The wonderful thing about jump drives
Converted to run off of springs
Is aliens cannot explain them
Because they are Mad Science things!
They’re bouncy, jumpy, tesseract-y
Instantaneous fun!
But the most wonderful thing about spring drives is
There is only one!
Now at last there’s one!
(“You’re welcome.”)
Maybe, but the triumphant grin and fabulous body language are all you (well, all your drawing, I should say, I don’t know if you routinely go around doing this sort of thing in real life).
(What? It is *possible*. This is SoCal, probably nobody would even notice the occasional Garrity Funk Empire.)
Perfect attention to Pancha for the bees and also doing whatever it is she does to make Tigerlily’s cosmic laser kaleidoscope outfit, even on the glitter gloves, so beautiful.
Cured? To the same degree Tigerlily was cured? It occurred to me that with Mads, it would be awfully hard to tell if they were just changing the direction of their madness…
Pavane is stil calling Tigerlilly “Princess”. Interesting. I’ve given up speculating on how much of the whole “princess of Lovetron” thing is true, and now I’m just waiting patiently for someone to tell us. Probably not long now!
Bee, dude, she’ll make it rad.
Take a bad drive and make it better.
Dismember and take it apart,
And she will start to make it better.
Bee, dude, see this upgrade.
You’ve been played to an unregretter.
The minute the mutiny has begun,
Then they’ll have fun and make it better.
And when in time they feel the pain, Bee, dude, explain
You carried the mission on your shoulders.
For this you know she think’s she cool to play the fool,
Then breaking the UFO chokeholder.
Bee, dude, it’s Chinatown!
You’ve been played to an unregretter.
Dismembered and taken apart,
They’ve made a start to make it better.
They’ll take it back and they’re all in, Bee, dude, begin,
No waiting for someone to reform with.
And don’t you know that within you, Bee, dude, you’re through,
Improvement is here and it’s not colder.
Bee, dude, she’ll make it rad.
Take a bad drive and make it better.
Remember, it’s powered with springs,
You’ll see what she brings to make it better.
Better, better, better, better, better, better, oh!
Na, na na nanana, nanana, Bee, dude…
—from “Hey, Jude,” written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (but almost all Paul), sung by The Beatles.
The action shifts back to the saucer. Pavane, Tigerlily has crossed her. The drive’s full of springs, which could wreck everything. How will this all end? It’s a tosser.
All the better to jump with.
+1
+2
Might as well jump. Go ahead and jump.
I got my back against the record machine…
It ain’t the worst that you’ve seen…
There *has* to be a filk of the Tigger song with a jump drive full of springs.
ARRGH! Came here intending to post the first few lines. Kudos.
The wonderful thing about jump drives
Converted to run off of springs
Is aliens cannot explain them
Because they are Mad Science things!
They’re bouncy, jumpy, tesseract-y
Instantaneous fun!
But the most wonderful thing about spring drives is
There is only one!
Now at last there’s one!
(“You’re welcome.”)
– with apologies to the Sherman brothers 😉
Lovely!
Much better than what I had in mind. 😎
The colors are so good.
It’s all Pancha!
Maybe, but the triumphant grin and fabulous body language are all you (well, all your drawing, I should say, I don’t know if you routinely go around doing this sort of thing in real life).
(What? It is *possible*. This is SoCal, probably nobody would even notice the occasional Garrity Funk Empire.)
Perfect attention to Pancha for the bees and also doing whatever it is she does to make Tigerlily’s cosmic laser kaleidoscope outfit, even on the glitter gloves, so beautiful.
Ditto.
This entire strip is glorious!
Pavane should be grateful that her ship wasn’t remade into a Prairie Schooner so as to fool the Space Indians. 🙂
One, I now want to see that, and two, the settler-themed mad tech was from a completely different mad scientist, sadly now cured.
Cured? To the same degree Tigerlily was cured? It occurred to me that with Mads, it would be awfully hard to tell if they were just changing the direction of their madness…
I don’t remember Prudence Fairweather ever being cured.
“My hovercraft’s full of eels.”
Who wins?
It depends – the Hungarian got arrested, we’ll see if Pavane fares better or worse.
“That’ll be six-and-six, please.”
Since we’re talking springs, “Would you like to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy!” would be a good rejoinder.
Though I’m also a fan of “Ah! I would like to return this Tobacconist! It is scratched.”
My tobacconist is pining for the fjord.
“A moose once bit my sister.”
“Aha! I see the problem, why this watch is full of wheels!”
–Disney’s Mad Hatter
“I’m just sittin’ here watchin’ the wheels go ’round and ’round…I really love to watch them roll…”
That’s a song I don’t see quoted everyday. Nice!
I wonder whether Tip had to be left behind Because Plot, so as to not give Pavane an allergic hostage …
… so, who brought the spring-loaded flypaper?
I mean she made a working teleporter out of coathangers, so it should work fine
Pavane is stil calling Tigerlilly “Princess”. Interesting. I’ve given up speculating on how much of the whole “princess of Lovetron” thing is true, and now I’m just waiting patiently for someone to tell us. Probably not long now!
It’s also interesting that now she is “Princess Tigerlily”. Wasn’t it “Princess Berenice” before?
Tigerlily called herself Princess Berenice – and only once that I can recall. Pavane never did.
They’d better hope they don’t run into Coily the Spring Sprite.
Looks like KT joined the mutiny.
“The jump drive is full of springs. You know, in retrospect it was pretty obvious it was you, I have no idea how I didn’t catch that before.”
Bee, dude, she’ll make it rad.
Take a bad drive and make it better.
Dismember and take it apart,
And she will start to make it better.
Bee, dude, see this upgrade.
You’ve been played to an unregretter.
The minute the mutiny has begun,
Then they’ll have fun and make it better.
And when in time they feel the pain, Bee, dude, explain
You carried the mission on your shoulders.
For this you know she think’s she cool to play the fool,
Then breaking the UFO chokeholder.
Bee, dude, it’s Chinatown!
You’ve been played to an unregretter.
Dismembered and taken apart,
They’ve made a start to make it better.
They’ll take it back and they’re all in, Bee, dude, begin,
No waiting for someone to reform with.
And don’t you know that within you, Bee, dude, you’re through,
Improvement is here and it’s not colder.
Bee, dude, she’ll make it rad.
Take a bad drive and make it better.
Remember, it’s powered with springs,
You’ll see what she brings to make it better.
Better, better, better, better, better, better, oh!
Na, na na nanana, nanana, Bee, dude…
—from “Hey, Jude,” written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (but almost all Paul), sung by The Beatles.
Excellent!
(standing ovation)
Nice!
I can practically hear the relationship to Gavotte in Pavane’s last line there. 🙂
The action shifts back to the saucer. Pavane, Tigerlily has crossed her. The drive’s full of springs, which could wreck everything. How will this all end? It’s a tosser.