Nervous Tick

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Nervous Tick
hang ten for justice! get some extra stats and meat from this twitchy bug

Ability: Has the properties of both a Leprechaun and a Blood-Faced Volleyball

Hatchling: nervous tick egg nervous tick egg

Familiar-Specific Equipment: spoon! spoon!

The Cake-Shaped Arena	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek
	Nervous Tick	Nervous TickNervous TickNervous Tick	Nervous TickNervous Tick	Nervous TickNervous Tick

• Regular combat messages:

  <name> stares blankly at you. "I just -- I just -- I can't -- I don't --" he sputters, compulsively winking and grinning a nervous grin.

  <name> complains, "My spoon is toooo biiiig."

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  <name> winks convulsively under the Tam O'Shanter, twitching so hard the hat barely stays on his head.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <name> does a twitchy, flailing dance around the maypole. Someone should get him a giant business suit.

• With wax lips equipped:

  The wax lips bounce up and down as <name> twitches uncontrollably behind them.

Arena Messages

• When entered in an Ultimate Cage Match:

  <name> doesn't really like fighting. It makes him nervous.

Notes

• Was available in Mr. Store for two Mr. Accessories between October 2006 and 2007.

References

• The familiar's name and combat messages are a play on the term nervous tic.
• "Hang ten for justice!", from the first line of the familiar haiku, is a direct quote from The Tick cartoon.
• The Tick's battlecry is "SPOOOOOOOON!"
• The phrase "My spoon is too big" comes from Don Hertzfeldt's short film Rejected, which also includes a scene where angry ticks fire out of a character's nipples.
• The Maypole combat message is a reference to the movie Stop Making Sense. In the film, a concert movie featuring Talking Heads, David Byrne does some twitchy, flailing dancing in a big suit.

See Also

• Meat from Monsters
• Stat Gains from Fights