Not exactly some just skip over the important facts unless it suits them. Cinderella skipped over having the other glass slipper until it suited her. Heck she didn’t even tell prince charming who she was or where she lived. Even then there are a lot of other fairytale princess who have also skipped over important facts like there is a dragon outside that wants to kill you.
Tip, you did your best!
None could pass their test!
They’re so unrealistic,
They want a virgin who’s in-no-cent! (At least in body)
Here comes Nick now! (Don’t kiss the virgin!)
He is Heaven-sent! (Don’t kiss the virgin!)
He tells his teammates, (Don’t kiss the virgin!)
We can all get bent!
(la la la etc …)
Bo-di-ly, he’s pure …
Mind, we’re not so sure!
Cunningham is demanding
That nothing’s going on in your pants! (Built in nineteen-sixty-four)
Looking for a princess who’s moral! (They’re built in nineteen-sixty-four)
Looking for a princess who’s moral! (Kiss her cheek, but nothing more!)
Can’t have any groping or oral!
(Yeah, we’re looking at you now!)
Nick, we need you! (Don’t kiss the virgin!)
Do it for your fans! (Don’t kiss the virgin!)
You know you want to! (Don’t kiss the virgin!)
This is now your chance!
No, a Gilligan cut is a specific kind of what Rex is talking about, where one character is steadfastly refusing to do whatever the others need him to do and it immediately jumps to him doing it. For example, if the third panel was Nick saying, “There’s no way in hell you’re getting me to go back there,” and the fourth panel was him looking angry in front of the automata, that would be a Gilligan cut.
*runs off to draw nick in a princess dress*
hm, we havent seen any pictures of what dress hell wear yet…
i guess ill just have to draw him in lots of prncess dresses, oh well!!! (heh heh)
Quin, I don’t normally like to correct somebody that I don’t know, but Cinderella wasn’t a “Princess” until she actually married the Prince. She was a commoner and could be cut slack for that. Eddurd, you never cease to cause me to smile with your filks. May your bardic skills only increase.
Most of the Disney “princesses” were not so at the start, and many didn’t even have anything to do with royalty at the end either. They’re usually called that more for marketing purposes than anything else.
Yeah, but the Disney model of nobility/royalty depends on a better-than-average (or actually perfect) commoner being recognized as true nobility. In that sense, she was a princess from day one. That’s the whole Disney model.
Manifesta and Eddurd, you are both very inspiring.
(Tune: “When I’m 64”, John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
When we were younger, had all our parts, many years ‘fore now,
Princesses would send their love a Valentine,
birthday greetings, not even wine.
If you’d been out ’till quarter to three,
yes, she’d lock the door!
We were still prudes in, didn’t like lewd in,
1964.
Hmm-mmm-mmm.
You must be such, too.
Aaah, and if you pass the test, we could work with you.
You can’t be randy, kissing with tongue, when the lights have gone.
You can sit together by the fireside, but remember, hands off his hide!
Walk in the garden, holding his hand, never ask for more!
We were still prudes in, didn’t like lewd in,
1964.
Even if you’re living in a cottage in the deepest woods
With a group of dwarves,
You yourself must save.
Wait, passively for your Prince: Charming, Beast, or Dave.
Give us a reference, telling us what others think of you.
It must not have anything at all risque’, even though we’re wasting away.
Give the right answers, fill in the form, pure forever more!
We were still prudes in, didn’t like lewd in,
1964.
I don’t know if the fourth panel contains a particular trope or not, but the poses and expressions of Tip and Unity immediately put me in mind of a particular Bloom County panel (when Opus returns to find out he’s the VP nominee).
Hey! He’ll let himself be badgered into the princess dress, but even if it wouldn’t disqualify him from the Purity Test, he’d never take one for the team! That’s just going too far.
And boom goes the dynamite.
You know, Tip, you could have lied. Just saying. Would have saved everyone a lot of time and hassle.
Yeah but then we wouldn’t have Nick in a princess dress.
Can you lie through your teeth and still be a proper princess?
Princesses are technically politicians, so I think lying through teeth is actually a job requirement.
No, no, fairytale characters are restricted to half-truths and lies of omission. Anything else is against the rules.
Not exactly some just skip over the important facts unless it suits them. Cinderella skipped over having the other glass slipper until it suited her. Heck she didn’t even tell prince charming who she was or where she lived. Even then there are a lot of other fairytale princess who have also skipped over important facts like there is a dragon outside that wants to kill you.
@Quin: That’s exactly what “lies of omission” means.
Perhaps the robots come with lie detectors? After all, even in 1964 the concept of lying was widely known…
I don’t think it was the questionnaire, Tip failed the physical.
And there we go…… The outcome that we all have been dreading/expecting/hoping would arrive. THIS IS GOING TO BE GLORIUS!!!!
tune: “It Had to Be You,” Isham Jones and Gus Kahn, 1924
It had to be you
It had to be you
It couldn’t be Tip
Such tongue and such lip
So eager to screw
Your bodies are mechs
You’ve never had sex
Not even a peck
From Ginny. Oh, heck,
You’re ball-less and blue
A Whimsy princess
Has naught to confess
No tongues and no lust
Plus, you have no bust,
So you’ll fit Tip’s dress
We know that you love
What you claim to hate
Get dressed for the ball, now
Your carriage awaits
It had to be you
Virginal Jew
It had to be you
I held it in until “virginal Jew.”
