Steven Spielberg

C.H.E.A.T. phone home.

Steven Spielberg is a highly successful and popular film director and producer, having worked on numerous films and TV series since the 1970s. He has directed and/or produced such movies as Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park. He is also friends with George Lucas, another famous film maker. There are several references to him on many of the Homestar Runner toons.

References

Directed By Spielberg

• Email trading cards — C.H.E.A.T. is a non-playable Videlectrix game that appears in an Easter egg, that is a parody of the Atari 2600 game E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which is based on the film directed by Steven Spielberg.
  • The title screen was later revised and used in the DVD exclusive Where's the Cheat? game.
• Hallrunner — If you talk to the shark, "Quint" tells you some "keen fishing tips." Quint was a fisherman in the movie Jaws, and was eaten at the end of the movie.
• The House That Gave Sucky Tricks — The King of Town dresses as a mashed-potato replica of Devil's Mountain, seen in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
• The Show: Ween Edition — The Cheat, Strong Bad, and Strong Sad all dress up as characters from E.T.

Produced By Spielberg

• FAQ — The page title, "FAQ - Ouch. What do you do?", quotes The Goonies II, a video game spun off of The Goonies (which has Spielberg credited for "Story" as well as producer).
• Email theme song — The announcer for Cheat Commandos paraphrases of the first line of the theme song to Tiny Toon Adventures: "They're tiny, they're toony, they're all a little loony".
• Happy Hallow-Day — The Cheat dresses as Gizmo from Gremlins.
• Most in the Graveyard — Homestar Runner confuses Strong Sad's Sam Kinison costume for one of Ma Fratelli from The Goonies.

See Also

• Indiana Jones
• Back to the Future
• Jurassic Park
• Transformers
• Disney
• Don Bluth
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Stanley Kubrick