Who remembers The Tick?

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Was it as good as I remember?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

i remember. i can confirm that it was superb. better than you remember, even...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

the comic was pretty good. Multiple Santa was a great villain.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

watched it on a plane high on valium. you could have shown me pictures of war carnage and i would have thought it was 'pretty good', though.

― doom-e, Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh the Tick. What an ace thing it was, hampered immensely on UK TV by being moved around timewise every single week. Was it teatime viewing for the kidz, was it late evening viewing for geeks, ect ect... My favourite villain was El Seed and his vile vegetative plotting.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

i remember bi-polar bear

― zemko (bob), Thursday, 16 January 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm wondering whether the readers of this thread are split between young Americans (young americans!) who are suprised that the English have a fondness for that short-lived live action series from last year, and old Europeans who are slightly confused that anyone remembers the cartoon series from nine years ago.

The comic = classic, though the many spin-offs have rather taken the bloom off the rose.

The animated series = classic also.

The live action show = ??? Though it has Patrick Warburton, so I can well believe that it rocks at least partly.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 16 January 2003 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

All three = CLASSIC.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 January 2003 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!"

only seen the cartoon, but totally classic

― michael (michael), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's all about the Evil Bomber What Bombs at Midnight.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It was greiait/ the real life Brendon Small is a fan. I recall a highly sublime party episode/what was the name of that woman in the show?/I'm not sure if she was one of the bad guys but the Tick was certainly intimidated by her/he + his sidekick (Arthur?) clumsily crashed the party/they should bring this show back with episodes solely consisting of The Tick and Arthur(?) sitting in a bar drinking coffee discussing the former lives/an equivalent of the huge fuck-off independence of later Sister Sister episodes/asides in the conversation would be thorough mockings/dissection of Sister Sister but a overly pop culture-referencing slant would be a mistake/The Tick's blue would be thicker/opening line of first episode: "I am a thicker Tick" and other such boasting to the barman pre-Arthur's arrival/a vital factor in each episode's plot wd undoubtedly the fact that one of these graceful arrives before his partner.

The invention of "b4" in txt msg was too obvious/unfitting - another topic for the fuckers to discuss.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Friday, 17 January 2003 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Comic = classic

Voices in cartoon - somewhat dud, didn't really work for me

MSFT's resurrection of Arthur to sell MSN - classic without realizing

― Tom Millar (Millar), Friday, 17 January 2003 03:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Pisstaking Batman and Strauss in the same character = classic.

― B.Rad (Brad), Friday, 17 January 2003 03:23 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread is really making me want to buy a probably non-existent 48790237.99 euro DVD of all the episodes.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Friday, 17 January 2003 03:26 (twenty-three years ago)

'Get him little Wooden Boy!'

'Hi, we're The Rake and this is Bucket head.'
'I've never seen you guys before'
'We're from Ohio'
'Oh, OK'

It makes me very happy that its in reruns on the Toon Network.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Was Man-Eating Cow a Tick spin off?

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, it was. Yet another example of its brilliance.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The cartoon was magnificent! Crappy superheroes are just about my favourite topic in the world. Taft! Das Fliedermaus! (?)

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

American Maid seemed to be the only one with half her wits.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

American Maid was the boring one.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but you need a straight character for the insane ones to bounce off of. Arthur and American Maid made the others even funnier.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

There was an annual for some comedy prog written by Renwick and Marshall (I think after Whoops Apocalypse) that had crap superheroes in it. They interviewed a guy to be on their super team, and his power was to "sit down... at will". i think the strip was called "Attack of the giant slanty block capitals"

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Bat Manuel = my favorite character name, evah

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 17 January 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

BATMANUEL!

― John Justen, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

American Maid

― Abbott, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

so, aside from that, i never saw the cartoon version of this, only the live action (which was awesome). is the cartoon funny in a non-kiddie-conversion way?

― John Justen, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

by cartoon, i mean animated series, obv.

― John Justen, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

The cartoon is funny.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

The cartoon captures the spirit of the book very well, I thought.

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

Arthur is one of my favorite characters ever.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

I liked Die Fledermaus in the animated series more than Batmanuel in the live action series, but Nestor Carbonell is a pretty underrated comic talent.

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

i never saw the cartoon version of this

You deprived child.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

i had no idea there was a live-action version!

but the cartoon's like in the shops and stuff: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510ytPGnIWL._SS500_.jpg

i loved it.

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Arthur is a moth. You see.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

[honk if you love justice]

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

'we just wanted to see what monkeys would be like... in space...' 'i'll tell you what monkeys are like in space -- very angry!!'

― and what, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

'now, is this the biggest prescription you ever filled?' 'well, i uh made a giant cough drop once' 'and how big was that?' 'the size of a quarter'

― and what, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

'Special delivery! Oh, Arthur! The thrill of modern postism!'

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

SPOOOOONNN!

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

i bought the tick dvds only to find out my favourite episode - the World's Most Comfortable Chair one - was not included! what gives!?

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 23:24 (eighteen years ago)

"Hey kids: READ A BOOK"

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

the live action one is streamable on hulu.com

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 7 February 2008 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Finally watching the live-action Tick on Hulu (still there). It has its problems- really static direction, a lot of the production design and costumes are just ugly as sin, but when it worked it worked. Superhero/sidekick gay jokes- been done. Superhero/sidekick gay jokes with Ron Perlman and proto Venture-Bros. dialogue ("Mandingo, how I grok your mouth-music!")- much better.

A lot of jokes from Venture Bros. seem to have gotten a dry run on this show, like the episode where Rusty and the Pirate Captain keep using band names as exclamations of surprise ("Ladysmith Black Mambazo!"/"Jesus Jones!"/etc, "Bachman Turner Overdrive!" here).

― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:55 (sixteen years ago)

BATMANUEL!

― Shower to the sheeple! (jjjusten), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:50 (sixteen years ago)

the Protoclown episode of the cartoon show is all-time

― randomized what nots (latebloomer), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:54 (sixteen years ago)

psst

― randomized what nots (latebloomer), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:57 (sixteen years ago)

oh god both shows ruled so hard, just added the dvds to my queue

― Dr. Algernod Goon (some dude), Thursday, 28 January 2010 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

seven years pass...

So they basically turned The Terror into Rick Sanchez for the new show. I approve!

― oder doch?, Monday, 4 September 2017 13:32 (eight years ago)

Total newbie to this. I didn't realise that the new series was based on an existing comic book. How much of The Tick is based on the comic book and how much is Peter Serafinowicz as it plays to his strengths fantastically.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, 4 September 2017 14:30 (eight years ago)

i haven't seen the new amazon adaptation but the comic-book/animated-series version of the character is a self-important, borderline-delusional blowhard, which seems v much in serafinowicz's wheelhouse

― Wesley Shackleton explained "look at that beast." (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 September 2017 15:04 (eight years ago)

He is fully delusional in the Amazon version. But also kind-hearted and indestructible.

― oder doch?, Monday, 4 September 2017 15:08 (eight years ago)

yeah he is really kind-hearted to Arthur, pretty nice to see he's like a kinder batman

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 4 September 2017 19:57 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

I should have known better than to tweet about end of The Tick on Amazon Prime; now my mentions are filling with #SaveTheTick and links to slashfic.

― Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 21:33 (seven years ago)

someone really should save the tick though

― Accidentally Gets High By Touching LSD Left in Vintage Buchla (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 21:54 (seven years ago)

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