What A Great Big Spoofter
07-02-04
D: Four movie spoofs. There isn’t a lot to say about this one. I absolutely *love* the first panel. The second one, I’m just glad Mary didn’t see fit to include genitals under the skin-tight PVC, which would have made this into a horror arc in completely the wrong way. The third panel I’m sure Mary will cover. And the fourth I find most notable because Shakra seems to be dressed as Han Solo.

M: I HATE THE DR. STRANGELOVE PANEL! (But at least it includes Nail Bunny).

D: The fourth panel underwent a long process of deciding what punchline to use, one of the few bits I had input into in the whole arc. The mooted options were mostly Invader Zim references, although I liked the idea of a Monty Python ‘Dead Parrot’ punchline. The Mormons line was good as well, but I’m sure Mormons will take their turn at being the butt of jokes very soon.

M: I like the punchline we ended up with. Oh, and as for the PVC suit, the genitals are included in that picture, to scale, which of course means microscope require. And now I feel like Marge Simpson when she unveiled her portrait of Mr. Burns. "And thank you for not making fun of my genitalia." ... "I thought I did."

D: You’ll note all four of those movies have something in common: Kill Bill is a revenge/kung-fu flick; the Matrix is a sci-fi/action movie; Doctor Strangelove is a war/comedy; and Alien is a sci-fi/horror. All four transcend boundaries in the same way that Shit Happens bravely transcends the boundaries between… um, dick and fart jokes.

M: Ah, but Shit Happens does transcend the boundaries of webcomics. It includes the humour of most webcomics out there with dick and fart jokes and, in the case of MH, the melodrama of MegaTokyo, but without Shirt Guy Dom! You even have Diesel Sweeties' Red Robot's bastard cousin: killer robot driving instructor from the future who has travelled back in time for some reason! and soon, in-jokes more bizarre than S*P's.

D: You know, when you become a full-time Shit Happens team member, you won’t be allowed to talk the comic up any more. You’ll have to shuffle your feet and point out the bits you don’t like like I always do.

M: But I already did that. Remember the Horrible Monkey from day one of this arc? That Monkey!!!

D: That’s the spirit, dear.