10 months ago

What Happened to Your Pancakes?

I know, I know...this game has been out for a decade, but I've never played with the Pancakes. Until now. I'll be honest, I always disliked how to community loves Bob and hates Eliza because I've been that wife who has to clean up behind a lazy slob and I feel sorry for her. However, in my game, neither is a likeable character.

First, they got a makeover to be more cartoony, which is my character style.

Bob
https://i.imgur.com/ZGLDuWf.jpg

Eliza
https://i.imgur.com/GuMN7jE.jpg

Iggy
https://i.imgur.com/nQOl0Rv.jpg

They live in a townhouse and it's not very clean. With For Rent, I added the mold lot challenge, which made playing with them so much more fun.
https://i.imgur.com/ZBKB0M8.jpg

The Setup - I decided to let them have their random new traits and random likes and dislikes that pop up as you play. They ended up being really in character. In my game, Bob is a piece. On his own, he ignores both Eliza and Iggy and just sets up shop in front of the telly until he sleeps. He took a bath on his own after 3 days. Eliza loves Iggy. I mean, she spends 100% of her free time with him and in his room. I love that about her. She avoids Bob and spends a good majority of her time cleaning since she has the neat and perfectionist traits. She does most of that on her own. Iggy is a charming toddler. He's adorable as all tots are.

The first day of playing them was the last time they were ever together doing activities because I was trying to set them on course to be a happy family...it was short lived.
https://i.imgur.com/mNw8eu8.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/d70HWpJ.jpg

During the welcome wagon, Bob managed to make everyone hate him and Eliza did the same, except for the guy in the cap. They have a low level friendship now.
https://i.imgur.com/Ay5zQHT.jpg

Bob did make friends with the landlord and they watch tv together most evenings.
https://i.imgur.com/faKvhOt.jpg

Here's Eliza hiding from Bob and spending time with Iggy
https://i.imgur.com/Dvk1VDS.jpg

This is how to house looks a lot and Eliza spends all her time cleaning it - thanks to the grody and mold lot challenges, this is actually a great way to play a slob and a neat sim together.
https://i.imgur.com/4kWVlts.jpg

Eliza is part of a club called the Moral High Horse Ladies who meet at a bar. :D
https://i.imgur.com/w1MlFDm.jpg

Eliza adores Iggy - when I see her in his room, I usually make them do activities together
https://i.imgur.com/xAlxwKu.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/B0fUSUn.jpg

Using the TOOL mod I have some off lot activities for my toddlers to enjoy
https://i.imgur.com/dj3T4BX.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/jrHp1ZL.jpg

Eliza eventually rolled high maintenance as a new trait...great...now she's never in a good mood. :(
https://i.imgur.com/KS6bEai.jpg

Bob is disgusting. 3 days...THREE. He still hasn't taken a shower.
https://i.imgur.com/xDxrA1D.jpg

Bob is starting to burn out from work and...checks notes...watching too much tv. But he finally took a bath the night before!
https://i.imgur.com/eXZjcZr.jpg

MOLD!
https://i.imgur.com/QR3chNL.jpg

What!? They're all together in the kitchen??
https://i.imgur.com/mUh6PRY.jpg

Welp...both adults have the mold disease. Eliza is doing what she can. I possibly had a bug because the mold was on the bed?
https://i.imgur.com/cUOqXSg.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/CY6tnaV.jpg

I used her mold suit to go finish a mural at the Magnolia Market
https://i.imgur.com/MEqY61x.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6IPGSR6.jpg

And now every few days...this is their lives
https://i.imgur.com/t573t1T.jpg

And if you reached the end of all this, I hope you enjoyed the beginning of their story. I would love to hear about and/or see pics of what happened to them in your game. Happy Simming everyone!

stories

Reddestiny921
Seasoned Veteran
10 months ago
I did read the whole thing and I love it, normally I cheat him the points to change the slob trait just because the laundry piles I....really do not like lol. However I could see how just leaving it in this situation would be fun, I like their make overs, and the mother/son relationship with Liz and Iggy. Funny with the welcome wagon, you don't really think about it but the pancakes really are a love em or hate em type of family.

