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The Schetch Pad is a Webcomic created by Martin Schetselaar (with occasional contributions from his daughter, Sophie). It's a single-panel, skit-style comic, with particular focus on three subjects: Star Trek, Volkswagens, and life with only one arm. Its name is a play on and homophone of the term sketch pad.The comic updates every Wednesday (with some exceptions). |
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Dropped link to BackToTheFuture: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Dropped link to DoctorWho: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Dropped link to MontyPythonsFlyingCircus: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Dropped link to TheLoveBug: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Dropped link to spiderman: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Wrong Genre Savvy |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Spare a thought for poor Captain Picard... |
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Bilingual Bonus |
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Bilingual Bonus: Martin is not fluent in Dutch, but knows a little. It's evident in this comic: the speech bubble translates to Happy Sinterklaas Day. He can also speak some German, as given by this comic's title (translation: Excuse Me, Please; fitting since he was apologising for not putting up comics due to his exams). |
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The Prankster |
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The Prankster / The Bully: Sophie's first guest contribution seems to paint her father's bus as a combination of the two. |
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Hippie Van |
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Hippie Van: Naturally, since the Volkswagen features pretty prominently in the cartoons. There are even space-faring versions of it. |
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Author Avatar |
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Author Avatar: Finn, all the way down to the stump he has in place of a left forearm. Martin stated it himself so that people didn't get the wrong idea. |
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Christmas Episode |
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Christmas Episode: This and this comic roughly qualify. |
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Star Wars (Franchise) |
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Star Wars, especially A New Hope. |
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Compensating for Something |
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Compensating for Something: Lampshaded here. |
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Cool Car |
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Cool Car: Apparently, Herbie can go to war. If a 1963 ragtop is good enough for God... Thieves aren't prepared to touch the ArachnoGhia. |
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Red Shirt |
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Red Shirt: Lampshaded here. Note that this is a Lampshading for another series |
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Space Police |
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Space Police: Starfleet gets reimagined as this in this panel. |
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Take That! |
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Take That!: A few pop up, towards Taco Bell, Apple, and especially the DMV. |
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Berserk Button |
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Berserk Button: Do NOT call it a Hippie Van. Martin seems to have a couple of Berserk Buttons himself. In addition to the Take That! entries below: Do not leave trolleys in parking spaces. Never talk about his limb difference in a condescending way. See Disabled Means Helpless below. |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: The Star Trek shoutouts aside, there are: Back to the Future, with this humourous take on a familiar scene. Doctor Who is referenced in regards to the Salt Lake Comic Convention. Leonard Nimoy got a fitting tribute. The Love Bug, specifically Herbie, gets a couple: here and here. Monty Python's Flying Circus, in a crossover with Star Trek in this comic. Spider-Man gets a couple, both of which are brought up in Cool Car and X Meets Y. Star Wars, especially A New Hope. |
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Cool Starship |
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Cool Starship: This Beetle-style spacecraft. The space Hippie Vans. See below. |
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Disabled Snarker |
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Disabled Snarker: Finn has his moments. Given that he's also an Author Avatar... |
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Disabled Means Helpless |
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Disabled Means Helpless: A few comics deal with this trope, with most being aversions. This comic double subverts it, and justifiably: when your driving apparatus is on the right-hand side (like what is the case for Australian cars), reaching the gear stick is a bit more difficult with only half a left arm. |
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Make a Wish |
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Make a Wish: This comic plays it for laughs. |
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Ignore the Disability |
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Ignore the Disability: "Dear DMV" |
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Talking Appliance Sidekick |
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Talking Appliance Sidekick: Not so much a sidekick (since it only appeared in one comic), but this bed was definitely a talking appliance, and a creepy one at that. |
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One True Faith |
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One True Faith: Played with in the first comic. Note that the religion in question is "VW", with an "orthodox" branch (i.e. classic Beetle-style VWs, as opposed to the modern VWs). |
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Crossover |
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Crossover: One comic had a mash-up between Spider Man and Harry Potter. You could probably guess the result. |
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The Alleged Car |
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The Alleged Car: A lot of them! "BeelzeBug" gives a guy's reaction to Satan providing him with what he considers to be one of these.note It was a brand new, modern Volkswagen "New Beetle," which in Finn's view doesn't count as a real Beetle. The wife is not happy about this one... Or this one. Finn's VW is old and neglected, and consequently not in ideal condition, in addition to the quirks that vintage Volkswagens exhibited as a result of unusual decisions made in their design. An early comic had him visiting the doctor due to afflictions caused by it. This bus is lucky to have seatbelts. |
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Priceless Ming Vase |
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Priceless Ming Vase: Lampshaded. The hood was original German. |
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We Don't Need Roads |
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We Don't Need Roads: One can only imagine how both the jeep and the VW bus got up there. |
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