayed God later shows up in Aztec culture as a god of household chores, she briefly stops in bewilderment with a black screen with red text just saying "WHAT" in the middle.
  Red: And while the Flayed God also shows up later in a few places as a god of household chores-HOUSEHOLD CHORES?! THE MAN HAS NO SKIN!

Loki

• Discussing the prototypical Norsemen, Red notes that they cared about "animals, boats, and the sun," with Solaire spontaneously and unexpectedly popping up◊ from the bottom of the screen to vigorously praise the sun.
• Red feels that for all the shit people give Loki for getting knocked up by a stallion, she thinks Odin deciding to ride his horse-nephew into battle is even more irresponsible.
• Loki anxiously pestering the Roman writer Tacitus.
  Loki: You didn't write down the thing with the goat, right?^note Tacitus didn't write down anything about Loki
• When Red suggests that Loki could be interpreted as being a heroic figure (at least anti-heroic), Loki seems genuinely offended by this.
  Loki [Bad] <-> Æsir [Good]

  (Death Glare)
  Loki [Sympathetic Rebel] <-> Æsir [Morally Dubious?]

  Loki: Wha..?
  Loki [Good] <-> Æsir [Bad]

  Loki: Now hold on a second!
• Red notices that Loki is tied to the biblical scapegoat, and therefore Loki might’ve been intended to be a Jesus figure by the original author of the Pros Edda.
• Loki finds the burned heart of some evil woman, casually eats it without a second thought, and suddenly gains a huge pregnant belly. His reaction is what sells it.
  Loki: Every time...
  • Without Red's narration, it'd seem like he just got FAT from eating the heart.
• At the end of the video Red notes the fact that mythologists all but come to blows arguing over the origins of Loki's myth fits perfectly for a god of mischief.

Medea

• Remember the old Running Gag of villains asking "Do you like proving yourself?" and the hero responding "DO I!" Well, Jason gets two, in the form of reverse UNO cards!
  • After getting back from the quest with MacGuffin in hand—
    Pelias: I don't actually care if you proved yourself!
    Jason: [horrified gasp]
    [cut to Pelias laughing maniacally as a teary-eyed Jason clutches the Golden Fleece like a security blanket]
• The Running Gag in this episode being that whenever Medea comes up with a plan, "The Plan is Murder".
• Red telling Pelias he might not want the Golden Fleece so badly if he ever finds out what Jason and Medea did with the fleece on their honeymoon.
• Unaware his misguided daughters are about to stab him to death, King Pelias sits in his throne reading the "STAYING ALIVE WEEKLY" with one article reading "Not getting stabbed at all time low".
  • The Black Comedy that the daughters are influenced to kill their dad to reenact Medea's little magic trick feels strangely like a scenario where kids decide to try out something they saw on tv.
• King Creon banishes Medea from Corinth on the grounds that "this kingdom is a strictly drama-free zone."
• "How much damage can you do in just one day?" "Good question..." This is King Creon's conversation with Medea, who has had to pull off murders in far shorter time than just one day. Oh the poor fool...
• The overly big goo-goo eyes Medea gives Jason to play innocent and convince him she's sorry for their earlier argument.
• Medea doesn't even bother pretending she didn't murder Princess Glauce via her unwitting children when a horrified messenger relays the news of her death.
  Medea: Oooh, spill the tea! Did she suffer? Tell me she suffered.
• When one hears the word "poison", one expects its victim to simply fall over dead unceremoniously. When Princess Glauce puts on the poisoned clothes, she stumbles around for a bit before SHE SPONTANEOUSLY BURSTS INTO GREAT PURPLE FLAMES!!
  Red: Hell of a poison.
  • Her father King Creon also has the misfortune of cradling her body before he accidentally touches the poison and ALSO SPONTANEOUSLY BURSTS INTO PURPLE FLAMES!!!
• "It's over, Jason! I have the high ground!"
• Jason tells Medea he will ask the Gods to help avenge his children, but Medea points out there's just one itty-bitty problem with that plan: he's now Public Enemy #1 in the eyes of Hera (who hates adulterers) and Zeus (who hates oathbreakers).
  Jason: The Gods will avenge me!
  Medea: Oh yes, the Gods! The Gods who love oathbreakers and adulterers. Reminds me which Gods are those again?!
• On top of rubbing it in Jason's face that he's made an enemy of Zeus and Hera by being an oathbreaker and an adulterer, Medea bemusedly points out the Irony that hating Jason is the one thing Zeus and Hera have in common.
• When Jason is left to ponder how very few Gods or Furies will pay heed to a liar and an oathbreaker, the (literal) chorus sings "Get wrecked, boat boy!"
• While summarizing Medea's sporadic appearances later on in other myths using classical artwork of her, Red depicts Medea attempting to poison Theseus as her saying "Drink up :)" with a goblet in her outstretched arm, followed by an artwork of her saying she better skedaddle while calling out a nearby old guy for side eyeing her.
• Jason's death from being crushed by the prow of the Argo in his sleep is played as a comically unceremonious gag.
• In the end credits, Red lampshades how Jason comparing Medea to "the Ariadne to his Theseus" (when in reality Theseus abandoned Ariadne) should've been a red flag.

