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2014-09-30

by shaenon on September 30, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    September 30, 2014, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Darn, girl! In that case start noticing Titus, why don’t you? ^_^

    • xiombrag
      September 30, 2014, 9:28 am | # | Reply

      She can’t go noticing her henchmen after Helen did it. That’s just trend-following.

      Wait. That should be fine for the 1950s. Never mind.

    • Andy4Hire
      September 30, 2014, 6:24 pm | # | Reply

      Naw, Titus is too smart to get romantically entangled with a mad scientist. At least voluntarily.

    • John Campbell
      September 30, 2014, 7:03 pm | # | Reply

      … before some other madgirl steals him away.

  2. FOOT
    September 30, 2014, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    FOOT GOOD QUALITY. FOOT WELL CONSTRUCTED AND EXPERIENCED IN CONQUEST.

    FOR GOOD TIME CALL FOOT.

  3. Michael Brewer
    September 30, 2014, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    One kinda wonders why they haven’t just …fixed the outfits yet. I guess they keep Jones away from wire.

    http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-191/

    • xiombrag
      September 30, 2014, 9:26 am | # | Reply

      It can only happen when no one is watching. That’s why they stick her with the retro chicks. They’re always watching.

      There is still a gap for the 1960s, tho. I wonder, given that’s the superspy era, if she’s already escaped?

      • Quin
        September 30, 2014, 9:31 am | # | Reply

        Technically its the freaky retro chicks. Regular ones are not to bad. These are the crazy ones that even mad scientist call crazy.

  4. Dave
    September 30, 2014, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    And he was doing so well, up until the napalm butterflies…

  5. Michael Brewer
    September 30, 2014, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Also, this hadn’t occurred to me before, but Helen clearly hasn’t released the Mad Science cure yet. Or weaponized it to take out all of her rivals. Either way.

    Is anyone else wondering what Dr. Lee would be like if she went mad?

    • jdreyfuss
      September 30, 2014, 6:55 am | # | Reply

      Don’t get that argument started again. Please.

      • Efogoto
        September 30, 2014, 9:25 am | # | Reply

        That way madness lies?

        • xiombrag
          September 30, 2014, 9:27 am | # | Reply

          The discussion RE: Lee and whether she is actually mad, and what mad means, was… long.

  6. evilmidnightlurker
    September 30, 2014, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    I’d been wondering if Imogene had aged in real time.

    • Gyrre
      March 9, 2015, 1:40 pm | # | Reply

      Imogene was 16 (if I recall correctly) when she showed up in Narbonic, so that seem to be a “yes”.

  7. M. Alan Thomas II
    September 30, 2014, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    To quote from the Narbonic comments section:

    Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) says:

    > Since they are Jeff’s characters, do you think that it might be possible for you to work with Jeffrey Channing Wells on a comic strip?

    Oh, sure, like Jeffrey Wells would want to work with me on a comic strip.

  8. ssbittner
    September 30, 2014, 1:31 am | # | Reply

    Indestructible men are hard to come by.

    • Anson
      September 30, 2014, 1:41 am | # | Reply

      But they sure do last.

    • Frank
      September 30, 2014, 10:49 am | # | Reply

      Well, they’re made, not born

  9. Manifesta
    September 30, 2014, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    I have the Surfside 6 theme on my iPhone, along with 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Adventures in Paradise, Route 66 and other pieces of the soundtrack to my misspent childhood. We got a television when I was about 4, and I pretty much sat in front of it until graduate school. I thought I was wasting my life, but really I was doing research for future filks!

    tune: “Surfside 6,” Jerry Livingston & Mack David, 1960, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS3hoWKLPi8

    TL Jones (Who’s that?)
    TL Jones (A woman?)
    TL Jones (Where is she?)
    IN THE INSTITUTE
    Cha cha cha
    Cha

    TL Jones (What’s she do?)
    TL Jones (Mad science?)
    TL Jones (A-Sig’s got her?)
    IN THE INSTITUTE
    Cha cha cha
    Cha

    Soft guitars under the palms
    She’s the queen of funkitude
    Will gently lead you to a lover’s arms
    Debbi and Imogene will soon collude
    See the waves kissing the shore
    To escape. Just need a spring
    While you are kissing someone you adore
    Then you’ll see how Tigerlily can swing

