Comments on: Professor Madblood and the Doppelganger Gambit: March 17-22, 2003

By: linkhyrule5

linkhyrule5 — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 17:02:59 +0000

Having been humming the Madblood song after the last few comics, I couldn’t help but notice that “Interloper! Body-snatcher! Unconvincing doppel-ganger!” fits the meter perfectly :p

By: Mental Mouse

Mental Mouse — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 11:19:14 +0000

In reply to Paul Anderson (pmanderson). I went to an Ignobel Prize ceremony once back in college; one of the awards was in fact shared between the guy who invented a way to project television onto a windshield... and the legislators who made it legal in that state.

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:31:24 +0000

@Carl: Thank you :)

@Robin: You're right, it should be the last line of the second stanza (actually the chorus).

You know what's worse? When I read Terry Pratchett's "Hogfather", and they had the scene in the Maul where the clockwork Children Of All Nations dolls singing "Wouldn't It Be Nice If Everyone Was Nice" ... naturally, my brain composed a tune and lyrics for that, so anytime I'm reminded of the song, I have two earworms running through my head.

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:31:23 +0000

Busted.

By: Carl Burke (cburke)

Carl Burke (cburke) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:31:22 +0000

...or 'See the small, small, gun', even. (Or whatever choice makes the first and last lines match.) Either way, it's a quibble; Ed slaves away on these excellent parodies day after day and hardly ever makes a false step.

By: Robin (fiddlerbird555)

Robin (fiddlerbird555) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:31:21 +0000

One of those last stanza lines (not sure which, though it’s more logical on the second) should be, “It’s a small, small, gun”

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:31:20 +0000

Saturday:

This entire week is so efficiently compartmentalised that it could perchance be snipped out wholesale with no ramifications. I assume that it was graciously left in because our author had already written and drawn the next 3 years of strips, and found herself six episodes short of a finish on 31/12/06.
Silent Penultimate Panels: 17.

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:31:19 +0000

Minor spoiler: Mell comments later on the mad-science workings of Madblood's pistol. It's definitely Freakin', just not Big enough. (Of course, now many many readers are making rude jokes about the size of Madblood's "weapon", ifyouknowwhatimean...)

(TUNE: "It's A Small World", Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman)

Though his gun's quite freaky, it's not too big,
But it makes you bleed like a slaughtered pig!
It will blow you away
Like the cricket of "J"!
What a small gun Madblood's got!

See the small gun Madblood's got!
Doppelganger will be shot!
Then he'll leave the corpse to rot!
What a small gun Madblood's got!

By: Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson)

Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:31:18 +0000

Yep – the Doctor’s “”jiggery pokery” on Rose’s mobile phone wasn’t broadcast until April 2005 – over two years later.

By: Paul Anderson (pmanderson)

Paul Anderson (pmanderson) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:31:17 +0000

Finding a logical purpose for it is for those sane scientists.Have I told you guys about the engineer who wanted to develop a windshield video system so you could check your e-mail while driving. Friend of mine asked him about safety, and he paused and said, "Hmmm, I'll have to think about that."