Zahak the Serpent King

• Red repeatedly calls Zahak "Johnny Snakeshoulders"
• Jamshid goes a biiiiiit powermad, declaring himself a god.
  Jamshid: I WILL BE THE GOD OF THIS NEW WORLD!
  
  Jamshid: ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!!!!
• Young Zahak is described as "innocent, guileless, other nice euphemisms for dumb."
  Red: Ahriman rolls up to the palace disguised as a nobleman, and tells Zahak that he should enter a covenant with him, and if he does, he'll raise his head above the sun. Now, Zahak is a nice boy, maybe a little bit gullible, so he thinks, "Willikers, mister, that sounds pretty nifty!" and agrees.
• Ahriman's second disguise, a young cook, requests to be put in charge of what the king puts in his body. This raises no red flags. Cut to Ahriman laughing maniacally as he slices a ham, appalled kitchen staff looking on.
  • The boon Ahriman requests from Zahak is to be allowed to kiss the king's shoulders.
  Red: We don't kinkshame in this palace!
• Zahak, being an Affably Evil fella, starts wondering if he might be a bad king. Red is aghast that he would consider such a thing.
  Red: Noooooo! Whaaaat? No!
  • To reassure himself that he's a good king, Zahak asks his snakeshoulders. Meanwhile, a peaceful glade is being burned down to a desert outside his window.
  Zahak: You guys would tell me if I was a bad person, right?
• Kavah's protests against the Serpent King boil down to sixteen of his children being sacrificed.
  Snake: Sixteen? How do you have time for anything else?
• Zahak has a Comical Coffee Cup saying "World's best Shah", which he lets his snakeshoulders sip from.
• Red gets to the point where Kavah decides to tear up the Serpent King's contract and then pulls off his blacksmith apron, uses it as a flag and rallies an army to go find the prophesized warrior.
  Red: Give me this movie, Hollywood! You cowards!
• Feridoun, unlike most chosen ones, grows up knowing he's the chosen one to destroy Zahak, which leads to some interesting banter with his mother.
  Feridoun: Can I please liberate my kingdom from the usurper king today?
  Faradan: Now son, what have I told you about messing with prophecies?
  • This is followed by an army of rebels showing up to ask if Feridoun can come out and play.
• When Feridoun gets his cow's head mace, Red comments that "Oh yeah, it's all coming together"

