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== Block'd? ==
Hey, I was just wondering why you blocked the anonny 68.39.230.211, when he'd only made three edits? Yes, he plugged the Sandbox with nonsensical links, but couldn't you have talked to him and asked him to stop it? I'm not sure if you did talk to him or not. If you didn't though, then 1 week was probably a little harsh. {{User:DevonM/sig}} 20:17, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
:Meh, maybe you're right. I was going primarily from {{p|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=HRWiki:Sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=568565 this edit}}, and I thought that the anonny had been reverted three times and was being persistent with adding those links. I'll unblock for now. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:44, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
::Whoops! Sorry if there was a misunderstanding. I was just fooling around and deleting some spam from the sandbox. The anonny wasn't spamming any other pages than the sandbox. {{User:Super Turtle/sig}} 21:51, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
:::No need to fear, Turtle, you acted correctly. Dotty just got a little carried away—which he ''rarely'' does, I might add, he does a bang-up job here and I'm personally proud of what he's accomplished—and made a premature judgement in absence of the facts. He fixed it, and all is well now, all is safe and sound. Sleep peacefully. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:10, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
::::Dotty? Augh! Bleh! Ewww! Grugh! ''{suddenly sotto voce}'' No. Thanks as always to Qermaq for putting a bow on what was pretty much already wrapped up. ;) (Although I ''would'' recommend in the future not yelling in summaries if one is not trying to attract attention. But yeah, no big deal now.) — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 13:31, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
:::::Admit it, you kinda love it when I call you Dotty. ;) {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 23:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
::::::Personally, I think Dot Com should be quoting [[Wikipedia:Yakko, Wakko and Dot|Dot Warner]] right about now: "Call me, Dotty and you die." {{User:Wbwolf/sig}} 00:30, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
:::::::"Yeah, you're probably right." {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 07:46, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
::::::::As long as this thread has gone completely off topic, I think I should mention that I always choose the names Yakko, Wakko, and Dot for the computer players when playing Hearts. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 16:56, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

== Joshua ==

Okay, I know you have a fanstuff talk page. But this is serious. Joshua, the sysop, did something like blackmail. Now the forum is messed up and Super Sam blocked him. Can you please fix this mess? {{User:Sam the Man/sig}} 14:47, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
:I do believe that what is occurring is simply playful banter which Sam here has taken a bit too seriously. Everything is fine. Nothing is ruined. - {{User:Super_Sam/sig}} 05:37, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
::Edit conflict: Lies. All lies! Clearly I'm the only one who knows how it all went down. Joshua randomly bans Super Sam on the forum and then Super Sam screws around with the forum skin for revenge. Also I think Supra tried to block Joshua on the wiki but Joshua just unblocked himself. Just a spot of fun, no need to get all grumpy about it. I think it's pretty dang hilarious the way it's going down. {{User:Shadow Scythe of Strongbadia?!/sig}} 05:39, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
:::Thanks for stopping by, you guys. Thanks for breaking my cow lamp. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 17:11, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

== imagemap ==

Whoa, {{p|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Peasant%27s_Quest_Walkthrough&curid=3090&diff=570451&oldid=568760 this}} is pretty awesome... great jorb! {{User:Trey56/sig}} 13:13, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
:Thanks! I installed the feature back during the last upgrade (because the fanstuff kept pestering me to) but hadn't found a good use for it here at the knowledge base until now. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 14:29, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

== If you notice anything strange... ==

This may just be me being paranoid, but I just thought I'd let you know that MySpace told me I got phished and... I kinda had this thing going where I used the same password for everything... including my email, in which I saved an email to myself detailing how to log in to my account on this website...

So, if anybody does anything funny under my account, I just thought I should let someone with special authorities and privileges and whatnot know about it (although I have since changed my password). I might start a new account just in case, but I'm not sure yet how that'll work out.

Anyway... now you know. {{User:Lux Acerbus/sig}} 18:10, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
:Don't start a new account. Changing your password should be adequate. By the way, to add a section to a talk page, just click the little plus (+) next to the edit button. It will give you a place to enter the thread header and format it automatically. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:14, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
::Jolly good. {{User:Lux Acerbus/sig}} 18:18, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
:::Just the same, I think I'd like my username changed. (I've been thinking of ditching LuxAcerbus for a while now.) Sysops can do that, right? {{User:Lux Acerbus/sig}} 19:03, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
::::Bureaucrats can, yes. See [[HRWiki:Changing username]]. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:15, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
:::::Thank you for the help, my good man. {{User:Lux Acerbus/sig}} 23:57, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

== Forum Redirect ==

Since the HRWiki forum is down, alot of the regular users have taken refuge to http://www.inversetiger.com/forum/ . However, pretty much the only way for people on the forum to communicate to each other now is by email. Since barely anyone shows their email address, the last resort option is to communicate by editing your sig. Even then, most people don't go looking through a locked forum looking at people's sigs(which is where I found the link). The result: Only the regular users found link. So, I figured that it would be best if you posted some sort of link on the front page of the Wiki or something so people can find it.
-strongfan

== Fanstuff Purge: Wiki User Emails ==

There are currently a few Wiki User Emails on the list of fanstuffs to be saved, and it's been decided that this would be a great chance to get them over to the Wiki User Wiki. My question is whether it would be easier to use whatever fancy method you're using to transfer them across or whether it would be easier to just do it manually. 
Cheers, {{User:Super_Sam/sig}} 19:39, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
:I don't know if this is the specific fancy way that DC's going to use, but if you want to transfer stuff, then the easy way is to go to [[HRFWiki:Special:Export]], and put in all the page-names (one per line), and mash go. That'll give you an XML file that you can feed into Special:Import on WUW (you'll need to be sysop to use Special:Import, but Special:Export can usually be run by anyone). As well as being able to copy lots of pages in one hit, you can also (if you want) include each page's history, and all the templates they use. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 22:47, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
::Yep, I concur with Phlip's suggestion. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:45, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
:::Alrighty, thanks for that. - {{User:Super_Sam/sig}} 14:53, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

== Thank you ==

Looking at [[Talk:Main_Page#Read-Only_Forum|this]], it appears a lot of the forum users have been giving you grief over the locked forum. I just would like to pause for a moment and say thank you. You have dealt with this matter professionally, and I would like to say that in your shoes, I would have done the same thing. Thank you for managing this problem well. --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 01:22, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
:Thanks for your comments. It remains to be seen whether splitting off the off-topic discussion from the H*R threads will be a good thing, but I'm hoping for the best. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:35, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

== Greetings!! ==

Hi. I'm having trouble on my userpage. I have three images. I'd like to have one image (Homsar) in the center between the other two of the Cheat Commando's. How can I do this? See my userpage in my signature. --[[User:O98-111-114-113|98.111.114.133]] 17:51, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
:Check out our various local help pages and the user's guide (see the sidebar under navigation and external links). Hope that helps. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:33, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
::Thank you for the name change! --{{User:Blow Up the Ocean/sig}} 21:27, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

==STUFF Decommissioned?==
[http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=User:It%27s_dot_com&curid=5477&diff=581940&oldid=581729 When did this happen?] --{{User:Theyellowdart/sig}} 20:31, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
: [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/HRWiki_talk:STUFF#Decommission We've been talking about it for the last coupla months.] --{{User:Jay/sig}} 20:40, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
::I gotta start paying more attention to important things like that... --{{User:Theyellowdart/sig}} 20:42, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

== Fanstuff wiki ==
Look, for some reson, my computer doesn't show the link. so can you help me out? [[Special:Contributions/68.74.220.137|68.74.220.137]] 10:25, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
:The address is [[HRFWiki:|fanstuff.hrwiki.org]], same as it's ever been. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 14:10, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Ummm... there's no more bar there. it completed. But nothing happened. It's just... the signup screen. 
Also, I sent the email, but I didn't get a reply. {{User:The thing/sig}} 12:52, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
:Actually, you sent two emails. I only said you'd get a reply if it was necessary, and in your case it's not. The status bars only indicate that a certain step is done out of many. You'll know that the wiki is back up when it looks like a MediaWiki wiki. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:46, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
::Okay, also, can you not do the purge in the next 3 hours? I have to go somewhere. {{User:The thing/sig}} 21:27, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
:::Deal. Before I do it, I'll be sure to ask you if it's okay. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:30, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

I already sent you my email. Should I post my new username on [[HRWiki:Changing username]], or just wait? - {{User:Super Sonic X/Sig}} 00:56, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
:Sending the email is enough. I'll change usernames based on that. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:13, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
So when will the new wiki be up?--{{User:X66x66/sig}} 18:54, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

When will the updates bar be back? -[[User:TheStick|TheStick]]

Could you put the MediaWiki software on the fanstuff wiki and remove the signup page? {{User:Dagoth/sig}}

Hey, Dot com, it has been like 3 weeks now. What gives? -[[User:AlmsforthePudgy|AlmsforthePudgy]] 19:44, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

:Seriously, you guys. Stop pestering Dot com. He's doing his best, and he's working very hard for you. Yes, for '''you'''. Give him some credit. It's dot com is spending hours and hours (literally) of his spare time fixing the fanstuff wiki for you, and the last thing he needs (I'm sure of it) is someone poking him with a stick continuously, asking if he's done yet. So sit back and relax, give him some space, and when he's finally done, thank him very much for it.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 13:05, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Okay, so, how long has it been now? A month? Two? {{User:The thing/sig}} 01:31, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Two and a half X_X {{User:MichaelXX2/sig}} 18:37, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
:I've lost hope. {{User:The thing/sig}} 21:37, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
::Keep hope alive. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 22:13, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

==Name Change==
Could you change my user name to Raiku? Its going to be my last username ever. I am going to keep it. {{User:Raiku/sig}}

==Name Change, Too==
I meant to name myself hremail24, not Hremail 22. Can you fix this malfunction, private?

:You know, this is kind of like calling up a librarian at home asking them to renew a book for you. There are [[HRWiki:Changing Username|better ways]]. {{User:GreenHelmet/sig}} 14:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

== Ops in #hrwiki-fanstuff ==

I hate to whine and complain like this, but please give someone ops in #hrwiki-fanstuff. It is impossible to control the channel. It doesn't have to be a fanstuff sysop, just someone easily accessible. {{User:Bluebry/sig}} 17:42, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
:Hey man, we seem to have a few trolls in #hrwiki-fanstuff, Tom's not responding, you're not on, and we really need ops, so whenever you see this, please give someone ops. {{User:Bluebry/sig}} 00:49, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

== Change Username ==

Uh, Dot Com, some people [[HRWiki:Changing username|here]] have been hanging for months with no one changing their user name. Could you get those people up to date for me? {{User:MichaelXX2/sig}} 18:33, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
:Please, Dot Com? I'm desperate.. Please... {{User:MichaelXX2/sig}} 21:14, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
::Please? I'm sorry for bothering you... {{User:MichaelXX2/sig}} 21:23, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
:::Holy crap, dude. Why are you editing my talk page over and over? See Green Helmet's remarks a couple of threads up. Besides, you're already on (at least) your second username. I'm not really planning on changing it. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:33, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
::::How do you know that? I haven't ever actually ''changed'' my user name... {{User:MichaelXX2/sig}} 21:39, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
:::::Of course you have. [[Special:Contributions/Miketigershark|This]] is you. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:41, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
::::::I'm sorry. Very sorry. I admit it, MichaelXX2 is a sockpuppet. But when I signed up, I took a vow to change my ways about vandalism. I haven't done any vandalism for months, and I'm sorry for bothering you. I won't ever change my username again, please bail me out this one time... I will fully understand if you don't want to though. {{User:MichaelXX2/sig}} 21:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
:::::::Hey, Dot Com, keep up the good work ;) {{User:MichaelXX2/sig}} 02:07, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

== Can you do me a fanstuff-related favor? ==

I need some files from the old HRFWiki, and I was wondering if you might be able to get them. It's okay if you can't do this, or don't want to, though, it would just make some things easier if you would.--{{User:Kirbychu HR'D/sig}} 02:23, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
:Why don't you email me your specific request and we'll go from there. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:37, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
::K.--{{User:Kirbychu HR'D/sig}} 02:53, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
:::Did you ever get my email? I really want my files.--[[Special:Contributions/24.34.11.239|24.34.11.239]] 18:37, 24 December 2008 (UTC)(Kirbychu)
::::I did get your email. I haven't forgotten this request, and it's on the to-do list. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:09, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

== Where's the forum? ==

What happened to the forum? What's wrong with the forum? Answer me on my talk page. [[User:RocketMasterZ|RocketMasterZ]] 17:14, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
:It's down right now. It will be back rrll rrll soon. I answered here. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:22, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
::Do you mean it this time? {{User:Bad Bad Guy/sig}} 02:00, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
:::Well, I'll give you one thing. You're definitely consistent. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:27, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

== Fanstuff wiki ==

Would you happen to know when the purge will be over? Just wonder. '''[[User:Gavino/redirect|¡Él]][[User talk:Gavino|Gavino!]]''' 01:01, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
:Oh, I ''do'' wonder, let me tell you. If I had to guess based on the (depending on your point of view) clever or smart-aleck front page currently at [[HRFWiki:|fanstuff.hrwiki.org]], I'd say sometime before or after TBC release Stinkoman Level 10. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 01:25, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
::Alright, seriously, what's taking so dang long? {{User:The thing/sig}} 18:05, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
:::This has been explained in other places. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:07, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

== thanks man. ==

What was that crap-for-brains doing? Being a freakin' vandal and everything? I owe it all to ya for helping my user page stay cool. Did you block him? --{{User:The 386/sig}} 20:06, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
:No prob, Bob. That guy shows up from time to time to do what he did. It doesn't usually take long to clean up. Yes, I did block him. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:12, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

== Transcribing Permission ==

Sorry to interrupt, but I was just wondering if I could transcribe the toons at the [[wikia:c:weeblsstuff|Weeblpedia]] similar to the way we transcribe toons here. {{User:HRjcm/sig}} 02:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
:Uh, yes? I don't really have any jurisdiction to give you permission. Our style is nothing special, and I suppose it could be used for any number of things. It may or may not be relevant, but some authors of works of fiction don't like their works being transcribed, so watch out for that. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 05:19, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
::OK, thanks. {{User:HRjcm/sig}} 22:34, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
== Personal image templates ==
It's Dot Com, Your the [[Special:Listusers/bureaucrat|admin]] I trust the most, and the only one I know actually. [[Template_talk:personal-image-abandoned|This page]] is in desperate need of an admin to look over the new suggested designs of the personal image templates, and to add to the talk page if you agree that we should/can change the personal image templates to the HR related ones, or not. Please do look into this. Thanks! {{User:Mas12806/sig}} 17:07, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
:That discussion is over two years old. As I said when it was current, I don't think we should change the templates, especially given I'm the one who made the versions we're using now. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

== Sig ==

Do you want a sig? If so, what do you want on it? {{User:Sylar/sig}} 03:23, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
:I already have one. It's right here: [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:36, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
::I mean like colored and stuff. The sig templates. {{User:Sylar/sig}} 03:37, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
:::I know what you meant. I've been here nearly four years. If I wanted a fancy signature, I'd probably have one by now. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
::::And, I know this topic is a month old, but it may be one of the best signatures on the wiki. I mean, it did start the &mdash craze. Did it? {{User:HRjcm/sig}} 18:42, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

== Winter Background ==

Could you please add <pre> body {
font-size: 10px;
font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #EBEBEB url(skins/monobook/headbg-snow.png) 0 0 repeat-x;
}
</pre> to MediaWiki:Monobook.css? Thanks. {{User:Dagoth/sig}} 06:25, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
:Oh right. I had a nagging feeling I had forgotten something. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:18, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

== HRFWiki:Template:Main Page/Fanstuff ==

What did that template look like? I created a temporary HRFWiki and need the Main Page/Fanstuff template to look like it did at the real HRFWiki. The URL for the temporary HRFWiki is http://homestar.referata.com. I also need a dump of all the templates and MediaWiki messages for it. {{User:Dagoth/sig}} 00:19, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
:I'm not going to provide that, sorry. You need to use a different logo and stop hotlinking our images. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:45, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
::I removed your logo and images. {{User:Dagoth/sig}} 01:22, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
:::I'm still seeing the logo there. Yes, i cleared my cache. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 14:48, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
::::Well, it was gone, but it looks like it's back. -[[Special:Contributions/128.103.10.17|128.103.10.17]] 15:14, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
:::::Your logo and images are gone for reals this time. {{User:Dagoth/sig}} 23:00, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

== Who's online ==

You guys need "WhosOnline", a special that can tell you whos online and what they are looking at. Can be used to quickly see when there is going to be spam. {{User:Red And Black/siggy}} 18:58, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

From my old fanstuff talk page:
<blockquote>
[http://www.mariowiki.com/Special:Recentchanges Check this out]

It's the recent changes page of The Mario Wiki. I made an account there, and I realized on the recent changes page, there's a little section for who's currently logged in. I figured I'd ask you if we could possibly make this a feature here. It would make things alot easier when trying to contact users and such. --{{User:TheDenzel/sig}} 18:11, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
:[...] This would indeed be interesting, but people shouldn't have their identities exposed just because they're browsing. Part of what a lot of people like about reading a wiki is that you're not publicly logged unless you edit. And there's the thing: one should be able to tell who's online well enough just by looking at the recent changes. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 04:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
</blockquote>
Or do you mean something that only sysops and/or developers could see? If so, we already have enough behind-the-scenes access to handle our relatively minor spam load. Thanks though. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:50, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
:I mean that only registered users can see, and from my knowledge of it, noone EVER uses it but me, for some reason on the other wikis I go on. It would just help alot. {{User:Red And Black/siggy}} 19:55, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
::Well, like I said last year, I don't think that information should be available to just anyone who happens to have an account. There's almost no reason (if any) to look over someone's shoulder if they're merely reading articles. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:03, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
:::However, it can help if they are about to troll. {{User:Red And Black/siggy}} 20:04, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
::::It would be nearly impossible to tell whether someone was about to vandalize based solely on what they're looking at. Even if it were possible, the vigilance required to make the extension effective would be prohibitively time-consuming. Considering the low volume of bad-faith edits we have to deal with and how easy it is to clean up pages after the fact, we simply don't have the need for an early-warning system. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:18, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

== Hey, something to bring your attention to ==

Adventure Classic Gaming recently had an interview with the Brothers Chaps and the designers of their episodic adventure game series at TellTale, not sure how you usually feature new content related to the brothers chaps but figured you might not have seen it yet, it isn't on the interviews page at least: [http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/interviews/439/] -MarkN
:It's actually on the SBCG4AP page, under Promotional Media. {{User:DevonM/sig}} 23:43, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

== Thanks! ==

Thank you for deleting my fair-use-defying MacOrWinFinal.png image, Dot Com! — {{User:Fotoshop/sig}} 18:31, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
:No probalo. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:34, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

== Sensitive to Bees ==

Thanks so much for agreeeing with my statements, It's dot com! I knew someone would believe me if I posted the edit there! The second video was just my proof to make sure there wouldn't be that much of a conflict, but if that's what made you believe me, I'm glad I made it! So thanks again!

-MarioMaster2008

P.S. Speaking of which, why did you think I went overboard trying to prove my point with the video?
:I wouldn't say so. People have gone [[Template talk:commentary|crazy before]] proving their point. {{User:MichaelXX2/sig}} 06:12, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
::Maybe so, but if you look on the [[Talk:Sensitive To Bees|talk page]] for the article in question, you'll see that It's Dot Com himself said I surpassed him in levels of proving my point. -MarioMaster2008
:::The above link to that template talk page has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. I'm referring to people posting evidence they gather to try and answer a question of fact regarding something in one of the toons. I'm not saying I don't go overboard (my illustrations on [[Talk:car#Homestar's spinning buzzer|Homestar's spinning buzzer]] are just the latest example), but I think making a whole YouTube video trumps anything I've done. So far. By the way, MarioMaster, to sign your name, just type four tildes, like this: <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>, and the system will automatically insert your name and a timestamp, like this: [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 16:10, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
::::Oh, okay. I was wondering how to do that. Let's try it now. [[User:MarioMaster2008|MarioMaster2008]] 17:48, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

== History category ==

Sorry, I didn't know we had a place to keep stuff around for historical reasons. -[[Special:Contributions/132.183.138.37|132.183.138.37]] 21:51, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
:Yeah, if something was widely used in the past, but isn't anymore, then we put it in the [[:Category:HRWiki History|history category]] rather than delete it completely. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:21, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

== Sandbox user subpages ==
Would it be possible for me to create a mini sand box as a sub page? {{User:Kid2255/sig}} 22:11, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
:See [[HRWiki talk:User space#Sandboxes?]]. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 16:35, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

== Redirect pages ==

Hi there It's Dot Com, hope you don't mind me asking something. I was trying to create a redirect from [[Coach Z's 110 percent]] to [[Coach Z's 110%]], but it doesn't work as an actual redirect. How do you create a redirect page, and how is it different from a normal one? Thanks! {{User:GuardDuck/sig}} 01:02, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
:Note, it won't act like a redirect in the preview, you have to save it. And the syntax is "<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Pagename]]</nowiki>". And this is probably the wrong place to ask this kind of question. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 01:05, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
::Oh, so that's what happened, I only saw it in the preview. Sorry for bothering you, is there a better place for questions like that? {{User:GuardDuck/sig}} 01:08, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
:::You can ask me on my talk page, i don't get annoyed by technical questions, but the best place is probably the talk for one of the help pages or something... {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 01:11, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
::::[[HRWiki talk:FAQ]] is actually the place we've set aside for questions. If a discussion needs to be on a more specific page, it can be referred to the other page from there. And it is true that a question on any central or highly visible public talk page will likely be answered. Similarly, while I'm not encouraging you to post on any one user's talk page, you could do worse than this one. It's watched by a good number of users, and I have a [[#The System Is Down|whole section]] of the page devoted to technical issues. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:58, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

== Blanking the sandbox ==
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Hey, um, are you trying to make fun of me?
That userbox, Um, NOT FREAKIN FUNNY!
If you need to tell me something, tell me in my Talk page.--[[User:Record307|Record307]]
:Strictly speaking, yes, I am making fun, but I'm not trying to be mean. I just think it's funny that you've blanked the sandbox {{p|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?limit=50&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Record307&namespace=4&year=2009&month=1 once a day every day for the past 11 days}} (except the 9th (when you did it twice) and the 15th (which you missed)). I myself blank the sandbox on occasion, but not like clockwork. Generally speaking, having a blank or non-blank sandbox makes no difference, and so I find it interesting that you've kept it up. But I'm just teasing, not trying to be offensive. :) (By the way, if it's not obvious, the icon there is a blank sandbox.) Cheers. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 01:42, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, sorry. Y'know what? I'm gonna use the userbox you made. Can you do me a favor? My userboxes scroll But they mess up my page. I want it to blend in with the pictures on my userpage. Can you do that for me? Thanks!---[[User:Record307|Record307]]
:I adjusted the width of your email box. Did that fix what you were talking about? Oh, by the way, to sign your name, just type four tildes, like this: <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>, and the system will automatically insert your name and a timestamp, like this: [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 14:03, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks so much! See ya round![[User:Record307|Record307]] 15:26, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

== Forum account disabled ==

Why can't I log on? --{{User:Blow Up the Ocean/sig}} 15:57, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
:I deactivated your account at the request of a lot of people. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 16:05, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

== Hey It's dot com, how's it hanging? ==

I've been good, nearly done hiugh school, which leaves me to my first question:

I'll be leaving Homestar Runner wiki, temporarily, for school reasons. Anyhow, can someone you tell me where i can find a banner template to place on my wikipage saying I'll be off wiki for a while?

Thanks a bunch.

[[User:Nikolce Kocovski|Nikolce Kocovski]] 07:59, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
:Wow, Nikolce, long time no hear from. We don't really have a template for that kind of thing, but you can make a banner by taking some code from one of our other templates and putting it on your page. Then you can update the message to suit whatever you need it to say. I'm curious how long a while is (your last edit was last April, which is what I'd consider a while). — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 11:42, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Whoa, April, man school's been taking my time man. As well as school, sometimes my internets gets capped, meaning it becomes slow, and when it comes to wikis, they don;t load up.

Thanks for the help again.

[[User:Nikolce Kocovski|Nikolce Kocovski]] 12:33, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

== MediaWiki 1.14 ==

According to the Wikitech mailing list, MediaWiki 1.14 has been released ([http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-February/041636.html link]). Just notifying you. :) {{User:The Goblin/sig}} 20:03, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
:Thanks. We're on the [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2009-February/000084.html MediaWiki announce list], so we already knew that. Based on something Tim said, we may have even been responsible for prodding them into releasing the final version after the release candidate. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:35, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

== Thanks for Your Assistance ==

Thanks for your assistance in the most recent vandal attack. Been a while since the last one, eh? Well, we all appreciate your ability to hide those edits from RC, as no one wants to read that. Also, good job getting the one everyone else overlooked--myself included. We really couldn't keep this place going without you. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 03:41, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
:Hey, thanks for the thanks, and you're welcome! I'm glad I could chip in with those things that only developers can do. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:46, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

== I'm confused... ==
Hey Its Dot Com, can you tell me what happened to the fanstuff? I left a long time ago but when I tried to come back everything was different.

== Invisible arms ==

When you said it was NOT better... I'm not gonna lie to you. It '''''IS''''' better. PLEASE, don't block me! --{{User:The 386/sig}} 00:29, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
:Block you? You're wrong though. We consistently treat scenes as though the characters have normal arms and/or fingers (regardless of what's "really" the case) and are directly manipulating objects. In other words, we say that Homestar is picking up an object (and don't worry about how), not that it mysteriously starts floating. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:37, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
::I just DON'T want my edits reverted. The INVISIBLE arms show that these objects float in mid-air. I don't mean to sound rude. --{{User:The 386/sig}} 00:31, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
:::Sorry, but that's not our standard. We know that the objects appear to be floating, but that's not how we describe them. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:37, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

== When will the fanstuff wiki be back? ==
Hey Dot Com, when will the fanstuff wiki be back? {{User:Raiku/sig}} 04:34, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
:Unfortunately, the fanstuff was a significant drain on our resources, and with funds being so tight we just can't justify it anymore. I'm afraid it will never be back. Sorry. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 04:41, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

== My new email address ==

I recently got a Gmail account. Now my new email address is xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com. So, could you change my email address on the forum to that. PS:If anyone emails me, I will send Barney to attack you. {{User:Coach z's cool/sig}} 12:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
:I will only change your forum address to whatever's in your preferences here on the wiki, and the address above (at least, what it was before) isn't it. If you don't want people to email you, don't post it here. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 14:24, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
::Oh, yeah. I forgot to do about that. I changed it. {{User:Coach z's cool/sig}} 14:33, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

== Name change three ==

<blockquote class="lappy email" style="width:90%;font-family:Verdana,Trebuchet MS,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">
<div>subject: name change</div>
Dear Mr. Com,
I understand that you must envisage me as a person who takes the Homestar Runner Wiki for granted, as I have created several different users. I am writing here to plead my case to change my username.
When I first created the account Jagger88, I looked at my talk page, and deleted the Welcome comment straight away. I therefore did not look at any information I may have needed. Therefore, I had no idea there was a way to change your username, and therefore created new users whenever I wanted to have a different username. If you look at recent changes, you will see that I have not used Do-Nots, Open Source Greg, or the new paper rox since you gave me a warning (the user Hremails was my brothers before he got confused with all the computer language). 
Please consider my application to change my name to TNDY, as I believe in recent times I have proved myself useful to this wiki. (I did like, the whole transcript for [[Pistols for Pandas]], discovered [[Career Day]], and the [[Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD]], aswell as along the way improving my understanding of this wiki. 
I'm only a teenager, and I actually think this wiki has what it takes to teach me some respect and responsibility. 
Sincerely, {{User:Jagger88/sig}} 09:19, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
</blockquote>
:This doesn't belong on my talk page. Please refer to [[HRWiki:Changing username]] for replies. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 14:33, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

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|}

Thank you. {{User:Open Source Greg/sig}} 06:59, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

== Free Country Mountain Range files ==

Not to be naggy but I'm kinda wondering what's going on with ny Free Country Mountain Range files, because you said you'd put it on your to-do list about 5 months ago.--{{User:Kirbychu HR'D/sig}} 02:50, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
:Yup, exactly 199 days ago. I put it on my to-do list. It's still there. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:08, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
::That's one big to-do list.--{{User:Kirbychu HR'D/sig}} 03:12, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

== What the pfargtl? ==

This is the edit summary from Recent Changes for one of your recent edits:

(diff) (hist) . . Talk:Main Page‎; 15:51 . . (-673) . . It's dot com (Talk | contribs) (look at the date on that reply (it was a joke))

But in the recent changes IRC it looked like:

<+HRWikiRC> [[Talk:Main Page]] [http://hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=648202&oldid=648199&rcid=607347] * It's dot com * (-673) feel free to discuss that somewhere else (off-site)

The link provided by the RC bot goes to the same diff provided on the RC page. What the pfargtl is going on? --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 23:25, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
:I have the ability to [[Special:Editeditsummary|edit edit summaries]]. Occasionally I think of something better to say. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:01, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

== Hello again ==

Hey. First of all, I'm sorry for how conceited, passive-aggressive and rude I behaved here a few years ago. Secondly, the Wiki is in ship shape! I'm very impressed with the progress you guys have made while I was away. Great work! I'll be contributing regularly again, but this time without unfairly scrutinizing you or anyone else here. Carpe diem! {{User:Darth Katana X/sig}} 23:53, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

== You're now my friend. ==

Any fan of Seinfeld is my friend. {{User:Ugozima/sig}} 06:36, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

== Possible Trolls/Vandals ==

Hello, sorry if this is in the wrong place, I didn't know where to put it.

On the recent changes page, there seems to be a large number of accounts being made. normally if it was 1 or 2 I wouldn't notice, but there's been 8 in the last 5 minutes. I think it might be a troll or vandal. {{User:BubbleRevolution/sig}} 01:11, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
:Yes, this is the wrong place to put this, but these accounts are all being made by the same person, because they all are common names (all having something to do with the Eragon series, I have read the books), except maybe [[User:Sbe-Mail Checker Dan]], he's probably a coincidence. Also, you probably shouldn't use the word TROLL or VANDAL yet, since the user(s) haven't made any edits yet, and might not know about the sockpuppet rule. Can someone go talk to him/her? I'm not sure how to do this. {{User:Theycallmefree/sig}} 01:17, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

== Would like Autocolumn extension for my own wiki ==

Hello Homestar, i would like to implement the Autocolumn and AutoPipe/AutoRedirect extensions on my own wiki, are these available? --[[User:Kevin danko|Kevin danko]] 16:09, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
:Unfortunately, I've never released them. I'd like to someday, but they need to be cleaned up a bit first. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 16:38, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

== Threats ==

I'm sorry if this offends anybody but there was a shocking post on [http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Heimstern_L%C3%A4ufer#Question_about_my_banning.3F this thread]. Is the threat empty, like Hiemstern said? I just felt the need to bring that to your attention -I'd rather not post my username 22:08, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
:Well, [[User:Espemon333|Espemon333]] ([[User talk:Espemon333|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Espemon333|contribs]]), I'm quite aware of that whole situation, and have been for a while. The other sysops/forum mods and I stay in touch pretty well. Thanks for the heads up, but you don't need to worry. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:34, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
::OK. Don't let Heimstern know I posted this. {{User:Espemon333/sig}} 23:06, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
:::Actually, I already know. I see pretty much every edit on this wiki because I check [[Special:Recent changes|recent changes]] a lot. In fact, I think I saw this post before Dot com did. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 23:38, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

== The Fanstuff Wiki! ==

How long has it been now? If your not going to do anything with it, just delete it and it's all over with. It gets my hopes up every time I go there and while it's loading the title says "Main Page" {{User:The thing/sig}} 01:15, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
:What is wrong with fanstuff? Totally outta the loop, {{User:Espemon333/sig}}

== My Weight in Pencil Shavings ==

How much does a page on the wiki usually cost? {{User:Espemon333/sig}} 22:36, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
:Um, I don't know what that means... And you still smell like pea soooup! By the way, the reason you triple post is that my page is long and so it takes a bit of time to load and you get impatient and hit "Save page" three times. Only hit it once. It heard you the first time. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 22:53, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
::The reason we are having the fundraiser... the pages cost money... right..? {{User:Espemon333/sig}} 23:34, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
:::In a sense, yes, I guess. The [[Wikipedia:Web page|pages]] are stored in a [[Wikipedia:Database|database]], which is located on a [[Wikipedia:Hard disk drive|hard drive]], which is part of a [[Wikipedia:Web server|server]], and it takes money for us to be [[Wikipedia:Web hosting service|hosted]] on that server. See our [[HRWiki:Donations|donations]] and [[Special:Ledger|ledger]] pages if you want specific information. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:48, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

== A Probably <s>Bad</s> Good Idea ==

We all know about the decomisionning of STUFF, which I do support, but I reviewed your new version of the STUFF template and I loved it. I think we need to incorperate that template INTO the talk page. It looked great, and I liked how it condenses the entire discussion into the smallest portions. I really think we should get it into the talk page. {{User:Espemon333/sig}} 03:09, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
:The "new" version of the STUFF template is what we used for years, and what we decommissioned. We decided to stop using the STUFF format in favor of regular discussions. We don't have any plans to reincorporate it at this time. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:35, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

== MythBusters ==

I love MythBusters. :D --[[User:Ms. 1-Up Pie|Ms. 1-Up Pie]] 01:34, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
:Hey, thanks for reading my user page! Or for spouting weird non sequiturs, whichever one fits. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 01:52, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

== Brown and gray balloons ==

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3427/3275461929_ae4815786d.jpg

—[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 05:28, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
:Thanks! I knew what that was going to be before I even opened my talk page, based solely on the edit summary. You know what's amazing? My brother made that exact sign and hung it behind my desk at work on Friday. It's still there right now! — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 06:10, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
::Happy birthday, DC. My you never get ink poisoning. {{User:Elcool/sig}} 07:02, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
:::have a nice last 7 minutes of <s>decemberween</s> birthday, It's dot com. (or it might be more time than i think it is, depending on which time zone you're in) and may you have a wonderful year. {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 03:53, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

==Another Fanstuff Thing==
I don't mean to kill the already several dead horses about this topic, but I don't think the sysops are going to fix the Fanstuff Wiki. I know you have a life, n'stuff, but we want some stuff done. I don't care if you do half a page a day. Any progress is good progress. And if your schedule doesn't allow for any Fan-Wiki work, then get people that will accualy work. The regular people word be WAY more willing, and more faster, to fix these unfinished pages. In short, I hope you take some time to work on the Fan-Wiki, get better workers, and always, ALWAYS edit blank pages. [[User:Anonomous]]

== Possible spammer ==

Don't know if this is the right place to say this, please correct me if not. I have reason to believe that Drhuldaclark142 is a spammer, judging by the fact that this person has been here for a few days and that their only contribution is to their own userpage as a link to some sort of online store. [[User:McArbys|The McArby!]] 01:01, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
: You're right. We've been getting far too much spam lately; guess it's no surprise some would slip through the cracks. Spam... [[DELETED!!]] *bzzt!* --{{User:Jay/sig}} 01:25, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

== Please block this IP ==
Can you please block an IP for me? I know this IP. It's my evil friend. He found out I had a HRwiki and will stop at nothing to ruin it.--{{User:Record307/sig}} 03:27, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
:Hi, Record. Has this IP actually vandalized? We don't block IPs preemptively usually (in fact, I'm not aware that we do so ever). {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 03:35, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
::Yes. Just today he blanked a section of my userpage. Check the history. "ZaneHiturugi" is his internet name.--{{User:Record307/sig}} 03:37, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
:::I've given the IP a block warning; if he does it again, it'd be appropriate to block. For now, though, we'll probably just leave it as is. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 03:43, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
::::Alright, that's cool. Thanks!--{{User:Record307/sig}} 03:44, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

== Why do you still do this? ==
Why do you still do this? You're managing the same website you did three years ago, and still for no reason. You're thirty three years old! You don't think that maybe it's time to start a family? To take care of your wife or something? Take a page from me and stop going here. The "friends" you make won't miss you, they'll just drown their sorrows in computer code. Please, just stop this whole thing.
:It's a hobby and I like it. In the last five (not three) years I've learned a lot of things about teamwork, management, critical thinking, and software development. Things I can carry over into my professional life. Plus it's fun, interesting, and challenging, I still think Homestar Runner is funny, and there's nothing what says you can't have a hobby and still pursue other things like work and family. By the way, if you're going to break your streak of not "going here" just to insult me, at least have the stones to sign your real name. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:04, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

== Thanks for the purge! ==

Hi Dot Com. I was just passing by to tell you that I, for one, am most delighted about how the purge took over 500 days. Without the purge, I'd still be dwelling on the Fanstuff Wiki with not much else to do, but since its absence, I've pursued other hobbies and personal projects, which most probably wouldn't have happened if the Fanstuff Wiki was still around. For example, since it went down with the purge, I've started to learn more about programming and website creation, not to mention polishing up my English skills and discovering my humble abilities as an amateur musician. That's really all I have to say. And again, thank you. No this contains no sarcasm whatsoever. -[[User:20eric06|20eric06]] 02:07, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

== hey you admin that dumb fanstuff thing right ==
If so, could you put away that robots.txt thing for a bit so I might be able to archive.org it for my old stuff, if possible? Just wondering.

==help==
Hey, it's Don't say jorb 101 here. As you can see by the I.P. adress, I'm not logged in. It seems that no matter how many times I type in my password and username, I can't log in, and have somehow locked myself out of my account. Please help me! (oh, and my I.P. Is different because I'm using my iPod touch.) [[Special:Contributions/198.53.214.106|198.53.214.106]] 04:05, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

:Nevermind, it works now:) [[User:Don't say jorb 101|{{User:Don't say jorb 101/sig}}]] 00:47, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

== Duplicate user problem ==

Hey. Looking at the history of [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mr._Arrow%27d_Homsar&action=history this guy], it seems him and [[User:Homsar Jean]] are one and the same. Since this is not a sockpuppet problem, what do you think should be done? {{User:Elcool/sig}} 04:20, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
:Probably nothing. He seems to have made one account and used it only briefly before switching to a new one. Yes, it would be better to have asked for a name change instead, but what's done is done. Used to I might merge the accounts, but it's a bit of a hassle and I don't think I'll bother unless he specifically requests it. As long as he doesn't use both accounts, it's not a big deal. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 05:14, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
::Ok. I just noticed because I went over the TBD and saw he tagged his own page for deletion. I just removed the template and left it blank. {{User:Elcool/sig}} 05:35, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

== Forum crashed ==

<pre>
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]

Table './[DB]/phpbb3_sessions' is marked as crashed and should be repaired [145]
</pre>

I currently cannot use E-Mail, so I put it here. Thought you should look into it since you're an admin. {{User:That'sBupkis/sig}} 02:07, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
:Thanks for the heads up. I think I've got it fixed. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 04:56, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

== Could you help with my account? ==

Sorry to bug you! During the Fanstuff purge I asked to change my username from Chituze to Happy: now it says I've got the wrong password, and I don't receive the verification email. I'm absolutely positive I've been typing the password right, because I use the same one everywhere. Are you able to find my password for me, or maybe allocate happypants3@hotmail to the account? Thanks so much in advance!
 Also I'm so scared about how professional your talk page is, I hope I've put this in the right place. - [[Special:Contributions/222.154.8.224|222.154.8.224]]
:Well, that's a bit of bad luck, I'm afraid. The reason the password won't work is that someone else already has the name [[User:Happy|Happy]]. (The fanstuff and the knowledge base now share the same user list, and the Happy account was created here back in 2004.) You'll need to create a new account with a different name. You can choose Chituze or HappyPants or something else. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 15:25, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
::OH, RIGHT. Dang, somehow that never crossed my mind. Now I feel bad because I've sent about 4 verification emails to them.
::(Ack, what if during the purge I got an email about this, but it went to junk? Whoops, sorry, just thinking aloud here.) Thanks for your help! - [[Special:Contributions/222.154.16.62|222.154.16.62]]

== Regarding [[Talk:Scroll_Button_Songs#Mirror_Glitch|Mirror Glitch]] ==

Hey, man. I just went over the articles for cleanup and saw [[Scroll Button Songs]]. The article looked OK and I went over the last few talk page posts to see why it should be cleaned up. I saw no problem, and I was just about to remove the template, when I decided to dig in the history a little and came across [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scroll_Button_Songs&diff=prev&oldid=645922 this edit] from almost exactly a year ago. That discussion started two and a half years ago, and the article has been in "cleanup" ever since. Is that REALLY such a big of an issue? I mean, it looks like some technical thing to fix that should not bother the casual reader. I didn't even notice the email list on the mirrors after I read the talk page. I just listened to the songs. What I'm suggesting is to remove the template and you'll just fix whatever you need to fix whenever you got the time, since the article itself is fine. {{User:Elcool/sig}} 06:41, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
:I'm not sure why you're asking me. I already {{p|l={{fullurl:Scroll Button Songs|diff=559384&oldid=559344}} removed that cleanup template}} once, and I didn't make the edit you linked to. The same user who made that edit is the one who {{p|l={{fullurl:Scroll Button Songs|diff=624822&oldid=606972}} put the template back}}. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 17:33, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
::Ah! I see I hadn't dug deep enough in the history... I contacted you because you're involved in that talk page discussion. Oh well. I agree with you - There shouldn't be a template there. I'm removing it. Thanks for sorting this up :). {{User:Elcool/sig}} 18:48, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

== Little questions ==

Hey, DC. I was wondering:
# When did you first use H*R?
# What sites, apart from the Wiki, the Wiki's forum, and the Fanstuff Wiki, are you a member on?
# What do you do for a living?
{{User:RickTommy/sig}} 12:19, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
:See my user page. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 15:34, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

== Deletion of 64.251.57.195's user-talk ==

Just wondering, can't you just discuss before going and removing something so suddenly? {{User:ColdReactive/sig}} 18:36, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
:I had to remove it quickly before he saw it. Assuming the anonny was editing in good faith (and there's nothing to indicate he wasn't), then implying that he should be blocked was quite rude. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:44, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

== #hrwiki-fanstuff ==

why did you set +m on it

seriously that's uncalled for -[[User:20eric06|20eric06]] 17:18, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
:Uh, because it's closed now? I thought that would be obvious. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:47, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
::it wasn't really, and there's still more people in there than on #hrwiki -[[User:20eric06|20eric06]] 18:50, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
:::well, regularly. -[[User:20eric06|20eric06]] 18:51, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
::::It's not like you can't still talk to each other. I didn't close the Internet, or even IRC. If you want to have your own channel, then make it, post the location on your forum, ''and then go there''. Anything with the "hrwiki" name on it means one of our admins has to keep an eye on it. We don't want to do that anymore. Closing <code>#hrwiki-fanstuff</code> solves the problem. It's win-win in the long run. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:11, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

well, you caught my attention with the chat on Super Sam's talk on the fanstuff wiki, and i didn't get to put my idea in before you locked it out. i figure this is as relevant a topic as any. if the sysops and moderators are the problem, why don't you get some new ones over there? i don't think this is worth closing that wiki. I'm sure there's a lot of people that would be capable enough to run that wiki that update frequently enough to care. I'm not saying it's me, i haven't done anything on either for over a year besides now, but I'm sure there are people that care about the fanstuff wiki as much as you care about the knowledge base. and i don't believe either site deserves to die just for lack of usage after the purge. a lot of the users just said "screw it" after waiting so long for it to come back, it seems unfair to close it for good before there's time to get more people interested again.

please try to respect my idea, {{User:Homsarstrongbad150/sig}} 20:59, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

== <s>Weclome</s> Welcome Committee ==

I have a question, itsdotcom: If you are on the Welcome Committee, how do you track new users so you can introduce them with the [[User:First Time Here?|First Time Here]] template? -[[User:GChrome|El Trento]]
:The First Time Here? user is a bot that automatically puts links on new users' pages when they register. It's actually separate from the welcome committee. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:11, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

== Go Rangers!!! ==

That is all for now. {{User:Ed smildE/signature}} 00:46, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
:Too bad, Rangers. At least they got farther then my yanks. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 19:35, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
::I'm sad they didn't win it all, but I'm not really that disappointed. In fact, I'm very proud of how they did this season. Winning the pennant, especially when you never have before, is still a big deal. There are still two teams (Mariners and Expos/Nationals) that never have. The fact that the Rangers advanced to the World Series by completely taking apart the Yankees just made it all the sweeter. (Take that, Tom!) :) — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:14, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

== Fanstuff Subpages ==

Hey, is there any rule against transferring projects from the Fanstuff Wiki to a subpage of a Knowledge Base account? Now that I actually have a Blu-Ray player, I'd like to revise [[HRFWiki:Everything Else Greatest Hits|Everything Else Greatest Hits]] to seem more like a Blu-Ray Disc (with picture-in-picture extras, etc). {{User:Bad Bad Guy/sig}} 03:27, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
:Yes. On [[HRWiki:User space#What about user subpages?|HRWiki:User space]] under [[HRWiki:User space#What about user subpages?|What about user subpages?]], the second item under what is not allowed is "pieces of fanstuff". Feel free to transfer it to your own website, though. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:59, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

