SBCG4AP Collector's DVD

Can you handle his style?

The Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Collector's DVD was released by Telltale Games on July 2, 2009. It includes five PC-compatible episodes of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, the mockumentary Behind the Bad, footage from PAX 2008, and Easter eggs. Early orders of the DVD included a Strong Bad button.

Intro

{Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People logo is seen on black background, while the race fanfare from Homestar Ruiner plays. A white square opens at the top of the screen and Strong Bad drops down.}

STRONG BAD: {echoing} Oof! {close up of Strong Bad as he gets up} Ooh, I've always wanted to be part of a DVD interface.

{Zoom out to show Strong Bad's silhouette faintly visible behind the main menu screen.}

STRONG BAD: This is gonna hurt! EEGAHHHH!!!

{Strong Bad jumps through the menu and then converts first to Dating Sim version, then Atari Strong Bad, then a white square, that floats to the menu.}

STRONG BAD: Plonk.

Menus

• Menus are done in the style of the Atari 2600.
• If you wait on any menu, it will sometimes appear to glitch, with random characters on the screen. In the case of the Trailers menu, a picture of Marshie in ASCII art will flash on the screen, followed by a screen filled with "All work and no play make Marshie a dull boy."

MARSHIE: You can't control me!

• Strong Bad makes a random noise whenever anything is selected.

Main Menu

• Blue background. Music alternates between the gameplay themes from Snake Boxer 5 and Math Kickers.

Trailers

• Yellow background, with a picture of Atari Strong Bad watching a TV screen. Music alternates between the gameplay theme from Gel-Arshie's Pro Fruitboarder, and the background music for the haunted house of the Brothers Strong in 8-Bit is Enough.

Behind The Bad

• A rear view of Atari Strong Bad on a blue background. Music alternates between the gameplay theme from Limozeen's Hot Babelien Odyssey, and a seemingly unused song with the melody and instrumentation of Space Circus Catastrophe.

Shorts

• The Atari versions of Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, and The Cheat standing on a green background. Music alternates between the gameplay themes from Space Circus Catastrophe and Halfathalon.

More Shorts

This menu, accessible from the shorts menu, was only included in select releases.

• Same as above, but glitched; the characters have been moved to the top right corner of the screen (causing the former two to appear cropped), their colors have been inverted, random characters are covering them, and their bottom pixels have moved down slightly. The menu title reads "Oops, More Shorts". Music is from the first-person section of Trogdor's lair in 8-Bit is Enough.

DVD Credits

Homestar reveals the secret cheat codes to unlock himself in SBCG4AP. Strong Bad disapproves.

Cast (in order of appearance): Homestar Runner, Strong Bad

Transcript

{Cut to a black background. Homestar slowly walks up to the front of the room. Once there, he looks around. Music plays.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: And now, at long last, I, Strong Bad—excuse me—I, Homestar Runner, will finally reveal the super-secret never-ending cheat code to unlock yours truly as a playable character. Ahem. First, go to the track wearing the old-timey mustache, then challenge Marzipan to a fight, which you lose. Then, pour ketchup on Marzipan's welcome mat while shouting: "All hail the King of Town, whose reign will—" Then, suddenly, before you can finish your sentence, the S is for Sucks dragon comes outta nowhere and eats up New York while dancin' with The Stick! {credits come down} The Stick uses the pudding to eat 1-Up, and that makes someone do a cartwheel for a mile. But that makes someone asplode into a million little pieces, which upsets Oprah, and then she poops on Strong Mad, making him—

{Strong Bad comes in, and the music stops with a record scratch sound.}

STRONG BAD: Homestar, what are you doing? Don't encourage those forum trolls! You're gonna make 'em feel even more entitled than they already do! If we give those losers even the slightest recognition they'll start— {a section of the credits called "Forum Crew" goes by} Hey! Hey, what's going on?!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, that guy, and oh, that girl. A rare treat.

STRONG BAD: Aw, that guy?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, I like that guy, he wants me to get my own game. That guy one time asked me to do a dance.

STRONG BAD: Oh, that guy—

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {dances} Doo doo doo a dooba doo—

STRONG BAD: Troll...trakalankal I call him.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, and you. For the last time, Homsar and I are not related.

STRONG BAD: Oh, I hate that guy's signature.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: That guy owes me 5 bucks. That guy's girlfrie—

STRONG BAD: Ugh, never mind. I'm gonna get outta here before they start nitpicking me to death.

{Homestar dances and then slowly fades out. The rest of the credits scroll by as the protest song plays.}

Fun Facts

• The fake cheat code Homestar gives out is paraphrased from thread on the Telltale Community forums.
• Homestar's "cheat code" mentions Old-Timey, ketchup, Marzipan, The King of Town, The S is for Sucks Dragon, The Stick, pudding, 1-Up, doing cartwheels for a mile, A Splode, Oprah, and Strong Mad.
• The background music at the start is the conga music from pet show and Homestar Ruiner.

