Fan Costumes '08

Toon Category: Holiday Toon

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"These people got the whole freakin' neighborhood involved!"

Strong Bad once again riffs on his fans' terrible costumes.

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, Sci-Fi Greg, Peacey P (Easter egg) (all audio only)

Costumes depicted (in order of first appearance): Blue Laser Commander, Homestar Runner, Cold One, Crazy Go Nuts University girls, Strong Bad as Da Bee, Coach Z, Limozeen member, Strong Mad, Strong Sad, Bubs, Strong Bad, Marzipan, The Cheat, Homsar, Scantron, Sci-Fi Greg, D N' D Greg, The King of Town, Trogdor, Peacey P (Easter egg)

Places: Basement of the Brothers Strong

Date: Monday, November 10, 2008

Running Time: 3:15 official, 3:57 actual

Page Title: Hey! Some pretty good ones this year!

Transcript

{The wall of Strong Bad's basement is visible, and a projector screen snaps down from the ceiling. An offscreen slide projector turns on, filling the screen with white light. The projector displays the first slide: a fan dressed as the Blue Laser Commander.}

STRONG BAD: Oh, man, you guys remember that Cheat Commandos Halloween special where Blue Laser Commander tried to trick-or-treat at Fort Knox so they'd give him all the gold, but when they got there, the receptionist just had, like, a bowl of Smarties on her desk, and he told her that he hated her face—

{A speech bubble appears saying "I JUST HATE YOUR FACE SO MUCH!"}

STRONG BAD: —and her kitten sweater!

{Another speech bubble appears saying "AND THAT SWEATER MAKES ME RETCH!"}

STRONG BAD: Man, that guy's a born leader!

{The next slide appears: A fan wearing a red shirt with a white paper star taped to the front. Their arms (and the shirt's sleeves) are pulled inside the shirt; with their right hand they are holding a paper drawing of Homestar's head over their face.}

STRONG BAD: Sadly, I have a feeling this kid actually had a lot of help from his parents with this costume. Like, they stayed up all night workin' on it... spent a lot of money... and "hold this in front of your face" was still the best they could do.

{The next slide appears: A man dressed as a Cold One drinking a beer.}

STRONG BAD: A Cold One drinking a Cold One?! That's cannibalism, man! Or at least... Cold One-ibalism!

{The next slide appears: Two young women in CGNU shirts with "GO CGNU" painted on their cheeks. Each is holding a golf club and a sign; one sign reads "EVERYBODY TO THE LIMIT!" and the other "GO DUMPLES".}

STRONG BAD: Check it out! It's the Lady Dumples Golf Club Team! Man, I seriously gotta start that fake university! It doesn't get any hotter than watching young co-eds beat the crap out of George Foreman grills with a nine-iron!

{The next slide appears: a small child wearing a bee costume and a Strong Bad paper mask.}

STRONG BAD: Hey! Everybody knows I'm the bee! What are ya, some kind of cute baby? ...Oh. You are. Then... carry on, coolest parents in the world!

{The next slide appears: Two fans dressed as Coach Z and Homestar, holding Fluffy Puff Marshmallow bags. The Coach Z costume is a green zentai suit with the crotch lowered to knee level, while Homestar's body and head are fashioned out of large plastic cylinders. A simple hip-hop beat starts playing.}

STRONG BAD: {rapping, imitating Coach Z} My name's Coach Z, and I got a low crotch! {imitating Homestar} My name's Homestaw and I'm wocking the spot! {imitating Coach Z} Everybody knows I'm the rapping man! {imitating Homestar} Evewybody knows I'm a painted twash can! {beat stops}

{The next slide appears: A man wearing a Limozeen-style blond wig and playing a Wii Guitar Hero controller.}

STRONG BAD: Ah, Chuzz Palaroncini. Still livin' in the basement of his parents' basement.

