Editing A Decemberween Mackerel

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[[File:A Decemberween Mackerel.png|thumb|"My coma's toast..."]]

Senor Cardgage says he's dying, so Marzipan and Homestar try to cram him with enough Decemberween spirit to save him.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{film|Homestar Runner}}, {{film|Marzipan}}, {{film|Coach Z}}, {{film|Senor Cardgage}}, {{film|Strong Sad}}, {{film|Pom Pom}}, {{film|Bubs}}, [[Homeschool Winner]], [[Rafferty]], [[Preshy]], [[Champeen]], [[The Hurricane]], three [[Unguraits]], {{film|Strong Bad}}, {{film|Strong Mad}}, {{film|The Cheat}}, {{film|The Poopsmith}}, {{film|The King of Town}}, {{film|Homsar}}

'''Places:''' [[The Field]], [[Marzipan's House]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]], [[Telephone Pole]], [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]]

''{Music plays. A silhouette of Homestar and Marzipan can be seen through the falling snow. Lines representing the wind curl by.}''

''{Cut to Marzipan with earmuffs and scarf holding a dish and Homestar in his brown hat walking through The Field through the snow. Homestar looks distressed.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' And you think bringing 'em bean sprouts is, ahem, helping?

''{Pull back to a wider shot. Marzipan looks angrily at Homestar.}''

''{Coach Z pops up in the foreground from under a snow drift, wearing a Blubb-O's box on his head}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah. We come down off our high horse to spread a little Decemberween cheer.

'''SENOR CARDGAGE:''' Thank you, Hot Pooey. ''{Homestar looks mad. Zip pan to a close-up of the bush as Cardgage gestures to it.}'' Would you care to coincide?

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{embarrassed}'' Maybe? ''{Marzipan smiles nervously}''

''{Cut back to a wider shot. Homestar walks off screen left. Cardgage is now shivering and groaning.}''

'''SINGERS:''' A Decemberween Mackerel...  (The name of this cartoon!)  

''{Crossfade to Homestar wearing a mistletoe sweater and a red bow lying on Marzipan's couch, the camera slowly trucking back to reveal his entire body.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{joyously}'' Oh, Marzipan! Is that you? I'm wearing a sweater made out of mistletoe! And what feels like a colony of venomous bugs! ''{various black insects jump around Homestar's body}''

''{Cut to a wider shot. Cardgage enters screen right.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ah! You! ''{sits up}''

'''SENOR CARDGAGE:''' ''{pointing at Homestar}'' Hot pooey.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Marzipan! What's the big idea of bringing this guy home? ''{Cut to close-up to Homestar}'' I was about to give you your Decemberween make-out present. ''{Homestar winks and clicks with his mouth.}''

''{Cut back to previous shot as Homestar stands.}''

''{Close-up of Marzipan. She's angry.}''

''{Cut to a medium shot of all three}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, I love cramming holiday cheer. I'll go get my ''{pulls a black rod wrapped in gold and white tinsel from off screen}'' tinsel-wrapped cram rod!

''{Beat. Homestar glances around once.  Marzipan is not amused.}''

''{Push wipe up a red card reading "Holiday Cheer Cramlist" "Caroling"}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER & MARZIPAN:''' ''{singing}'' Coach Z's been drinking non-specific mouthwash-rine.

''{A man's arm holding several sheets of paper comes in from the left.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{echoey}'' Oh, thanks, guys. That warms my heart.

''{Cut to a shot inside of the tub.  Strong Sad's face is seen in the bottom right of the frame and a chain around his body. Homestar is looking through the slats above.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Not enough to stave off the onset of hypothermia, of course. But a month-long ''{cut back to outside.  Cardgage is groaning and swaying}'' coma's nothing I haven't dealt with before.

'''SENOR CARDGAGE:''' ''{groaning}'' My coma's toast...