The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl

• Red notes that she picked up stargazing because she's been stuck inside with nothing to entertain herself except for "the entire corpus of human knowledge".
• After the Weaver Girl is taken back to Heaven, the Cowherd gets help from his superintelligent ox.
  Red: Who he's had the whole time, don't worry even about it.
• Once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh month, a bridge of magpies allows the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd to reunite.
  Red: Beautiful, heartwarming, remind me never to pick a fight with a magpie, apparently those little scamps are stronger than they look.
• The story shares a lot of parallels with the various animal bride myths where a guy steals the woman's special dress and she has to marry him while he holds her things hostage. However, unlike in those stories, the Weaver Girl is actually consenting to being with the guy and the way Red depicts it, it looks like she's pulling this whole "has to stay behind" claim completely out of her ass and her sisters are wondering what the hell she's talking about until they piece things together.
  Weaver Girl: [Happily] So ladies, funny story. He saw me naked and now I can't go home.
  Sister: [Confused] Uhhh...
  Weaver Girl: [Absolutely beaming] Gosh, it's just a shame I have NO choiiiice!
  Sister: [Realization] Ahhh.
  

Midas

• Dionysus commenting that for once, he's not seeing double if his satyr father figure is missing.
• When Midas finds the aforementioned satyr father figure and recognizes him as his favorite God's associate, who is drunk as a skunk, he immediately showers him with a week-long feast, all the while giving this scruffy drunk a starstruck look as though he were a celebrity.
• While Midas was Genre Savvy enough not to bully the mysterious wanderer and consequently earned himself a reward, he doesn't see the obvious drawbacks of his wish. Even Dionysus, God of alcohol and madness, is clearly horrified by the implications.
• The fashion in which Apollo gives Midas donkey ears like something out of Pinocchio.

Werewolves

• When talking about werewolf-adjacent tropes, the last thing she mentions is "certain NSFW qualities that form the entire backbone of erotica that I regrettably now know exists." ^{If you really must know...}It's "Omegaverse"/Alpha-Beta-Omega (ABO) fiction based on the same outdated wolf pack stuff that's mentioned later in the video. There isn't a trope for ABO for a good reason. Go watch a video on the topic if you really want to know more, but don't say we didn't warn you..
• The Neuroi that Herodotus says lives around Ukraine, who are completely normal folks who, for whatever reason, turn into wolves for a few days every year. This is represented succinctly:
  Neuroi: "Oh hey Todd. That time of year again?"
  Todd: whurf
• Saint Augustine's theological opinion that since only God can actually transform matter, werewolves are astral-projecting hallucinations.
  Heavenly Voice: Are you saying I couldn't make a werewolf?
  Augustine: No, that would be heresy!
  Augustine: But I am saying it would be dumb.
• Red's tangent on the Malleus Maleficarum is hilarious in how its author, Heinrich Kramer, was such a sexist, paranoid and crazy Stalker without a Crush that even his contemporaries thought he was nuts, and the church actually banned his writings as being blasphemous.
• Red is just so disappointed that the inventor of the witch hunts turned out to be a horrible person.
  Red: Do you guys think we can separate the art from the artist?

The Wrath of Demeter

• The Black Comedy of King Erysichthus's response when the clearly sacred tree starts bleeding at the first chop:
  Erysichthus: That's how you know it's working.
  • The expression on his on-looking men's faces just seals it.
  • The sacred tree's final words are Sophisticated as Hell:
    "I know from grass, and your ass bears a strong familial resemblance."
• Limos casting her curse of eternal hunger on Erysichthus? Frightening. Erysichthus promptly dreaming of a rainstorm of tacos with smiley faces on them? Priceless!
  • Limos in general is portrayed as an Affably Evil sort, introduced idly picking her teeth in the middle of her Walking Wasteland influence, helping out her Arch-Enemy Demeter as if she was doing a favor for a Friendly Rival at work, and after inflicting her curse happily goes back to her hobby of watching The Great British Bake Off.
  Limos: "JUST ADMIT YOU HATE MATCHA!"
• The wall-eyed look Erysichthus gets when he quite loudly demands for more food!
• One can imagine that when that food merchant brought in his goods to a cursed Erysichthus, he didn't expect to be handsomely rewarded for his boon with disproportionate piles of treasure!
• Poseidon's expression when he gets a favor called in from Erysicthus's daughter Mestra for taking her virginity is pretty funny. He's either slapping himself, going 'oh yeah, I did do that didn't I', trying to avoid eye contact, and other expressions befitting one of the gods who really Really Gets Around. Though he does pay up the favor, if nothing else.
  • All the while, her father is nibbling upon a burger as though he were a hungry hamster nomming on a sunflower seed.
• Erysichthus giving into the madness before devouring himself is represented by him staring hungrily at his hand as it morphs into a roast chicken.
  • The Gory Discretion Shot is handled by blurring the screen while the word "NOPE" appears on the screen in massive letters.
• The story ending on the note that Demeter probably likes to share this story with her daughter and son-in-law whenever they get together. Demeter is casual about bringing up this horror story, Persephone facepalms from sheer embarrassment, and Hades has a Thousand-Yard Stare that just screams "Yeesh, and they call me the evil one."