{The next slide appears: A scene of several fans posed in front of a cardboard Bubs' Concession Stand. In order from left to right, they are dressed as Strong Mad, Strong Sad, Bubs, Strong Bad, Marzipan (holding Carol), Homestar, and Coach Z (holding a small dog with a yellow spotted sweater, resembling The Cheat).}

STRONG BAD: These people got the whole freakin' neighborhood involved! And clearly entrusted the Strong Mad costume—

{The next slide appears: A close-up photo of the fan dressed as Strong Mad. The costume is a painted cardboard box with arm holes, showing that they are wearing a leather jacket underneath the costume.}

STRONG BAD: — to Patches Barfjacket, the local drifter.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {doing his "shady drifter" voice} Hey, this box is my house! I'm tryin' to get me a sandwich or somethin'! What's a website?

{The next slide appears: A girl in a black t-shirt with Strong Bad's body drawn on in white outline so that his neck is near the shirt's neckline, and a yellow hard hat with the top of Strong Bad's mask drawn on it.}

STRONG BAD: Wait, why did you— But habbida— The hard-hatted— Rebecca said— The shirt is— I can't even think of anything to say about this conumdrum. This counts as a Homsar costume. And speaking of...

{The next slide appears: A boy in a dark blue shirt with Homsar's "homsar" text taped to it. A piece of paper shaped like Homsar's hat is seen at the top of his head, presumably attached to the door behind him.}

STRONG BAD: {imitating Homsar} AaAaAaAh tape my hat to the door! {normally} Can you explain to me how you went out trick-or-treating in this costume? I mean, did you take the whole door with you? ...That'd be pretty impressive, actually. That'd earn you a full Thnikka if you came to my house.

{The next slide appears: A large full-body costume of Scantron, assembled from cardboard and flexible duct.}

STRONG BAD: Whoa! An incredibly faithful Scantron costume?!

{A notecard drawing of Scantron moves into frame as Strong Bad mentions his name.}

STRONG BAD: Nice work! This guy's the coolest loser I've never met! {The paper disappears.}

{The next slide appears: Two young men in white t-shirts that read "d n'd greg" and "sci-fi greg". "D n' D Greg" is holding a Dungeons & Dragons character sheet, and "Sci-Fi Greg" is holding a Firefly DVD set.}

SCI-FI GREG: The proportions are all wrong! And his chest plate didn't even have the power converter!

STRONG BAD: Why do I get the feeling you guys didn't really have to "dress up" to be Sci-Fi and D n' D Greg?

{The next slide appears: A slim man dressed as the King of Town, in front of an open refrigerator. A datestamp in the corner reads "OCT 30 2008".}

STRONG BAD: October thirtieth, 2008, two PM. Dressed up as the King of Town again today, and stood in front of the open fridge for a few hours. I don't think the medication is working.

{The next slide appears: A large cardboard Trogdor costume. The picture is taken in a driveway, with stairs leading to the house's deck clearly visible.}

STRONG BAD: Hey, that's a pretty awesome Trogdor costume! Look at those corrugated V's! Burninate them brand new deck stairs, Troggie!

{The next slide appears: A close-up picture of a fan in a baggy Coach Z costume. The picture was taken in a bathroom.}

STRONG BAD: Augh! No! I don't even wanna know what's going on in this picture!

{The next slide appears: A topless man in a papier-mâché Strong Bad mask and inflatable boxing gloves standing in a darkened doorway.}

STRONG BAD: Augh! No! I don't even wanna know what's going on in this picture!

{The next slide appears: A boy wearing a Homestar shirt and white face paint, also with a large horned helmet. In the background, a TV can be seen with actor John Cleese onscreen.}

STRONG BAD: Ah, Homestar wearing his Viking helmet, and John Cleese. An age-old Halloween tradition in the Dorkelson household.

{The next slide appears: A man in a Strong Bad mask and boxing gloves. The mask is lopsided - only one of his eyes can be seen through the eyeholes, and the mouth hole is aligned with his chin.}

STRONG BAD: What's up, eyeball-chin? How many mail boxes did you run into on Halloween?

