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{{Infobox webcomic| <!-- Part of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Webcomics]] -->
| title = Beaver and Steve
| image = 
| caption = Beaver (left) and Steve
| author = [[James Turner (cartoonist)|James Turner]]
| url = http://www.beaverandsteve.com
| status = Updates Mondays and Fridays
| began = 2004
| ended = 
| genre = Story/Humour
| ratings = 
}}

'''Beaver and Steve''' (also known as '''The Unfeasible Adventures of Beaver and Steve''') is a popular [[webcomic]] by [[James Turner (cartoonist)|James Turner]].   The comic, which debuted on [[September 10]], [[2004]] and has continued since on a semi-weekly basis, chronicles the bizarre and humorous escapades of Steve, a green [[reptile|reptilian]] creature, and the aptly-named Beaver.

==Major Ccharacters==
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===Steve===
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[[image:BnS_steve.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Steve applying jam to his scalp]]
Steve, whose exact species is unknown (though it has been speculated that he may be a [[dinosaur]], [[lizard]] or perhaps something to do with the classic arcade game [[Bubble Bobble]]) is the co-protagonist of the strip.   Steve possesses superior intelligence and technical expertise, and has been known to create [[robots]], [[time machine|time machines]]s, and other advanced technological devices.   However, Steve’s inventions rarely function as planned, often leading to disastrous results.

Steve is more spontaneous than his companion, Beaver, and is the source of much of the “unfeasibility” of their adventures.   Somehow, Steve’s mere presence attracts strange creatures such as sentient turnips, the Shoe Goblin, Satan, and various fairies.

Steve is generally friendly and well-meaning, with a few exceptions (often involving pandas).   His amiable and overly-optimistic nature often renders him oblivious to the sinister intentions of others (see [http://www.beaverandsteve.com/index.php?comic=49   Beaver and Steve # 49]).

===Beaver===
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[[image:BnS_beaver.gif|left|thumb|100px|Beaver]]
Beaver is the more rational and pragmatic of the pair.   He is often the victim of Steve’s practical jokes and is sometimes annoyed by the unfeasibility that Steve seems to generate.   Because he is more level-headed and responsible than Steve, he sometimes acts as an almost parental figure.   For example, Beaver has been known to cook dinner for Steve, forbid Steve from playing with ninjas, and make Steve clean up piles of rotten meat on the floor.

While he is usually a loyal and caring friend, there appears to be a darker side to Beaver’s personality.   He apparently had no qualms about allowing Steve to be beaten up by a gang of fellow beavers at the zoo, and then accepting Steve’s stolen wallet.   Beaver’s grief after Steve’s recent death was only transitory, and he quickly replaced him with a new friend, Stu.

===Emotibot===
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[[image:BnS_emotibot.gif|right|thumb|100px|Emotibot after being reprogrammed by Steve]]
Emotibot, a robot created by Steve, is capable of feeling complex [[emotions]].   However, Emotibot doesn’t experience these emotions automatically; he (or a third party) must manually push a button on Emotibot’s control panel that corresponds to a certain emotion (though for unexplained reasons, these buttons seem to change completely on a strip-to-strip basis).   Since Emotibot’s emotions are so easily changed, his behavior is highly erratic; he experiences frequent [[mood swings]].

During Emotibot’s nascent period, he experienced a few glitches, sometimes blasting Beaver in the face with powerful death rays.   In addition, Emotibot once produced baked goods such as toast and bagels, but this function has disappeared.

==Minor Ccharacters==
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===The Shoe Goblin===
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[[image:BnS_sg.png|left|thumb|100px|The Shoe Goblin gloats in his triumph over Beaver and Steve]]
An old enemy of Beaver and Steve, the Shoe Goblin uses footwear to carry out his evil plans.   His targets are usually bludgeoned by large shoes, a process he refers to as “shoeing.”   The Shoe Goblin seems to be motivated by nothing else than pure hatred for Beaver and Steve (mostly Steve), as well as a love of shoes.   Beaver and Steve are terrified of the Shoe Goblin, and he is sometimes the subject of Steve’s nightmares.

The Shoe Goblin’s obsession with shoes seems to run in the family; eons ago, his ancestors built a giant shoe and sealed it inside a shoe-themed temple.

Though a formidable foe, the Shoe Goblin does have a weakness:   he was once defeated when Beaver subdued him with an enormous sock.

===Rupert T. Roach===
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[[image:BnS_rupert.png|right|thumb|100px|Rupert T. Roach]]
Rupert T. Roach, a sophisticated, verbose, and arrogant [[cockroach]], is a megalomaniac bent on world domination.   All hell broke loose when Steve inadvertently magnified Rupert to the size of a skyscraper.   Although Rupert has been “squished” several times, he still keeps returning, intent on achieving his ambitious goals.

===Pandas===
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[[image:BnS_panda.jpg|left|thumb|100px|Stupid no good pandas…]]
Steve has had several encounters with pandas, and harbors an unexplained hatred for them.   Steve’s disdain of pandas is not completely unfounded; the pandas appear to have sinister intentions, and have colluded with the Shoe Goblin at times. Also, in "Panda-monium", pandas act like parasites.

===Ninjas===
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[[image:BnS_ninjas.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Crap!   Ninjas!]]
Beaver and Steve have, on occasion, encountered a band of three multi-colored ninjas.   The ninjas originally attacked Beaver and Steve during a [[Scrabble]] game, but Steve has since befriended them and aspired to join their ranks.

===Turnips===
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[[image:BnS_turnip.gif|left|thumb|100px|Timmy the Turnip is rich in vitamins and minerals]]
Steve has had several unpleasant experiences involving [[turnips]].   The turnips, complete with arms, legs, and faces, will go to great lengths (including the use of chloroform) to be eaten by Steve.   It all started when Steve met Timmy the Turnip, who purportedly was rich in [[vitamins]] and [[minerals]].   When Steve refused to eat him, Timmy subdued him and forced his way into Steve’s mouth.

