Ovid weaves a strong element of comedy into the fabric of his narrative. While he depicts the gods’ behavior as darkly immoral, he also shows the funny side of it. Daphne’s transformation into a tree is tragic, but there is something amusing about the stolid, unmoving form her father gives her—and something downright comical about the image of Apollo copping a feel of her bark. Jupiter’s taste for extramarital affairs is also amusing. He can’t keep his hands off young maidens, and the lengths he goes to in an attempt to fool his wife might remind modern readers of the antics of cheating husbands in screwball comedies. Jupiter is king of the gods, but he flutters around in a panic, trying to pull the wool over Juno’s eyes by giving Io the comical form of a cow.