== New Logo ==
Did you make that? What a great idea! {{User:Homestar-Winner/sig}} 03:11, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
:Actually, the idea came from the annony of [[{{#ifexist:HRWiki:Main Page Talk Archive 40|HRWiki:Main Page Talk Archive 40#Wiki image|Talk:Main Page#Wiki image}}|this Main Page discussion]], who was concerned about the bandwidth being [[isp|sucked up]] by that giant, 1 MB GIF. That is some epic decompiler work you did there, Dot Com! I've always wondered how you got Homestar in the logo like that, and I enjoy the little Easter Egg. The addition of Flash detection is also very nice. Except I'm not that big of a fan of the lost Decemberween colors, but it adds consistency and balances the page, in my opinion. Also, you might want to remove the special no-click treatment for the 'flakes. It's making my cursor spazz-out. Anyway, great work! Now everything is tiny. {{User:Soiled Bargains/sig}} 04:16, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
::Well, to be fair, all he said was that we should make it into a SWF, which is an idea that I had years ago but had never taken the time to implement. So really he just nudged me into going ahead and doing it. Redrawing the logo GIF as a vector format, designing the snowflakes, coding their motion (notice that they never repeat), and adding hidden extras were all me. Anyways, thanks! — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 06:17, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Aforementioned annony here, nice work on the swf! I'm a flash animator myself and I would have made it if you had said something "well why don't you make it yourself if you're so concerned" :P --[[Special:Contributions/184.56.45.155|184.56.45.155]] 06:51, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
:Nah, it's cool. I enjoyed the practice, and given the various issues regarding SWFs and security, etc., it's the kind of project I'd prefer to do start to finish myself if at all possible. Glad you like it! — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 08:28, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
::It all turned out great, especially now that it has the Decemberween colors. Good job Dot Com for making it and 184.56.45.155 for getting Dot Com off his lazy bum. {{User:Homestar-Winner/sig}} 16:11, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
::(For the record, not really, Dot Com.) {{User:Homestar-Winner/sig}} 20:40, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
::: (Oh, I know.) :) — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 06:03, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
::::I'm really impressed! Good job! I love the dween logo and the new years one too. I guess you're going to turn them all into SWF files now eh? Like the idea of little easter eggs in the future like with the dween one haha. Can't wait to see other holidays (especially Halloween) in the future. Maybe for Halloween you could make it where clicking on Homestar would change his costume or something in the logo, that's a good idea. I know Halloween is a long ways off though haha.{{User:Bleed0range/sig}}

=== HRWiki celebrates New Year's with a logo ===

(This was made on 1/1/11 so don't say "I don't see it")
Hey, I just like to comment the new years logo. I like how after a few seconds Homestar blows a party blower and confetti falls. It really caught my eye. I thought I saw something on the logo other (of course other than Homestar blinking every 3 seconds) and I waited a few seconds and I saw Homestar blowin' a party blower and confetti falling from [[Hammerspace]]!. It's a great way to celebrate 2011! {{user:Pgj1997/sig}}
:That ''is'' a nice easter egg. {{User:Soiled Bargains/sig}} 04:13, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
::I don't think either of you have found the ''real'' Easter egg yet. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 05:04, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
:::Oh gosh, I just found the ACTUAL easter egg.--{{User:Record307/sig}} 05:13, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
::::Ahhh I see, your supposed to click on it, then Homestar will say "Happy New Year" then he'll blow a party blower while confetti falls from [[Hammerspace]] I see now. [[User:Pgj1997|Pgj1997]]
:::::Right now it looks like it toggles between homestar, marzipan, and strong bad wearing winter hats or earmuffs.  eventually, homestar turns into a [[Special:Random]] type link. but i can't figure out if there's a set number of clicks for that to happen. {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 01:53, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
::::::The logo has been changed back to the [[not]] New Year's version yesterday, you know. {{User:Soiled Bargains/sig}} 03:02, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
:::::::...yes, i am well aware of that. there was a small piece that i omitted from the previous post b/c i thought it was overkill, but it looks like i had to invisicomment it back in. i was asking about the random page thing - if that was an intentional Easter egg. {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 03:10, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
::::::::Yes, that is an intentional Easter egg. The trigger is not the number of clicks, but it ''is'' something specific. You can guess again or if you want I'll just tell you. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:15, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
:::::::::I don't think intentional was the right word; i figured it was intentional. anyway, before i guess again, am i correct in saying that it's homestar every time? it certainly seems to be {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 03:34, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
::::::::::Nope. In fact, you don't even have to click in the area where the characters are. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:37, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
:::::::::::DC, could you maybe give me a link to the New Year's logo? Pretty please? It seems I missed seeing that one. {{User:Homestar-Winner/sig}} 03:41, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
''See [[Special:Logos]].'' — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 04:54, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
:Hey, thanks. :) {{User:Homestar-Winner/sig}} 03:51, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
::You know, maybe you could make a couple of Special pages where admins can change and users can view the logos used here. SWF, GIF, and all that, and all that. {{User:Soiled Bargains/sig}} 03:58, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
:::I'm not going to add anything to the page right away, but I changed the name of the special page to a more generic name in case we want to do so later on. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:05, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
::::If anyone's still wondering, it's the snowflakes that send you to random pages. Right? {{User:StrongAwesome74/sig}} 01:34, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
:::::Ding! Not last place. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:03, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
::::::is it okay if the logo that showed up last friday is included in the [[Special:Logos]] page? {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 17:58, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
:::::::It will be, sooner or later. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:20, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Y'ello, Dot Com, I was wondering, in the vague interest of another wiki I contribute to, how and where you added the animated logo, both in its current swf form, and its previous form. (Though I can't help but wonder if I shouldn't already have figured that one out myself... *sigh* Oh well...) --[[User:Neumannz|Neumannz]] 02:24, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
:We're using the [[Wikipedia:SWFObject|SWFObject]] method of adding SWF files to pages, which seems to work well across many browsers while also being compatible with devices with no Flash support. It requires placing <code>swfobject.js</code> on your server in addition to your SWF logo. (Note: we're using [http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ version 1.5], but later versions have been released.) The following quick and dirty edit of <code>MonoBook.php</code> will do the trick (be sure to adjust the paths to point to the correct files). The next time we upgrade MediaWiki, I'll probably fancy it up a little, but for now it's fine. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:45, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
<pre>--- MonoBook.php[orig (MW 1.15)]
+++ MonoBook.php[new]
@@ -174,13 +174,22 @@ class MonoBookTemplate extends QuickTemp
<?php } ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="portlet" id="p-logo">
+ <script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/swfobject.js"></script>
+
+ <div id="flashcontent">
<a style="background-image: url(<?php $this->text('logopath') ?>);" <?php
?>href="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($this->data['nav_urls']['mainpage']['href'])?>"<?php
echo $skin->tooltipAndAccesskey('p-logo') ?>></a>
+ </div>
+
+ <script type="text/javascript">
+ var so = new SWFObject("/path/to/logo_name.swf", "logo_name", "150", "150", "8", "#ffffff");
+ so.write("flashcontent");
+ </script>
</div>
<script type="<?php $this->text('jsmimetype') ?>"> if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha(); </script>
<?php
$sidebar = $this->data['sidebar'];
if ( !isset( $sidebar['SEARCH'] ) ) $sidebar['SEARCH'] = true;</pre>

== Special:Scramble ==
OK. Also, since I already made this one section on your user talkpage, I might as well ask another question that came to mind. The MediaWiki extension that makes a new special page, which can allow someone to view a scrambled version of a specified page, is that available on request? Or is it already in the MediaWiki get extensions list? [[User:LikeLakers2|LikeLakers2]] 23:08, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
:No, it's not available anywhere. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:30, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

== Image ==

what do u mean upload this as a different file http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/File:coachz1936.png
: What he means to say, Marzifan, is to create another, seperate picture instead of overwriting an existing one. --[[User:Jellote|Jellote]] [[User talk:Jellote|wuz]] [[Special:Contributions/Jellote|here]] 11:03, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

== Fanstuff Wiki 2 ==

Is it OK to make a "Fanstuff Wiki 2" and post about it on my userpage? --{{User:Fangoriously/SIGGY HERE!}} 15:31, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
:As long as you don't rip off any of our designs or imply that you're in any way affiliated with us, I don't care what you do. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 15:57, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Hey can we have the OT boards on the wiki forum and the Fanstuff wiki opened again please and thank you very much sir!!!!!! [[User:The Noid|The Noid]] 06:02, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

== My username ==

Dear It's Dot Com

Hey man, It is me, long time no see.

Hey listen, I was hoping you could assist me, see, I wish to change my username. When i originally made my username, I guess I was naive then, but with the times as they are, I wish to change my HRWiki username, please help me.

Cheers
[[User:Nikolce Kocovski|Nikolce Kocovski]] 02:10, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
:Why do you want to change your username, and what do you want to change it to? If it's because you used your real name, I really wouldn't worry about it unless you have some specific, concrete reason, mainly because now that your name is already in the history of pages, it's not like it's just going to disappear. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 04:17, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

== Scramble extension ==

I know I've asked before about the extensions, but I was just wondering: would you be happy with releasing the Scramble extension you made to the public? [[User:LikeLakers2|LikeLakers2]] 03:36, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

== Tentative request ==

Hello, It's dot com! I'd like to apologize in advance for bringing this issue up again, but I have a request regarding the old Fanstuff Wiki files. I hope this doesn't already deter you, I intend to be respectful and cooperative. The old Fanstuff wiki holds a good deal of nostalgia for me, as well as for a few of my friends. The "purged" fanstuff wiki retains some of this nostalgia (thanks for continuing to host that, by the way!) but much of the community discussion and silliness is contained only on the old files. If you even still have the pre-"purge" fanstuff wiki files, then I would be delighted to take them off your hands.

'''Note that I don't intend to start up the H*R Fanstuff Wiki again!''' First because you've expressed that you wish our community distanced from yours, and second because the original Fanstuff Wiki community has since dispersed anyway. I understand that any attempt to resurrect the site would be ill-advised, so I will not do that. I merely intend to sift through old pages which were lost in the purge, for historical and entertainment purposes. I may host it as a private archive on my own website, but if this would bother you then I will not do so. The HRFWiki harbored a lot of my creative efforts in my early teenage years, and I would just like to reflect on that community's golden years. I hope you understand.

Apologies again for the bothering, especially as it seems you've already suffered a great deal of passive-aggressive remarks on the Fanstuff Wiki issues. I apologize for anything I did personally in that way. I don't intend to push the issue but it would mean a great deal to me if you would do this for me. Thank you!

{{User:Shadow Scythe of Strongbadia?!/sig}} 21:02, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
:I understand your reservations in responding to such a request. A simple "no" will suffice if that's how you feel. I won't bother you again. {{User:Shadow Scythe of Strongbadia?!/sig}} 09:19, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
::Apologies for the late reply. I've repeatedly stated that those files should be considered gone, sorry. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:16, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
:::Oh yes, I remember that policy now. Well, in my view, such a policy is not really necessary any longer, as the reasons and needs to keep these files from the community have since become more or less unnecessary, mainly as the community is practically gone, as is the tension and problems surrounding what originally spurred the purge to happen. I also understand your hesitancy in providing the archive to any old user, so perhaps it's worth noting that I also spent a bit of time acting as a sysop in this community, and in this position I did my best to mitigate conflict and tension, and to keep users abiding by the standards. I understand that you never had much high esteem for the fanstuff portion of this wiki, and probably rightfully so. But it all meant a lot to me, perhaps as much as Homestar Runner itself! It fostered a lot of goofy discussion and fledgling creative efforts, at least it did in its earlier years, much of which did not survive to the archive which is hosted now.
:::Sorry, I guess I'm rambling again! Really I just mean to ask that you'd please reconsider your policy, now that the nasty politics surrounding Fanstuff Wiki issues have dissipated! Speaking for myself, transferring ownership of these forgotten archives to a humble old, reminiscing sysop doesn't seem particularly problematic, and I hope that you can see things this way too. It would really mean a lot to me if you could do this favor for me!
:::Also I understand that further discussion in a public medium may not be especially desirable to you. If you would prefer to discuss this via e-mail you can contact me at pullskip@gmail.com. Also, if there is someone else who would be better for me to talk to at this point, let me know. {{User:Shadow Scythe of Strongbadia?!/sig}} 08:28, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
::::Oh, and if feel that you can only offer parts of the files, or can only offer them under my abiding certain conditions, please say so. I also hope I don't sound rude at this point! And I hope it doesn't sound like I'm arguing, or trying to make you upset. I would just be very, very happy if I could revisit a tiny part of my childhood. {{User:Shadow Scythe of Strongbadia?!/sig}} 08:40, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

== Мојот страница ==

Зошто бил мојот страница обратна? Зборуваме јас „Хитлер бил добро“. {{User:Dagoth/sig}} 03:11, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
:Seguramente no me necesitas explicar por qué estas cosas no eran apropiados. Nuestras pautas para el contenido no han ido a ninguna parte. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:50, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

== Slow loading and Forum registration, ==

Hello "Dot com"

I like to report a server problem or some kind, it's loading the pages slowly, I'm not joking, its true!

Also I can't seem to register at the forums, I'm stuck at the Terms page.

== This place is a ghost town ==

But I need something that only you can get. I posted a Homestar fanfiction on a subpage a few years ago, and you deleted it, which I'm completely fine with. However, I think I accidentally deleted the fanfic from my fanfiction.net account, so if it won't cause you much trouble, could you go through my deleted contributions and send it to me through e-mail? It would be very much appreciated,
-{{User:JCM/sig}} 02:10, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

== About my username ==

Dear It's dot com

It's me again, I know I come on rarely but its mostly because of well, work.

Anyway, I was hoping you could help change my user name, or at least direct me to the page where it can be changed?

I realize that my user name will be in the history pages of whatever articles I edited, but people outside this wiki will not be bothered to look past the user page.

Help would be appreciated.

[[User:Nikolce Kocovski|Nikolce Kocovski]] 00:50, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
:Why do you want to change your username? What would you change it to? We usually don't change usernames of users who have established themselves, which you have. If it's a privacy thing, changing your username wouldn't help anyway, because every time you've signed your name it's there in the text of the page. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:59, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

== One Two, One Two ==

I just have a quick question since you were experimenting on something and gave the One Two, One Two article some time on the front page. Would we need to tag it as a featured article now or just wait until it's officially nominated and granted FA by wiki consensus? — [[User:Ngamer01|Ngamer01]] 16:48, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
:A side note, it wasn't an experiment. It was one, two, one, two day (12/12/12). {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 16:50, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
::D'oh. Had a [[4 branches|2+2=22 moment]]. Anyways the question still stands. Does it still need to be marked as featured? I figured I should just ask first rather than going ahead and then getting rv'd for it. — [[User:Ngamer01|Ngamer01]] 16:54, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
:::I agree with stux's suggestion [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=HRWiki:Featured_articles&diff=733796&oldid=733749&rcid=696326 here]. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 17:02, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
::::I don't mind its being listed in the big list, but I don't consider it a real featured article. It was just a little joke (that I didn't even come up with myself). I didn't even bother to do a full writeup, because that wasn't the joke. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 17:21, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

== IMDb ==

All of H*R Wiki's links to IMDb are currently broken due to changes in IMDb's film URLs. --[[User:JohnnyLurg|JohnnyLurg]] 02:54, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

== Change forum email ==

I would like the email address associated with my forum account (also called Dagoth) to be changed to [address removed]. Can you do that? [[User:Dagoth|Dagoth]] 02:01, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
:Actually, ''you'' can: Log in to the forum, and then go to '''User Control Panel''' → '''Profile''' → '''Edit account settings''' → '''Email address''' (if you're logged in to the forum, {{p|l=http://forum.hrwiki.org/ucp.php?i=profile&mode=reg_details this link}} should take you straight there). Enter your new address in the both that field and the confirmation field. Then enter your password at the bottom and press submit. You're done! — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 15:15, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
::the problem is I dont remember my password and the email account associated with the account is closed. [[User:Dagoth|Dagoth]] 16:11, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
:::Oh, well why didn't you say so. All right, I've looked into it and am reasonably satisfied that you created both accounts, so, done. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 17:43, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

== Your comment on my talk page about my so-called "prank" ==

Why, pray tell, would you "rather not block" me? {{User:Dagoth/sig}} 10:40, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
:I'd rather not block ''any'' user. It is a last resort. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 14:44, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

== Space or no after em dashes ==
"You don't need 'em after ''em'' dashes". That's some funny stuff, man! I looked it up and I confused hyphens with the spacing rules for ellipses. I'm going to edit some of my edits now... {{User:Broncotroll/sig}} 02:17, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
So would [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=army&curid=813&diff=735216&oldid=733847&rcid=697772 this edit] be valid? {{User:Broncotroll/sig}} 02:42, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
: I'd say yes. By the way, I wish I could tell you that was an intentional pun, but it wasn't. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:47, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
:: Comedic gold, nonetheless. {{User:Broncotroll/sig}} 02:57, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
Would I space after &mdashes? Are they the equivalent of em dashes, or are they different somehow (like en dashes and hyphens)? {{User:Broncotroll/sig}} 03:17, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
:Are you asking if there's a difference between <code>&mdash;</code> and <code>—</code> in the code? No, with regard to the page output, there's not. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:55, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
::I'm not sure how to (or it's not in my privileges), but would you change the Strong Bad email running gags category into the proper capitalization (Strong Bad Email Running Gags?) And a hefty request- I'm currently trying to change <code>&mdash;</code> and <code>—</code> into —, for overall consistency now that we support it- could you add that to The Cheat Bot's functions? {{User:Broncotroll/sig}} 16:37, 19 March 2013 (UTC) AND WHY DID THE FONT CHANGE?
:::Wait, don't do that. See [[HRWiki talk:Standards#Raw characters vs HTML entities|HRWiki talk:Standards → Raw characters vs HTML entities]] (skip to "Now, I will make one exception to this... and that's dashes" for the relevant part). — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 17:04, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
::Broncotroll - The font changed because you accidentally broke the code tags. It has since been fixed. Be sure that for every <nowiki><tag> you have, to close it with a </tag> with a slash in front.</nowiki> {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 17:10, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
::: Thanks, are you speaking of the edit conflict that deleted some other thing I wrote (or... meant to write... I swear... dreamed of writing?). I love to see the wiki running at this speed, too! As for new user A: was that meant to mean me and if so B: I found hr in early 2004, I didn't join the wiki until 2 years ago (or become active until a few weeks ago) for reasons I will at some point describe on my user page... some time. Basically, I only considered joining after the hiatus to keep morale up. But here's the thing I think I meant to write: Aaaah- so should I replace — with mdash or just leave everything? Also, there are lots of instances of using em dashes on the wiki where en dashes should be used... should I fix those? If so, should I use (en dash I'm to lazy to copy and paste) or ndash? {{User:Broncotroll/sig}} 17:24, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
:::: You should just leave them. As far as the reader is concerned, there is no difference between <code>&mdash;</code> and an actual em dash in the code. For that reason alone it's typically not worth the edit to change them. All it's doing is adding another revision to the database with no real gain. On top of all that, as mentioned on the standards talk page, we have reasons for preferring entities over raw characters when it comes to dashes. It's not a big deal with the ones you already changed, but I wouldn't change any more. Where are em dashes being used where en dashes should be? — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:11, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
::::: Ex: for dates on the [[Strong Bad Email]] page, "Lappy Era: 26 — some other year", I replaced them with en's (not in raw though) in [http://www.hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Strong_Bad_Email&curid=732&diff=735237&oldid=734947&rcid=697793 this edit]. {{User:Broncotroll/sig}} 18:18, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
:::::: I changed them back, even though the en dashes are technically correct. With the spaces on either side of the dashes, I think the en dashes looked too wimpy compared to the em dashes. By the way, I think you might have your terminology backwards: A dash by itself in the code—like this—is what we mean when we say raw. An HTML entity (like <code>&mdash;</code>) is not raw. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:36, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
::::::: Do you mean too wimpy in general or just for important headings like in that page (you didn't change the DVD release info 1–200 into em). I wouldn't say I had my terminology backwards, as that would imply that I know what I'm talking about- I kinda just winged it when I saw you using the terms. {{User:Broncotroll/sig}} 18:42, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
:::::::: For multiple-word headings with lots of white space. I didn't change the one I didn't change because the en dash is appropriate there. It's in running text, it connects just two things, and there are no spaces. By the way, the appearance of your signature in this thread is a good example of why we discourage non-white backgrounds. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:57, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

==April Fools'==
There have been some dumb pranks in the past but this is the worst. I am personally offended by this April Fools' prank. I might just report this wiki to International Wiki Headquarters and have them ban this wiki from the web. It will take me days to recover from this "prank." I mean COME ON! I am organizing a full out wiki boycott TODAY! From today on NO MORE editing from ANYONE! If you don't put these links back to normal I will PERSONALLY make sure no one will ever see this website again! This is a DISGRACE! My god! How could you do something this disgusting!? Changing links... just wow. This is the worst thing to happen since... since... I don't even know. This is a big deal. {{User:The thing/sig}} 00:59, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
:Good one. ''Almost'' as funny as your old Thingy videos. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 01:04, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
::I wouldn't call it offensive—just annoying and inefficient. None of the site actually changed, the links are the same and everything, he's just using this weird magic to randomly redirect links. And they're relevant— edit goes to edit, talk goes to talk, pictures go to other pictures. The good news is I lost my pitiful reliance to hyperlinks—I typed in the URL for editing this talk page from scratch! Can you imagine the state of this wiki, though, if the site ''had'' updated? Now that... would be unpleasant. Look, the guy wrote the flipping binary for the site layout, he can mess with people if he wants to. {{User:Broncotroll/sig}} 01:13, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
:::I doubt he meant it sincerely (I'm 70% sure). I was actually hoping that the site would update, because the chaos would have been amazing. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 01:18, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
::::Hey, my old Thingy videos were comedic genius. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnU8m_VyLE8 You just don't see stuff like this anymore!] {{User:The thing/sig}} 01:19, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
:::::Alright, now I'm confused. ''Were'' you joking? {{User:Broncotroll/sig}} 01:29, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
::::::Joking? On April Fools' Day? Of course not! {{User:The thing/sig}} 01:40, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
:::::::That's embarrassing. Hey, sarcasm is hard on the internet. Roll my eyes. {{User:Broncotroll/sig}} 01:42, 2 April 2013 (UTC) AND I NOTICED IT WAS A JOKE EARLIER BUT YOU HAD A CONFLICTING EDIT! GAHH! THERE WAS ALWAYS AN ELEVATOR!

== New Account... ==

It's Dot Com, My name is Jeff Daniels, I am looking to create a new account, Broncotroll suggested I see you. I have been active in the wiki as 65.33.23*.*. I would like to bypass the whole email thing, as my parents are VERY strict about what emails I send to who, and they don't like me sending emails to strangers (accept maybe Strong Bad). I have/had a Wikipedia account (Jdaniels15), and my edits are usually limited to typos and misspellings (which thrive in WP). I do not like the visual word varification picture things. Sometimes you can hardly recognize the letters, and when you can they are often the letters that have identical capital and lower-case forms (I.E.: V, C, X, S, O, W, Z). It usually takes me 5-6 tries just to get one right. I also have a khwiki.net account, username Jdaniels15, though my handle is ToaJuaraevo01. This is strictly for simplicirty, as ALL of my accounts have the Jdaniels15 username, with 1 of 3 parsswords for each one. For obvious reasons none of them will be revearled, 'cause, hey, ya never know who's whartchin'. Thank you for your time, [[Special:Contributions/65.33.237.1|65.33.237.1]] 14:46, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

P.S. I am 22, and, being both in collage, and emotionally challenged (hence my rather lingual post on the "500 The Cheats" page), I live with my Grandparents. (It's a LONG story, so please do NOT ask... It would be like asking Homsar to speak proper English). Again, Thanks
:Okay, I've created [[User:Jdaniels15]], but you'll have to tell us your email address (or send an email to admin@hrwiki.org) in order to get the password. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 15:10, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
::[Redacted]. thanks Jdaniels15/ToaJuaraevo01/[[Special:Contributions/65.33.237.1|65.33.237.1]] 16:24, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
:::Okay, check your email. You should have received a temporary password. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 16:47, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
:You may have noticed that my WP account is retired. The reason for this is that I noticed that there have been very few talk page edits/others as of late. In fact, most of the articles that I have seen have not had a single talk page edit since 2009-2011. Plus, there are many other wikis I can go to. So I cleared my watchlist, put up a retirement banner, and left. [[Special:Contributions/65.33.237.1|65.33.237.1]] 18:11, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
::I, uh, had actually not noticed that. Were you able to change your password and log in? — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:26, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
This is TheUserFormarlyknownas65.33.237.1 (AKA Jdaniels15). Thanks for helping with my new account! Excuse me while I take my coat of and get comfy...{{User:Jdaniels15/sig1}} 12:09, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
:You're welcome. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 15:40, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

== Baleeted nonsense ==

Hello, dot-o com-o! Anyways, I was wandering, could you send me some sort of link or snapshot of the this is real joke page so I may scribe it onto the [[Hrwiki:April Fools' Jokes and other Baleeted Nonsense|April Fools' page]]? {{User:Broncotroll/sig}} 22:36, 12 April 2013 (UTC) (and I know my signature is bothersome, but once I get an NES emulator for my computer I can take accurate LoZ screenshots so it will look so cool, you won' even know its highly discouraged!)
:Nah. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 22:42, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
::... Can I still add it in? I think it was interesting, and there are several related things on the page. {{User:Broncotroll/sig}} 23:49, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
:::I don't think that's necessary. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 17:23, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

== Dear Tube Socks, ==

It's me again. I hope you had a good year. Free of athletes' feet and toe jam. :)

If you don't remember me, I'm the user [[User:Shadow Scythe of Strongbadia?!|Shadow Scythe]], although you can just call me Nigel. I'm glad to see the Homestar Runner Wiki is still up and being actively edited! I'll always have fond memories of both the website and its userbase. The website may be dead, but the community lives on! :)

The reason I'm writing is because I'm interested in hosting a mirror of the Fanstuff Wiki. I realize that at this point it's no longer linked to on the site, and it's been closed to new edits for nearly three years now. Further, I read on the Donations page that it costs around $50 per month to host this website, and I imagine that a significant portion of that comes from hosting the archived Fanstuff. Myself, I wouldn't mind hosting it, mostly because of its sentimental value to me. However, I also intend to keep an offline copy, with which I'll conduct some research on how a small fanbase changes over time as its userbase grows, shrinks, and ages.

I understand that you're busy with other administrative duties, and certainly other duties in life; as such, I'm prepared to offer you monetary compensation for your time and services, either directly donated to the Wiki, or given to you, whatever you feel is appropriate. I'm prepared to offer $25 immediately but I'm willing to negotiate, if you think it will take a lot of time on your part. If you would rather communicate by e-mail, at pullskip (at) gmail (dot) com! Thank you for your consideration!

[[User:Shadow Scythe of Strongbadia?!|Nigel]]

:Only three years? I would have thought it was more than that. The fanstuff archive is fine where it is. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:50, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
::I would have thought it was longer too! But [http://fanstuff.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=history these edits] seem to indicate it was closed back in June 2010.
::Anyways, if you're still OK with hosting the Fanstuff for the time being, then that's great! I suppose I was just worried that it might someday disappear if, for instance, it was taking up too much space or was costing a lot to host or something like that, so I figured I might as well offer to mirror it if you didn't want to host it yourself. If that's ever the case in the future, let me know. :)
::Though, even if you don't need it mirrored at this point, would it be possible for me to get a copy of the content, just in case? For that matter, what about the purged content? (If you even still have it.) I understand you had reservations about keeping that offline in the past, although now I'd imagine they'd be obsolete. But I digress.
::In any case, thanks for getting back to me, and keep on tranglin'! — [[User:Shadow Scythe of Strongbadia?!|Nigel]] 06:11, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

== Wassup ==

Have you seen the new episodes of Arrested Development on Netflix? I remember you being a big fan. {{User:JCM/sig}} 19:45, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

== Greetings ==

I miss chatting with you. It's been YEARS. Wish I would go back to 2010 when there was still hope. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 20:14, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

File:calendar.jpg

2010-04-01T16:44:18Z

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== Summary ==
The 2010 calendar, as seen on the [[FeedBurner page]]

== Licensing ==
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2010-04-01T16:44:08Z

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== Summary ==
[[Baby Lady & Her Baby]] (from an announcement on the [[Feedburner Page]])
== Licensing ==
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File:Sickly Sam's Big Outing.PNG

2010-04-01T16:42:31Z

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== Summary ==
The title card for [[Sickly Sam's Big Outing]]

== Licensing ==
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2010-04-01T16:38:51Z

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== Summary ==
The title card for [[Sickly Sam's Big Outing]]

== Licensing ==
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2010-04-01T16:36:39Z

The Paper: rm template

== Summary ==
[[Baby Lady & Her Baby]] (from an announcement on the [[Feedburner Page]])
== Licensing ==
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== Summary ==
The 2010 calendar, as seen on the [[FeedBurner page]]

== Licensing ==
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[[Strong Bad]] as [[Archibald]], [[Bubs]] as [[Dr. Christmas]], [[Marzipan]] as [[The Angel]], and [[Homestar Runner]] as [[The King of Town (Decemberween)|The King of Town]] (from [[A Decemberween Pageant]])
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User talk:Thunderbird L17

2010-04-01T07:25:51Z

The Paper: /* NYU Talk DVD */ here/hear

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== Pop ==

Curious as to what your issue is with [[User:Color Printer/Pop]]. According to [[HRWiki:User space#What about user subpages?|our policy]], it's OK to have a subpage for "a work in progress, until it is ready to be released". I saw no evidence of a user template there. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 01:44, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

:Actually, I included User:Color Printer/Project in there. Sorry, I didn't know I was doing something wrong. --[[User:Color Printer|Color]] [[User talk:Color Printer|Printer]] 01:45, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
::I see it now. Actually, that might not be a bad idea for a wiki template for use by any user... hmm... {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 01:46, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Sorry, it wasn't a big deal or anything. I have no problem with a similar communial template, I actually like the idea of it. But that template as a user subpage had no reason to be nested, when the contents could easily just be duplicated at the top. Hope I didn't offend anyone. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 05:06, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

==Help!==
My page is broken. I need help. Can you fix it?
[[User:Strong Badman]] or [[User:Strong Badman 2]]

== Hey dude, I am going away ==

Hey Thunderbird, I am offically leaving this Wiki. You were the sysop who helped me out the most, so I thought I would tell you I am going away. Thanks for what you do for the Wiki man. Not just you, but everyone else. I remember the one good thing I did on the Wiki, and that was helping Has Matt? stop a troll. Adios everyone! [[User:Beat|Beat]] 01:49, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

:No problem. Though it seems you've been pretty inactive since March, so it looks like there won't really be much of an immediate change in your presence here. In any case, glad that I could help. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 23:36, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

== Huh-whaa?? ==

Did you catch a raven, or is no longer important to you to do so? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:20, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

:Haha. Well originally my task was to "Get a Danish", then later to "Catch a Raven", but at this point in my life I've decided to change my priorities, and simply wait for come what may. Perhaps one day I'll throw one of those tasks back up there, already crossed off, or perhaps even a different but similar one, but for now that kind of goal is no longer in my immediate sights. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 03:26, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
::I can understand giving up on a raven, but a Danish? Come on, this is accomplishable! Don't quit on that! What message are you sending to the UM-13's? You can't do what's in your reach? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:30, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
:::I haven't given up. Though I do plan on someday getting a danish, a raven, or something similar, I'm not actively pursuing such a goal at this time. One day, definently. If I were presented a danish, a raven, or something else tomorrow, I'd seriously consider accepting it. But for the time being the pursuit of such has been pushed to the back of my priorities. It's not that its not accomplishable, I've just re-considered my future goals. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 03:36, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
::::'''Update:''' I did end up catching my Raven. :) {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 21:48, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

== Not done and not done ==

I didn't want to litter IRF's page with talkage, but your birthday wish is barely readably on a computer screen. The image is too small and the color is a bit faded. It's your birthday wish, but I'm just pointing out. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 22:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

:Hmmm... Seems to be fine on my computer. I thought images were more or less universal for size and quality from the source, but I could be totally wrong on that. Perhaps I'll ask IRF, since he's the only one who really needs a solid copy-and-paste of the image anyways. Thanks for the heads up!  {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 22:08, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

::Images that are small on a monitor (especially if they contain fine lines) almost never look good in printed form. That's been my experience as a printer. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 22:11, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

::Hi, no probalo. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 22:12, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

:::<nowiki>*</nowiki>Sigh*, I suppose I'll re-make it bigger then. In my experance, resizing a scanned printed message usually makes it choppy or pixely, so I was going for "actual size". Would you reccomend a larger printing size, thicker tip, etc?  {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 22:15, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

::::Well, if it's handwritten and scanned, probably the best thing to do would be to just scan it again... Find some resolution setting in the scanning software and knock that up a couple of notches... Your average screen is around 72 or 96 DPI, for printing you generally want something in the order of 300... give or take a factor of 2, depending on the quality you're after. My signature was only about 3cm long on paper, but it's a hires scan. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 03:16, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

:::::I also could not make it legible on my screen. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 14:30, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

==Welcome Templates==

Hi. I just became a member of the [[Welcoming Commitee]], and I heard that you were good on making welcome message templates. Could you email me back about this? [[User:Makatota|Makatota]] 16:15, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

:It seems that you were sorely mis-lead on that, since while I have welcomed a fair number of new users in the past, I've only ever used the standard <nowiki>{{subst:welcome|~~~|~~~~~}}</nowiki> template, which in my opinion is all you ever need to use anyways. Sorry to crush your hopes and dreams, {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 16:46, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

== Page Deletion ==

I have some user subpages that are just taking up space. Could you delete them for me please? They are: [[‎User:AtionSong/ISketch]], [[User:AtionSong/Voting Testing Grounds]], and [[User:AtionSong/Sighting Categories]]. Thanks. -[[User:AtionSong|AtionSong]] 22:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
:I went ahead and took care of it. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 22:29, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
::"And that's the end of that chapter". {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 00:54, 21 November 2006

==Cell Test==

test edit from my cell phone. don't mind me. -t bir

:Huh. Works. Not very efficent, but it'd work in a pinch. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 23:36, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

::Congrats, You've earned ten extra points on the geek-scale.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 23:46, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

:::Woo hoo! {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 15:22, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

== One Day I Hope To Be A Sysop ==
: Hi, bro. Um, yeah I hope to become a moderator on this wiki someday. I edited it almost everyday before I became a user for almost a year... and um... one day I want that wish to become true. Oh, and... tell "ramrod" from the forums that "Mr.Clucky1" is sorry. Please. --[[User:Theyellowdart|Theyellowdart]] 05:51, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

::[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 11|Ummm.... 'kay]]. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 01:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

:::Thanks. ramrod is a good mod. Tell him I said that too... nah I'm just kidding. Anyway, thanks dude! --[[User:Theyellowdart|Theyellowdart]] 04:05, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

== Help out ==
*Hey, I'm thinking about creating a new page, but I don't know what to call it and I don't know all of its info. The page will be about interuppted names Strong Bad usually starts sounding out before getting interrupted by someone. Such as in [[bottom 10]]: He says, "and the number one spot in my bottom 10 is... Th--" and then gets interrupted. Please help out. I am sending this to all sysops. --{{User:Theyellowdart/sig}}

== [[The Lucky Yates Show - 3 Nov 2007|Lucky Yates Show]] ==

Is there any reason why you made several links to the [[Lucky Yates]] Show but never created that page? It doesn't look very good having those three red links on non-talk pages. {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 01:35, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

:Those are there for concerned folks such as yourself to create a page for it. There should be a page, that's a constant reminder to create one... Eventually. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 06:31, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

== My way cool user's list ==
Hey Thunderbird, if you want you can put this on your user page:
{|
{{userbox | border=#000000 | mainbkgd=#FF9900 | codebkgd=#FFCC00 | codecolor=#663333 | code=[[Image:Subtitles Project Logo.png|42px]] | msg=This user is on [[User:Pacoman|Pacoman's]] way cool users list and is being rewarded with a sub.}}
|}
It's not quite right and you don't have to if you dont want to. {{User:Pacoman/sig}} 20:52, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
:Um, Thunderbird? I changed my users list box so people wouldn't get it confused with the subtitles project (because of the pic) so my new userbox is under way and will be available at my talk page soon (I hope). Thanks {{User:Pacoman/sig}} 03:31, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

::Here you go!!!

{|
{{userbox | border=#000000 | mainbkgd=#FF9900|codebkgd=#FFCC00|codecolor=#663333|code=[[Image:Iron cup of Brunswick Stew.jpg|43px]]|msg=This user is on [[User:Pacoman|Pacoman's]] way cool users list and is being rewarded with an iron cup of Brunswick Stew.}}
|}
Thanks to theyellowdart for fixing it for me {{User:Pacoman/sig}} 01:52, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
== NYU Talk DVD ==
Hi, T-bird. You're back! At least it appears that way... or perhaps you never left? Anyway, I'm posting a message to you here in the hopes you'll find it. Long ago I meant to ask if you ever received the DVD I sent you of the NYU Talk. It probably arrived safely, but I never knew for sure. I also would like to thank you (four years belated) for the Flashforward 2006 Seattle CD you sent me. Have a great one! {{User:The Paper/sig}} 07:24, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

User talk:Thunderbird L17

2010-04-01T07:24:25Z

The Paper: +comment re: NYU Talk DVD package almost 5 years ago

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{{User:Thunderbird L17/talkarchives}}


== Pop ==

Curious as to what your issue is with [[User:Color Printer/Pop]]. According to [[HRWiki:User space#What about user subpages?|our policy]], it's OK to have a subpage for "a work in progress, until it is ready to be released". I saw no evidence of a user template there. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 01:44, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

:Actually, I included User:Color Printer/Project in there. Sorry, I didn't know I was doing something wrong. --[[User:Color Printer|Color]] [[User talk:Color Printer|Printer]] 01:45, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
::I see it now. Actually, that might not be a bad idea for a wiki template for use by any user... hmm... {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 01:46, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Sorry, it wasn't a big deal or anything. I have no problem with a similar communial template, I actually like the idea of it. But that template as a user subpage had no reason to be nested, when the contents could easily just be duplicated at the top. Hope I didn't offend anyone. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 05:06, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

==Help!==
My page is broken. I need help. Can you fix it?
[[User:Strong Badman]] or [[User:Strong Badman 2]]

== Hey dude, I am going away ==

Hey Thunderbird, I am offically leaving this Wiki. You were the sysop who helped me out the most, so I thought I would tell you I am going away. Thanks for what you do for the Wiki man. Not just you, but everyone else. I remember the one good thing I did on the Wiki, and that was helping Has Matt? stop a troll. Adios everyone! [[User:Beat|Beat]] 01:49, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

:No problem. Though it seems you've been pretty inactive since March, so it looks like there won't really be much of an immediate change in your presence here. In any case, glad that I could help. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 23:36, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

== Huh-whaa?? ==

Did you catch a raven, or is no longer important to you to do so? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:20, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

:Haha. Well originally my task was to "Get a Danish", then later to "Catch a Raven", but at this point in my life I've decided to change my priorities, and simply wait for come what may. Perhaps one day I'll throw one of those tasks back up there, already crossed off, or perhaps even a different but similar one, but for now that kind of goal is no longer in my immediate sights. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 03:26, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
::I can understand giving up on a raven, but a Danish? Come on, this is accomplishable! Don't quit on that! What message are you sending to the UM-13's? You can't do what's in your reach? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:30, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
:::I haven't given up. Though I do plan on someday getting a danish, a raven, or something similar, I'm not actively pursuing such a goal at this time. One day, definently. If I were presented a danish, a raven, or something else tomorrow, I'd seriously consider accepting it. But for the time being the pursuit of such has been pushed to the back of my priorities. It's not that its not accomplishable, I've just re-considered my future goals. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 03:36, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
::::'''Update:''' I did end up catching my Raven. :) {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 21:48, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

== Not done and not done ==

I didn't want to litter IRF's page with talkage, but your birthday wish is barely readably on a computer screen. The image is too small and the color is a bit faded. It's your birthday wish, but I'm just pointing out. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 22:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

:Hmmm... Seems to be fine on my computer. I thought images were more or less universal for size and quality from the source, but I could be totally wrong on that. Perhaps I'll ask IRF, since he's the only one who really needs a solid copy-and-paste of the image anyways. Thanks for the heads up!  {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 22:08, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

::Images that are small on a monitor (especially if they contain fine lines) almost never look good in printed form. That's been my experience as a printer. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 22:11, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

::Hi, no probalo. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 22:12, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

:::<nowiki>*</nowiki>Sigh*, I suppose I'll re-make it bigger then. In my experance, resizing a scanned printed message usually makes it choppy or pixely, so I was going for "actual size". Would you reccomend a larger printing size, thicker tip, etc?  {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 22:15, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

::::Well, if it's handwritten and scanned, probably the best thing to do would be to just scan it again... Find some resolution setting in the scanning software and knock that up a couple of notches... Your average screen is around 72 or 96 DPI, for printing you generally want something in the order of 300... give or take a factor of 2, depending on the quality you're after. My signature was only about 3cm long on paper, but it's a hires scan. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 03:16, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

:::::I also could not make it legible on my screen. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 14:30, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

==Welcome Templates==

Hi. I just became a member of the [[Welcoming Commitee]], and I heard that you were good on making welcome message templates. Could you email me back about this? [[User:Makatota|Makatota]] 16:15, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

:It seems that you were sorely mis-lead on that, since while I have welcomed a fair number of new users in the past, I've only ever used the standard <nowiki>{{subst:welcome|~~~|~~~~~}}</nowiki> template, which in my opinion is all you ever need to use anyways. Sorry to crush your hopes and dreams, {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 16:46, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

== Page Deletion ==

I have some user subpages that are just taking up space. Could you delete them for me please? They are: [[‎User:AtionSong/ISketch]], [[User:AtionSong/Voting Testing Grounds]], and [[User:AtionSong/Sighting Categories]]. Thanks. -[[User:AtionSong|AtionSong]] 22:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
:I went ahead and took care of it. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 22:29, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
::"And that's the end of that chapter". {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 00:54, 21 November 2006

==Cell Test==

test edit from my cell phone. don't mind me. -t bir

:Huh. Works. Not very efficent, but it'd work in a pinch. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 23:36, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

::Congrats, You've earned ten extra points on the geek-scale.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 23:46, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

:::Woo hoo! {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 15:22, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

== One Day I Hope To Be A Sysop ==
: Hi, bro. Um, yeah I hope to become a moderator on this wiki someday. I edited it almost everyday before I became a user for almost a year... and um... one day I want that wish to become true. Oh, and... tell "ramrod" from the forums that "Mr.Clucky1" is sorry. Please. --[[User:Theyellowdart|Theyellowdart]] 05:51, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

::[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 11|Ummm.... 'kay]]. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 01:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

:::Thanks. ramrod is a good mod. Tell him I said that too... nah I'm just kidding. Anyway, thanks dude! --[[User:Theyellowdart|Theyellowdart]] 04:05, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

== Help out ==
*Hey, I'm thinking about creating a new page, but I don't know what to call it and I don't know all of its info. The page will be about interuppted names Strong Bad usually starts sounding out before getting interrupted by someone. Such as in [[bottom 10]]: He says, "and the number one spot in my bottom 10 is... Th--" and then gets interrupted. Please help out. I am sending this to all sysops. --{{User:Theyellowdart/sig}}

== [[The Lucky Yates Show - 3 Nov 2007|Lucky Yates Show]] ==

Is there any reason why you made several links to the [[Lucky Yates]] Show but never created that page? It doesn't look very good having those three red links on non-talk pages. {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 01:35, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

:Those are there for concerned folks such as yourself to create a page for it. There should be a page, that's a constant reminder to create one... Eventually. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 06:31, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

== My way cool user's list ==
Hey Thunderbird, if you want you can put this on your user page:
{|
{{userbox | border=#000000 | mainbkgd=#FF9900 | codebkgd=#FFCC00 | codecolor=#663333 | code=[[Image:Subtitles Project Logo.png|42px]] | msg=This user is on [[User:Pacoman|Pacoman's]] way cool users list and is being rewarded with a sub.}}
|}
It's not quite right and you don't have to if you dont want to. {{User:Pacoman/sig}} 20:52, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
:Um, Thunderbird? I changed my users list box so people wouldn't get it confused with the subtitles project (because of the pic) so my new userbox is under way and will be available at my talk page soon (I hope). Thanks {{User:Pacoman/sig}} 03:31, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

::Here you go!!!

{|
{{userbox | border=#000000 | mainbkgd=#FF9900|codebkgd=#FFCC00|codecolor=#663333|code=[[Image:Iron cup of Brunswick Stew.jpg|43px]]|msg=This user is on [[User:Pacoman|Pacoman's]] way cool users list and is being rewarded with an iron cup of Brunswick Stew.}}
|}
Thanks to theyellowdart for fixing it for me {{User:Pacoman/sig}} 01:52, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
== NYU Talk DVD ==
Hi, T-bird. You're back! At least it appears that way... or perhaps you never left? Anyway, I'm posting a message to you hear in the hopes you'll find it. Long ago I meant to ask if you ever received the DVD I sent you of the NYU Talk. It probably arrived safely, but I never knew for sure. I also would like to thank you (four years belated) for the Flashforward 2006 Seattle CD you sent me. Have a great one! {{User:The Paper/sig}} 07:24, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Seriously

2010-04-01T07:08:12Z

The Paper: I believe the 31 March 2010 update is considered an appearance. Not sure about letter "x" instead of "c"; omitting for now

[[Image:Seriously.PNG|right|180px|Seriously.]]__NOEDITSECTION__
'''Seriously''' is [[Homestar Runner]]'s [[catch phrase]].

