Real doctors don't use guns.

March 20, 2007 3:52 PM

Lucid TV: A webcomic about doctors.
posted by Snyder (28 comments total)

You know, that's actually pretty damn funny.
posted by SweetJesus at 3:56 PM on March 20, 2007

This is the best one, I think. I still giggle when I read it.
posted by clockworkjoe at 4:18 PM on March 20, 2007

This is brilliant.
posted by moss at 4:32 PM on March 20, 2007

It's awful. I like it!
posted by grouse at 4:32 PM on March 20, 2007

Heh. It's like if Red Meat was about physicians :-) Cool.
posted by Mr Pointy at 4:38 PM on March 20, 2007

I love these two because they remind me of my favorite geeky film-editing trick.
posted by Doublewhiskeycokenoice at 4:44 PM on March 20, 2007

Wow. This is way darker than I expected, although I suppose most doctors and nurses will tend that way eventually...
posted by spiderskull at 4:53 PM on March 20, 2007

Aw damn, I can't be considered hip for reading it now that everyone knows about it!

::takes ball, goes home::
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 5:07 PM on March 20, 2007

Very black comedy. Good stuff.
posted by MythMaker at 5:22 PM on March 20, 2007

Curse you, Snyder. You have uncovered my secret webcomic refuge. Like CitrusFreak, I can no longer enjoy it now that it is all "cool" and "mainstream".

P.S. Do you steal superpowers too or is that just your brother?
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 5:25 PM on March 20, 2007

A friend of mine sent me a link to this a week or so ago and I didn't like it.

But it's definitely grown on me. This is awesome.
posted by kdar at 5:40 PM on March 20, 2007

I really love this one

Good link, cheers
posted by ZippityBuddha at 5:49 PM on March 20, 2007

A webcomic about doctors should not be funny. It just shouldn't. Throwing around long technical procedural terms works on shows like Scrubs because there is so much other stuff going on. In a web comic you have so little space to make the funny happen that you can't waste it on something that no one will understand.

Or at least, these are the words I would have written five minutes before I read the link. Holy crap these are brilliant.
posted by quin at 5:53 PM on March 20, 2007

A webcomic about doctors should not be funny.

Do you wanna tell that to Dr. McNinja? 'Cuz I wouldn't. He'd flip out.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 6:45 PM on March 20, 2007

Dark humor that makes Achewood look like Garfield... wow.
Or Scrubs look like The Munsters... wow.
My picks: Three Strikes, Clinically, "chatty fatty", "got your nose", Play God and Ultra-Son.
posted by wendell at 7:10 PM on March 20, 2007

This is really good, thanks.
posted by teleskiving at 7:24 PM on March 20, 2007

Yup. I'm a fan now. Another temporary panacea to cover the screaming agony of the ennui-infested blasted wasteland that is the tragedy I call my misspent life.

Oh.

I like cheese.
posted by Samizdata at 8:42 PM on March 20, 2007

This is a great webcomic--like red meat but with actual drawings.

But... I have to admit... I just don't get get the current one.
posted by Citizen Premier at 9:24 PM on March 20, 2007

Have a close look at panel two, Citizen Premier. Think about which way the syringe plunger is going.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 9:30 PM on March 20, 2007

Really funny stuff. Thanks, Snyder!
posted by LeeJay at 10:41 PM on March 20, 2007

He's injecting himself with the patients blood?
I guess I was just supposed to chuckle from the "wtf value," but I overthunk it.
posted by Citizen Premier at 1:37 AM on March 21, 2007

Great stuff! Can any Japanese speakers explicate this one?
posted by languagehat at 5:47 AM on March 21, 2007

This made me think of Dennis Miller as a pediatrician. I don't think I will use his line at the children's hospital where I work, though.

I will, however, share this with some of my more jaded colleagues.
posted by TedW at 4:28 PM on March 21, 2007

OK, I'd be much obliged if someone would explain this one to me. Unless it's just supposed to be about a doctor giving a little kid a good long look at his mom's chassis. In which case... I get it?
posted by purplemonkie at 4:41 PM on March 21, 2007

This is the best webcomic I've been introduced to in a while. Now I can take revenge on a couple of friends who have led me to waste so much time reading through webcomic archives! Excellent.

Languagehat: The dialogue is some of the lyrics from "Soramimi Cake," the theme of the anime Azumanga Daioh.

Title: "Massive Urethral Inflammation 5000"

First panel:
Jim Belushi's [sic] Hospital
"The words on the strange door are, 'Mishearing Cake'."

Second panel:
"GOODBYE SADNESS"
"Don't cry anymore."

Third panel:
"Every day is pointless [lit.-fluffy]."


...Yeah, I don't get it, either. Maybe you have to have seen the show.
posted by Drop Daedalus at 2:59 AM on March 22, 2007 [1 favorite]

Hmm. I might be wrong about the "fuwafuwa" part at the end. It's apparently part of a longer line in the song, "Every day, the temptation of fluffy wheat," which makes far less sense. I knew there was a reason I never paid attention to the lyrics until now.
posted by Drop Daedalus at 3:11 AM on March 22, 2007

Drop Daedalus: Thanks very much indeed!
posted by languagehat at 5:06 AM on March 22, 2007

Wow. Thanks for this; it's bloody hilarious. I'm in love with this one.
posted by shokod at 5:37 AM on March 22, 2007