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''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 (film)|''Jaws'']], [[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'']], and [[Jurassic Park (film)|''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 (Atari 2600)|E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]], which is based on the [[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|film]] directed by Steven Spielberg.
** The title screen was later revised and used in the DVD exclusive [[Where's The Cheat? (game)|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 (film)|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|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 ==

* [[George Lucas|Indiana Jones]]
* [[Back to the Future]]
* [[Jurassic Park]]
* [[Transformers]]
* [[Disney]]
* [[Don Bluth]]
* [[Alfred Hitchcock]]
* [[Stanley Kubrick]]
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