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Drs. Who and Seuss mashed together

As a parent who has read every single opus in the Seuss oeuvre multiple times, and as a parent of at least one such youngster who has since graduated to Dr Who fandom, today’s Sluggy had a special je ne sais quoi. Some of those books would have benefitted from the addition of Daleks, especially that promoter of parental abuse, Hop on Pop.

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  1. says

    If you see Bob, or Sue, or Alex
    Tell them to avoid the Daleks
    They do not like; they only hate,
    And always yell “Exterminate!”
    A Dalek kills
    It kills for thrills
    In Dalek dales and Dalek hills
    And here’s some news
    They hate the Whos
    Whichever Doctor you may choose!
    From then to now, from now to then,
    Doctor Who is everywhen!

  6. Janine says

    Since when do Daleks command non-Dalek lifeforms to start life instead of ending life? It’s the end of the Daleks as I know it.(And I feel fine.)

  7. Carlie says

    Since when do Daleks command non-Dalek lifeforms to start life instead of ending life?

    Maybe that was Dalek-Sec in disguise.

    [/geek]

  12. FishyFred says

    Just FYI to everyone, yesterday was Dr. Seuss’s 104th birthday, and today was “Dr. Seuss Day.” If you have a small child in elementary school, ask them if they read a Seuss book today :)

  13. RamblinDude says

    And who can forget the lesson he teaches
    When the good Doctor goes to the land of “The Sneetches”?

    In the guise of Sylvester McMonkey McBean,
    And the Tardis becomes a star-making machine!

    On that planet, no Daleks to be seen through the Hubble,
    The enemy within was the source of the trouble,

    But the Sneetches, like Horton, are now fond of teaching,
    A person’s a person, and stars are for reaching.

  14. defectiverobot says

    PZ, you kiss ass! Is this because I told you the only way to beat Phil in Facebook votes was to post more on Doctor Who?

  17. says

    This is one of those threads in which my geek-cred is destroyed. I’ve never watched a full episode (or even a partial episode) of Dr. Who, and I am absolutely clueless.

  19. says

    I read Cat in the Hat to my boy just last night, and my daughter’s favorite book by far is The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. I, for one, despised the Cat as a child. I identified with the Fish, and that anti-autoritarian feline was the bane of all that I cherished at that age.

    I’ve changed since then, but I can still recall my horror at the pink ring in the tub. It causes a twinge every time I pick up the book to read it to my kids.

  20. Rey Fox says

    I’m also clueless to the Dr. Who. The Doctor’s comment in panel 3 about the scream of agony and instant disintegration reminded me more of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. The chapter on the control of time in the medium of sequential art.

  21. says

    i first read that as “The Who and Seuss mashed together”. as in “Horton Hears The Who (live at Leeds)!”

    but, no… Dr Who. bleh.

  22. wobert says

    I get the feeling that creationists will eventually evolve into Daleks,they have some striking similarities.

  23. Graculus says

    and I am absolutely clueless.

    Yes, you are. Next you’ll be telling us that you have never watched Blake’s Seven.

  25. Carlie says

    Oh, MAJeff, say it ain’t so! Now my biscuits are all soggy and dense. :(
    I have to admit that I didn’t watch Doctor Who in the earlier incarnations because I could never make myself stay up late enough at night (they were on at 1am in my area), but the new series is all geeky wonderfulness, not to mention the combined hotness of Eccleston and Tennant with the occasional dash of Barrowman. Let’s see, if you Netflixed all three series so far, then went and read all the TWOP recaps for allegorical commentary, you could be all caught up in, oh, 40 hours or so. You’re not doing anything important over spring break, right?

  26. says

    you could be all caught up in, oh, 40 hours or so

    that’s how I watched Blakes 7, in what we now call the Blakeathon.

    I got the gist of the series, but it’s now all one big blur, where I can’t remember where one episode leaves off and another one starts. (like the one where Blake’s captured and charged with child molestation, and then he steals the Liberator, and then Orac tells Avon he needs to dump 70 kilos or the ship’s orbit is going to decay and crash, and Vila weighs 73 kilos–you know, *that* one…).

  27. says

    Let’s see, if you Netflixed all three series so far, then went and read all the TWOP recaps for allegorical commentary, you could be all caught up in, oh, 40 hours or so. You’re not doing anything important over spring break, right

    I’ll watch AbFab and work on my dissertation. Thinking about using the FF miles to find a nice warm balcony on which to write for a few days (was gonna try to find a party place, but a calm, warm writing place is actually something that would be VERY good).

  28. says

    AbFab and work on my dissertation. Thinking about using the FF miles

    Heh–your mention of AbFab primed me to read FF as “fin-flop”.

  29. Carlie says

    Dissertation? Pffft. Dembski and Wells wrote dissertations, and it didn’t seem to do them much good now, did it? ;)

  30. says

    Heh–your mention of AbFab primed me to read FF as “fin-flo

    Patsy is my role model. If I could be like the Professorial Patsy Stone (except as a dude–but I will take some nice hats, gloves, and shoes), life would rock so hard.

  31. RamblinDude says

    I get the feeling that creationists will eventually evolve into Daleks,they have some striking similarities.

    LOL!

    I have to confess, I, too, never got into the Dr. Who series except for watching some of the old Tom Baker episodes. One of the reasons is that those screeching Daleks just got on my nerves. Most. Annoying. Villains. Ever.

    But I did just watch the two parter recently about the gas mask virus zombies. It was dumb but not terribly annoying. Maybe I’ll give it another chance.

  32. Carlie says

    Uh-oh, RamblinDude, that two-parter is a fan favorite. You might be a hard sell.

  33. Janine says

    Carlie, if you like Barrowman, you have to check out Torchwood. Torchwood is a spin-off of Dr Who.(Here is a clue, rearrange the letters in Torchwood to see what you get.) In the first episode of the second series, James Marsters(Spike!) shows. The fight/makeout scene between Barrowman and Marsters is something to behold. Also, Barrowman pretty much hits on everybody. Though most of the cast seems game for anything. Let us just call it a fundamentalist nightmare.

  34. Carlie says

    Oh, Janine, how I loves the Torchwood. Have you seen the rollickin’ webcomic Torchwood Babiez? “Don’t cry, Emo Ianto” has become one of my favorite phrases. Unfortunately it’s in reverse chronological order, so you have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to start reading.

  37. Peter Ashby says

    Ah Blake’s 7, Avon was my hero of course and I have modelled my life on him…. Having grown up in New Zealand where episodes were erratic, on moving here I found the library had the full collection on VHS, so I watched it over a period of weeks in easy assimilatable chunks of episodes. Boy wasn’t Servallan both hot and creepy?

    Now I am going to get even more uk scifi geeky and ask who knows the only way to kill a curry? Those who don’t are all smegheeeeeeeeds. Everyone sing: Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer….

  40. Peter Ashby says

    Alas Starcops seems not to have been deemed interesting enough for NZ telly so it passed me by. Considering some of the incomprehensible Eastern European cartoons they showed us as kids, this is perhaps strange…