==Homestar Runner's catch phrase==
*[[Fan Stuff]] — "Seriously, Pom-Pom, I'm a total pumpkin."
*[[Wallpaper]] [[download]] — "Seriously."
*[[Store]] [[Store Other 2-D Stuff#Bumper Stickers|Bumper Sticker]] — "Seriously."
*[[A Jumping Jack Contest]] — "Seriously, Pom Pom, I'm about to pee my pants."
*[[In Search of the Yello Dello Theatrical Trailer]] — "No seriously, what?"
*[[A Mother's Day Message]] — "You had to say it. Pom Pom, seriously. He had to say it."
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 2.0]] — "Seriously, that is ''not'' what I said, at all."
*[[Fluffy Puff Commercial]] — "Seriously, folks, they're the best."
*[[First Time Here?]] — "Okay, this time I'm totally gonna get it. Seriously you guys."
*[[TV Time Toons Menu]] — "Ummm... Seriously."
*Email [[english paper]] — The half-eaten breakfast burrito that was put on eBay was eventually pulled from the auction when the bid was maxed out. After the cancellation, Homestar left a message reading "Sewiouslwy guys, this thing is half eaten afterall."
*[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]] (Easter egg) — "Seriously! You can't be serious! That ball was on the line!"
*Email [[lunch special]] — "Oh man, that is so fake. Seriously. You can totally see the strings!"
*[[Summer Short Shorts]] — "Seriously, Pom Pom. You and me, we're like two breads in a biscuit. Two breads in a biscuit!"
*[[Strongest Man in the World]]
**"All right, seriously. At first it was cute, but this is just borderline unsportsmanlike!"
**"All right, seriously, Pom Pom. Gimme the golbol!"
*[[Date Nite]] — "Seriously, Strong Strong, we've gotta do something about this."
*[[The Baloneyman]] — "Seriously, Strong Sad, you'll make millions!"
*[[Strong Badia the Free]] — "No seriously, do you have any fruit to declare?"
*[[Most in the Graveyard]] — Homestar, dressed as [[Wikipedia:Yahoo Serious|Yahoo Serious]], says "Yahoo Seriously, Pom Pom, I'm about to pee my pants," echoing [[A Jumping Jack Contest]]. His rollover text at the end of the toon adds an "(ly)" to the end of his costume's name, resulting in "Yahoo Serious(ly)".

===Strong Bad===
*[[A Jumping Jack Contest#Strong Bad Lib Transcript|Strong Bad Lib]] from [[A Jumping Jack Contest]] — "No, seriously. I'm a pretty ''(adjective)'' person."
*[[Main Page 11]] — "Seriously, I Really Shoulda Won All Those Times!"
*Email [[i she be]] — "Okay, seriously. All I gotta say about this is... GET IN LINE SISTER!!!"
*[[First Time Here?]] — "No, seriously. I'm Strong Bad, and you don't know it yet, but I'm the reason you're here. Check me out! No, seriously, check me out."
*Email [[new hands]] — "I am still awesome. Seriously."
*Email [[kids book]] — "Strong Bad seriously defaces a children's book."
*Email [[the facts]] — "Homestar, a cartoon starring you would be horrible. It'd just be you saying 'Sewiously' all the time and acting like a moron...all the time."
*[[Homestar Presents: Presents]] — "Ugh, it goes on and on like this. Seriously. Like until New Year's."
*[[It's like it was meant to be]] — "I'm seriously not kidding."
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 11.2]] — "Seriously... put some stuff in the street!"
*Email [[long pants]] — "You made Homestar go nuts and you've seriously creeped me out."
*Email [[business trip]] — "I think we should seriously talk about your name, Roxy."
*Email [[email thunder]] — "[emailing Homestar] Sewiously Yours, Abdi"

==By other [[Characters]]==
*[[Halloween Fairstival]] (by [[Bubs]]) — "I mean, seriously, people, it's the '90s!"
*[[Happy Hallow-day]] (by [[Strong Sad]]) — "Seriously, we have to find Halloween Night."
*[[Jibblies 2]] (by Strong Sad) — "That means you should seriously stop hogging all the hot chicks."
*[[Quality Time]] (by [[Cardboard Homestar]]) — "Sewiously, Marzipan, how do you get so smart?"
*[[Strong Badia the Free]] (by [[Homsar]]) — "Why are you speaking gibberish Strong Bad? Seriously, you sound like a two-years-old boy."

==Other appearances==
*[[Hairstyle Runner]] — One of the gallery is called "seriously..."
*[[Awexome Cross]] — On the title page, accompanying the words "collect much buxx, "get turbos," etc. is "seriously".
*[[Hallrunner]] — "Seriously. Time to call it quits."
*[[Peasant's Quest]] — "Behold the TrogShield! No seriously, behold it."
*[[Stinkoman 20X6]] — "Stinkoman better think seriously about jumping o'er thems."
*[[Commandos in the Classroom]] — At the end, a new lesson is introduced: "Next week... Lesson 5: Listen you guys, you seriously need to start showering [every day]".
*[[Thy Dungeonman 3]]
**"Things continue in similar, gruesome fashion until thou art seriously pecked through."
**"Seriously though, game over."
**"Seriously. Darn if ye had not slept through the conversation part of charm school."
**"Seriously ye: strike high, strike low, or strike middlin?"
*Email [[bedtime story]] — The Cheat's certificate reads "This paper right here seriously signifies that getting the Cheat to freaking go to sleep has hereby achieved RIGAMAROLE STATUS"
*[[FAQ]] — "No seriously, what is the deal with Super Kingio Bros?"
*[[Store]] — "Homestar's 10th Birthday, My, How You've Seriously Grown!"
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]] ([[Weekly Fanstuff 2005#WF-2005-09-22|September 22, 2005]]) — A barbeque with "seriously" painted on it.
*[[Weekly Fanstuff]] ([[Weekly Fanstuff 2006#WF-2006-04-27|April 27, 2006]]) — "Seriously talented clown".
*[[Podstar Runner|Podcast]] description of [[kids' book]] — "Strong Bad seriously defaces a children's book."
*[[HSR Xeriouxly Forxe]] — Twice the letter "x" is used in lieu of "s".

[[Category:Word running gags]]
[[Category:Homestar Runner running gags]]

File:homestarmy.png

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The Paper: rm protection template

==Summary==
The [[Homestarmy]] ([[Strong Sad]], Colonel [[Homestar Runner]] and [[Homsar]]) invades [[Strong Badia]] (from [[army]])

==Licensing==
{{web-screenshot}}

Talk:Third-quarter Projection Analysis Spreadsheets

2010-04-01T02:45:16Z

The Paper: +comment for pending deletion of article

==Third-quarter earnings==
In Biz Cas Fri 2, Homestar was supposed to present the "Third-quarter earnings" to the shareholders. Ya think that should be included anywhere in here? {{User:Movie magic man/sig}} 21:10, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

==Candidate for removal==
Just soliciting responses for why this article should remain or why it should be removed. I think it's not notable enough for its own article. As it's also an orphaned page, this further supports my argument. Your thoughts? {{User:The Paper/sig}} 18:48, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
:Not much interest, apparently. Well, speak up now or forever hold your peace. Will delete on 7 April 2010 if there are no arguments or comments in favor of '''KEEP'''. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 02:45, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Wheres the cheat

2010-04-01T02:36:34Z

The Paper: cap. def. article to fix broken redirect

#REDIRECT [[Where's The Cheat?]]

that-a-ghost

2010-04-01T02:35:15Z

The Paper: capitalise letter "a" thus fixing broken redirect

#redirect [[That A Ghost]]

three wishes

2010-04-01T02:34:27Z

The Paper: capitalise "w"; fix broken redirect

#redirect [[3 Wishes]]

Nibbles

2010-04-01T02:15:39Z

The Paper: rm verb reiterated; March 1 (NYU Talk) came before July 11 (bottom 10 debut)

[[Image:nibbles.PNG|thumb|100px|"I make good ear plugs, too."]]
'''Nibbles''' is a mini-marshmallow and the mascot for [[Fluffy Puff Bite-Size Nibblers]]. He is very small compared to Marshie, and has a swirl on top of his head. He claims to be "one years old." Not only is Nibbles a sugary confection, he supposedly makes good earplugs, too. The existence of Nibbles raises the ire of [[Fluffy Puff Marshmallows|Fluffy Puff's]] established mascot, [[Marshie]], causing him to scream "get out of here, you little runt!" at the diminutive confection. Nibbles' walking sound is the [[Sound Effects|same sound]] that [[Homsar]] and [[Mr. Shmallow]] make.

Prior to Nibbles' debut on the website, [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] referred to him as "a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield" at the [[NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005|NYU Talk]]. Mike stated that Marshie hates Nibbles and explained that he is much cuter than his regular-sized counterpart. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] provided the voice for Marshie and exclaimed that Nibbles is "trying to take my job!". This utterance may explain the animosity he has towards Nibbles.
== Complete Filmography ==
*'''Debut:''' Email [[bottom 10]]

[[Category:Mascots]]
[[Category:Fluffy Puff]]

Nibbles

2010-04-01T02:10:47Z

The Paper: Added information obtained from the NYU Talk

[[Image:nibbles.PNG|thumb|100px|"I make good ear plugs, too."]]
'''Nibbles''' is a mini-marshmallow and the mascot for [[Fluffy Puff Bite-Size Nibblers]]. He is very small compared to Marshie, and has a swirl on top of his head. He claims to be "one years old." Not only is Nibbles a sugary confection, he supposedly makes good earplugs, too. The existence of Nibbles raises the ire of [[Fluffy Puff Marshmallows|Fluffy Puff's]] established mascot, [[Marshie]], causing him to scream "get out of here, you little runt!" at the diminutive confection. Nibbles' walking sound is the [[Sound Effects|same sound]] that [[Homsar]] and [[Mr. Shmallow]] make.

Prior to Nibbles' debut on the website, [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] referred to him as "a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield" at the [[NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005|NYU Talk]]. Mike reiterated that Marshie hates Nibbles and stated that he is much cuter than his regular-sized counterpart. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] provided the voice for Marshie and exclaimed that Nibbles is "trying to take my job!". This utterance may explain the animosity he has towards Nibbles.
== Complete Filmography ==
*'''Debut:''' Email [[bottom 10]]

[[Category:Mascots]]
[[Category:Fluffy Puff]]

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-04-01T01:46:51Z

The Paper: rm curly brace

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by HRWiki user [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus- so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy- he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants—

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his- They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers- He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh—

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh—

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"—

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your—

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is—

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag—

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south—

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' —southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants—

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know- Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on TV?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out okay but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had—

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' —could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it re-installs this one printer.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show—

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation}''

''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do that.

''{audience laughter}''
[[Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|thumb|right|Opening menu screen]]
==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera}''
[[Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|thumb|right|Motion capture leotard]]

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is—''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These... I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you— ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does- we can't get good data.

'''RYAN:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be- that would be great.

'''RYAN:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This- I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions}''

''{Cut}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the brothers}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make a file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.

''{Full Screen [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] plays. Applause follows}''

'''MIKE:''' That was a lot of fun to make. Wasn't it, Matt?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and expertly shot, edited, and all special effects by Ryan. He's supposed to be up here with us, but now he's gone . His computer is taking forever.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar is taking his seat.

'''MATT:''' So, then what should we show them? Do you guys want to see any of this stuff?

''{audience responds affirmatively. Screen shows options such as "outtakes", "deleted scenes", and "your hair is messed up"}''

'''MATT:''' We didn't really have any idea of what we were gonna do.

'''MIKE:''' We used to do- we've done this a couple of times, and really have over the previous four years we have a pretty good backlog of stuff that wasn't on the website and that people haven't seen- we were gonna put all that stuff on a DVD and so now we just got like two months worth of stuff that people haven't seen, so it's not quite as much, but we tried.

'''MATT:''' All right, so wearing a wig on this trailer and I had some kind of problem where I can't stop touching—

''{[[Your Hair is Messed Up]] is shown, applause after it ends}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys. Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

''{Ryan enters the room on the left}''

'''MATT:''' There's Ryan. Is the puppet thing done or we still holding? And it's totally cool if it's not done.

''{Ryan's conversation with Matt is inaudible}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have just a QuickTime, we can probably- do you have- oh, you don't have input for this kinda thing. It's the like- what do you call it- monitor input. I don't you could—

'''MIKE:''' Hold on here just a second, guys. Matt, I will help Ryan.

====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====

''{Matt provides the voice of Homestar Runner as a puppet, holding it in his left hand}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Hi, guys. ''{nods repeatedly in response to audience laughter and applause}'' That's my favorite "muppet move" that I like to do. ''{repeats behavior}'' I'm like Fozzie Bear. If I had arms, I'd do that thing that Kermit would do it's like "woahhh" and flings his arms all around. I mean, I don't got none. Ummm, and now I'll take questions. No questions?

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Are you telekinetic or do you just move stuff—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Umm, I'm a cartoon and... maybe you shouldn't worry about it.

''{audience laughter and Mike returns to his chair}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Naw, I'm just playin', I'm telekinetic. I'm a super being. Limozeen "mr. talky" in the front row. What's up?

'''YOUNG AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Um, how do you type with no arms?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I- that was just answered. I use my brain. I'm telekinetic. I'm just a cartoon and you shouldn't worry about it. Yes?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other chara—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alain? With an "I"?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status quo, you guys?

''{Pause}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' eight minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's... that we shot today on campus here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna go.

''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Ow! Ow! Not on there.

''{audience laughter as Matt puts the puppet away near the microphone stand}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out—

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out when burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got- it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him}''
[[Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|thumb|left|Incomplete Level 1.2]]

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a- Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there... stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies of—

'''MIKE:''' There's lotsa people like Jonathan that have never seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our site which is so tempting some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like, "But we have that whole Coach Z thing we can put up". But we wanna make sure it stays cool and exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

'''MIKE:''' Look, I got a lot of stupid stuff on here that I just keep showing like this Lego thing I made.

''{Mike opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks walking from right to left. Audience laughter and applause}''

'''MIKE:''' I made this several years ago. Didn't really do much with that.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Homestar}'' The Homestar Runner.

''{Mike opens a Flash file with an Etch A Sketch version of Homestar walking from left to right}''

'''MIKE:''' You've got "Etch A Sketch Homestar". Didn't do anything with that.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Homestar}'' Shake it up, Mike. Erase it!

''{Mike opens a Flash file with a needlepoint version of Strong Bad. A needlepoint Homestar walks in from the right and stops short of Strong Bad}''

'''MIKE:''' Needlepoint Homestar. Umm, what else? Oh, look! We've got- should we show them the Limozeen Coloring Book?

'''MATT:''' Absolutely.

''{After a short delay, Mike opens a Flash file called [[Limozeen Coloring Book]] much to the delight of the audience}

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Limozeen Coloring Book.

'''MATT:''' Limozeen is a fictional metal band that Strong Bad enjoys.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, so then you can click on "ripped denim blue" and color his jeans blue. "Rockin' red" for his guitar, maybe. "Hairspray blond" for his hair. And then you can go to the next one.

''{Mike continues to flip the pages of the book and reads the text descriptions out loud. He points out band members that have the faces of Ryan and Matt. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' Show them like the roller coaster—

[[Image:the decatur brain logo NYU.jpg|thumb|left|Decatur Brain Football Club]]

'''MIKE:''' Check it out. I made this kick-ass logo for my fantasy football team. They're call "The Decatur Brain".

'''MATT:''' Decatur's where we live.

'''MIKE:''' Man, look at that. The brain has laces on it.

'''MATT:''' If the National Football League had- has that helmet, that would be the best thing ever.

'''MATT:''' Show 'em the roller coaster—

''{Mike opens a Flash file of Homestar Runner jumping up in air while wearing a yellow helmet and knee pads}''

'''MIKE:''' I don't know where it's from. It's Homestar flying up in the air.

'''MATT:''' Is that from the monster truck one? Maybe he's wearing the same clothes.

'''MIKE:''' The date was way later than that.

'''MATT:''' Weird.

'''MIKE:''' What did you want to show them?

'''MATT:''' The roller coaster- it's great- Mike had this brief re-design of all the characters that never, ever got used except in the desktop wallpaper.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, the Everybody! Everybody! desktop wallpaper where they're sort of more cut out. Here's this. This is like four years old.

''{Mike opens a Flash file that shows many of the main characters riding a roller coaster. Both Matt and Mike provide sound effects}

'''MIKE:''' ''{as clip ends}'' That's it, guys. ''{audience applause}'' If you're waiting for more... it's not gonna happen. What else?

'''MATT:''' Troga- Should we show them Trogador?
[[Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|thumb|left|Trogador 20X6]]
'''MIKE:''' So here's the Stinkoman version of Trogdor... that will probably never get used. Trogador.

''{Mike opens a Flash file of Stinkoman preparing to fight [[Trogador]]. After that Trogador is seen running in place}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Voice of Stinkoman}'' Trogador! ''{normal voice}'' Very nice.

'''MIKE:''' Um...oh, so here's a poster that's not out yet, but—

'''MATT:''' Oh yeah?

'''MIKE:''' That the aforementioned Craig Zobel designed for us.

'''MATT:''' Craig Zobel.

''{Mike opens an image of the [[Everybody Everybody Poster]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check it out. It's like everybody ever.

''{Audience gasps}''

'''MIKE:''' This comes out in a few weeks I think.

'''MATT:''' No. Like Dad's got 'em already.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, they're already out. Just name a character and they're all in there. Every version- there's the worm from Sweet Cuppin' Cakes right there. Biscuitdoughhandsman is right here. Lil' Brudder's right here. Hey Steve's right in front. Homestar Junior. Oh, Gavin- there's Gavin right here. Gavin the cockroach is down in the bottom right- Doreauxgard—

'''MATT:''' Sterrance even made it in up there.

'''MIKE:''' Rather Dashing. This is right after Sterrance so Sterrance is the most recent thing that got put in.

'''MATT:''' Craig said he looked at a lot of old Marvel Universes—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Where's Tendafoot?

'''MATT:''' Tendafoot didn't make the cut.

'''MIKE:''' He's represented by Lil' Brudder.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' There's Tompkins. ''{slowly}'' There's Tompkins.

''{Audience laughter. Mike closes the image of the poster}''

'''MIKE:''' Look at this- this is something I was trying out for the album cover—

'''MATT:''' This is disgusting.

'''MIKE:''' —Artwork for the album cover. It was gonna be "Limozeen" spelled out in, like hot girl fingers with red fingernails and stuff. And I just tested it using my own gross stubby fingers. It looks really gross. We decided not to use this.

''{Mike opens a image showing the text "Limozeen" spelled using various poses of fingers. Audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' It's extremely offensive...I think the hot lady fingers would probably look OK, but looks disturbed with Mike's gross fingers. Never touch them again.
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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know—

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and—

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad—

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and—

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and—

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew— Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our—

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or—

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we—

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right—

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and—

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do—

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube—

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's—

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be... you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or—

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like—

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing—

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like—

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade—

'''MIKE:''' Um, another question?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, you had a question... Doo-rag

'''MIKE:''' Doo-rag.

''{Audience laughter and then both brothers apologize}''

'''DOO-RAG:''' You said that you weren't gonna do a TV show. Is there any desire to do a feature length on the website or maybe just on a DVD?

'''MIKE:''' If we were ever... in short, no. But if we ever were gonna do something, yeah, DVD. We like- like DVD would be the- other than the web, DVD would be the next medium that we would do that in. But I don't see- like the Peasant's Quest thing was three minutes long and that was—

''{Ryan Sterritt enters the area of the room where the brothers are talking}''

'''MATT:''' Ryan Sterritt, everyone! Ryan Sterritt.

''{audience applause}''

'''MIKE:''' So I don't think- most of the stuff we do is between two and five minutes long. And jumping from that to 90 minutes might be kind of a stretch.

'''MATT:''' If we made it like the "Kentucky Fried Movie" it might- but as far as trying to have like one big, you know, X-files type of feature would be a great example. But the difficulty of going from an hour- naw, actually that's a great movie. They swear in it. You get to hear Moulder swear in it and it's awesome.

'''MIKE:''' Like the transformers movie.

'''MATT:''' Just like the transformers movie except where they censored it.

'''MIKE:''' Anyone else? Hat and glasses on top of the hat—

'''FAN WEARING HAT:''' Where did the voices come from? Like were there influences or were they just fun things that came out of nowhere?

'''MATT:''' Homestar definitely was- when Mike first got a computer, I went in one day and changed his system sounds. And just recorded it. It was just a little system microphone of me. And it was supposed to sound sort of like a young maybe Japanese, but with several other cultures in there, too- girl, and so like when you click "mail" and when you get a new email I'd be like ''{imitates aforementioned voice}'' It's best mail for you!

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then there was some other- and so when we did Homestar originally that was kinda the basis. I was just gonna make that more male and then threw in a smattering of speech impediments. And then obviously they just start constantly evolving, too. If you listen to like those Bubs' bubble gum things it didn't hardly sound like Bubs. You can tell it's probably the same guy. It's like watching the first episode of The Simpsons when Homer's like ''{voice of Homer Simpson}'' My name is Homer... Bart.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then, I don't know. What else? Originally, Strong Bad was like evil Antonio Banderas—

'''MIKE:''' I wonder if we've got that somewhere. The Strong Sad was originally gonna- remember the Mike—

'''MATT:''' Oh, I've got that. Hang on, hang on.

'''MIKE:''' Strong Sad was originally gonna have like this Michael Stipe-sounding voice.

'''MATT:''' I do a really bad Michael Stipe impression.

'''MIKE:''' The first thing on the Yello Dello cartoon.

'''MATT:''' I don't sound anything like him.

'''MIKE:''' You did his first line both ways. And we decided the non-Michael Stipe one. He's the lead singer of R.E.M., everyone.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Yes. Popular rock group here in America.

''{audience laughter. Matt continues attempting to find the sound file}''

'''MATT:''' Or maybe I don't have it. Do you have it?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. Talk to them in a funny voice while I look.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Hmm? Oh, you woke me up! What are you doing here? Get out of my room!

'''MIKE:''' That's Strong Bad.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Funny jokes! ''{wimpering}'' I got lots of funny jokes to tell you guys.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Strong Bad, you never answered my email.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Yeah, you never answer my...fist—

''{audience laughter followed by applause}''

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' —to your mouth. I don't got the file. Umm..

''{Mike continues looking for the file and attempts to play sound but gets a loud buzz instead}''

'''MIKE:''' Sorry about that.

'''MATT:''' You should play both of them. You'll hear how different Strong Sad sounds now.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{slowly}'' I don't know, Homestar. That looks really dangerous.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Doesn't sound a thing like Michael Stipe at all. I don't know why I thought that- why I even referred to it as a Michael Stipe impression.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{early style}'' Well, I don't know, Homestar. That looks... really dangerous.

'''MIKE:''' That's the one that's actually in the cartoon which is pretty amazing 'cause that sounds just as much not like Strong Sad as the first one.

'''MATT:''' I was drinking some NyQuil.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, what else, guys? We're running low on time...

'''MATT:''' Yes? With the tuque on and glasses. Yes?

'''FAN WEARING TUQUE:''' Hey, what did you guys wanna- did you always wanna be cartoonists or did it just kinda happen?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, absolutely.

'''MIKE:''' The "happen" part.

'''FAN WEARING TUQUE:''' Did you ever try and work in video games or anything?

'''MATT:''' No. We don't know about that.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' We make maybe the mini—

'''MATT:''' I tried to. I applied right out of school I tried to apply to a couple of companies to try and write video games and I could hear them ripping up my résumé. And it was like before I even had my awesome like HTML website portfolio that I had up. And it was great. It was really impressive. But no, I went to school. Mike went to school for photography so we made dumb movies when we were kids and stuff.

'''MIKE:''' And dumb claymation movies sometimes, too.

'''MATT:''' Yes, it's true.

'''MIKE:''' And Matt even made this one-

'''MATT:''' Oh, I got some sweet deals for all y'all. ''{audience laughter}'' Hang on, where is it? Hang on... wait for it.

'''MIKE:''' All right. Any question for ME? No? Good. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When did you guys know you were kinda just gonna be doing this and not anything else?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. It was sort of a transition. I mean, we- Matt- I've been doing freelance for a couple years before period Homestar so I would kinda go a few weeks here and there without doing anything but Homestar. But when Matt quick his job in I think August... 2002. He worked for Earthlink Internet Time. But at that time we still did the occasional freelance job doing some videos and websites and stuff for various things. And so it really wasn't a moment where we knew and we still- who knows? I still do the occasional freelance job.

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "let's animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:cartoon_on_plane_Mike_NYU.jpg|Mike's cartoon on the plane trip to Canada
Image:cartoon_on_plane_Matt_NYU.jpg|Matt's cartoon for the animation challenge
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-04-01T01:27:37Z

The Paper: capitalise name

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by HRWiki user [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus- so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy- he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants—

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his- They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers- He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh—

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh—

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"—

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your—

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is—

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag—

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south—

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' —southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants—

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know- Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on TV?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out okay but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had—

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' —could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it re-installs this one printer.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show—

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation}''

''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do that.

''{audience laughter}''
[[Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|thumb|right|Opening menu screen]]
==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera}''
[[Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|thumb|right|Motion capture leotard]]

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is—''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These... I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you— ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does- we can't get good data.

'''RYAN:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be- that would be great.

'''RYAN:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This- I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions}''

''{Cut}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the brothers}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make a file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.

''{Full Screen [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] plays. Applause follows}''

'''MIKE:''' That was a lot of fun to make. Wasn't it, Matt?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and expertly shot, edited, and all special effects by Ryan. He's supposed to be up here with us, but now he's gone . His computer is taking forever.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar is taking his seat.

'''MATT:''' So, then what should we show them? Do you guys want to see any of this stuff?

''{audience responds affirmatively. Screen shows options such as "outtakes", "deleted scenes", and "your hair is messed up"}''

'''MATT:''' We didn't really have any idea of what we were gonna do.

'''MIKE:''' We used to do- we've done this a couple of times, and really have over the previous four years we have a pretty good backlog of stuff that wasn't on the website and that people haven't seen- we were gonna put all that stuff on a DVD and so now we just got like two months worth of stuff that people haven't seen, so it's not quite as much, but we tried.

'''MATT:''' All right, so wearing a wig on this trailer and I had some kind of problem where I can't stop touching—

''{[[Your Hair is Messed Up]] is shown, applause after it ends}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys. Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

''{Ryan enters the room on the left}''

'''MATT:''' There's Ryan. Is the puppet thing done or we still holding? And it's totally cool if it's not done.

''{Ryan's conversation with Matt is inaudible}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have just a QuickTime, we can probably- do you have- oh, you don't have input for this kinda thing. It's the like- what do you call it- monitor input. I don't you could—

'''MIKE:''' Hold on here just a second, guys. Matt, I will help Ryan.

====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====

''{Matt provides the voice of Homestar Runner as a puppet, holding it in his left hand}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Hi, guys. ''{nods repeatedly in response to audience laughter and applause}'' That's my favorite "muppet move" that I like to do. ''{repeats behavior}'' I'm like Fozzie Bear. If I had arms, I'd do that thing that Kermit would do it's like "woahhh" and flings his arms all around. I mean, I don't got none. Ummm, and now I'll take questions. No questions?

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Are you telekinetic or do you just move stuff—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Umm, I'm a cartoon and... maybe you shouldn't worry about it.

''{audience laughter and Mike returns to his chair}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Naw, I'm just playin', I'm telekinetic. I'm a super being. Limozeen "mr. talky" in the front row. What's up?

'''YOUNG AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Um, how do you type with no arms?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I- that was just answered. I use my brain. I'm telekinetic. I'm just a cartoon and you shouldn't worry about it. Yes?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other chara—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alain? With an "I"?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status quo, you guys?

''{Pause}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' eight minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's... that we shot today on campus here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna go.

''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Ow! Ow! Not on there.

''{audience laughter as Matt puts the puppet away near the microphone stand}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out—

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out when burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got- it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him}''
[[Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|thumb|left|Incomplete Level 1.2]]

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a- Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there... stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies of—

'''MIKE:''' There's lotsa people like Jonathan that have never seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our site which is so tempting some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like, "But we have that whole Coach Z thing we can put up". But we wanna make sure it stays cool and exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

'''MIKE:''' Look, I got a lot of stupid stuff on here that I just keep showing like this Lego thing I made.

''{Mike opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks walking from right to left. Audience laughter and applause}''

'''MIKE:''' I made this several years ago. Didn't really do much with that.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Homestar}'' The Homestar Runner.

''{Mike opens a Flash file with an Etch A Sketch version of Homestar walking from left to right}''

'''MIKE:''' You've got "Etch A Sketch Homestar". Didn't do anything with that.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Homestar}'' Shake it up, Mike. Erase it!

''{Mike opens a Flash file with a needlepoint version of Strong Bad. A needlepoint Homestar walks in from the right and stops short of Strong Bad}''

'''MIKE:''' Needlepoint Homestar. Umm, what else? Oh, look! We've got- should we show them the Limozeen Coloring Book?

'''MATT:''' Absolutely.

''{After a short delay, Mike opens a Flash file called [[Limozeen Coloring Book]] much to the delight of the audience}}

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Limozeen Coloring Book.

'''MATT:''' Limozeen is a fictional metal band that Strong Bad enjoys.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, so then you can click on "ripped denim blue" and color his jeans blue. "Rockin' red" for his guitar, maybe. "Hairspray blond" for his hair. And then you can go to the next one.

''{Mike continues to flip the pages of the book and reads the text descriptions out loud. He points out band members that have the faces of Ryan and Matt. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' Show them like the roller coaster—

[[Image:the decatur brain logo NYU.jpg|thumb|left|Decatur Brain Football Club]]

'''MIKE:''' Check it out. I made this kick-ass logo for my fantasy football team. They're call "The Decatur Brain".

'''MATT:''' Decatur's where we live.

'''MIKE:''' Man, look at that. The brain has laces on it.

'''MATT:''' If the National Football League had- has that helmet, that would be the best thing ever.

'''MATT:''' Show 'em the roller coaster—

''{Mike opens a Flash file of Homestar Runner jumping up in air while wearing a yellow helmet and knee pads}''

'''MIKE:''' I don't know where it's from. It's Homestar flying up in the air.

'''MATT:''' Is that from the monster truck one? Maybe he's wearing the same clothes.

'''MIKE:''' The date was way later than that.

'''MATT:''' Weird.

'''MIKE:''' What did you want to show them?

'''MATT:''' The roller coaster- it's great- Mike had this brief re-design of all the characters that never, ever got used except in the desktop wallpaper.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, the Everybody! Everybody! desktop wallpaper where they're sort of more cut out. Here's this. This is like four years old.

''{Mike opens a Flash file that shows many of the main characters riding a roller coaster. Both Matt and Mike provide sound effects}

'''MIKE:''' ''{as clip ends}'' That's it, guys. ''{audience applause}'' If you're waiting for more... it's not gonna happen. What else?

'''MATT:''' Troga- Should we show them Trogador?
[[Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|thumb|left|Trogador 20X6]]
'''MIKE:''' So here's the Stinkoman version of Trogdor... that will probably never get used. Trogador.

''{Mike opens a Flash file of Stinkoman preparing to fight [[Trogador]]. After that Trogador is seen running in place}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Voice of Stinkoman}'' Trogador! ''{normal voice}'' Very nice.

'''MIKE:''' Um...oh, so here's a poster that's not out yet, but—

'''MATT:''' Oh yeah?

'''MIKE:''' That the aforementioned Craig Zobel designed for us.

'''MATT:''' Craig Zobel.

''{Mike opens an image of the [[Everybody Everybody Poster]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check it out. It's like everybody ever.

''{Audience gasps}''

'''MIKE:''' This comes out in a few weeks I think.

'''MATT:''' No. Like Dad's got 'em already.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, they're already out. Just name a character and they're all in there. Every version- there's the worm from Sweet Cuppin' Cakes right there. Biscuitdoughhandsman is right here. Lil' Brudder's right here. Hey Steve's right in front. Homestar Junior. Oh, Gavin- there's Gavin right here. Gavin the cockroach is down in the bottom right- Doreauxgard—

'''MATT:''' Sterrance even made it in up there.

'''MIKE:''' Rather Dashing. This is right after Sterrance so Sterrance is the most recent thing that got put in.

'''MATT:''' Craig said he looked at a lot of old Marvel Universes—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Where's Tendafoot?

'''MATT:''' Tendafoot didn't make the cut.

'''MIKE:''' He's represented by Lil' Brudder.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' There's Tompkins. ''{slowly}'' There's Tompkins.

''{Audience laughter. Mike closes the image of the poster}''

'''MIKE:''' Look at this- this is something I was trying out for the album cover—

'''MATT:''' This is disgusting.

'''MIKE:''' —Artwork for the album cover. It was gonna be "Limozeen" spelled out in, like hot girl fingers with red fingernails and stuff. And I just tested it using my own gross stubby fingers. It looks really gross. We decided not to use this.

''{Mike opens a image showing the text "Limozeen" spelled using various poses of fingers. Audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' It's extremely offensive...I think the hot lady fingers would probably look OK, but looks disturbed with Mike's gross fingers. Never touch them again.
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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know—

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and—

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad—

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and—

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and—

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew— Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our—

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or—

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we—

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right—

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and—

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do—

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube—

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's—

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be... you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or—

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like—

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing—

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like—

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade—

'''MIKE:''' Um, another question?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, you had a question... Doo-rag

'''MIKE:''' Doo-rag.

''{Audience laughter and then both brothers apologize}''

'''DOO-RAG:''' You said that you weren't gonna do a TV show. Is there any desire to do a feature length on the website or maybe just on a DVD?

'''MIKE:''' If we were ever... in short, no. But if we ever were gonna do something, yeah, DVD. We like- like DVD would be the- other than the web, DVD would be the next medium that we would do that in. But I don't see- like the Peasant's Quest thing was three minutes long and that was—

''{Ryan Sterritt enters the area of the room where the brothers are talking}''

'''MATT:''' Ryan Sterritt, everyone! Ryan Sterritt.

''{audience applause}''

'''MIKE:''' So I don't think- most of the stuff we do is between two and five minutes long. And jumping from that to 90 minutes might be kind of a stretch.

'''MATT:''' If we made it like the "Kentucky Fried Movie" it might- but as far as trying to have like one big, you know, X-files type of feature would be a great example. But the difficulty of going from an hour- naw, actually that's a great movie. They swear in it. You get to hear Moulder swear in it and it's awesome.

'''MIKE:''' Like the transformers movie.

'''MATT:''' Just like the transformers movie except where they censored it.

'''MIKE:''' Anyone else? Hat and glasses on top of the hat—

'''FAN WEARING HAT:''' Where did the voices come from? Like were there influences or were they just fun things that came out of nowhere?

'''MATT:''' Homestar definitely was- when Mike first got a computer, I went in one day and changed his system sounds. And just recorded it. It was just a little system microphone of me. And it was supposed to sound sort of like a young maybe Japanese, but with several other cultures in there, too- girl, and so like when you click "mail" and when you get a new email I'd be like ''{imitates aforementioned voice}'' It's best mail for you!

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then there was some other- and so when we did Homestar originally that was kinda the basis. I was just gonna make that more male and then threw in a smattering of speech impediments. And then obviously they just start constantly evolving, too. If you listen to like those Bubs' bubble gum things it didn't hardly sound like Bubs. You can tell it's probably the same guy. It's like watching the first episode of The Simpsons when Homer's like ''{voice of Homer Simpson}'' My name is Homer... Bart.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then, I don't know. What else? Originally, Strong Bad was like evil Antonio Banderas—

'''MIKE:''' I wonder if we've got that somewhere. The Strong Sad was originally gonna- remember the Mike—

'''MATT:''' Oh, I've got that. Hang on, hang on.

'''MIKE:''' Strong Sad was originally gonna have like this Michael Stipe-sounding voice.

'''MATT:''' I do a really bad Michael Stipe impression.

'''MIKE:''' The first thing on the Yello Dello cartoon.

'''MATT:''' I don't sound anything like him.

'''MIKE:''' You did his first line both ways. And we decided the non-Michael Stipe one. He's the lead singer of R.E.M., everyone.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Yes. Popular rock group here in America.

''{audience laughter. Matt continues attempting to find the sound file}''

'''MATT:''' Or maybe I don't have it. Do you have it?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. Talk to them in a funny voice while I look.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Hmm? Oh, you woke me up! What are you doing here? Get out of my room!

'''MIKE:''' That's Strong Bad.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Funny jokes! ''{wimpering}'' I got lots of funny jokes to tell you guys.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Strong Bad, you never answered my email.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Yeah, you never answer my...fist—

''{audience laughter followed by applause}''

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' —to your mouth. I don't got the file. Umm..

''{Mike continues looking for the file and attempts to play sound but gets a loud buzz instead}''

'''MIKE:''' Sorry about that.

'''MATT:''' You should play both of them. You'll hear how different Strong Sad sounds now.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{slowly}'' I don't know, Homestar. That looks really dangerous.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Doesn't sound a thing like Michael Stipe at all. I don't know why I thought that- why I even referred to it as a Michael Stipe impression.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{early style}'' Well, I don't know, Homestar. That looks... really dangerous.

'''MIKE:''' That's the one that's actually in the cartoon which is pretty amazing 'cause that sounds just as much not like Strong Sad as the first one.

'''MATT:''' I was drinking some NyQuil.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, what else, guys? We're running low on time...

'''MATT:''' Yes? With the tuque on and glasses. Yes?

'''FAN WEARING TUQUE:''' Hey, what did you guys wanna- did you always wanna be cartoonists or did it just kinda happen?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, absolutely.

'''MIKE:''' The "happen" part.

'''FAN WEARING TUQUE:''' Did you ever try and work in video games or anything?

'''MATT:''' No. We don't know about that.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' We make maybe the mini—

'''MATT:''' I tried to. I applied right out of school I tried to apply to a couple of companies to try and write video games and I could hear them ripping up my résumé. And it was like before I even had my awesome like HTML website portfolio that I had up. And it was great. It was really impressive. But no, I went to school. Mike went to school for photography so we made dumb movies when we were kids and stuff.

'''MIKE:''' And dumb claymation movies sometimes, too.

'''MATT:''' Yes, it's true.

'''MIKE:''' And Matt even made this one-

'''MATT:''' Oh, I got some sweet deals for all y'all. ''{audience laughter}'' Hang on, where is it? Hang on... wait for it.

'''MIKE:''' All right. Any question for ME? No? Good. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When did you guys know you were kinda just gonna be doing this and not anything else?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. It was sort of a transition. I mean, we- Matt- I've been doing freelance for a couple years before period Homestar so I would kinda go a few weeks here and there without doing anything but Homestar. But when Matt quick his job in I think August... 2002. He worked for Earthlink Internet Time. But at that time we still did the occasional freelance job doing some videos and websites and stuff for various things. And so it really wasn't a moment where we knew and we still- who knows? I still do the occasional freelance job.

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "let's animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:cartoon_on_plane_Mike_NYU.jpg|Mike's cartoon on the plane trip to Canada
Image:cartoon_on_plane_Matt_NYU.jpg|Matt's cartoon for the animation challenge
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-04-01T01:20:38Z

The Paper: JPEG image replaces PNG; fix typo in transcript

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by HRWiki user [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus- so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy- he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants—

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his- They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers- He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh—

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh—

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"—

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your—

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is—

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag—

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south—

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' —southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants—

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know- Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on TV?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out okay but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had—

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' —could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it re-installs this one printer.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show—

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation}''

''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do that.

''{audience laughter}''
[[Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|thumb|right|Opening menu screen]]
==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera}''
[[Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|thumb|right|Motion capture leotard]]

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is—''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These... I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you— ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does- we can't get good data.

'''RYAN:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be- that would be great.

'''RYAN:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This- I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions}''

''{Cut}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the brothers}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make a file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.

''{Full Screen [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] plays. Applause follows}''

'''MIKE:''' That was a lot of fun to make. Wasn't it, Matt?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and expertly shot, edited, and all special effects by Ryan. He's supposed to be up here with us, but now he's gone . His computer is taking forever.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar is taking his seat.

'''MATT:''' So, then what should we show them? Do you guys want to see any of this stuff?

''{audience responds affirmatively. Screen shows options such as "outtakes", "deleted scenes", and "your hair is messed up"}''

'''MATT:''' We didn't really have any idea of what we were gonna do.

'''MIKE:''' We used to do- we've done this a couple of times, and really have over the previous four years we have a pretty good backlog of stuff that wasn't on the website and that people haven't seen- we were gonna put all that stuff on a DVD and so now we just got like two months worth of stuff that people haven't seen, so it's not quite as much, but we tried.

'''MATT:''' All right, so wearing a wig on this trailer and I had some kind of problem where I can't stop touching—

''{[[Your Hair is Messed Up]] is shown, applause after it ends}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys. Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

''{Ryan enters the room on the left}''

'''MATT:''' There's Ryan. Is the puppet thing done or we still holding? And it's totally cool if it's not done.

''{Ryan's conversation with Matt is inaudible}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have just a QuickTime, we can probably- do you have- oh, you don't have input for this kinda thing. It's the like- what do you call it- monitor input. I don't you could—

'''MIKE:''' Hold on here just a second, guys. Matt, I will help Ryan.

====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====

''{Matt provides the voice of Homestar Runner as a puppet, holding it in his left hand}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Hi, guys. ''{nods repeatedly in response to audience laughter and applause}'' That's my favorite "muppet move" that I like to do. ''{repeats behavior}'' I'm like Fozzie Bear. If I had arms, I'd do that thing that Kermit would do it's like "woahhh" and flings his arms all around. I mean, I don't got none. Ummm, and now I'll take questions. No questions?

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Are you telekinetic or do you just move stuff—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Umm, I'm a cartoon and... maybe you shouldn't worry about it.

''{audience laughter and Mike returns to his chair}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Naw, I'm just playin', I'm telekinetic. I'm a super being. Limozeen "mr. talky" in the front row. What's up?

'''YOUNG AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Um, how do you type with no arms?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I- that was just answered. I use my brain. I'm telekinetic. I'm just a cartoon and you shouldn't worry about it. Yes?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other chara—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alain? With an "I"?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status quo, you guys?

''{Pause}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' eight minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's... that we shot today on campus here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna go.

''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Ow! Ow! Not on there.

''{audience laughter as Matt puts the puppet away near the microphone stand}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out—

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out when burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got- it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him}''
[[Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|thumb|left|Incomplete Level 1.2]]

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a- Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there... stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies of—

'''MIKE:''' There's lotsa people like Jonathan that have never seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our site which is so tempting some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like, "But we have that whole Coach Z thing we can put up". But we wanna make sure it stays cool and exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

'''MIKE:''' Look, I got a lot of stupid stuff on here that I just keep showing like this Lego thing I made.

''{Mike opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks walking from right to left. Audience laughter and applause}''

'''MIKE:''' I made this several years ago. Didn't really do much with that.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Homestar}'' The Homestar Runner.

''{Mike opens a Flash file with an Etch A Sketch version of Homestar walking from left to right}''

'''MIKE:''' You've got "Etch A Sketch Homestar". Didn't do anything with that.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Homestar}'' Shake it up, Mike. Erase it!

''{Mike opens a Flash file with a needlepoint version of Strong Bad. A needlepoint Homestar walks in from the right and stops short of Strong Bad}''

'''MIKE:''' Needlepoint Homestar. Umm, what else? Oh, look! We've got- should we show them the Limozeen Coloring Book?

'''MATT:''' Absolutely.

''{After a short delay, Mike opens a Flash file called [[Limozeen Coloring Book]] much to the delight of the audience}}

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Limozeen Coloring Book.

'''MATT:''' Limozeen is a fictional metal band that Strong Bad enjoys.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, so then you can click on "ripped denim blue" and color his jeans blue. "Rockin' red" for his guitar, maybe. "Hairspray blond" for his hair. And then you can go to the next one.

''{Mike continues to flip the pages of the book and reads the text descriptions out loud. He points out band members that have the faces of Ryan and Matt. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' Show them like the roller coaster—

[[Image:the decatur brain logo NYU.jpg|thumb|left|Decatur Brain Football Club]]

'''MIKE:''' Check it out. I made this kick-ass logo for my fantasy football team. They're call "The Decatur Brain".

'''MATT:''' Decatur's where we live.

'''MIKE:''' Man, look at that. The brain has laces on it.

'''MATT:''' If the National Football League had- has that helmet, that would be the best thing ever.

'''MATT:''' Show 'em the roller coaster—

''{Mike opens a Flash file of Homestar Runner jumping up in air while wearing a yellow helmet and knee pads}''

'''MIKE:''' I don't know where it's from. It's Homestar flying up in the air.

'''MATT:''' Is that from the monster truck one? Maybe he's wearing the same clothes.

'''MIKE:''' The date was way later than that.

'''MATT:''' Weird.

'''MIKE:''' What did you want to show them?

'''MATT:''' The roller coaster- it's great- Mike had this brief re-design of all the characters that never, ever got used except in the desktop wallpaper.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, the Everybody! Everybody! desktop wallpaper where they're sort of more cut out. Here's this. This is like four years old.

''{Mike opens a Flash file that shows many of the main characters riding a roller coaster. Both Matt and Mike provide sound effects}

'''MIKE:''' ''{as clip ends}'' That's it, guys. ''{audience applause}'' If you're waiting for more... it's not gonna happen. What else?

'''MATT:''' Troga- Should we show them Trogador?
[[Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|thumb|left|Trogador 20X6]]
'''MIKE:''' So here's the Stinkoman version of Trogdor... that will probably never get used. Trogador.

