Are you thinking of moving in permanently when they move out, Sergio? You and Artie could fix it up, decorate… if Artie ever gets over his own embarrassment.
I suppose part of Artie’s problem is that, having started life as a gerbil, despite being super-intelligent, beautiful, strong, and blessed with magically effective mojo on people of both sexes, he never went through being a human teenager. Thus he has never experienced and had to get over heinous self-consciousness in front of his crush.
Panel three has Stevie Wonder music running through my head… I’m not complaining; it replaced that old ditty about watering the worker’s beer!
I hope they find their Place in the Sun…
Not sure which ditty you’re talking about, but your comment reminded me of an odd animated cartoon from way back in the ’60s, when you could mention beer in a “family” program. It was an adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland,” subtitled “What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing In a Place Like This?” The title song was sung by the Cheshire cat, and included the line “I don’t think you’re gonna like it here/the potato chips are soggy, they water the beer…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPxnL_qsP7A is the song I was mentioning. I’ve seen that special; they ran it at least 3 times when new, and I think it’s on YT too- the Rexall ads were a hoot, you could have show characters in ads then, too…
Hm, The rats who live underground are looking for a dump with a bunch of old food and soda in it? I wonder whatever happened to Helen’s old lab, which fits that description.
Actually, the rat has gotten slightly larger in every strip.
Also, his ears suddenly are very different in this strip – pink and upright, sticking through his hat, when before they were the same color as his fur and swept down and back, under the brim.
Also, his mouth is suddenly being drawn differently – he is displaying the classic “anime sidemouth” which reminds me heavily of the goats that Unity possessed in the notary public chapter. Before, his mouth was always drawn full open with a visible gap between top and bottom when speaking.
Also, his eyes have suddenly got white centers instead of being all black – perhaps meant to be reflections? If so, weird that he lacked them in the well lit library, but suddenly has them in a dark underground sewer.
I kind of wonder if there was a time gap between when the prior two strips and this one were drawn. Not unheard of for character designs to slip like that.
One part Diet Coke to three parts peach Fanta Zero is the best thing you can get out of one of those (at least until the machines gain enough self-awareness to care about my muttered complaints about The Man restricting Peach Coke).
Peach Coke isn’t available in a Freestyle machine because it uses a different flavoring (Georgia peach extract) than the Minute Maid/Fanta peach flavors (both generic imitation peach flavored sugar).
It used to be there because the secondary purpose of the Freestyle system is easily available experimental flavor mixes. That’s the reason for the seasonal/event flavors in the machine too.
Well, we’re movin’ on out, to the feast tide,
To a dumpster-filled garbage dump sty.
Movin’ on out, to the feast tide.
We’ll finally get some discarded pie.
Fish that rot in the kitchen,
Beans gone bad from a spill.
Took a whole lotta dumpin’,
Just to build up that hill.
Now we’ve gone for the jump dumps,
Getting our Coke machine at.
As long as we’re there, our colony, baby,
There ain’t nothin’ there but rat.
Well, we’re movin’ on out, to the feast tide,
To a dumpster-filled garbage dump sty.
Movin’ on out, to the feast tide.
We’ll finally get some discarded pie.
—from “Movin’ on Up,” Jeff Barry and Ja’net Dubois, sung by Ja’net Dubois.
Love the “freestyle” Coke machines. Used to be there was only like, one place I could get vanilla Coke (thanks, Rubio’s). Now? Vanilla Coke all over the place. Glorious.
The Big Rock Candy Mountain, it is, then.
Or maybe Whimsy World.
That’s not soda. That’s toxic waste!
There’s a difference?
Marketing.
Are you thinking of moving in permanently when they move out, Sergio? You and Artie could fix it up, decorate… if Artie ever gets over his own embarrassment.
I suppose part of Artie’s problem is that, having started life as a gerbil, despite being super-intelligent, beautiful, strong, and blessed with magically effective mojo on people of both sexes, he never went through being a human teenager. Thus he has never experienced and had to get over heinous self-consciousness in front of his crush.
I don’t know, some paint a few throw pillows…
Get rid of the ninja turtles and splice into the power grid, it might make a nice bunker hideout to plan the counterattack.
Panel three has Stevie Wonder music running through my head… I’m not complaining; it replaced that old ditty about watering the worker’s beer!
I hope they find their Place in the Sun…
Not sure which ditty you’re talking about, but your comment reminded me of an odd animated cartoon from way back in the ’60s, when you could mention beer in a “family” program. It was an adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland,” subtitled “What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing In a Place Like This?” The title song was sung by the Cheshire cat, and included the line “I don’t think you’re gonna like it here/the potato chips are soggy, they water the beer…”
Now that’ll be stuck in my head all day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPxnL_qsP7A is the song I was mentioning. I’ve seen that special; they ran it at least 3 times when new, and I think it’s on YT too- the Rexall ads were a hoot, you could have show characters in ads then, too…
Hm, The rats who live underground are looking for a dump with a bunch of old food and soda in it? I wonder whatever happened to Helen’s old lab, which fits that description.
Beta did move to a topical island…
This must be a different rat. The other one wasn’t that much bigger than Artie.
It’s the camera angles; he’s in the foreground, Sergio’s a few feet behind him.
Actually, the rat has gotten slightly larger in every strip.
Also, his ears suddenly are very different in this strip – pink and upright, sticking through his hat, when before they were the same color as his fur and swept down and back, under the brim.
Also, his mouth is suddenly being drawn differently – he is displaying the classic “anime sidemouth” which reminds me heavily of the goats that Unity possessed in the notary public chapter. Before, his mouth was always drawn full open with a visible gap between top and bottom when speaking.
Also, his eyes have suddenly got white centers instead of being all black – perhaps meant to be reflections? If so, weird that he lacked them in the well lit library, but suddenly has them in a dark underground sewer.
I kind of wonder if there was a time gap between when the prior two strips and this one were drawn. Not unheard of for character designs to slip like that.
I love the high tech Coke machines. Diet Coke with raspberry syrup all the way.
One part Diet Coke to three parts peach Fanta Zero is the best thing you can get out of one of those (at least until the machines gain enough self-awareness to care about my muttered complaints about The Man restricting Peach Coke).
Peach Coke isn’t available in a Freestyle machine because it uses a different flavoring (Georgia peach extract) than the Minute Maid/Fanta peach flavors (both generic imitation peach flavored sugar).
It used to be there because the secondary purpose of the Freestyle system is easily available experimental flavor mixes. That’s the reason for the seasonal/event flavors in the machine too.
Well, we’re movin’ on out, to the feast tide,
To a dumpster-filled garbage dump sty.
Movin’ on out, to the feast tide.
We’ll finally get some discarded pie.
Fish that rot in the kitchen,
Beans gone bad from a spill.
Took a whole lotta dumpin’,
Just to build up that hill.
Now we’ve gone for the jump dumps,
Getting our Coke machine at.
As long as we’re there, our colony, baby,
There ain’t nothin’ there but rat.
Well, we’re movin’ on out, to the feast tide,
To a dumpster-filled garbage dump sty.
Movin’ on out, to the feast tide.
We’ll finally get some discarded pie.
—from “Movin’ on Up,” Jeff Barry and Ja’net Dubois, sung by Ja’net Dubois.
Love the “freestyle” Coke machines. Used to be there was only like, one place I could get vanilla Coke (thanks, Rubio’s). Now? Vanilla Coke all over the place. Glorious.
Oh geez I sound like product placement. Ah, well.
Ew. Vanilla Coke all over the place. Sticky.
Surely one of them has thought of opening a dojo for turtles? O_o