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Jump the Shark

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 3:37 pm
by jonas
Just for laughs, let's come up with groan-inducing Housepets story ideas that, if it were a show, would be a clear indication that it had gone on a few too many seasons.

For example:

• An "evil twin" arc with an inevitable "But which one's the real pet?" scene

• A clip show where the characters all stand around in one room and remember stuff like it was yesterday.

• King and Bailey's kids grow up and move out, and their adopted pup, the new focus of the entire strip, is like Scrappy Doo. (Or maybe it just is Scrappy Doo.)

• For some inexplicable reason, one of the Celestials turns them all into adorable pups and kittens and they have to find a way to reverse it, but how can they do it when everyone's busy going "D'awwww" and not taking them seriously?

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 3:45 pm
by GameCobra
Heaven is evil all along.

Parents that own pets are the real deal.

Hell is secretly what Heaven is suppose to be if they wern't a bunch of TRY HARDS! >:(

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:32 pm
by Sleet
The entire comic is about King now. Also King has magical powers.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 12:42 am
by RandomGeekNamedBrent
the apocalypse happens but the pets manage to somehow stop it, either with time travel to prevent it or by defeating whatever demon causes it. that seems to be where a lot of things jump the shark.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 7:40 am
by Buster
One of the celestials pulls the 'time to wake up' line on Sabrina, and she wakes up in the galifrax dimension because Babylon Gardens was a dream the whole time. the rest of the comic becomes about finding a way back to the dream world.
jonas wrote:• An "evil twin" arc with an inevitable "But which one's the real pet?" scene
only to have a twist ending that the alternate version is actually the nice one, the local one was the evil one all along.

*cough* futurama *cough*
jonas wrote:• A clip show where the characters all stand around in one room and remember stuff like it was yesterday.
which becomes such a frequent phenomenon that it feels weird not to have one per season/arc.


*cough* power rangers *cough*

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 6:11 pm
by GameCobra
Sleet wrote:The entire comic is about King now. Also King has magical powers.
King is Homer and Bailey is Marge. The pups are Lisa, Bart and Maggie.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:22 pm
by Buster
The arc ends abruptly, with the last panel being Res and Peanut drawn in the style from years ago, looking over the first three panels which are on a piece of paper infront of Peanut, and going:

"Wait... No... that idea wont work."
"Well what if we... hmmm... Yeah..."
(From off screen) "Its your own faults for writing out your two biggest plot drivers a dozen arcs ago!"

thereby implying that EVERYTHING since Res' first visit was just him and peanut messing around.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 11:51 pm
by D-Rock
Buster wrote:One of the celestials pulls the 'time to wake up' line on Sabrina, and she wakes up in the galifrax dimension because Babylon Gardens was a dream the whole time. the rest of the comic becomes about finding a way back to the dream world.
That actually sounds like a really interesting idea for a spin-off series.
Buster wrote:The arc ends abruptly, with the last panel being Res and Peanut drawn in the style from years ago, looking over the first three panels which are on a piece of paper infront of Peanut, and going:

"Wait... No... that idea wont work."
"Well what if we... hmmm... Yeah..."
(From off screen) "Its your own faults for writing out your two biggest plot drivers a dozen arcs ago!"

thereby implying that EVERYTHING since Res' first visit was just him and peanut messing around.
Certainly a funny idea.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 12:08 am
by rickgriffin
Retconning everything since Grape's dream arc

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 12:10 am
by D-Rock
And because of that, Grape becomes an avatar, Peanut becomes her student, Tarot and Sabrina take a more antagonistic role, Joel takes the role of Thomas and Cecilia Milton, Bailey never leaves the farm, The Game goes on for much longer.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 12:16 am
by GameCobra
rickgriffin wrote:Retconning everything since Grape's dream arc
Peanut is Grape's boyfriend.

There, i said it.

Now if you excuse me.

*goes to scream into a cat while he's sleeping*

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 3:52 am
by Not A Furry
GameCobra wrote:*goes to scream into a cat while he's sleeping*
You don't appreciate your face, do you?

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:12 am
by GameCobra
Not A Furry wrote:
GameCobra wrote:*goes to scream into a cat while he's sleeping*
You don't appreciate your face, do you?
Cats don't mind it.

Unless i'm being loud.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:15 am
by SuperStar
Reveal a fan favorite character is dead and have him return as a ghost at the same time.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:17 am
by Not A Furry
Don't be mean

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:23 am
by SuperStar
It's a joke, sorry.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 10:20 am
by GameCobra
The destruction of the world itself is revolved on one little mystery:

Who bit Maxwell's ear?

