Life is a rhapsody - irregular in form, and you always have to improvise. Depressing? Maybe, but anything you can jam to can’t be all bad.
Rhapsodies
is a webcomic by Bill Morse dealing with the lives of neighbors, Paul Huen, Kate Jennersten and Brian Fitzpatrick and all of their friends.
Updated weekdays it also has a
wiki.
This webcomic contains examples of the following tropes:
- A-Cup Angst: Blossom
- All Just a Dream: All of the Christmas episodes… We think.
- Anime Hair: Hsin uses WAY too much product.
- Badass: Fedya… just Fedya.
- Big Badass Wolf: Mitzi (though most people who know her consider her a Big Friendly Dog)
- Bilingual Bonus: Fedya translating for his aunt. He’s lying.
- British Accents: Blossom’s accent is mostly West Country.
- Brother-Sister Team: Brian & Rowan AKA Fitzpatrick Consulting.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: For obvious reasons, most people don’t seem to realize just how smart Brian is when they first meet him.
- Butt Monkey: Gage
- Cats Are Snarkers: Goblin and Xiao Mao
- Cats Are Superior: Xiao Mao
- Celestial Bureaucracy: The Department of Minor Nuisances, and others.
- Clark Kenting: Kate tries this to keep her "literary career" mostly a secret.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Kevin
- Cool Shades: Shilo
- Dead Pan Snarker: Nancy, though most of the cast can hold their own.
- Did You Just Have Sex?: Here
- Ditzy Genius: Brian
- Dresses the Same: Caused an awkward moment for Kate here
- Dumb and Drummer: Kevin
- Eloquent In My Native Tongue: English is Hsin's "last language."
- Embarrassing First Name: Petronilla Blossom Hannaford and Clarence Gage.
- Expressive Hair Paul's mullet tends to fluff up when he's mad or shocked.
- Friends Rent Control: Subverted, the Fitzpatricks have a huge problem renting the three apartments around Brian’s, even at slum rates.
- Funny Foreigner : Fedya and Blossom
- Gentle Giant: Mr. Large Hideous Bull Creature.
- Goth: Blossom, Francine, Olive, Stefan, Scylla and (presumably) Bert
- Gratuitous Russian: Fedya swears quite a bit.
- Happily Married: Brian’s Parents.
- Hot Librarian: Kate
- It Works Better with Bullets: "Kalashnokov much scarier if you put clip in."
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Blossom This may or may not be literal.
- Masochist's Meal: Blossom isn't allowed to take her curry to potlucks anymore.
- Must Have Nicotine: Fedya
- Noodle Incident: What's this about the peanut butter?
- Only Known By Initials: Fortunately for her "D.L" sounds French.
- Perky Goth: Blossom and Scylla
- Psychopomp: Deidre "handles malpractice" at one of the local hospitals.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: Fedya
- Servile Snarker: Lisa seems to take great pleasure in deflating Kate's pretensions.
- Shipper on Deck: Michelle
- Something We Forgot: The Band does this all the time with Kevin.
- Stalker with a Crush: Janet
- Sunglasses at Night: Shilo
- Talk Like a Pirate: Blossom. Well… like a Devon farm girl
- The Ghost: Bert
- Those Two Guys: Fran and Olive
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Kate
- Weirdness Censor: There appears to be quite a bit going on in the peripheral vision that most of the cast seems to be unaware of... and those who are, aren't talking.
- Whole Plot Reference: Kevin dreams the Circle Band is the house band at Rick's Cafe of course a few times he seems to be getting Casablanca mixed up with Mos Eisley.
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