Judgment of Solomon: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[Terror Island]]'' [http://www.terrorisland.net/strips/053.html does this] with a lawnmower. They both get the whole thing, though.

* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'': [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=351#comic You get the bigger half.]

{{quote|'''Solomon/Homer''': The pie shall be cut in half and each man shall receive...death. I'll eat the pie.}}

** There were also Ned Flander's ultra-gory retelling of Bible stories that had Solomon actually cutting the baby in half himself before either can say anything, and then killing himself after he [[My God, What Have I Done?|realized what he just did]]. By cutting himself in half.

* Susie Carmichael from ''[[Rugrats]]'' used this method in a ''[[Rugrats]]'' comic story where Tommy was arguing with Angelica over custody of his star ball.

** There's an episode with a subversion: Angelica's jurisdiction over Tommy, Chuckie, Phil and Lil is usurped by a rival baby at the park, leading to a lengthy power struggle until he eventually suggests that they "split" the four of them. Angelica considers this and asks, [[Dead Baby Comedy|"Who gets the heads?"]] The rival explains that he meant they would each take two of them, prompting a fit of outraged pride from Angelica, who says they're all hers and she's not settling for half.

* Subverted on ''[[Recess]]'' with a doll. In a prelude to a very terrible rule, Gus, sitting in for King Bob, gives the doll to the wrong girl, since the real owner insisted she'd rather see the doll with the other girl than have it cut in two. His advisers point this out, but cheer him up by pointing out that he made the second-best possible decision[[Don't Explain the Joke|...of two possible decisions.]]

* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Histeria!]]'' King Solomon gets presented with the two women claiming to be the mother, and he suggests (like in the original) cutting the baby in half. ''Both'' women react with disgust, declare they're not the mother, and leave, forcing Solomon to take ownership of the baby. To make it worse, neither of the two women claimed to be the mother in the first place; Solomon's guards just picked up two random women off the street.

 

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