The King of Town DVD Storyboards

Scribbled-down storyboards of the The King of Town DVD.

Cast (in order of appearance): The King of Town, The King of Town's Sheep, Multi-Function Dragon, Homestar Runner, Pom Pom, The Knight, The Blacksmith, The Poopsmith, That Little Chef Guy

Date: Thursday, June 1, 2000

Page Title: King of Town Storyboards

DVD:Everything Else, Volume 2

Storyboards

Image	Text	Link
	This is the King of Town pling!	View Page 1
	He is a good king, and he rules the land quite nicely	View Page 2
	But he worries all the time. Dooo Hooo Hooo! My sheep are missing and i'm afraid a dragon has gobbled them up.	View Page 3
	chomp!	View Page 4
	So he called the Homestar Runner and Pom Pom and asked if they would help. sure!	View Page 5
	They questioned the blacksmith... no.	View Page 6
	... the pooph smith... nope	View Page 7
	...and the chef's cook!	View Page 8
	I've Got iit!	View Page 9
	So Homestar called everyone together	View Page 10
	I have found that The sheep were not eaten by a dragon.	View Page 11
	blush. burp! Oh yes. They I forgot. They were delicious.	View Page 12
	HA HA HA HA HA HA	View Page 13

Fun Facts

Remarks

• Two notable changes to the Poopsmith's character are indicated in the storyboards, though neither would actually be implemented in either version of the toon —
  • The storyboards depict the Poopsmith speaking: responding to Homestar's question with a simple "Nope".
  • A substituted letter changes the character's name to "Poohsmith".

DVD Version

• The DVD version features creators' commentary, which plays automatically.

Commentary Transcript

(Commentary by: Matt Chapman, Mike Chapman)

MATT: What do you think of that, Mike? "Pling!"

MIKE: So these are the storyboards for the King of Town cartoon that you did, Matt. You probably drew them at work, didn't you?

MATT: I bet I did, Mike. Don't tell anybody about that.

MIKE: That's pretty accurate. We did a pretty good job of depicting that.

MATT: Yeah, "Doo hoo hoo". That's accurate. Look at that. That top dragon has some sort of a nose or a big wart on the top of his head.

{pause until next storyboard}

MATT: Homestar says "Sure!" with a giant mouth. He doesn't do that in the final cartoon. {pause until next storyboard}

MATT: {deep voice} "No."

MIKE: Uh, so we used to storyboard stuff.

MATT: The Poohsmith, Mike, not the Poopsmith.

MIKE: Uh huh.

MATT: I- I corrected it. I wanted it to be Poohsmith, instead.

MIKE: But then when we went back to the Poopsmith.

MATT: "The chef's cook". That's not- that's- that's a typo. {Mike laughs} The king's cook.

MIKE: It's funnier as the chef's cook.

MATT: It is.

MIKE: I thought it was you being funnier, not you being a typo.

MATT: {laughs} Look, straight faced Homestar! It's a head on collision with him.

MIKE: You like those sheep.

MATT: Yeah. There's really no point to these. They're so not detailed and there's no point in me even having drawn them.

MIKE: Well, back in the day, we used to think we needed to draw storyboards for the cartoons.

MATT: Yeah, it's legit. Icebox.com did it.

External Links

• view the storyboards