He’s just a bit jammy
Ho ho, the ole switcheroo! Thank goodness for the Women’s Institute. If you’re not from the UK, “jammy” is another way of saying “lucky”.
Ho ho, the ole switcheroo! Thank goodness for the Women’s Institute. If you’re not from the UK, “jammy” is another way of saying “lucky”.
Now I want to know more about the D.I. Renwick tv series (?) I’m getting a Midsomer Murders vibe but maybe that’s just the Village Fete setting of the “clip” we’ve seen. It seems like the sort of thing I’d watch with my mum on ITV3 though.
You’re going to find out much (much) more about this show.
I want to make guesses, but I feel like I need a box and a sealed envelope at this point.
With a name like D.I. Renwick I’m expecting a bit of Jonathan Creek myself.
And Rev. Penrose tiptoes out and checks that his murder hatchet is well hidden.
I knew it couldn’t be Rev. Penrose because they only found one hatchet. I imagine he keeps at least half a dozen of them hidden in various places, “just in case”.
Shades of Steeple #4, when the Rev couldn’t even go for an evening walk without bringing the ol’ shillelagh.
Penrose scoffs at hatchets — such a tiny weapon.
He’s all about the full-blown battle axe.
Penrose is way too critical. That’s without doubt a great show, I can see my mother and my sister watch it and enjoy it exactly like Mrs. Clovis and Maggie. Nice to see Penrose has a Tibkins coup now Shelley has left her mark!
Maggie has a Tibkins track suit, too.
Footy pajamas, methinks.
Partic Thistle, if I remember correctly!
Yes, it’s the Partick Thistle F. C. mascot:
https://www.google.com/search?q=partick+thistle+mascot
No, not even close. This is Tibkins.
Heh. I suspected as much. Mostly because of the unusual (for John’s current work) panel format. (I was far from certain, of course.)
You’re getting good at this. I was totally fooled.
Did they get all the Tibkins merchandise directly from Shelley?
Might be a “thanks for trying to rescue me from the merfolk” gesture.
I’d say there’s little question the estimable Ginger Ninja spread around some Tibkins swag to her newfound friends.
I think a carefully chosen box-full has been delivered.
Awwwwww. What a nice thought ♡.
“I’m going to read my book” is Penrosian for “time to sharpen Lady Sparkles”.
D.I. Renwick: Nobody catches a vicar quicker!
But can he catch a quicker vicar?
How is he with a larcenous parson?
Probably about the same as with a Quaker Faker.
But caught left-footed by a sinister minister
So he’s a quicker vicar picker-upper?
There’s a Bounty for those!
They’ll soon become a mardy Padre
Slap the cuffs on that hysteric cleric!
That priest is a beast at the very least.
Faster, Pastor! Kill! Kill!
(Any chance that Mrs Clovis should stumble across such a film on telly in the small hours?)
Sooo would it be too much to ask for a D.I. Renwick/Wicked Things crossover?
That would be a cross between an in-series TV show and a character who exists in the Steeple Expanded Comics Movie Universe, I cannot make it compute.
Well, you could always have a murder committed on the TV series set…
(Or are we about to get something like that?)
Perhaps somehow Charlotte ends up investigating a mystery on the set of the show? Which, for story purposes, just happens to film near Tackleford? (Assuming Charlotte is still operating out of Tackleford. I’ll admit with great shame that I still haven’t gotten around to reading Wicked Things.)
Lottie has moved her base of operations, it’s time for you to repair to the library with borrower’s card in hand, Tim!
Is “nostalgic selection” a comment on the TV’s view of rural life?
“Ooh, try the chocolate-covered ones. They taste like wistful regret.”
I used to love Nostalgic Selection back when they were good – before they added all the modern flavours.
They just don’t make them like they used to.
I miss the nostalgia they had in the old days.
