Screenland - 24 Apr 2017

"I showed up to be on your team, Strong Bad."

On the episode Cult Classics Redux of Screenland, The Brothers Chaps talk about the making of Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold and give insight on the inner working of the Homestar Runner body of work and how it came to be. A 2-minute extra, Homestar Plays Himself, was also released, in which Homestar Runner and Mike Chapman play the unfinished Homestar Runner RPG.

Running Time: 24:34 (Cult Classics Redux), 1:45 (Homestar Plays Himself), 1:44 (Easter egg)

Page title (Easter egg): Slash slash slash!

Description

Cult Classics Redux

The internet cartoon "Homestar Runner" and the kid's television show Knightmare both have huge cult followings
that go back decades. Now both are receiving modern day tributes, a testament to their impact on pop culture.

Homestar Plays Himself

Homestar Runner, of internet cult sensation "Homestar Runner" fame, plays an unreleased video game
starring...Homestar Runner.

Easter Eggs

• At about 19:21 into Cult Classics Redux, homestarrunner.com/slash/slash can be seen on a whiteboard. Going to that URL brought up the following video:

{A clapper loader comes into focus, held by someone}

WOMAN: Run it?

MATT: Yep.

WOMAN: {indecipherable} take one. {Claps the clapper loader. Cut to Matt holding two markers.}

MATT: Hope no one has to use these things. {puts the markers up in his mouth, like tusks, and clears his throat}

MIKE: So, yeah, there's no lines, —

MATT: {in a low, gravelly Dijjery Doo voice} It'll work. Hello, Strong Bad, I— {Mike laughs} I showed up to be on your team, Strong Bad. {says a few more indecipherable things, then the left marker falls out of his mouth; both laugh}

MIKE: That should happen a lot. {Matt laughs, and his other marker falls} His tooth— his tooth should just fall out every scene. {Matt bends over to pick up the markers, still laughing}

{Cut to a re-take of Matt voicing Dijjery Doo. He puts the markers in his mouth again.}

MATT: Um. {in a high-pitched voice} Oh. Hello.

MIKE: {undecipherable}

MATT: {high-pitched and excited voice} Yeah! This is great, Strong Bad! This is— this is gonna be great! {normal voice} Does that sound— that's like, uh, Humidibot.

MIKE: Yeah, that is a little bit like Humidibot— less, uh, sloshing in saliva.

MATT: {Makes some deep gurgling sounds, then says something indecipherable. He leans over and his right marker falls out. He takes the other one out.}

MIKE: {indecipherable}

MATT: ...this is really hard. I'm gonna try caps. Caps up.

MIKE: Okay.

MATT: {turns the markers right-side-up and puts them back in his mouth, putting his upper lip over the marker caps} I think I can get— yeah, 'cause...!

MIKE: Give you some grip! You got a little something to hold on to, yeah.

MATT: Some tooth. Some tooth.

{Cut to Matt re-adjusting the markers}

MATT: I don't know.

MIKE: Or what if you just tried to talk normal like that? What's, like, the...

MATT: Just me?

MIKE: Well, yeah, yeah— -ish.

MATT: {in a fairly normal voice, but sounding more like Dijjery Doo} Hey— hey Strong Bad, I hear— I signed up, real great, to get on your team.

MIKE: {imitating Strong Bad} Do the— shoot him down, come on, Dijjery Doo! Give me something!

MATT: {as Dijjery Doo} I'm trying, I'm trying really hard. But I have these tusks that keep— {tilts his head far to the side and yells in frustration as his marker tusk falls out again; he straightens up and removes the other marker} Come on!

MIKE: You've got hands.

MATT: {both laugh} I know! I'm pretending that I have puppets, I guess...

{Cut to a scene with Dijjery Doo in the storybook field, talking with Matt's sound clip}

DIJJERY DOO: {tusks clacking together} I'm trying, I'm trying really hard. But I have these tusks that keep— {yells in frustration as his left tusk falls out; claps a hand to his forehead}

Fun Facts

Trivia

• Clips are shown from Flash is Dead!, the Original Book (images), Super NES, Main Page 21, First Time Here?, Old Flash Stuff, Main Page 15, Main Page 1, Main Page 6, Main Page 8, Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2, video games, techno, video games (again), video games (yet again), flashback (image), Super NES (again), and Homestar Runner Goes for the Gold.
• The orange curtain, Stop Sign, and posterboard Strong Bad seen in a few @StrongBadActual Tweets are visible, as well as a Martina Navratilova poster from Decemberween Short Shorts, a box of Cheat Commandos...O's, and the tapestry of "Joe" and "Jake" from Everybody to the Limit on the wall.
• During the table reading segment, the bust of William Shakespeare can be seen in the distance.
• Many things can be seen in the sketchbooks, including:
  • The Sketchbook sketches "kot-z top", "strong sad as mike shank", and "cakemonger!"
  • A script for rated alongside the words "Axe-Gun: Legends of the Brain Outener" and "Fists of Knuckles Series" from the same email
  • The email from time capsule
  • "BUBS- DENOOB LARGO"
  • Sketches for In Search of the Yello Dello Old Version
  • Unseen early sketches of Strong Mad, Strong Sad, Tiny-Handed Strong Bad, and Dijjery Doo.
  • A page reading "HALLOWeeN 2006" (in "Homestar Plays Himself")
• Strong Bad posted a picture of the table read during the filming of this episode.
• "GRAPHICS? is it doable??" can be seen on a whiteboard above a picture of a pixelated man saying "MAYBE!".
• On a table, Puppet Homestar Runner, The Exact Same, Puppet The Cheat, and the new Puppet Strong Bad can be seen, with the old Puppet Strong Bad leaning against the wall beside the table.
• On a computer screen, a reddish-brown Dijjery Doo is seen, revealing that he may have originally been a more reddish color.

Inside References

• Puppet Strong Bad calls Mike a pile, and later refers to the script as a steaming pile.
• The Negative Zone is where Stinkoman 20X6 Level -0 takes place.

External Links

• Watch the episode content warning
• Watch "Homestar Plays Himself"
• Watch homestarrunner.com/slash/slash
• Watch the YouTube version of homestarrunner.com/slash/slash