    TL Jones (Reunites?)
    TL Jones (With Skin Horse?)
    TL Jones (But of course! She’ll)
    BLOW THE INSTITUTE
    Cha cha cha
    Cha

    • Manifesta
      September 30, 2014, 1:36 am | # | Reply

      CRAPCRAPCRAPCRAPCRAP Why can’t we edit? I left in the original lines for the bridge (don’t know any other way to get the scansion right). Here’s the correct version:

      TL Jones (Who’s that?)
      TL Jones (A woman?)
      TL Jones (Where is she?)
      IN THE INSTITUTE
      Cha cha cha
      Cha

      TL Jones (What’s she do?)
      TL Jones (Mad science?)
      TL Jones (A-Sig’s got her?)
      IN THE INSTITUTE
      Cha cha cha
      Cha

      She’s the queen of funkitude
      Debbi and Imogene will soon collude
      To escape. Just need a spring
      Then you’ll see how Tigerlily can swing

      TL Jones (Reunites?)
      TL Jones (With Skin Horse?)
      TL Jones (But of course! She’ll)
      BLOW THE INSTITUTE
      Cha cha cha
      Cha

  10. Schism
    September 30, 2014, 1:52 am | # | Reply

    Wait, so that IS Imogene Frog?! Oh dear, that’s beyond amazing! But… but what happened to Titus Misanthrope, World’s Best Henchman?

    • davidbreslin101
      September 30, 2014, 9:54 am | # | Reply

      After Imogene’s arrest, Titus ended up working for a differently-sane young lady called Feeb as part of her Provisional World Tyranny. Plus ça change….

  11. Ray
    September 30, 2014, 1:53 am | # | Reply

    Oh my god, that’s Imogene Frog. And she’s 25 now. Has she figured out about the squirrels and the feeding bottles yet?

  12. Robert Nowall
    September 30, 2014, 3:19 am | # | Reply

    And being a 1970s blacksploitation queen isn’t retro like being a sock hop bunny? (Sorry. I like to point out the obvious.)

  13. E. Bernhard Warg
    September 30, 2014, 6:32 am | # | Reply

    “But where *is* it?”

  14. jdreyfuss
    September 30, 2014, 7:00 am | # | Reply

    Is Imogene really confounded in time? I mean, she’s displaced in time, but is that the same as confounded?

    • Jeffrey C. Wells
      September 30, 2014, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

      The Institute likes to throw everyone vaguely resembling the designation together. Mad scientists are a diverse lot, there’s only so many rooms, and those signs are a pain to keep putting up and taking down.

    • James Moar
      September 30, 2014, 1:27 pm | # | Reply

      Look, just how many specific types of Mad Scientist cafeteria do you expect them to build?

  15. Eddurd
    September 30, 2014, 7:06 am | # | Reply

    Nice one, Kay! I remember those theme songs as well … don’t remember the shows, but I remember the songs. Here’s another oldie …

    (TUNE: “How Much Is That Doggie In The Window”, Bob Merrill)

    How retro are Frog and Tigerlily?
    Two madgirls, both stuck in the past …
    You may think they’re acting kinda silly,
    But both of those babes are a blast!

    Now Imogene wants to find a mate now,
    Who’s tough and resistant to fire!
    A man that Ms. Frog can’t immolate, now …
    Ms. Jones might suggest Richard Prior!

    Now Jones dreams of clothes so funkadelic …
    There’s bell-bottoms calling her name!
    But Imogene’s dreams are so angelic,
    “This lady,” says ‘Lily, “is lame!”

    How retro are Frog and Tigerlily?
    Two ladies, each mad as a loon!
    They’ll bust out of there, and head for Philly …
    “Defiant Ones” remake comes soon!

    • Tom Flapwell
      September 30, 2014, 9:40 am | # | Reply

      Normally it’s “Pryor,” but you may be making a pun.

      • Eddurd
        September 30, 2014, 9:53 am | # | Reply

        No, just typing in a hurry, not checking, and can’t @#$&@ EDIT.

