Editing 18: Snapple

{{comic
| number    = 18
| date      = October 10, 2005
| title     = Snapple
| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=Monday%27s%20drawing%3A%20Snapple Original title</span>]: '''Monday's drawing: Snapple'''</big></big>
| image     = snapple.jpg
| titletext = Sn = tin
}}

==Explanation==
This was the seventeenth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[17: What If]], and the next one was [[19: George Clinton]].

{{w|Snapple}} is a brand of beverages that mostly sells bottled juices and teas. Its name is based on a carbonated apple juice the company once produced ("snappy apple"). In this comic, [[Cueball]] hands another Cueball-like guy an apple calling it a "Snapple". When the guy bites into it, his teeth are blocked by the apple's metallic surface because Cueball has infused the apple with tin. {{w|Tin}} is a metallic element whose abbreviation on the periodic table is "Sn" (as the Latin word for tin is "stannum"). Thus, the "tin apple" could be referred to as a "Sn-apple". The fourth panel is a silent wide shot, perhaps suggesting the joke was met with silence as a weak joke. As a meta-joke, the final panel might jokingly suggest that the silence is because those unfamiliar with the periodic table of elements don't get the joke. According to the caption at the top, [[James Zetlen]] presumably once made a joke to [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] similar to the one in the comic.

The title text continues the trend in early xkcd comics of explaining the joke rather than expanding on it.

==Transcript==
:[Above the frames:]
:This one is entirely James' fault.

:[Two Cueball-like guys are standing and talking.]
:Cueball: Here, take a bite of this Snapple.
:Friend: food!

:[Cueball's friend takes a bite.]
:Friend: Ow!  What is this?
:''Clink''

:[The panel switches to Cueball.]
:Cueball: It's an apple infused with tin.

:[Beat panel. A wide shot of the two.]

:[Same scene, except the panel is lightly shaded and there is a box above saying:]
:Those of you who know your periodic table should be laughing right about now.

==Trivia==
This is the first xkcd comic featuring [[James Zetlen]].

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