The Great Norse Seal Fight

• The episode starts with Red describing the vast ocean of lost mythological knowledge set to ominous music over an eerily beautiful artwork before cutting to Loki and Heimdall duking it out in seal form.
• Since the monks who wrote down the myth of Brisinga-men claimed the aesir were just advanced humans from Asia, Red depicts every god involved wearing shirts and hats denoting how human they are. While otherwise looking exactly how Red always draws them.
  • "King" Odin wears a shirt saying "Totally not [one of his many titles]", his "favorite concubine" Freja has a hat saying "Human Woman", and an "Extremely human man" named Loki wears a shirt with "Not a god, sometimes a horse".
• Odin sips from a Comical Coffee Cup with "Don't talk to me until I've had Mead of Poetry".
• Huginn and Muninn also wear shirts that change from scene to scene, first with "Extremely Human Person" and then with "If found, return to Huginn/Muninn".
• Freya agrees to pay the dwarves for Brisinga-men with sex, but doesn't tell Odin:
  Odin: Nice necklace!
  Freja: And very reasonably priced.
• Upon learning of Freja's "payment", Odin is shocked that a fertility goddess had sex.
  Loki: You mean a fertility human.
• Upon being asked to cause a Forever War by totally human Odin, totally human Freja reacts like she's being asked to run an annoying errand:
  Freja: Uuugh, fine.
• Red concludes the episode proudly stating she spent a week researching the entire conspiracy just so she could draw Loki and Heimdall fighting as seals.
  Red: You're all welcome!

Actaeon

• The fellow was reportedly something of a meme in Ancient Greece, and yet despite this the ONLY consistent part about him was being devoured by his own hounds.
• Red's increasingly elaborate euphemisms for Artemis's breasts when comparing the various versions of what Acteon did to piss her off.
  (Pseudo-Apollodorus 2) Accidentally sees Artemis's bonkhonagahoogs
  (Ovid) Accidetally sees Artemis and her posse's dobonhonkeros
• Red reciting all of the Actaeon stories, with the frame of him being devoured by his own hounds turning into a Running Gag with the exact same dramatic musical sting.
  Red: What did he do? Nobody can agree! What god did he anger? Who's to say? How did he die? That one we've got down!
• Red accusing Renaissance artists of missing the moral for starting a trend of showing Artemis bathing in their visual representations of the story, since looking at a naked Artemis was exactly what Actaeon was killed for.
  Titian's Tips: If you want to see boobs, you can just paint some whenever!

Aphrodite's Affair

• Discovering that Aphrodite is cheating on Hephaestus is shocking...to absolutely nobody, including Hephaestus himself, to the point where his revenge prank is more about getting a refund for his marriage dowry than actually retaliating.
• Apollo and Hermes find the chained-up Ares and Aphrodite absolutely hilarious, taking selfies with them while Poseidon tries to convince his nephew to let them go - not because it's cruel, but because convincing Zeus to pay for anything on Ares' behalf is far too hard a goal.
  Poseidon: Zeus wouldn't pay for a bucket even if Ares was on fire!
• When Hephaestus calls in the other gods to mock Ares and Aphrodite, Athena and Artemis stay right where they are.
  Dionysus: I think Hephaestus wants us to look at Ares's butt?
  Athena: If I wanted Ares humiliated, I'd ask him to spell "Diomedes".
  Artemis: So this is that "marital bliss" I'm apparently missing.

