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2013-08-02

by shaenon on August 2, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Gemma
    August 2, 2013, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    I had something intelligent to say, then I forgot it ’cause it’s 12:04 AM. Maybe it’ll be back later, when I look at this at a reasonable hour.

    • Gemma
      August 2, 2013, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

      I think it might have had something to do with the pig bouncing in panel three?

  2. Ogden Wernstrom
    August 2, 2013, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    The alternate version of this strip matched the pig’s “Not even I know how to open this door” line with the Far Side “Midvale School for the Gifted” gag.

    • Konrad
      August 2, 2013, 2:50 pm | # | Reply

      Since we’re also talking about singing, let’s add in some Pratchett:
      “Questa maledetta porta si blocccccca,
      Si blocca comunque diavolo lo faccccc-cio…!”

  3. Terry Smith
    August 2, 2013, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    The Unicorn should understand that Nick is doing this for the most manly of reasons – to impress a girl.

    Also Nick looks just adorable….

  4. TomT
    August 2, 2013, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    That is a nice dress and Nick looks good in it.

    Oh god I never ever thought I would say a line like that.

    • TheSexyMenhir
      August 2, 2013, 6:02 am | # | Reply

      I would kill to see that dress on the heli. ^^

      • John
        August 2, 2013, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

        What the heli really needs is a painting of the drone in the dress, like the WWII bombers with pinups.

        And given the state of mad tech, I’m guessing we’re about to see a recording confirming Nick in the drone as the daughter.

        • JET73L
          March 4, 2015, 6:11 am | # | Reply

          I know what I’m asking for if I manage to have enough money for the two-character* sketch level next Kickstarter!

          (Probably Nick in the drone holding [generic handheld game system] instead of Nick in the drone in the dress, but I LOVE your idea.)

          …and now I want to see a sketch of Tip doing a similar pinup-with-words-on-a-ribbon airplane painting pose, in period-accurate scant clothing. I’m going to need to sell a few kidneys before the next Kickstarter.

          *I’m counting “Nicklet painting” and “actual Osprey Nick” as separate characters.

  5. Grantwhy
    August 2, 2013, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    AAAAARRGG!!!

    Shaenon posted a spoiler for ‘Nick in a dress and a tiara’ two weeks ago, and I missed it 🙁

    http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/?p=377

    5th panel

    *A curse on talented web-comic artists and their ability to put spoilers where I’ll find them too late*

  6. Diane Castle
    August 2, 2013, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    Of course, Nick only watched that movie over and over so he could make fun of it more effectively, not because he liked it.

  7. Eddurd
    August 2, 2013, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    Know, know, know your quote
    From the Whimsy flick!
    Gussie and Mary and Whimsy-the-Fairy,
    They know the secret trick!

    OK, that was too easy, let’s try something a little more challenging …

    (TUNE: “Joseph’s Coat” from Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Webber & Rice)

    Nick Zerhakker, to the Little House he came,
    They all called him “Princess”, to his manly shame!
    Naughty word
    From him they heard!
    His language did appall!

    He was down until the Wilkin said that he
    Got so much respect from lovely Doctor Lee …
    In a dress
    That will impress,
    He’s gonna save them all!

    Piggie brings him to the Vault,
    And then things come to a halt!
     But when Nick the proper words is speaking,
     Then the door swings open with a creaking!
    Now the portal’s open wide,
    Now they’ll see what lies inside!
     Because Nick can quote a Whimsy movie!
     Note by note, he’ll quote a Whimsy movie!
      He’ll save Mary and Gussie and Gerald and Spritz
      And Cunningham, Mistycorn, Glitter and Glitz,
      And Fluffy and Cuddles and Mindy and Mork
      And Bingo and Fleege and Drooper and Snork
      And Jeffrey and Shaenon and Andrew and me and you!

    • sighthndman
      August 2, 2013, 5:23 am | # | Reply

      Huh! It’s hard to fit this into “Close Every Door”. (As in doesn’t fit.) I guess Webber has more originality than I’d been crediting him with.

      • Manifesta
        August 2, 2013, 2:55 pm | # | Reply

        A challenge! If you’re suggesting it’s impossible to filk my favorite Zionist waltz (and the only time I ever found Donny Osmond sexy) . . . well, you may be right. But I’m darned tootin’ gonna try!

        tune: “Close Every Door,” Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, 1969

        Open the door for me
        I saw the film, you see
        I know the code phrase:
        “It’s okay. I’m here.”
        When Mary and Gussie
        Searched for the Golden Key
        That is what they said,
        So my path is clear

        I pretend that I hate Whimsy
        But I’ve seen ev’ry movie
        And I hsve the answer key
        In my meat brain

        Open the door for me
        I’m dressed all princessy
        This child of Israel
        Can do it alone
        Just call me Princess Nick
        ‘Cause that’s not sick, it’s sick
        For I’m kicking assets
        In this Violet drone

        [Whimsy creatures holding candles sing]
        La la la la la la la la la la la la la, etc.