Contents

Disc and interior art

Strong Bad button that came with early orders

SBCG4AP Episodes

• Homestar Ruiner
• Strong Badia the Free
• Baddest of the Bands
• Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective
• 8-Bit is Enough

Bonus

DVD Video

• Trailers
  • SBCG4AP Announcement Cartoon
  • SBCG4AP Trailer
  • Baddest of the Bands Trailer
  • Wallace & Gromit Teaser
  • Wallace & Gromit Trailer
• Behind the Bad
  • Chapter 1: The New Hire
  • Chapter 2: The Heist
  • Chapter 3: The Last Straw
• Shorts
  • Strong Bad Gameways
  • Dangeresque: Puppet Squad
  • Workin' on the Game
  • Make a Scene at PAX 2008 — This leads to a black menu with glitchy assets and characters.
    • Original
    • Extended Cut
  • Dangeresque: D3 in 3D
• More Shorts (select releases)
  • Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest
  • strong badathlon
  • army
  • more armies
  • Cool Things
  • best thing
  • stunt double
  • dangeresque 3
  • dragon
  • video games

Goodies

• MP3 Soundtrack Sampler
  • "Handle My Style" by Strong Bad (TBC)
  • "Protest Song" (TBC)
  • "My Face" by Cool Tapes (Cool Tapes)
  • "Doin' the Wigglie" by Cool Tapes w/ Marshie (Cool Tapes)
  • "Food Related Love" by PomStar (TBC and Jared Emerson-Johnson)
  • "Not Very Nice" by Cool Tapes (Cool Tapes)
  • "Death of DADgeresque" (Jared Emerson-Johnson)
  • "Handle My Style (Reprise)" by Strong Bad (TBC)
  • "Handle My Style (Instrumental)" (TBC)

• Desktop Wallpapers
• "Baddest of the Bands" flyer
• Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque
• Demos of other Telltale Games
  • Sam & Max "Ice Station Santa"
  • Wallace & Gromit "Fright of the Bumblebees"

Easter Eggs

Videlectrix cover (in the style of Atari 2600 game boxes), printed on the reverse of the disc case insert.

• When the cover is flipped inside out, it reveals the Videlectrix version of the cover.
• Behind The Bad Prototype Footage: Accessed by pressing up on the Behind The Bad menu from Episode 1.
• Strong Bad Takes A Detour: Accessed by pressing up on the Shorts menu from Make A Scene.
• PAX panel Q&A session: Accessed by pressing right on the Make A Scene submenu from Extended Version.
• DVD credits can be viewed by pushing up from the main menu from Trailers.
• Clicking on the Telltale link on the PC Autorun menu sends you to Telltale's website.
• Clicking on the Videlectrix link on the PC Autorun menu plays a one of five short pieces of dialogue with the Videlectrix Guys.
  • These snippets can also be heard by going the Autorun directory, selecting one of the "videlectrix" folders and clicking on "start.wav"

{A window appears, done in the style of Windows 3.1, with the header "Launchelectrix" and an icon for "Dangeresque Roomisode 1" and a sticky note that reads "Play More Roomisodes at Videlectrix Dot Com?"}

Dialogue 1

FIRST PROGRAMMER: Ah, now they get to the real game!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: That other one looks pretty good, I though—

FIRST PROGRAMMER: Oh! You traitor! What do I pay you for?

SECOND PROGRAMMER: You've never paid me for anything, really.

FIRST PROGRAMMER: Oh! You gonna get into semantics. Some antics.

SECOND PROGRAMMER: {hums a little tune} I can juggle now.

FIRST PROGRAMMER: I like those antics.

SECOND PROGRAMMER: {continues to humming the tune}

FIRST PROGRAMMER: PLAY THE GAME!

Dialogue 2

FIRST PROGRAMMER: Well, go on and make your selection!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: Uh, I think there is only one option to choose.

FIRST PROGRAMMER: You didn't—

SECOND PROGRAMMER: Why didn't they make the button to be this one?

FIRST PROGRAMMER: You graphic this whole thing!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: {hestitantly} I was told... there would be... chips and salsa?

FIRST PROGRAMMER: I never agreed to that!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: A menu with only one choice is like a food menu with only one choice.

FIRST PROGRAMMER: Chips and salsa!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: That's two.

FIRST PROGRAMMER: And we're back to square wan!

Dialogue 3

FIRST PROGRAMMER: Now here's a real game with graphics and sound!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: Well, that other game had both graphics and sound, too—

FIRST PROGRAMMER: WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON, ANYWAYS?

SECOND PROGRAMMER: Uh... the side where people don't hit me?

Dialogue 4

FIRST PROGRAMMER: Now here's a real game with graphics and sound!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: That other game had graphics and sound, too.

FIRST PROGRAMMER: OH! WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON, ANYWAYS?

SECOND PROGRAMMER: Uh, the side where people don't hit me a lot?

FIRST PROGRAMMER: Oh, that hurts! You cut me deep!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: You cut me all the time.

Dialogue 5

FIRST PROGRAMMER: WHAT THE GRAPHICS IS THIS? A MENU WITH ONLY ONE OPTION?

SECOND PROGRAMMER: That's all there was. Only one option.

FIRST PROGRAMMER: IT'S LIKE A RESTAURANT THAT JUST SAYS, "BURGER"!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: I'd like a burger.

FIRST PROGRAMMER: You make me some burger graphics, and we'll talk about it!

Fun Facts

Alternate cover used by some releases.

Trivia

• This is the second Homestar DVD to have its menus themed to the Atari 2600, after Everything Else, Volume 3.
• Dangeresque: Puppet Squad, included on this DVD, is the most recently-released Homestar toon to be collected on DVD.

Goofs

• The title card at the start of strong badathlon reads "Strong Badathon", without the L.

Inside References

• Marshie's exclamation and repeated message is from breaking Gel-Arshie's Pro Fruitboarder in 8-Bit is Enough.

Real-World References

• "Oops, More Shorts" could be a reference to Cap'n Crunch "Oops! All Berries".

External Links

• DVD promo
• forum thread re: "SBCG4AP Collector's DVD"
• Telltale forum thread announcing pre-orders for the DVD