''{Mike opens a Flash file of Stinkoman preparing to fight [[Trogador]]. After that Trogador is seen running in place}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Voice of Stinkoman}'' Trogador! ''{normal voice}'' Very nice.

'''MIKE:''' Um...oh, so here's a poster that's not out yet, but—

'''MATT:''' Oh yeah?

'''MIKE:''' That the aforementioned Craig Zobel designed for us.

'''MATT:''' Craig Zobel.

''{Mike opens an image of the [[Everybody Everybody Poster]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check it out. It's like everybody ever.

''{Audience gasps}''

'''MIKE:''' This comes out in a few weeks I think.

'''MATT:''' No. Like Dad's got 'em already.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, they're already out. Just name a character and they're all in there. Every version- there's the worm from Sweet Cuppin' Cakes right there. Biscuitdoughhandsman is right here. Lil' Brudder's right here. Hey Steve's right in front. Homestar Junior. Oh, Gavin- there's Gavin right here. Gavin the cockroach is down in the bottom right- Doreauxgard—

'''MATT:''' Sterrance even made it in up there.

'''MIKE:''' Rather Dashing. This is right after Sterrance so Sterrance is the most recent thing that got put in.

'''MATT:''' Craig said he looked at a lot of old Marvel Universes—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Where's Tendafoot?

'''MATT:''' Tendafoot didn't make the cut.

'''MIKE:''' He's represented by Lil' Brudder.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' There's Tompkins. ''{slowly}'' There's Tompkins.

''{Audience laughter. Mike closes the image of the poster}''

'''MIKE:''' Look at this- this is something I was trying out for the album cover—

'''MATT:''' This is disgusting.

'''MIKE:''' —Artwork for the album cover. It was gonna be "Limozeen" spelled out in, like hot girl fingers with red fingernails and stuff. And I just tested it using my own gross stubby fingers. It looks really gross. We decided not to use this.

''{Mike opens a image showing the text "Limozeen" spelled using various poses of fingers. Audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' It's extremely offensive...I think the hot lady fingers would probably look OK, but looks disturbed with Mike's gross fingers. Never touch them again.
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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know—

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and—

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad—

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and—

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and—

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew— Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our—

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or—

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we—

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right—

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and—

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do—

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube—

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's—

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be... you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or—

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like—

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing—

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like—

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade—

'''MIKE:''' Um, another question?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, you had a question... Doo-rag

'''MIKE:''' Doo-rag.

''{Audience laughter and then both brothers apologize}''

'''DOO-RAG:''' You said that you weren't gonna do a TV show. Is there any desire to do a feature length on the website or maybe just on a DVD?

'''MIKE:''' If we were ever... in short, no. But if we ever were gonna do something, yeah, DVD. We like- like DVD would be the- other than the web, DVD would be the next medium that we would do that in. But I don't see- like the Peasant's Quest thing was three minutes long and that was—

''{Ryan Sterritt enters the area of the room where the brothers are talking}''

'''MATT:''' Ryan Sterritt, everyone! Ryan Sterritt.

''{audience applause}''

'''MIKE:''' So I don't think- most of the stuff we do is between two and five minutes long. And jumping from that to 90 minutes might be kind of a stretch.

'''MATT:''' If we made it like the "Kentucky Fried Movie" it might- but as far as trying to have like one big, you know, X-files type of feature would be a great example. But the difficulty of going from an hour- naw, actually that's a great movie. They swear in it. You get to hear Moulder swear in it and it's awesome.

'''MIKE:''' Like the transformers movie.

'''MATT:''' Just like the transformers movie except where they censored it.

'''MIKE:''' Anyone else? Hat and glasses on top of the hat—

'''FAN WEARING HAT:''' Where did the voices come from? Like were there influences or were they just fun things that came out of nowhere?

'''MATT:''' Homestar definitely was- when mike first got a computer, I went in one day and changed his system sounds. And just recorded it. It was just a little system microphone of me. And it was supposed to sound sort of like a young maybe Japanese, but with several other cultures in there, too- girl, and so like when you click "mail" and when you get a new email I'd be like ''{imitates aforementioned voice}'' It's best mail for you!

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then there was some other- and so when we did Homestar originally that was kinda the basis. I was just gonna make that more male and then threw in a smattering of speech impediments. And then obviously they just start constantly evolving, too. If you listen to like those Bubs' bubble gum things it didn't hardly sound like Bubs. You can tell it's probably the same guy. It's like watching the first episode of The Simpsons when Homer's like ''{voice of Homer Simpson}'' My name is Homer... Bart.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then, I don't know. What else? Originally, Strong Bad was like evil Antonio Banderas—

'''MIKE:''' I wonder if we've got that somewhere. The Strong Sad was originally gonna- remember the Mike—

'''MATT:''' Oh, I've got that. Hang on, hang on.

'''MIKE:''' Strong Sad was originally gonna have like this Michael Stipe-sounding voice.

'''MATT:''' I do a really bad Michael Stipe impression.

'''MIKE:''' The first thing on the Yello Dello cartoon.

'''MATT:''' I don't sound anything like him.

'''MIKE:''' You did his first line both ways. And we decided the non-Michael Stipe one. He's the lead singer of R.E.M., everyone.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Yes. Popular rock group here in America.

''{audience laughter. Matt continues attempting to find the sound file}''

'''MATT:''' Or maybe I don't have it. Do you have it?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. Talk to them in a funny voice while I look.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Hmm? Oh, you woke me up! What are you doing here? Get out of my room!

'''MIKE:''' That's Strong Bad.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Funny jokes! ''{wimpering}'' I got lots of funny jokes to tell you guys.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Strong Bad, you never answered my email.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Yeah, you never answer my...fist—

''{audience laughter followed by applause}''

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' —to your mouth. I don't got the file. Umm..

''{Mike continues looking for the file and attempts to play sound but gets a loud buzz instead}''

'''MIKE:''' Sorry about that.

'''MATT:''' You should play both of them. You'll hear how different Strong Sad sounds now.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{slowly}'' I don't know, Homestar. That looks really dangerous.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Doesn't sound a thing like Michael Stipe at all. I don't know why I thought that- why I even referred to it as a Michael Stipe impression.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{early style}'' Well, I don't know, Homestar. That looks... really dangerous.

'''MIKE:''' That's the one that's actually in the cartoon which is pretty amazing 'cause that sounds just as much not like Strong Sad as the first one.

'''MATT:''' I was drinking some NyQuil.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, what else, guys? We're running low on time...

'''MATT:''' Yes? With the tuque on and glasses. Yes?

'''FAN WEARING TUQUE:''' Hey, what did you guys wanna- did you always wanna be cartoonists or did it just kinda happen?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, absolutely.

'''MIKE:''' The "happen" part.

'''FAN WEARING TUQUE:''' Did you ever try and work in video games or anything?

'''MATT:''' No. We don't know about that.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' We make maybe the mini—

'''MATT:''' I tried to. I applied right out of school I tried to apply to a couple of companies to try and write video games and I could hear them ripping up my résumé. And it was like before I even had my awesome like HTML website portfolio that I had up. And it was great. It was really impressive. But no, I went to school. Mike went to school for photography so we made dumb movies when we were kids and stuff.

'''MIKE:''' And dumb claymation movies sometimes, too.

'''MATT:''' Yes, it's true.

'''MIKE:''' And Matt even made this one-

'''MATT:''' Oh, I got some sweet deals for all y'all. ''{audience laughter}'' Hang on, where is it? Hang on... wait for it.

'''MIKE:''' All right. Any question for ME? No? Good. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When did you guys know you were kinda just gonna be doing this and not anything else?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. It was sort of a transition. I mean, we- Matt- I've been doing freelance for a couple years before period Homestar so I would kinda go a few weeks here and there without doing anything but Homestar. But when Matt quick his job in I think August... 2002. He worked for Earthlink Internet Time. But at that time we still did the occasional freelance job doing some videos and websites and stuff for various things. And so it really wasn't a moment where we knew and we still- who knows? I still do the occasional freelance job.

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "let's animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:cartoon_on_plane_Mike_NYU.jpg|Mike's cartoon on the plane trip to Canada
Image:cartoon_on_plane_Matt_NYU.jpg|Matt's cartoon for the animation challenge
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

File:the decatur brain logo NYU.jpg

2010-04-01T01:17:26Z

The Paper: == Summary == From NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005. Mike Chapman created this logo for his fantasy football team called "The Decatur Brain". == Licensing == {{logo}}

== Summary ==
From [[NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005]]. Mike Chapman created this logo for his fantasy football team called "The Decatur Brain".
== Licensing ==
{{logo}}

File:cartoon on plane Mike NYU.jpg

2010-04-01T01:10:28Z

The Paper: /* Summary */ clarify location of grass, remove contraction in post-it note writeup

== Summary ==
Mike's cartoon on the plane trip to Canada for the animation challenge. Consists of a refrigerator on the beach with some post-it notes "from Dad" on it. Mike spent all his time animating the grass in the lower left corner. Shown at [[NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005]].

The top post-it note reads "Kids, I am on vacation. -Dad". The lower post-it note reads "P.S. I don't know where mom is. -Dad"

== Licensing ==
{{dvd-screenshot}}

Talk:Third-quarter Projection Analysis Spreadsheets

2010-03-20T18:48:44Z

The Paper: +comment for TBD

File:cartoon on plane Mike NYU.jpg

2010-03-20T07:43:46Z

The Paper: /* Summary */ Dad also wrote the second post-it note

== Summary ==
Mike's cartoon on the plane trip to Canada for the animation challenge. Consists of a refrigerator on the beach with some post-it notes "from Dad" on it. Mike spent all his time animating the grass. Shown at [[NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005]].

The top post-it note reads "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad". The lower post-it note reads "P.S. I don't know where mom is. -Dad"

== Licensing ==
{{dvd-screenshot}}

File:cartoon on plane Mike NYU.jpg

2010-03-20T07:42:36Z

The Paper: change licensing for consistency, +caption for post-it notes on refrigerator

== Summary ==
Mike's cartoon on the plane trip to Canada for the animation challenge. Consists of a refrigerator on the beach with some post-it notes "from Dad" on it. Mike spent all his time animating the grass. Shown at [[NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005]].

The top post-it note reads "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad". The lower post-it note reads "P.S. I don't know where mom is"
== Licensing ==
{{dvd-screenshot}}

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-20T07:39:05Z

The Paper: +2 additional photos of the "let's animate a cartoon on the plane" challenge

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus- so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy- he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants—

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his- They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers- He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh—

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh—

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"—

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your—

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is—

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag—

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south—

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' —southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants—

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know- Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on TV?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out okay but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had—

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' —could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it re-installs this one printer.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show—

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation}''

''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do that.

''{audience laughter}''
[[Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|thumb|right|Opening menu screen]]
==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera}''
[[Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|thumb|right|Motion capture leotard]]

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is—''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These... I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you— ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does- we can't get good data.

'''RYAN:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be- that would be great.

'''RYAN:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This- I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions}''

''{Cut}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the brothers}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make it file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.

''{Full Screen [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] plays. Applause follows}''

'''MIKE:''' That was a lot of fun to make. Wasn't it, Matt?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and expertly shot, edited, and all special effects by Ryan. He's supposed to be up here with us, but now he's gone . His computer is taking forever.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar is taking his seat.

'''MATT:''' So, then what should we show them? Do you guys want to see any of this stuff?

''{audience responds affirmatively. Screen shows options such as "outtakes", "deleted scenes", and "your hair is messed up"}''

'''MATT:''' We didn't really have any idea of what we were gonna do.

'''MIKE:''' We used to do- we've done this a couple of times, and really have over the previous four years we have a pretty good backlog of stuff that wasn't on the website and that people haven't seen- we were gonna put all that stuff on a DVD and so now we just got like two months worth of stuff that people haven't seen, so it's not quite as much, but we tried.

'''MATT:''' All right, so wearing a wig on this trailer and I had some kind of problem where I can't stop touching—

''{[[Your Hair is Messed Up]] is shown, applause after it ends}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys. Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

''{Ryan enters the room on the left}''

'''MATT:''' There's Ryan. Is the puppet thing done or we still holding? And it's totally cool if it's not done.

''{Ryan's conversation with Matt is inaudible}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have just a QuickTime, we can probably- do you have- oh, you don't have input for this kinda thing. It's the like- what do you call it- monitor input. I don't you could—

'''MIKE:''' Hold on here just a second, guys. Matt, I will help Ryan.

====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====

''{Matt provides the voice of Homestar Runner as a puppet, holding it in his left hand}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Hi, guys. ''{nods repeatedly in response to audience laughter and applause}'' That's my favorite "muppet move" that I like to do. ''{repeats behavior}'' I'm like Fozzie Bear. If I had arms, I'd do that thing that Kermit would do it's like "woahhh" and flings his arms all around. I mean, I don't got none. Ummm, and now I'll take questions. No questions?

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Are you telekinetic or do you just move stuff—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Umm, I'm a cartoon and... maybe you shouldn't worry about it.

''{audience laughter and Mike returns to his chair}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Naw, I'm just playin', I'm telekinetic. I'm a super being. Limozeen "mr. talky" in the front row. What's up?

'''YOUNG AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Um, how do you type with no arms?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I- that was just answered. I use my brain. I'm telekinetic. I'm just a cartoon and you shouldn't worry about it. Yes?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other chara—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alain? With an "I"?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status quo, you guys?

''{Pause}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' eight minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's... that we shot today on campus here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna go.

''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Ow! Ow! Not on there.

''{audience laughter as Matt puts the puppet away near the microphone stand}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out—

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out when burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got- it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him}''
[[Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|thumb|left|Incomplete Level 1.2]]

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a- Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there... stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies of—

'''MIKE:''' There's lotsa people like Jonathan that have never seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our site which is so tempting some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like, "But we have that whole Coach Z thing we can put up". But we wanna make sure it stays cool and exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

'''MIKE:''' Look, I got a lot of stupid stuff on here that I just keep showing like this Lego thing I made.

''{Mike opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks walking from right to left. Audience laughter and applause}''

'''MIKE:''' I made this several years ago. Didn't really do much with that.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Homestar}'' The Homestar Runner.

''{Mike opens a Flash file with an Etch A Sketch version of Homestar walking from left to right}''

'''MIKE:''' You've got "Etch A Sketch Homestar". Didn't do anything with that.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Homestar}'' Shake it up, Mike. Erase it!

''{Mike opens a Flash file with a needlepoint version of Strong Bad. A needlepoint Homestar walks in from the right and stops short of Strong Bad}''

'''MIKE:''' Needlepoint Homestar. Umm, what else? Oh, look! We've got- should we show them the Limozeen Coloring Book?

'''MATT:''' Absolutely.

''{After a short delay, Mike opens a Flash file called [[Limozeen Coloring Book]] much to the delight of the audience}}

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Limozeen Coloring Book.

'''MATT:''' Limozeen is a fictional metal band that Strong Bad enjoys.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, so then you can click on "ripped denim blue" and color his jeans blue. "Rockin' red" for his guitar, maybe. "Hairspray blond" for his hair. And then you can go to the next one.

''{Mike continues to flip the pages of the book and reads the text descriptions out loud. He points out band members that have the faces of Ryan and Matt. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' Show them like the roller coaster—

[[Image:the decatur brain logo NYU.png|thumb|left|Decatur Brain Football Club]]

'''MIKE:''' Check it out. I made this kick-ass logo for my fantasy football team. They're call "The Decatur Brain".

'''MATT:''' Decatur's where we live.

'''MIKE:''' Man, look at that. The brain has laces on it.

'''MATT:''' If the National Football League had- has that helmet, that would be the best thing ever.

'''MATT:''' Show 'em the roller coaster—

''{Mike opens a Flash file of Homestar Runner jumping up in air while wearing a yellow helmet and knee pads}''

'''MIKE:''' I don't know where it's from. It's Homestar flying up in the air.

'''MATT:''' Is that from the monster truck one? Maybe he's wearing the same clothes.

'''MIKE:''' The date was way later than that.

'''MATT:''' Weird.

'''MIKE:''' What did you want to show them?

'''MATT:''' The roller coaster- it's great- Mike had this brief re-design of all the characters that never, ever got used except in the desktop wallpaper.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, the Everybody! Everybody! desktop wallpaper where they're sort of more cut out. Here's this. This is like four years old.

''{Mike opens a Flash file that shows many of the main characters riding a roller coaster. Both Matt and Mike provide sound effects}

'''MIKE:''' ''{as clip ends}'' That's it, guys. ''{audience applause}'' If you're waiting for more... it's not gonna happen. What else?

'''MATT:''' Troga- Should we show them Trogador?
[[Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|thumb|left|Trogador 20X6]]
'''MIKE:''' So here's the Stinkoman version of Trogdor... that will probably never get used. Trogador.

''{Mike opens a Flash file of Stinkoman preparing to fight [[Trogador]]. After that Trogador is seen running in place}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Voice of Stinkoman}'' Trogador! ''{normal voice}'' Very nice.

'''MIKE:''' Um...oh, so here's a poster that's not out yet, but—

'''MATT:''' Oh yeah?

'''MIKE:''' That the aforementioned Craig Zobel designed for us.

'''MATT:''' Craig Zobel.

''{Mike opens an image of the [[Everybody Everybody Poster]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check it out. It's like everybody ever.

''{Audience gasps}''

'''MIKE:''' This comes out in a few weeks I think.

'''MATT:''' No. Like Dad's got 'em already.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, they're already out. Just name a character and they're all in there. Every version- there's the worm from Sweet Cuppin' Cakes right there. Biscuitdoughhandsman is right here. Lil' Brudder's right here. Hey Steve's right in front. Homestar Junior. Oh, Gavin- there's Gavin right here. Gavin the cockroach is down in the bottom right- Doreauxgard—

'''MATT:''' Sterrance even made it in up there.

'''MIKE:''' Rather Dashing. This is right after Sterrance so Sterrance is the most recent thing that got put in.

'''MATT:''' Craig said he looked at a lot of old Marvel Universes—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Where's Tendafoot?

'''MATT:''' Tendafoot didn't make the cut.

'''MIKE:''' He's represented by Lil' Brudder.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' There's Tompkins. ''{slowly}'' There's Tompkins.

''{Audience laughter. Mike closes the image of the poster}''

'''MIKE:''' Look at this- this is something I was trying out for the album cover—

'''MATT:''' This is disgusting.

'''MIKE:''' —Artwork for the album cover. It was gonna be "Limozeen" spelled out in, like hot girl fingers with red fingernails and stuff. And I just tested it using my own gross stubby fingers. It looks really gross. We decided not to use this.

''{Mike opens a image showing the text "Limozeen" spelled using various poses of fingers. Audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' It's extremely offensive...I think the hot lady fingers would probably look OK, but looks disturbed with Mike's gross fingers. Never touch them again.
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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know—

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and—

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad—

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and—

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and—

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew— Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our—

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or—

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we—

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right—

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and—

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do—

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube—

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's—

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be... you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or—

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like—

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing—

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like—

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade—

'''MIKE:''' Um, another question?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, you had a question... Doo-rag

'''MIKE:''' Doo-rag.

''{Audience laughter and then both brothers apologize}''

'''DOO-RAG:''' You said that you weren't gonna do a TV show. Is there any desire to do a feature length on the website or maybe just on a DVD?

'''MIKE:''' If we were ever... in short, no. But if we ever were gonna do something, yeah, DVD. We like- like DVD would be the- other than the web, DVD would be the next medium that we would do that in. But I don't see- like the Peasant's Quest thing was three minutes long and that was—

''{Ryan Sterritt enters the area of the room where the brothers are talking}''

'''MATT:''' Ryan Sterritt, everyone! Ryan Sterritt.

''{audience applause}''

'''MIKE:''' So I don't think- most of the stuff we do is between two and five minutes long. And jumping from that to 90 minutes might be kind of a stretch.

'''MATT:''' If we made it like the "Kentucky Fried Movie" it might- but as far as trying to have like one big, you know, X-files type of feature would be a great example. But the difficulty of going from an hour- naw, actually that's a great movie. They swear in it. You get to hear Moulder swear in it and it's awesome.

'''MIKE:''' Like the transformers movie.

'''MATT:''' Just like the transformers movie except where they censored it.

'''MIKE:''' Anyone else? Hat and glasses on top of the hat—

'''FAN WEARING HAT:''' Where did the voices come from? Like were there influences or were they just fun things that came out of nowhere?

'''MATT:''' Homestar definitely was- when mike first got a computer, I went in one day and changed his system sounds. And just recorded it. It was just a little system microphone of me. And it was supposed to sound sort of like a young maybe Japanese, but with several other cultures in there, too- girl, and so like when you click "mail" and when you get a new email I'd be like ''{imitates aforementioned voice}'' It's best mail for you!

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then there was some other- and so when we did Homestar originally that was kinda the basis. I was just gonna make that more male and then threw in a smattering of speech impediments. And then obviously they just start constantly evolving, too. If you listen to like those Bubs' bubble gum things it didn't hardly sound like Bubs. You can tell it's probably the same guy. It's like watching the first episode of The Simpsons when Homer's like ''{voice of Homer Simpson}'' My name is Homer... Bart.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then, I don't know. What else? Originally, Strong Bad was like evil Antonio Banderas—

'''MIKE:''' I wonder if we've got that somewhere. The Strong Sad was originally gonna- remember the Mike—

'''MATT:''' Oh, I've got that. Hang on, hang on.

'''MIKE:''' Strong Sad was originally gonna have like this Michael Stipe-sounding voice.

'''MATT:''' I do a really bad Michael Stipe impression.

'''MIKE:''' The first thing on the Yello Dello cartoon.

'''MATT:''' I don't sound anything like him.

'''MIKE:''' You did his first line both ways. And we decided the non-Michael Stipe one. He's the lead singer of R.E.M., everyone.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Yes. Popular rock group here in America.

''{audience laughter. Matt continues attempting to find the sound file}''

'''MATT:''' Or maybe I don't have it. Do you have it?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. Talk to them in a funny voice while I look.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Hmm? Oh, you woke me up! What are you doing here? Get out of my room!

'''MIKE:''' That's Strong Bad.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Funny jokes! ''{wimpering}'' I got lots of funny jokes to tell you guys.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Strong Bad, you never answered my email.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Yeah, you never answer my...fist—

''{audience laughter followed by applause}''

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' —to your mouth. I don't got the file. Umm..

''{Mike continues looking for the file and attempts to play sound but gets a loud buzz instead}''

'''MIKE:''' Sorry about that.

'''MATT:''' You should play both of them. You'll hear how different Strong Sad sounds now.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{slowly}'' I don't know, Homestar. That looks really dangerous.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Doesn't sound a thing like Michael Stipe at all. I don't know why I thought that- why I even referred to it as a Michael Stipe impression.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{early style}'' Well, I don't know, Homestar. That looks... really dangerous.

'''MIKE:''' That's the one that's actually in the cartoon which is pretty amazing 'cause that sounds just as much not like Strong Sad as the first one.

'''MATT:''' I was drinking some NyQuil.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, what else, guys? We're running low on time...

'''MATT:''' Yes? With the tuque on and glasses. Yes?

'''FAN WEARING TUQUE:''' Hey, what did you guys wanna- did you always wanna be cartoonists or did it just kinda happen?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, absolutely.

'''MIKE:''' The "happen" part.

'''FAN WEARING TUQUE:''' Did you ever try and work in video games or anything?

'''MATT:''' No. We don't know about that.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' We make maybe the mini—

'''MATT:''' I tried to. I applied right out of school I tried to apply to a couple of companies to try and write video games and I could hear them ripping up my résumé. And it was like before I even had my awesome like HTML website portfolio that I had up. And it was great. It was really impressive. But no, I went to school. Mike went to school for photography so we made dumb movies when we were kids and stuff.

'''MIKE:''' And dumb claymation movies sometimes, too.

'''MATT:''' Yes, it's true.

'''MIKE:''' And Matt even made this one-

'''MATT:''' Oh, I got some sweet deals for all y'all. ''{audience laughter}'' Hang on, where is it? Hang on... wait for it.

'''MIKE:''' All right. Any question for ME? No? Good. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When did you guys know you were kinda just gonna be doing this and not anything else?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. It was sort of a transition. I mean, we- Matt- I've been doing freelance for a couple years before period Homestar so I would kinda go a few weeks here and there without doing anything but Homestar. But when Matt quick his job in I think August... 2002. He worked for Earthlink Internet Time. But at that time we still did the occasional freelance job doing some videos and websites and stuff for various things. And so it really wasn't a moment where we knew and we still- who knows? I still do the occasional freelance job.

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "let's animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:cartoon_on_plane_Mike_NYU.jpg|Mike's cartoon on the plane trip to Canada
Image:cartoon_on_plane_Matt_NYU.jpg|Matt's cartoon for the animation challenge
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

File:cartoon on plane Matt NYU.jpg

2010-03-20T07:36:20Z

The Paper: Matt's cartoon on the plane trip to Canada for the animation challenge. Consists of a flight safety card drawing. The airbag and passenger have a brief conversation. Shown at NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005.

== Summary ==
Matt's cartoon on the plane trip to Canada for the animation challenge. Consists of a flight safety card drawing. The airbag and passenger have a brief conversation. Shown at [[NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005]].
== Licensing ==
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File:cartoon on plane Mike NYU.jpg

2010-03-20T07:32:41Z

The Paper: Mike's cartoon on the plane trip to Canada for the animation challenge. Consists of a refrigerator on the beach with some post-it notes "from Dad" on it. Mike spent all his time animating the grass. Shown at NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005.

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-20T07:13:36Z

The Paper: several photos moved to the transcript for illustrative purposes

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus- so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy- he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants—

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his- They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers- He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh—

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh—

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"—

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your—

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is—

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag—

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south—

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' —southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants—

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know- Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on TV?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out okay but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had—

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' —could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it re-installs this one printer.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show—

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation}''

''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do that.

''{audience laughter}''
[[Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|thumb|right|Opening menu screen]]
==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera}''
[[Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|thumb|right|Motion capture leotard]]

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is—''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These... I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you— ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does- we can't get good data.

'''RYAN:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be- that would be great.

'''RYAN:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This- I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions}''

''{Cut}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the brothers}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make it file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.

''{Full Screen [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] plays. Applause follows}''

'''MIKE:''' That was a lot of fun to make. Wasn't it, Matt?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and expertly shot, edited, and all special effects by Ryan. He's supposed to be up here with us, but now he's gone . His computer is taking forever.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar is taking his seat.

'''MATT:''' So, then what should we show them? Do you guys want to see any of this stuff?

''{audience responds affirmatively. Screen shows options such as "outtakes", "deleted scenes", and "your hair is messed up"}''

'''MATT:''' We didn't really have any idea of what we were gonna do.

'''MIKE:''' We used to do- we've done this a couple of times, and really have over the previous four years we have a pretty good backlog of stuff that wasn't on the website and that people haven't seen- we were gonna put all that stuff on a DVD and so now we just got like two months worth of stuff that people haven't seen, so it's not quite as much, but we tried.

'''MATT:''' All right, so wearing a wig on this trailer and I had some kind of problem where I can't stop touching—

''{[[Your Hair is Messed Up]] is shown, applause after it ends}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys. Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

''{Ryan enters the room on the left}''

'''MATT:''' There's Ryan. Is the puppet thing done or we still holding? And it's totally cool if it's not done.

''{Ryan's conversation with Matt is inaudible}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have just a QuickTime, we can probably- do you have- oh, you don't have input for this kinda thing. It's the like- what do you call it- monitor input. I don't you could—

'''MIKE:''' Hold on here just a second, guys. Matt, I will help Ryan.

====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====

''{Matt provides the voice of Homestar Runner as a puppet, holding it in his left hand}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Hi, guys. ''{nods repeatedly in response to audience laughter and applause}'' That's my favorite "muppet move" that I like to do. ''{repeats behavior}'' I'm like Fozzie Bear. If I had arms, I'd do that thing that Kermit would do it's like "woahhh" and flings his arms all around. I mean, I don't got none. Ummm, and now I'll take questions. No questions?

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Are you telekinetic or do you just move stuff—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Umm, I'm a cartoon and... maybe you shouldn't worry about it.

''{audience laughter and Mike returns to his chair}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Naw, I'm just playin', I'm telekinetic. I'm a super being. Limozeen "mr. talky" in the front row. What's up?

'''YOUNG AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Um, how do you type with no arms?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I- that was just answered. I use my brain. I'm telekinetic. I'm just a cartoon and you shouldn't worry about it. Yes?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other chara—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alain? With an "I"?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status quo, you guys?

''{Pause}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' eight minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's... that we shot today on campus here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna go.

''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Ow! Ow! Not on there.

''{audience laughter as Matt puts the puppet away near the microphone stand}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out—

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out when burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got- it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him}''
[[Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|thumb|left|Incomplete Level 1.2]]

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a- Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there... stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies of—

'''MIKE:''' There's lotsa people like Jonathan that have never seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our site which is so tempting some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like, "But we have that whole Coach Z thing we can put up". But we wanna make sure it stays cool and exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

'''MIKE:''' Look, I got a lot of stupid stuff on here that I just keep showing like this Lego thing I made.

''{Mike opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks walking from right to left. Audience laughter and applause}''

'''MIKE:''' I made this several years ago. Didn't really do much with that.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Homestar}'' The Homestar Runner.

''{Mike opens a Flash file with an Etch A Sketch version of Homestar walking from left to right}''

'''MIKE:''' You've got "Etch A Sketch Homestar". Didn't do anything with that.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Homestar}'' Shake it up, Mike. Erase it!

''{Mike opens a Flash file with a needlepoint version of Strong Bad. A needlepoint Homestar walks in from the right and stops short of Strong Bad}''

'''MIKE:''' Needlepoint Homestar. Umm, what else? Oh, look! We've got- should we show them the Limozeen Coloring Book?

'''MATT:''' Absolutely.

''{After a short delay, Mike opens a Flash file called [[Limozeen Coloring Book]] much to the delight of the audience}}

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Limozeen Coloring Book.

'''MATT:''' Limozeen is a fictional metal band that Strong Bad enjoys.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, so then you can click on "ripped denim blue" and color his jeans blue. "Rockin' red" for his guitar, maybe. "Hairspray blond" for his hair. And then you can go to the next one.

''{Mike continues to flip the pages of the book and reads the text descriptions out loud. He points out band members that have the faces of Ryan and Matt. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' Show them like the roller coaster—

[[Image:the decatur brain logo NYU.png|thumb|left|Decatur Brain Football Club]]

'''MIKE:''' Check it out. I made this kick-ass logo for my fantasy football team. They're call "The Decatur Brain".

'''MATT:''' Decatur's where we live.

'''MIKE:''' Man, look at that. The brain has laces on it.

'''MATT:''' If the National Football League had- has that helmet, that would be the best thing ever.

'''MATT:''' Show 'em the roller coaster—

''{Mike opens a Flash file of Homestar Runner jumping up in air while wearing a yellow helmet and knee pads}''

'''MIKE:''' I don't know where it's from. It's Homestar flying up in the air.

'''MATT:''' Is that from the monster truck one? Maybe he's wearing the same clothes.

'''MIKE:''' The date was way later than that.

'''MATT:''' Weird.

'''MIKE:''' What did you want to show them?

'''MATT:''' The roller coaster- it's great- Mike had this brief re-design of all the characters that never, ever got used except in the desktop wallpaper.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, the Everybody! Everybody! desktop wallpaper where they're sort of more cut out. Here's this. This is like four years old.

''{Mike opens a Flash file that shows many of the main characters riding a roller coaster. Both Matt and Mike provide sound effects}

'''MIKE:''' ''{as clip ends}'' That's it, guys. ''{audience applause}'' If you're waiting for more... it's not gonna happen. What else?

'''MATT:''' Troga- Should we show them Trogador?
[[Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|thumb|left|Trogador 20X6]]
'''MIKE:''' So here's the Stinkoman version of Trogdor... that will probably never get used. Trogador.

''{Mike opens a Flash file of Stinkoman preparing to fight [[Trogador]]. After that Trogador is seen running in place}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Voice of Stinkoman}'' Trogador! ''{normal voice}'' Very nice.

'''MIKE:''' Um...oh, so here's a poster that's not out yet, but—

'''MATT:''' Oh yeah?

'''MIKE:''' That the aforementioned Craig Zobel designed for us.

'''MATT:''' Craig Zobel.

''{Mike opens an image of the [[Everybody Everybody Poster]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check it out. It's like everybody ever.

''{Audience gasps}''

'''MIKE:''' This comes out in a few weeks I think.

'''MATT:''' No. Like Dad's got 'em already.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, they're already out. Just name a character and they're all in there. Every version- there's the worm from Sweet Cuppin' Cakes right there. Biscuitdoughhandsman is right here. Lil' Brudder's right here. Hey Steve's right in front. Homestar Junior. Oh, Gavin- there's Gavin right here. Gavin the cockroach is down in the bottom right- Doreauxgard—

'''MATT:''' Sterrance even made it in up there.

'''MIKE:''' Rather Dashing. This is right after Sterrance so Sterrance is the most recent thing that got put in.

'''MATT:''' Craig said he looked at a lot of old Marvel Universes—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Where's Tendafoot?

'''MATT:''' Tendafoot didn't make the cut.

'''MIKE:''' He's represented by Lil' Brudder.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' There's Tompkins. ''{slowly}'' There's Tompkins.

''{Audience laughter. Mike closes the image of the poster}''

'''MIKE:''' Look at this- this is something I was trying out for the album cover—

'''MATT:''' This is disgusting.

'''MIKE:''' —Artwork for the album cover. It was gonna be "Limozeen" spelled out in, like hot girl fingers with red fingernails and stuff. And I just tested it using my own gross stubby fingers. It looks really gross. We decided not to use this.

''{Mike opens a image showing the text "Limozeen" spelled using various poses of fingers. Audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' It's extremely offensive...I think the hot lady fingers would probably look OK, but looks disturbed with Mike's gross fingers. Never touch them again.
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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know—

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and—

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad—

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and—

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and—

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew— Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our—

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or—

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we—

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right—

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and—

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do—

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube—

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's—

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be... you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or—

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like—

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing—

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like—

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade—

'''MIKE:''' Um, another question?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, you had a question... Doo-rag

'''MIKE:''' Doo-rag.

''{Audience laughter and then both brothers apologize}''

'''DOO-RAG:''' You said that you weren't gonna do a TV show. Is there any desire to do a feature length on the website or maybe just on a DVD?

'''MIKE:''' If we were ever... in short, no. But if we ever were gonna do something, yeah, DVD. We like- like DVD would be the- other than the web, DVD would be the next medium that we would do that in. But I don't see- like the Peasant's Quest thing was three minutes long and that was—

''{Ryan Sterritt enters the area of the room where the brothers are talking}''

'''MATT:''' Ryan Sterritt, everyone! Ryan Sterritt.

''{audience applause}''

'''MIKE:''' So I don't think- most of the stuff we do is between two and five minutes long. And jumping from that to 90 minutes might be kind of a stretch.

'''MATT:''' If we made it like the "Kentucky Fried Movie" it might- but as far as trying to have like one big, you know, X-files type of feature would be a great example. But the difficulty of going from an hour- naw, actually that's a great movie. They swear in it. You get to hear Moulder swear in it and it's awesome.

'''MIKE:''' Like the transformers movie.

'''MATT:''' Just like the transformers movie except where they censored it.

'''MIKE:''' Anyone else? Hat and glasses on top of the hat—

'''FAN WEARING HAT:''' Where did the voices come from? Like were there influences or were they just fun things that came out of nowhere?

'''MATT:''' Homestar definitely was- when mike first got a computer, I went in one day and changed his system sounds. And just recorded it. It was just a little system microphone of me. And it was supposed to sound sort of like a young maybe Japanese, but with several other cultures in there, too- girl, and so like when you click "mail" and when you get a new email I'd be like ''{imitates aforementioned voice}'' It's best mail for you!

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then there was some other- and so when we did Homestar originally that was kinda the basis. I was just gonna make that more male and then threw in a smattering of speech impediments. And then obviously they just start constantly evolving, too. If you listen to like those Bubs' bubble gum things it didn't hardly sound like Bubs. You can tell it's probably the same guy. It's like watching the first episode of The Simpsons when Homer's like ''{voice of Homer Simpson}'' My name is Homer... Bart.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then, I don't know. What else? Originally, Strong Bad was like evil Antonio Banderas—

'''MIKE:''' I wonder if we've got that somewhere. The Strong Sad was originally gonna- remember the Mike—

'''MATT:''' Oh, I've got that. Hang on, hang on.

'''MIKE:''' Strong Sad was originally gonna have like this Michael Stipe-sounding voice.

'''MATT:''' I do a really bad Michael Stipe impression.

'''MIKE:''' The first thing on the Yello Dello cartoon.

'''MATT:''' I don't sound anything like him.

'''MIKE:''' You did his first line both ways. And we decided the non-Michael Stipe one. He's the lead singer of R.E.M., everyone.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Yes. Popular rock group here in America.

''{audience laughter. Matt continues attempting to find the sound file}''

'''MATT:''' Or maybe I don't have it. Do you have it?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. Talk to them in a funny voice while I look.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Hmm? Oh, you woke me up! What are you doing here? Get out of my room!

'''MIKE:''' That's Strong Bad.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Funny jokes! ''{wimpering}'' I got lots of funny jokes to tell you guys.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Strong Bad, you never answered my email.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Yeah, you never answer my...fist—

''{audience laughter followed by applause}''

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' —to your mouth. I don't got the file. Umm..

''{Mike continues looking for the file and attempts to play sound but gets a loud buzz instead}''

'''MIKE:''' Sorry about that.

'''MATT:''' You should play both of them. You'll hear how different Strong Sad sounds now.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{slowly}'' I don't know, Homestar. That looks really dangerous.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Doesn't sound a thing like Michael Stipe at all. I don't know why I thought that- why I even referred to it as a Michael Stipe impression.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{early style}'' Well, I don't know, Homestar. That looks... really dangerous.

'''MIKE:''' That's the one that's actually in the cartoon which is pretty amazing 'cause that sounds just as much not like Strong Sad as the first one.

'''MATT:''' I was drinking some NyQuil.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, what else, guys? We're running low on time...

'''MATT:''' Yes? With the tuque on and glasses. Yes?

'''FAN WEARING TUQUE:''' Hey, what did you guys wanna- did you always wanna be cartoonists or did it just kinda happen?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, absolutely.

'''MIKE:''' The "happen" part.

'''FAN WEARING TUQUE:''' Did you ever try and work in video games or anything?

'''MATT:''' No. We don't know about that.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' We make maybe the mini—

'''MATT:''' I tried to. I applied right out of school I tried to apply to a couple of companies to try and write video games and I could hear them ripping up my résumé. And it was like before I even had my awesome like HTML website portfolio that I had up. And it was great. It was really impressive. But no, I went to school. Mike went to school for photography so we made dumb movies when we were kids and stuff.

'''MIKE:''' And dumb claymation movies sometimes, too.

'''MATT:''' Yes, it's true.

'''MIKE:''' And Matt even made this one-

'''MATT:''' Oh, I got some sweet deals for all y'all. ''{audience laughter}'' Hang on, where is it? Hang on... wait for it.

'''MIKE:''' All right. Any question for ME? No? Good. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When did you guys know you were kinda just gonna be doing this and not anything else?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. It was sort of a transition. I mean, we- Matt- I've been doing freelance for a couple years before period Homestar so I would kinda go a few weeks here and there without doing anything but Homestar. But when Matt quick his job in I think August... 2002. He worked for Earthlink Internet Time. But at that time we still did the occasional freelance job doing some videos and websites and stuff for various things. And so it really wasn't a moment where we knew and we still- who knows? I still do the occasional freelance job.

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "lets animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
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NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

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On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus- so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy- he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants—

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his- They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers- He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh—

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh—

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"—

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your—

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is—

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag—

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south—

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' —southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants—

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know- Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on TV?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out okay but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had—

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' —could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it re-installs this one printer.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show—

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation}''

''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do that.

''{audience laughter}''

==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is—''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These... I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you— ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does- we can't get good data.

'''RYAN:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be- that would be great.

'''RYAN:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This- I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions}''

''{Cut}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the brothers}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make it file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.

''{Full Screen [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] plays. Applause follows}''

'''MIKE:''' That was a lot of fun to make. Wasn't it, Matt?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and expertly shot, edited, and all special effects by Ryan. He's supposed to be up here with us, but now he's gone . His computer is taking forever.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar is taking his seat.

'''MATT:''' So, then what should we show them? Do you guys want to see any of this stuff?

''{audience responds affirmatively. Screen shows options such as "outtakes", "deleted scenes", and "your hair is messed up"}''

'''MATT:''' We didn't really have any idea of what we were gonna do.

'''MIKE:''' We used to do- we've done this a couple of times, and really have over the previous four years we have a pretty good backlog of stuff that wasn't on the website and that people haven't seen- we were gonna put all that stuff on a DVD and so now we just got like two months worth of stuff that people haven't seen, so it's not quite as much, but we tried.

'''MATT:''' All right, so wearing a wig on this trailer and I had some kind of problem where I can't stop touching—

''{[[Your Hair is Messed Up]] is shown, applause after it ends}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys. Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

''{Ryan enters the room on the left}''

'''MATT:''' There's Ryan. Is the puppet thing done or we still holding? And it's totally cool if it's not done.

''{Ryan's conversation with Matt is inaudible}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have just a QuickTime, we can probably- do you have- oh, you don't have input for this kinda thing. It's the like- what do you call it- monitor input. I don't you could—

'''MIKE:''' Hold on here just a second, guys. Matt, I will help Ryan.

====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====

''{Matt provides the voice of Homestar Runner as a puppet, holding it in his left hand}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Hi, guys. ''{nods repeatedly in response to audience laughter and applause}'' That's my favorite "muppet move" that I like to do. ''{repeats behavior}'' I'm like Fozzie Bear. If I had arms, I'd do that thing that Kermit would do it's like "woahhh" and flings his arms all around. I mean, I don't got none. Ummm, and now I'll take questions. No questions?

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Are you telekinetic or do you just move stuff—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Umm, I'm a cartoon and... maybe you shouldn't worry about it.

''{audience laughter and Mike returns to his chair}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Naw, I'm just playin', I'm telekinetic. I'm a super being. Limozeen "mr. talky" in the front row. What's up?

'''YOUNG AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Um, how do you type with no arms?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I- that was just answered. I use my brain. I'm telekinetic. I'm just a cartoon and you shouldn't worry about it. Yes?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other chara—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alain? With an "I"?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status quo, you guys?

''{Pause}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' eight minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's... that we shot today on campus here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna go.

''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Ow! Ow! Not on there.

''{audience laughter as Matt puts the puppet away near the microphone stand}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out—

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out when burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got- it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him}''

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a- Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there... stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies of—

'''MIKE:''' There's lotsa people like Jonathan that have never seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our site which is so tempting some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like, "But we have that whole Coach Z thing we can put up". But we wanna make sure it stays cool and exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

'''MIKE:''' Look, I got a lot of stupid stuff on here that I just keep showing like this Lego thing I made.

''{Mike opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks walking from right to left. Audience laughter and applause}''

'''MIKE:''' I made this several years ago. Didn't really do much with that.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Homestar}'' The Homestar Runner.

''{Mike opens a Flash file with an Etch A Sketch version of Homestar walking from left to right}''

'''MIKE:''' You've got "Etch A Sketch Homestar". Didn't do anything with that.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Homestar}'' Shake it up, Mike. Erase it!

''{Mike opens a Flash file with a needlepoint version of Strong Bad. A needlepoint Homestar walks in from the right and stops short of Strong Bad}''

'''MIKE:''' Needlepoint Homestar. Umm, what else? Oh, look! We've got- should we show them the Limozeen Coloring Book?

'''MATT:''' Absolutely.

''{After a short delay, Mike opens a Flash file called [[Limozeen Coloring Book]] much to the delight of the audience}}

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Limozeen Coloring Book.

'''MATT:''' Limozeen is a fictional metal band that Strong Bad enjoys.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, so then you can click on "ripped denim blue" and color his jeans blue. "Rockin' red" for his guitar, maybe. "Hairspray blond" for his hair. And then you can go to the next one.

''{Mike continues to flip the pages of the book and reads the text descriptions out loud. He points out band members that have the faces of Ryan and Matt. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' Show them like the roller coaster—

[[Image:the decatur brain logo NYU.png|thumb|left|Hometown pride logo]]

'''MIKE:''' Check it out. I made this kick-ass logo for my fantasy football team. They're call "The Decatur Brain".

'''MATT:''' Decatur's where we live.

'''MIKE:''' Man, look at that. The brain has laces on it.

'''MATT:''' If the National Football League had- has that helmet, that would be the best thing ever.

'''MATT:''' Show 'em the roller coaster—

''{Mike opens a Flash file of Homestar Runner jumping up in air while wearing a yellow helmet and knee pads}''

'''MIKE:''' I don't know where it's from. It's Homestar flying up in the air.

'''MATT:''' Is that from the monster truck one? Maybe he's wearing the same clothes.

'''MIKE:''' The date was way later than that.

'''MATT:''' Weird.

'''MIKE:''' What did you want to show them?

'''MATT:''' The roller coaster- it's great- Mike had this brief re-design of all the characters that never, ever got used except in the desktop wallpaper.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, the Everybody! Everybody! desktop wallpaper where they're sort of more cut out. Here's this. This is like four years old.

''{Mike opens a Flash file that shows many of the main characters riding a roller coaster. Both Matt and Mike provide sound effects}

'''MIKE:''' ''{as clip ends}'' That's it, guys. ''{audience applause}'' If you're waiting for more... it's not gonna happen. What else?

