That reminds me, I think there should be a series where Lucy Liu and Jack Black are partners in a supernatural detective agency in an urban fantasy setting where they help various mythical creatures with lost items, missing fae pets, and generally work hard to investigate all the elements of the metaphysical which accidentally scampered through the open window between the worlds.
Importantly their cases don’t involve crime or law enforcement, they are helping people, not hunting criminals. Neither of them ever carries a gun.
Because their detective agency operates in the human world, it cannot appear to be an actual detective agency, so it operates from a very small corner garage. It’s called We Fixit Rite which is displayed on a vintage looking metal sign in large print, below reading “Repairs and Odd Jobs since 1932, foreign and hard to find parts our specialty! No job too big or small, if it’s broke ‘WE FIXIT’” (no period).
In order to maintain the secrets of the mythic realm they often must operate in disguise, for all intents and purpose making most of their detective work a kind of caper or heist.
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I would watch this (after the IATSE union’s demands are met, of course)!
I’d watch.
Just because of the “1932,” I feel like they’ve been doing this for that long if not longer, and that the current place is just their newest place.
They’ve actually only been partners since 2011.
can they actually fix, you know, normal mundane things like cars and small appliances? do they have one old man who used to run a real fix-it shop, who is unaware of the fantastical detective business being run out of the back room? is his name Herb?
bc i think Herb is only pretending to be oblivious bc it’s a fun new adventure, and maybe his estranged grandson and great grandkids show up one day to try to convince him to move in with them, only to find themselves roped into the chaos.
like the great grandkids get kidnapped by the queen of the fairies, and now one of them is fae-touched and can see things that are really there. this is a very disconcerting situation for the sexy single father grandson to handle, but Jack and Lucy are so nice and helpful….
or is all that too wholesome?
No that is literally what I had envisioned for the Fixit shop but didn’t get into the details, except for the name “Herb” because that weirds me out and I’d go with Stan or Al or something.
Stan The Fix-It Man had a ring, but Al would sing “call me al” at least twice an episode and play saxophone.
I think the former and he’s a bit like Alfred, but pretends he doesn’t think there’s anything weird with Lucy and Jack, but low key knows there’s some weird supernatural shit here. He’s got like a cold iron spanner just in case but usually just shakes his head and tsks when he sees hijinks going down.
and i’m torn, TORN I TELL YOU, over whether Al is an old Italian man ala Danny Devito or and old Jewish man ala Billy Crystal.
They have a longstanding rivalry with Leverage, Inc.
today I learned that the romans had to change their laws because for physical assault/insult you had to pay the victim some copper I think and some dude started running around town to slap random people and then immediately gave his victims 2 coins of copper so they basically couldn’t touch him legally. That is man worth making a doctor who story about.
So get this: Some guy (perhaps well-meaning albeit delusional) operating an entertainment business under the name Death Science, organized a dissection demonstration of a man’s cadaver at the Oddities & Curiosities Expo without the family’s permission. The man’s widow didn’t learn what happened until she was contacted by a reporter for comment (classy…) The dissection was a pay-per-view and live event being featured as part of the traveling Oddities & Curiosities Expo during its stop in Portland. Owner of Death Science, Jeremy Ciliberto, has no ties to the medical field (nor any other professional credentials) and describes himself as a “macabre artist, producer, and production designer”. In order to acquire the body, Ciliberto purportedly lied to the sloppily operated Las Vegas-based cadaver supplier Med Ed Labs Inc about his credentials and what the body was going to be used for. The family had donated the body to science with the understanding that it would be dissected for the advancement of medical students. Instead, the for-profit spectacle was open to any members of the public who wanted a ticket to the event, which was held in a hotel ballroom during the expo. Front row seats were $500 a pop and part of that price included an invitation to touch the body; fantastic, because the body was later deemed a potential infectious disease risk because the man had died of Covid! Med Ed Labs sold the body to Ciliberto without doing a background check on him, a big no-no in the first place, but an even bigger no-no because Med Ed knew they were selling a body that was officially classified as a bio-hazard. After this start-to-finish fiasco, the wife now wants her husband’s remains back for cremation. The funeral chapel that embalmed the body before releasing it to Med Ed Labs (per the family’s wishes) was equally as horrified as the family because they too had been duped into thinking the body was going to be donated to science. The chapel said in an interview “We will track down her husband’s remains and cremate them for free”. Um… yeah… I can guarantee that if the chapel is actually able to locate his remains, that there are going to be substantial parts of the body unaccounted for… If you are familiar with the oddities and curiosities subculture, you have probably noticed there is a plethora of social media accounts that peddle artifacts derived from human bodies. I have no doubt that following the dissection leftover parts of the man’s body were sold to collectors behind closed doors. That last statement is educated conjecture on my part, however, everything else in this post was taken directly from news sources. So many bad actors were involved here that it’s hard to place blame on just one person. My heart goes out to the man’s wife. I cannot imagine how upsetting this has been, and how it will continue to haunt her for the rest of her life…
I think my favorite thing about Kris and Susie both individually and as a duo is that they’re fucking TERRIFYING in like different archetypal ways while also being your average idiot teens
Like where else are you going to get a quiet kid with knife iconography who tears out their own soul and whose canon expressions are either deadpan or unhinged with glowing red eyes
Paired with an enormous fucking monster with fangs that can probably be measured in inches and burning eyes and a snout wrinkled in animal rage who can and will destroy anything in her path and at one point threatens to rip our face off with her massive bestial jaws
Both of whom canonically eat moss. And attempt to eat the clothes off a mannequin. And try to fit their entire heads into those dumbass talky tubes. And are just a couple of idiot teenagers who dick around town and accidentally run into your divorced parents in a Walmart and have to just hide in the corner together and try not to hear the absolute trainwreck that’s happening like three aisles over
Like. I don’t know if I can call it juxtaposition per se, but the fact that they could both easily be villains with their aesthetics and abilities but are also both just head-empty morons.. it’s good.
Lamborghini Huracan Evo, 2021, by Paolo Troilo. An artwork known as “Minotauro” (Minotaur) has been unveiled at La Bullona in Milan. The artist has paid homage to the Huracán EVO by depicting a fusion between man, the bull symbol of Automobili Lamborghini and the concept of myth expressed in the supernatural force exuded by the man’s figure painted on the sides of the car.
