ALWAYS key lock opener (even bathroom door knobs have a bypass key of some sort) available if you have children, even if they are grandchildren who sometimes visit. I talked my friend into keeping one near the bathroom “just in case”, and when her young grandson locked himself in she was able to unlock the door.
Total Panic! Every panel is So funny, from the Tragically Malicious leprechaun ( no lucky charms for him)……to Puck cursing the beautiful antique fixtures. Then finally, Natasha and Violet preparing to ride to the rescue! How do you do it, Georgia? Comic genius!
Heh… This isn’t the first time I’ve seen the “Tragically Malicious” joke, but I’m not sure I’d want to reference the material I’m thinking of here. XD;
Umm, Mr Leprechaun? Do you have any idea what Elvis is going to want to do to you when they do manage to get in there? Even if you don’t harm the children? You’d better be gone or have some powerful magic!
Most of the rooms in my old house – similar vintage as the Big Pink House – have locks on the doors. At some point, former owners painted over the bolts and they can’t be moved with anything resembling ease, if at all. Seeing the People scramble, I have to wonder if part of that may have been to avoid situations like this…
I LOVE the Robber Mice ladies prepping to run to the rescue! And can’t help wondering where the leprechaun was carrying those bagpipes.
When I was a wee child, we were getting ready to leave on a chilly, dew-filled morning. Church or some such. While going to the car I noticed several creatures grouped together, clinging on the side of the house. I only ever saw them from a distance. My father told me they were leprechauns. Freaked me out for many, many years! My older self now knows they were cicadas, grasshoppers or some other winged creatures. Still, my fear and amazement of those “leprechauns” comes back to me at the very thought!
Natasha and Violet to the rescue while the Man realizes the nursery door has a lock he never noticed before which Iguess can happen if you live in a big house built at least a century ago which has solid doors and appears to have a solid lock unlike your standard mid 20th century modern ranch houses like we have in FL which you can open with a credit card or flathead screwdriver. Elvis is beside himself as he feels he has failed to protect the Boy and the Girl.
I love the attention to detail Georgia provides: The glass door knob, the large keyhole, etc., which bring back memories of many years ago living in such houses.
Elvis is going spare. But what is that red thing the mouse is holding? It looks as though it has something beginning with “d” written on it, but the next letter isn’t an “o”.
Most bathroom doors have a simple hole in the outside knob. If you put a slender stick type thing in (a knitting needle is perfect) and push, keeping it level while turning the door knob the door will open. Practice now before there is an emergency. Other doors have a slot and I think that a coin will work. Simplest lock picking ever. Or send in the mice. ❤️
Let me tell the story of my own entrapment due to beautiful antique fixtures and how I managed to escape. Hmmm, some background info first: my house is almost 75 years old and things wear out after a while. At the time this happened, I was still working night shift.
The doorknobs on my bedroom door had always occasionally needed to be tightened but usually only about once a year or so when they got loosened. Right before this though, they weren’t staying tightened for long so a month or so before, after pondering it, I had decided to keep a flat head screw driver on the bedside table just in case it ever happened that I was inside and needed to do this. When my mother moved to a retirement community, she was giving me stuff and it so happened that her iron was mistakenly-on purpose put in a bag of clothes that I had then left in my bedroom. I kept meaning to take it back to her but hadn’t ever remembered it. I always keep my bedroom door latched to keep the cats out because — sleeping on night shift. My landline was outside in an inner hallway and my cellphone was in my purse in the living room.
Where is Natasha going? Out to save the day! Itty fists and bitty fury are no match for Natasha’s Needle of Vengeance. Not even bagpipe music can stand up to it.
Paddy: Let it go, Duff! They don’t have your gold!
Duffy: Don’t confuse me with facts! I know they have it somewhere!
Puckmosis: Wait here. I know someone who can help.
A few minutes later
Puckmosis: Duffy! I brought someone who can help with this situation.
Duffy: I’m not even listening to Baba-Stet!
Puckmosis: Not Baba! She’s over in Afar anyway.
Duff: Then who?
Thomios: Come on to the royal dining room! I’ve made a potato buffet, roast beef with popcorn, and chocolate everything for dessert! And I got out the cards and board games for afterwards!
Duffy: Well, I’ve never said no to corn, beef, and cribbage!