'''MATT:''' Troga- Should we show them Trogador?

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Stinkoman version of Trogdor... that will probably never get used. Trogador

''{Mike opens a Flash file of Stinkoman preparing to fight [[Trogador]]. After that Trogador is seen running in place}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Voice of Stinkoman}'' Trogador! ''{normal voice}'' Very nice.

'''MIKE:''' Um...oh, so here's a poster that's not out yet, but—

'''MATT:''' Oh yeah?

'''MIKE:''' That the aforementioned Craig Zobel designed for us.

'''MATT:''' Craig Zobel.

''{Mike opens an image of the [[Everybody Everybody Poster]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check it out. It's like everybody ever.

''{Audience gasps}''

'''MIKE:''' This comes out in a few weeks I think.

'''MATT:''' No. Like Dad's got 'em already.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, they're already out. Just name a character and they're all in there. Every version- there's the worm from Sweet Cuppin' Cakes right there. Biscuitdoughhandsman is right here. Lil' Brudder's right here. Hey Steve's right in front. Homestar Junior. Oh, Gavin- there's Gavin right here. Gavin the cockroach is down in the bottom right- Doreauxgard—

'''MATT:''' Sterrance even made it in up there.

'''MIKE:''' Rather Dashing. This is right after Sterrance so Sterrance is the most recent thing that got put in.

'''MATT:''' Craig said he looked at a lot of old Marvel Universes—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Where's Tendafoot?

'''MATT:''' Tendafoot didn't make the cut.

'''MIKE:''' He's represented by Lil' Brudder.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' There's Tompkins. ''{slowly}'' There's Tompkins.

''{Audience laughter. Mike closes the image of the poster}''

'''MIKE:''' Look at this- this is something I was trying out for the album cover—

'''MATT:''' This is disgusting.

'''MIKE:''' —Artwork for the album cover. It was gonna be "Limozeen" spelled out in, like hot girl fingers with red fingernails and stuff. And I just tested it using my own gross stubby fingers. It looks really gross. We decided not to use this.

''{Mike opens a image showing the text "Limozeen" spelled using various poses of fingers. Audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' It's extremely offensive...I think the hot lady fingers would probably look OK, but looks disturbed with Mike's gross fingers. Never touch them again.
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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know—

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and—

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad—

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and—

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and—

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew— Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our—

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or—

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we—

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right—

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and—

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do—

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube—

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's—

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be... you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or—

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like—

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing—

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like—

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade—

'''MIKE:''' Um, another question?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, you had a question... Doo-rag

'''MIKE:''' Doo-rag.

''{Audience laughter and then both brothers apologize}''

'''DOO-RAG:''' You said that you weren't gonna do a TV show. Is there any desire to do a feature length on the website or maybe just on a DVD?

'''MIKE:''' If we were ever... in short, no. But if we ever were gonna do something, yeah, DVD. We like- like DVD would be the- other than the web, DVD would be the next medium that we would do that in. But I don't see- like the Peasant's Quest thing was three minutes long and that was—

''{Ryan Sterritt enters the area of the room where the brothers are talking}''

'''MATT:''' Ryan Sterritt, everyone! Ryan Sterritt.

''{audience applause}''

'''MIKE:''' So I don't think- most of the stuff we do is between two and five minutes long. And jumping from that to 90 minutes might be kind of a stretch.

'''MATT:''' If we made it like the "Kentucky Fried Movie" it might- but as far as trying to have like one big, you know, X-files type of feature would be a great example. But the difficulty of going from an hour- naw, actually that's a great movie. They swear in it. You get to hear Moulder swear in it and it's awesome.

'''MIKE:''' Like the transformers movie.

'''MATT:''' Just like the transformers movie except where they censored it.

'''MIKE:''' Anyone else? Hat and glasses on top of the hat—

'''FAN WEARING HAT:''' Where did the voices come from? Like were there influences or were they just fun things that came out of nowhere?

'''MATT:''' Homestar definitely was- when mike first got a computer, I went in one day and changed his system sounds. And just recorded it. It was just a little system microphone of me. And it was supposed to sound sort of like a young maybe Japanese, but with several other cultures in there, too- girl, and so like when you click "mail" and when you get a new email I'd be like ''{imitates aforementioned voice}'' It's best mail for you!

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then there was some other- and so when we did Homestar originally that was kinda the basis. I was just gonna make that more male and then threw in a smattering of speech impediments. And then obviously they just start constantly evolving, too. If you listen to like those Bubs' bubble gum things it didn't hardly sound like Bubs. You can tell it's probably the same guy. It's like watching the first episode of The Simpsons when Homer's like ''{voice of Homer Simpson}'' My name is Homer... Bart.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then, I don't know. What else? Originally, Strong Bad was like evil Antonio Banderas—

'''MIKE:''' I wonder if we've got that somewhere. The Strong Sad was originally gonna- remember the Mike—

'''MATT:''' Oh, I've got that. Hang on, hang on.

'''MIKE:''' Strong Sad was originally gonna have like this Michael Stipe-sounding voice.

'''MATT:''' I do a really bad Michael Stipe impression.

'''MIKE:''' The first thing on the Yello Dello cartoon.

'''MATT:''' I don't sound anything like him.

'''MIKE:''' You did his first line both ways. And we decided the non-Michael Stipe one. He's the lead singer of R.E.M., everyone.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Yes. Popular rock group here in America.

''{audience laughter. Matt continues attempting to find the sound file}''

'''MATT:''' Or maybe I don't have it. Do you have it?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. Talk to them in a funny voice while I look.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Hmm? Oh, you woke me up! What are you doing here? Get out of my room!

'''MIKE:''' That's Strong Bad.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Funny jokes! ''{wimpering}'' I got lots of funny jokes to tell you guys.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Strong Bad, you never answered my email.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Yeah, you never answer my...fist—

''{audience laughter followed by applause}''

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' —to your mouth. I don't got the file. Umm..

''{Mike continues looking for the file and attempts to play sound but gets a loud buzz instead}''

'''MIKE:''' Sorry about that.

'''MATT:''' You should play both of them. You'll hear how different Strong Sad sounds now.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{slowly}'' I don't know, Homestar. That looks really dangerous.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Doesn't sound a thing like Michael Stipe at all. I don't know why I thought that- why I even referred to it as a Michael Stipe impression.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{early style}'' Well, I don't know, Homestar. That looks... really dangerous.

'''MIKE:''' That's the one that's actually in the cartoon which is pretty amazing 'cause that sounds just as much not like Strong Sad as the first one.

'''MATT:''' I was drinking some NyQuil.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, what else, guys? We're running low on time...

'''MATT:''' Yes? With the tuque on and glasses. Yes?

'''FAN WEARING TUQUE:''' Hey, what did you guys wanna- did you always wanna be cartoonists or did it just kinda happen?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, absolutely.

'''MIKE:''' The "happen" part.

'''FAN WEARING TUQUE:''' Did you ever try and work in video games or anything?

'''MATT:''' No. We don't know about that.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' We make maybe the mini—

'''MATT:''' I tried to. I applied right out of school I tried to apply to a couple of companies to try and write video games and I could hear them ripping up my résumé. And it was like before I even had my awesome like HTML website portfolio that I had up. And it was great. It was really impressive. But no, I went to school. Mike went to school for photography so we made dumb movies when we were kids and stuff.

'''MIKE:''' And dumb claymation movies sometimes, too.

'''MATT:''' Yes, it's true.

'''MIKE:''' And Matt even made this one-

'''MATT:''' Oh, I got some sweet deals for all y'all. ''{audience laughter}'' Hang on, where is it? Hang on... wait for it.

'''MIKE:''' All right. Any question for ME? No? Good. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When did you guys know you were kinda just gonna be doing this and not anything else?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. It was sort of a transition. I mean, we- Matt- I've been doing freelance for a couple years before period Homestar so I would kinda go a few weeks here and there without doing anything but Homestar. But when Matt quick his job in I think August... 2002. He worked for Earthlink Internet Time. But at that time we still did the occasional freelance job doing some videos and websites and stuff for various things. And so it really wasn't a moment where we knew and we still- who knows? I still do the occasional freelance job.

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "lets animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|NYU Intro
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|A new game - 'Stinkoman 20X6'
Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|Original [[Trogador]]
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|Matt's "Scientific" animation suit
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-19T04:01:36Z

The Paper: /* After the Presentation */ headwear is a more distinguishing feature

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus- so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy- he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants—

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his- They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers- He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh—

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh—

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"—

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your—

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is—

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag—

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south—

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' —southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants—

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know- Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on TV?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out okay but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had—

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' —could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it re-installs this one printer.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show—

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation}''

''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do that.

''{audience laughter}''

==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is—''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These... I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you— ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does- we can't get good data.

'''RYAN:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be- that would be great.

'''RYAN:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This- I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions}''

''{Cut}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the brothers}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make it file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.

''{Full Screen [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] plays. Applause follows}''

'''MIKE:''' That was a lot of fun to make. Wasn't it, Matt?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and expertly shot, edited, and all special effects by Ryan. He's supposed to be up here with us, but now he's gone . His computer is taking forever.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar is taking his seat.

'''MATT:''' So, then what should we show them? Do you guys want to see any of this stuff?

''{audience responds affirmatively. Screen shows options such as "outtakes", "deleted scenes", and "your hair is messed up"}''

'''MATT:''' We didn't really have any idea of what we were gonna do.

'''MIKE:''' We used to do- we've done this a couple of times, and really have over the previous four years we have a pretty good backlog of stuff that wasn't on the website and that people haven't seen- we were gonna put all that stuff on a DVD and so now we just got like two months worth of stuff that people haven't seen, so it's not quite as much, but we tried.

'''MATT:''' All right, so wearing a wig on this trailer and I had some kind of problem where I can't stop touching—

''{[[Your Hair is Messed Up]] is shown, applause after it ends}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys. Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

''{Ryan enters the room on the left}''

'''MATT:''' There's Ryan. Is the puppet thing done or we still holding? And it's totally cool if it's not done.

''{Ryan's conversation with Matt is inaudible}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have just a QuickTime, we can probably- do you have- oh, you don't have input for this kinda thing. It's the like- what do you call it- monitor input. I don't you could—

'''MIKE:''' Hold on here just a second, guys. Matt, I will help Ryan.

====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====

''{Matt provides the voice of Homestar Runner as a puppet, holding it in his left hand}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Hi, guys. ''{nods repeatedly in response to audience laughter and applause}'' That's my favorite "muppet move" that I like to do. ''{repeats behavior}'' I'm like Fozzie Bear. If I had arms, I'd do that thing that Kermit would do it's like "woahhh" and flings his arms all around. I mean, I don't got none. Ummm, and now I'll take questions. No questions?

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Are you telekinetic or do you just move stuff—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Umm, I'm a cartoon and... maybe you shouldn't worry about it.

''{audience laughter and Mike returns to his chair}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Naw, I'm just playin', I'm telekinetic. I'm a super being. Limozeen "mr. talky" in the front row. What's up?

'''YOUNG AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Um, how do you type with no arms?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I- that was just answered. I use my brain. I'm telekinetic. I'm just a cartoon and you shouldn't worry about it. Yes?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other chara—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alain? With an "I"?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status quo, you guys?

''{Pause}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' eight minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's... that we shot today on campus here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna go.

''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Ow! Ow! Not on there.

''{audience laughter as Matt puts the puppet away near the microphone stand}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out—

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out when burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got- it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him}''

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a- Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there... stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies.

'''MIKE:''' Lotsa people like Jonathan that haven't seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our website. It so tempting, like some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like "well, we have that whole Coach Z thing". But we wanna keep it exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

''{Mike then opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks}''
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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know—

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and—

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad—

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and—

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and—

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew— Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our—

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or—

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we—

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right—

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and—

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do—

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube—

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's—

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be... you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or—

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like—

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing—

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like—

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade—

'''MIKE:''' Um, another question?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, you had a question... Doo-rag

'''MIKE:''' Doo-rag.

''{Audience laughter and then both brothers apologize}''

'''DOO-RAG:''' You said that you weren't gonna do a TV show. Is there any desire to do a feature length on the website or maybe just on a DVD?

'''MIKE:''' If we were ever... in short, no. But if we ever were gonna do something, yeah, DVD. We like- like DVD would be the- other than the web, DVD would be the next medium that we would do that in. But I don't see- like the Peasant's Quest thing was three minutes long and that was—

''{Ryan Sterritt enters the area of the room where the brothers are talking}''

'''MATT:''' Ryan Sterritt, everyone! Ryan Sterritt.

''{audience applause}''

'''MIKE:''' So I don't think- most of the stuff we do is between two and five minutes long. And jumping from that to 90 minutes might be kind of a stretch.

'''MATT:''' If we made it like the "Kentucky Fried Movie" it might- but as far as trying to have like one big, you know, X-files type of feature would be a great example. But the difficulty of going from an hour- naw, actually that's a great movie. They swear in it. You get to hear Moulder swear in it and it's awesome.

'''MIKE:''' Like the transformers movie.

'''MATT:''' Just like the transformers movie except where they censored it.

'''MIKE:''' Anyone else? Hat and glasses on top of the hat—

'''FAN WEARING HAT:''' Where did the voices come from? Like were there influences or were they just fun things that came out of nowhere?

'''MATT:''' Homestar definitely was- when mike first got a computer, I went in one day and changed his system sounds. And just recorded it. It was just a little system microphone of me. And it was supposed to sound sort of like a young maybe Japanese, but with several other cultures in there, too- girl, and so like when you click "mail" and when you get a new email I'd be like ''{imitates aforementioned voice}'' It's best mail for you!

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then there was some other- and so when we did Homestar originally that was kinda the basis. I was just gonna make that more male and then threw in a smattering of speech impediments. And then obviously they just start constantly evolving, too. If you listen to like those Bubs' bubble gum things it didn't hardly sound like Bubs. You can tell it's probably the same guy. It's like watching the first episode of The Simpsons when Homer's like ''{voice of Homer Simpson}'' My name is Homer... Bart.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then, I don't know. What else? Originally, Strong Bad was like evil Antonio Banderas—

'''MIKE:''' I wonder if we've got that somewhere. The Strong Sad was originally gonna- remember the Mike—

'''MATT:''' Oh, I've got that. Hang on, hang on.

'''MIKE:''' Strong Sad was originally gonna have like this Michael Stipe-sounding voice.

'''MATT:''' I do a really bad Michael Stipe impression.

'''MIKE:''' The first thing on the Yello Dello cartoon.

'''MATT:''' I don't sound anything like him.

'''MIKE:''' You did his first line both ways. And we decided the non-Michael Stipe one. He's the lead singer of R.E.M., everyone.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Yes. Popular rock group here in America.

''{audience laughter. Matt continues attempting to find the sound file}''

'''MATT:''' Or maybe I don't have it. Do you have it?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. Talk to them in a funny voice while I look.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Hmm? Oh, you woke me up! What are you doing here? Get out of my room!

'''MIKE:''' That's Strong Bad.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Funny jokes! ''{wimpering}'' I got lots of funny jokes to tell you guys.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Strong Bad, you never answered my email.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Yeah, you never answer my...fist—

''{audience laughter followed by applause}''

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' —to your mouth. I don't got the file. Umm..

''{Mike continues looking for the file and attempts to play sound but gets a loud buzz instead}''

'''MIKE:''' Sorry about that.

'''MATT:''' You should play both of them. You'll hear how different Strong Sad sounds now.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{slowly}'' I don't know, Homestar. That looks really dangerous.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Doesn't sound a thing like Michael Stipe at all. I don't know why I thought that- why I even referred to it as a Michael Stipe impression.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{early style}'' Well, I don't know, Homestar. That looks... really dangerous.

'''MIKE:''' That's the one that's actually in the cartoon which is pretty amazing 'cause that sounds just as much not like Strong Sad as the first one.

'''MATT:''' I was drinking some NyQuil.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, what else, guys? We're running low on time...

'''MATT:''' Yes? With the tuque on and glasses. Yes?

'''FAN WEARING TUQUE:''' Hey, what did you guys wanna- did you always wanna be cartoonists or did it just kinda happen?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, absolutely.

'''MIKE:''' The "happen" part.

'''FAN WEARING TUQUE:''' Did you ever try and work in video games or anything?

'''MATT:''' No. We don't know about that.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' We make maybe the mini—

'''MATT:''' I tried to. I applied right out of school I tried to apply to a couple of companies to try and write video games and I could hear them ripping up my résumé. And it was like before I even had my awesome like HTML website portfolio that I had up. And it was great. It was really impressive. But no, I went to school. Mike went to school for photography so we made dumb movies when we were kids and stuff.

'''MIKE:''' And dumb claymation movies sometimes, too.

'''MATT:''' Yes, it's true.

'''MIKE:''' And Matt even made this one-

'''MATT:''' Oh, I got some sweet deals for all y'all. ''{audience laughter}'' Hang on, where is it? Hang on... wait for it.

'''MIKE:''' All right. Any question for ME? No? Good. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When did you guys know you were kinda just gonna be doing this and not anything else?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. It was sort of a transition. I mean, we- Matt- I've been doing freelance for a couple years before period Homestar so I would kinda go a few weeks here and there without doing anything but Homestar. But when Matt quick his job in I think August... 2002. He worked for Earthlink Internet Time. But at that time we still did the occasional freelance job doing some videos and websites and stuff for various things. And so it really wasn't a moment where we knew and we still- who knows? I still do the occasional freelance job.

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "lets animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|NYU Intro
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|A new game - 'Stinkoman 20X6'
Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|Original [[Trogador]]
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|Matt's "Scientific" animation suit
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-19T03:57:18Z

The Paper: /* After the Presentation */ another typo...and there's more where that came from

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus- so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy- he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants—

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his- They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers- He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh—

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh—

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"—

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your—

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is—

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag—

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south—

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' —southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants—

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know- Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on TV?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out okay but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had—

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' —could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it re-installs this one printer.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show—

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation}''

''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do that.

''{audience laughter}''

==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is—''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These... I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you— ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does- we can't get good data.

'''RYAN:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be- that would be great.

'''RYAN:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This- I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions}''

''{Cut}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the brothers}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make it file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.

''{Full Screen [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] plays. Applause follows}''

'''MIKE:''' That was a lot of fun to make. Wasn't it, Matt?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and expertly shot, edited, and all special effects by Ryan. He's supposed to be up here with us, but now he's gone . His computer is taking forever.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar is taking his seat.

'''MATT:''' So, then what should we show them? Do you guys want to see any of this stuff?

''{audience responds affirmatively. Screen shows options such as "outtakes", "deleted scenes", and "your hair is messed up"}''

'''MATT:''' We didn't really have any idea of what we were gonna do.

'''MIKE:''' We used to do- we've done this a couple of times, and really have over the previous four years we have a pretty good backlog of stuff that wasn't on the website and that people haven't seen- we were gonna put all that stuff on a DVD and so now we just got like two months worth of stuff that people haven't seen, so it's not quite as much, but we tried.

'''MATT:''' All right, so wearing a wig on this trailer and I had some kind of problem where I can't stop touching—

''{[[Your Hair is Messed Up]] is shown, applause after it ends}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys. Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

''{Ryan enters the room on the left}''

'''MATT:''' There's Ryan. Is the puppet thing done or we still holding? And it's totally cool if it's not done.

''{Ryan's conversation with Matt is inaudible}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have just a QuickTime, we can probably- do you have- oh, you don't have input for this kinda thing. It's the like- what do you call it- monitor input. I don't you could—

'''MIKE:''' Hold on here just a second, guys. Matt, I will help Ryan.

====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====

''{Matt provides the voice of Homestar Runner as a puppet, holding it in his left hand}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Hi, guys. ''{nods repeatedly in response to audience laughter and applause}'' That's my favorite "muppet move" that I like to do. ''{repeats behavior}'' I'm like Fozzie Bear. If I had arms, I'd do that thing that Kermit would do it's like "woahhh" and flings his arms all around. I mean, I don't got none. Ummm, and now I'll take questions. No questions?

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Are you telekinetic or do you just move stuff—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Umm, I'm a cartoon and... maybe you shouldn't worry about it.

''{audience laughter and Mike returns to his chair}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Naw, I'm just playin', I'm telekinetic. I'm a super being. Limozeen "mr. talky" in the front row. What's up?

'''YOUNG AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Um, how do you type with no arms?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I- that was just answered. I use my brain. I'm telekinetic. I'm just a cartoon and you shouldn't worry about it. Yes?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other chara—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alain? With an "I"?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status quo, you guys?

''{Pause}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' eight minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's... that we shot today on campus here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna go.

''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Ow! Ow! Not on there.

''{audience laughter as Matt puts the puppet away near the microphone stand}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out—

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out when burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got- it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him}''

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a- Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there... stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies.

'''MIKE:''' Lotsa people like Jonathan that haven't seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our website. It so tempting, like some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like "well, we have that whole Coach Z thing". But we wanna keep it exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

''{Mike then opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks}''
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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know—

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and—

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad—

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and—

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and—

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew— Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our—

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or—

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we—

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right—

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and—

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do—

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube—

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's—

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be... you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or—

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like—

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing—

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like—

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade—

'''MIKE:''' Um, another question?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, you had a question... Doo-rag

'''MIKE:''' Doo-rag.

''{Audience laughter and then both brothers apologize}''

'''DOO-RAG:''' You said that you weren't gonna do a TV show. Is there any desire to do a feature length on the website or maybe just on a DVD?

'''MIKE:''' If we were ever... in short, no. But if we ever were gonna do something, yeah, DVD. We like- like DVD would be the- other than the web, DVD would be the next medium that we would do that in. But I don't see- like the Peasant's Quest thing was three minutes long and that was—

''{Ryan Sterritt enters the area of the room where the brothers are talking}''

'''MATT:''' Ryan Sterritt, everyone! Ryan Sterritt.

''{audience applause}''

'''MIKE:''' So I don't think- most of the stuff we do is between two and five minutes long. And jumping from that to 90 minutes might be kind of a stretch.

'''MATT:''' If we made it like the "Kentucky Fried Movie" it might- but as far as trying to have like one big, you know, X-files type of feature would be a great example. But the difficulty of going from an hour- naw, actually that's a great movie. They swear in it. You get to hear Moulder swear in it and it's awesome.

'''MIKE:''' Like the transformers movie.

'''MATT:''' Just like the transformers movie except where they censored it.

'''MIKE:''' Anyone else? Hat and glasses on top of the hat—

'''FAN WEARING HAT:''' Where did the voices come from? Like were there influences or were they just fun things that came out of nowhere?

'''MATT:''' Homestar definitely was- when mike first got a computer, I went in one day and changed his system sounds. And just recorded it. It was just a little system microphone of me. And it was supposed to sound sort of like a young maybe Japanese, but with several other cultures in there, too- girl, and so like when you click "mail" and when you get a new email I'd be like ''{imitates aforementioned voice}'' It's best mail for you!

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then there was some other- and so when we did Homestar originally that was kinda the basis. I was just gonna make that more male and then threw in a smattering of speech impediments. And then obviously they just start constantly evolving, too. If you listen to like those Bubs' bubble gum things it didn't hardly sound like Bubs. You can tell it's probably the same guy. It's like watching the first episode of The Simpsons when Homer's like ''{voice of Homer Simpson}'' My name is Homer... Bart.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then, I don't know. What else? Originally, Strong Bad was like evil Antonio Banderas—

'''MIKE:''' I wonder if we've got that somewhere. The Strong Sad was originally gonna- remember the Mike—

'''MATT:''' Oh, I've got that. Hang on, hang on.

'''MIKE:''' Strong Sad was originally gonna have like this Michael Stipe-sounding voice.

'''MATT:''' I do a really bad Michael Stipe impression.

'''MIKE:''' The first thing on the Yello Dello cartoon.

'''MATT:''' I don't sound anything like him.

'''MIKE:''' You did his first line both ways. And we decided the non-Michael Stipe one. He's the lead singer of R.E.M., everyone.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Yes. Popular rock group here in America.

''{audience laughter. Matt continues attempting to find the sound file}''

'''MATT:''' Or maybe I don't have it. Do you have it?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. Talk to them in a funny voice while I look.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Hmm? Oh, you woke me up! What are you doing here? Get out of my room!

'''MIKE:''' That's Strong Bad.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Funny jokes! ''{wimpering}'' I got lots of funny jokes to tell you guys.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Strong Bad, you never answered my email.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Yeah, you never answer my...fist—

''{audience laughter followed by applause}''

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' —to your mouth. I don't got the file. Umm..

''{Mike continues looking for the file and attempts to play sound but gets a loud buzz instead}''

'''MIKE:''' Sorry about that.

'''MATT:''' You should play both of them. You'll hear how different Strong Sad sounds now.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{slowly}'' I don't know, Homestar. That looks really dangerous.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Doesn't sound a thing like Michael Stipe at all. I don't know why I thought that- why I even referred to it as a Michael Stipe impression.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{early style}'' Well, I don't know, Homestar. That looks... really dangerous.

'''MIKE:''' That's the one that's actually in the cartoon which is pretty amazing 'cause that sounds just as much not like Strong Sad as the first one.

'''MATT:''' I was drinking some NyQuil.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, what else, guys? We're running low on time...

'''MATT:''' Yes? With the tuque on and glasses. Yes?

'''FAN WEARING GLASSES:''' Hey, what did you guys wanna- did you always wanna be cartoonists or did it just kinda happen?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, absolutely.

'''MIKE:''' The "happen" part.

'''FAN WEARING GLASSES:''' Did you ever try and work in video games or anything?

'''MATT:''' No. We don't know about that.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' We make maybe the mini—

'''MATT:''' I tried to. I applied right out of school I tried to apply to a couple of companies to try and write video games and I could hear them ripping up my résumé. And it was like before I even had my awesome like HTML website portfolio that I had up. And it was great. It was really impressive. But no, I went to school. Mike went to school for photography so we made dumb movies when we were kids and stuff.

'''MIKE:''' And dumb claymation movies sometimes, too.

'''MATT:''' Yes, it's true.

'''MIKE:''' And Matt even made this one-

'''MATT:''' Oh, I got some sweet deals for all y'all. ''{audience laughter}'' Hang on, where is it? Hang on... wait for it.

'''MIKE:''' All right. Any question for ME? No? Good. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When did you guys know you were kinda just gonna be doing this and not anything else?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. It was sort of a transition. I mean, we- Matt- I've been doing freelance for a couple years before period Homestar so I would kinda go a few weeks here and there without doing anything but Homestar. But when Matt quick his job in I think August... 2002. He worked for Earthlink Internet Time. But at that time we still did the occasional freelance job doing some videos and websites and stuff for various things. And so it really wasn't a moment where we knew and we still- who knows? I still do the occasional freelance job.

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "lets animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|NYU Intro
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|A new game - 'Stinkoman 20X6'
Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|Original [[Trogador]]
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|Matt's "Scientific" animation suit
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-19T03:54:17Z

The Paper: /* After the Presentation */ fix typo

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus- so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy- he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants—

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his- They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers- He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh—

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh—

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"—

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your—

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is—

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag—

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south—

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' —southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants—

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know- Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on TV?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out okay but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had—

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' —could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it re-installs this one printer.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show—

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation}''

''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do that.

''{audience laughter}''

==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is—''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These... I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you— ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does- we can't get good data.

'''RYAN:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be- that would be great.

'''RYAN:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This- I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions}''

''{Cut}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the brothers}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make it file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.

''{Full Screen [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] plays. Applause follows}''

'''MIKE:''' That was a lot of fun to make. Wasn't it, Matt?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and expertly shot, edited, and all special effects by Ryan. He's supposed to be up here with us, but now he's gone . His computer is taking forever.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar is taking his seat.

'''MATT:''' So, then what should we show them? Do you guys want to see any of this stuff?

''{audience responds affirmatively. Screen shows options such as "outtakes", "deleted scenes", and "your hair is messed up"}''

'''MATT:''' We didn't really have any idea of what we were gonna do.

'''MIKE:''' We used to do- we've done this a couple of times, and really have over the previous four years we have a pretty good backlog of stuff that wasn't on the website and that people haven't seen- we were gonna put all that stuff on a DVD and so now we just got like two months worth of stuff that people haven't seen, so it's not quite as much, but we tried.

'''MATT:''' All right, so wearing a wig on this trailer and I had some kind of problem where I can't stop touching—

''{[[Your Hair is Messed Up]] is shown, applause after it ends}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys. Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

''{Ryan enters the room on the left}''

'''MATT:''' There's Ryan. Is the puppet thing done or we still holding? And it's totally cool if it's not done.

''{Ryan's conversation with Matt is inaudible}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have just a QuickTime, we can probably- do you have- oh, you don't have input for this kinda thing. It's the like- what do you call it- monitor input. I don't you could—

'''MIKE:''' Hold on here just a second, guys. Matt, I will help Ryan.

====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====

''{Matt provides the voice of Homestar Runner as a puppet, holding it in his left hand}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Hi, guys. ''{nods repeatedly in response to audience laughter and applause}'' That's my favorite "muppet move" that I like to do. ''{repeats behavior}'' I'm like Fozzie Bear. If I had arms, I'd do that thing that Kermit would do it's like "woahhh" and flings his arms all around. I mean, I don't got none. Ummm, and now I'll take questions. No questions?

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Are you telekinetic or do you just move stuff—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Umm, I'm a cartoon and... maybe you shouldn't worry about it.

''{audience laughter and Mike returns to his chair}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Naw, I'm just playin', I'm telekinetic. I'm a super being. Limozeen "mr. talky" in the front row. What's up?

'''YOUNG AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Um, how do you type with no arms?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I- that was just answered. I use my brain. I'm telekinetic. I'm just a cartoon and you shouldn't worry about it. Yes?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other chara—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alain? With an "I"?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status quo, you guys?

''{Pause}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' eight minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's... that we shot today on campus here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna go.

''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Ow! Ow! Not on there.

''{audience laughter as Matt puts the puppet away near the microphone stand}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out—

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out when burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got- it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him}''

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a- Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there... stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies.

'''MIKE:''' Lotsa people like Jonathan that haven't seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our website. It so tempting, like some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like "well, we have that whole Coach Z thing". But we wanna keep it exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

''{Mike then opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks}''
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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know—

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and—

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad—

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and—

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and—

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew— Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our—

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or—

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we—

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right—

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and—

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do—

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube—

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's—

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be... you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or—

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like—

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing—

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like—

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade—

'''MIKE:''' Um, another question?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, you had a question... Doo-rag

'''MIKE:''' Doo-rag.

''{Audience laughter and then both brothers apologize}''

'''DOO-RAG:''' You said that you weren't gonna do a TV show. Is there any desire to do a feature length on the website or maybe just on a DVD?

'''MIKE:''' If we were ever... in short, no. But if we ever were gonna do something, yeah, DVD. We like- like DVD would be the- other than the web, DVD would be the next medium that we would do that in. But I don't see- like the Peasant's Quest thing was three minutes long and that was—

''{Ryan Sterritt enters the area of the room where the brothers are talking}''

'''MATT:''' Ryan Sterritt, everyone! Ryan Sterritt.

''{audience applause}''

'''MIKE:''' So I don't think- most of the stuff we do is between two and five minutes long. And jumping from that to 90 minutes might be kind of a stretch.

'''MATT:''' If we made it like the "Kentucky Fried Movie" it might- but as far as trying to have like one big, you know, X-files type of feature would be a great example. But the difficulty of going from an hour- naw, actually that's a great movie. They swear in it. You get to hear Moulder swear in it and it's awesome.

'''MIKE:''' Like the transformers movie.

'''MATT:''' Just like the transformers movie except where they censored it.

'''MIKE:''' Anyone else? Hat and glasses on top of the hat—

'''FAN WEARING HAT:''' Where did the voices come from? Like were there influences or were they just fun things that came out of nowhere?

'''MATT:''' Homestar definitely was- when mike first got a computer, I went in one day and changed his system sounds. And just recorded it. It was just a little system microphone of me. And it was supposed to sound sort of like a young maybe Japanese, but with several other cultures in there, too- girl, and so like when you click "mail" and when you get a new email I'd be like ''{imitates aforementioned voice}'' It's best mail for you!

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then there was some other- and so when we did Homestar originally that was kinda the basis. I was just gonna make that more male and then threw in a smattering of speech impediments. And then obviously they just start constantly evolving, too. If you listen to like those Bubs' bubble gum things it didn't hardly sound like Bubs. You can tell it's probably the same guy. It's like watching the first episode of The Simpsons when Homer's like ''{voice of Homer Simpson}'' My name is Homer... Bart.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then, I don't know. What else? Originally, Strong Bad was like evil Antonio Banderas—

'''MIKE:''' I wonder if we've got that somewhere. The Strong Sad was originally gonna- remember the Mike—

'''MATT:''' Oh, I've got that. Hang on, hang on.

'''MIKE:''' Strong Sad was originally gonna have like this Michael Stipe-sounding voice.

'''MATT:''' I do a really bad Michael Stipe impression.

'''MIKE:''' The first thing on the Yello Dello cartoon.

'''MATT:''' I don't sound anything like him.

'''MIKE:''' You did his first line both ways. And we decided the non-Michael Stipe one. He's the lead singer of R.E.M., everyone.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Yes. Popular rock group here in America.

''{audience laughter. Matt continues attempting to find the sound file}''

'''MATT:''' Or maybe I don't have it. Do you have it?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. Talk to them in a funny voice while I look.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Hmm? Oh, you woke me up! What are you doing here? Get out of my room!

'''MIKE:''' That's Strong Bad.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Funny jokes! ''{wimpering}'' I got lots of funny jokes to tell you guys.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Strong Bad, you never answered my email.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Yeah, you never answer my...fist—

''{audience laughter followed by applause}''

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' —to your mouth. I don't got the file. Umm..

''{Mike continues looking for the file and attempts to play sound but gets a loud buzz instead}''

'''MIKE:''' Sorry about that.

'''MATT:''' You should play both of them. You'll hear how different Strong Sad sounds now.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{slowly}'' I don't know, Homestar. That looks really dangerous.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Doesn't sound a thing like Michael Stipe at all. I don't know why I thought that- why I even referred to it as a Michael Stipe impression.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{early style}'' Well, I don't know, Homestar. That looks... really dangerous.

'''MIKE:''' That's the one that's actually in the cartoon which is pretty amazing 'cause that sounds just as much not like Strong Sad as the first one.

'''MATT:''' I was drinking some NyQuil.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, what else, guys? We're running low on time...

'''MATT:''' Yes? With the tuke on and glasses. Yes?

'''FAN WEARING GLASSES:''' Hey, what did you guys wanna- did you always wanna be cartoonists or did it just kinda happen?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, absolutely.

'''MIKE:''' The "happen" part.

'''FAN WEARING GLASSES:''' Did you ever try and work in video games or anything?

'''MATT:''' No. We don't know about that.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' We make maybe the mini—

'''MATT:''' I tried to. I applied right out of school I tried to apply to a couple of companies to try and write video games and I could hear them ripping up my résumé. And it was like before I even had my awesome like HTML website portfolio that I had up. And it was great. It was really impressive. But no, I went to school. Mike went to school for photography so we made dumb movies when we were kids and stuff.

'''MIKE:''' And dumb claymation movies sometimes, too.

'''MATT:''' Yes, it's true.

'''MIKE:''' And Matt even made this one-

'''MATT:''' Oh, I got some sweet deals for all y'all. ''{audience laughter}'' Hang on, where is it? Hang on... wait for it.

'''MIKE:''' All right. Any question for ME? No? Good. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When did you guys know you were kinda just gonna be doing this and not anything else?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. It was sort of a transition. I mean, we- Matt- I've been doing freelance for a couple years before period Homestar so I would kinda go a few weeks here and there without doing anything but Homestar. But when Matt quick his job in I think August... 2002. He worked for Earthlink Internet Time. But at that time we still did the occasional freelance job doing some videos and websites and stuff for various things. And so it really wasn't a moment where we knew and we still- who knows? I still do the occasional freelance job.

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "lets animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|NYU Intro
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|A new game - 'Stinkoman 20X6'
Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|Original [[Trogador]]
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|Matt's "Scientific" animation suit
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-19T03:51:01Z

The Paper: /* After the Presentation */ +dialogue of Matt/Mike/NYU staff/Audience members asking questions

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus- so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy- he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants—

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his- They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers- He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh—

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh—

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"—

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your—

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is—

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag—

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south—

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' —southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants—

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know- Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on TV?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out okay but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had—

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' —could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it re-installs this one printer.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show—

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation}''

''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do that.

''{audience laughter}''

==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is—''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These... I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you— ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does- we can't get good data.

'''RYAN:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be- that would be great.

'''RYAN:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This- I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions}''

''{Cut}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the brothers}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make it file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.

''{Full Screen [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] plays. Applause follows}''

'''MIKE:''' That was a lot of fun to make. Wasn't it, Matt?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and expertly shot, edited, and all special effects by Ryan. He's supposed to be up here with us, but now he's gone . His computer is taking forever.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar is taking his seat.

'''MATT:''' So, then what should we show them? Do you guys want to see any of this stuff?

''{audience responds affirmatively. Screen shows options such as "outtakes", "deleted scenes", and "your hair is messed up"}''

'''MATT:''' We didn't really have any idea of what we were gonna do.

'''MIKE:''' We used to do- we've done this a couple of times, and really have over the previous four years we have a pretty good backlog of stuff that wasn't on the website and that people haven't seen- we were gonna put all that stuff on a DVD and so now we just got like two months worth of stuff that people haven't seen, so it's not quite as much, but we tried.

'''MATT:''' All right, so wearing a wig on this trailer and I had some kind of problem where I can't stop touching—

''{[[Your Hair is Messed Up]] is shown, applause after it ends}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys. Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

''{Ryan enters the room on the left}''

'''MATT:''' There's Ryan. Is the puppet thing done or we still holding? And it's totally cool if it's not done.

''{Ryan's conversation with Matt is inaudible}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have just a QuickTime, we can probably- do you have- oh, you don't have input for this kinda thing. It's the like- what do you call it- monitor input. I don't you could—

'''MIKE:''' Hold on here just a second, guys. Matt, I will help Ryan.

====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====

''{Matt provides the voice of Homestar Runner as a puppet, holding it in his left hand}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Hi, guys. ''{nods repeatedly in response to audience laughter and applause}'' That's my favorite "muppet move" that I like to do. ''{repeats behavior}'' I'm like Fozzie Bear. If I had arms, I'd do that thing that Kermit would do it's like "woahhh" and flings his arms all around. I mean, I don't got none. Ummm, and now I'll take questions. No questions?

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Are you telekinetic or do you just move stuff—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Umm, I'm a cartoon and... maybe you shouldn't worry about it.

''{audience laughter and Mike returns to his chair}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Naw, I'm just playin', I'm telekinetic. I'm a super being. Limozeen "mr. talky" in the front row. What's up?

'''YOUNG AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Um, how do you type with no arms?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I- that was just answered. I use my brain. I'm telekinetic. I'm just a cartoon and you shouldn't worry about it. Yes?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other chara—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alain? With an "I"?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status quo, you guys?

''{Pause}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' eight minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's... that we shot today on campus here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna go.

''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Ow! Ow! Not on there.

''{audience laughter as Matt puts the puppet away near the microphone stand}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out—

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out when burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got- it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him}''

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a- Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there... stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies.

'''MIKE:''' Lotsa people like Jonathan that haven't seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our website. It so tempting, like some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like "well, we have that whole Coach Z thing". But we wanna keep it exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

''{Mike then opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks}''
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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know—

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and—

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad—

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and—

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and—

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew— Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our—

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or—

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we—

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right—

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and—

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do—

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube—

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's—

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be... you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or—

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like—

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing—

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like—

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade—

'''MIKE:''' Um, another question?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, you had a question... Doo-rag

'''MIKE:''' Doo-rag.

''{Audience laughter and then both brothers apologize}''

'''DOO-RAG:''' You said that you weren't gonna do a TV show. Is there any desire to do a feature length on the website or maybe just on a DVD?

'''MIKE:''' If we were ever... in short, no. But if we ever were gonna do something, yeah, DVD. We like- like DVD would be the- other than the web, DVD would be the next medium that we would do that in. But I don't see- like the Peasant's Quest thing was three minutes long and that was—

''{Ryan Sterritt enters the area of the room where the brothers are talking}''

'''MATT:''' Ryan Sterritt, everyone! Ryan Sterritt.

''{audience applause}''

'''MIKE:''' So I don't think- most of the stuff we do is between two and five minutes long. And jumping from that to 90 minutes might be kind of a stretch.

'''MATT:''' If we made it like the "Kentucky Fried Movie" it might- but as far as trying to have like one big, you know, X-files type of feature would be a great example. But the difficulty of going from an hour- naw, actually that's a great movie. They swear in it. You get to hear Moulder swear in it and it's awesome.

'''MIKE:''' Like the transformers movie.

'''MATT:''' Just like the transformers movie except where they censored it.

'''MIKE:''' Anyone else? Hat and glasses on top of the hat—

'''FAN WEARING HAT:''' Where did the voices come from? Like were there influences or were they just fun things that came out of nowhere?

'''MATT:''' Homestar definitely was- when mike first got a computer, I went in one day and changed his system sounds. And just recorded it. It was just a little system microphone of me. And it was supposed to sound sort of like a young maybe Japanese, but with several other cultures in there, too- girl, and so like when you click "mail" and when you get a new email I'd be like ''{imitates aforementioned voice}'' It's best mail for you!

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then there was some other- and so when we did Homestar originally that was kinda the basis. I was just gonna make that more male and then threw in a smattering of speech impediments. And then obviously they just start constantly evolving, too. If you listen to like those Bubs' bubble gum things it didn't hardly sound like Bubs. You can tell it's probably the same guy. It's like watching the first episode of The Simpsons when Homer's like ''{voice of Homer Simpson}'' My name is Homer... Bart.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And then, I don't know. What else? Originally, Strong Bad was like evil Antonio Banderas—

'''MIKE:''' I wonder if we've got that somewhere. The Strong Sad was originally gonna- remember the Mike—

'''MATT:''' Oh, I've got that. Hang on, hang on.

'''MIKE:''' Strong Sad was originally gonna have like this Michael Stipe-sounding voice.

'''MATT:''' I do a really bad Michael Stipe impression.

'''MIKE:''' The first thing on the Yello Dello cartoon.

'''MATT:''' I don't sound anything like him.

'''MIKE:''' You did his first line both ways. And we decided the non-Michael Stipe one. He's the lead singer of R.E.M., everyone.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Yes. Popular rock group here in America.

''{audience laughter. Matt continues attempting to find the sound file}''

'''MATT:''' Or maybe I don't have it. Do you have it?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. Talk to them in a funny voice while I look.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Hmm? Oh, you woke me up! What are you doing here? Get out of my room!

'''MIKE:''' That's Strong Bad.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Funny jokes! ''{wimpering}'' I got lots of funny jokes to tell you guys.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER''' Strong Bad, you never answered my email.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' Yeah, you never answer my...fist—

''{audience laughter followed by applause}''

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Strong Bad}'' —to your mouth. I don't got the file. Umm..

''{Mike continues looking for the file and attempts to play sound but gets a loud buzz instead}''

'''MIKE:''' Sorry about that.

'''MATT:''' You should play both of them. You'll hear how different Strong Sad sounds now.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{slowly}'' I don't know, Homestar. That looks really dangerous.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Doesn't sound a thing like Michael Stipe at all. I don't know why I thought that- why I even referred to it as a Michael Stipe impression.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{early style}'' Well, I don't know, Homestar. That looks... really dangerous.

'''MIKE:''' That's the one that's actually in the cartoon which is pretty amazing 'cause that sounds just as much not like Strong Sad as the first one.

'''MATT:''' I was drinking some NyQuil.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, what else, guys? We're running low on time...

'''MATT:''' Yes? With the tuke on and glasses. Yes?

'''FAN WEARING GLASSES:''' Hey, what did you guys wanna- did you always wanna be cartoonists or did it just kinda happen?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, absolutely.

'''MIKE:''' The "happen" part.

'''FAN WEARING GLASSES:''' Did you ever try and work in video games or anything?

'''MATT:''' No. We don't know about that.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' We make maybe the mini—

'''MATT:''' I tried to. I applied right out of school I tried to apply to a couple of companies to try and write video games and I could hear them ripping up my résumé. And it was like before I even had my awesome like HTML website portfolio that I had up. And it was great. It was really impressive. But no, I went to school. Mike went to school for photography so we made dumb movies when we were kids and stuff.

'''MIKE:''' And dumb claymation movies sometimes, too.

'''MATT:''' Yes, it's true.

'''MIKE:''' And Matt even made this one-

'''MATT:''' Oh, I got some sweet deals for all y'all. ''{audience laughter}'' Hang on, where is it? Hang on... wait for it.

'''MIKE:''' All right. Any question for ME? No? Good. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When did you guys know you were kinda just gonna do be going this and not anything else?

'''MIKE:''' I don't know. It was sort of a transition. I mean, we- Matt- I've been doing freelance for a couple years before period Homestar so I would kinda go a few weeks here and there without doing anything but Homestar. But when Matt quick his job in I think August... 2002. He worked for Earthlink Internet Time. But at that time we still did the occasional freelance job doing some videos and websites and stuff for various things. And so it really wasn't a moment where we knew and we still- who knows? I still do the occasional freelance job.