''{Marzipan and Cardgage dash off screen right, while Homestar follows.}''

''{Cut to the red card as before. Caroling is crossed out and "Greeting Card" is in the center. A musical sting plays.}''

''{Reverse shot reveals Homestar in his mistletoe sweater, Marzipan with lights in her ponytail and Cardgage wearing an olive green cardigan. Homestar moves slightly to the right in the frame.}''

''{Reverse shot. Pom Pom gestures his arm up.}''

''{Reverse shot. Marzipan moves up slightly.}''

''{Reverse shot. Cardgage continues to move to the right until he is halfway out of the frame.}''

''{He picks up Gooblies and squeezes him.  There is a white flash and cuts to a card with "Seasoned Greetings", with a picture of Homestar and Marzipan, and Cardgage halfway out of the frame.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Okay, now we need to make the corresponding ''{cut to a wider shot, showing the card in the lower left, while Marzipan is wearing half-moon glasses.}'' newsletter to brag about our family. ''{Marzipan clicks the pen and takes a deep breath, then slams the pen onto the paper, writing.  As she starts to write, the words appear behind her. Very rapidly:}'' This year was so great! Our family is so great! I can't believe Homestar started fourth grade! How time flies. It's so great! Senor Cardgage won first place in sports and was selected to be terminally ill! ''{She starts writing on the paper in various angles, across already-written words, and in margins.}'' I am in book club and PTA carpool and redoing the back-splash. It's so great! Warm wishes, ''{Carves this last line into her table:}'' The Marzipan-Homestar-Cardgages.

''{Cut to Homestar sitting on the arm of the couch with his cram rod. Cardgage is lying on the couch.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{waving cram rod around}'' Our family is, literally and figuratively, so great! ''{Cardgage groans}''

''{Push wipe left to reveal Bubs' Concession Stand. A silhouette of Bubs can be seen waving his arms. A line of people can be seen, ending with Marzipan and Cardgage. The camera slowly pans and reveals Homestar in the foreground.}''

'''BUBS:''' ''{faintly}'' I've got a sale on everything. I've got all kinds of sales!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Say, Bubs. ''{Camera pans to reveal Bubs standing next to Homestar. Homestar pokes him with the cram rod.}'' What's this line for?

'''BUBS:''' Three miles or eighteen days. ''{Pull back to reveal Cardgage standing behind them.}'' Whichever comes first.

''{Cardgage turns around groaning. Bubs looks annoyed.}''

''{Marzipan sticks her head in screen right. Homestar appears stunned and pokes Cardgage with his cram rod.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' All right, that's enough. Let's move. Peeow! ''{She grabs Cardgage and dashes off-screen right.}''

''{Push wipe right to Coach Z standing next to Homestar. Homestar is waving his cram rod.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Nothing crams Decemberween cheer like the annual lighting ''{Cut to a wider shot of Coach Z, Homestar, Marzipan and Cardgage standing around the telephone pole.  Yellow lights are strung from the pole, and an orange extension cord is in the foreground. Cardgage sways.}'' of the lights attached to a pole in a tree-shaped fashion.

''{Cut back to the shot of Coach Z and Homestar. Homestar has picked up the extension cord.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Don't I know it! Last year, these lights cured me of chronic athlete's tongue, and the year before that it was rub rash, and then hot pooey{{--}}

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Excuse me, you're disgusting. Barf.

''{Homestar pretends to throw up (complete with dotted-line imaginary vomit) and turns away. Coach Z looks disappointed.  Homestar then plugs in the extension cord.}''

''{Cut to a wider shot. The lights turn on.}''

'''HOMESTAR, MARZIPAN, & COACH Z:''' Oh!

''{Cut to a medium shot of Marzipan and Cardgage. Cardgage is disheveled and his glasses are falling off.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Oh wow, if it was pitch black and I squinted and was a few miles away, ''{cut to a wide silhouette of all standing around the tree}'' this would sort of look like a tree almost! ''{Cut back to the previous shot.}'' Isn't it wonderous, Senor? A real miracle-inducing spectacle, isn't it?

''{Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and The Cheat come in from the bottom of the frame. Cut to a medium shot of Marzipan and Strong Bad, with Strong Mad in a sweater and The Cheat in a green hat behind him.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''He'' told you. ''{Close up of Strong Bad}'' You decided to take, at face value, something the guy who lives in a bush and talks to melty candy bars said.

'''STRONG BAD:''' And, who not fifteen minutes ago, told me I ''{cut to the Basement of the Brothers Strong. Strong Bad is standing on the arm of the orange couch and Cardgage is standing next to it.  Marzipan's dish is sitting on the couch. Cardgage moves his mouth to match what present-Strong Bad is quoting.}'' "might paste away if I Dinty Moore." ''{Strong Bad begins to leap on the dish.}''

''{Cut back to The Field. Cardgage stirs and holds up an opened can of stew that says "Dented")''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Besides, everybody knows the way to save Senor Cardgage is to cut a bunch of motor sports magazines in half and pour gravy on a defibrillator. A-like so.