===Cyber-Spook===
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[[image:BnS_spook.gif|right|frame|100px|Cyber-Spook is a loser jerk]]
This terrifying [[ghost]]-[[cyborg]] hybrid is armed with a deadly weapon:   a bucket full of red [[paint]].   However, despite his semi-ghostly nature, his eyes are vulnerable to small foreign objects, especially cookie crumbs.

Beaver and Steve once speculated on the origins of Cyber-Spook on ''Beaver and Steve Investigate''.   Steve argued that he was “a ghost, horribly injured in an accident,” while Beaver maintained that he was “the ghost of a cyborg returned from the grave…”   Actually, he turned out to be the product of a happy marriage between his ghostly father and cyborg mother.

===Steve’s “conscience”===
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[[image:BnS_conscience.png|left|frame|”It’ll be awesome!”]]
Resembling a flying [[shrimp]] with a miniature [[pitchfork]], Steve’s “[[conscience]]” has been known to give such advice as “Hey kid, why don’t you press those buttons.   I bet something cool will happen” or “So kids, remember:   bees are the enemy!”   In Steve’s words:   “You’re the best conscience ever!”

==Recurring Themes==
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===Steve and Toasters===
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[[image:BnS_toaster.jpg|right|thumb|100px|I think this toaster might be haunted.]]
Steve has, many times, run into problems with [[toaster|toasters]]s. This seems to be the result of an unfeasible [[conspiracy]] against Steve; every time Steve attempts to make toast, something goes horribly wrong with the toaster.   For example, various toasters have turned out to be fairies, [[Transformers (toyline)|Transformer]]-esque robots, or [[haunted]].

Steve’s problems with toast date even further back than these toaster troubles: at one point, Steve attempted to butter his toast only to discover that the [[butter]] had become a foul-tasting, three-eyed being.

===Fairies===
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[[image:BnS_fairy.png|left|thumb|100px|The Meat Fairy]]
Magical [[fairies]] make regular appearances in Beaver and Steve.   These have included the Meat Fairy (pictured), the Good Fairy of the East, toaster fairies, mine pixies, etc.

===Removal of Body Parts===
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[[image:BnS_nipples.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Scene from “I can’t feel my nipples”]]
Various appendages and body parts are removed frequently in this comic.   In one case, an awkward situation arose when Steve discovered a man’s disembodied [[nipple|nipples]]s while bathing in a hot tub.   In another, Beaver somehow obtained another (or possibly the same) man’s nose.   Beaver once removed Steve’s [[pelvis]] and used it to escape from the Shoe Goblin’s clutches.   More recently Steve lost his tail only for it to grow a new Steve which attempted to hack off the tail of the naive Beaver.

===Steve’s Inner Demons===
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[[image:BnS_demons.gif|left|thumb|100px|Steve struggles with his inner demons]]
Steve sometimes struggles with his inner demons, in a very literal sense.   Steve’s body has been occupied by actual demons who emerge every thousand years, a [[Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln]]-esque man in a top hat, and [[Loki]], the Norse god of mischief.

==Notable Storylines==
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===Going to the Zoo Zoo Zoo===
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[[image:BnS_zoo.jpg|right|thumb|100px|A sign at the zoo]]
This story arc, involving Beaver and Steve’s unfeasible adventure at the zoo, features Steve’s first known experience with [[pandas]], poisonous [[bears]], and evil [[beavers]].   Steve’s experience at the zoo ends in disaster when he fails to follow Beaver’s advice:   “[[Penguins]] belong in the zoo.”

===Rupert Hits Town===
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[[image:BnS_giantrupert.png|left|thumb|”Take that oh cankerous construct of my oppressors!”]]
When Rupert, enlarged as a result of exposure to [[microwave radiation]], starts destroying large buildings, it’s up to Beaver and Steve to stop him.   Their quest to find a shoe large enough to defeat the giant Rupert inevitably leads them to the Shoe Goblin, who has an evil agenda of his own…

===Steve’s Unfeasible Afterlife Adventure===
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[[image:BnS_afterlife.png|right|thumb|100px|One of the judges of Steve’s soul]]
When Steve is tragically killed by Beaver’s flimsy [[anvil]] shelf, he must find his way through the [[netherworld]].   Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like he’s going to the “good place…”

Meanwhile, Beaver befriends Stu, who bears uncanny similarities to Steve.   Stu appears to be a better friend than Steve in every possible way, but appearances can be misleading…

===Panda-monium===
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[[image:BnS_pandamonium.png|left|thumb|150px|Steve encounters the infestation]]
Steve wakes up one morning to find that a box of his favourite [[cereal]], "Sugar Frosted [[Bamboo]] Flakes", is empty. The reason: Pandas have infested the house!

After rounding up all the pandas with "bamboo-scented panda strips", which Steve thinks it smells "so good", he and Beaver discover the nest and find the panda queen, and while Beaver tries to talk to the queen, Steve attempts to rid of the infestation...

==Awards and Recognition==
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===Outstanding Newcomer Award===
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Beaver and Steve was awarded the title of “Best Newcomer” by the [http://www.ccawards.com/2005.htm   Web Cartoonists Choice Awards] in [[2005]].

===G4===
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In connection with the Best Newcomer award, Beaver and Steve was [http://www.beaverandsteve.com/bns_g4.avi   mentioned] on [[Attack of the Show]], airing on [[G4]].

==External links==
*[http://www.beaverandsteve.com Beaver and Steve Website]

[[Category:2000s webcomics]]
[[cCategory:Comedy webcomics]]