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "lets animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|NYU Intro
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|A new game - 'Stinkoman 20X6'
Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|Original [[Trogador]]
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|Matt's "Scientific" animation suit
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-18T17:10:09Z

The Paper: /* Puppet Homestar Answers Questions */ +dash, number spelled out, description

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus- so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy- he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants—

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his- They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers- He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh—

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh—

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"—

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your—

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is—

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag—

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south—

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' —southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants—

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know- Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on TV?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out okay but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had—

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' —could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it re-installs this one printer.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show—

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation}''

''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do that.

''{audience laughter}''

==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is—''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These... I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you— ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does- we can't get good data.

'''RYAN:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be- that would be great.

'''RYAN:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This- I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions}''

''{Cut}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the brothers}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make it file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.

''{Full Screen [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] plays. Applause follows}''

'''MIKE:''' That was a lot of fun to make. Wasn't it, Matt?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and expertly shot, edited, and all special effects by Ryan. He's supposed to be up here with us, but now he's gone . His computer is taking forever.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar is taking his seat.

'''MATT:''' So, then what should we show them? Do you guys want to see any of this stuff?

''{audience responds affirmatively. Screen shows options such as "outtakes", "deleted scenes", and "your hair is messed up"}''

'''MATT:''' We didn't really have any idea of what we were gonna do.

'''MIKE:''' We used to do- we've done this a couple of times, and really have over the previous four years we have a pretty good backlog of stuff that wasn't on the website and that people haven't seen- we were gonna put all that stuff on a DVD and so now we just got like two months worth of stuff that people haven't seen, so it's not quite as much, but we tried.

'''MATT:''' All right, so wearing a wig on this trailer and I had some kind of problem where I can't stop touching—

''{[[Your Hair is Messed Up]] is shown, applause after it ends}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys. Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

''{Ryan enters the room on the left}''

'''MATT:''' There's Ryan. Is the puppet thing done or we still holding? And it's totally cool if it's not done.

''{Ryan's conversation with Matt is inaudible}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have just a QuickTime, we can probably- do you have- oh, you don't have input for this kinda thing. It's the like- what do you call it- monitor input. I don't you could—

'''MIKE:''' Hold on here just a second, guys. Matt, I will help Ryan.

====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====

''{Matt provides the voice of Homestar Runner as a puppet, holding it in his left hand}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Hi, guys. ''{nods repeatedly in response to audience laughter and applause}'' That's my favorite "muppet move" that I like to do. ''{repeats behavior}'' I'm like Fozzie Bear. If I had arms, I'd do that thing that Kermit would do it's like "woahhh" and flings his arms all around. I mean, I don't got none. Ummm, and now I'll take questions. No questions?

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Are you telekinetic or do you just move stuff—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Umm, I'm a cartoon and... maybe you shouldn't worry about it.

''{audience laughter and Mike returns to his chair}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Naw, I'm just playin', I'm telekinetic. I'm a super being. Limozeen "mr. talky" in the front row. What's up?

'''YOUNG AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Um, how do you type with no arms?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I- that was just answered. I use my brain. I'm telekinetic. I'm just a cartoon and you shouldn't worry about it. Yes?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other chara—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alain? With an "I"?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status quo, you guys?

''{Pause}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' eight minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's... that we shot today on campus here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna go.

''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Ow! Ow! Not on there.

''{audience laughter as Matt puts the puppet away near the microphone stand}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out—

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out when burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got- it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him}''

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a- Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there... stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies.

'''MIKE:''' Lotsa people like Jonathan that haven't seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our website. It so tempting, like some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like "well, we have that whole Coach Z thing". But we wanna keep it exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

''{Mike then opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks}''
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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know—

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and—

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad—

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and—

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and—

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew— Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our—

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or—

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we—

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right—

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and—

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do—

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube—

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's—

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be... you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or—

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like—

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing—

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like—

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade—

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "lets animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|NYU Intro
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|A new game - 'Stinkoman 20X6'
Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|Original [[Trogador]]
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|Matt's "Scientific" animation suit
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-18T07:26:30Z

The Paper: /* Peasant's Quest Video & More */ fix typo, a dash here and there

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus- so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy- he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants—

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his- They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers- He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh—

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh—

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"—

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your—

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is—

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag—

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south—

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' —southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants—

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know- Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on TV?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out okay but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had—

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' —could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it re-installs this one printer.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show—

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation}''

''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do that.

''{audience laughter}''

==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is—''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These... I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you— ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does- we can't get good data.

'''RYAN:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be- that would be great.

'''RYAN:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This- I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions}''

''{Cut}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the brothers}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make it file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.

''{Full Screen [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] plays. Applause follows}''

'''MIKE:''' That was a lot of fun to make. Wasn't it, Matt?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and expertly shot, edited, and all special effects by Ryan. He's supposed to be up here with us, but now he's gone . His computer is taking forever.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar is taking his seat.

'''MATT:''' So, then what should we show them? Do you guys want to see any of this stuff?

''{audience responds affirmatively. Screen shows options such as "outtakes", "deleted scenes", and "your hair is messed up"}''

'''MATT:''' We didn't really have any idea of what we were gonna do.

'''MIKE:''' We used to do- we've done this a couple of times, and really have over the previous four years we have a pretty good backlog of stuff that wasn't on the website and that people haven't seen- we were gonna put all that stuff on a DVD and so now we just got like two months worth of stuff that people haven't seen, so it's not quite as much, but we tried.

'''MATT:''' All right, so wearing a wig on this trailer and I had some kind of problem where I can't stop touching—

''{[[Your Hair is Messed Up]] is shown, applause after it ends}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys. Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

''{Ryan enters the room on the left}''

'''MATT:''' There's Ryan. Is the puppet thing done or we still holding? And it's totally cool if it's not done.

''{Ryan's conversation with Matt is inaudible}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have just a QuickTime, we can probably- do you have- oh, you don't have input for this kinda thing. It's the like- what do you call it- monitor input. I don't you could—

'''MIKE:''' Hold on here just a second, guys. Matt, I will help Ryan.

====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====

''{Matt provides the voice of Homestar Runner as a puppet, holding it in his left hand}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Hi, guys. ''{nods repeatedly in response to audience laughter and applause}'' That's my favorite "muppet move" that I like to do. ''{repeats behavior}'' I'm like Fozzie Bear. If I had arms, I'd do that thing that Kermit would do it's like "woahhh" and flings his arms all around. I mean, I don't got none. Ummm, and now I'll take questions. No questions?

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Are you telekinetic or do you just move stuff

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Umm, I'm a cartoon and... maybe you shouldn't worry about it.

''{audience laughter and Mike returns to his chair}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Naw, I'm just playin', I'm telekinetic. I'm a super being. Limozeen "mr. talky" in the front row. What's up?

'''YOUNG AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Um, how do you type with no arms?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I- that was just answered. I use my brain. I'm telekinetic. I'm just a cartoon and you shouldn't worry about it. Yes?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other chara—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alain? With an "I"?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status quo, you guys?

''{Pause}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' 8 minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's... that we shot today on campus here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna go.

''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Ow! Ow! Not on there.

''{audience laughter as Matt puts the puppet away near the microphone stand}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out—

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out when burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got- it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him}''

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a- Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there... stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies.

'''MIKE:''' Lotsa people like Jonathan that haven't seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our website. It so tempting, like some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like "well, we have that whole Coach Z thing". But we wanna keep it exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

''{Mike then opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks}''
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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know—

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and—

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad—

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and—

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and—

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew— Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our—

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or—

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we—

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right—

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and—

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do—

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube—

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's—

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be... you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or—

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like—

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing—

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like—

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade—

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "lets animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|NYU Intro
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|A new game - 'Stinkoman 20X6'
Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|Original [[Trogador]]
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|Matt's "Scientific" animation suit
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-18T07:24:19Z

The Paper: +dialogue Matt/Mike/Puppet Homestar/audience member asking questions, punctuation edit (dash, periods)

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus- so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy- he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants—

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his- They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers- He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh—

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh—

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"—

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your—

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is—

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag—

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south—

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' —southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants—

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know- Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on TV?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out okay but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had—

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' —could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it re-installs this one printer.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show—

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation}''

''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do that.

''{audience laughter}''

==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is—''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These... I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you— ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does- we can't get good data.

'''RYAN:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be- that would be great.

'''RYAN:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This- I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions}''

''{Cut}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the brothers}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make it file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.

''{Full Screen [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]] plays. Applause follows}''

'''MIKE:''' That was a lot of fun to make. Wasn't it, Matt?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and expertly shot, edited, and all special effects by Ryan. He's supposed to be up here with us, but now he's gone . His computer is taking forever.

'''MIKE:''' Homestar is taking his seat.

'''MATT:''' So, then what should we show them? Do you guys want to see any of this stuff?

''{audience responds affirmatively. Screen shows options such as "outtakes", "deleted scenes", and "your hair is messed up"}''

'''MATT:''' We didn't really have any idea of what we were gonna do.

'''MIKE:''' We used to do- we've done this a couple of times, and really have over the previous four years we have a pretty good backlog of stuff that wasn't on the website and that people haven't seen- we were gonna put all that stuff on a DVD and so now we just got like two months worth of stuff that people haven't seen, so it's not quite as much, but we tried.

'''MATT:''' All right, so wearing a wig on this trailer and I had some kind of problem where I can't stop touching—

''{[[Your Hair is Messed Up]] beings to play, applause after it ends}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys. Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

''{Ryan enters the room on the left}''

'''MATT:''' There's Ryan. Is the puppet thing done or we still holding? And it's totally cool if it's not done.

''{Ryan's conversation with Matt is inaudible}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have just a QuickTime, we can probably- do you have- oh, you don't have input for this kinda thing. It's the like, what do you call it, monitor input. I don't you could—

'''MIKE:''' Hold on here just a second, guys. Matt, I will help Ryan.

====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====

''{Matt provides the voice of Homestar Runner as a puppet, holding it in his left hand}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Hi, guys. ''{nods repeatedly in response to audience laughter and applause}'' That's my favorite "muppet move" that I like to do. ''{repeats behavior}'' I'm like Fozzie Bear. If I had arms, I'd do that thing that Kermit would do it's like "woahhh" and flings his arms all around. I mean, I don't got none. Ummm, and now I'll take questions. No questions?

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Are you telekinetic or do you just move stuff

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Umm, I'm a cartoon and... maybe you shouldn't worry about it.

''{audience laughter and Mike returns to his chair}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Naw, I'm just playin', I'm telekinetic. I'm a super being. Limozeen "mr. talky" in the front row. What's up?

'''YOUNG AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Um, how do you type with no arms?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I- that was just answered. I use my brain. I'm telekinetic. I'm just a cartoon and you shouldn't worry about it. Yes?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other chara—

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alain? With an "I"?

'''ALAIN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status quo, you guys?

''{Pause}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' 8 minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's... that we shot today on campus here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna go.

''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Ow! Ow! Not on there.

''{audience laughter as Matt puts the puppet away near the microphone stand}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out—

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out when burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got- it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him}''

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a- Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there... stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies.

'''MIKE:''' Lotsa people like Jonathan that haven't seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our website. It so tempting, like some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like "well, we have that whole Coach Z thing". But we wanna keep it exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]]}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

''{Mike then opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks}''
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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know—

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and—

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad—

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and—

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and—

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew— Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our—

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or—

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos—

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we—

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right—

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and—

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do—

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube—

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's—

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be... you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or—

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like—

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing—

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like—

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade—

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "lets animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|NYU Intro
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|A new game - 'Stinkoman 20X6'
Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|Original [[Trogador]]
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|Matt's "Scientific" animation suit
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-18T05:13:23Z

The Paper: /* Before The Introduction */ Mike said this

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions.}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus - so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy - he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants...

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his - They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers - He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh-

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh-

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"-

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's-

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"-

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your-

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is-

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away.}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag-

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south-

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' -southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants-

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know - Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on tv?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out ok but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had-

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' -could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted.}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it reinstalls this one printer.

''{group laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{group laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show-

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation.}''

''{group applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MIKE:''' I didn't do that.

''{group laughter}''

==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask.}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor.}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is— ''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask.}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These— I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far-

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you- ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does - we can't get good data.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan.}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be— that would be great.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen.}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This— I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running.}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions.}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back.}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words.}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions.}''

''{Cut.}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again.}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand.}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' -What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the Chapmans}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage.}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make it file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.'''

''{Full Screen Peasant's Quest Trailer plays.}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys; Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs.}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

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====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====
'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I...''{audience laughter}''...that was just answered, I'm-- I am telekinetic. I'm telekinetic. And it's just a cartoon, and you shouldn't worry about it and... all that. Yes?

'''A FAN:''' Did any other chara--

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alan...

'''A FAN:''' Yes.

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' ...with an "I"...

'''A FAN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack, that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status... quo, you guys?

''{Pause.}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' 8 minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's -- that we shot today, on campus, here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna... go. ''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}'' Ow! Ow! Now I'm there. ''{audience laughter}''

''{unintelligible noise.}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out --

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen.}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got--it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game.}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work.}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him.}''

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it.}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a - Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze.}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both.}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there. ''{pause}'' stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays.}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies.

'''MIKE:''' Lotsa people like Jonathan that haven't seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our website. It so tempting, like some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like "well, we have that whole Coach Z thing". But we wanna keep it exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows.}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]].}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

''{Mike then opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks}''

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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know-

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and-

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad-

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and-

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman-

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and-

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew- Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our-

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or-

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos-

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we-

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right-

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and-

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do-

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube-

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily.}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website.}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's-

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be- you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or-

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like-

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing-

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like-

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade-

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "lets animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|NYU Intro
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|A new game - 'Stinkoman 20X6'
Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|Original [[Trogador]]
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|Matt's "Scientific" animation suit
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-17T14:01:36Z

The Paper: /* After the Presentation */ +word, -letter

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions.}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus - so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy - he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants...

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his - They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers - He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh-

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh-

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"-

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's-

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"-

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your-

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is-

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away.}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag-

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south-

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' -southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants-

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know - Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on tv?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out ok but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had-

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' -could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted.}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it reinstalls this one printer.

''{group laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{group laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show-

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation.}''

''{group applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't do that.

''{group laughter}''

==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask.}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor.}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is— ''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask.}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These— I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far-

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you- ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does - we can't get good data.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan.}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be— that would be great.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen.}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This— I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running.}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions.}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back.}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words.}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions.}''

''{Cut.}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again.}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand.}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' -What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the Chapmans}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage.}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make it file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.'''

''{Full Screen Peasant's Quest Trailer plays.}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys; Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs.}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

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====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====
'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I...''{audience laughter}''...that was just answered, I'm-- I am telekinetic. I'm telekinetic. And it's just a cartoon, and you shouldn't worry about it and... all that. Yes?

'''A FAN:''' Did any other chara--

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alan...

'''A FAN:''' Yes.

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' ...with an "I"...

'''A FAN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack, that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status... quo, you guys?

''{Pause.}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' 8 minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's -- that we shot today, on campus, here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna... go. ''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}'' Ow! Ow! Now I'm there. ''{audience laughter}''

''{unintelligible noise.}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out --

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen.}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got--it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game.}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work.}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him.}''

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it.}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a - Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze.}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both.}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there. ''{pause}'' stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays.}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies.

'''MIKE:''' Lotsa people like Jonathan that haven't seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our website. It so tempting, like some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like "well, we have that whole Coach Z thing". But we wanna keep it exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows.}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]].}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

''{Mike then opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks}''

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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know-

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and-

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad-

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and-

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman-

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and-

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew- Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our-

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or-

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos-

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we-

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right-

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and-

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do-

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube-

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily.}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website.}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's-

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be- you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or-

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like-

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of your humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing-

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like-

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have the urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade-

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "lets animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|NYU Intro
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|A new game - 'Stinkoman 20X6'
Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|Original [[Trogador]]
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|Matt's "Scientific" animation suit
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-17T13:40:26Z

The Paper: +dialogue of Matt/Mike/audience members/NYU event staff

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions.}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus - so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy - he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants...

'''MATT:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT:''' Those are his - They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers - He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT:''' Uh-

'''MIKE:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And uh-

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"-

'''MIKE:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's-

'''MATT:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"-

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your-

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is-

'''MIKE:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away.}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag-

'''MATT:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south-

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT:''' -southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants-

'''MATT:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know - Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on tv?

'''MIKE:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out ok but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE:''' We did.

'''MATT:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had-

'''MIKE:''' Enough work days

'''MATT:''' -could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted.}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it reinstalls this one printer.

''{group laughter}''

'''MATT:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{group laughter}''

'''MATT:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show-

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation.}''

''{group applause}''

'''MATT:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't do that.

''{group laughter}''

==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask.}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor.}''

'''MIKE:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE:''' One of his arms is— ''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask.}

'''MATT:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These— I got—

'''MIKE:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far-

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you- ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT:''' I did.

'''MIKE:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT:''' Hey.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does - we can't get good data.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan.}''

'''MATT:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be— that would be great.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen.}''

'''MATT:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE:''' This— I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT:''' In the back.

'''MIKE:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running.}''

'''MIKE:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions.}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back.}''

'''MIKE:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words.}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions.}''

''{Cut.}''

'''MATT:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again.}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand.}''

'''MATT:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible}'' -What are you thinking?

'''MIKE:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the Chapmans}''

'''MATT:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage.}''

'''MIKE:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make it file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.'''

''{Full Screen Peasant's Quest Trailer plays.}''

'''MATT:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys; Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs.}''

'''MATT:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

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====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====
'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I...''{audience laughter}''...that was just answered, I'm-- I am telekinetic. I'm telekinetic. And it's just a cartoon, and you shouldn't worry about it and... all that. Yes?

'''A FAN:''' Did any other chara--

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alan...

'''A FAN:''' Yes.

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' ...with an "I"...

'''A FAN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack, that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status... quo, you guys?

''{Pause.}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' 8 minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's -- that we shot today, on campus, here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna... go. ''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}'' Ow! Ow! Now I'm there. ''{audience laughter}''

''{unintelligible noise.}''

'''MIKE:''' So, we took the puppet out --

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen.}''

'''MIKE:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got--it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game.}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work.}''

'''MIKE:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him.}''

'''MATT:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it.}''

'''MIKE:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a - Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze.}''

'''MIKE:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both.}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by.}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there. ''{pause}'' stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays.}''

'''MIKE:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies.

'''MIKE:''' Lotsa people like Jonathan that haven't seen it.

'''MATT:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our website. It so tempting, like some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like "well, we have that whole Coach Z thing". But we wanna keep it exclusive.

'''MIKE:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows.}''

'''MATT:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]].}''

'''MIKE:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

''{Mike then opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks}''

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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT:''' Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know-

'''MIKE:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and-

'''MATT:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad-

'''MIKE:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and-

'''MATT:''' Stinkoman-

'''MIKE:''' Stinkoman and-

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew- Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE:''' Um, no.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our-

'''MIKE:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or-

'''MIKE:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos-

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we-

'''MATT:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE:''' That's right-

'''MATT:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

'''MIKE:''' So we're winning a regular Nintendo game every week and we've won Kid Niki and Tom Sawyer and-

'''MATT:''' Strider

'''MIKE:''' Strider, Goonies II

'''MATT:''' We're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we're working on Bionic Commando right now.

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just out of curiosity, for the video with the explosions, who does the cutscenes? Is that Contra?

'''MATT:''' They were. Those are Contra explosions.

'''MIKE:''' You've done your homework. See that's right old video games, especially old video games. But we do-

'''MATT:''' We have GameCube-

'''MIKE:''' Xboxes, we've played the Halo 2, I think you guys call it. ''{audience laughter}'' All right, so that's it.

'''MATT:''' Yes?

''{Question inaudible. Presumably they're asked how many emails Strong Bad receives daily.}''

'''MIKE:''' Um, Strong Bad gets a lot. He gets maybe a thousand or two a day. So Strong Bad can't read all his email. But we, so we usually read several hundred on Wednesdays and Thursday's usually the day when Matt and I sort of rummage through the Strong Bad emails and try to find one for the next week's cartoon. So as for us, we get, you know, two dozen or something. No one really wants to talk to us. Yep?

''{Question inaudible, but contextually refers to the number of hits to the website.}''

'''MIKE:''' We used to get like 200,000 on Mondays, unique visitors, like a year or so ago. And we sort of don't really keep up with that kind of thing. So it's possible that it's-

'''MATT:''' We didn't want it to start affecting what we did, where it's just like, "Oh, no! Less people are coming to site. We have to bring Trogdor back or something." So we just decided, consciously, to just sort of stop paying attention to it. And as long as like when they pull the shirts off our backs then I guess that's when we'll stop making cartoons. But we didn't want it to be- you know, we wanna know that people like it, but it was like that sort of thing was almost like knowing too much. If sales are down, we don't wanna know because then it's like, "Oh...". ''{audience laughs}'' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What's your biggest influence as far as comedy goes? Sketch troupes or movies or-

'''MIKE:''' Nintendo, maybe?

'''MATT:''' The old batman TV show. Mudhoney. Um, what else?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, Ed Emberley. Skip Caray.

'''MATT:''' He's the commentator for the Braves. He's a really funny guy. Stuff like that. Our cousin [[Dan]]. ''{audience laughs}'' That kind of stuff. You know, we like-

'''MIKE:''' We like the comedy.

'''MATT:''' We like a lot of the comedy. Anybody else? Over there, Homsar shirt?

'''HOMSAR SHIRT FAN:''' Everything, a lot, all the humor on the website seems to be very good, very not offensive or anything like that. Have you guys ever been tempted to do something like, you know, more political or just anything like that? Or do you try to keep it very sort of like what- the goal of you humor is when, where for what audience?

'''MIKE:''' It's sort of to- there's so much political satire and social satire out there that sort of to allude itself from that would be as little of that as possible.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I mean we'll make, you know, these broad-sweeping things about teenage girls, but we don't wanna- you know, we're not gonna make some "Bush Iraq" thing-

'''MIKE:''' Like we didn't wanna like you know a lot of people when we said we were gonna- before we did the Peasant's Quest thing we put a button up on the site that said we were gonna be updating at halftime of the Super Bowl. And people were like emailing us like if there was gonna be a "wardrobe malfunction". I was just like, "No! That's the LAST thing."

'''MATT:''' So yeah, we- and as far as keeping it clean that was always just, you know, by virtue of we're making a cartoon and we're just like going from the cartoon stuff we watched like Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and whatever so, I don't know. Sometimes you wanna make Strong Sad cuss, but that'll be for the "Homestar after dark" series. ''{audience erupts with laughter}'' But it just largely doesn't come up. I mean there's not really no time where we're like-

'''MIKE:''' It's not like we're having to suppress it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Where it's just like we love, we love the swears. We love to cuss and swear every now and again just like anybody else. And dirty jokes, you know I'll listen. ''{laughter}''

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' We'll hear you out.

'''MATT:''' But it's just like it never even comes up. It's not like we're just, "If only we could make Strong Bad drop an f-bomb, that joke would have been so much funnier." And plus, there are just like people, like you know, whatever, South Park does that best so we'll just leave that stuff to those people. And especially at this point it wouldn't fit at all. We had somebody ask me one time, "You ever have the urge-" and they're just assuming that we're stoners, I guess, which is weird. Uh, but there's like, "Do you ever have urge to do this scene where like Strong Bad is taking a huge bong toke?" It's like, "No, why are you watching my cartoons ever?". ''{audience laughs}'' I mean, no, why would that be funny to you? So I made a cartoon for him of Strong Bad taking a huge bong toke. ''{audience laughs}'' A frozen bong toke and- no, I didn't. ''{talking to the event staff}'' Are we getting kicked- are people gonna come in soon? The SWAT team?

'''MIKE:''' Those are the economics classes coming in I think.

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You're fine. ''{louder}'' You're fine.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I didn't know what- was there a schedule? Were you supposed to go from seven- or six to six-thirty?

'''NYU STAFF MEMBER:''' You have until nine.

''{laughter}''

'''MIKE:''' Get comfortable.

'''MATT:''' All right. One time in third grade-

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "lets animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|NYU Intro
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|A new game - 'Stinkoman 20X6'
Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|Original [[Trogador]]
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|Matt's "Scientific" animation suit
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

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The Paper: -link to user page

—THE PAPER [[User Talk:The_Paper|PREEEOW]]

Talk:NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

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The Paper: /* Taking Dibs */ +comment for Tom (re: edited footage and permission)

==Wowzers==
I'll be personally attending this event tomorrow. And I'll be taking photos galore. If anyone is interested, the Kimmel Building is located at [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=60%20Washington%20Square%20South%20New%20York%2C%20NY&spn=0.022736%2C0.039312 60 Washington Square South]. I'm very, very, very excited. Does anyone else plan to attend? Perhaps we could meet or something.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 18:10, 28 Feb 2005 (MST)

:You should bring a video camera with you, so we can possibly do a transcript. That would be sweet.
:I wish I could go, but sadly, I cannot. It would rock to meet you, though. :) →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

Oh man! I wish I could go. I only live 40 minutes away from the city, but I have my theater group! (That's fun too.) I '''second''' on the idea about video taping it for the transcript (as long is it's okay.) I wonder if you'll get to meet TBC!!! →[[User:evin290|evin290]] 18:22, 28 Feb 2005 (MST)

==Additional info==
I was able to find some additional info [http://www.nyu.edu/ticketcentral/events.html here]:
<center><pre>Program Board Presents:
A DATE WITH HOMESTAR RUNNER
Tuesday, 3/1, doors at 5:45pm
Kimmel Center, Shorin Performance Studio, 8th Floor

A Date With Homestar Runner is a presentation by the Chapp
brothers & their video guy Ryan. There will be an awesome
puppet video shot around campus, your favorite cartoons and a
Q&A.

On Sale NOW at Ticket Central!
Tickets $3 with NYU ID, $4 with gov’t issued ID.
Must have NYU ID to obtain 'advance' tickets at Ticket Central.
Limit 2 'advance' tickets per NYU ID. </pre></center>
So yeah, I'm stoked.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 20:46, 28 Feb 2005 (MST)

:I sure wish I could go. Bring a video camera! →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

:Who are the "Chapp brothers"?? [[User:InterruptorJones|<nowiki></nowiki>]]— [[User:InterruptorJones|InterruptorJones]][[<nowiki></nowiki>]] 08:38, 1 Mar 2005 (MST)

== Update ==

Okay dudes, here's the scoop. After quite an adventure today, I managed to collect a whole bunch of video and some photos. I'll be doing my best to convert and upload the video so that you all can view and transcribe it. I learned quite a bit today, and I know you are all going to ''love'' the video. I'll keep you posted.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 23:57, 1 Mar 2005 (MST)

:Ooh... I can't wait. →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

:How did you get the video? Did you watch the show?? →[[User:socetew|''<tt>[[User:socetew|socetew]]</tt>'']]

::Yeah man, I managed to buy two ticket stubs from some guy. (He was somehow able to get back in with his NYU ID, and I was able to get in with the stubs.) I paid quite a pretty penny too. But I'd have to say it's the [[Best/Worst X bucks I ever spent|best forty bucks I ever spent]]![[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 09:10, 3 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::Ooooh!!! *steams* I want ticket stubs! I WANT TICKET STUBS!! →[[User:socetew|''<tt>[[User:socetew|socetew]]</tt>'']]

I'm all tingly! Good work Tom. [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 17:39, 2 Mar 2005 (MST)

:As am I. Not just good work -''awesome'' work. Awesome work, Tom. →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

::Thanks guys, but just wait until you see this thing! It's totally cool.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 09:10, 3 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::Can't wait for the video! Totally cool, eh Steve..er, Tom? So "totally cool that we don't even know it's totally cool" kind of cool? http://forum.hrwiki.org/images/smiles/icon_mrgreen.gif --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 09:23, 3 Mar 2005 (MST)

== Introduction: Doing a very crappy job ==

I'm sure that this summary will ultimately be replaced by a more accurate chronology of events and even a transcript. But for the time being, I went ahead and partially re-wrote the following:

<pre>Matt and Mike did a very crappy job introducing themselves and instead opted...</pre>

Feel free to change it back to how it is above. I just prefer not to use such slang (e.g., "crappy") - just trying to reduce the use of the colloquial in the article. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 11:44, 3 Mar 2005 (MST)

:It is not a colloquialism, it is a slang term. —<tt>[[User:woddfellow2|woddfellow2]]|[[User talk:woddfellow2|✎</tt>]] 19:12, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

== Video and write-up ==

Okay, here we go:
*[http://www.tompreuss.com/2005/03/06/the-brothers-chaps-at-nyu/ My write-up]
*[http://www.tompreuss.com/images/TBC_at_NYU_1_Mar_2005.avi.torrent Download the video] (torrent for 1.66 GB avi)
[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 21:14, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

:Video's not working. Tips? →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]
::Yeah, All it's showing is a bunch of (seemingly) random symbols. What's a torrent anyways? →[[User:evin290|evin290]] 21:26, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)
:::That's a third strike from my try too. And I was so looking forward to the video too! I want to see the bouncing eggs! Oh well, I'm sure [[User:Tom|the man with the plan]] will find a way... [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 21:33, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

::Oops. Okay, since neither the Wiki nor I have infinite bandwidth to spare, I've decided to user the [[WIkipedia:BitTorrent|BitTorrent]] protocol to distribute this file. Simply put, it works like this:
:#I have a big AVI file on my computer.
:#I create a special ".torrent" file for this AVI.
:#I upload the torrent file to my server and link to it from my web page.
:#You download this torrent file.
:#Your torrent handling program takes this file and uses it to contact my torrent handling program.
:#You start downloading the file from me. As you download, you also upload to others downloading.
::Yeah, not the best explanation, but everything you need should be in that Wikipedia article. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 22:02, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

Which Torrent handler do you recomend? [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 22:07, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

:I use [[Wikipedia:BitComet|BitComet]].[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 22:21, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

Thanks a lot for making the video. Now for the problems: I've noticed that the torrent uses the UDP tracker protocol extension, and thus is incompatible with most older (and some newer) clients. I also can't seem to connect to anyone except the seeder, and the download is excruciatingly slow, less than 1 kBps. At this rate, I estimate that it will take at least 19 days to complete. Am I the only downloader? - [[User:Meneth|Meneth]] 22:35, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::Well, I'm the only uploader. Any suggestions?[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 23:06, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

::Okay, I've never been much for computer problems being explained with bits, bytes, bandwidth and whatnot, so I'm hoping someone can help a layman (correct spelling?) like me. I downloaded the BitComet program, but what do I do now? I also downloaded the video file, which took about 10 seconds and came in as a Real Player file. So what do I have to do to acquire the actual video, or download it, or view it or whatnot? Thanks alot for getting it though Tom. At least it's out there... Somewhere... '''EDIT: Never mind, I think I got it figured out. It'll take a while, possibly days, right?'''
::Hmmmmm... It says the time remaining is 99:99:99. Any suggestions? (I think I got the same problem as [[User:Meneth|Meneth]]) [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 22:50, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::It sounds like your browser thought the ".avi.torrent" file was some other file. I'm guessing you renamed it "TBC_at_NYU_1_Mar_2005.avi.torrent" so BitComet should was able to open it. And yeah, it's going to take a long time. But the more people that download/upload, the faster it will go.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 23:06, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

::::This is going to take a long, long time. →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

::Yeah! After about 12 hours, I'm up to 1%!!! Only about a month and a half more, and it should be done! Oh well, better than nothing. At least I'll have something to look forwards to in the distant future... '''EDIT: 7:42 Pm another 12 hours later, and it's up to 1.1%. Maybe I should re-upgrade from 'Lite' Speed to 'Light' Speed...''' [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 11:44, 7 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::I spent about 5 minutes at it (at the moment, I've uploaded about 32KB and downloaded about 18MB) - So it seems like I'm getting the better deal, and it doesn't seem fair to other users - I'm sure that with more and more users connected, the rate at which we can download the file as a group will go up. I've seen the number of "Connected Peers" grow from four to eight (with a maximum of 14). So it looks encouraging. Just as the wiki is a collaborative effort - so is the idea of bit "torrenting" - Like [[User:Thunderbird L17|Thunderbird]], I hope I can get past that 1%. My percentage of the 1.66GB AVI file seemed to rush quickly to 1% and then my transfer rate dropped to zero after that (and for quite some time I might add). --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 16:25, 7 Mar 2005 (MST)
:::Update: Can any experienced torrent user (I'm using BitComet) explain why the following "one percent" situation is occuring? [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/ender_kg/ThePaper/07Mar2005.png view 1.0% screenshot here] [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/ender_kg/ThePaper/07Mar2005_b.png 3 hours later - 1.1%] --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 20:51, 7 Mar 2005 (MST)
::::That's because the swarm (the set of downloaders) has higher bandwidth than the uploader. - [[User:Meneth|Meneth]] 10:27, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

Could you put the file up on the Gnutella network? [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 20:19, 7 Mar 2005 (MST)
:That wouldn't be faster, unless you've limited your upload speed in BitComet. Come to think of it, a more likely explanation for the low speed (even a 28k modem should be faster) is that you have other torrents and/or p2p apps that hog your bandwidth. - [[User:Meneth|Meneth]] 10:27, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

I'm not running any other p2ps or other torrents. This 1kB/s stuff is killer. [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 22:20, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

The torrent tracker seems to be down, is it just me? --[[User:tmbg37|tmbg37]] 20:55, 7 Mar 2005 (MST)
:It's just you. Or your client, if it doesn't support the UDP tracking protocol. - [[User:Meneth|Meneth]] 10:27, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

:I don't think the tracker is down, tmbg37. The tracker is on a delay but it has continued to function - at least for me anyway. I've been connected since 8:30PM yesterday and so far I see about 9 users connected and all of them have what I have - 3.5% of Tom's AVI file. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 10:31, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

::I'm sitting pretty on 4.3% myself, though it looks like everyone else is also around 4.3 or 4.2. Ugh... someone join the chat. I'm lonely. →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

:::I'm at 4.6% after 25 hours. Who-who. I guess this works great if you are the last person on the planet to download something and not one of the first 20 [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 23:15, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::I've got a 4.8% chunk thus far (been connected for more than a day now). This torrent stuff is so...pretendous. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 22:41, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

::::I just realized it's somehow been off for the past day or so, since I rebooted the computer. Oh no, I've falled behind! I'm only at %4.1. I can't help but feel I'm caught up in some kind of Internet Dowloads pyramid scheme... [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 18:08, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::I'm at 5% and downloading pretty quickly-about 256 kb/s [[User:fahooglewitz1077|[[User:fahooglewitz1077|fahooglewitz1077]] | [[User talk:fahooglewitz1077|Talk]]]] 08:36, 12 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::Now I'm near 13% and at 300 kb/s. [[User:fahooglewitz1077|[[User:fahooglewitz1077|fahooglewitz1077]] | [[User talk:fahooglewitz1077|Talk]]]] 08:44, 12 Mar 2005 (MST)

I'm at 20%. Gosh, this thing's gonna take a while! [[User:Kilroy|<nowiki></nowiki>]]—[[User:Kilroy|Kilroy]]/[[User talk:Kilroy|talk]][[<nowiki></nowiki>]] 23:19, 12 Mar 2005 (MST)

===Seed problems?===

Have we lost the seeder for the torrent? There's no reason it should be taking ''this'' long to download the file, and all the peers seem to have the same 3.5%. Torrents are only fast if different peers can obtain different parts of the file... (connected for 23 hours now on a T1 line, no other bandwidth hogs running)

:I'm still here, and I never shut off the computer or disconnect by my own will, so don't worry about that. Is there some way I can set the thing to upload faster?[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 14:41, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)
::Use BitComet's Preferences dialog. Under Connection, check the Global Max Upload Rate. Under Task, check the Maximum upload rate per task. You can also check the Task Specific Settings. If that doesn't help, use NetLimiter or a software firewall (I recommend Kerio Personal Firewall) to make sure that there aren't any other tasks taking up all your bandwidth. - [[User:Meneth|Meneth]] 17:31, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

You could probably not use the torrent at all. You could split up the file into, say, 10 minute segments (or shorter, or longer.) Have that up for download. After a day (when almost everybody who wanted it had already gotten it) Upload the next segment, and repeat that process until everyone has everything. It will take long, but it won't be as complicated or annoying as this torrent stuff.

I also have another idea, but I'm not sure it'll work. Could you make the .AVI into a flash file? Would that make the file size smaller? →[[User:evin290|evin290]] 15:03, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)
:It could, but recoding the .avi with a smaller bitrate would have the same result. In both cases quality would suffer. - [[User:Meneth|Meneth]] 17:31, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

To all those who have the complete file: Please keep your torrents open!
And could someone please reencode it into something smaller? MPEG-4 anyone? I don't care so much for video quality I just want to know what happened (and I don't mean the writeup).

I'm so frustrated trying to get this video! Every client I use either at work or home does not connect to the tracker using the UDP protocol. Am I missing something? I even used BitComet which was recommended above. --[[User:Scooper12|Scooper12]] 08:49, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)

:I think the problem is that people are no longer seeding. After all, the file went up about a month ago, and I'm guessing there's been a rather limited audience.
:This is a disadvantage of Bittorrent; since there's no central server, there's no guarantee that there's a seed available.
:It might be an idea to create a smaller, more compressed version with VirtualDub and put it up here - of course, even that could be a lot of bandwidth, especially at first.
:If it can be compressed low enough, there's also the option of creating an account on another webhost with unlimited bandwidth. [http://b-one.net B-one] is quite cheap, and if someone creates a small personal site around it (and possibly divides it into segments), it won't be in violation of their ToS. :p
:If we were to do that, the price for a .com/.net/.org domain and hosting would be €70,80 per year, plus €30 in initial setup fees. Using a different domain, we can get it lower - such as €58,80 per year and €18 in setup fees (.de/.nl), or €60,80 per year and €14,75 in setup (.dk)
:(For reference, €1 is currently ~1.29 USD.) --[[User:Pidgeot|Pidgeot]] [[User_talk:Pidgeot|(t)]] [[Special:Contributions/Pidgeot|(c)]] [[Special:Emailuser/Pidgeot|(e)]] 16:10, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)

===Encouraging Milestone===
"First and 10" - See [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/ender_kg/ThePaper/firstat10.png screenshot]. I shouldn't brag about being the first "leecher" to have 10%. This is, however, encouraging as I've been connected for about three days and have one tenth of the desired AVI file...at this rate, I see just about everyone drawing off Tom's 'seed' to have all 1.66GB in a month. Does that seem reasonable? ...Or will it (the rate) pick up? --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 11:26, 10 Mar 2005 (MST)

===Gotta Break 4:40(%)===

...and we did! Nearly all of my peers are past 40%, and some are heading toward 50%. Despite having an ''Average Download Rate'' of 1 KB/s (on my machine, it say within 99h:99m:99s), it seems that the average rate of 3% a day has been blown away - at least that's what I've witnessed (as I had 19.5% of the file last night and now have 46.5%, quite a difference for just overnight!) Now, I know for sure that it won't take a month to see the treasure Tom recorded for us and himself - 20 minutes of Matt and Mike signing autographs until his camera's battery died and then what we believe to be the entirety of the performance - something to look forward to. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 22:18, 12 Mar 2005 (MST)

:I'm 45.6, nearly half way. My estimite says about 17, 18 hours left, which'll be awsome if it's right. [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 13:09, 13 Mar 2005 (MST)

::60.1 now. Man, I can't wait until it's over. My bandwidth's getting murdered. Anything I try to download takes forever, so I've been putting off all of my other downloads. [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 19:34, 14 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::60.1 here, too. More than half way there! →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

::::70.1% as of this morning. Too bad partially downloaded AVI cannot be viewed - otherwise I imagine the bulk of the transcript would have already been posted in the article. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 09:30, 16 Mar 2005 (MST)

Actually, partial AVIs can be viewed using [http://videolan.org/vlc/ VLC]. However, it doesn't work very well with torrented files unless one has over 90% or so. I tried it just now and got only a few seconds. By the way, has the tracker stopped working for you? I can't connect to it, or any peers. [[User:Meneth|Meneth]] 11:07, 16 Mar 2005 (MST)

:Woah, you're right. I've got 72% and have watched about 15 mins so far. It's a bit choppy but great stuff. -Jonathan

::70%. Getting there... I haven't watched any of it though, wanna watch the whole thing in one big chunk... [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 23:59, 16 Mar 2005 (MST)

::: Well, I managed to watch an hour. I think it's all there, apart from many frames and bits of sound between bits already there. So I think you can watch it all but until more is downloaded it will be very choppy. -Jonathan
:::: Correction, I was wrong. Since yesterday I've got 25 more mins. There is some amazingly cool stuff in there so I couldn't wait. :P -Jonathan

77%. Man, I need to finish this soon. Torrent just isn't designed for Lite Speed internet access. My bandwidth is dying a slow and painful death. At least the rest of my family can't understand why it's been running so slow and buggy lately... Heh heh... [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 17:33, 17 Mar 2005 (MST)

95%. Hopefully by tomorrow morning it'll be done and finished. [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 02:11, 20 Mar 2005 (MST)

===T-Bird's Code Problems===

Okay, I finished it, but have been trying for like 20 minutes to play it. Am I missing something? Do I have to convert the file from .avi.torrent to something else or something? I'm so close, and yet so far... [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 19:37, 20 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::It should end up as a straight AVI file, named "TBC_at_NYU_1_Mar_2005.avi". Is that what you have?[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 11:49, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)

Yes, that's the file name. But I try to play it using Windows Media Player, and get this:
<pre>Windows Media Player cannot play the file.
The file is either corrupt or the Player does not
support the format you are trying to play.</pre>
Don't tell me I have to do it all over again... Any ideas? [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 16:49, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)

:Hmm, do you have the right codec? I think you should be able to set Windows Media Player to download it. I used the XviD codec, so you'll just need a XviD mpeg4 decoder..[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 17:28, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)

::I searched Google, found a 'XviD mpeg4 decoder', I think, and tried my best to decode it. Could I be doing something wrong there? I also downloaded a 'GSpot Codec Information' thingie, following an Faq, which basically tells me everything about my video file, and it looks like it could somehow have become 'TBC_at_NYU_1_March_2005.avi.avi', with two avis. Is this possible, or am I reading it wrong? The file size is apparently '68,778 bytes', so is this the right size, or is the file really incomplete like Media Player keeps telling me? If any of these potential problems are the case, are there any ways to fix them? I'm not much of the computer code kinda guy, and I'm getting kinda lost in all of this. Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated, and all previous help is also appreciated and thanked for. Thanks. [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 19:32, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::No no, you don't need to do any decoding. The codec will just be installed so that your video player can decode it. [http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/ This codec here] should be what you need.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 09:28, 22 Mar 2005 (MST)

::::Yea, that's the one I already got, and it's still not working? Is 68,778 bytes the correct file size? Any other ideas? [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 16:37, 24 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::::Your problem is that the file you're trying to play is the .torrent, not the .avi. (Windows has a tendency to rename files with "dual" extensions upon download.) The movie should be in the folder you specified in your BitTorrent client. --[[User:83.88.139.125|83.88.139.125]] 04:48, 25 Mar 2005 (MST)

::::::Wow. I'm really stupid. 83.88.139.125, I love you. Seriously, you have made me so happy. THANK YOU!!!! [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 09:44, 26 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::::::Hey, no problem - after all, SOMEONE had to help. :P --[[User:Pidgeot|[[Wikipedia:User:Pidgeot|Pidgeot]] [[User_talk:Pidgeot|(t)]] [[Special:Contributions/Pidgeot|(c)]] [[Special:Emailuser/Pidgeot|(e)]]]] 10:59, 28 Mar 2005 (MST)

===Recompress?===
1.6 gigs is a little big for a video, I don't know how long the video is but it's pretty common to have 2+ hour movies at under 700 megs, so it would be much more convenient for most people to compress the video more. Just a thought ... ---JZ
: It's over 1 hour 25mins long. That's all I know. -Jonathan

===AIM?===
Would someone who has copies of the video on their computer volunteer to meet me on AIM at some point? Please let me know. -- [[User:The Brothers E|The Brothers E]]

:Sure Erinn. Shoot me an email with your AIM thingy and we can talk.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 17:45, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)

===Split===
To make the file smaller, try to split the video to different files. --[[User:81.230.154.89|81.230.154.89]] 13:41, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)

== Transcribing the video ==

Well, the video is a heckava long thing and the transcript will be aquard how it is right now (before presentation/prsentation) so here's my idea.

Have 2 completely seperate transcripts, "The Lobby" and "The Talk" or something, and split 'The Talk' up into about 1000 mini sections, like, "Stinkoman 20X6" "Peasant's Quest" and "Bubblegum Comics" to help organize the sections of the talk itself, obviously in order.

Also, if we do split up sections, using the talk page here we can pretty much, like, 'take dibs' on sections as this is one thing that I don't think one person can transcribe.

