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"Where the meeples all speak in board-gamery terms while I over-explain everything."

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Twelve Homestar Runner meeples stand around on a board game and chat. Homsar's Jengaship gets shanked again.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[The Poopsmith]], [[Strong Mad]], [[Bubs]], [[Marzipan]], [[Pom Pom]], [[The King of Town]], [[Homsar]], [[The Cheat]], [[Strong Bad]], [[Homestar Runner]], [[Coach Z]], [[Strong Sad]], Pleasant Narrator, [[Balding Man]]

'''Places:''' [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]]

'''Date:''' Thursday, July 26, 2018

'''Running Time:''' 1:55

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* [#Transcript 1 Transcript]
* [#Fun_Facts 2 Fun Facts]
** [#Explanations 2.1 Explanations]
** [#Trivia 2.2 Trivia]
** [#Inside_References 2.3 Inside References]
** [#Real-World_References 2.4 Real-World References]
** [#Fast_Forward 2.5 Fast Forward]
* [#External_Links 3 External Links]

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''{Open on a game board sitting on a table in the basement of the Brothers Strong, with meeples of the twelve main characters standing on it. Soft music plays. Whenever a meeple speaks, he rattles back and forth.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Uh, you guys? How come we look like this? ''{close up}'' And how come I can only kinda... shimmy in place? Not that I'm complaining. Everybody knows Homestar Runner loves a good stand-in-place shimmy!

''{Pan to the Strong Sad meeple in the bottom-right corner}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' We're meeples! I've had so many dreams like this!

''{Wide shot. The Cheat meeple turns to face Strong Bad as he speaks.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{rhythmically}'' Gross. I hate you. Gross, gross, I hate you.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' What's a meeple? Sounds like Intendo.

''{Close up on Strong Sad meeple}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' A meeple is a wooden approximation of a human character in a tabletop game!

'''STRONG BAD:''' We look like we belong in one of those old British stop-motion shows. You know, where we all speak in board-gamery terms while a pleasant narrator over-explains everything?

''{Pan over the board while music plays and the title "Meeple Grove Market" appears over top. During the narration, panning shots are shown of various meeples toddling around the board.}''

'''PLEASANT NARRATOR:''' ''{voiceover}'' Welcome to Meeple Grove Market. Where the meeples all speak in board-gamery terms while I over-explain everything.

''{Close up of Strong Bad meeple}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{fake Italian accent}'' Okay, as is the custom of-a my meeples, everybody sound off!

'''STRONG MAD:''' I TRADE FOR GRAIN!

'''BUBS:''' I just eradicated all disease in Jakarta!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I lost a turn in the chocolate swamp! Chocolate?! What happened to molasses? Kids love molasses!

'''COACH Z:''' I'm creepin' and I'm creepin' down Baltic Ave! ''(actually says "Ave", not "avenue")''

'''KING OF TOWN:''' I'm takin' back Irkutsk!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Pret-ty sneaky, sis!

''{Wide shot, drum roll plays}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Do it Homsar, do it, do it, do it!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Do it Homsar, do it!

'''BUBS:''' Yeah, yeah! Do it!

'''COACH Z:''' Dort!

'''KING OF TOWN:''' Yeah, do it! Do it, do it!

'''COACH Z:''' DORT!

'''HOMSAR:''' Oh, no! ''{close up}'' You just shanked my Jengaship!

''{Triumphant tune plays. Wide shot.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh no, it's our mortal enemy: someone going to get a drink during the game!

''{A silhouette of the Balding Man sighs his drawn-out sigh as he gets up from the table, making [[The Geddup Noise]] and jostling it, which knocks over all the meeples. Everybody yells in alarm.}''

''{Slow zoom out as music plays.}''

'''PLEASANT NARRATOR:''' And so, all the meeples fell down, because you see, when you're playing a tabletop game and you get up to go to the loo—

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{still lying on his back}'' Yeah, we get it.

'''PLEASANT NARRATOR:''' —sometimes your knee strikes—

'''STRONG BAD:''' We get it!

'''PLEASANT NARRATOR:''' —the corner of the table—

'''STRONG BAD:''' WE GET IT!

'''PLEASANT NARRATOR:''' —upsetting everything on the—

'''STRONG BAD:''' WE GET IT, OLD MAN!

