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2013-07-25

by shaenon on July 25, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Valerie Kaplan
    July 25, 2013, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Nick should have tea with the slime mold sometime.

    • Delta Echo
      September 7, 2014, 9:51 am | # | Reply

      Why would he want to have tea with Fred?

  2. Sweet tea
    July 25, 2013, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Project runway take a lesson! Booyah!

    • John
      July 25, 2013, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

      Somehow, I can’t imagine Tim Gunn’s reaction to Unity.

      “Okay people, two more hours!”
      “Thanks, Tim! I just have to puke on a couple more woodland creatures.”

  3. Daniel
    July 25, 2013, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    There’s always time to read Manga. Sailor Moon would be appropriate at the moment.

    • Delta Echo
      September 7, 2014, 9:51 am | # | Reply

      Considering what happened to poor Zoicite, I’m not so sure.

  4. Anderson
    July 25, 2013, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    I would be quite entertained by a Japanese take on an English take on a Japan-that’s-really-england-in-disguise.

    • Grantwhy
      July 25, 2013, 12:50 am | # | Reply

      oddly enough, a (very limited) quick google search doesn’t seem to bring up any Manga based on The Mikado.

      Thankfully, that should mean no henatai version either 🙂
      [and probably no Rule 34 for The Mikado?]

      • Valerie Kaplan
        July 25, 2013, 1:56 am | # | Reply

        I firmly intend to produce an anime of The Mikado, just as soon as I find out how the heck one does so. I have Plans.

        • Q the Platypus
          July 25, 2013, 11:53 pm | # | Reply

          Animation costs over $10 000 a minute. So it starts with being able to pony up the cash.

          • Valerie Kaplan
            July 26, 2013, 1:03 am | #

            Yeah… I’d be just as happy to convince someone else to produce it. >_>

            (Seriously, it’s just something that needs to HAPPEN, one way or another.)

      • Isikyus
        July 25, 2013, 5:37 am | # | Reply

        I seem to recall reading there’s a town in Japan that regularly puts on a performance of The Mikado, so someone has thought of it. Whether it’s been made into a comic, I don’t know.

      • Michael
        July 25, 2013, 10:17 am | # | Reply

        Rule 34 applies to *everything*.

        • eddddd the mad genius
          July 25, 2013, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

          does rule 34 apply to skin horse?

      • Smithnik
        July 25, 2013, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

        There are plenty of manga and anime based on Victorian England and its literature, everything from Lewis Carroll to Jane Austen. Still, the musical theater structure may not be as popular in Japan, and therefore less of a marketable project.
        On the other hand, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some amateur creator in Japan doing Gilbert & Sullivan manga and selling them as a fan project. There’s some crazy doujinshi stuff out there.

    • Klyfix
      July 25, 2013, 10:25 am | # | Reply

      TV Tropes tells me that _The Mikado_ is actually pretty popular in Japan (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/TheMikado) so one would think that there is some kind of manga out there.

  5. Huttj509
    July 25, 2013, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Hmmm, can his coptor-body sing duets with himself, or are the speakers slaved together?

  6. Andrew
    July 25, 2013, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    Mikado…does this mean we have Gilbert & Sullivan sign on?

    • OddManOut
      July 25, 2013, 1:19 am | # | Reply

      Given how Sweetheart resorts to it to make a point, yes. Apparently she can do at least Pirates of Penzance and the Mikado.

      • Stig
        July 25, 2013, 10:55 pm | # | Reply

        My guess is she knows all 14 by heart.

  7. Manifesta
    July 25, 2013, 1:28 am | # | Reply

    It’s still Wednesday, and I just noticed that today’s Google Doodle honors Rosalind Franklin (Dave and Helen’s daughter is her half-namesake). Huzzah!

    • Tetra Valent
      July 25, 2013, 10:28 pm | # | Reply

      Over 24 hours since the first reports of it. Maybe she gets one day for each helix?

  8. eddi
    July 25, 2013, 2:26 am | # | Reply

    Unca’ Walt is thawing as we speak.

  9. Salty
    July 25, 2013, 2:27 am | # | Reply

    It’s the wedding of Nick-Chop and Lee-Vi, MAD SCI!

    …I just realized that Nick is a Chopper.

    *Falls to knees*
    CUUUUUURSSEEEEEE YOUUUUUUU SHAENOOOOOOOONNNN!!