        Open the door for me:
        V-22 Osprey
        I’m Nick the Chopper
        And bad to the bone
        Though I’m lovely and pure
        In this dress and coiffure
        I’m here on a mission,
        And Whimsy I’ll pwn!

        • Tetra Valent
          August 2, 2013, 10:10 pm | # | Reply

          I think sighthndman was just implying that Webber’s tunes are hard to tell apart, but whatever inspires such fine work is a good thing.

  8. Voyager
    August 2, 2013, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    …and yet there is something just so [i]right[/i] about it.

  9. Prodigal
    August 2, 2013, 1:51 am | # | Reply

    Nick so totally looks like Ozma in that dress.

    • BMunro
      August 3, 2013, 4:25 am | # | Reply

      And given that Ozma spend her childhood transformed into a boy, very appropriately. 🙂

  10. alurker
    August 2, 2013, 2:15 am | # | Reply

    Well, it ain’t quite “Speak Friend and enter” but it’ll do. 😀

  11. Rincewind
    August 2, 2013, 4:15 am | # | Reply

    Sounds like the seventh Doctor’s “Open up, it’s me!” line in Battlefield.

  12. Dave
    August 2, 2013, 4:33 am | # | Reply

    Ha! Nick pwned the Whimsy pig!

  13. Rasufelle
    August 2, 2013, 4:42 am | # | Reply

    Perhaps it’s just me reading too much into things, but taking the Oz references and such from the series and applying them with the modern cast, it’s feeling more to me like Nick is, quite possibly, referencing Dorothy more than Tip.

  14. nanni
    August 2, 2013, 11:27 am | # | Reply

    Oh, Nick, you BADASS.

    (The “It’s okay. I’m here,” thing gets me every time.

  15. mittfh
    August 2, 2013, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

    What’s the betting this won’t be the only occasion that Nick’s encyclopedic knowledge of Whimsy media comes in useful? 🙂

    Never mind the purity test and the physical workout, that is likely to be the real clincher of his success in the role of princess. Oh, and a high resistance to radiation will come in handy as well (unless, of course, the radiation’s high enough to interfere with the uplink)…

  16. This Guy I Know
    August 2, 2013, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

    Okay, Startled Pig in panel 3 really is way, WAY too cute.

  17. Shadowmehr
    August 2, 2013, 6:58 pm | # | Reply

    It occurs to me that the line in Panel 2 encapsulates this entire arc, as well as Nick’s personal growth. There are people who go their lives without meaning those same 4 words.

  18. Tetra Valent
    August 2, 2013, 10:12 pm | # | Reply

    Manifesta included the line, “But I’ve seen ev’ry movie” in her outstanding filk, and it won’t let go of me.

    (Tune: “Climb Every Mountain”, Oscar Hammerstein)

    See every movie,
    Hated or no.
    Study all the action
    Till each line you know.

    Watch every cartoon;
    Learn all the scenes.
    Mem’rize every cue phrase
    Till you’re in your teens.

    A task will appear
    When you never expect
    That will need you to be
    In a ball gown bedecked.

    Wear the tiara
    And every dress.
    Untie every butt-bow (*)
    Till you’re the princess.

    A door at the back
    Of the Star Chamber nears.
    You’ll be ra-di-o-ac-
    Tive for ten thousand years.

    Fool every robot,
    “Miss Collodi”.
    Follow every cute pig
    To your fusion pie.

    (*) It seems that the Whimsy princesses don’t have these on their official attire, but that’s what it looks like on Nickolet.

    • Manifesta
      August 2, 2013, 11:37 pm | # | Reply

      Oh, that’s wonderful!

  19. Burning
    August 3, 2013, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    There’s something really touching about the look on Nick’s face in panel 2. He might be quoting, he might be using his meta knowledge to work the system, but at some level I think he really wants to be reassuring to whatever acts as the gatekeeper to the vault, and that he really wants everything to be OK because he is there to help.

    That panel has made me mentally create all sorts of details about the Whimsy movies, and dammit now I actually want to see them.

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