Under Construction

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Screenshot from "Under Construction"

H*R.com is down? Not registered? Coming Soon? What? Is today April Fool's Day? ... Then things get 20X6'd...

Cast (in order of appearance): Stickly Man, Stinko Man, 20X6 Homestar, Pan Pan

Page Title: Coming Soon! The biggest name is Web Advertising!!

Transcript

{The setting: "www.homestarrunner.com is coming soon! This domain is reserved through thoraxcorp.com". An animated stick figure in a yellow "Under Construction" diamond shovels diligently. Stinko Man appears at the bottom of the screen...}

STINKO MAN: Habila-HUP!

{...and leaps into the air, performing an anime fighting pose before landing.}

STINKO MAN: {to stick figure} Heeeey, Stickly Man. WHAAAAAAAAAT are you doing?

{"Stickly Man" stands up, tosses his shovel into the air, leaps out of his diamond, performs a mid-air flip, lands, deftly catches his shovel and assumes a fighting stance.}

STINKO MAN: Correct me if I'm wrong but are you asking for a challeeeeeeeeenge?! {assumes fighting stance}

{Stickly Man spins his shovel and Stinko Man executes another pose. They dash toward each other and leap simultaneously into the air in slow-motion. Freezeframe of Stinko Man striking Stickly Man. Stickly Man lands on his feet in the background; Stinko Man lands in the foreground in a kneeling stance. After a pause, Stickly Man drops his shovel, wavers a bit, and falls flat on his face. Cut to close-up of Stinko Man.}

{A subtitle which reads ". . ." appears.}

STINKO MAN: Dot dot dot!

{Zoom out to whole page.}

STINKO MAN: 20X6! I twenty-exty-sixted you good.

{20X6 Homestar and Pan Pan enter.}

20X6 HOMESTAR: Did we miss a challenge?

STINKO MAN: Where ya been, ladies? I had to take care of Stickly Man myself!

20X6 HOMESTAR: Well, so how was it?

STINKO MAN: Ahh, it was okay. The fighting was decent, but it wasn't much of a challenge. {lays down}

PAN PAN: {Badalang, Badalang, Badalang}

STINKO MAN: Who-hah? Good question, Pan Pan. I don't know what he was digging for. Habila-HUP!

{Stinko leaps into the yellow diamond and tastes the mound that Stickly Man was shoveling.}

STINKO MAN: Hey, this isn't dirt, i-it's pudding!

20X6 HOMESTAR: I want pudding! {A green glob descends from his nose.}

STINKO MAN: We deserve a break. Eating pudding with a spoon! {produces a spoon from nowhere}

{Pan Pan falls from above and crushes 20X6 Homestar.}

{Roll credits:}

executive producer
h. yamauchi

producer
s. miyahon

director
s. miyahon
ten ten

designer
ten ten

programmer
t. nakazoo
maru maru

sound composer
konchan
paul pan
storm storm

quality
wibe snodgrass

actual items
foss tony

scare tactics
poncho

elevator action
tesoro dub

crotchety gnomes
perl bess

cover ups
kevin

{The end.}

Fun Facts

• This toon was put up instead of the regular intro page on April 1st, 2004.
• When this was first put up a glitch made the background black, making it impossible to see Stickly Man
• thoraxcorp.com is the web site of Thorax Corporation, a fake company created by The Brothers Chaps.
• Stickly Man is almost certainly a reference to the popular Flash cartoon series Xiao Xiao, in which stick figures kill eachother in elaborately-choreographed fight scenes. See Newgrounds Presents: Xiao Xiao.
  • The Stickly Man could also be a reference to the popular game Stick RPG.
• The entire fight scene is completely pulled from the popular <a href="original%20nintendo" onmouseover="window.status='original Nintendo'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=; return true;">original Nintendo</a> game, Ninja Gaiden, which has an introduction sequence of two ninjas having a duel. The freeze-frame during the jump, the "...", everything! You can check out screen shots of the fight sequence from Ninja Gaiden at Ninja Gaiden Screens.
• The first listing in the credits reads "Executive Producer H. Yamauchi." Hiroshi Yamauchi was the former president of Nintendo and appeared in the credits as executive producer in many of Nintendo's older games. There are a few other names that are also Nintendo employees, namely S. Miyahon (Shigeru Miyamoto) and Ten Ten (Takashi Tezuka). These are people who worked on the original Legend of Zelda game. These credits also appeared at the end of japanese cartoon.
• When Stinko Man jumped in he said the same thing as Strong Bad said when jumped off the table in funny.
• The "..." part is supposed to be a pause where all that you can hear is heavy breathing. This is from a time when they couldn't dub <a href="video%20games" onmouseover="window.status='video games'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=; return true;">video games</a>...
• The three boxes at the bottom of the site contain some pretty funny advertisements. They are of the same quality you'd expect from Thorax Corporation. Here they are:
  • Spam Free Living!! Tired of spam-getting ventures gone horpfully wrong!! Get with the program for as low as $9.95 a month. $4.95 each additional minute. No delabors. (The made-up CEO of Thorax Corporation is "Gent Delabor")
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• At the end, if you click on the back button it will always go back to the 20X6 Main Page.
• In the credits, "Elevator Action" is a reference to the Taito game of the same name. "Crotchety Gnomes" may be a continuation of the Legend of Zelda theme, as the game had numerous characters arguably resembling crotchety gnomes, such as Molblins, the old men (or was it always the same old man?) found in various caves, and the end boss Ganon.
• The toon originally took up the entire page and there were no grey buttons at the bottom, but that has been changed now.
• On April Fool's Day when this toon first came out, viewers couldn't see Stickly Man during parts of the fight scene as well as after it, most likely because of layer order. This was fixed within the day.
• "paul pan" and "storm storm" in the credits are references to Paul and Storm, two former members of the a capella singing group DaVinci's Notebook who have parted ways with the group and are now doing their own music with instruments. DaVinci's Notebook performed Ballad of the Sneak.

External Links

• watch "Under Construction"
• view the flash file for "Under Construction"