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''[http://www.nobmouse.net/ The Life of Nob T. Mouse]'' is a [[Genre Busting|surrealist science-fantasy comedy]] webcomic. [[Long Runners|Created in 1996]], it is the oldest British web comic and, according to research by [[The Webcomics Company]] podcast, either the 16th or 17th webcomic ever created.
The strip began as a series of hand-drawn and hand-lettered comics, coloured in coloured pencils and updated intermittently before the creator, [[Zoe Kirk
The premise of the comic is to subvert the standard view of reality and make a joke while doing so. Plot points range from the totally random to discussions on how a child might explain the world if she had overheard half a physics lecture, missed the point and then tried to explain it to someone else, who wrote it down.
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The comic was originally the sole purview of one writer-artist, Zoe Robinson, but now the writing duties are shared between Robinson and her partner, [[Jennifer Kirk]], while Robinson continues to produce the artwork on her own.
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* [[Affectionate Parody]] - ''[[Doctor Who|Doctor Nob]]'' and ''[[Star Trek|Nob Trek]]''.
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* [[The Blind Leading the Blind]] - It's often the case that ''none'' of the cast know what they're doing, but they do it anyway. [[Crazy Enough to Work|Sometimes it works out]].
* [[Bound and Gagged]] - Occasionally, the Big Bad will try this to keep the Blobland Band and their allies from ruining their plans. It never works out.
* [[B
* [[The Cameo]] - Emily and Tesrin from ''[[All Over the House]]'' appeared in [http://www.nobmouse.net/2009/05/15/revenge-of-the-nasties-epilogue/ this] ''Revenge of the Nasties'' story.
* [[Cephalothorax]] - most of the cast are simply giant heads with limbs attached.▼
* [[Catch Phrase]] - Several.
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'''Nob T. Mouse''': Oh my!
'''Wilf''': Hello, everybody. }}
▲* [[Cephalothorax]] - most of the cast are simply giant heads with limbs attached.
* [[Character Blog]] - Hubert Schlongson occasionally pops up on the website to provide [http://www.nobmouse.net/tag/anecdotes/ increasingly surreal anecdotes] about his time visiting Nob Mouse and friends.
* [[Character Development]] - All the main characters, and many of the minor characters, have become more rounded as time goes on.
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** Nob Mouse and Co. visit Memory Lane to figure out why [[All Over the House|Emily and Tesrin]] arrived in Blobland.
** The door to Frederick's secret lab in ''Pie Noon'' is covered in the same 'warnings' as his original secret lab in ''Nob & The Pies''.
* [[Crossover]] - Although the characters don't meet save for a cameo, the Nob Mouse story ''The Great Tea Adventure'' crosses over with the ''[[All Over the House]]'' story ''Homeward bound''. Both act as lead-in stories, for their respective characters, to the crossover story ''[http://www.nobmouse.net/2009/12/04/unscheduled-stop/ All over the mouse]''; which ran in tandem on both comics' sites.▼
* [[Crisis Crossover]] - The ''All over the mouse'' storyline and its lead-in stories almost certainly qualify here.
▲* [[Crossover]] - Although the characters don't meet save for a cameo, the Nob Mouse story ''The Great Tea Adventure'' crosses over with the ''[[All Over the House]]'' story ''Homeward bound''. Both act as lead-in stories, for their respective characters, to the crossover story ''[http://www.nobmouse.net/2009/12/04/unscheduled-stop/ All over the mouse]''; which ran in tandem on both comics' sites.
* [[Dada Comics]] - arguably the whole comic is one big example of this.
* [[Doomsday Device]] - Frederick tends to make these.
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* [[Eldritch Abomination]] - Grandfather Time is definitely one of these.
* [[Exact Time to Failure]] - Used as a joke in ''Pie Noon'':
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* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Fictional Document]] - ''The Blobland Gang'' is a set of books, [[Animated Adaptation|TV]] & radio shows, and even [[The Movie|a film]]. They are all based on [[Author Avatar|Hubert Schlongson]]'s visits to Blobland to learn about the adventures of Nob Mouse and Co.
* [[Filler Strip]] - they tend to be jokes about why there's no comic on that particular day; like [http://www.nobmouse.net/2009/11/23/why-the-long-pause/ this strip]:
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'''Nob Mouse''': Because the writers messed up on their scheduling... }}
* [[
'''Ego''': Kevin }}▼
* [[Funny Animal]] - Given that Nob is a 'mouse', Wilf is a 'dog' and Frederick is a 'rabbit', this is given an abstract, almost cubist, twist.
* [[Go Mad
* [[Hidden Depths]] - Frederick [http://www.nobmouse.net/2008/07/25/a-trip-down-memory-lane-part-4/ wasn't always] a pie-obsessed nutcase with a tendency to endanger the universe...▼
* [[Halloween Episode]]: ''[http://www.nobmouse.net/2008/10/13/the-scary-house-part-one/ The Scary House]''.
▲* [[Hidden Depths]] - Frederick [http://www.nobmouse.net/2008/07/25/a-trip-down-memory-lane-part-4/ wasn't always] a pie-obsessed nutcase with a tendency to endanger the universe...
* [[Idiot Ball]] - Franky is one.
* [[Intelligible Unintelligible]] - Bricky can say only 'Pop' but this doesn't stop him being a useful ideas man.
* [[Invisible Anatomy]]: How else would Jip put his hat on? Averted with Wilf and Frederick however, as these guys use prehensile ears to manipulate objects.
