10/02/2013
I feel inclined to blame Nickelodeon for my frequent use of fart gags…well, 90’s Nickelodeon, anyway (flatulence on Nick these days now falls into the “You Can’t Do That On Television” category, and I don’t mean that in the ‘slime-on-the-head-for-saying-I-Don’t-Know’ sense).
…or maybe I’m just a woefully immature cartoonist.
Bah. Don’t blame TV like a numb-headed politician, Adian … OWN IT! Be proud! 😀
I blame the TV for every scandal in my life, from the stealing of taxpayers’ money to the dead secretary in my car trunk. Television is to blame, I say! TELEVISION!
You create a guy called El Disgusto, sooner or later a fart joke magically turns up in the script. It is simply the way of things.
Trust me, there are infinitely worse things he could be doing right now. A fart will seem like a cheerful ‘good morning’ compared to what he’s capable of doing…
…the way that first panel’s drawn up makes me wonder if one head can tell what the other’s thinking, or if she can carry a conversation on with herself, and so many other things. Seriously, one of these days maybe you oughta set aside some time to detail out just how the hell Jemini’s two-heads thing actually works…
It’s tricky, and I’d be lying if I said I had it worked out completely. Regarding telepathy between the heads, no, that’s unlikely. They just think along the same wavelength (not in the psychic sense), because they’re pretty much identical. Does that sound right?
In any case, I totally agree with you, it’s something that should be delved into in the future.
In panel two, I think you left a little something out in the bog speech bubble at the top. Something’s missing…hmmm….of course! You’re missing “GWOA HO HO!”
Sorry, not “bog” speech bubble, I meant “big” speech bubble.
I think the scene calls for a high-pitched ‘girlie giggle’. “Tee hee hee heeeee!”
Actually, maybe I should have included that!
I laugh at farts
Huh huh huh…you said ‘farts’.
I LOVED “You Can’t Do That on Television!” Perhaps it was just a call from my Canadian peoples… I seem to have quite the ancestral heritage from Canadia. In any case… fart away, Aidan… fart away.
I remember very little of the show, but just enough to know that it was funny for kid audiences at the time (was there ever a kids’ show before it that could even say the word “barf”, let alone have it be the name of a recurring character?).
I suppose seeing it again is just a YouTube search away, although I get the feeling it’s nowhere near as entertaining as my childhood memories would have me believe.
……..i’ve been looking at that picture for half an hour….that looks like perfectly normal guard behavior, i mean you are the only one on the plane what are they supposed to do? hassle the pilot? better have fun on the job right?
Hassling the pilot means you better make damned sure that s/he a) has the patience of a Buddhist turtle, b) isn’t suicidal (goodbye plane!), and c) doesn’t know the Vulcan neck pinchy.
That reminds me, I’ve been wondering who the pilot is–someone loyal to Jemini, someone brought in by Noah, or just a third party with no importance to anything? If one of the first two, I’m sure we’ll find out!
Who is the pilot? Who is serving the salted peanuts? Who is the furry guy on the wing of the plane? Oh…wait, that’s just your standard gremlin.
Well, whoever the hell is flying the plane, let’s just hope s/he isn’t as corrupt or vile as the would-be bodyguards!
Actually what a guard is supposed to do on these ‘one passenger flights’ is essentially become part of the wallpaper, serve drinks and snacks (after checking them) and periodically check on the mark (IE who you’re guarding). With modern planes having cockpits seperate from the rest of the vehicle, you don’t even have to check on the pilots anymore other than the occasional intercom call. Few of these types of flight have any crew besides pilots, so you get to be used as an air host/ess. Some jobs you even get to talk to the mark, although honestly I prefer not doing so 9 out of 10 times.
So a bodyguard is basically now a butler who catches bullets? Oy! Talk about a thankless job! I really hope they pay these men and women well for all of the work that they do (any job that requires serving peanuts and taking gunshots is probably too much for my meager patience)!
I can only imagine it gets worse if your mark is a douche. It makes it all the worse if you risk critical injury (or fatality) to save their poopy selves!
Trust me, if I could find work that would pay my legal fees in any other industry I’d do it. Gravedigging, disarming explosives, mining plutonium, whatever. Unfortunately I don’t have the qualifications for anything else and I need a lot of money, so here I am. Combination secretary, butler, air hostess, bullet soak, leg breaker and object of sexual harassment. Of course, sometimes it’s not bad, and for some of the hollywood types it’s mostly keeping the fans in line. I wish I had their client list!
Related to slime: Uh Oh! was the greatest gameshow of all time.
Never heard of that one. Was that on Nickelodeon or another network?
You can dress ’em up but you just can’t take a Miscreant anywhere, can ya?
No kidding! El Disgusto has already messed up that rented tux!
I think I’d rather have snakes on a plane than a cabin full’a farts. Pee-yooooo!
Where’s Samuel L. Jackson when you need him? Well, he’s probably screaming at someone with a gun pointed to their head…and then he’ll go act in a movie! Wonk wonk!