{The next slide appears: A fan wearing a Homestar costume in a park during the daytime. Homestar's head is fashioned into a large hood, with the mouth wide open so the wearer can see out of it; due to the photo's perspective, it looks like the large Homestar mouth is poised to "eat" people in the background.}

STRONG BAD: Whoa, looks like bass-mouth Homestar's about to eat himself a bunch of three-in-the-afternoon trick-or-treaters!

{The next slide appears: A heavyset man in red-and-black Strong Bad face paint.}

STRONG BAD: I... think this guy might have eaten me and sweated my mask out onto his face! That's one way to dress up as Strong Bad for Halloween...

{A "Back" button appears.}

Easter Eggs

"Y'all pumpkin heads!"

• By using a seek bar, decompiler, or going to the Flash file, and right-click and selecting Play at the end of the toon, one can see a jack-o'-lantern carved like Peacey P. This was apparently supposed to be accessible by clicking on the man's head at the very end, however the clickable area does nothing.

PEACEY P: I roasted my seeds in the oven with a little bit of cayenne pepper, y'all pumpkin heads!

Fun Facts

Explanations

• Fort Knox is a military base in Kentucky famous for housing the United States' supply of gold.

Trivia

• Several featured fans are Homestar Runner Wiki users:
  • DorianGray as the King of Town
  • Dom as shirtless Strong Bad
  • Absorr as "hold this in front of your face" Homestar
  • Abcxyq as viking helmet Homestar
  • ALJ123456 as Homsar
  • Mhkuch as Scantron
• "Chuzz Palaroncini" is playing Guitar Hero.
• "Sci-Fi Greg" is holding the DVD box set of the science fiction show Firefly.

Remarks

• The Toons menu contains a costume that is a detail photo of Bubs in the scene where Strong Bad says 'They got the whole freakin' neighborhood involved!'
• Strong Bad says "Everybody knows I'm the Bee" but in fact, it was the Goblin dressed as Strong Bad that was the Bee.
  • Strong Bad also remarks on Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits in Sensitive To Bees that "I'm the bee".
• After the Peacey P Easter egg is finished, there are 16 extra frames in the Flash file that contain the picture of the Peacey P pumpkin and no sound.
• The costume in the 9th image is reminiscent of Sir Hotbod Handsomeface, who is essentially a muscular Strong Bad wearing jeans and a hard hat. Hotbod makes his first and only on-site appearance in Teen Girl Squad Issue 10.
• Coach Z and Homestar both have a bag of Fluffy Puff Marshmallows.
• Patches Barfjacket, the Local Drifter is a contradictory name given that a "drifter" is someone who tends to not stay in one place very long and therefore cannot be "local".

Goofs

• The Peacey P Easter egg does not function properly, and the clickable area does nothing when clicked.

Fixed Goofs

• At first release, the "Next" button skipped over the boy in the Homsar costume, and the "Previous" button skipped over the girl wearing the hard hat.

Inside References

• The two Blue Laser Commander lines are riffs on quotes from Cheat Commandos and The Next Epi-Snowed, respectively.
• Strong Bad suggests Chuzz Palaroncini lives in "the basement of his parents' basement," doubling down on a recurring insult.
• Homestar previously did a shady drifter impression and tentatively demanded a sandwich in Halloween Potion-ma-jig.
• In mocking The King of Town costume, Strong Bad uses the phrase "I don't think the medication is working."
• Homestar previously wore a Viking helmet in the movies and Ever and More.

Real-World References

• Smarties are a brand of chalky pastel-colored candy rolls sold throughout the United States.
• A George Foreman Grill is a kitchen appliance promoted by former boxer George Foreman.
• John Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer and singer, who is best known as being a member of Monty Python. The scene of him shown on the TV in the photograph is from his appearance on the October 31, 2008 episode of Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
• Strong Bad's mention of a "Thnikka" is a reference to Snickers.

Fast Forward

• The person who ate Strong Bad and sweated his mask returns in Fan 'Stumes 2019.

External Links

• watch "Fan Costumes '08"
• watch "Fan Costumes '08" on the old Flash site
• view the Flash file for "Fan Costumes '08"
• forum thread re: "Fan Costumes '08"