Opinions? -Jonathan

:I concur. Can you think of a way (besides the mini sections) to divide this article up without resulting in a 'heckava' long page? Or are you thinking we need to split this into several articles (i.e., one called 'NYU Talk - The Lobby' & NYU Talk (as it is now)? If we decide to keep it as one complete article, some may lean towards restricting the transcipt to just dialogue from the actual talk. However, some interesting questions are asked of TBC before the talk starts, so I don't know how to leave it. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 22:23, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)

::I'd like to keep this as one article. The sections seem like a good idea.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 11:00, 19 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::From a wiki organizational standpoint, I will agree with you that limiting the transcript of this event to one article is the best thing to do. However, I must bring to light something somewhat obvious here - when it's all said and done (err, listened to and written), what you recorded for us contains one hour and 54 minutes worth of video. Granted, not all of it is occupied by dialogue, but nonetheless, there will likely be much more than 32 kilobytes of text on this page. I know that my browser won't 'crap out', but I do know that strange things happen with extra long pages and this one is destined to be anything but short. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 02:44, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)

::::You're right. Let's see how it goes before we make make different articles though.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 11:47, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)

===Taking Dibs===
Me and many others have now managed to finish downloading it, and transcibing a 2 hour video is not a task for 1 man.
I vote we take dibs on all the different sections of this to transcribe and then everyone does certain parts.
I mentioned this above but I think now is the time to actually set up the dibs. How about a list of everything in order and you edit and put your name next to it with "Taken by (whoever)"
Let the VERY BIG TRANSCRIBING THING BEGIN!
-Jonathan

:As it stands now, I've got most of the actual "talk" part completed (saved on my computer, but I won't publish into the article until I've doublechecked what I've typed.) As for "taking dibs", I can handle everything up to (an including) the preview for Stinkoman 20X6. However, I would encourage those that have 100% of the file to verify the "In the Lobby" transcript that is currently on the article - I just realized that the bits and pieces that I watched when I had 78% of the video were a bit mixed up so the dialogue is slightly out of order and some is missing entirely. Thanks! --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 18:27, 20 Mar 2005 (MST)
::I took dibs on transcribing this event nearly five years ago. That's right, we're talking half a decade. There is simply no excuse for why this hasn't been completed by now. Granted, I have been out the Homestar loop since June 2007, but I still aim to finish the transcription. For history's sake, YouTube.com was still in the early stages of development when I first obtained the video. I do plan on uploading segments of this event in the near future. It won't take five years this time. Promise. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 12:22, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
:::Nice seeing you here! I know some people here are straining to transcribe something new. Can you upload it to a site that doesn't limit you like Google Video, so anyone can see the whole thing and help transcribe? {{User:Elcool/sig}} 14:38, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
::::Haldo, fellow sysop. That's the ultimate plan, but for now I've chosen four dialogue-laden sections located [http://www.youtube.com/user/preeeoww here]. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 18:25, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

:::::I'm happy to see that you edited it a bit. Thanks. I'd prefer that the conversations I had with my friend and all of the other bad footage was not floating around on the Internet in its entirety. -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 03:22, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
::::::Looking back, I should have obtained your permission before uploading any of it. I will remove all the clips without hesitation if you prefer. The editing program introduced terrible compression artifacts and doesn't do your footage justice. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 04:15, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

== Posters ==

At the actual NYU thing, before the whole dealy started, they were handing out posters to sing. They read:

<blockquote class="tandy email" style="text-align:center;width:650px;"> a>Every time that I look at myself, I can't believe how awesome I am!!!! 
<big style="color:white">A Date with 
Homestar Runner</big> 
a lecture by the Chapp brothers + their video guy 
Tuesday March 1st 
6:00 pm 
5:45 doors 
Kimmel Center 
Shorin Performance Center 
8th floor                              $3 NYU 
                                      $4 Non-NYU 
tickets at ticketcentral</blockquote>

The whole poster looked like the Tandy monitor, and there was a dim reflection of Strong Bad's mask on it. Also, Strong Bad was standing next to all the type.

:See [http://shadowx.fobby.net/homestarnyu/poster.jpg poster.jpg] from [http://shadowx.fobby.net/homestarnyu/ Brian Jaworski's writeup] for a picture.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 21:46, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)

::Hey, the link won't work. Any tips? Like, someone already saved the .jpg? {{User:Open Source Greg/sig}} 08:24, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

== Transcribing Change ==

Hey TBird, if we are going to do this like Flashforward, Should we change the section about before the confrence or whatever? {{User:Dacheatbot/sig}} 20:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

== Censoring ==

:''The following discussion was moved here from [[Talk:NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005 (censored)]] after it was decided that a censored version of this article was unnecessary.''
<blockquote>
===Overboard?===
Isn't it taking it a bit overboard to create separate articles in this case? — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:55, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
:Yes, I don't believe that "hell" needs to be censored.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 04:08, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
::I agree, also. Hell isn't much of a swear. [[User:Numa Numa|Numa Numa]]
:::Yeah. Just a "rude or vulgar language" warning should be more than enough.--{{User:Johnny Jupiter/sig}} 04:24, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

::::We don't have a warning on [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 3]] for when Cheerleader says, "Well, I think it's hella tight." So I see no reason to either censor the article or add a warning to it. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 04:31, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

:::::For that matter, there's no warning on [[Hell]].--{{User:Johnny Jupiter/sig}} 22:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
::::::Well, when it refers to the place (as this does), it's not a swear anyway. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 23:03, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
:::::::Yes, I, the creator, went overboard. Seeing as "hell" in this context doesn't need to be censored after all, this article is no longer needed, since there are no others swears in it. '''Delete'''. {{User:The Chort/sig}} 20:02, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
::::::::Complete '''delete'''. I'm the youngest user on this wiki and i use hell all the time.--{{User:Kanjiro/sig}} 20:07, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
</blockquote>

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-17T03:52:33Z

The Paper: rm 232 instances of "CHAPMAN". We know TBC by now!

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-17T03:46:24Z

The Paper: /* After the Presentation */ +dialogue of Matt/Mike/audience member questions

On March 1, 2005, [[The Brothers Chaps]] appeared at a talk at New York University. They showed many things including a [[Sample of Style]] [[Sample of Style Too|sequel]], a new game, and Puppet [[Homestar Runner]] touring around New York.

== Transcript ==

Below are the transcripts of the segments recorded by [[User:Tom|Tom]]:

=== In the Lobby ===

''{Matt and Mike are standing at a table before the presentation. Matt is holding a puppet Homestar and talks while Mike signs his autograph and sketches characters. Many fans begin to gather around to watch them as they answer questions.}''

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So you guys will be talking about the whole phenomena?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' I guess. I mean, yeah. We'll just be doing this kind of thing. We brought a bunch of stuff to show that's not on the website and things like that. And it will all be on the website at some point or on maybe another DVD or...yeah. But yeah, when we went out today, with the puppet, we shot some stuff around campus - so we'll show that.

'''A FAN:''' Did you already film that?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah, yeah. Ryan is our video guy - he's upstairs editing it right now actually. He'll burn a DVD of the show.

'''A FAN:''' Cool. How did you get They Might Be Giants...

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' They just emailed us. John Linnell just emailed us a while back. I guess at first we just like sent each other some free stuff...[indecipherable mention of shirts]...and then they were just like, "If you guys ever want to collaborate, just let us know and just-"

'''A FAN:''' Does Strong Bad have genitals on his boxing gloves?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Those are his - They're his ''hands''. Like so he doesn't have fingers - He can't take them off or he'd just be cutting his hands off. He's more of a masked, dressed creature. That's why his mouth is really the place where your mouth would go in and then there's a wrestling mask. ''{Matt uses his hands to demonstrate}'' It's like, you know if he was wearing a wrestling mask and boxing gloves and fell into a vat of radioactive goo and in turn then that melted it in to one.

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' So how did you guys start with this?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Uh-

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' We were just doing it for fun five years ago.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah. And uh-

'''A FAN:''' It's based loosely on the children's book, right?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Well yeah. Well, loosely the term "children's book"-

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' We just made like ten copies at Kinko's-

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah, and Mike and our friend Craig and it was just Homestar and Pom-Pom and The Cheat and Strong Bad ''{pause}'' and then after that just started around messing around with Flash and then...mostly out of demand from people started selling t-shirts and then pretty soon our dad was like, "You guys can probably quit your jobs"-

'''MOTHER OF A FAN:''' And so that supports your-

''{Matt answers while he signs an autograph}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah. So that's all we do is..is is-

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' He used to be a retired accountant.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah, so our dad's like...it helps to have a retired accountant for a dad.

'''A FAN:''' Where did The Cheat come from? Like ... was he just a Pokémon all along?

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' It was, uh, it was supposed to a... I hadn't heard of Pokémon 'cause it was '96 when we first drew The Cheat and he was more sort of this kinda to be this "sluggy" thing. Uh and uh and, yeah, then he ended up we first saw our first peek of Pikachu we were like, "Aww, geez".

'''A FAN:''' That's what they all say.

{''Matt leans down to sign an autograph. There is silence for a while''}

'''A FAN:''' How do you guys divvy up the like production stuff?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' It's pretty much fifty-fifty. Like, when we'll write it together. And once Matt's recording the voices I'll be in starting the animation and once he's done with the voices then we kinda just split the scenes up fifty-fifty.

'''A FAN:''' Do you guys still record on paper first?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' No. We kinda just do it on the fly. We don't have time for that. When it's Sunday night at five in the afternoon we don't have time for storyboards.

'''A FAN:''' You do The Cheat, right? The voice.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Yeah, when The Cheat makes cartoons I do all that- bad impressions of the characters.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''(to Mike)'' You don't have the gloves in your pocket, do you, anymore?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' I don't. No.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{hands an autographed poster to a fan}'' Um, that's for you.

'''A FAN:''' Thanks.

''{Matt gets out his cell phone as he turns to face Mike. He is going to speak with a manager about an issue regarding a ticket shortage. Matt then hands his brother the phone and Mike steps away.}''

'''A FAN:''' So you guys do this full time, like nothing else?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah, for almost like two and a half years now, I guess? We've been doing it. Mike did freelance...flash stuff and I worked for an Internet company and then we were able to just quit and do this for fun. Pretty awesome, yeah.

'''A FAN:''' Have you guys toured anywhere else?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' We've only done this a couple of other times...so, I went to Florida State University and so we went there and talked. And uh, and then we went to, we got to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Which ruled. So cool we had never been to Canada at all.

'''A FAN:''' They love wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' What?

'''A FAN:''' They ''love'' wrestle man in Canada.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Yeah exactly.

''{A fan shows Matt his Messenger Bag}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{pointing at the bag}'' Oh, wow. And you've got the patches and everything. Awesome.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This is, I think, the most apropos use of the patches.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah, hell yeah, that's great. ''{he points at the bag again}'' Nice work.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' This nice thing that unzips here, you don't even see the, uh, all the crazy Frankenstein stitching.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Right, yeah, exactly. ''{laughs}''

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' I was wondering what the purpose of that thing was when I first got the bag-

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' So you could sew stuff on. Right. And it still looks good.

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' ''{off-screen}'' I don't know why but these two always give me a craving for nachos.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Really?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{laughs}'' He's gotta little south-

'''FAN WITH MESSENGER BAG:''' He goes, "Eh Steve!"

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' -southwestern flair to him. That's funny because, uh, a friend of mine drew this, uh, it was from my wife and I's like wedding present. He like drew us this portrait with these weird versions of the Homestar characters and then the human version of Eh Steve he drew was this this guy with like- he looked like a flamenco dancer...guy he drew him, this like Latino guy and which was pretty cool.

'''A FAN:''' Am I the only person who wants-

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' wants what?

'''A FAN:''' ...little girl merchandise? [indecipherable]

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' I'll tell my sister that. Yeah, uh. Like she knows that it's on the web and like she's been to like- What? {interrupted by group laughter} But she knows that like. I don't know, that she knows that like a lot a lot of people have seen it and like it and stuff. And so it's like I don't know - Merchandise on her would screw her up even worse. We're like afraid that we've done irreparable damage to her.

'''A FAN:''' Where's Missy?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' She will be...coming down here. She was taking a nap.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' (To a fan off-screen who thanked him) Yeah totally, man. Thanks for making the hike.

'''A FAN:''' We were unable to get tickets

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Oh you guys can't get in either? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you doing school here?

'''A FAN:''' No. [indecipherable] We just found out about this.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''(In response)'' Oh you were just visiting up here?

'''A FAN:''' [indecipherable]

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Oh, you live here.

'''A FAN:''' We're from Washington College and we watched the first Strong Bad Email like five years ago.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' No way! That ruled! That was awesome, that's like right when we first started. I was actually living up here when I started.

'''A FAN:''' What about all the great work you did on tv?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' They came to us. We were on Pulse twice and then they came to us and then I guess they canceled that show. And then 'The Screensavers' came to us.

'''A FAN:''' The new format of 'The Screensavers' was good. You were- it was a lot of fun.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' I actually hadn't seen 'The Screensavers' for a while. It worked out ok but it was crazy. We were just filming that live upstairs with a webcam and [ran] down stairs because we have TiVo and rewind to see how it went.

'''A FAN:''' The world premiere of the Strong Bad puppet.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' That's right.

'''A FAN:''' My friend and I have been debating. Are you really gonna make a Peasant's Quest movie?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' We did.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' No, uh yeah. That was just- that was a joke. If we had-

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Enough work days

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' -could freeze time and like have a ton of money then we probably would. It would probably be a lot of fun.

'''A FAN:''' Can I get a quick picture of you guys if I get behind you?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah totally. ''{draws characters on posters}'' We haven't drawn our characters in years. ''{Stands up and holds the Homestar Runner puppet}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{looks off-camera and sees his wife}'' Hey! What's up? ''{introducing tone}'' Missy Palmer, everyone.

''{Camera pans left to show Missy Palmer. She approaches the table and the camera pans up to the ceiling briefly. Matt continues to listen and talk to fans and Missy and Mike talk in a low voice. Mike returns to signing autographs as Missy sits by herself behind them. Unimportant dialogue intentionally omitted.}''

===The Presentation===
==== Before The Introduction====

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' [I want the] All-in-One Installer off my machine. Every time I turn it on, it reinstalls this one printer.

''{group laughter}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' And I'm really sick of it.

''{Mike suggests something indecipherable}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{responding to Mike}'' Well you see I did that once and it just got it rid of the printer all together. And I ''need'' the printer. I don't want to do ''that'' every time.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' Do you want help now or do you want it later?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' No, really not now would be good.

''{group laughter}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Thanks, though.

'''A FAN IN THE AUDIENCE:''' I look at it after the show-

''{The computer screen changes to a DVD menu, signaling the start of the presentation.}''

''{group applause}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Our video guy Ryan made this in like the last hour, he made this. Which is pretty awesome.

''{Mike quickly plugs in a microphone and it causes a loud buzz sound}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' I didn't do that.

''{group laughter}''

==== Introduction ====

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Hi everybody.

'''THE AUDIENCE:''' Hi!

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' I'm Mike Chapman and this is my brother, he's called Matt Chapman.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' We are the two chief executive officers of the Thorax Corporation LLC. Comma comma period.

==== Sample Of Style Too ====

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Our little slave is running downstairs editing together and burning onto DVD right now. He's supposed to be done, but's he's not. So, he will run up here and give it to us and we'll show it at that time... But, in the meantime, we have some other stuff to show you that you may or may not have seen. Matt? Tell them what we did.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''We'' haven't even seen this yet. Have we?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' No we haven't.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' So I don't think you have seen it.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' As a precursor, we made a DVD a few months ago and there was some bonus stuff on it. One of bonus things was a little background information on how we did the sounds and how Matt did all the voices.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Behind the scenes.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Uh, behind the scenes, yes. For the website. And so if you saw that, this is sort of the "follow-up" to that. So...

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Here, here goes. ''{He says something to Mike and he whispers back}''

''{Video begins to play showing Mike in a red shirt with white text}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Hi ''{dodges a roll of duct tape thrown at him}'' I'm Mike Chapman. People all the time coming up to me on the street and asking me, "Mike, how do you do the animation for your characters on homestarrunner.com?" I tell them...you guys, we're about to go film something with the character Strong Bad being animated and I will show you how, to answer your question. Come on! ''{gestures with his hand}''

''{Cut to next scene where Matt is wearing an off-white mask currently flipped up on his head and he is wearing a "motion capture" suit. Behind him is a solid green screen}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' All right, we're set.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' We're ready to go. ''{As he says this, Matt flips down the mask he is wearing, which is textured like Strong Bad's face}'' Let's do this. ''{He begins to wave his arms as the camera zooms out}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Rolling! ''{Matt makes motions in his suit}'' That's good.

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' You know, so a lot of people think it is just straight-up Flash animation. Which is—

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' —A lot more advanced than that.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah, which is far from the truth. Far from it.

''{Cut. Matt continues to animate his body}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Gotta limber up... ''{more quickly}'' Gotta limber up. Ohh...surprising.

''{Cut. Matt is on the left and he lifts up his mask}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{To Mike, further right}'' Tell them how it's done. ''{starts laughing, hits Mike's shoulder}''

''{Cut. Matt's face is now obscured by the mask. Mike's back faces the camera}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' So tell them some more, Mike.

''{Matt waves his arms as Mike suddenly turns to face the camera.}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{gesturing to the suit}'' This is our motion capture suit. ''{Matt gradually lifts up the mask}'' On it, we have ping pong balls that are all the time sending out electronic messages ''{Matt laughs}'' through blue tooth reactors into the air, then they bounce off this pretty green wall which is represented and sent to the computer here. ''{As he is saying this, camera pans to show a laptop computer showing an image of Strong Bad}''

''{Video cuts to show a divided screen. On the left, Strong Bad is waving his arms up and down. On the right, Matt is waving his arms in an irregular pattern}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' K, now, Homestar's on your left, Homestar's on your left. Good. Good. Good.

''{Cut to previous shot with Matt on the left and Mike on the right}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Each ping pong ball represents one spectrum of blue tooth wireless mobility. ''{As he says this, Matt laughs and bends forward}''

''{Cut to show Matt close to the laptop}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{profoundly}'' You can talk to the suit, Mike.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Well, ''{taking a closer look}'' these ping pong balls ''{pauses, gestures with his hands}'' ''{Matt stares at him at the verge of laughter}''

''{Cut to show Matt with the mask flipped down. He continues to wave his arms about and then lifts up the mask.}''

''{Cut to show Matt sitting down and drinking a bottle of water}''

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{offscreen}'' How did the shooting go today?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{drinks more and then lowers bottle}'' Rough.

''{Cut to the green screen room. Mike is in front of the camera and Matt is behind him closer to the screen, cowering on the floor.}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Don't do that ''again! {throws ball at Matt}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Oww!

''{Cut to show previous shot with Matt sitting down}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{puts bottle on table}'' Overall I think we got some good stuff. We got some good stuff. Strong Bad, ahhhhh ''{wiggles his fingers disapprovingly}'' But, you know. Homestar ''{reaffirming grin}''

''{Cut to show close up of Mike sitting at the desk with the laptop. An image of Strong Bad waving his arms up and down is displayed.}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{looking to the right at Matt (offscreen)}'' Keep it up, we just got a few more sec— ''{The right arm of Strong Bad's image flickers and then disappears entirely. His left arm continues to move up and down}'' Whoa, hey hey hey hey. Hold on, hold on.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' What?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' What?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' We lost an arm.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{denyingly}'' No.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' One of his arms is— ''{he gets up from the desk}'' One of his arms came off. {Camera pans to the right to show Matt making motions. His face is obscured by the mask.}

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' I got it! I got it!

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Hey hey. ''{he taps on the mask}'' Wake up!

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Ahh! Ahh! I got it!

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{lifting up the mask}'' One of your arms came off. What happened?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{stretches out his arms and examines them}'' They look good to me.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Take a closer look. They ''don't'' look good to me.

''{Matt studies his left arm and starts to grin.}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{grabs Matt's right arm and holds it up}'' What is this? What are these? ''{rips the irregular balls off of Matt's arm}'' This is the problem right here. ''{repeatedly hitting the two balls together as Matt grins}''

''{Matt puts his mask down}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' These are— ''{laughs, lifts up the mask}'' These are wiffle golf balls. We need ping pong balls.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{pointing to the balls on his suit}'' These— I got—

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Table tennis balls. It's an Olympic sport.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{assuredly}'' I got ping pong balls.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' No, yeah, on everywhere else except for this part. That's why his arm disappeared. ''{holds the wiffle balls}'' These things have holes all over them. Looks like a mouse chewed through these things.

''{Quick camera cut}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Table tennis. What you said.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' These are practice golf balls. And so it doesn't go as a far-

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{interrupts}'' Guy from the sports place said.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Yeah but these aren't gonna work, though. The guy from the sports place isn't a technological genius like us. And what needs to be done is to make me look like liquid like animation.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{rubs his nose}'' Look, you- ''{his mask falls down on its own}'' You want to try on this suit? Hmm? For a day?

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting on the floor next to the wall}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Look. I do what I do because I love this job. That sounds like somebody's a little angry. ''{awkward pause}''

''{Cut to scene where Matt and Mike are sitting down holding video game controllers}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' You know, doing this with my brother.

''{Camera cuts to show Matt sitting at the desk with the laptop. He flips the mask down}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Careful ''{comes over and grabs Matt's shoulder}'' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Oww. ''{he abruptly gets out of the chair}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Get up, that's my chair. Get up, that's my chair. ''{sits down}''

''{Cut to show Matt waiving his arms in front of the green screen again}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Uh yeah, itchy man. Focization. Art of focization itchy man ''{he continues to move arms about in various poses until he flips down his mask and faces the floor}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{offscreen}'' Off the form there, ichy mayo. ''{Matt gets up}''

''{Cut to earlier scene where Mike is preaching Matt about the wiffle golf balls}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' I didn't buy those.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' I told you to go pick up some lunch and some ping pong balls and some duct tape.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' I did.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' You didn't get lunch. ''{looks to the balls in his hand}'' And you got these.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{grins and puts arms at his hips}'' I got ''me'' lunch.

''{After a short pause, camera cuts to show Ryan Sterritt sitting at a computer when Matt enters the door}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Hey.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{turns his head to face Matt}'' Yeah?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Hey, uh. ''{whispering}'' Can I talk to you for a second?

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' Yeah, come on in.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{approaches Ryan}'' Uh, remember the other day I, uh, asked you to go get, go get some ping pong balls for the...motion capture suit.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{nodding head}'' Yes.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah, um, I got in a lot of trouble. ''{Camera zooms in to clearly show the wiffle golf ball package Matt is holding in his hands}'' These aren't, these are wiffle golf balls. This one has holes. And I guess that does - we can't get good data.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' The guy at the furniture store said these were ping pong balls.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{belittling}'' The furniture store? You got these... ''{holds package up}'' They sell...wiffle golf balls?

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' Yes...''{moves his head incoherently}''

''{Matt starts to crack up as the camera cuts to show him in front of the green screen. He taps his feet back and forth and then he lowers his mask. Camera cuts again to previous scene in the computer room with Ryan.}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' He's a little steamed right now. So, if you could go ahead and... take the blame for all of this, that would be— that would be great.

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' He's out of line.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yea, exactly. Cool. Thanks man. ''{drops the wiffle ball package in Ryan's lap}''

'''RYAN STERRITT:''' ''{picks up the package, examines one of the balls}''

''{Cut to Mike sitting at the laptop with Matt in front of the green screen.}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{holding the end of a cord that is attached to his suit}'' I need you to plug this in.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Plug... this? ''{grabs the cord unsurely}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Where does this go?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' That's our main input.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' This— I don't have a plug this big. This is—

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' In the back.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Mm, ''{sticks the end of the cord behind the computer, humoring}'' There we go.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{humoring}'' We're all set. Okay.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' All right. ''{Pulls the other end of the cord out of his pocket}'' I mean, this is supposed to be—

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{humoring}'' Do your thing.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' —tucked in my pocket anyhow. ''{Cut. Matt is walking down the hallway toward the computer room}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Mike, did you uh, make that cartoon funny yet?

''{Cut. Mike is at the computer, watching an animated Strong Bad running.}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' That's good, keep going, keep going. ''{screen pans toward Matt in front of the green screen, doing running motions.}'' Good, good. Little bit more move your arms, little bit more of your arms. ''{Matt waves arms wider}'' And... yea. Turn your uh, head towards the front. And down, good. Bubs' Concession Stand, just about to pass, ''{Matt looks and points to his left}'' very good, point, yeah, yup. Here comes The Stick. Watch out for The Stick. ''{Matt jumps}''

''{Cut. Mike is sitting at the computer. Matt is standing in front of the green screen. Matt no longer has a Strong Bad mask, and is holding Puppet Marshie behind his back.}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Alright, uh so for this scene, we, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a lot of quick, action.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Okay.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{hands matt a ping pong ball}'' And um, maybe you can put this back on yourself. Um, all the, kind of martial arts moves, you know any hapedo, or I-peo, or ''{simultaneous unintelligible words.}''

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions.}''

''{Cut.}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Do you have a problem?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{gestures to Matt}'' This is motion capture Matt. It's my new friend, motion capture Matt!

''{Cut. Matt has Puppet Marshie back in his right hand and a black mask with a ping pong ball is covering his face. Matt does random martial arts motions again.}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of a doorway with Puppet Marshie on his hand.}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{Mock-imitating Mike Chapman}'' I'm Mike Chapman, and I don't know anything about my website. People ask me about it and I don't know what to say. ''{Throws Puppet Marshie to the ground. Walks offscreen waving arms wildly}''

''{Cut. Matt and Mike are sitting in chairs against the wall. Matt is inspecting his motion capture suit}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{unintelligible}'' -What are you thinking?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' I'm just letting- reminding you that we have a deadline. And that person over there thought it was funny.

''{Camera pans to somebody at a computer, then back to the Chapmans}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{unintelligible whispering}'' -right place- ''{unintelligible. Matt and Mike get up and walk out of the room}''

''{Cut. Matt is standing in front of the green screen}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Oops, we're out of time. You may be asking, "How do you animate the Homestar Runner character?" Well, I've got an answer for you: ''{holds up black underwear with two ping pong balls attached}'' You ''don't'' want to know!

''{Screen cuts to background of Puppet Homestar. Audience applauds. Matt walks back onstage.}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' That's the first time we've ever saw that. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' I just thought that you did a fantastic job. Uh, so that's how we animate our website. ''{laughter}''

====Peasant's Quest Video & More====

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' The last couple of years, we've been trying to do something for halftime at the Super Bowl. We've never gotten around to it and this year we planned far enough in advance to do that. So, in addition to doing that, we thought we'd make it file that was thirteen times bigger than any other file we've ever made. Put it up at halftime of the Super Bowl and tell everyone to check it. So, it didn't go, you know, the first, maybe two or three people got to see it okay. But anyway, so it's a big full-motion like three minute fake movie trailer for this video game that we made called Peasant's Quest. And, we made that. Do you guys want to see that or just the bonus stuff?

'''AUDIENCE:''' Show it!

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' OK. We'll show it, but nobody's seen it this big before.'''

''{Full Screen Peasant's Quest Trailer plays.}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' So, we actually have a couple of the cast members of the Peasant's Quest trailer in the house tonight. My lovely wife Jackie and my lovely friend Matt Gribbon. Sit up! They refuse to stand up. Matt expertly played two different guys; Mendelev and Dongolev.

''{audience laughs.}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Amazingly. And Jackie sat in our tool shed and played the peasant lady with the baby.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Should we show them the puppet thing?

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====Puppet Homestar Answers Questions====
'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' I...''{audience laughter}''...that was just answered, I'm-- I am telekinetic. I'm telekinetic. And it's just a cartoon, and you shouldn't worry about it and... all that. Yes?

'''A FAN:''' Did any other chara--

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Alan...

'''A FAN:''' Yes.

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' ...with an "I"...

'''A FAN:''' Did any other characters come?

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' Um... I'm the only one that fits in a duffel bag. ''{audience laughter}'' Strong Bad's too big. We need to make like a custom... carrying case. ''{audience laughter}'' And get some roadies. He's like a Marshall stack, that guy. ''{audience laughter}'' Um... what's the status... quo, you guys?

''{Pause.}''

'''PUPPET HOMESTAR:''' 8 minutes of it? Am I funny? ''{unintelligible}'' ...okay. Sounds like we've got something to show ya's -- that we shot today, on campus, here in New York... on campus. ''{audience laughter}'' I'm gonna... go. ''{Puppet Homestar is put back in his bag}'' Ow! Ow! Now I'm there. ''{audience laughter}''

''{unintelligible noise.}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' So, we took the puppet out --

''{audience applauds. Projector screen shows "WinDVD 4" splash screen.}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' That was my brother, Matt. So, we shot some puppet stuff today. And normally we have a little more time, but Ryan was able to put something together, but it crapped out burning the last little bit. So Matt, we have to stop it after me and Homestar are talking to Garfield...

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' What happens when I don't stop it before then?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Matt, it just isn't funny. So, we'll see how this goes. It's like eight minutes. It's the Homestar puppet and the rhinoceros shark-toothed bubs...toy. Uh oh, the DVD's not working. Maybe Ryan? That's cool, though. These people are cool with that, right?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Craig, do you have your iPod?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' I have my iPod in my pocket, does that count? ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{sarcastically}'' We go off without a hitch here at homestarrunner.com

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Things run smoothly!

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Does anyone have any questions while we wait for me and Mike?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Questions are always fun.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah, they take up a lot of time. ''{pointing}'' Yes, sir. Stand up so everyone can see and hear.

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' ''{standing}'' In 100 emails, the easter egg with the Limozeen members. Limozeen was congratulating Strong Bad on his 100th. Who were those four guys?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' They were me, and me, and me, and me. ''{audience laughter}'' I put on a black leotard, and taped some ping pong balls to it. Put a blonde wig on and Ryan took me into four dudes. It's pretty awesome. Uh no, so we've got--it's in our office we just painted. Craig was in town. Craig Zobel- Stand up, Craig Zobel. Craig Zobel invented Homestar Runner with Mike back in 1996.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' It's true.

''{audience applauds}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' And I stole it from him.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' He's what Coach Z is named after.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah, Bill Cramer is in the back. Bill, give him a high five. Bill would call him Coach Zobel, and that's where Coach Z came from. So we just steal things our friends say and sell t-shirts with them on them. ''{audience laughter}'' That's not true.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' And then we put our friends on the guest list to something like this and reward them for it.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' I hope they don't get angry.

''{Technical difficulties continue and the brothers talk back and forth about what to show next. They decide to show a preview for the Stinkoman 20X6 game.}''

====Future Game Preview - Stinkoman 20X6 ====
'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' We're working on a new game for our website homestarrunner.com and the game stars the character "Stinkoman". He used to be called "Stinkoman K".

''{There is a delay while the brothers attempt to get the computer's sound to work.}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' This has some good music that our friend [[Jonathan Howe|Jonathan]] made. He makes some games, but he also does some of the music for us.

''{The projection screen shows the start screen of the game. The opening cutscenes are shown and Matt provides the voice of Stinkoman. He then proceeds to demo Level 1.1. On Level 1.2, Stinkoman is freefalling with multiple [[Stinkoman_20X6_Enemies_and_Items|Mr. Ubbers and Clowders]] around him.}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' So this level's not completed yet. But obviously he's punching giant raindrops and clouds with propellers on them. ''{audience laughter}'' So that'll be posted on the website. ''{applause}'' Jonathan was supposed to be here and he got really sick so he wanted to apologize to everyone that he couldn't show you guys that. John is very talented. He made Trogdor and Peasant's Quest.

====Flash animation clips====
''{The presentation screen shows windows explorer. Open is a folder with about 40 files inside it.}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' I've got a bunch of stuff on here that I put on here. ''{pause}'' Okay, so when Matt and I and Ryan went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada last year, we had a - Matt and I challenged each other to make a cartoon on the plane. Here are two playing cartoons. Mildly amusing. This is mine. This is all this is.

''{A refrigerator on a beach is shown with two sheets of paper stuck on with yellow magnets. Grass in the lower left corner moves in the breeze.}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' The notes read "Kids, I'm on vacation. -Dad. P.S. I don't know where mom is."

'''AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Is that grass in the corner?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Yeah, I spent all my time on the grass. That's probably why it's not very good. And here's Matt's.

''{A dark yellow rectange with rounded-off corners appears. Inside on the top is the chemical formula "O2". Also inside is a silhouette of a man on the right. On the left is an oxygen mask with a mouth on the bottom. Mike provides the voices to both.}''

'''MASK:''' what is up, my dog?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' na'an. just loungin.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet. goin over to merbeck's tonight?

'''SILHOUETTE:''' dunno.

'''MASK:''' sweet, sweet.

'''SILHOUETTE:''' i really hate your girlfriend, man.

''{Now on screen we see a man looking out an airplane window. Moments later a fish swims by.}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{reading text}'' check it out, there are fish out there. ''{pause}'' stupid fish.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' I made a cartoon last night in my hotel room. And since I don't do the voices and stuff, I didn't have much to work with. So it's thirty seconds long

''{Mike reads the opening credits of [[An Open Forum]] as it plays.}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' And that's it. That's all I could muster. ''{audience applause}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Why don'tcha make cartoons like that for our website? That doesn't look like anything on our website.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' We could show 'em Coach Z "These peoples try to fade me" video?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Uh, we put out a CD a year ago, and there's a data track on it, you can put quicktime movies.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Lotsa people like Jonathan that haven't seen it.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' So, we wanted it to be exclusive so we never put it on our website. It so tempting, like some weeks when we don't have anything. And it's like "well, we have that whole Coach Z thing". But we wanna keep it exclusive.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' So here's the Coach Z video.

''{[[These peoples try to fade me]] video plays. Applause follows.}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' As director, The Cheat has rather sloppy Flash skills.

''{Mike opens the application Macromedia Flash 5. From there he opens a graphic of [[Nibbles]].}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Check this out. So I'm just going to show them...Nibbles! Look, it's the mini marshmallow version of Marshie. He's sort of a Nermal to Marshie's Garfield. He's much cuter than Marshie.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I wanna eat him!

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Marshie hates him.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{voice of Marshie}'' I hate that little thing! He's trying to take my job!

''{Mike then opens a Flash file with Homestar Runner made of Lego blocks}''

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====After the Presentation====
'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' So, what else, gang? Do you guys wanna ask some questions? Maybe we could open it up to a little "Q and/or A"? The occasional "A"... mostly "Q's".

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Anybody? Yes!

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' You guys collaborated with They Might Be Giants. I was just wondering was any other bands or celebrities that have contacted you guys in order to work with you?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Uh...

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{deep voice}'' No.

''{audience laughter}''

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' No, we did get to do a music video, hopefully about to get to do another one for Lou Barlow, which was awesome, idols of ours. We heard Beck (Hansen) was a fan, but we never heard from him. brucewillis dot com has a link to Strong Bad Emails, apparently. ''{laughter}'' very proud of. What else... Who else have we collaborated with? We've collaborated with- we have friends like in bands who we collaborate with, so, you know-

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' We keep to ourselves mostly.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah. I think that's about it.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' ''{to a sitting fan}'' Yes, mister on the floor?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Have you guys ever considered porting Homestar to a TV show. And if not, why not?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Uh, Mike?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' We have thought about it. We have decided not to. We like to keep it on the web. We like to do it on our own schedule and like to not have to worry about big, dumb TV people, and finding an audience. ''{light clapping}'' We have a nice audience already that we like very much and-

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' You guys. That's you guys. ''{light laughter}''

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' And as long as we keep doing it on the web and people buy, you know, we don't have to do other jobs, and buy a t-shirt or two then everything's good. We keep doing it for free and no ads and stuff like that, so, kind of a, you know, if it's not broke. What's that saying?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' You got it, Mike. ''{laughter}'' Yes?

'''FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' When Teen Girl Squad was created in one of his emails, did you expect that it would become such an entity unto itself?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Uh, no. We never at any time. Strong Bad-

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' All that stuff: Trogdor and-

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Stinkoman-

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Stinkoman and-

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Strong Bad just keeps making new, like, brands for us ''{laughter}'' on accident.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Cheat Commandos. All that stuff just happens and then we just kind of, you know, the stuff that we have new ideas for, like Teen Girl Squad, will keep going but then there's other things like Sweet Cuppin' Cakes where there's maybe two ideas and we've kind of done those. ''{laughter}'' We have like a weekly Sweet Cuppin' Cakes thing. Yes?

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{interrupting next question}'' We never knew- Oh, sorry.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Matt, keep going.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' I was just going to say was just that, with things like Teen Girl Squad, we just expected, you know, teen girls to be offended by it, or ''{laughter}'' And we found largely that's who digs it the most these days. And same with like any time Strong Bad makes fun of anybody it's always like we make fun of frat guys and then the frat guys love it even more. And we make fun of guitar nerds and then they love it and stuff like that.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Do you guys ever plan to do a cartoon or email where you show the Strong Brothers parents?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Um, no.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Yeah. We get- That's one of our-

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' That's replaced "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" as the email you get like one in five emails is "What do your parents look like?" And it's just something we, you know, the more things like that- the more they get asked, the less likely, ever, we are to deal with it.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' ''{talking over frequent audience laughter}'' That's just, you know, that's too much information. It's like, you know, we didn't need the episode where you go, you see where Moe lives from The Simpsons. And like, he has some personal problems, and it's just like now Moe is ruined because I know too much about Moe now. The "Ralph Wiggum syndrome" we call it. So we figured that, you know, I don't wanna- I don't wanna meet Strong Bad's parents.

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' I don't wanna make up any new characters. Yes?

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' Just from seeing a lot of stuff on the site, it seems like you guys are really heavily influenced by video games and things like that. Are you sort of "old school" gamers or was that a big part of your childhood, or-

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' Yes, we grew up playing Ataris and Colecovisions and regular Nintendos-

'''MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:''' What are some of your favorites?

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' You know, this year, our new year's resolution we've got pretty much every old video game system in the office and we-

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Mostly thanks to Craig!

'''MIKE CHAPMAN:''' That's right-

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' He's our "museum of old video games" curator.

''{cut}''

'''PURPLEFACE:''' I'm from Murfreesboro, by the way. And I wanted you to know that because of you, none of my friends here in New York can pronounce the name of my hometown correctly. It's always MurFREESboro.

'''MATT CHAPMAN:''' Wow. We never actually thought of people living there.
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==Brief Summary and Random Facts==
* The organizers of the event had no idea how popular the event would be, and only booked a room which held about 50 students. The tickets quickly sold out when made available to the students at their student ticket center. Unfortunately, the Brothers Chaps were unaware of the ticketing/seating situation, and mentioned the appearance on their website. People inundated the site, one family of four driving from Virginia to NYC that day, only to find no tickets available. Fans holding signs outside the center were offering cash in trade for tickets. [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cell phones as [[Strong Bad]] and/or Homestar.
* Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]]) where The Brothers Chaps told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; a complete version of "Sample of Style Too" was later released on [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four|Disc Four]] of the DVD set.
* They also showed the [[Peasant's Quest Trailer]], followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time. These were both included on the DVD [[Everything Else, Volume 1]], as [[Your Hair is Messed Up]] and [[Here's How We Made It]].
* They showed an old planned feature that never happened where [[Bubs]] shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines. This later became [[Bubslegum Comics]].
* They showed [[Coach Z]]'s "These peoples try to fade me" video, a secret on the [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits|CD]].
* The results of their "lets animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
* They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll (later renamed [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]]); both were samples sent by a Chinese company.
* A funny puppet short with Homestar traveling around the NYU Area, parts of which were released on Disc Four of the DVD set as [[Puppets on the Road]].
* They showed off a preview for the then-unreleased game, [[Stinkoman 20X6]]. It parodies the original NES MegaMan games.
* While there, Matt as the Homestar puppet devised amusing nicknames for some of the more interactive audience members. Some are mentioned in the transcripts: "Alan with an I" in reference to a male student named Alain (pronounced Alan) who received an autograph before the presentation, "Doo-rag" for a male student wearing a bandana on his head, and "Purpleface" for a female student who removed her purple NYU sweatshirt (the school's color) to reveal another purple NYU t-shirt beneath.
* Also in attendance were some of The Brothers' Chaps closest friends, including [[Craig Zobel]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], Matt's wife [[Jackie Chapman]], and [[Missy Palmer]]. Missy fielded questions in character as [[Marzipan]] as well. The Brothers Chaps introduced them to the crowd individually.

==Photos==
<gallery>
Image:TBC at NYU intro.jpg|NYU Intro
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Bubs_Comics.jpg|"Bubs' Dumb Bubblegum Comics"
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation2.jpg|"Processing" the data
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Stinkoman20X6.JPG|A new game - 'Stinkoman 20X6'
Image:trogador 20X6trogdor.jpg|Original [[Trogador]]
Image:TBC_at_NYU_animation.jpg|Matt's "Scientific" animation suit
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Rain_SB_HR.jpg|Rain drops keep falling on our heads...
Image:TBC_at_NYU_Pom_HR_Eggs.JPG|Hotel Room Animation - An Open Forum
Image:purpleface.jpg|An autograph for Purpleface.
Image:NYU_poster.jpg|An autographed promotional poster.
</gallery>

==External Links==
* [http://photobucket.com/albums/v510/ohuynh/A%20Date%20with%20Homestar%20Runner/] - A gallery of pictures by Alain with an I and friends.
* [[youtube:u5YJ9icCsrE|Introduction and video: Mike Chapman in a "motion capture" suit]]
* [[youtube:Zc2I09RkGJU|Preview of Stinkoman 20X6 before its release, and more on 3/1/05]]
* [[youtube:s4UMxm3NEuk|Preview of The Li'l Brudder Show, Bubslegum Comics, and other Flash clips]]
* [[youtube:68u6v3i400w|Shark-Tooth Bubs and Puppet Homestar in Public]]
[[Category: Interviews and Public Appearances]]

NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-17T01:23:06Z

The Paper: +link, -extra curly brace

Talk:NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

2010-03-16T18:25:58Z

The Paper: /* Taking Dibs */ +comment for ELCOOL re: uploading of entire 1.6 GB video file

==Wowzers==
I'll be personally attending this event tomorrow. And I'll be taking photos galore. If anyone is interested, the Kimmel Building is located at [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=60%20Washington%20Square%20South%20New%20York%2C%20NY&spn=0.022736%2C0.039312 60 Washington Square South]. I'm very, very, very excited. Does anyone else plan to attend? Perhaps we could meet or something.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 18:10, 28 Feb 2005 (MST)

:You should bring a video camera with you, so we can possibly do a transcript. That would be sweet.
:I wish I could go, but sadly, I cannot. It would rock to meet you, though. :) →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

Oh man! I wish I could go. I only live 40 minutes away from the city, but I have my theater group! (That's fun too.) I '''second''' on the idea about video taping it for the transcript (as long is it's okay.) I wonder if you'll get to meet TBC!!! →[[User:evin290|evin290]] 18:22, 28 Feb 2005 (MST)

==Additional info==
I was able to find some additional info [http://www.nyu.edu/ticketcentral/events.html here]:
<center><pre>Program Board Presents:
A DATE WITH HOMESTAR RUNNER
Tuesday, 3/1, doors at 5:45pm
Kimmel Center, Shorin Performance Studio, 8th Floor

A Date With Homestar Runner is a presentation by the Chapp
brothers & their video guy Ryan. There will be an awesome
puppet video shot around campus, your favorite cartoons and a
Q&A.