So when my nephew was four (and obsessed with firemen) and my niece was 18 months, she managed to get locked in the bathroom. My sister (who was alone with them at the time, her husband being at work), tried all of the things she knew of to get the door unlocked, while her daughter shrieked from inside and her son fussed anxiously nearby. Finally, she said, “I guess I’m going to have to call the fire department.”
My nephew’s face LIT UP, and he ran to his bedroom, put on his fireman Halloween costume, ran back, and started banging on the bathroom door with his plastic axe while my sister was on the phone.
This obviously did not help measures at all but it was a very funny story after the fact. (And soon after they had the doorknob replaced with one that did not have a lock!)
It’s not just children. We once had a cat isolated to recover from an injury and she managed to somehow hit the button that locked the spare room door from the inside. With us on the outside. Our knobs are theoretically the sort that can be opened with a small screwdriver, but in reality this didn’t work. So I broke the door down (and then put the molding back up and then created a cardboard collar for the knob that kept the button out of reach). The cat in question was a calico (high-drama), so par for the course.
I was accidentally locked in the room of an old house house when I was about 7-8 years old. A piece of a lovely antique knob like these came apart in my hand as I tried to open the door to get out. The rest of the knob became completely jammed in place, and I panicked at level “Keith Moon at a Holiday Inn” while others the house frantically tried to budge the knob. I don’t know how long I was in the room, but it felt like a lonnnng time before my poor baby sitter was able to get someone-forgotten-to-time (it may have been the landlord? Maybe a neighbor? I was in there for a while as many phone calls were made) who arrived, looked at the door, and took the whole thing off the hinges. It left a big impression evidently, lol!
Closer to this particular tale: The Boy accidentally locked himself and the Girl (then still the Baby) in their nursery when we lived in California. The Man rushed home from work to pick the lock open. This story is more closely based on that day since we had that “I didn’t know this room even had a lock!” moment that time. In our exhausted new parents defense: It was a new apartment, we’d just moved across the country with a toddler and a baby, the knob was a weird super sleek ultra modern affair… but toddlers find a way, lol! The Man took the entire door knob out, and it stayed like that until we moved and he put it back into place. After that, we’ve always made certain we had a key (and one of those long angled picks) to every knob in the house, day one.
The real Big Pink House had these beautiful old glass doorknobs (which were very similar to the one that came off in my hands as a child), so the moment in California with sleek modern doorknobs was combined with the antique fixture I encountered as a child.
I also have to share that “tragically malicious” is a joke Trevor’s Woman and I have made about various evil carnivorous trees and fae-folk-not-to-be-trusted since we were children. I’m so happy to have worked it into the comic somehow, I hope she saw that first panel and got a laugh, lol!
We have a house built in the 1920s…when we had the windows replaced a few years back the contractors had their own version of “Curse these beautiful antique fixtures!” (But I won’t repeat it here :) )
Trapped in the nursery with a vile baby raccoon disguising itself as a leprechaun, doing a good job of starting the war between the cats of the Big Pink House and leprechauns.
Sue Ellen about 3 years ago
Spiky vs Bitey! It’s going to be an epic battle!
RAGs about 3 years ago
ALWAYS key lock opener (even bathroom door knobs have a bypass key of some sort) available if you have children, even if they are grandchildren who sometimes visit. I talked my friend into keeping one near the bathroom “just in case”, and when her young grandson locked himself in she was able to unlock the door.
McColl34 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Natasha looks like she is thinking, “This is what I live for!”
infranscia about 3 years ago
Well hey! Looks like congrats for accurate predictions are in order. =D Good job, Sue Ellen. _ (And whoever else. =3)
deadheadzan about 3 years ago
Total Panic! Every panel is So funny, from the Tragically Malicious leprechaun ( no lucky charms for him)……to Puck cursing the beautiful antique fixtures. Then finally, Natasha and Violet preparing to ride to the rescue! How do you do it, Georgia? Comic genius!
infranscia about 3 years ago
Heh… This isn’t the first time I’ve seen the “Tragically Malicious” joke, but I’m not sure I’d want to reference the material I’m thinking of here. XD;
MrsXandamere about 3 years ago
If anyone needs me, I’m afraid I will be unavailable for all time, as I have laughed myself to death over “tragically malicious.”