* [[It Runs
* [[Little-Known Facts]] - which, in an almost inevitable inversion, sometimes turn out to be true.▼
* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: Grandfather Time.
▲* [[Little-Known Facts]] - which, in an almost inevitable inversion, sometimes turn out to be true.
* [[Long Runners]]: The comic began in 1996, making it one of the oldest webcomics.
* [[Mind Rape]]: Grandfather Time did this to Frederick, turning him into a prototypical [[Mad Scientist]].
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** In ''[http://www.nobmouse.net/1999/07/01/nasties-part-1/ Nasties!]'' there are at least three other universes, with at least two of those having a separate history.
* [[Odd-Shaped Panel]] - Skewed ellipses with part of a character popping out of them occur so often they are almost a signature effect in Robinson's long-form comics.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: The ''Memory Lane'' story makes it clear that Nob Mouse was born prior to the founding of Blob City but in ''The bureaucratic empire'' a Blob City law is mentioned that is [http://www.nobmouse.net/2010/05/19/the-bureaucratic-empire-part-9/ dated to 244]. If the dating used in Blob City is based on the year the city was founded, that makes Nob Mouse over 240 years old.
* [[Out-of-Genre Experience]]: In ''The Squeeze'', a surreal comedy comic suddenly turns into film noir.
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: Apparently people in Blobland [http://www.nobmouse.net/2008/09/05/asterisks/ can't hear anything replaced by asterisks] in speech bubbles.
* Part Time Hero: Nob Mouse. He is a mayor, cafe owner and part-time adventurer who just wants a quiet life but apparently can't have one.
* [[People Puppets]]: In ''Parallel Land'', {{spoiler|the parallel universe version of Nob Mouse}} is being remote-controlled by {{spoiler|the parallel universe version of Wilf}}.
* [[Power Walk]]: Used when Wilf, Franky and Bricky head into battle against the minions of Grandfather Time.▼
* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: Jip does this in ''[http://www.nobmouse.net/2009/07/10/the-squeeze-part-one/ The Squeeze]'', a film noir parody strip from ''[[The Life of Nob T Mouse]]''.▼
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Two sets. [[Word of God]] is that this is down to Robinson preferring to write about Nob Mouse and Franky, while Kirk prefers to write about Wilf and Spam.
▲{{quote| The main trio:<br />
▲'''Super Ego''': Nob Mouse<br />
▲'''Id''': Franky<br />
▲'''Ego''': Bricky<br />
▲The secondary trio:<br />
▲'''Super Ego''': Spam<br />
▲'''Id''': Wilf<br />
▲'''Ego''': Kevin }}
* [[Power-Up]]: Wilf gets one of these when he opens [http://www.nobmouse.net/2010/01/27/all-over-the-mouse-part-seventeen/ a literal can of ''Whoop Ass''] in order to battle Grandfather Time.
▲* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: Jip does this in ''[http://www.nobmouse.net/2009/07/10/the-squeeze-part-one/ The Squeeze]'', a film noir parody strip from ''[[The Life of Nob T. Mouse]]''.
▲* [[Power Walk]]: Used when Wilf, Franky and Bricky head into battle against the minions of Grandfather Time.
* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: In-universe example. Zoe was a fan of Hubert Schlongson's ''Blobland Band'' stories and originally made ''[[The Life of Nob T. Mouse]]'' as a fanfiction comic, before meeting Schlongson and winning ownership of the copyright to the ''Blobland Band'' franchise off him in a game of poker.
* [[The Rant]]: The news section is occasionally used to tell extra anecdotal stories.
* [[Running Gag]]: Several:
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Spam's inventions will go wrong.
Every series on the site's 'Stories' page includes a claim that "some claim [it] is the Golden Age of Nob Mouse stories" }}
* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: Notice how often Bricky is missing from the more modern stories.▼
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: The strip sits firmly in the middle, with idealistic stories and tones masking a dark and cynical core. The [http://www.nobmouse.net/2010/04/28/the-bureaucratic-empire-part-1/ ''Bureaucratic Empire'' storyline] is a good example of this.
▲* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: Notice how often Bricky is missing from the more modern stories.
* [[Something Completely Different]] - [http://www.nobmouse.net/2009/07/10/the-squeeze-part-one/ This ''film noir''-inspired detective story] where most of the main case appear to be petty crooks of some kind. The art style and the writing are significantly different to anything else the comic has done.
* [[Speech Bubbles]]: Grandfather Time has translucent black speech bubbles without tails. Everyone else gets normal speech bubbles.
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* [[Story Arc]] - Several. The longest is probably the establishment of Memory Lane in its titular storyline. At first it seems like an abortedarc but then it reappears in ''All over the mouse''.
* [[Surrealism]] - Robinson studied the surrealist movement for her school art classes and regularly discusses the influence of surrealism on the comic.
* [[This Is Sparta]] - Frederick delivering his final words to Grandfather Time during ''[http://www.nobmouse.net/2010/02/17/all-over-the-mouse-part-twenty-four/ All over the mouse]''.
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* [[Threshold Guardians]]: Nob Mouse is forced to {{spoiler|risk killing Frederick}} {{spoiler|(who is effectively his adopted father)}} in order to save the world during ''Pie Noon''.
* [[The Unseen]] - Hubert Schlongson is mentioned in ''All Over the Mouse'' and even writes the occasional anecdotal story in the site's blog but he has never actually been shown anywhere.
* [[Waddling Head]]: Most of the cast.
* [[Weird Science]] - Anything Frederick and Doctor Franky create will undoubtedly fit the bill.
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
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