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TV Finds Religion

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Well, what are the chances? The votes to decide the ending of Tranny and TV are in and - after weighting the votes using a very complicated algorithm that takes into account that I wrote all three endings and didn't want to waste one - every option got exactly the same number of votes!

Well, you asked for it, so here it is. Three possible endings to the "TV Goes to Prison" saga. Sit back and enjoy. And don't say I didn't warn you about the pun. And I I think actually after this I really do need to get out more.


The Typical Transvestite Behaviour Ending




The Incredibly Bad Pun Ending




The TV Actually Goes to Prison Ending



Tune in next time when TV finds religion! No, really.

TV Goes Down

Now you know how to greet people in Italian!

Nightie

*but he's a fool.

Since when does TV know words like "propensity"?

Christmas Message

Merry Christmas, everyone. :-)

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Surprising amount of overlap

I'm actually the Tranny Satan

The History of Tranny and TV

The Tranny and TV strip that appears on this blog is, of course, only the latest incarnation of the much-loved comedy duo. Trannies throughout the decades have laughed along at the exploits of the transgendered radio and his gender-confused television friend. Lets look back at the history of Tranny and TV, in a little feature I like to call "The History of Tranny and TV".

The History of Tranny and TV

Tranny's first recorded appearance was in the ground-breaking animated short "Tugboat Tranny", which was the first Flash-animated tranny cartoon skit, way back in 1915. Unfortunately no recordings still exist of this skit, as many Flash animations were wiped in the early 21st Century to be re-used for Vodafone banner ads.


Cel from the first appearance of Tranny, 1928

While Tranny was earning a name for himself in animated shorts, TV was still very much a stage-based actor. His 1920 performance of Piglet, Princess of Denmark, is still seen to this day as the definitive rendition of the greatest tranny play Shakespeare never actually wrote.



Ironically, TV's rising star in the theatre was stalled by the invention of his namesake, television. When asked about the new broadcasting miracle that was ruining his career, TV was characteristically stoical. "I always wondered what my aerial was for," he is reported to have said.

It was on a tour of the US that TV first met Tranny, and a life-long friendship was forged. They started perfoming together in burlesque, and were soon spotted by Hollywood.


Titles from Tranny and TV's first on-screen collaboration

Tranny and TV's early Hollywood films would be unrecognisable to someone more used to their more recent work. Their on-screen characters were almost the reverse to what they are now, with Tranny portraying the bumbling simpleton and TV his brash, overbearing (but only slightly more intelligent) partner. Audiences rolled about in the aisles whenever TV uttered his immortal catch phrase "And that's yet another awkward situation into which you've placed us, Tranny!"

Both Tranny and TV saw active service in WWII, TV entertained the troops (on radio and in person) with his bawdy semi-naked drag act, earning the nickname "The Forces' Sweetmeat". Meanwhile Tranny earned his wings as an RAF pilot, and even had time to make the classic transgender-interest movie "I was a Wireless War Bride".

The Fifties were a difficult time for the pair. For the first time the British Housewife could have appliances (albeit non-transgendered appliances) in her own home, and Tranny and TV no longer held the caché they once enjoyed.


"Four Trannies", Warhol, 1966

They fell off the radar for a decade, re-emerging in the most unlikely of places, as members of Andy Warhol's retinue of bohemian eccentrics and muses, known as "The Factory". Warhol actually used Tranny in some of his best known work, but TV tended to just lounge about eating crisps.


"TV Feeling A Bit Peaky", Peter Hujar, 1968

In the Seventies they went their separate ways again. TV decided briefly to go "full time", and after extensive reconstructive surgery (and panel beating) actually managed to convince everyone he was a genuine woman. This peaked with a part as a Bond Girl in the film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". However he was ignominiously outed by a British tabloid, and after a period in hiding re-emerged once again as a regular TV in the early eighties.


News of the World Headline, 1970

In 1992 the BBC were looking for a new show to plug the gap in their children's TV schedule between "Cities of Gold" and "Neighbors". Tranny and TV pitched an idea for a show featuring two aging Northern transvestites who move furniture about and act like children, "but not in a creepy way", as TV put it! Thus "TrannyVision" was born, which kept the money flowing in throughout the Nineties.