McColl34 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Umm, Mr Leprechaun? Do you have any idea what Elvis is going to want to do to you when they do manage to get in there? Even if you don’t harm the children? You’d better be gone or have some powerful magic!
marilynnbyerly about 3 years ago
OMC, not bagpipes! Cat save us!
And the Robber Mice fans called it. Mice to the rescue! Yeah! Bitey-bitey meet Stabby-stabby.
All the old doors have the same key to open it. Go to an antique store and stock up for next time.
infranscia about 3 years ago
Anyone wanna bet this will be resolved without the Man or the Woman seeing the leprechaun? Or the robber mice?
Sionyx about 3 years ago
Most of the rooms in my old house – similar vintage as the Big Pink House – have locks on the doors. At some point, former owners painted over the bolts and they can’t be moved with anything resembling ease, if at all. Seeing the People scramble, I have to wonder if part of that may have been to avoid situations like this…
I LOVE the Robber Mice ladies prepping to run to the rescue! And can’t help wondering where the leprechaun was carrying those bagpipes.
Meranda about 3 years ago
When I was a wee child, we were getting ready to leave on a chilly, dew-filled morning. Church or some such. While going to the car I noticed several creatures grouped together, clinging on the side of the house. I only ever saw them from a distance. My father told me they were leprechauns. Freaked me out for many, many years! My older self now knows they were cicadas, grasshoppers or some other winged creatures. Still, my fear and amazement of those “leprechauns” comes back to me at the very thought!
WelshRat Premium Member about 3 years ago
Dude, how can you not know it has a lock? The hole is quite large. Now, who was saying the Cats should eat the Mice again..?
DorseyBelle about 3 years ago
I spy Robber Mice!! Wheeee!!!!
Ruth Brown about 3 years ago
Poor Elvis is in absolute agony. My poor, sweet, boy.
TampaFanatic1 about 3 years ago
Natasha and Violet to the rescue while the Man realizes the nursery door has a lock he never noticed before which Iguess can happen if you live in a big house built at least a century ago which has solid doors and appears to have a solid lock unlike your standard mid 20th century modern ranch houses like we have in FL which you can open with a credit card or flathead screwdriver. Elvis is beside himself as he feels he has failed to protect the Boy and the Girl.
El-Kabong about 3 years ago
Dramameter.
tkstuber about 3 years ago
I love the attention to detail Georgia provides: The glass door knob, the large keyhole, etc., which bring back memories of many years ago living in such houses.
Robin Harwood about 3 years ago
Elvis is going spare. But what is that red thing the mouse is holding? It looks as though it has something beginning with “d” written on it, but the next letter isn’t an “o”.
Jungle Empress about 3 years ago
Oh no, the Lucky Charms are now tragically malicious!
Do I sense a deus ex machina in the form of mice?
jewlie about 3 years ago
Most bathroom doors have a simple hole in the outside knob. If you put a slender stick type thing in (a knitting needle is perfect) and push, keeping it level while turning the door knob the door will open. Practice now before there is an emergency. Other doors have a slot and I think that a coin will work. Simplest lock picking ever. Or send in the mice. ❤️
jonesnori Premium Member about 3 years ago
What’s with Lupin’s mustache in panel 1?
crazymom34_2000 about 3 years ago
Yes! Robber mice to the rescue!
cat19632001 about 3 years ago
Is this the first time we’ve seen a shot of BCN being watched on TV?
cat19632001 about 3 years ago
“Curse these beautiful antique fixtures!”
Let me tell the story of my own entrapment due to beautiful antique fixtures and how I managed to escape. Hmmm, some background info first: my house is almost 75 years old and things wear out after a while. At the time this happened, I was still working night shift.
The doorknobs on my bedroom door had always occasionally needed to be tightened but usually only about once a year or so when they got loosened. Right before this though, they weren’t staying tightened for long so a month or so before, after pondering it, I had decided to keep a flat head screw driver on the bedside table just in case it ever happened that I was inside and needed to do this. When my mother moved to a retirement community, she was giving me stuff and it so happened that her iron was mistakenly-on purpose put in a bag of clothes that I had then left in my bedroom. I kept meaning to take it back to her but hadn’t ever remembered it. I always keep my bedroom door latched to keep the cats out because — sleeping on night shift. My landline was outside in an inner hallway and my cellphone was in my purse in the living room.