I haven't done anything with them lately really, at least memorable but I can show a little from my favorite play, I don't even have the save anymore it got corrupted and I couldn't do anything with it except delete it but I still have the pics and I won't show them all.
https://i.imgur.com/vYfwuk6h.png
So in this one, it was a redo/continuation of a much older save that was not damaged I think it was a computer thing and it just wasn't backed up, anyhow it was some years into the future, Bob and Eliza still spoke they were becoming friends again and of course they had Iggy but were divorced she remarried and have five other children with her new alien husband. Iggy called her because his father was having a hard time and he knew the divorce didn't matter much she was still his strongest support system.
https://i.imgur.com/1mSeGQth.png
I vaguely remember he didn't want to admit he was still in love with her because he wanted her to be happy, and at this point he hadn't realized he could love again.
https://i.imgur.com/PUZR0i3h.png
She wouldn't let him wallow, she remembered the bad times sure but he was still her best friend.
https://i.imgur.com/fk1xN4Kh.png
https://i.imgur.com/CcdH5GGh.png
After a few hours he was still feeling off but was in a better place and thanked her for being there.
https://i.imgur.com/tft1smxh.png
She gave Iggy, I think he was almost a teen or was one, a hug and went home as he wanted to live with Bob and returned home. Her husband was trying to be friends with Bob but he couldn't help being insecure because his kids, his wife were absolutely all he had after being abandoned for being different than the usual alien as I recall.

Anyhow the farthest I got was he met Don Lothario who was turning over a new leaf living with his father, who knows why I made him, but he needed someone positive to remind him how to live like a gentleman. He moved in and I'd like to think the whole family would have lived happily ever after. I could not find the picture with Don but maybe I over looked it I have deleted some clutter so some of them are mixed up ah well.
Ellupelluellu
Hero
10 months ago
Bob married Nancy Landgraab , Eliza married Caleb Vatore, in only save I have actually played them.

In others Mccc usually just gives them 2 kids and that's it.
simgirl1010
Hero
10 months ago
I can't remember if they're still in my game or not. ? I believe I kept them as background sims but I never see them. I'll have to check later.
mightyspritesims
Rising Hotshot
10 months ago
I loved reading yours :) My favorite go-round with the Pancakes was of course Eliza Pancakes Supervillain. (The only decent person in that entire story was Iggy.)
atreya33
Seasoned Ace
10 months ago
Nothing at all. I haven't touched them. But Eliza regularly works in food stalls so I occasionally see her around town.
EnkiSchmidt
Hero
10 months ago
Moral High Horse Ladies is gold :D I love that you gave Eliza a special outfit for mold cleaning (and general icky tasks).

My Pancakes are in the same tier as the BFFs, I always want to do more with them, but in the end they remain background characters. They always have a daughter named Roberta as their first child, I rarely acknowledge Iggy existing and I always switch them around, making Eliza the breadwinner (poor girl, her Business career didn't exist back in BG) and Bob the stay at home dad/gardener. That tends to make them happy enough to work on their relationship.
MrPlumbob
Rising Traveler
10 months ago
In my game, Bob owned a restaurant called Bob's Pancake House that I downloaded from the Gallery. He and Eliza are still together, as I've never really played them other than having Bob buy the restaurant, which didn't work out because the customers complained that Bob was rude to them. I tried to make him be nice, but they still complained! When I brought Eliza to the restaurant instead, they stopped complaining. Also, I couldn't get Bob to clean up the dishes on the tables since he's a slob. He would just pick them up and move them to another table, after which the waiter would complain, then go and put them away himself. To this day, I don't know what Bob was doing wrong lol, but apparently, the customers liked Eliza better. They no longer own the restaurant since I evicted them to make room for more of my own sims, but maybe Bob will give it another try one day. I did recently move the restaurant to San Sequoia, so maybe the customers there will be a little more friendly.
MstyBL95
10 months ago
Thanks for sharing, @RedDestiny92 ! Sorry your save got corrupted. What a great storyline for them! It's always interesting to see how people play out the townie stories and their relationships. And all the backstories.
MstyBL95
10 months ago
@mightysprite - I loved your whole story! That was an amazing read. Everyone, go enjoy it, it's good!
MstyBL95
10 months ago
"MrPlumbob;c-18343039" wrote:
In my game, Bob owned a restaurant called Bob's Pancake House that I downloaded from the Gallery. He and Eliza are still together, as I've never really played them other than having Bob buy the restaurant, which didn't work out because the customers complained that Bob was rude to them. I tried to make him be nice, but they still complained! When I brought Eliza to the restaurant instead, they stopped complaining. Also, I couldn't get Bob to clean up the dishes on the tables since he's a slob. He would just pick them up and move them to another table, after which the waiter would complain, then go and put them away himself. To this day, I don't know what Bob was doing wrong lol, but apparently, the customers liked Eliza better. They no longer own the restaurant since I evicted them to make room for more of my own sims, but maybe Bob will give it another try one day. I did recently move the restaurant to San Sequoia, so maybe the customers there will be a little more friendly.

That is so Bob to be rude to all the customers. He's definitely a jerk in my game.