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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Malc on November 25, 2007, 02:19:38 AM
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I always say that if a cartoon gag idea works, it can be described, you don't have to draw it.
I'm going to describe a couple here and you lot can tell me if they work.
There's another angle to this, if you can bear it. Sometimes, one idea kicks you off in a similar direction, so I've written two versions of the same joke, and a third version which slingshotted off the first two. The second version requires you to know that Crocodile Dundee is played by Paul Hogan.
1) A cat and a dog are canoodling in bed together. The cat's husband, obviously just home from work, surprises them. He glares at his wife and says: "is that all you can say - 'miaow'"?
2a) An iconic Aussie bushman is sitting at a dinner table. He holds up an outsize, odd-looking utensil. A speech balloon above his head has him saying: "Nah, that's not a spork. THAT'S a spork"
The strapline reads; 'This was the last time Marie would ask Crocodile Dundee to her mother's.'
2b) An ageing comedy actor is sitting at a table alongside a drunk lady who is saying "That's not a spoon, THAT's a spoon".
The strapline reads "Paul Hogan was getting tired of his public"
2c) A doctor and his patient, a revered Shakespearean actor lately reduced to taking a part in Lord Of The Rings, sit across from each other. The doctor is declaiming theatrically "It shall not pass!"
The strapline is: "Sir Ian McKellan failed to see why his constipation was a source of amusement."
3) A workman has pulled a cupboard away from the wall to reveal a huge hole behind it. He is saying to the householder (a woman) "this is where they're getting in".
The strapline reads: "Mrs Thewlis was shocked to find she had rhinos"
That'll do for now.
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Not sure, Malcolm. Can we see pencils?
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Well bang goes THAT theory..
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I loved the "spork" gag----I'm not even sure it needs a strapline. It's such a famous scene that most people will remember it.
I was once asked to write some cartoons on a space theme for a children's annual. This was round 1978/79. I sketched an astronaut standing at a counter in a N.A.S.A. canteen. The woman serving him is saying "May the forks be with you".
The editor looked at it and said " Well, it makes sense now but, remember, it will be a year before this appears. Everyone will have forgotten "Star Wars" by then".
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I've been down that road too, I have a gag (tried to upload it but my weblog site is totally duff) which is a forerunner of the ideas on this thread, showing a bemused Luke Skywalker at a very posh dinner party hearing a disembodied voice saying "use the fork, Luke..."
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I've been forced (due to total lack of co-operation from you lot) to actually draw up one of the ideas.
I STILL don't know if it works. All I know is it made me laugh the instant I thought of it, and never afterwards, same as everything I've ever drawn..
(http://malcmcgookin.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/pg-miaow.gif)
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Is miaow a question?
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VERY funny---and I love the touch with the discarded dog collar on the floor.
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I only asked for pencils.
Love it!
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I love the discarded dog-collar too, but I was confused about the joke because I thought it was an OWL and a dog in bed. I was wondering why one of them would say "miaow". (I had to go back to your earlier description).
It's a great drawing anyway.
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I love the discarded dog-collar too, but I was confused about the joke because I thought it was an OWL and a dog in bed. I was wondering why one of them would say "miaow". (I had to go back to your earlier description).
It's a great drawing anyway.
Peepmaster - an OWL and a DOG; how sick can you get!
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I love the little feet poking up.
Why do we assume the dog is male and the cat is female?
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Interesting point about the owl.
Everyone else is already aware that the "female" character in the bed is a cat, so I might need to make her eyes smaller.
I made them big so that she would look more female.
And surprised.
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I must have been thinking sub-conciously about the Owl and the Pussy Cat and Huckleberry Hound.
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I must have been thinking sub-conciously about the Owl and the Pussy Cat and Huckleberry Hound.
Come on Mince - spelling! Come on!
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[whisper]Pssst, Fydo, you're really asking for it, with that missed comma, mate.[/whisper]
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I did "tut" quietly and shake my head, but I thought I ought to lay off correcting people's English ever since Tarquin nastily shouted at me that he was not one of my "friggin'" students.
By the way, it should be "Come on, Mince." - comma for addressing someone.
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LOL!
I should type more quickly. Tarquin beat me to it.
He's learnt a lot from me.
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I did "tut" quietly and shake my head, but I thought I ought to lay off correcting people's English ever since Tarquin nastily shouted at me that he was not one of my "friggin'" students.
I didn't shout. I merely spoke with increased urgency.
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Well, I hope you feel guilty now and let me win the Christmas competition.
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He's learnt a lot from me.
True. You're the bestest teacher what I know.
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Well, I hope you feel guilty now and let me win the Christmas competition.
Doesn't anyone want to win this thing fairly and squarely on merit?
And, no - I don't.
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Doesn't anyone want to win this thing fairly and squarely on merit?
Oh, okay, give me my money back.
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Oh, okay, give me my money back.
Why? You wanting to sell the Monopoly set on ebay?
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I am SO happy I passed the judging buck.(Or the bucking judge).
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I am SO happy I passed the judging buck.(Or the bucking judge).
Bucking Judge is rrrrright!
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Judge Bucky. There's a series there.
Two respondents front up to court with a real case they want settled. They each have to ride a bucking bronco. The one who stays on the longest wins the case.
How about Judge Malky? - buxom ladies with real cases against each other front up to court. They each have to ride Judge Malky. To be honest I don't know how I'd settle the cases, but it's all about the journey, eh?...
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Can I see pencils, Malky?
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*Sid James laugh* Hyar hyar hyar...