Okay, I think that’s set the stage.
cat19632001 about 3 years ago
Where is Natasha going? Out to save the day! Itty fists and bitty fury are no match for Natasha’s Needle of Vengeance. Not even bagpipe music can stand up to it.
Gent about 3 years ago
Oh no. Not them. Not the mangy harbingers of the plague. Woe is we.
Aspen_Bell about 3 years ago
Those would be uilleann pipes. We’re doomed.
deojaideep aka Courage about 3 years ago
The robber mice girls to the rescue!!
ChristopherBacon about 3 years ago
Remember girls, a Rogue’s most potent battle tactic is Backstab!
Tigrisan Premium Member about 3 years ago
This entire story line is absolutely wonderful! Laughed myself silly over today’s strip again.
LarryWestby about 3 years ago
I’ve heard of the Tragically Hip (RIP Gord Downie) but not the Tragically Malicious.
Major Matt Mason Premium Member about 3 years ago
(Cue Mice-ion: Impossible theme)
Kitty Katz about 3 years ago
Meanwhile, Back on the Nile
Paddy: Let it go, Duff! They don’t have your gold!
Duffy: Don’t confuse me with facts! I know they have it somewhere!
Puckmosis: Wait here. I know someone who can help.
A few minutes later
Puckmosis: Duffy! I brought someone who can help with this situation.
Duffy: I’m not even listening to Baba-Stet!
Puckmosis: Not Baba! She’s over in Afar anyway.
Duff: Then who?
Thomios: Come on to the royal dining room! I’ve made a potato buffet, roast beef with popcorn, and chocolate everything for dessert! And I got out the cards and board games for afterwards!
Duffy: Well, I’ve never said no to corn, beef, and cribbage!
diskus Premium Member about 3 years ago
Lupin on the tube. Wonder what channel carries BCN? Thats one newscast I might watch
Santana about 3 years ago
Their cell phone TV gets good reception
They heard Lupin’s news firsthand
We hoped they would make the connection
Between panic and that tiny man
No, you can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
We can’t always get what we want
But if we try sometime we find
These mice are what we need
’Tasha & Vi are thieves so fun & kind
Tools of the trade in their hands
We know they’re ready and don’t mind
To help the very best that they can
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
We can’t always get what we want
But if we try sometimes, well, we might find these
Robber ladies are just what we need
(Keith Richards / Mick Jagger – You Can’t Always Get What You Want)
rs0204 Premium Member about 3 years ago
OMC There is so much going on in this strip, in just 4 panels.
And the signal goes out to the latest hero(s) to take up the cape and cowl (or jacket and needles) of justice as the GOLDEN MOUSE.
Will they arrive in time?
Can the children be saved?
This would be so much better with dramatic music!
Tune in next time, same mouse time, same mouse channel!
artchick530 about 3 years ago
I can’t read “tragically malicious” without the Lucky Charms music playing in my head!
Deezlebird about 3 years ago
Tragically malicious! That cracked me up!
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 3 years ago
Well, someone appears to be ready to rumble.
YulanaLow about 3 years ago
Love that “tragically malicious” subtitle!
Michael G. about 3 years ago
Pay attention, Orbsters!
cat19632001 about 3 years ago
Quick, Man, hurry and try all the keys! The tiny bagpipe music is getting louder!
SunflowerGirl100 about 3 years ago
Tomorrow is Sunday! We won’t find out What Happens Next until Monday! Arrrgh!!!!
cat19632001 about 3 years ago
Is that “Georgia Dunn” brand doll furniture that the mice have repurposed? And that looks like someone’s “lost” cell phone being used as the TV.
Miss Mina about 3 years ago
Robber mice to the rescue! Natasha was born for this!
sdjamieson Premium Member about 3 years ago
Yesterday, it was “Donna care for it.” Today, bagpipes. We might have one of those rare Scottish leprechauns here!
Darth Thespian about 3 years ago
Sorry to be “that guy” but why is the Irish Leprechaun playing tiny Scottish bagpipes?
scyphi26 about 3 years ago
Leprechaun hunting, I’d assume.
lisamaesie about 3 years ago
So when my nephew was four (and obsessed with firemen) and my niece was 18 months, she managed to get locked in the bathroom. My sister (who was alone with them at the time, her husband being at work), tried all of the things she knew of to get the door unlocked, while her daughter shrieked from inside and her son fussed anxiously nearby. Finally, she said, “I guess I’m going to have to call the fire department.”