Thoth Gambles With The Moon

• Red ranting about how inconvenient it is that the solar and lunar cycles don't match. It somehow manages to turn into Rage Against the Heavens.
  Red: This betrayal of modular arithmetic hurts my soul and singlehandedly convinced me that if there is a creator god responsible for the turning of the celestial spheres, they're a real asshole.
• The myth begins with Ra screaming in incredible agony. Why? Because the Earth and Sky gods are getting busy. He eventually makes a formal decree banning them from this.
  Nut: But why?!
  Ra: I have to fly through you two EVERY DAY!
• Baby Isis threatening Ra, in a Call-Forward to when she usurps his position as the Top God several millennia later.
  Isis: Your Days Are Numbered, old man.
  • As he's reading Thoth's adjustment of the lunar cycle, the wadjet on his sundisk is wearing glasses.
  Thoth: You left a very exploitable loophole.
  Ra: The YEAR?!

The Trojan War

• Red's opening narration of the The Iliad's opening lines, and opening word being "wrath" seems serious and grim at first, and then somewhat goes off the rails when she starts listing the things about the poem that causes wrath...getting to her Old Shame rant about The Iliad being her first mass-drawn project for the channel (which, remember, is all because she rightfully refused to dignify Troy by using any of its scenes for her purposes), and therefore expresses the expected artist's embarrassment over it.
• Even after all these years, Red portraying Odysseus as basically Greek Solid Snake, with a bandana and everything, remains a gem . This includes hiding in a box when he's trying to avoid being thrown into a war.
  Red: And that's basically The Illiad, minus a few Metal Gear jokes.
• Red commentating (and rightly so) on how weird it is that Helen's mother laid her as an egg. Long story.
  • The way the context is depicted is too funny to pass up mentioning however - when mentioning that Helen's mother was seduced by Zeus in the form of a swan, said swan is represented by the Goose from Untitled Goose Game, complete with a glowing blue eye, lightning forming around him and a big "HONK" in the background.
  • That she also brings up the fact that someone apparently collected the shells that Leda laid and her quadruplets hatched from, and put it on display is Squick-ily hilarious.
• The exchange Odysseus and Tyndareus have regarding the former's solution to the suitor competition, and his curious choice of compensation:
  Tyndareus, confused: I thought you wanted to marry my daughter.
  Odysseus, holding a photo of Penelope: Yes, but I'm also not stupid. It's kind of my whole thing.
  • His plan is called "Operation: Mutually Assured Destruction, saying it "works every time". At the end of the video, Red muses that while he was lost at sea after the war, Odysseus was probably kicking himself and eating his words the whole time.
  • In the first version of how Menelaus gets chosen, he's apparently represented in absentia by Agamemnon picking his own nose, Red noting that the latter must have have somehow been on such good behavior that Tyndareus picks Menelaus just for that.
• During Paris and Helen's affair, king Priam hopes that the future is looking bright for Troy. Cassandra's screaming takes up the entire right side of the screen.
• Briseis, Achille's "bride prize" is introduced wondering why she's even here to begin with while gesturing to Achilles and Patroclus.
• While the reason is depressing, Achilles casually smacking a guy to death is displayed as Achilles backhanding the guy without a change of expression, like he was dealing with a fly.
• Paris being in love with the illusion of Helen.
  Helen Illusion: I just love your [noteworthy-feature].
  Paris: Aw, Babe, that's so thoughtful.
• Paris getting poisoned by Philoctetes' arrows in the most embarrassing place imaginable. Red jests that Paris' dick was the real villain of the story.
  • After recounting the death of Paris, Red editorializes a bit;
  Red: I'd feel bad for the guy, but... [smiles] I don't.
• Red gleefully mentions Laocoön, a Trojan priest of either Apollo or Poseidon and himself an oracle pointing out that the Trojans are idiots for trusting the big wooden horse on account of Odysseus being even remotely involved with it—therefore, it has to be a scheme.
  Odysseus: (watching Laocoön nearly spearing Menelaus) I kinda like this guy.
  • The ruse is that Greeks built the horse to appease Athena for taking a statue, recounted thusly:
    Athena: Not cool with the war crimes, dude.
    Odysseus: Will a nice horse make you feel better?
  • Later, there is a cut to a scene of the Greeks inside the horse as Odysseus tries to keep them from blowing their cover, depicted as him putting various Greeks into headlocks while Menelaus looks on in concern, which Red describes as "basic logic and the occasional application of CQC."
• When Red narrates about how Agamemnon is about to get killed by his wife at the conclusion of the Trojan War, she feels all is right with the world at last...
• The credits note that Menelaus has a surprisingly happy ending for somebody from the House of Atreus. Red chalks this up to being in proximity to his brother Agamemnon who was just so loathsome that the curse entirely honed in on him.