Nowadays, the nostalgia is all about luxuries like biscuits and television programs! Back in my day, we had PROPER nostalgia. We could get nostalgic about diseases, or head injuries, or blisters! Young people today, they don’t understand the character-building value of a good blister! Sigh.
And is that a cockroach on the lid of the tin?
NOOO!! NOT THE BLUE RIBBON JAMS!!!
Lock ’em up, boys! Charge ’em with second-degree jamslaughter!
Who’s the vamp in the black hat though????
A character design too good to waste in one panel but sadly, I think that’s all she can ever get!
We can all just assume she would have ended up being a major Robert Cop supporting character in a parallel timeline. Oh, sorry, I forgot- “there are no timelines”. Oh, well…
In my imagination, the lady with the black hat from panel 3, the tray-carrying lady from panel 1, and the car-wash man from Circus Windows all get together at some point and have non-stop adventures together. I fully accept that this will never be depicted in comic form, and I am OK with that.
Wait … Reverend LENNON?
Is this some kind of cross-over with Shelly’s time-travelling adventure, where-in after the Beatles failed, John went into a CofE seminary and got frocked (or however it’s done there)?
He’s a character in an in-universe TV show, so probably not *that* Lennon.
One Tibkins onesie with racing stripes, please. Long inseam.
Not Tibkins. It’s the Partick Thistle F. C. mascot.
Bit grey for Kingsley.
That’s clearly Tibkins.
She has a Partick Thistle F. C. mascot one, too, but this one’s clearly different, and more Tibkins-y. https://steeple.church/comic/tankards-in-newquay/
This show was about a hatchet wielding vicar. This smacks of “ripped from the headlines” or “based on a true story” and clearly has riled poor Penrose, likely the target.
I have just noticed that first place went to a damson and quince jam. Sounds tasty.
Sadly, though, it is probably just some purple goop whipped up by The Props Department.
People wear backward baseball caps in Britain too? I’m ever so faintly disillusioned…
😉
To my dull surprise, “churchsploitation” appears to be an existing although rarely used film genre term. “Nunsploitation” is far more common, of course.
https://www.google.com/search?q=churchsploitation&client=opera&hs=1jW&nfpr=1&sxsrf=ALeKk00F0rpRlgQbp-r43UnMYtNMjMmPNA:1626938549744&filter=0&biw=1093&bih=731
I thought it was a call out to the Gilmore Girls and the doofus that wears a baseball cap backwards
Hold on, now. Blue isn’t first place in the UK, though, is it? Red is.
Y’know, I never realized there actually were standard colors for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place ribbons before. I guess I haven’t led the sort of life where it comes up much.
This has really shaken me. I’ll make a note to amend this for print.
You are right, John – Blue for first, red for second, white for third, and maybe yellow for fourth. It was hard to find a UK authority for this, though I am sure any horsey people will know, but this is a start…
https://www.amazon.co.uk/1st-Place-Premium-Award-Ribbons/dp/B073ZZ8PY1
Really? I always thought the blue ribbon was first everywhere. Guess I’m not as worldly as I thought.
Wait, what? Britain doesn’t have Blue Ribbon Panels, or acknowledge Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer? Being a country lad, always did the fair thing for spending money. Blue is first, red is 2nd and White is 3rd. Thought it was universal.
Maybe Pabst Blue Ribbon is acknowledged in the UK, but is considered “second place”?
PBR would be very lucky to be considered even second-best anywhere.
It’s a bit early, but I’m going to have a Blue Riband and a cup of tea nevertheless.
This is practically Doc Martin, which takes over Port Isaac from time to time. I have seen references to Trevose and Boscastle, and I think I have recognised Wadebridge and possibly Camelford or Padstow too. I have holidayed there all my life, and can buy you many pints of HSD if you are down there this coming September.
Posy Simonds also spends time somewhere around there.
D.I. Renwick reminds me of Philip Glenister for some reason
Lov it!!! ???? HA! the “tv”table turns!!