Once again, my love for British comedy sketch shows come into play. For those of you who don't know the backstory of this picture, the character in the background is Chunky LaFunga from Goodness Gracious Me: A comedy show which looks into the funnier points of Asian culture in the UK. Chunky here is a Bollywood superstar, and self-confessed stud with "the look", which he's doing in the pic as well charming a couple of Asian babes through tickling them.
I did several pics since returning from my holiday in the Philippines, most of them themed around what I was up to... well, kind of. I flew on Emirates airlines on my way there and back, and enjoyed the economy service there. I also noticed the nice uniforms the air hostesses wear on Emirates, and air hostesses are generally good-looking, so I thought it would be a good idea to have at least one tickled.
When in the UK, my parents always mentioned to me how beautiful Eys is, and when I went to the Philippines, they were right. Eys has a radiant natural beauty, although she's tiny... smaller than Selis, in fact. She, along with her sister Chick and Lou are my cousin's daughters, making them my second removed nieces. Here, Eys laughs her cute head off, courtesy of myself, a goat and coconut milk. Notice that she's pleading and begging in Tagalog: Her English isn't that great.
Meet Chick: Eys' pretty sister. You'd think Chick would be the older sister due to their size difference, but that ain't the case. She's more mischevious and tomboyish compared to her sister's feminine mannerisms, but she's developing into a beauty queen. Here, she discovers my little habits when she's relaxing on a table, and I come up with a chicken to tickle her feet with. Got interrupted for dinner time, but what the hey, I love my food...
Lou here is my oldest second removed niece, and someone I got along with very well in my previous two visits to my home country. Just like Eys and Chick, she's become a beautiful young girl who is about a month older than B. Lou also happens to have the loveliest feet I've ever seen. Her bare soles look incredibly soft and wrinkled. So, while she uses her mobile phone, I sneak up with a feather and give 'em stroke, surprising her big time.
On my holiday in the Philippines, a house was recently built for my family in my mum's home village, and due to it being unfinished, it got a little dusty from time to time, so I spent some mornings sweeping up. Here in this toon, I notice my three nieces' bare feet sticking out of the mosquito net, so I did them a "favour" by dusting off their dirty feet while they were asleep. Of course, with their ticklishness, they had to wake up...
To start of the revival of International Tickling, as well as reintroducing my nieces Eys and Chick into the fray, I created the mini-series Lost in Europe, which features Eys and Chick getting lost on their way to London and finding their way there, only ending up getting tickled by familiar villains in the Chimp's adventures along the way. They must rely on resourcefulness and luck to get to London, despite the only possessions on them are the clothes they're wearing.
The first tickle pic after my semi-retirement and of this series. The backstory: Eys and Chick are discovered by a tour guide working in their trip. However, the guide is actually Dr. Wolfgang Darang in disguise. He kidnaps the sisters and takes them to his secret hideout to torture their bare feet using Cheez Whiz and Alsatians, using them to get revenge on the Chimp. Darang is apparently responsible for getting the nieces lost, planning it beforehand. How will they escape?... (comic prelude)
In the second part, Eys and Chick give in before they die from tickle torture. They are then blindfolded and whisked away in a van heading for Krakow, Poland: Where the Barefoot Feminists have a temporary base in a hidden chapel. As the sisters are new "employees" of Dr. Darang, they have to be initiated. It involves baby oil and being tied to special recliners in a certain way while the Barefoot Feminists go throught the initiation process. You do the math... (comic prelude)
Eys and Chick are part of a recon team with the Foot Soldierettes in this third part. On a stakeout in Poprad, Slovakia, the sisters' captors are distracted by an emergency transmission, allowing Eys and Chick to finally escape from their clutches. They sneak away quietly, but reach a dead-end in the form of sleeping gas and Madame Elena Pedriania. They trespassed on her boss's turf, and duly punishes the sisters in her dungeon when they wake up. (comic prelude)
In part four, Eys and Chick tell Madame Elena Pedriania about what has happened to them, and she offers to help the two lost tourists. Taking them to Messina in Sicily, Italy, Madame kills two birds with one stone by putting the two on a boat to the UK while she has her business meeting. Unfortunately, the sisters are intercepted by the Solletico Mafia: Who accuse them of stealing their loot and interrogate them even though they're innocent, as they always have done. (comic prelude)
The fifth and penultimate part of Lost in Europe sees Eys and Chick freed from the Mafia... from Darang's Foot Soldierettes, who had traced their every move since escaping from them the first time. They are taken to Calais, where Darang is doing business, and awaiting the sisters arrival. Angered at them, he tells them the whole intricate plot behind their kidnapping before starting to film the sisters getting tickle tortured on their bare feet until they die laughing. (comic prelude)
The first half of the final part of Lost in Europe contains no tickling, but it shows what happens to Eys and Chick. During Darang's assault on their bare feet, he is disturbed by someone moving in the cargo ship. Out of nowhere, Ta-Shi, who has a grudge against Darang and the Barefoot Feminists, knocks him spark out with a barefooted roundhouse kick to the face. She then rescues the stricken sisters, finally ending their week-long ordeal. Too bad Darang has scarpered...
Rounding off the series, Eys and Chick finally arrive to the UK, and rush to see their Tito Chimp, who's nursing an injury yet managed to get help from his friends to rescue them. The girls get their belongings back at Heathrow, and find out that their "tour guide" is in custody at the airport. They immediately confront her: A new villain named Scarlett Terra. In another case of karma, Eys and Chick suggest putting Scarlett what they went through that whole week. (comic prelude)