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 10:32 am
by Not A Furry
GameCobra wrote:The destruction of the world itself is revolved on one little mystery:

Who bit Maxwell's ear?
Grape, of course ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 10:43 am
by GameCobra
forgot about this one:

All the male characters get buff.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:06 pm
by Sinder
Sleet wrote:The entire comic is about King now. Also King has magical powers.
I am fairly certain that actually happened

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 3:54 pm
by Tappy Too
An arc where Rock makes a reality show and gets some of the neighbourhood pets to go on it.

An arc where alternate reality versions of the characters come to the main reality of the comic

An arc where a ghost possesses one of the pets and now they need to get the ghost out of their friend.



Fun Fact: Those are all real fanfiction ideas I've had. Oh boy

Mod Edit: Please refrain from using font colors which contrast poorly with our background.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 4:10 pm
by Not A Furry
Not to sound like a jerk, but nothing good will come out of this thread.
It's only discarding potentially good ideas as "beating a dead horse", and to be honest, it's just depressing to think about Housepets coming to an end and might give Rick the impression that we think he's running out of ideas (I believe I speak for the vast majority of people when I say we DO NOT. It's been consistently funny, original and unexpected since the start, even getting progressively better with the years)

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 8:56 pm
by D-Rock
I'm sure none of us mean any malicious intent. This is one of the many things we do to just mess around.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 7:49 am
by RacingCheetahz
Maxwell dies in an "accident" off screen and Res becomes Grape's new boyfriend, and then there will be a mega arc about finding who killed Max.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 10:46 am
by SuperStar
RacingCheetahz wrote:Maxwell dies in an "accident" off screen and Res becomes Grape's new boyfriend, and then there will be a mega arc about finding who killed Max.
Then at the end of the arc it turns out all events of the past year or so where just Grape's nightmare :P

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 6:10 pm
by Buster
The fans miss a perfectly good opportunity for an 80s transformers reference. :(

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:28 am
by GameCobra
Buster wrote:The fans miss a perfectly good opportunity for an 80s transformers reference. :(
80's transformers reference, Buster? This is bad comedy.

Sorry, i just had to. :3

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 2:24 am
by NogitsuneGabriel
As part of Keene's animal equality initiative, all pets are required to attend high school.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 4:40 pm
by Douglas Collier
NogitsuneGabriel wrote:As part of Keene's animal equality initiative, all pets are required to attend high school.
And wear Japanese school girl uniforms. XD

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2017 4:47 am
by GameCobra
Jata wants revenge on Sabrina - and he's not wearing pants this time.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2017 2:28 pm
by HellishK9
GameCobra wrote:Jata wants revenge on Sabrina - and he's not wearing pants this time.
wait what
Image
those two examples don't sound good together

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2017 2:32 pm
by Buster
everything ever posted in the WMG thread happens. Simultaneously.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 10:14 am
by GameCobra
Going by one of jonas's examples: Maxwell has an evil twin brother.

And noone seems to notice that his ear is not bitten. Like a villanous Clark Kent.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:40 am
by Douglas Collier
Abusing and making the characters uncharacteristically angsty and mean, lowering the quality of the art, throwing in a lot of unrelated filler art, not listening to the input of the readers when they show concern at this pattern. I had an awful dream about this last night.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 11:18 pm
by CanzetYote
Karishad Booping Spree Arc: Karishad goes around, booping the noses of EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER in the comic, including minor ones like Joey's nerd friends, Jasper, the zoo animals, all the wolves, all the humans, both King AND Joel, Joel's nameless abused pets, all the Mr.Bigglesworths, oneshots and even the drowned puppy who Cerberus gave the cookie to, Poom and the camel. Not even Spot and the rest of the characters in Peanut's comic are safe, either!

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:51 pm
by NHWestoN
The pets begin turning into pod people until the only ones left are Bino and Jessica. Kitsune intervenes to reverse everything, including waking up The Other DARYL who dreamed the whole thing.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:41 pm
by GameCobra
Jessica and Zach are now the main characters of Housepets.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 6:48 am
by Buster
tiger stops being a gag character.

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 10:29 am
by NHWestoN
Duchess becomes a gag character ...

Re: Jump the Shark

Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 5:09 pm
by Buster
Duchess gets a major role in another arc.