Of Dumb Dumbs and Pussycats
is a short Josie and the Pussycats fan-comic featuring a mix of the comics and cartoon. It was written by Mandygirl78 and drawn by P-Jo Art. The comic is saucy, and it does have a few NSFW pages (that aren't viewable on the Deviantart), but it's mainly clean.
The plot is simple: Set in the early 1970s, the gang have just finished up a new gig and are staying at a hotel. The problem is that there are only two rooms for the girls, with three beds altogether. Valerie and Josie get their own beds while Alexandra and Melody are stuck in the room with one bed. This is awkward because Melody is quite flirty with Alexandra.
This comic provides examples of:
- Adaptational Jerkass: Josie is a lot more smug towards Alexandra than she usually is.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Melody's innocence about Alexandra calling her names and kissing her melts Alexandra's vulnerable heart.
- Dumb Blonde: Melody, as per her normal character. She misinterprets the phrase "sleep with Alexandra" to its more sexual meaning, due to not understanding different contexts. Though it does end up that way...
- Gayngst: After Melody kisses her, Alexandra is at first surprised and confused at herself for letting Melody kiss her and kissing back to her. This redoubles when Alexandra is forced to share a bed with Melody. She eventually accepts her feelings towards Melody.
- Girlish Pigtails: Alexandra has them in the last couple pages, that look a lot like Videl's.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Much of the main plot gets kicked off when Melody sees Alexandra crying. She says that one of the things that cheers her up most is hugs and kisses. Then she proceeds to kiss Alexandra to cheer her up.
- Hotter and Sexier: It's an adult interpretation of the series with plenty of sexual innuendo. The complete comic is NSFW, but the three most explicit pages are skippable.
- Implied Love Interest: Melody and Alexandra's relationship is sexual but it's hard to tell if it ends at that or if it's also romantic. Page 19 implies the latter.
- Literal-Minded: Melody, as a part of her Dumb Blonde personality. For example, when Josie says that she has to "sleep with Alexandra" (as in share a bed), Melody believes she gets to have sex with Alexandra. Her literal-mindedness about "Waking up on the wrong side of the bed." is what exposes her and Alexandra's relationship.
- Sarcasm-Blind: Melody again. Her hearing Alexandra saying "That's exactly what I want from you." after Melody offers to hug and kiss her to cheer her up kicks off the plot.
- Say It with Hearts: Melody speaks with musical notes, as she usually does in the comics.
- The '70s: It's set contemporary with the cartoon and is in the early 1970s (no later than 1971 going by the art references).
- Slash Fic: The story ships Alexandra and Melody together.
- Silent Snarker: Sebastian is just a cat, but he can emote (such as shrugging at Alexandra).
- Spit Take: Alexandra does this after Melody admits they didn't do much sleeping together.
- Stunned Silence: Alan and Josie after Melody says that she and Alexandra didn't do much sleeping last night.
- Talking in Your Sleep: Alexandra does some of this after sleeping with Melody, threatening Josie and Alan that Melody is her's and implies violence against them.
- There Is Only One Bed: Alexandra and Melody share a bed together. It ends less innocently than their friends expected.
- Too Much Information: Melody blabs about what happened between her and Alexandra to Josie and Alan.
- Unwanted Assistance: Alexandra gets told to stop helping from everyone when trying to set up the speakers and amps for the show and breaking them.