''{Cut Strong Mad with magazines that read "Modasports. The 2011 Tomatocycle!!!! Daaaang!" The Cheat is standing next to a defibrillator and a gravy boat. Strong Mad grunts and pulls the magazines apart. The Cheat then takes the gravy boat and pours the gravy on the defibrillator. Music plays and the silhouette of Cardgage can be seen rising.}''

'''SENOR CARDGAGE:''' Oh, my grabness, grabness. It really is...

''{Cut to a shot of all standing around the tree. Strong Sad is still in his tub, next to The King of Town and Strong Mad. The Poopsmith is standing behind Bubs screen left.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{disappointed}'' And nobody's dying.

*:'''ANNOUNCER:''' From the makers of Hot Jones comes Hot Pooey, our newest holiday sensation! ''{The mug is replaced by a different mug, the contents of which are censored}'' Hot Pooey! ''{A speech bubble that contains the following emits from the new mug, and a Santa Claus-like beard appears on the mug}'' Oh dear God, what have we done??

*This toon was released eighteen days before New Year's, which is the time Bubs's "holiday line" lasts.

*The papers that Homestar is asked to sign might be a {{wp|cease and desist}} letter, owing to the fact that {{wp|Listerine}} is owned by {{wp|Johnson & Johnson}}, which is why they switch the lyrics from Listerine to "non-specific mouthwash-rine".

*This is only the second toon of 2010, and the first one released since [[Xeriouxly Forxe]] eight months earlier. It was also the first "real" update (i.e., a toon with a plot) in over a year.

*On the [[Main Pages]], when "[[Main Page Messages|new holiday toon!]]" was moused over, its words changed to "[[for real]]!".

*This toon was built at the normal 550×400 size but was shown at four times that size (double in each direction) prior to the [[post-Flash site update]] in 2020, and was the first such toon to be displayed in this way.

[[File:ADecemberweenMiracle.png|thumb|A Decemberween Miracle, not the name of this cartoon!]]

*Much like [[Homestar Presents: Presents]], this cartoon appears to be presented in a [[Sound Quality|higher audio sample rate]] than usual.

**In fact, it seems that starting with this cartoon, all future Homestar cartoons will have high-quality sound.

*Strong Sad is locked in a [[bath]]tub, as mentioned in [[The Best Decemberween Ever]] and shown in [[Homestar Presents: Presents]].

*Homestar wants to [[Making Out|make out]] with Marzipan.

*Senor Cardgage claims he is [[death|dying]].

*Marzipan grabs Cardgage and yells "[[spoken sound effects|Peeow!]]".

*Homestar says "Oh, [[twice]]" while making out with Marzipan, reminiscent of Strong Bad in [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10]].

*The silhouettes of most of the [[rejected characters]] appear in line for Bubs' Concession Stand. The characters are as follows, from first in line to last: Homeschool Winner, Rafferty, Preshy, Champeen, The Hurricane, and three Unguraits standing on top of each other.

*Senor Cardgage appears from [[hammerspace]], accompanied by the traffic noise first heard in [[Senorial Day]], and again in [[hremail 3184]].

*Homestar saying "Our family is literally, and figuratively, so great" is a reference to [[Jibblies 2]].

*The [[Minor Foods#Tomatocyle|tomatocycle]] previously showed up in [[Where U Goin' 2?]].

*Homestar pretends to [[Puking|puke]] when Coach Z tells him about his illnesses.

*The music that plays when Cardgage comes back to life is similar to the [[Lappy 486]]'s startup noise.

*Strong Bad previously stomped on a casserole in [[your edge]]. He also admitted to stomping around in pecan pie in [[DNA Evidence]].

*"Hello, Chi Minh" is a play on the name of Vietnamese revolutionary [[Wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh|Ho Chi Minh]], for whom [[Wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh City|Saigon]], the largest city in Vietnam, was renamed after the Vietnam War.

*Senor Cardgage calls Strong Bad "[[Wikipedia:Pez|Pez dispenser]]".

*Right before Senor Cardgage collapses, he complains about his [[Wikipedia:Toyota Cressida|Toyota Cressida]] (which, in his case, appears to be an organ and not a car).

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