Then I LOL’d.
So now Nick gets to be Ozma as well as the Tin Woodsman. Awesome.
Nick has no idea what they’re talking about- that’s just his normal everyday greeting.
While perfectly in character for him, I think Nick saw the broad smiles on them and was just genre savvy enough to put it together.
Did Unity’s ears fall off? She’s not an animal mascot anymore; if she can stop writing her name on the wall in snot she’d qualify…
Except that she HAS been kissed. The nice young mortician who visits her now bringing ‘spare parts’
But with tongue? (not including the spare parts).
Desperately trying not to think too hard about the intersection of “impurity” and “spare parts.” I’m all out of brain bleach.
Maybe she could just replace her lips and tongue. With those of a dead virgin.
The cat ears have been appearing and disappearing on and off throughout the storyline. I guess they’re schroedinger’s cat ears.
Well done.
Manifesta, how can I top that?
… Oh, heck, I’ll give it a shot.
(TUNE: “Don’t Fear The Reaper”, Blue Oyster Cult)
Tip, you did your best!
None could pass their test!
They’re so unrealistic,
They want a virgin who’s in-no-cent!
(At least in body)
Here comes Nick now!
(Don’t kiss the virgin!)
He is Heaven-sent!
(Don’t kiss the virgin!)
He tells his teammates,
(Don’t kiss the virgin!)
We can all get bent!
(la la la etc …)
Bo-di-ly, he’s pure …
Mind, we’re not so sure!
Cunningham is demanding
That nothing’s going on in your pants!
(Built in nineteen-sixty-four)
Looking for a princess who’s moral!
(They’re built in nineteen-sixty-four)
Looking for a princess who’s moral!
(Kiss her cheek, but nothing more!)
Can’t have any groping or oral!
(Yeah, we’re looking at you now!)
Nick, we need you!
(Don’t kiss the virgin!)
Do it for your fans!
(Don’t kiss the virgin!)
You know you want to!
(Don’t kiss the virgin!)
This is now your chance!
Does panel 4 count as a Gilligan cut?
That would depend on whether there was a time lapse before panels 3 and 4. It’s not entirely clear, but Nick’s reaction suggests that there wasn’t.
No, a Gilligan cut is a specific kind of what Rex is talking about, where one character is steadfastly refusing to do whatever the others need him to do and it immediately jumps to him doing it. For example, if the third panel was Nick saying, “There’s no way in hell you’re getting me to go back there,” and the fourth panel was him looking angry in front of the automata, that would be a Gilligan cut.
Though I suspect we will be getting such a scene, shortly…
*runs off to draw nick in a princess dress*
hm, we havent seen any pictures of what dress hell wear yet…
i guess ill just have to draw him in lots of prncess dresses, oh well!!! (heh heh)
Quin, I don’t normally like to correct somebody that I don’t know, but Cinderella wasn’t a “Princess” until she actually married the Prince. She was a commoner and could be cut slack for that. Eddurd, you never cease to cause me to smile with your filks. May your bardic skills only increase.
Most of the Disney “princesses” were not so at the start, and many didn’t even have anything to do with royalty at the end either. They’re usually called that more for marketing purposes than anything else.
Yeah, but the Disney model of nobility/royalty depends on a better-than-average (or actually perfect) commoner being recognized as true nobility. In that sense, she was a princess from day one. That’s the whole Disney model.
Dang, I forgot to mention, Manifesta, that was awesome, too. No editing is bad, bad I say!
Aww, it’s little things like this that make my day awesome. Also, all you people help me fall in love with the internet again.
Dear God, this storyline is fantastic.
Once again, he’s probably not mad about the request, but about the assumption.
Nick: Still wanna drive Violet?
I wonder if it would work to have someone else drive the gynoid?
Manifesta and Eddurd, you are both very inspiring.
(Tune: “When I’m 64”, John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
When we were younger, had all our parts, many years ‘fore now,
Princesses would send their love a Valentine,
birthday greetings, not even wine.
If you’d been out ’till quarter to three,
yes, she’d lock the door!
We were still prudes in, didn’t like lewd in,
1964.
Hmm-mmm-mmm.
You must be such, too.
Aaah, and if you pass the test, we could work with you.
You can’t be randy, kissing with tongue, when the lights have gone.
You can sit together by the fireside, but remember, hands off his hide!
Walk in the garden, holding his hand, never ask for more!
We were still prudes in, didn’t like lewd in,
1964.
Even if you’re living in a cottage in the deepest woods
With a group of dwarves,
You yourself must save.
Wait, passively for your Prince: Charming, Beast, or Dave.
Give us a reference, telling us what others think of you.
It must not have anything at all risque’, even though we’re wasting away.
Give the right answers, fill in the form, pure forever more!
We were still prudes in, didn’t like lewd in,
1964.
I don’t know if the fourth panel contains a particular trope or not, but the poses and expressions of Tip and Unity immediately put me in mind of a particular Bloom County panel (when Opus returns to find out he’s the VP nominee).
I wanted to link to “Take One For The Team” in TV Tropes for my post below, but it doesn’t seem to exist.
“I hate you all.”
Yeah, yeah. Just put on the dress, Nick. Sometimes ya just gotta take one for the team…
Hey! He’ll let himself be badgered into the princess dress, but even if it wouldn’t disqualify him from the Purity Test, he’d never take one for the team! That’s just going too far.