A miracle baby
I named Lottie’s friend “Fizz” in tribute to a character from Eldorado, the BBC’s doomed early Nineties soap opera. Today, let’s dedicate a moment (40 seconds) to thinking about Eldorado, Fizz, and her new husband, Bunny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P3FaYWxYB8
Were this set in America, there would obviously need to be a visible disclaimer that the roasted coffee beans will not actually stop bullets.
But maybe they would sell branded, refillable Kevlar cups.
That’s just begging for a pedantic lawsuit.
Mugs shaped like empty shell casings. Sadly, that’s something that would totally sell here. Sell a lot.
Pretty sure Black Rifle Coffee Company already does that, yeah
But also if this was set in America, the disclaimer would be done in the over-used too-fast-to-understand legal voice-over that would also sneak in the caveat that drinking said coffee would not turn the consumer into a bullet-proof Super-like Man or Woman.
You apparently have never watched much American TV and certainly never anything broadcast on the CW. There is a thing I call Movie Logic and Movie Physics. It has nothing to do with reality and there are never any disclaimers.
After not-so-careful thought I must amend my statement. There are a few things that require disclaimers. That is advertisements for pharmaceuticals. They always have disclaimers.
Here is one song from a recent advertisement.
Austin Lounge Lizards – The Drugs I Need
I’ll do you one better, we have a Black Rifle Coffee Company. None of this pussyfooting around with stopping bullets.
Enough coffee beans in a bag would stop a bullet, depending on the caliber/type. Probably work better if they were tightly packed.
Most places where bullets are flying around aren’t places where there are a lot of coffee roasters, though, so that part would be mostly fantastical.
And they’re a bunch of weirdos. Sigh.
For some people the eventual off-screen death of Fizz was the highlight of Eldorado. Morbid buggers.
Should I have used spoiler tags?
Just don’t tell anyone what happened to Marcus Tandy and Pilar!!!
When I remember Pilar, my brain fills in Penelope Cruz in an Almodovar film. I suspect that she was not actually played by Penelope Cruz.
It looks like their coworker out front has the vapors.
See? I was right! It WAS Lottie’s sarcastic guess as to what the family meeting is all about!
To be fair, “Lottie being sarcastic” is a pretty safe bet for just about any line.
I once saw the headline “Geri Halliwell having a baby aged 44” which sounds like it would be a difficult birth
Pretty old baby that
With property costs so high these days, people are older and older when they move out of their parents.
I wonder if Fizz, in the last panel, is feeling sorry for the hypothetical old baby, or for the hypothetical dead conversation.
Another Ginger character. What do you think this is? The BBC?
A russet tone like that has nothing to do with being ginger
To quote Dame Edna:
“Your hair is a lovely colour, my dear. I don’t know, what would you call that – chestnut? Dark brown? What did it say on the box?”
Beautiful!!
Realistically, it’s been so long since my hair had much of any color it’s hard to say. But my mustache is still red, just to spite my white beard.
My hair’s still brown (mostly) but the beard is absolute white. When I shaved it off last year, I briefly looked like I was in my 50s. I also scared the kids, so I had to grow it back [snif].
Every once in a while I shave my beard off, but I generally don’t because I always seem to cut myself when I shave my chin. It’s not a big problem on the rest of my face though.
Currently my hair is much longer than I usually wear it, which means it’s about an inch long on the top while still being about 1/4 inch on the sides. When it gets this long some of the color starts coming back and I start looking like a surf-serf beach bum. If I shave off my facial hair too I actually look about 15-20 years younger. A somewhat dubious proposition for a man of my age.
Back when we were first married, my wife would occasionally prevail upon me to shave my beard, after which her immediate reaction would be “Uh, grow it back, please.” After three or so iterations of this cycle, I succeeded in reminding her of the inevitable result of such action, and it has now gone untroubled for roughly 35 years.
“auburn” hair they say here
Wasn’t Bunny one of Rod, Jane, & Freddy when I was small?
Yes, he replaced Matthew Corbett when M.C. went into the family puppet business. Due to artistic differences, Bunny (Roger?) was replaced by Freddy.
Always glad to see Lottie 🙂
I love Fizz & their single overall strap. great look. bold
I’m sure Lottie would be an amazing old sister. But don’t think that’s the case. Fizz looks like a very nice person.
Lottie was mentored by Shelley and Esther so I have all the confidence in the world for her as a big sister, though I also think a new addition to the family is a bit too predictable. Indeed Fizz seems nice though maybe a bit spacey.
Fizz seems great! I see wisdom and a loving heart there, even if they’re trapped underneath a few surface failings of Britane’s great educational system.
Lottie would be an amazing big sister, but I think good might be more open to interpretation.
Amazing in, say, the way getting caught in a gigantic avalanche holds a certain feeling of awe.
Fizz had an old baby? Is she Orkan like in Mork & Mindy?
I, ah, think Lottie’s referring to the hypothetical old baby from panel 2. Given the word these characters inhabit, though, I could be wrong.
I’m going to bet emigrating to Dubai. Lottie’s mom seems like the type to suddenly get the mad urge to wake up to a view of the Burj Khalifa every morning.
Harsh. Granted, she’s an estate agent, but still
I like Fizz’s one strap dungaree situation
Yes me too. When I was at university in the 70’s all the girls from the domestic science college (DOMSCI) wore dungarees, brightly coloured ones. Then they went out of fashion but when my daughter came to visit last Christmas she wore a pair. Very nice.
I’m a little late but where is her purple puffer. Why yellow
Much discussion of puffers to come in this story.
Unexpected descent into sheer puffery
This is exciting news for me.
She could be still in the proces of restocking her puffer collection after the cape incident, though that’s years ago
She was rocking the purple puffer in “Circus Windows”. It saved her from Grievous Bodily Harm! (Not the Horseman of the Apocalypse.)
Ah, Eldorado, a series whose greatest impact was the trailers which locked so many British minds into pronouncing Eldorado in a thick, Glaswegian accent.
The needle-sharp Eldorado reminiscences are one of the reasons I love the comments under my comics so much.
The old baby would not be the strangest thing in Tackleford, probably not make the front page of the Cormorant
NFT.
(They need to start calling the crypto scam something else. John A. has dibs on that acronym.)
As someone who has lifted a coffee bag, those don’t appear to be heavy enough. Lottie and Fizz don’t look like they’re lifting 60 kg bags. Either that or they are surprising swole.
Let me be very frank: while Lottie is now poppin’ and strong compared to her previous noodle-armed self, I don’t think I made this page “bullet proof”.
I am going to use “noodle-armed,” thank you.
Maybe it’s decaf.
Helium coffee
After you drink it does your voice get squeaky?
I mean, they have light beer…