The Saga of Grettir

• Grettir's chaotic neutral nature being established like this: he's so groggy when his companions alert him that the horses have been stolen, but snaps awake when they add the food's also been stolen.
• Another facet of Grettir's personality is also demonstrated when, upon being exiled, his anti-social nature comes in the form of a dry "Oh no, my thriving social life".
• Grettir about to be attacked by the creepy ghost of Carh the Old a la "To be Continued".
• Thorfinn giving a Spit Take when he sees that Grettir not only beheaded his father's ghost, but also helped himself to said-ghost's treasure.
• The Berserkers having the most uptight, tightly-wound look in their eyes as they declare their hatred of Thorfinn for banishing them, and Grettir taking their presence in stride.
• The Shepherd being brutally murdered by a ghost? Scary. The guy reacting to his remains with a simple "Yick"? Hilarious!
• Grettir's exasperation when big, cheery captions declare that avenging his father and brother (even on his grieving mother's behalf) still counts as a "crime".

Artemis and Apollo

• Artemis and Apollo hanging out Aphrodite and Ares respectively during the Trojan War. It's about as mismatched as you would think.
  Aphrodite: (painting her nails) I just can't get good tyrian purple around here!
  Artemis: (clearly bored out of her mind) Wow. That's so weird.
  Ares: (holding a terrified Apollo under his arm) Who's ready for some murder?!
• During a recounting of Apollo's birth, were treated to the hilarious image of Leto triumphantly holding the infant Apollo up to the sky as he shouts to the world about how great he is, meanwhile baby Artemis is just lying there flat on her back with the most flat expression imaginable.
• Artemis getting the absolute skatá beat out of her by Hera during the Olympians' brawl in The Illiad. Red even describes the situation as Artemis getting spanked and sent home crying to her dad.
  • Apollo's horrified expression at seeing his sister getting her ass thoroughly beat by Hera is absolutely hilarious. As is him meekly declining to fight Poseidon.
  Poseidon: Sure you don't wanna go a few rounds?
  Apollo: Yup.
• Red sums up the twins' lopsided early characterizations thusly: While Apollo was established as being the leader of the Muses and having a sense of omniscience, Artemis is just good at murder.
• The twins rocking out on Delphi, sporting some Cool Shades while Apollo jams away on a string guitar. Red calls this ritual "Hubris: It's Okay When The Gods Do It!"

