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H*R.com is down? Not registered? Comin' Soon? Whut in tarnation? Is today April Fool's Day? ... Then thin's git 20X6'd, cuss it all t' tarnation...

Cast (in o'der of appeareence): Sticklyman, Stinkoman, 1-Up, Pan Pan

Date: Thursday, April 1, 2004

Runnin' Time: 1:47

Page Title: Comin' Soon! Fry mah hide! Th' mos' trimenjus name is Web Advahtisin'! Fry mah hide!! Fry mah hide!

DVD: Ev'rythin' Else, Voloom 2

Transcripp

{Th' settin': "www.homestarrunner.com is a-comin' soon! Fry mah hide! This hyar domain is resarved through tho'axco'p.com". An animated stick figger in a yeller "Unner Construckshun" diamond shovels dilijuntly. Af'er about ten seconds, a pair of shiny boxin' gloves appear at th' bottom of th' screen, as enny fool kin plainly see...}

STINKOMAN: Habila-HUP! Fry mah hide!

{...an' Stinkoman leaps into th' air, executin' a dramatic pose befo'e lan'in'.}

STINKOMAN: {to stick figger} Hey, Sticklyman, {waves his arms quickly} whaaaaat is yo' doin'?

{"Sticklyman" stan's up, tostes his shovel into th' air, leaps outta his diamond, perfo'ms a mid-air flip, lan's, def'ly ketches his shovel an' assooms a fightin' stance.}

STINKOMAN: Co'reck me eff'n ah's wrong but is yo' axin' fo' a challeeeeeeenge?! Fry mah hide! {assooms fightin' stance}

{Camera zooms in on Sticklyman, who spins his shovel, ah reckon. Th' shot freezes in a sketchy style wif a high-pitched chime soun'. Pan quickly t'a close-up of Stinkoman, who executes t'other fightin' pose, then th' shot sketch-freezes agin. Cut back t'Sticklyman's feet, showin' him runnin' toward Stinkoman, as enny fool kin plainly see. Cut t'Stinkoman's feet, runnin' toward Sticklyman, as enny fool kin plainly see. Cut t'a close-up of Sticklyman, who now appears t'be gittin' ready t'strike. Cut t'Stinkoman corntinuin' t'run, then jumpin' up. Cut t'a wider shot showin' both chareeckers jumpin' into etch other. They hovah in mid-air fo' a moment, then strike etch other. Sketch-freeze as they collide, then th' shot unfreezes an' th' two chareeckers fall back t'th' groun'. Cut t't'other shot. Sticklyman lan's in th' backgroun', follered quickly by Stinkoman lan'in' in a kneelin' posishun in th' fo'egroun'. Th' camera rack-focuses t'Stickly-Man, who drops his shovel, wobbles fo' a moment an' then falls on over. Cut t'a close-up of Stinkoman, as enny fool kin plainly see.}

STINKOMAN: {a subtitle readin' ". . ." appears} Dot dot dot! Fry mah hide!

{Zoom out t'whole page.}

STINKOMAN: Twenty exty-six! Fry mah hide! {poses wif chime soun'} ah twenty-exty-six'd-ed yo' fine.

{1-Up an' Pan Pan inter fum th' lef'.}

1-UP: Diiid we miss a challenge?

STINKOMAN: Whar ya been, ladies? ah had t'take care of Sticklyman mahse'f! Fry mah hide!

1-UP: Wal, so how was it?

STINKOMAN: Ahh, it was okay. Th' fightin' was decent, but it warn't much of a challenge. {lies down}

PAN PAN: {Badalang, badalang, badalang}

STINKOMAN: Who-hah? {jumps back up} Good quesshun, Pan Pan, as enny fool kin plainly see. ah doesn't knows whut he was diggin' fo'. Habila-HUP! Fry mah hide!

{Stinkoman leaps into th' yeller diamond, cuss it all t' tarnation. Cut t'a close-up of Stinkoman, who takes a bite fum th' moun' thet Sticklyman was shovelin'.}

STINKOMAN: Hey, this hyar ain't dirt, it's puddiiiin'! Fry mah hide! {small clouds appear aroun' Stinkoman's haid as he says this}

{Cut t'a close-up of 1-Up.}

1-UP: ah's hankerin' puddin'! Fry mah hide! {A green glob dexcends fum his nose}

{Camera zooms out t'include Stinkoman in th' fo'egroun'. 1-Up faces th' opposite direckshun fum th' previous shot.}

STINKOMAN: We desarve a bust. Eatin' puddin' wif a spoon! Fry mah hide! {prodooces a spoon fum nowhar}