    • eddi
      July 25, 2013, 5:23 am | # | Reply

      At least she didn’t set up a straw man argument. And the only lion in the cast is back at Skin Horse.

      • BMunro
        July 26, 2013, 2:46 am | # | Reply

        On the other hand, Unity is stitched together and frequently looking for brains…

  10. mnementh
    July 25, 2013, 2:57 am | # | Reply

    Oh, hells yes. “The Mikado with Gunship Accompaniment; A Comic Opera in 2 Acts.”

    I see Ralph Fiennes as Pooh-Bah, and Nick as KoKo and YumYum. Of course Tip would be Nanki-Poo and Sweetheart would be Katisha, and UNITY the Mikado.

    mnem
    I would totes save up for tickets to see this.

  11. Eddurd
    July 25, 2013, 5:13 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Three Little Maids From School”, Gilbert and Sullivan)

    Three little things a princess needs,
    Dressed in a gown bedecked with beads,
    There’s nothing else that supersedes
    Three little princess needs!

     First is a smiling and lovely face;
     Second, a bearing of poise and grace;
     Thirdly is not getting past first base!
     Princess exam you’ll ace!

      Three little needs for Princess Whimsy,
      Dressed in a gown so light and flimsy!
      Nick is the one, so we must make him see …
      Three little princess needs!
      Three little PRIN-cess needs!

    • Daibhid C
      July 25, 2013, 5:53 am | # | Reply

      Bravo!

    • Treesong
      July 25, 2013, 8:32 am | # | Reply

      Excellent!

    • JET73L
      March 3, 2015, 10:14 pm | # | Reply

      I was trying to shoehorn what ended up being “Four little gov’ment employees” into the scansion. I’m glad you took that weight off my shoulders ^_^

  12. Daibhid C
    July 25, 2013, 6:17 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: I’ve Got A Little List, Gilbert and Sullivan)

    As some day it might happen that I get a chance to moan,
    I’ve got a little list, I’ve got a list,
    Of situations at Skin Horse that really make me groan,
    And mean that I am hissed, seriously hissed.

    There’s the cross-dressing shrink who gets more action than I could,
    Having to spend hours with a buzzsaw chopping wood,
    Marcie smirking about my chats with Ginny Lee again,
    While Unity sits drooling at the case that holds my brain,
    All the proper paperwork on which Sweetheart will insist,
    And it all makes me quite hissed! I’m getting really hissed!

    CHORUS: He’s got them on the list! He’s got them on the list!
    They make him really pissed! They make him really pissed!

    Now I’m chosen as a princess, ‘cos everyone knows that I’m “pure”,
    And assume I’ve not been kissed, I’ve got that on the list!
    Wearing a dress and tiara, I think you can be sure,
    That’s going on the list! It really makes me hissed!

    And it leads to many other things that drive me round the bend,
    Being acompanied by zombified animal friends,
    Willkins trying to tell me that I look good in a skirt,
    Having to learn the lyrics of W.S. Gilbert,
    And probably a hundred other things that I have missed,
    It all goes on the list! It all goes on the list!

    CHORUS: It all goes on the list! It all goes on the list!
    And it makes him really pissed! It makes him really pissed!

  13. rylen
    July 25, 2013, 7:13 am | # | Reply

    Aren’t all those critters also Unity? Will she remember what they went through when her stuff comes back home? Can she play Madrox the Multiple Man with hobos?

    • soft
      July 25, 2013, 8:54 am | # | Reply

      Yes, she does remember her experiences from being in other animals.

  14. soft
    July 25, 2013, 8:50 am | # | Reply

    I guess this one is lost one me… looked up The Mikado, so I understand now what that is… but not fitting the pieces together as to why it is (humorously) important to being a princess.

    • jdreyfuss
      July 25, 2013, 11:12 am | # | Reply

      It’s presumably the only thing Sweetheart knows that’s a musical involving princesses. It’s saying she’s a bureaucratic fuddy duddy with no inner child, kind of like that offhand comment from The West Wing where the president asks his chief of staff if he was born at age 55.

      • soft
        July 25, 2013, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

        Ah, right. Going back to UNITY telling Nick that everyone would chip in… makes sense now. I think… :p

      • Shadowmehr
        July 25, 2013, 8:12 pm | # | Reply

        Given that Sweetheart was engineered, not born, that comment might be more appropriate than it appears at first glance.

