Decemberweenvent Calendar
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A Decemberween Advent calendar with new music every day from December 1st to the 24th.
Cast (in order of appearance): Homestar Runner (pictured), Strong Bad, King of Town, Pom Pom (pictured), Marzipan (pictured), Coach Z (pictured), Bubs (pictured), Strong Sad, Homsar (pictured), Stave It Off Guy (pictured), Strong Mad
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2022
Page Title: Remember to practice your Scales of an Artist!
Total Running Time: 0:53
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Calendar
| Day | Song | Running Time | Transcript | Visuals | Flash File |
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| 1 | Everybody, Everybody | 0:19 | STRONG BAD: {offscreen} What the crap?! A non chocolate and/or Lego Decemberweenvent calendar? I used to could eat both of thems. | The King of Town stands alone with his arms across his chest, crying.
Pom Pom, Homestar Runner, and Marzipan stand in a group in the center. Homestar and Marzipan are looking pleasantly at each other while Pom Pom has a neutral or unimpressed expression. A keyboard is featured with the white keys labeled "C D E F G A B C". A caption above it reads, "Remember the keys this a-way: 'Crispy Duck Eggs For Goodness And Badness, Champ!'" Coach Z and Bubs stand at the far right with happy expressions and their arms across each other's shoulders. | view |
| 2 | Stave It Off | 0:34 | STRONG BAD: {offscreen} Maybe if I play the song correctly then chocolates will, like, come out of the piano.
STRONG SAD: {offscreen} Or maybe just holiday cheer will come out of the piano. STRONG BAD: {offscreen} That's useless! You can't suck on that and swish it around in your mouth until it turns into, like, a pudding goo and then spit it onto marshmallows! KING OF TOWN: {offscreen} That doesn't mean I can't try! | Homsar stands with one arm across his midsection and one arm raised, belting out a note. The Stave It Off Guy is seated on a stool with his stringless guitar and looks on, impressed.
To the right, three left hands showing one, two, and three fingers are accompanied by the caption "Use your staving fingers to play this kids' learn'em up song!" | view |
| 3 | Skills of an Artist | 0:21 | STRONG BAD: {offscreen} Uh, you can check today's, Strong Mad. Imma go see if we have any baking chocolate or... somethin'.
STRONG MAD: {offscreen} I HOPE IT'S THE THEME FROM DOUG THE DINO! STRONG BAD: {offscreen} Isn't the theme from Doug the Dino just you yelling "DINOSAUR"? STRONG MAD: {offscreen} IT'S MY GREATEST COMPOSITION! | Strong Bad, dressed as an art painter, stands next to an easel with an S drawn on it. He holds a paintbrush in his right glove and a pizza in his left glove. The pizza vaguely resembles a paint palette.
A keyboard is shown with "Middlin' C" labeled. Above it is the caption "How to play piano with boxing gloves on". Dashed lines show the outline of where the gloves should go and are labeled "Left-O" and "Right-O". At the far right is a mostly full canister of Taster's Choice instant coffee. | view |
Fun Facts
Explanations
- An Advent calendar is used to count the days of Advent in anticipation of Christmas.
Trivia
- The Decemberweenvent calendar is from the Scales of an Artist Beginner piano series.
- The scale chart on Day 1 reads "Crispy Duck Eggs For Goodness And Badness, Champ!"
- The update is more stylized than the others, with most characters gaining noses and being drawn in a style loosely resembling Alfred's Basic Piano.
- All of the sheet music (so far) is written and played in the key of C major, and 4/4-time signature.
Remarks
- The instructions on Day 2 say to use your staving fingers to play this kids' learn-em-up song.
- The instructions on Day 3 show how to play piano with boxing gloves on.
- The keys for Day 1 are clickable, but do nothing.
Inside References
- "Scales of an Artist" references Skills of an Artist.
- The Advent calendar is published by Cheap As Free Music.
- "Used to could" is a double modal.
- Strong Mad's stop-motion movie, Doug the Dino from the facts is mentioned on Day 3.
- On Day 3, Strong Bad says he'll look for baking chocolate. Strong Sad says he used to eat baking chocolate when there was no chocolate in the house in The House that Gave Sucky Treats.
- The Skills of an Artist page on Day 3 shows Strong Bad having drawn an "S" and a carton of coffee grinds labeled "Taster's Choice", both of which refer to dragon.
Real-World References
- LEGO has produced Advent calendars, each with 24 doors containing a minifigure or a simple small set, annually since 1998. Recent years have seen multiple calendars released each year, with themes such as Star Wars.
External Links
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