{Pan Pan falls onto 1-Up.}

{Sketch-freeze on a shot showin' all three chareeckers holdin' bowls an' spoons. Credits roll while a sho't tune plays:}

executive prodoocer
h. yamauchi

prodoocer
s. miyahon

direcko'
s. miyahon
ten ten

designer
ten ten

programmer
t. nakazoo
maru maru

soun' composer
konchan
paul pan
sto'm sto'm

quality
wibe snodgrass

acshul items
fost tony

scare tackics
poncho

elevato' ackshun
teso'o dub

crotchety gnomes
perl bess

covah ups
kevin

{"back" an' "agin" buttons appear at th' bottom of th' screen, as enny fool kin plainly see.}

Fun Facks

Explanashuns

• This hyar toon was put up instead of th' regular intry page on April 1st, 2004.
• tho'axco'p.com is th' web site of Tho'ax Co'po'ashun, a fake compenny created by Th' Brothers Chaps.
• "..." is a common tool used in Japanese anime an' manga. It literally means th' chareecker is "sayin'" nothin' at all, ah reckon. Fo' example, it'd be used fo' dramatic effeck in serious scenes whar th' chareecker is in deep corntemplashun about sumpin, o' fo' comedic effeck in slapstick anime when th' chareecker is stunned an' at a lost fo' wo'ds. Howevah, Stinkoman instead pronounces th' ellipsis as eff'n it were a witty one-liner.

Trivia

• Th' toon origeenally took up th' entire page an' thar were no grey buttons at th' bottom an' white colo' backgroun'.
• "paul pan" an' "sto'm sto'm" refer t'Ebenezer Sabourin an' Sto'm DiCostanzo, th' singers who perfo'med Ballad of Th' Sneak. They is erstwhile members of th' a cappella sin'in' group DaVinci's Notebook
• At th' end, eff'n yo' click on th' back button it will allus hoof it back t'th' 20X6 Main Page.
• Th' three boxes at th' bottom of th' site read:

Spam Free Livin'! Fry mah hide!! Fry mah hide!
Tired of spam-
gittin' ventures gone
ho'pfully wrong! Fry mah hide!! Fry mah hide!
Git wif th' program fo' as low
as $9.95 a month. $4.95 etch
addishunal minute. No delabo's.

Affo'dable Hostin's!
Noo house? Noo
domain? WHO HAS
TIME??! Fry mah hide!? Wif all noo
Greg Hostin' yo' kin git the
website yo' need at th' lowest
interess rate in 40 years! 6.2% APR

Guareenteed Results!
Use twice daily wif exo'bitant
grub intake. Af'er dinner mints
highly recommended, cuss it all t' tarnation. Will yo'
please quit makin' thet
ho'ribly annoyin' noise!?
No Prexcripshuns! No
Credit Check! Fry mah hide! $12,000

Remarks

• Stinkoman seemin'ly pulls th' spoon outta nowhar.

Goofs

• When th' green glob dexcends fum 1-Up's nose, it appears t'emerge closer t'one side of his face, suggestin' thet it's a-comin' fum his right nostril, ah reckon. When th' camera zooms out, 1-Up is now facin' th' opposite direckshun, an' th' green glob transfers t't'other side of his face.
• When th' camera is shif'in' fum 1-Up t'Stinkoman af'er th' glob scene, th' glob is on 1-Up's shirt fo' a sin'le frame.
• It'd look like Stinkoman said th' sharp chime af'er sayin' "Twenty exty-six! Fry mah hide!"

Fixed Goofs

• When fust released, viewers c'dn't see Sticklyman durin' parts of th' fight scene as fine as af'er it, due t'layer o'der. This hyar was fixed th' same day.

Inside References

• Th' "Spam Free Livin'! Fry mah hide!! Fry mah hide!" ad corntains th' wo'd "ho'pfully," a reference t'Coach Z's thick accent.
  • Th' same ad also menshuns "No delabo's," a line also used in th' Strong Bad Email flag day.
• When Stinkoman says "ah Twenty exty-six'd yo' fine.", it is a reference t'th' Teen Gal Squad deaths [Ex. Arrow'd! Fry mah hide!]
• On th' last line of th' credits it says Covah ups by Kevin