  16. Frank
    September 30, 2014, 10:48 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know which of you two is doing the dialogues, but I can tell you’re having fun with it 🙂

  17. Rex Vivat
    September 30, 2014, 11:28 am | # | Reply

    Imogene is 25 now, huh? I think this is the first time we’re told exactly how long it’s been since the end of Narbonic. And it turns out it’s… real time? I’m feeling old now, and I’m barely older than she is.

  18. Rex Vivat
    September 30, 2014, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

    Also, the fact that she’s looking for indestructability in a husband is kinda sad in the light of this.

    • Jeffrey C. Wells
      September 30, 2014, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

      Wow, I didn’t even remember that. Thanks for scaring up the link!

      • Rex Vivat
        September 30, 2014, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

        I honestly wouldn’t have remembered this if it weren’t for Ray’s comment about the squirrels and the feeding bottles.

      • roberttheaddled
        September 30, 2014, 5:45 pm | # | Reply

        In her Narbonic appearances I had never thought of Ms. Frog as temporally misplaced. I had just gotten a ‘pure’/innocent vibe off the character.

        Making her a 50’s refugee definitely explains that mentality and her speech patterns.

        Jeff – I don’t suppose there are more of these than the two links drifting around out there? That sort of thing would be good for the extras at the back of the bound copies or such.

        • Jeffrey C. Wells
          September 30, 2014, 10:13 pm | # | Reply

          Inasmuch as I had totally forgotten about those text files until someone else brought them up, the answer is a resounding “I’m Not Sure.” Sorry…

          • roberttheaddled
            October 1, 2014, 4:43 pm | #

            No worries. I enjoy anything and everything of the ‘extra’ and pseudo secret extras of SH and Narbonic. I (in my ignorance) had not even heard of the filename story in Narbonic until it was in re-runs already. (Admittedly I discovered it during year 5….)

            I found that story posted online somewhere and safely saved it for future re-reads – along w/ the bonus short stories I’ve gotten from the Kickstarters. And every month or so I go out to J. Campbell’s TXT file where he has been compiling the SH story to read the latest sentence.

  19. ngmatt8652
    September 30, 2014, 4:36 pm | # | Reply

    someone remind me who she is agin

    • Rex Vivat
      September 30, 2014, 5:30 pm | # | Reply

      She’s Imogene Frog.

  20. Atomsk
    September 30, 2014, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

    Still, it was Scranton. It took two weeks for anyone to notice.

  21. Shadowmehr
    September 30, 2014, 6:53 pm | # | Reply

    I’m kind of curious what kind of romantic backlash would level Scranton. It’s already suffered so much . . .

    Aaaand I just had another rather disturbing thought. Anasigma is trying to use Tigerlily to recruit Skin Horse. What happens if Imogene gets caught up in the ride? Even with Tigerlily there, a 50’s innocent (relatively) mad scientist in 200 yards of Tip cannot end well for anyone, let alone the principals.

    • roberttheaddled
      September 30, 2014, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve read enough manga to realize that Tip has absolutely no chance of surviving in a Harem situation without removing/negating his seduction superpower/weakness.

      Hammerspace plus Mad is not a safe place to live. Try to behave and run from any questionable situations that involve the opposite gender – unless taking a protective stance against an outside party.

    • Ray
      September 30, 2014, 8:51 pm | # | Reply

      Tip’s power doesn’t work on retro-themed mad scientist babes.

      • BMunro
        October 1, 2014, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

        Does it work on mad scientist babes, period? I don’t recall any female Mads going after him on the Crazy Train (pardon me, Mad Train) episode…

  22. John Campbell
    September 30, 2014, 7:27 pm | # | Reply

    That’s the joke?

    • John Campbell
      September 30, 2014, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

      Huh, that was supposed to be a reply to Robert Nowall above. That’s the first time the reply feature’s done that to me. It worked a few minutes ago…

  23. Sailorleo
    September 30, 2014, 9:02 pm | # | Reply

    Oddly enough, I’ve had the opposite experience. Only once has the reply feature actually gone right so far.

  24. jbevan70
    October 2, 2014, 9:16 pm | # | Reply

    When she attacked Scranton, was Dunder-Mifflin left standing?

  25. Imperator
    August 21, 2015, 8:12 pm | # | Reply

    As someone from a Scranton, I am in full support of its utter annihilation. I know a few guys I could set her up with….

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