My nephew’s face LIT UP, and he ran to his bedroom, put on his fireman Halloween costume, ran back, and started banging on the bathroom door with his plastic axe while my sister was on the phone.
This obviously did not help measures at all but it was a very funny story after the fact. (And soon after they had the doorknob replaced with one that did not have a lock!)
Anna-Tiger about 3 years ago
Natasha is off to pick a lock!
ltrauth about 3 years ago
It’s not just children. We once had a cat isolated to recover from an injury and she managed to somehow hit the button that locked the spare room door from the inside. With us on the outside. Our knobs are theoretically the sort that can be opened with a small screwdriver, but in reality this didn’t work. So I broke the door down (and then put the molding back up and then created a cardboard collar for the knob that kept the button out of reach). The cat in question was a calico (high-drama), so par for the course.
mewwo about 3 years ago
OT Yen
Catmom about 3 years ago
Blue Iris, good job on updating Wikipedia!
prrdh about 3 years ago
As the Ninja Mouse Warriors don their katanas…
mistercatworks about 3 years ago
If only the leprechaun could use his malicious grump for good instead of evil. That’s the tragedy.
“Cupidity sours the soul.” (Hey, just made that one up.)
ronaldalbertansley about 3 years ago
house of crazy pets and crazy peoples too !
BluebelleCat about 3 years ago
Robber Mice to the Rescue!
Hedgehog about 3 years ago
OT
Mountaingreenery about 3 years ago
Saints preserve us from bouncing leprechauns with tiny bagpipes. :D
Georgia Dunn creator about 3 years ago
I was accidentally locked in the room of an old house house when I was about 7-8 years old. A piece of a lovely antique knob like these came apart in my hand as I tried to open the door to get out. The rest of the knob became completely jammed in place, and I panicked at level “Keith Moon at a Holiday Inn” while others the house frantically tried to budge the knob. I don’t know how long I was in the room, but it felt like a lonnnng time before my poor baby sitter was able to get someone-forgotten-to-time (it may have been the landlord? Maybe a neighbor? I was in there for a while as many phone calls were made) who arrived, looked at the door, and took the whole thing off the hinges. It left a big impression evidently, lol!
Closer to this particular tale: The Boy accidentally locked himself and the Girl (then still the Baby) in their nursery when we lived in California. The Man rushed home from work to pick the lock open. This story is more closely based on that day since we had that “I didn’t know this room even had a lock!” moment that time. In our exhausted new parents defense: It was a new apartment, we’d just moved across the country with a toddler and a baby, the knob was a weird super sleek ultra modern affair… but toddlers find a way, lol! The Man took the entire door knob out, and it stayed like that until we moved and he put it back into place. After that, we’ve always made certain we had a key (and one of those long angled picks) to every knob in the house, day one.
The real Big Pink House had these beautiful old glass doorknobs (which were very similar to the one that came off in my hands as a child), so the moment in California with sleek modern doorknobs was combined with the antique fixture I encountered as a child.
Doorknobs, man, …I don’t trust them. Lol!
Georgia Dunn creator about 3 years ago
I also have to share that “tragically malicious” is a joke Trevor’s Woman and I have made about various evil carnivorous trees and fae-folk-not-to-be-trusted since we were children. I’m so happy to have worked it into the comic somehow, I hope she saw that first panel and got a laugh, lol!
cat19632001 about 3 years ago
Panel four – BoMH
jwarrenphd about 3 years ago
You go Girls!
Map_One about 3 years ago
do the Irish play bagpipes?
Erin Pierce about 3 years ago
We have a house built in the 1920s…when we had the windows replaced a few years back the contractors had their own version of “Curse these beautiful antique fixtures!” (But I won’t repeat it here :) )
BillJackson2 about 3 years ago
OT: Roscoe… and…
asrialfeeple about 3 years ago
FAITH AN’ BEGORRAH!!! NAE TINY BAGPIPES!!!!
about 3 years ago
Gasp! Hurry before it’s too late!
knight1192a about 3 years ago
Trapped in the nursery with a vile baby raccoon disguising itself as a leprechaun, doing a good job of starting the war between the cats of the Big Pink House and leprechauns.
maggijoseph Premium Member about 3 years ago
Nobody expects Natasha and Violet!!
Mr. Reader about 3 years ago
(mission impossible music starts playing)