The Boy Who Found Fear At Last

• The Running Gag of the fearless boy interrupting other people's gatherings, causing them to scream in fear at the sudden surprise.
• The boy's utter indifference to a bandit chief's attempts to intimidate him, leaves the bandit chief sulking in a corner while one of his men assures him that no, really, he's still scary.
• The boy's fearlessness extends to the supernatural; when confronted with a zombie hand in a graveyard talking to him to ask for the cake he's making, his response is to tell the hand to stop talking and crack its knuckles with his spoon. This works, and we get to see a very dejected zombie hand not getting any cake.
• The only thing that causes the boy to learn fear? Responsibility. Namely, being chosen as king by a very odd ceremony in the kingdom, whereby a sacred pigeon is released to see who it lands on.
  • The boy panics upon realizing how much he'll have to do, but the crowd mistakes it for shyness and has more pigeons released, just to be sure. Cut to a scene of a jubilant crowd cheering as the boy is covered in a pile of sacred birds.
  • Red describes the boy being covered in pigeons as "an adorable heap of orbularity". This is accompanied by said heap being shown through the slightly calmer but still clearly terrified boy being covered in appropriately cute and round-looking pigeons.
  • If you look closely, you can see that the shines on the pupils of the boy's Puppy-Dog Eyes in the final image form a pair of screaming faces. Rather fitting given the context.

Loki Nearly Kills Everybody (Again)

• This myth involves Loki, and as we know by now, this usually involves him being a devious trickster and/or a Butt-Monkey. This myth is pretty much almost entirely the latter. Hilarity Ensues.
• Red accidentally mentions the Prose Edda being written in the early 1200s BCE, instead of CE. In the comments, she blames Loki for messing with her script. The commenters still make fun of her for it.
  Red: NO GODDAMMIT IT'S 1200 CE NOT BCE NOOOOOO loki you rascal how dare you get into my scripts like this -R
  Punaparta: Snorri Sturluson, a contemporary of the Bronze Age Collapse.
  thehellhound8582: haha, now I will confidently claim Snorri lived in icelabd during the bronze age and site YOU as my source. All the nerds will hate you for ever MHUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
• "So let's talk about the time Loki nearly ruined everything. No, not that time. Not the big one either. Nearly is the operative word. Twilight is still a long ways off. It's only the teatime of the gods."
• The tale literally starts with Odin, Loki, and another character who Red merely mentions as a "dubiously relevant other guy". Said other guy is just represented by text saying "Sir Not-appearing-in-this-film". He's never mentioned ever again.
• When Odin and Loki notice their ox meat isn't cooking, Loki grumbles that Logi better not be messing with him again.
• Loki tries to wack the eagle that ate the good parts of their dinner with a stick. It sticks to the eagle (and presumably the stick sticks to Loki's hands) and it drags him off, smashing him into every nasty-looking obstacle along the way.
• When the eagle (who is actually the powerful Jotunn Þjazi in disguise) successfully kidnaps Iðunn (along with her golden apples) with Loki's help, everyone in Asgard quickly starts aging.
  Freya: (checking Freyr's hair) Yup, two more gray hairs back here.
  Freyr: TWO?!
• When Loki (who is frankly quite terrified of what will happen if he doesn't clean up his mess) arrives at Þjazi's home to rescue Iðunn while the Jotunn isn't home...
  Iðunn: Loki, I've got a few complaints-
  Loki: GET IN LINE, SISTER.
• The rest of the story mostly involves Loki being terrified out of his mind as he flees from Þjazi. When the rest of the Aesir see him coming and notice he's got a pursuer, they build a massive bonfire so Loki can do a quick dodge around the walls of Asgard, causing Þjazi to fly right into it (or as Red describes it, "suffers the curse of all three of Newton's laws" by being unable to redirect his momentum) and allowing the geriatric Aesir to violently butcher him to death while Loki, still in falcon mode, is still collapsed from stress.
• The video ends on this note:
  Red: When the feathers finish flying, Iðunn is restored to her place among the gods, and thanks to her apples everybody gets to be young and hot again, so the Aesir can really look and feel their best when they all die horribly in… eh, like a week? Maybe two if Loki needs a nap first. Can't perish gloriously in an apocalyptic conflagration if you ain't cute!
  Loki: We still on for chucking weapons at Baldr next week?
  Odin: Of course! He's been looking forward to it all month!

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