''{"End" screen}''

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=== <span class="mw-headline">Explanations</span> ===

* This was a surprise video posted to Kickstarter to promote [[Trogdor!! The Board Game]]. It was linked to by the board game's Facebook and Twitter accounts, along with this message:

<blockquote>Everybody (Everybody) Check out our surprise meeple video we made! We're still working on the other stuff, but we figured this would be a good amuse bouche.</blockquote>
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=== <span class="mw-headline">Trivia</span> ===

* The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "An old stop-motion show featuring your favorite Homestar characters in meeple form. King of Town is in it, too!"

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=== <span class="mw-headline">Inside References</span> ===

* Homestar once again says "Everybody knows [...] Homestar Runner loves..." like he did in [[Doomy Tales of the Macabre]].
* Strong Bad's fake Italian accent (particularly his "as is the custom of-a my meeples") is a reference to one of his prank calls in [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2]].
* Homsar's "Jengaship" was previously "shanked" in [[Where's The Cheat?]].
* "Intendo" as a shortened version of "Nintendo" first appeared in [[Sbemail 136 Alternate Versions|the second draft of Sbemail 136]].

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=== <span class="mw-headline">Real-World References</span> ===

* A similar show with a pleasant British narrator was featured in the "Trauncles" segment of [[Two More Eggs]], also produced by [[The Brothers Chaps]].
* "What's a meeple? Sounds like Intendo." might be a reference to [[Amiibo|amiibo]], [[Nintendo]]'s line of plastic figures that interact with their games.
* Strong Bad's description of "old British stop motion shows" involving wooden figures and pleasant narrators calls to mind such shows as ''[[Postman Pat]]''.
* The "board-gamery terms" used by the characters refer to various tabletop games:
** Strong Mad's "grain" is a tradeable resource in the popular game ''[[Catan|Settlers of Catan]]''.
** Bubs eradicates disease in Jakarta, one of the cities players must save in ''[[Pandemic (board game)|Pandemic]]''.
** Homestar loses a turn in the Chocolate Swamp from the children's board game ''[[Candy Land]]''. He also refers to the earlier versions of the game that had Molasses Swamp instead.
** Coach Z creeps down Baltic Ave, one of the properties in the classic board game ''[[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]]''.
** The King of Town takes Irkutsk, a conquerable territory in the strategy game ''[[Risk (game)|Risk]]''.
** Strong Sad's "Pretty sneaky, sis" comes from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN3nohBw_CE an old commercial] for ''[[Connect Four]]''.
** Homsar's self-quote references ''[[Battleship (game)|Battleship]]'' and the non-board game ''[[Jenga]]''.
* Coach Z's "I'm creepin' and I'm creepin'" is once again a quote from [[Dr. Dre]] and [[Snoop Dogg|Snoop Dogg's]] "[[Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang|Nuthin' But a "G" Thang]]"<span style="background-color: #DEF; border: 1px solid #69C; padding:2px;font-size:x-small;white-space:nowrap;" title="This Wikipedia article contains mild language">[[File:Exclamation Mark.png|[[File:Exclamation_Mark.png|12px|thumb|This Wikipedia article contains mild language]]]] mild language</span>, previously referenced in [[Strong Sad's Lament]].

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=== <span class="mw-headline">Fast Forward</span> ===

* The [[YouTube Related Video Thumbnails|fake autoplay image]] for the YouTube release of the [[Trogdor!! The Board Game (video)|Trogdor!! The Board Game]] video shows "Meeple Grove Market: Annihilation".

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* [https://ksr-video.imgix.net/assets/022/036/350/caa5bdeea725463a874f936f910e9ad9_h264_base.mp4 View video file]
* [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1999933720/trogdor-the-board-game/posts/2247989 Watch video in update]

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2FC13HzTf0 watch "Meeple Grove"] on [[YouTube]]

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[/wiki/Special:Categories Categories]: <span dir="ltr">[[Category:YouTube|YouTube]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:The Poopsmith Filmography|The Poopsmith Filmography]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:Strong Mad Filmography|Strong Mad Filmography]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:Bubs Filmography|Bubs Filmography]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:Marzipan Filmography|Marzipan Filmography]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:Pom Pom Filmography|Pom Pom Filmography]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:The King of Town Filmography|The King of Town Filmography]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:Homsar Filmography|Homsar Filmography]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:The Cheat Filmography|The Cheat Filmography]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:Strong Bad Filmography|Strong Bad Filmography]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:Homestar Runner Filmography|Homestar Runner Filmography]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:Coach Z Filmography|Coach Z Filmography]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:Strong Sad Filmography|Strong Sad Filmography]]</span> | <span dir="ltr">[[Category:Kickstarter Videos|Kickstarter Videos]]</span>

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