    • Dorcus
      July 25, 2013, 11:13 am | # | Reply

      It is ostensibly a satire of royalty, feudal law, and beauracracy. The female characters are all heavily objectified. Therefore CLEARLY…Yeah I got nonidea either. Maybe the wiki is just very poorly written and I’m missing some hugely obvious (to someone who actually knows the work) subtext or context.

      • OddManOut
        July 25, 2013, 11:27 am | # | Reply

        Heavily objectified singing females is sort of a hallmark for certain films revolving around Princesses.

        That and the Mikado is hilarious to watch.

  15. KeeCoyote
    July 25, 2013, 9:50 am | # | Reply

    You do know most Disney princesses films are musicals . So knowing a song style ala Gibert and Sulivan, or Buzzby Berkley Extravaganza is vital.

  16. j_f_rivkin
    July 25, 2013, 12:08 pm | # | Reply

    Shout-out to Daibhid C.: Nice one!
    I know the Mikado inside-out, and am not sure how it applies to princess-hood, but at least these are finally songs I recognize. (Well, I’m old, what do you want from me?)
    Now let’s see if I’ve figured out how to post this. . . .

  17. codebracker
    July 25, 2013, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

    Can someone explain to me what The Mikado is? I only heard of mikado which is a game of picking up sticks (i bet androids have real steady hands).

    • Diane Castle
      July 25, 2013, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

      “The Mikado” is one of the most famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas (at least in this era). There’s a version with Eric Idle that you may be able to find in pieces on YouTube or some other (legal) internet source, to give you a sense of it. But it’s not as directly related to this plot as, say, the songs from “Cinderella” or “Beauty and the Beast.”

  18. Marniferous
    July 25, 2013, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

    G&S in Skin Horse: It’s too much happiness! And the whole “civil service functionary” theme echo is just extra delicious! So in SH, who is Pooh-Bah and who Pish-Tush? And could Nick even say “Pish-Tush”?

    • Marniferous
      July 25, 2013, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

      Also, there are Other Things i should be doing, but my brain now will not stop trying to filk. “If you want to know what we do/We serve non-human sentients”; And OMG but “Here’s a how-de-do” is definitely ‘on my list’ 🙂

  19. soft
    July 25, 2013, 3:30 pm | # | Reply

    Reading many of people’s comments lately, I’m really starting to wonder if knowing nothing about Gilbert & Sullivan is leaving me at a slight disadvantage….

    • soft
      July 25, 2013, 3:32 pm | # | Reply

      Bah, no edit *baaaaad*….

      Ahem, for the record, I’m not asking for anyone to explain to me *who* they were. I’m just saying I’m not familiar with any of their work.

      • Rex Vivat
        July 25, 2013, 9:28 pm | # | Reply

        You’re not the only one.

      • Amonduul
        July 27, 2013, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

        Welcome to the club. We have a support group every Thursday. Bring your own snacks.

      • Amonduul
        July 27, 2013, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

        Welcome to the club. We have a support group meeting every Thursday. If you attend, please bring your own snacks.

  20. Tetra Valent
    July 25, 2013, 5:00 pm | # | Reply

    What’s the title of the book on top of the stack? “D—age”? Where’s Chris Ellmann when we need him?

    • Manifesta
      July 25, 2013, 5:18 pm | # | Reply

      I think it says “Peerage,” as in Debrett’s, which a princess would surely have to know.

      • Tetra Valent
        July 25, 2013, 10:18 pm | # | Reply

        Ah, that would explain the crown logo on the spine as well. Thanks!

  21. Robert The Addled
    July 25, 2013, 5:02 pm | # | Reply

    Why is he paper reading?

    I’m sure there is an E-version of Emily Post by now – other than the dress (poise can be practiced to achieve muscle memory in a virtual environment – since his muscles are artificial) he should be doing this Matrix style. Instantly knowing Kung Fu.

  22. rogerdane
    July 25, 2013, 6:16 pm | # | Reply

    please may I just give a cheer for Sweetheart’s expression in frame 3!

  23. Knuckles
    January 24, 2022, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

    Of course Sweetheart would bring the “well trained” portion of princess-ness to the fold.

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