May 22nd, 2020
22 May 2020 · page 989 of 1306
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Eliza Swift, Gren, Pemberton Pryce
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Return of Fifi, the frenchiest frenchwoman in the entire world (except France). I don't even speak french and her attempt at it still makes me wince.
I've seen worse
I am scared now.
Ah sed we already haaf one, you seely Eenglish kaniggit!
Vat waz zat?
Eet's verra nice.
In an episode of The Goodies Graeme Garden makes a phone call to a Frenchman. He begins "Pissoir, monsieur..."
tbh that one would go unnoticed. I used to begin phone calls with "une bourriche d'huîtres, bonjour" instead of announcing any real service I was working for. People fill in the blanks with what they are used to hear.
The rest of Graeme's call is similarly-garbled mock French {like the Swedish Chef's mock Swedish...}
In Mars Attacks, the president of the US calls the president of france and begins speaking broken english with a thick french accent. Meanwhile, the president of france carries on his half of the conversation in fluent, very lightly accented english.
I like how Eliza suddenly remembered she was Fifi, and Ben's ninja acknowlegement of it.
Now, wait a minute, this is not how a French...
(remembers some mangled English sentences I uttered - that's how I learned the meaning of 'double Dutch'))
(oh, and I forgot that one. And oh boy, that one. And...)
Ahem. Never mind me, carry on.
Say, didn't we already have seen that fellow who just entered?
The guy who just came in is the one who was following them earlier. He was last seen chasing the carriage he thought they had gotten into.
Fairport Convention {yes, that's where it comes from} in their early days, when they were doing a lot of covers, mostly of American songs, released [an album in 1969](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhalfbricking" "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhalfbricking"") with three Dylan songs - at least one of which which Dylan hadn't yet released, and wouldn't for many years.
If you just glance at the [track listing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhalfbricking#Track_listing "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhalfbricking#Track_listing"), you'd probably spot only TWO Dylan tracks.
But "[Si tu dois partir](https://youtu.be/AmmCSOpPzZc "https://youtu.be/AmmCSOpPzZc")" is a "Franglish" version of Dylan's "If You Gotta Go, Go Now" that they and the audience worked up one night when they were bored...
"Ha! First you insult my professional ability by sending a goon to trail me, so I have to show you how good I am by giving him the slip. Then, just as I'm about to grab the wizard, your other goon comes blundering in and lets him get away! I'll say there's something fishy going on. Why are you trying to stop me doing the job you hired me to do?!"
A great bluff, and one I hope Eliza thinks of, because we've seen that Ben is not great at lying on the spot :P
Her proposed solution is to not be on the spot.
Also, when put on the spot she came up with Fifi. So.
I was really hoping to find a GIF of C-3PO saying "we're doomed", as a response, but no luck.
does that guy, like, just live in the fridge ?
He's secretly a troll
Now maybe Mal is going to have to save Ben and Eliza instead.
I'm wondering if Knotty and Will might turn up instead (or in addition). Eliza wanted them to look something up, which might have been about Pryce.
Don't leave the freezer door open! You want ice cream soup?
.... yes?
Only if it has graham crackers and chocolate in it. Helps ease out the coldness.
Many years ago, i read a memoir by Jack Parr. He described a night that their electricity went off at home.
What neither he nor his wife knew was that their daughter had bough like a case of assorted Good Humor bars and put them in the chest freezer downstairs.
After the power had been off a day or so, he said, they had a new Good Humor flavour: pot luck.
I take it this was before they started packaging ice cream bars in plastic wrappers
Oh, yeah. Sometime in the early 60s at the latest.
Researching a little, i see that the book {I Kid You Not} was published in 1961, so the incident had to be sometime in the 50s, i guess.
Technically what she's saying is correct, soo
You know, they could have a decent run as a touring show.
I'd pay to see them.
Fishy? In a pork warehouse? I should hope not!
I'm not sure what's more amazing: just how extra Eliza can be or how effective a tactic it is.
I love the goon's expression in the first panel. The expressions are so consistently good throughout that it's easy to forget, but his mildly annoyed they even tried that is a treasure.