TrannyVision titles, 1996

In 2005 retirement beckoned, until a third-rate tranny blogger ran out of real things to talk about and decided to fill her blog with made-up nonsense. Tranny and TV were once again in demand!

Thus we come to the end of the story so far for the Bakelite Boy-Babes, who knows what the next century will bring? I'll let Tranny answer that question himself!

"Who bloody cares!?"

Illogical

Sexual tension

T-zer

Thailand

Thanks for indulging me. ;-)

Brains

Breastage

Knob

Foom

Porn

Transform

Stages

Don't eat the prawns

Maybe the world's not ready for an all-transgendered-appliance girl band

Bit of "trouble"

Undisclosed medical condition

I look down on her

A regime of clinically-controlled shrubs

Vestidos bonitos

Because of the lack of hands

Almost exactly two days

Comfort zone

Kobayashi Maru

The story so far: Tranny is a transistor radio with a penchant for dressing up in women's clothing. TV is his erstwhile (and currentwhile) companion, who also enjoys cross-dressing. Although we never actually see them wearing dresses, we just kind of assume it all goes on in the gaps between the strips.

Together they explore the gamut of transgendered experience (through the medium of sarcasm) and fight international organised crime (again mainly between-strip).

In the last thrill-packed episode they decided to test whether a television can exist in a simultaneous transvestite and non-transvestite state by putting TV in a box. With a cat. For some reason.

Now read on...

The quantum nature of trannies

Young gender-gifted music device of color

Delightfully blasé attitude towards dangerous pharmaceuticals

Cutting edge interactive DVD action

Utterly pointless T&TV quiz.

Ahahahahaha

Yeah, I know, the jokes are shit. That's the point. :-)

And unless you're British and over 25 you probably won't get it at all. ;-)

Everyone knows they're trannies

Epilation with extreme prejudice

Sorry it's a bit late!

Young scallywags

Been tinkering with this all week, but it doesn't quite work in the way I wanted it to. The "joke" is that young trannies, when given an opportunity to dress up, always make a load more effort than they need to.

Either that or they're too afraid to be seen to be making effort and therefore read as a tranny that they avoid getting into the situation completely.

And also I feel like I'm doing halloween to death now.

Meh. Anyway, I like TV's costume. And the gag in the first frame; which no-one will get.

Almost totally painful

Special bonus extra only available on this web site: The Breadmaker Theme!

Okay, now I'm worried about me. :-/

De-Gauss

About three months

Stunningly boring, and yet amazingly gory

That's right T&TV fans! Tune in next week for the exciting conclusion of this tale, including the earth-shattering debut of Microwave, the post-op television!

Suspend disbelief

Sexiererer

First Contact

An unique insight

Their quiet big

Saucy Minx

Pneumatically-breasted supermodel

It's what we say instead of "hello"

Pesky lowercase

Okay, that's the last one for a while, promise. It's just that that one's been finished and burning a hole in my hard drive over the weekend, so I had to post it.

Let me know if you'd like more. (Read: "I'm pathetic and need constant positive feedback.")

:-)

Kinky Fun

So frickin' petite

Touché

After talking to a couple of people, I think that the source material I pastiched in my previous post isn't as well-known as I thought it was.

It's based on Apple's current TV advertising campaign, featuring an anthropomorphized Mac and PC discussing their relative merits. They're wonderfully funny ads, not least because they're so outrageously biased towards Mac.

They actually backfire slightly, because if you're like me you'll end up liking the bumbling but well-meaning PC character more than the slick but slightly cocky Mac character.

The PC is played by John Hodgman, who's is also a regular contributor to The Daily Show as the "resident expert". In fact, in tonight's episode (on More4) he was hilariously cornered into saying his "I'm a PC" line while explaining how a two-tier Internet would work.

The Mac is played by Justin Long, who'll I'll always think of as the fanboy nerd in one of my fave films, Galaxy Quest (best line: "Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!").

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This blog post is dedicated to the Flickr photo stream of Karilou2006 "We hardly knew ye."

Tranny and TV

For the life of me, I can't think of a good title for this.