Real-Wo'ld References

• Stinkoman sayin' "WHAAAAAAAT is yo' doin'?" references th' Pioneer dub of Akira, whar th' chareecker Yamagata axs Tetsuo in a similar manner: "WHAAAAAAAT th' hell is yo' talkin' about?"
• Sticklyman is almost sartinly a reference t'th' popular Flash cartoon series Xiao Xiao, whar stick figgers battle in elabo'ately-cho'eographed fight scenes.
• Sticklyman's shovel suggests a sho'tened Zanbato, a giant swo'd wielded by Sanosuke in th' anime Rurouni Kenshin.
• Th' entire fight scene is taken fum th' NES game Ninja Gaiden, whose intryduckshun sequence shows two ninjas havin' a jool. Th' freeze-frame durin' th' jump an' th' "..." at th' end is included in th' sequence.
• Th' fust listin' in th' credits reads "Executive Prodoocer H. Yamauchowdy-doo." Hiroshowdy-doo Yamauchi was th' fo'mer president of Naimo an' appeared in th' credits as executive prodoocer in menny of Naimo's older games.
  • Also included in th' credits is th' names of two other famous Naimo employees: S. Miyahon (mistranslashun of Shigeru Miyamoto) an' Ten Ten (Takashowdy-doo Tezuka), both of whom wawked on th' origeenal Lejund of Zelda game.
  • These credits also appeared at th' end of japanese cartoon.
• Th' credit "Elevato' Ackshun" is a reference t'a Taito game of th' same name.
• Maru Maru is a misspellin' of Maru Mari, th' Japanese name fo' th' Mo'ph Ball powerup in th' game Metroid.
• Th' name Sticklyman, may be a reference t'Hangly-Man, a Japanese Pac-Man clone, due t'similarities in spellin' an' pronunciashun, an' th' fack thet both of them is examples of pore translashun (i.e. Hangly-Man is supposed t'be Hungry-Man, Sticklyman—Stick Man).

Fast Fo'ward

• Th' sho't tune at th' end of this hyar toon'd later be reused at th' end of Happy Trogday, while Trogado' is chasin' Stinkoman, as enny fool kin plainly see.
  • It also inds a scene in tradin' cards featurin' Stinkoman an' Cheatball.

DVD Vershun

• Th' DVD vahshun features creato's' commentary. To access it, switch yer DVD player's audio language seleckshun while watchin'.

Commentary Transcripp

(Commentary by: Matt Chapman, Ichabod Chapman)

MATT: Oh, this hyar was a real gag, Ichabod.

MIKE: Wal, a lot of varmints didn't wait the—whutevah this hyar is—eight seconds t'find out thet this hyar is, uh... yo' know, it warn't pow'ful... thet we didn't pow'ful lose th' domain, as enny fool kin plainly see. This hyar is of course an April Fool's cartoon, as enny fool kin plainly see.

MATT: We got a lot of corncerned e-mails...

MIKE: Uh-huh.

MATT: ...thet th' site had been shet down, as enny fool kin plainly see. Th' Tho'ax Co'p. got a lot of traffic thet day, ah remember.

MIKE: Ha! Fry mah hide!

MATT: ah's surprised Tho'ax Co'p. didn't git shet down, as enny fool kin plainly see.

MIKE: {laughs}

MATT: So, we didn't pow'ful even reckon of it like this, but uh, this hyar is a double thin' bein' Stinkoman fightin' th' "unner cornstruckshun" guy, thet was a mighty popular "unner cornstruckshun" animated GIF<! Fry mah hide!--hard G--> thet is used, cuss it all t' tarnation. An' also kind of a parody on th' stick figger fightin' thin'—

MIKE: Yeah.

MATT: —so ah pow'ful didn't reckon about thet until af'er th' fack.

MIKE: Did we does enny bullet time in this?

MATT: {laughs}

MIKE: Th' bullet times is allus th' favo'ites in th' stick figger animashuns.

MATT: Kung Fu Stick Reckon Theaters.

MIKE: Look at thet.

MATT: Yeah.

MIKE: {Stinkoman an' Sticklyman lan' on th' groun' an' th' lens focuses on Sticklyman, as enny fool kin plainly see.} Focus.

MATT: Thet's some nice rack focusin'. {Stinkoman says, "..."} Thet's a Ninja Gaiden reference thar, th' Ninja Gaiden, fo' regular Naimo, thar were lop scenes wif a lot of dot dot dots in th' dialogue. ...Affo'dable hostin's, Ichabod! Fry mah hide! Noo house? Noo domain? Who has time?! Fry mah hide!

MIKE: Them li'l logos yo' drew, th' pill bottle, th' house, an' th' letter is mighty similar t'th' ones yo' used t'have t'pow'ful does fo' yer job at EarthLink. Shet mah mouth!

MATT: Yeah, ah call them mah old skills! {laughs} ...Brought 'em outta retirement. {Stinkoman exclaims, "It's puddin'! Fry mah hide!"} Th' mooshroom styles...

{Th' snot bubble oozes fum 1-Up's nose.}

MATT AND MIKE: {laugh}

MATT: This hyar intrydooced the, uh, noo T mouth... Stinkoman, th' mouth whar like it's gritted teeth an' so thar's a bunch of T's. {whispers} Th' T mouth, ah call it th' T mouth.

MIKE: {quickly} T mouth! Fry mah hide!

External Links

• watch "Unner Construckshun"
• view th' Flash file fo' "Unner Construckshun"

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