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'''Sample of Style TOO! The Animationing!''' is a [[Live Action|live action]] bonus video that appears in [[strongbad email.exe]]. [[Mike Chapman]] referred to it as a "follow up" to [[Sample of Style]] at the [[NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005|talk at New York University]]. More "[[Blatant Lies|industry secrets]]" are revealed as [[The Brothers Chaps]] parody [[Motion capture|motion capture]] technology.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]], [[Strong Bad]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], [[Puppet Marshie]]

'''Running Time:''' 4:38

'''DVD Exclusive:''' [[strongbad email.exe Disc Four]]

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== Contents ==

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* [#Transcript 1 Transcript]
* [#Fun_Facts 2 Fun Facts]
** [#Trivia 2.1 Trivia]
** [#Inside_References 2.2 Inside References]
** [#Real-World_References 2.3 Real-World References]
** [#Fast_Forward 2.4 Fast Forward]
* [#Related_Links 3 Related Links]
* [#External_Links 4 External Links]

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

''{Cheerful intro music begins to play. The words "Sample of Style" appear on screen, followed by "TOO!" stamped on like a rubber stamp. Finally, "The Animationing!" appears in an inkblot-style font.}''

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'''Sample of Style'''<br />
<span style="color:#FF0000;">'''TOO!'''</span><br />
<span style="color:#B0B0B0;">The Animationing!</span>

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''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red "PACERS" shirt.}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi. ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. The brothers are facing a dry erase board}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Draws an arrow from a ping pong ball to a stick figure}'' —We get this. ''{Quickly circles the stick figure twice}''

'''MIKE:''' What about a cord— I mean, are you going to need to be plugged into anything?

'''MATT:''' Looks like this is the wall, right? ''{Draws an electrical cord coming out of a grid wall}''

'''MIKE:''' Oh, okay, so it's coming straight out of the wall.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, and then it's like— ''{Draws an electrical outlet}''

'''MIKE:''' Little smiley faces.

'''MATT:''' That's the— That's a... outlet.

'''MIKE:''' Outhouse. Too scar—

'''MATT:''' Well, I d— I— That might be— That's probab— That's better. No, I think that's better. I think that's better, you know? ''{Draws arms and legs on the electrical outlet}'' I think that's better. I think that's going to get results.

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through Bluetooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern; his movements and Strong Bad's don't match.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to Matt and Mike standing near the computer.}''

'''MATT:''' So how does the computer talk to the suit, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Well, these ping pong balls... can talk to the computer.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is— ''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. ''{Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask.}''

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These— I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them.

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''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' How's the shooting going today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor.}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut back to Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' We hit some snags—

''{Cut back to scene with Mike attacking Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Why would you do that?!

'''MIKE:''' What if Strong Bad was getting pelted with a wiffle golf ball?

'''MATT:''' Wha—? ''{gets hit by a wiffle ball}'' Ah!! Jeez!! ''{Mike throws another ball at Matt.}'' Hooh!

''{Cut to Mike and Matt standing in front of the green screen.}''

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go... pick up some lunch, and some ping pong balls and duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I d— I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch, and you got these. ''{taps wiffle balls together}''

'''MATT:''' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{Cut to show Ryan sitting at a computer when Matt talking to him}''

'''MATT:''' Remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' ''{cut to close-up of a package of wiffle golf balls}'' These are wiffle golf balls ''{cut to previous shot}'' so, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be— that would be great.

''{Cut}''

'''MATT:''' Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{picks up the package, exhales exasperatedly}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen.}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This— I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

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"You ''don't'' want to know"

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'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow.

''{Cut. Matt is in front of the green screen, doing running motions. Strong Bad is in the top-left corner, running.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Bubs' Concession Stand, there it is, ''{Matt looks and points to his left; Strong Bad continues running.}'' yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps; Strong Bad doesn't.}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back.}''

'''MIKE:''' Are we cool here, me and you?

'''MATT:''' ''{nods}'' Totally.

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'''MIKE:''' And... rolling.

''{An animated Marshie is in the top-left corner. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random motions, while animated Marshie shakes back and forth a tiny bit.}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen.}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you guys animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Freeze frame. Fade to black.}''

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== <span class="mw-headline">Fun Facts</span> ==

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

* The [[YouTube]] description for this video is "Mike and Matt Chapman give a behind the scenes look at how they animate their cartoons."

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

* The music heard while Matt motions for Marshie is the same music used for the introduction of [[Real Live E-Mails]].
* An object is also tossed to Mike in "Sample of Style", except in that instance, he catches it (a football).
* In one portion of the video, pictures of [[Dolph Hauldhagen]] and [[Sir Loodabert Comma]] are visible.
* As with the previous Sample of Style video, Mike uses the phrase "[[All the time|all the time]]".

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

* [[Bluetooth]] is an industrial specification for [[wireless network|wireless]] [[personal area network|personal area networks]] first developed by [[Ericsson]], later formalized by the [[Bluetooth Special Interest Group]].
* Matt spoofs a [[Street Fighter|Hadouken]] motion while motioning for Marshie.

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

* The music heard while Matt motions for Marshie is a recurring theme in [[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]].

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== <span class="mw-headline">Related Links</span> ==

* [[strongbad email.exe]]
* [[Sample of Style Too: Some Outtakes]]

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== <span class="mw-headline">External Links</span> ==

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZaK-TAiv8M watch "Sample of Style Too"] on [[YouTube]]

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