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 Stepford Suburbia.
It can be read here.
Due to the website domain being taken down, only archives remain.
This webcomic contains examples of:
- Animal Jingoism: Being an elephant, Evan always freaks out at the sight of mice.
- 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.
- 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.
- Chromatic Arrangement: The four sisters Bianca, Lily, Lila and Lacey Lamb wear green, yellow, blue and red respectively. (Necessary due to Only Six Faces.)
- Darker and Edgier: Acting out "Desperate Housewives"-style plots with children's toys - so yeah...
- 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.
- 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.
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Hilarious in Hindsight because rabbits also have "bucks" and "does" like deers do.
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- 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: Most relationships are interspecies, to the point where 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.
- The Mockbuster: The whole comic is a spoof on Desperate Housewives, which leads to...
- Pun-Based Title: "Welcome to Histeria Lane!"
- Palette Swap: 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 at least 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."
- 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 a lot.
- 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 confidence-less 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.
