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Webcomic: Fabuland Housewives

Fabuland Housewives is a Lego photo webcomic hosted on BrickZone.net

. Unlike most LEGO webcomics, the characters aren't standard minifigs, but Funny Animal characters from Fabuland, a relatively obscure Lego theme from the 1980s.

As far as plot is concerned, Fabuland Housewives, is a spoof on the TV series Desperate Housewives, which means basically people (or animals for that matter) with lots of dark secrets living in a Stepford Suburbia.

It can be read here

This webcomic contains examples of:

Animal Jingoism - Being an elephant, Evan always freaks out at the sight of mice.
Animated Actors - Well, Lego-actors.
Amnesiac Dissonance
Anyone Can Die - And how.
Armoured Closet Gay - Doctor Dalton.
Attention Whore - Langston Lion.
Boom, Headshot - Quite a few deaths.
Breaking the Fourth Wall - Some shortcomings of Lego-webcomics are acknowledged and played for laughs within the comic. (No knee joints for example.)
Cast Full of Gay - A large chunk of the male cast is gay in the comic.
Cat Scare - Played for laughs: The cat is anthropomorphic.
Cloudcuckoolander - Bianca Lamb, to a lesser extent also Gavin Gorilla.
Coming Out Story - Boris, early on. Though when word gets out through the gossip rags about his homosexuality, the town as a whole is completely accepting, and have no qualms with having a gay chief of police.
Crapsaccharine World - The inevitable result of the combination mentioned in Darker and Edgier.
Chromatic Arrangement - The four sisters Bianca, Lily, Lila and Lacey Lamb wear green, yellow, blue and red respectively. (Necessary due to Only Six Faces.)
The Danza - Bianca Lamb is supposedly played by Bianca Lamb. Everyone else only shares the Species Surname with his or her actor.
- With one exception though: Special Agent Ernest Eagle is played by Sandy Seagull.
Darker and Edgier - Acting out "Desperate Housewives"-style plots with children's toys - so yeah...
Depraved Homosexual - Fenix and Dalton.
Extreme Doormat - Marcus Mouse.
Fantastic Racism - Alluded to, although no characters are really openly racist. Evan Elephant's violent reaction towards mice seems to be more instinctual behavior instead of based on prejudices.
Flashback - Often used to give characters, who have already been killed off, some more screen time. Episode 15 even is a Whole Episode Flashback.
Funny Animal - The entire cast.
Furry Confusion - Often played with.
- In one strip, Gavin Gorilla encounters a non-anthropomorphic Lego monkey.
- A character is suffering from amnesia and is thus called John Doe. He complains that he is no doe, he is a rabbit.
  - Hilarious in Hindsight because rabbits also have "bucks" and "does" like deers do.
- Disgruntled with Governor Cora undermining his authority, Mayor Langston calls her a cow. Guess what species Governor Cora is...
Happily Married: Gavin and Gregor are one of the very few happy committed couples in the series, while they aren't officially married, Gavin does refer to Gregor as his husband.
Interspecies Romance - All over the place. Betsy Bunny and Randy Rabbit are in fact THE EXCEPTION!
Left Hanging - Most if not all the mysteries and cliffhangers in season one get wrapped up by the end. But the first episode of season two opens up a whole can of new mysteries. None of which get answered because a second episode has never been made.
Loads and Loads of Characters - After all, how else can you kill off so many without eventually running out of characters?
The Mafia - Definitely not The Family for the Whole Family, either.
Medium Awareness: "We're building an alternate model."
The Mockbuster - The whole comic is a spoof on Desperate Housewives, which leads to an...
- Incredibly Lame Pun - "Welcome to Histeria Lane!"
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate - Doctor Dalton Dog
Only Six Faces - Due to a limited number of head-moulds, characters can often be only told apart by their differently coloured bodies/clothes.
- It doesn't help much when there are atleast 4 lambs, three of which have L names, and they all have a tendency to get involved in affairs.
Really Gets Around - Lily Lamb.
"Don't have sex with Horace!" Lily: "I'll try, but no promises."
Scenery Porn - Quality photography, terrific MOCs!
Schedule Slip - The second season hasn't been updated in over a year, after the first episode was released revealing a heap of new cliff hangers.
Species Surname
Stepford Suburbia
Straight Gay: All of the gay men in the story seem to be this. The most flamboyant thing about any of them seems to be that Payton carries a wine glass around alot.
Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome - The baby Bianca finds in season one is a teenager in season two, although in-universe the time gap between the two seasons is only one year. Lampshaded by the explanation that animals grow up much faster than humans.
The Reveal - Doctor Dalton is gay! ... also the killer too, but whatever.
Time Skip - Season two starts with the episode 365 Days Later
Took a Level in Badass - Would you have guessed that out of all people, meek confidenceless Butt Monkey (Butt Mouse??) Marcus Mouse would be the new mayor in season two?
Will They or Won't They?: Through out season one Payton and Boris are constantly skirting around their feelings for each other.
Yaoi Guys: Gavin, Boris, Gregor, Payton, and Fenix. Though Gavin and Gregor seem to be the main official couple out of all them.
Yandere - Fenix