On Sale NOW at Ticket Central!
Tickets $3 with NYU ID, $4 with gov’t issued ID.
Must have NYU ID to obtain 'advance' tickets at Ticket Central.
Limit 2 'advance' tickets per NYU ID. </pre></center>
So yeah, I'm stoked.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 20:46, 28 Feb 2005 (MST)

:I sure wish I could go. Bring a video camera! →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

:Who are the "Chapp brothers"?? [[User:InterruptorJones|<nowiki></nowiki>]]— [[User:InterruptorJones|InterruptorJones]][[<nowiki></nowiki>]] 08:38, 1 Mar 2005 (MST)

== Update ==

Okay dudes, here's the scoop. After quite an adventure today, I managed to collect a whole bunch of video and some photos. I'll be doing my best to convert and upload the video so that you all can view and transcribe it. I learned quite a bit today, and I know you are all going to ''love'' the video. I'll keep you posted.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 23:57, 1 Mar 2005 (MST)

:Ooh... I can't wait. →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

:How did you get the video? Did you watch the show?? →[[User:socetew|''<tt>[[User:socetew|socetew]]</tt>'']]

::Yeah man, I managed to buy two ticket stubs from some guy. (He was somehow able to get back in with his NYU ID, and I was able to get in with the stubs.) I paid quite a pretty penny too. But I'd have to say it's the [[Best/Worst X bucks I ever spent|best forty bucks I ever spent]]![[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 09:10, 3 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::Ooooh!!! *steams* I want ticket stubs! I WANT TICKET STUBS!! →[[User:socetew|''<tt>[[User:socetew|socetew]]</tt>'']]

I'm all tingly! Good work Tom. [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 17:39, 2 Mar 2005 (MST)

:As am I. Not just good work -''awesome'' work. Awesome work, Tom. →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

::Thanks guys, but just wait until you see this thing! It's totally cool.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 09:10, 3 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::Can't wait for the video! Totally cool, eh Steve..er, Tom? So "totally cool that we don't even know it's totally cool" kind of cool? http://forum.hrwiki.org/images/smiles/icon_mrgreen.gif --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 09:23, 3 Mar 2005 (MST)

== Introduction: Doing a very crappy job ==

I'm sure that this summary will ultimately be replaced by a more accurate chronology of events and even a transcript. But for the time being, I went ahead and partially re-wrote the following:

<pre>Matt and Mike did a very crappy job introducing themselves and instead opted...</pre>

Feel free to change it back to how it is above. I just prefer not to use such slang (e.g., "crappy") - just trying to reduce the use of the colloquial in the article. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 11:44, 3 Mar 2005 (MST)

:It is not a colloquialism, it is a slang term. —<tt>[[User:woddfellow2|woddfellow2]]|[[User talk:woddfellow2|✎</tt>]] 19:12, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

== Video and write-up ==

Okay, here we go:
*[http://www.tompreuss.com/2005/03/06/the-brothers-chaps-at-nyu/ My write-up]
*[http://www.tompreuss.com/images/TBC_at_NYU_1_Mar_2005.avi.torrent Download the video] (torrent for 1.66 GB avi)
[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 21:14, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

:Video's not working. Tips? →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]
::Yeah, All it's showing is a bunch of (seemingly) random symbols. What's a torrent anyways? →[[User:evin290|evin290]] 21:26, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)
:::That's a third strike from my try too. And I was so looking forward to the video too! I want to see the bouncing eggs! Oh well, I'm sure [[User:Tom|the man with the plan]] will find a way... [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 21:33, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

::Oops. Okay, since neither the Wiki nor I have infinite bandwidth to spare, I've decided to user the [[WIkipedia:BitTorrent|BitTorrent]] protocol to distribute this file. Simply put, it works like this:
:#I have a big AVI file on my computer.
:#I create a special ".torrent" file for this AVI.
:#I upload the torrent file to my server and link to it from my web page.
:#You download this torrent file.
:#Your torrent handling program takes this file and uses it to contact my torrent handling program.
:#You start downloading the file from me. As you download, you also upload to others downloading.
::Yeah, not the best explanation, but everything you need should be in that Wikipedia article. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 22:02, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

Which Torrent handler do you recomend? [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 22:07, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

:I use [[Wikipedia:BitComet|BitComet]].[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 22:21, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

Thanks a lot for making the video. Now for the problems: I've noticed that the torrent uses the UDP tracker protocol extension, and thus is incompatible with most older (and some newer) clients. I also can't seem to connect to anyone except the seeder, and the download is excruciatingly slow, less than 1 kBps. At this rate, I estimate that it will take at least 19 days to complete. Am I the only downloader? - [[User:Meneth|Meneth]] 22:35, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::Well, I'm the only uploader. Any suggestions?[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 23:06, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

::Okay, I've never been much for computer problems being explained with bits, bytes, bandwidth and whatnot, so I'm hoping someone can help a layman (correct spelling?) like me. I downloaded the BitComet program, but what do I do now? I also downloaded the video file, which took about 10 seconds and came in as a Real Player file. So what do I have to do to acquire the actual video, or download it, or view it or whatnot? Thanks alot for getting it though Tom. At least it's out there... Somewhere... '''EDIT: Never mind, I think I got it figured out. It'll take a while, possibly days, right?'''
::Hmmmmm... It says the time remaining is 99:99:99. Any suggestions? (I think I got the same problem as [[User:Meneth|Meneth]]) [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 22:50, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::It sounds like your browser thought the ".avi.torrent" file was some other file. I'm guessing you renamed it "TBC_at_NYU_1_Mar_2005.avi.torrent" so BitComet should was able to open it. And yeah, it's going to take a long time. But the more people that download/upload, the faster it will go.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 23:06, 6 Mar 2005 (MST)

::::This is going to take a long, long time. →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

::Yeah! After about 12 hours, I'm up to 1%!!! Only about a month and a half more, and it should be done! Oh well, better than nothing. At least I'll have something to look forwards to in the distant future... '''EDIT: 7:42 Pm another 12 hours later, and it's up to 1.1%. Maybe I should re-upgrade from 'Lite' Speed to 'Light' Speed...''' [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 11:44, 7 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::I spent about 5 minutes at it (at the moment, I've uploaded about 32KB and downloaded about 18MB) - So it seems like I'm getting the better deal, and it doesn't seem fair to other users - I'm sure that with more and more users connected, the rate at which we can download the file as a group will go up. I've seen the number of "Connected Peers" grow from four to eight (with a maximum of 14). So it looks encouraging. Just as the wiki is a collaborative effort - so is the idea of bit "torrenting" - Like [[User:Thunderbird L17|Thunderbird]], I hope I can get past that 1%. My percentage of the 1.66GB AVI file seemed to rush quickly to 1% and then my transfer rate dropped to zero after that (and for quite some time I might add). --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 16:25, 7 Mar 2005 (MST)
:::Update: Can any experienced torrent user (I'm using BitComet) explain why the following "one percent" situation is occuring? [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/ender_kg/ThePaper/07Mar2005.png view 1.0% screenshot here] [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/ender_kg/ThePaper/07Mar2005_b.png 3 hours later - 1.1%] --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 20:51, 7 Mar 2005 (MST)
::::That's because the swarm (the set of downloaders) has higher bandwidth than the uploader. - [[User:Meneth|Meneth]] 10:27, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

Could you put the file up on the Gnutella network? [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 20:19, 7 Mar 2005 (MST)
:That wouldn't be faster, unless you've limited your upload speed in BitComet. Come to think of it, a more likely explanation for the low speed (even a 28k modem should be faster) is that you have other torrents and/or p2p apps that hog your bandwidth. - [[User:Meneth|Meneth]] 10:27, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

I'm not running any other p2ps or other torrents. This 1kB/s stuff is killer. [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 22:20, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

The torrent tracker seems to be down, is it just me? --[[User:tmbg37|tmbg37]] 20:55, 7 Mar 2005 (MST)
:It's just you. Or your client, if it doesn't support the UDP tracking protocol. - [[User:Meneth|Meneth]] 10:27, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

:I don't think the tracker is down, tmbg37. The tracker is on a delay but it has continued to function - at least for me anyway. I've been connected since 8:30PM yesterday and so far I see about 9 users connected and all of them have what I have - 3.5% of Tom's AVI file. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 10:31, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

::I'm sitting pretty on 4.3% myself, though it looks like everyone else is also around 4.3 or 4.2. Ugh... someone join the chat. I'm lonely. →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

:::I'm at 4.6% after 25 hours. Who-who. I guess this works great if you are the last person on the planet to download something and not one of the first 20 [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 23:15, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::I've got a 4.8% chunk thus far (been connected for more than a day now). This torrent stuff is so...pretendous. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 22:41, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

::::I just realized it's somehow been off for the past day or so, since I rebooted the computer. Oh no, I've falled behind! I'm only at %4.1. I can't help but feel I'm caught up in some kind of Internet Dowloads pyramid scheme... [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 18:08, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::I'm at 5% and downloading pretty quickly-about 256 kb/s [[User:fahooglewitz1077|[[User:fahooglewitz1077|fahooglewitz1077]] | [[User talk:fahooglewitz1077|Talk]]]] 08:36, 12 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::Now I'm near 13% and at 300 kb/s. [[User:fahooglewitz1077|[[User:fahooglewitz1077|fahooglewitz1077]] | [[User talk:fahooglewitz1077|Talk]]]] 08:44, 12 Mar 2005 (MST)

I'm at 20%. Gosh, this thing's gonna take a while! [[User:Kilroy|<nowiki></nowiki>]]—[[User:Kilroy|Kilroy]]/[[User talk:Kilroy|talk]][[<nowiki></nowiki>]] 23:19, 12 Mar 2005 (MST)

===Seed problems?===

Have we lost the seeder for the torrent? There's no reason it should be taking ''this'' long to download the file, and all the peers seem to have the same 3.5%. Torrents are only fast if different peers can obtain different parts of the file... (connected for 23 hours now on a T1 line, no other bandwidth hogs running)

:I'm still here, and I never shut off the computer or disconnect by my own will, so don't worry about that. Is there some way I can set the thing to upload faster?[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 14:41, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)
::Use BitComet's Preferences dialog. Under Connection, check the Global Max Upload Rate. Under Task, check the Maximum upload rate per task. You can also check the Task Specific Settings. If that doesn't help, use NetLimiter or a software firewall (I recommend Kerio Personal Firewall) to make sure that there aren't any other tasks taking up all your bandwidth. - [[User:Meneth|Meneth]] 17:31, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

You could probably not use the torrent at all. You could split up the file into, say, 10 minute segments (or shorter, or longer.) Have that up for download. After a day (when almost everybody who wanted it had already gotten it) Upload the next segment, and repeat that process until everyone has everything. It will take long, but it won't be as complicated or annoying as this torrent stuff.

I also have another idea, but I'm not sure it'll work. Could you make the .AVI into a flash file? Would that make the file size smaller? →[[User:evin290|evin290]] 15:03, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)
:It could, but recoding the .avi with a smaller bitrate would have the same result. In both cases quality would suffer. - [[User:Meneth|Meneth]] 17:31, 8 Mar 2005 (MST)

To all those who have the complete file: Please keep your torrents open!
And could someone please reencode it into something smaller? MPEG-4 anyone? I don't care so much for video quality I just want to know what happened (and I don't mean the writeup).

I'm so frustrated trying to get this video! Every client I use either at work or home does not connect to the tracker using the UDP protocol. Am I missing something? I even used BitComet which was recommended above. --[[User:Scooper12|Scooper12]] 08:49, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)

:I think the problem is that people are no longer seeding. After all, the file went up about a month ago, and I'm guessing there's been a rather limited audience.
:This is a disadvantage of Bittorrent; since there's no central server, there's no guarantee that there's a seed available.
:It might be an idea to create a smaller, more compressed version with VirtualDub and put it up here - of course, even that could be a lot of bandwidth, especially at first.
:If it can be compressed low enough, there's also the option of creating an account on another webhost with unlimited bandwidth. [http://b-one.net B-one] is quite cheap, and if someone creates a small personal site around it (and possibly divides it into segments), it won't be in violation of their ToS. :p
:If we were to do that, the price for a .com/.net/.org domain and hosting would be €70,80 per year, plus €30 in initial setup fees. Using a different domain, we can get it lower - such as €58,80 per year and €18 in setup fees (.de/.nl), or €60,80 per year and €14,75 in setup (.dk)
:(For reference, €1 is currently ~1.29 USD.) --[[User:Pidgeot|Pidgeot]] [[User_talk:Pidgeot|(t)]] [[Special:Contributions/Pidgeot|(c)]] [[Special:Emailuser/Pidgeot|(e)]] 16:10, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)

===Encouraging Milestone===
"First and 10" - See [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/ender_kg/ThePaper/firstat10.png screenshot]. I shouldn't brag about being the first "leecher" to have 10%. This is, however, encouraging as I've been connected for about three days and have one tenth of the desired AVI file...at this rate, I see just about everyone drawing off Tom's 'seed' to have all 1.66GB in a month. Does that seem reasonable? ...Or will it (the rate) pick up? --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 11:26, 10 Mar 2005 (MST)

===Gotta Break 4:40(%)===

...and we did! Nearly all of my peers are past 40%, and some are heading toward 50%. Despite having an ''Average Download Rate'' of 1 KB/s (on my machine, it say within 99h:99m:99s), it seems that the average rate of 3% a day has been blown away - at least that's what I've witnessed (as I had 19.5% of the file last night and now have 46.5%, quite a difference for just overnight!) Now, I know for sure that it won't take a month to see the treasure Tom recorded for us and himself - 20 minutes of Matt and Mike signing autographs until his camera's battery died and then what we believe to be the entirety of the performance - something to look forward to. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 22:18, 12 Mar 2005 (MST)

:I'm 45.6, nearly half way. My estimite says about 17, 18 hours left, which'll be awsome if it's right. [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 13:09, 13 Mar 2005 (MST)

::60.1 now. Man, I can't wait until it's over. My bandwidth's getting murdered. Anything I try to download takes forever, so I've been putting off all of my other downloads. [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 19:34, 14 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::60.1 here, too. More than half way there! →[[User:FireBird|''<tt>[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]</tt>'']]

::::70.1% as of this morning. Too bad partially downloaded AVI cannot be viewed - otherwise I imagine the bulk of the transcript would have already been posted in the article. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 09:30, 16 Mar 2005 (MST)

Actually, partial AVIs can be viewed using [http://videolan.org/vlc/ VLC]. However, it doesn't work very well with torrented files unless one has over 90% or so. I tried it just now and got only a few seconds. By the way, has the tracker stopped working for you? I can't connect to it, or any peers. [[User:Meneth|Meneth]] 11:07, 16 Mar 2005 (MST)

:Woah, you're right. I've got 72% and have watched about 15 mins so far. It's a bit choppy but great stuff. -Jonathan

::70%. Getting there... I haven't watched any of it though, wanna watch the whole thing in one big chunk... [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 23:59, 16 Mar 2005 (MST)

::: Well, I managed to watch an hour. I think it's all there, apart from many frames and bits of sound between bits already there. So I think you can watch it all but until more is downloaded it will be very choppy. -Jonathan
:::: Correction, I was wrong. Since yesterday I've got 25 more mins. There is some amazingly cool stuff in there so I couldn't wait. :P -Jonathan

77%. Man, I need to finish this soon. Torrent just isn't designed for Lite Speed internet access. My bandwidth is dying a slow and painful death. At least the rest of my family can't understand why it's been running so slow and buggy lately... Heh heh... [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 17:33, 17 Mar 2005 (MST)

95%. Hopefully by tomorrow morning it'll be done and finished. [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 02:11, 20 Mar 2005 (MST)

===T-Bird's Code Problems===

Okay, I finished it, but have been trying for like 20 minutes to play it. Am I missing something? Do I have to convert the file from .avi.torrent to something else or something? I'm so close, and yet so far... [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 19:37, 20 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::It should end up as a straight AVI file, named "TBC_at_NYU_1_Mar_2005.avi". Is that what you have?[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 11:49, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)

Yes, that's the file name. But I try to play it using Windows Media Player, and get this:
<pre>Windows Media Player cannot play the file.
The file is either corrupt or the Player does not
support the format you are trying to play.</pre>
Don't tell me I have to do it all over again... Any ideas? [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 16:49, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)

:Hmm, do you have the right codec? I think you should be able to set Windows Media Player to download it. I used the XviD codec, so you'll just need a XviD mpeg4 decoder..[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 17:28, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)

::I searched Google, found a 'XviD mpeg4 decoder', I think, and tried my best to decode it. Could I be doing something wrong there? I also downloaded a 'GSpot Codec Information' thingie, following an Faq, which basically tells me everything about my video file, and it looks like it could somehow have become 'TBC_at_NYU_1_March_2005.avi.avi', with two avis. Is this possible, or am I reading it wrong? The file size is apparently '68,778 bytes', so is this the right size, or is the file really incomplete like Media Player keeps telling me? If any of these potential problems are the case, are there any ways to fix them? I'm not much of the computer code kinda guy, and I'm getting kinda lost in all of this. Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated, and all previous help is also appreciated and thanked for. Thanks. [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 19:32, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::No no, you don't need to do any decoding. The codec will just be installed so that your video player can decode it. [http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/ This codec here] should be what you need.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 09:28, 22 Mar 2005 (MST)

::::Yea, that's the one I already got, and it's still not working? Is 68,778 bytes the correct file size? Any other ideas? [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 16:37, 24 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::::Your problem is that the file you're trying to play is the .torrent, not the .avi. (Windows has a tendency to rename files with "dual" extensions upon download.) The movie should be in the folder you specified in your BitTorrent client. --[[User:83.88.139.125|83.88.139.125]] 04:48, 25 Mar 2005 (MST)

::::::Wow. I'm really stupid. 83.88.139.125, I love you. Seriously, you have made me so happy. THANK YOU!!!! [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 09:44, 26 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::::::Hey, no problem - after all, SOMEONE had to help. :P --[[User:Pidgeot|[[Wikipedia:User:Pidgeot|Pidgeot]] [[User_talk:Pidgeot|(t)]] [[Special:Contributions/Pidgeot|(c)]] [[Special:Emailuser/Pidgeot|(e)]]]] 10:59, 28 Mar 2005 (MST)

===Recompress?===
1.6 gigs is a little big for a video, I don't know how long the video is but it's pretty common to have 2+ hour movies at under 700 megs, so it would be much more convenient for most people to compress the video more. Just a thought ... ---JZ
: It's over 1 hour 25mins long. That's all I know. -Jonathan

===AIM?===
Would someone who has copies of the video on their computer volunteer to meet me on AIM at some point? Please let me know. -- [[User:The Brothers E|The Brothers E]]

:Sure Erinn. Shoot me an email with your AIM thingy and we can talk.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 17:45, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)

===Split===
To make the file smaller, try to split the video to different files. --[[User:81.230.154.89|81.230.154.89]] 13:41, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)

== Transcribing the video ==

Well, the video is a heckava long thing and the transcript will be aquard how it is right now (before presentation/prsentation) so here's my idea.

Have 2 completely seperate transcripts, "The Lobby" and "The Talk" or something, and split 'The Talk' up into about 1000 mini sections, like, "Stinkoman 20X6" "Peasant's Quest" and "Bubblegum Comics" to help organize the sections of the talk itself, obviously in order.

Also, if we do split up sections, using the talk page here we can pretty much, like, 'take dibs' on sections as this is one thing that I don't think one person can transcribe.

Opinions? -Jonathan

:I concur. Can you think of a way (besides the mini sections) to divide this article up without resulting in a 'heckava' long page? Or are you thinking we need to split this into several articles (i.e., one called 'NYU Talk - The Lobby' & NYU Talk (as it is now)? If we decide to keep it as one complete article, some may lean towards restricting the transcipt to just dialogue from the actual talk. However, some interesting questions are asked of TBC before the talk starts, so I don't know how to leave it. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 22:23, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)

::I'd like to keep this as one article. The sections seem like a good idea.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 11:00, 19 Mar 2005 (MST)

:::From a wiki organizational standpoint, I will agree with you that limiting the transcript of this event to one article is the best thing to do. However, I must bring to light something somewhat obvious here - when it's all said and done (err, listened to and written), what you recorded for us contains one hour and 54 minutes worth of video. Granted, not all of it is occupied by dialogue, but nonetheless, there will likely be much more than 32 kilobytes of text on this page. I know that my browser won't 'crap out', but I do know that strange things happen with extra long pages and this one is destined to be anything but short. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 02:44, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)

::::You're right. Let's see how it goes before we make make different articles though.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 11:47, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)

===Taking Dibs===
Me and many others have now managed to finish downloading it, and transcibing a 2 hour video is not a task for 1 man.
I vote we take dibs on all the different sections of this to transcribe and then everyone does certain parts.
I mentioned this above but I think now is the time to actually set up the dibs. How about a list of everything in order and you edit and put your name next to it with "Taken by (whoever)"
Let the VERY BIG TRANSCRIBING THING BEGIN!
-Jonathan

:As it stands now, I've got most of the actual "talk" part completed (saved on my computer, but I won't publish into the article until I've doublechecked what I've typed.) As for "taking dibs", I can handle everything up to (an including) the preview for Stinkoman 20X6. However, I would encourage those that have 100% of the file to verify the "In the Lobby" transcript that is currently on the article - I just realized that the bits and pieces that I watched when I had 78% of the video were a bit mixed up so the dialogue is slightly out of order and some is missing entirely. Thanks! --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 18:27, 20 Mar 2005 (MST)
::I took dibs on transcribing this event nearly five years ago. That's right, we're talking half a decade. There is simply no excuse for why this hasn't been completed by now. Granted, I have been out the Homestar loop since June 2007, but I still aim to finish the transcription. For history's sake, YouTube.com was still in the early stages of development when I first obtained the video. I do plan on uploading segments of this event in the near future. It won't take five years this time. Promise. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 12:22, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
:::Nice seeing you here! I know some people here are straining to transcribe something new. Can you upload it to a site that doesn't limit you like Google Video, so anyone can see the whole thing and help transcribe? {{User:Elcool/sig}} 14:38, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
::::Haldo, fellow sysop. That's the ultimate plan, but for now I've chosen four dialogue-laden sections located [http://www.youtube.com/user/preeeoww here]. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 18:25, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

== Posters ==

At the actual NYU thing, before the whole dealy started, they were handing out posters to sing. They read:

<blockquote class="tandy email" style="text-align:center;width:650px;"> a>Every time that I look at myself, I can't believe how awesome I am!!!! 
<big style="color:white">A Date with 
Homestar Runner</big> 
a lecture by the Chapp brothers + their video guy 
Tuesday March 1st 
6:00 pm 
5:45 doors 
Kimmel Center 
Shorin Performance Center 
8th floor                              $3 NYU 
                                      $4 Non-NYU 
tickets at ticketcentral</blockquote>

The whole poster looked like the Tandy monitor, and there was a dim reflection of Strong Bad's mask on it. Also, Strong Bad was standing next to all the type.

:See [http://shadowx.fobby.net/homestarnyu/poster.jpg poster.jpg] from [http://shadowx.fobby.net/homestarnyu/ Brian Jaworski's writeup] for a picture.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 21:46, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)

::Hey, the link won't work. Any tips? Like, someone already saved the .jpg? {{User:Open Source Greg/sig}} 08:24, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

== Transcribing Change ==

Hey TBird, if we are going to do this like Flashforward, Should we change the section about before the confrence or whatever? {{User:Dacheatbot/sig}} 20:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

== Censoring ==

:''The following discussion was moved here from [[Talk:NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005 (censored)]] after it was decided that a censored version of this article was unnecessary.''
<blockquote>
===Overboard?===
Isn't it taking it a bit overboard to create separate articles in this case? — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:55, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
:Yes, I don't believe that "hell" needs to be censored.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 04:08, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
::I agree, also. Hell isn't much of a swear. [[User:Numa Numa|Numa Numa]]
:::Yeah. Just a "rude or vulgar language" warning should be more than enough.--{{User:Johnny Jupiter/sig}} 04:24, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

::::We don't have a warning on [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 3]] for when Cheerleader says, "Well, I think it's hella tight." So I see no reason to either censor the article or add a warning to it. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 04:31, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

:::::For that matter, there's no warning on [[Hell]].--{{User:Johnny Jupiter/sig}} 22:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
::::::Well, when it refers to the place (as this does), it's not a swear anyway. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 23:03, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
:::::::Yes, I, the creator, went overboard. Seeing as "hell" in this context doesn't need to be censored after all, this article is no longer needed, since there are no others swears in it. '''Delete'''. {{User:The Chort/sig}} 20:02, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
::::::::Complete '''delete'''. I'm the youngest user on this wiki and i use hell all the time.--{{User:Kanjiro/sig}} 20:07, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
</blockquote>

User talk:The Paper/Archive

2010-03-15T19:20:08Z

The Paper: Don't need THIS anymore

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== Floppy Screens ==

Those are awsome. I couldn't have done it better myself. Yea, feel free to continue uploading floppy disk screens, I'm being kept pretty busy with the floppy disk summaries anyways, so thats great that it frees up my time. I also like the 'King of Screenshots' title. I'm glad someone noticed. Please, feel free to "continue and... not stop". Me and you, we're gonna clean up this wiki. Whereever there is no pic, we will create a dozen in it's place! Hahahahaha!

Okay, gonna go continue the Floppy summaries. Bye.

-- [[User:Thunderbird L17|Thunderbird L17]]. 06:14, 8 Oct 2004 (PST)

Well, just thought I'd give you an update on the page you helped me build. It's done, and it's excellent. Links can always be added to fansites for the games of course, but overall it's done, up, and thanks to a grant from the cheat, and viewers like you, it looks really good. Feel free to check it out at it's new location, [[Floppy Disk Container]]. Thanks again, if you ever make any pages, and want some help, count me in. I'm always up for a project. [[User:Thunderbird L17|Thunderbird]] 00:25, 22 Oct 2004 (MST)

== Floppy Talk ==

Updated. What do you think? [[User:Thunderbird L17|Thunderbird]] 21:30, 27 Oct 2004 (MST)

:Awexome work, my friend. I hope TBC are looking at this wiki! --[[User:The Paper|Teh P.]] 19:49, 11 Nov 2004 (MST)

Hey thanks, I didn't think to look for double-links to the Wikipedia. Sharp eye! [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 14:54, 8 Dec 2004 (MST)

----

I replied to the message you left on my talk page. In case you didn't see it, it was this:
:I can't really take credit for the acronym -- that was [[User:Tom|Tom]]'s idea, after we spent a few minutes trying to decide on a name for it. I asked if we should pick a playful name or a boring and adminstrative name. So we hit on the idea of a boring name with a playful acronym. We decided on this one when Tom noted we could go "STUFF'D!" whenever something had to be moved. :P - [[User:furrykef|[[User:furrykef|furrykef]] ([[User_talk:furrykef|Talk at me]])]] 02:01, 21 Nov 2004 (MST)

== Screenshots ==

Well thank you for the compliment. Yea, that one was kind of hard to get, when I realized the old box was no more, I switched to another browser which wasn't updated yet, and snagged the screenshot before it was too late. Then a few hours later, when I had time, I tried to get the new screen. I was trying to think of how to get just a generic shot of it, when I realized that the first time or two, when you open it, it took a second to load, and had the generic title of homestar saying that quote, just on the picture. But you couldn't hear it. Of course I didn't notice that until it had already loaded. So once again I switced browsers, and managed to grab that one a few seconds before it loaded too. Since it was on the [[Main Page 9]], the paper one, the background was mostly white, so I was able to just edit out the non-white parts by filling in the parts that weren't shadowed. Thank you for your notice of a rather difficult screen. Btw, I've started a new section that requires alot of screens, I haven't really done any yet, Firebird has been taking care of that, but it's [[Halloween Costumes|here]] if you want to help. Thanks again. -- [[User:Thunderbird L17|Thunderbird]] 08:42, 24 Nov 2004 (MST)

:I'll be uploading as many halloween costumes as I can! --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 08:58, 24 Nov 2004 (MST)

== How Long Will The Paper Last? ==

I come bearing good news on [[The Paper]] front. I was a little astonished when I heard that the paper would only survive 55 episodes, or one year. However, if you take a sample year, such as the e-mail [[labor day]] to the release of the toon [[Labor Dabor]], only 31 emails transpired. Therefore, by those calculations, with [[Teen Girl Squad]], [[Marzipan's Answering Machine]], [[Powered by The Cheat]], [[The Cheat Commandos]], and other e-mail replacements, I belive that The Paper has a better chance of surviving for one year and about 40 weeks or so, making it's date of possible replacement circa September 5th, 2006, or late summer/early fall or so. That's my prediction anyways. -- [[User:Thunderbird L17|Thunderbird]] 08:53, 26 Nov 2004 (MST)

Well, if it takes that long, it might happen around the same time as the events listed in [[2 years]]. [[User:Clever Ben|Clever Ben]]

True, but 2 years were more of predictions I think, and not neccisarilly fact. This seems like they're really gonna do at least... Something though. To name the e-mail by name, it seems alot more concrete than 'sometime in two years, [[Coach Z]] moves into Strongbadia' Just my humble opinion though... [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 00:54, 5 Dec 2004 (MST)

:Actually, [[2 years]] should come to a finish before the printer, in 2005, since it was released 2003. But either way, I don't think anything will come of two years, (see above comment). [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 14:18, 10 Jan 2005 (MST)

== Lappy ==

So, does The Paper like his new brother? [[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 12:43, 29 Nov 2004 (MST)
:Of course! Anybody who can sport a Liquid Crystal Display is a friend of mine! -- [[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 12:49, 29 Nov 2004 (MST)

== A... Trophy? ==

I accept this incredible award with humble thanks and gratitude to all who have helped so much to get me this far, particularly the ones on my 'Favorite Users' list. And an extra helping of thanks goes out to [[User:The Paper|The Paper]]. I couldn't have done it without you buddy! [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 01:00, 13 Dec 2004 (MST)

== Quote Of The Week Flash File ==

Since you found the flash files for weekly fanstuff and sketchbook, (as told in sketchbook talk), I was wondering if you had the flashfile for quote of the week too, if there is one, for external links at the bottom of the page. Some way to see the new ones in fullscreen, like seeing fullscreen Fanstuff and Sketchbook. Do you follow? Is there a way? If you can, thanks in advance. [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 12:37, 30 Dec 2004 (MST)

:I went ahead and updated the External links section of that particular article to reflect the addition of the this flash file: [http://www.homestarrunner.com/qod.swf http://www.homestarrunner.com/qod.swf]. Thanks for asking! --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 23:41, 30 Dec 2004 (MST)

Thanks, now all three weekly features have External flash file links. Makes me happy they do. [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 02:11, 2 Jan 2005 (MST)

== Special Request Of A Task ==

Hi Paper! Thunderbird here again, with a special task for a few of my fellow users. On the [[Sketchbook]] page, in the [[Sketchbook#In The Museum|Museum]] section of that page, the last picture is a bunch of rejected halloween costume ideas. The caption gives the challenge '10 bucks to anyone who can identify them all'. So what I propose is to identify them all. I've already set up a basic 'top left to bottom right' type list under the 'Description' section, with the two most obvious costumes in it. But can we get the other costumes, and win ourselves $10? Any costumes you know would be a help. Thanks. [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 02:11, 2 Jan 2005 (MST)

:Update: The good Doctor Haggis was far faster with that task than I could have ever expected. All the costumes are done with the exception of one: The full body [[Marzipan]]. Many think that she is in fact Belle from Beauty & the Beast, but we're not quite sure about that. What are your thoughts? Any better ideas as to who this mystery Marzipans could be, or even just your opinion as to weather or not she's Belle? [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 12:10, 2 Jan 2005 (MST)

::You know, I haven't given this much thought lately. I suppose she could be belle, but I think the situation is moot at this point. But thanks for asking for my opinion. --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 18:36, 21 Jan 2005 (MST)

==DVD Floppy Screens==

Thanks pape, that's awsome. I was working and just got home, and was just about to check the thread. So I'm gonna do that right now, and start adding them the best I can to the Floppys list. Thanks man. [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 16:24, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)

:Okay, it's up. Sort of. Any way to get straight PNG pics from the DVD? I think they'll turn out better if you can. If not, it's a pretty good base. I'll be working away at it for another little while yet... (Oh, and Btw, feel free to use my Talk page whenever need be. That's what it's there for). Oh, and what do you think of my Userpage? I've been working on it lots. [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 17:19, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)

Thanks, you rock. I've been really busy due to a recent spike in work, so any help on [[Floppy Disk Container|page]] would be much appreciated. [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'']] 23:31, 10 Mar 2005 (MST)

::Thanks for your help anyways. At least SOMETHING is better than nothing. Btw, any ideas about the 'Cave Quest' one? Would there be any way to make a rotating picture of the two or something? (See [[Talk:Floppy Disk Container|that thar page]] fer more info). ''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'' 09:52, 10 Apr 2005 (MDT)

== Can people use those awesome FF&TB logos? ==

I'd really like to use them...

:Sure, you may use them. Please upload them to another server - don't hotlink them if you can help it. I encourage you to make an account on the wiki (so you can sign posts) and you may place them on your future userpage, too! --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 23:30, 26 Mar 2005 (MST)

== Database ==

I have a database ready, but wiki won't let me upload .xls files. I'll send it to you via e-mail if you give me your e-mail.
--[[User:DMurphy|DMurphy]] 00:42, 27 Mar 2005 (MST)

:Sent. --[[User:DMurphy|DMurphy]] 01:17, 27 Mar 2005 (MST)

::Thanks! *goes to check email* --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 01:20, 27 Mar 2005 (MST)

== Your donation attribution ==

Did you want your name displayed on the donation ledger and the thank you page, or just your username? I've got your name up there now with a link. Let me know if you want me to take your name down. Sorry I didn't fix this sooner. Thanks. [[User:JoeyDay|<nowiki></nowiki>]] —[[User:JoeyDay|JoeyDay]] [[User talk:JoeyDay|(Talk)]] 12:40, 12 Apr 2005 (MDT)
:I would like my user name to be displayed instead of my real name on the ledger and thank you page, if possible. Thanks. --[[User:The Paper|THE PAPER]] 10:10, 13 Apr 2005 (MDT)

==Thanks Pape!==

Not a problem, I would have done the same thing if I weren't so darn busy... And congratulations, you're now the first person besides myself to edit my userpage. (You could have just changed the whole link to just Floppy Disk Container, instead of leaving the 'Plus' on. That's what I did) Anyways... CONGRATURATIONS!!! ''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'' 00:23, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==Great Jorb!==
Wow, you updated ALL those links! Cool beans & keen gear! <tt>[[User:Homestar Coder|Aurora the Homestar Coder]]</tt> 18:00, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==Something Interesting...==

Hey Pape, long time no see. Howsabout you helping me out with something, again? This time, it's a webpage. Namely, [http://www.homestarrunner.com/processing.html this one]]. If you're wondering where I got it from, check the [[Strong Bad Email]] Fun Facts section. Anyhoo, I was just trying to figure out if this was also linked to in some other way on the site, incorperated into a toon or whatnot. I recognize it, but can't figure it out. But that's all just sidestuff. The reason I chose to tell YOU about this, was the fact that it involves the paper to quite an extent, it's in a different venue, is chewed and torn repeatedly, and is actually seen to be PRINTED OUT!!! So yea, that's about the size of it. I added it to the Fun Facts, and I feel it should be meantioned somewhere in relation with [[The Paper]], but am unsure exactly where or how. Since you are the resident Paper expert on the Wiki, I figured I'd leave it in your capable hands. So what do you think we should do? Should we even make a seperate Printer page or something, since SHE's been meantioned on [[invisibility|other]] [[montage|occasions]] as well? ''<tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]]</tt>'' 02:58, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

(P.S., on kinda a side topic, on the Paper page, under 'oddities', in 'invisibility', it meantions that the Printer is male, despite the paper being female. Then a comment is made that perhaps it is a refferance to computer parts being labled 'male and female' for obviousish reasons. So under the same line of resoning, Between a printer and it's paper, the Printer WOULD be female, and the Paper male. Get my drift? Anyways, if you want to somehow tactfully explain that on the page or whatnot, be my guest. But yea, there you go. There's my rambling done.)

== Sysop ==

Just letting you know, you have been given [[HRWiki:Administrators|sysop]] privileges. If you have any questions, never hesitate to ask. Thanks.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 14:09, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:Wow. This is quite an honor, Mr. Preuss. I will not let you down. Thanks a million. --[[User:The Paper|THE PAPER]] 14:14, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

::Yay Pape! You're the last one. Now me, Firebird, Jay, you, we're all sysops! Sysops rock! Congratulations man. ''<tt>[[Special:Contributions/Thunderbird L17|⇔]][[User:Thunderbird L17|Thunderbird]][[User talk:Thunderbird L17|⇔]]</tt>'' 06:26, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
::Grats, you deserve it :-) --[[User:DMurphy|DMurphy]] 02:44, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

== Video Files from Flash ==

How do you find out the URLs of videos withing flash files (like you did with [[Kick the Can]])? I would very much like to know how to do this. Thanks --jbo

:Thanks for asking, Jbo. I used a shareware program called "Flash Decompiler" to discover said URLs. I simply opened up [[HR:old.swf|old.swf]] in this decompiler program and then clicked on the "Scripts" tab on the "Resource Bar". I saw a bunch of code like this:
<pre>
// Button actions...

on( release ){
loadVariables("oldmovie8.swf","/screen")
}

// Button actions...

on( release ){
loadVariables("oldmovie6.swf","/screen")
}
</pre>

Then, I just copied and pasted just the filenames ('''[[HR:oldmovie.swf|oldmovieX.swf]]''') and subsequently saved them all to my hard drive so I could open each one to see which movie reel belong to which movie number.

You can download a free copy of Flash Decompiler program [http://www.flash-decompiler.com/download here]. Thanks for noticing such an interesting [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Kick_the_Can&diff=8342&oldid=8035 contribution] I made back in October 2004! --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 04:47, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

'''Thanks!''' This should help, once I get the hang of it. It could be that I'm trying to tackle too big of a fish too early on, but could you help me out on [http://www.familyguy.com this site?] In particular, I'd like to link to the videos under the "Video Clips" Seciton of Multimedia. Is it possible? --jbo

:Try opening up a file called [http://www.familyguy.com/shell.swf shell.swf] from that website and see what you can find under the "Scripts" folder in Flash Decompiler. Sites such as this use clever tactics to avoid "hotlinkers" by masking the true location of the video files so it's sometimes difficult to find the URLs of videos. Good Luck! --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 20:29, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

== Thanks ==

Oh, yeah! I forgot all about adding a new TGS link. But, where are the other links? Edit: Oh, wait. I saw them. Go back to what you were doing.

[[User:The_Ugly_One|The Ugly One]]

== sbemail redirects ==

Hey The Paper. Please see [[Talk:Strong Bad Email#Redirects|this discussion]]. Thanks. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 14:41, 19 Jul 2005 (UTC)

:A reply is on [[User_talk:It%27s_dot_com#Accused_deletion_of_sbemail_redirects|my talk page]]. (Sorry if you have my page in your watchlist. I wish it was possible to tell who did and didn't. I always watch a page for a while after I post a comment on it, but just in case my reply got lost in the hustle and bustle, I wanted to post a link to it here. (Mainly because you used the word "accused," when maybe what happened was closer to "misremembered." I don't know.) Either way, I've now taken up way too much space on your talk page here. ;) ) — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:19, 19 Jul 2005 (UTC)

== How do I join the welcoming committee ==

I want to help out on this site, and I saw you on the list for the committee, so I wanted to ask you how I can join. I put my name on the list by using the edit button, does that mean that I'm on the commitee?--[[User:Thecheat1234|Thecheat1234]] 23:16, 27 Jul 2005 (UTC)

:Yes! If you see somebody new, feel free to welcome them in the same manner [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] welcomed you. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 23:27, 27 Jul 2005 (UTC)

*I find out where all the new users are on Recent Changes, right?--[[User:Thecheat1234|Thecheat1234]] 00:30, 28 Jul 2005 (UTC)
:That is correct, TC1234. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 01:54, 28 Jul 2005 (UTC)

== Signature ==

How do I create an online signiture? Besides this:[[User: Ampi|Ampi]]? -Ampi
:Hi there, Ampi. I typed out some instructions your [[User talk:Ampi|talk page]]. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 01:54, 28 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Ever time i do my sig it comes out as:[[User:djm1791|{{User:djm1791/sig}}]] 05:09, 3 Sep 2005 (UTC) can you help?
:[[User:Some HSR themed username|Some HSR themed username]] has already answered your question on [[User_talk:djm1791|your talk page]]. Simply check "Raw signatures (without automatic link)" under preferences. Happy "signaturing"! {{User:The Paper/sig}} 05:40, 3 Sep 2005 (UTC)

== DVD images ==

Thank you, The Paper. Nothing quite spruces up a DVD page like your images. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 16:19, 5 Aug 2005 (UTC)

:Hey thanks. That is quite a complement, coming from you. You do a great job with the weekly fanstuff and sketchbook. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 16:29, 5 Aug 2005 (UTC)

== Store Images ==

Sorry about the images I uploaded earlier. I got about halfway through when I realized the quality was terrible. I just finished editing them and was about to upload the new versions when I got your message. I sort of stumbled upon [[User:Homestar Coder/Store|Homestar Coder's Store mockup]] and thought I'd finish it up. I've got it all finished, but I wanted to upload the pictures before I put the new store version up. -- [[user:mibluvr13|mibluvr13]][[User talk:mibluvr13|dígame]] 17:26, 6 Aug 2005 (UTC)

==Homestar's Shades==
I saw that you made a bigger version of the picture on [[Homestar's Shades]]. The picture of Homestar on Main Page 3 did not have his glasses on. I already fixed it. -[[User:Lotionman|Lotionman]] 05:45, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)Lotionman
:Thank you for fixing it! It is really funny, really. I got so caught up in making sure the image was PNG optimized that I forgot that Homestar wasn't even wearing his sunglasses in the bottom right corner. However, when you replaced it, the image seemed to be slightly blurred and the file size doubled. I have uploaded a replacement which is nearly identical to yours, except it is clearer and takes up 50% less space. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 14:55, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)

==Item vs. Character==
To the Paper-
Hi! I'm new so, can I have some help. You are part of the welcoming commitee, so I went to you. Also, [[The Paper]] is my favorite character. Why is he listed as an item instead of a character? - [[User:Tompkins]]
:Hi Tompkins. I'll give you an official welcome message on your talk page shortly. In the mean time, I will address your question: The main reason why The Paper is listed as an item instead of a character is because it has no speaking lines other than its sound effect "preeeeow" and the "Email Strong Bad" message. Also, The Paper does not interact with any characters other than Strong Bad. The Brothers Chaps said the following at the end of the [[animal#Commentary_Transcript|animal DVD commentary]]:

<div style="background:black; color:white; padding:8px; width: 550px; text-align:left">'''MATT:''' ...Over the years, The Paper definitely has become more and more of a— '''MIKE:''' A character. '''MATT:''' It should have been on that big characters poster we made, I think. '''MIKE:''' Yeah. It definitely has a personality.</div>

Nevertheless, most users on the wiki would still agree that The Paper is not a character. But personally I am still open to the idea. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 22:39, 20 Aug 2005 (UTC)

== Nice Jorb ==

Hey, nice job on your user page. You made it well. Keep up the good work! --[[User:Martin925|Martin925]] 04:47, 21 Aug 2005 (UTC)
:Thanks, Martin! I appreciate the complement. I also look foward to working with you on the wiki. See you around. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 04:59, 21 Aug 2005 (UTC)

== I Noticed ==
:Hi there The Paper. I noticed.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 17:51, 3 Sep 2005 (UTC)
::Trust you to notice. http://forum.hrwiki.org/images/smiles/icon_mrgreen.gif Thanks! {{User:The Paper/sig}} 21:35, 3 Sep 2005 (UTC)

== The Paper Sighting ==

Just read what [http://www.theaterhopper.com/index.php?strip_id=490 Tom] is reading there. Thought of you the second I laid my eyes on it. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 14:38, 14 Sep 2005 (UTC)
:Good find. It's funny when common things are labeled like that. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 15:57, 14 Sep 2005 (UTC)

== Tick ==

The reason I had <nowiki>[[Image:wiki_tick]] instead of {{tick}}</nowiki> was because that was before the template was made. Otherwise I wouldv'e made it a template. :-) {{User:Pertmywert/sig}} 23:04, 16 Sep 2005 (UTC)
:But of course. And as I understand it, JoeyDay changed the checkmark/tick icon from Green to Red. Guess it's just a matter of color preference. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 23:11, 16 Sep 2005 (UTC)
::I like the red one. {{tick}} {{User:Pertmywert/sig}} 23:18, 16 Sep 2005 (UTC)

== Flash cartoon redirect ==

Noice work, Clanky. We took care of them all. Good prize. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 04:58, 17 Sep 2005 (UTC)

:Um, I don't think you got them [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Homestar_Runner_%28flash_cartoon%29 all]. I'm going to have [[User:GrapeNuts|GrapeNuts]] take care of the rest of these. Is this project listed anywhere, or did you two talk about this in chat or something? I was trying to find another place to note that I was helping, but I can't find this mentioned anywhere else. Thanks. — {{User:JoeyDay/sig}} 19:34, 17 Sep 2005 (UTC)
::No, I didn't want to touch any redirects that users made on talk pages. I'm okay with letting them stay as redirects. It was just a little unspoken project that I started, and The Paper followed through on, just on certain namespaces. But, it's okay to use GrapeNuts. I just had a quick change of mind. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 19:38, 17 Sep 2005 (UTC)
:::The redirect links aren't just in talk namespaces (e.g. they are in the HRWiki namespace). I'll start with just those, and if there's really enough consensus here I don't see why we shouldn't change user and talk pages as well. '''EDIT:''' Heh, in fact, there was a very relevant bad link [[HRWiki:Projects#Links_to_be_fixed|on the Projects page]]. — {{User:JoeyDay/sig}} 19:49, 17 Sep 2005 (UTC)
::::Nice. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 19:55, 17 Sep 2005 (UTC)
:::::Okay, the ones in the HRWiki namespace are done, and I also did [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Television_Sightings&diff=0&oldid=146181 one] in the main namespace. Should I start on the User, User talk, and Talk namespaces? — {{User:JoeyDay/sig}} 20:01, 17 Sep 2005 (UTC)

== [[:Image:sbemail136.PNG]] ==

Hi The Paper! The image for [[geddup noise]] has an unwanted black border around it. I tried to upload a better version, cropping off the black border, but I realised the image was protected. Seeing as your online, can you please re-upload the image without the black border, or temporarily unprotect it so I can upload the better version? Thanks, {{User:Rainer/sig}} 12:41, 26 Sep 2005 (UTC)
:I've been meaning to upload a new one. I was sidetracked on another wiki project. Thanks for keeping me aware of this issue. There should a cropped version uploaded now. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 12:49, 26 Sep 2005 (UTC)

== Different Cursors ==

What kinds of different cursors are there? Besides the Arrow, Finger, and Crosshair? {{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}}

What the? Why did I post that on your user page? :S {{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}}

:There are several. You can find a complete listing in the [http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/ui.html#cursor-props W3C spec].[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 23:23, 30 Sep 2005 (UTC)

==Troll==
:Hi paper. Just thougt you ought to know that someone messed with the sandbox template. I fixed it, but it said that people who mess with it get blocked, and I figure you can. Their user was 68.101.68.101. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 01:28, 3 Oct 2005 (UTC)
::Thanks for letting me know, Bubsty. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 01:31, 3 Oct 2005 (UTC)
:np. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 23:33, 3 Oct 2005 (UTC)

==Email==

''{singing}''
"Everybody, check your email..." (Hint hint) {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 14:52, 7 Oct 2005 (UTC)

== Featured Article ==

Yep, I noticed that. I'm very impressed with how much it's evolved since I last saw things. Thanks for your help with keeping it going! -[[User:DMurphy|DMurphy]] 04:14, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
:You're quite welcome. I look forward to updating it with you in the future. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 04:18, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

== SBEmail +protect? ==

Hey The Paper. I was just wondering why you protected Strong Bad Emails. I thought it was our policy not to protect anything but the most critical things (i.e. widely used templates and the main page). — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:42, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
:If you check the [[Special:Log/protect|log]], you will notice that I unprotected it first, so it was already protected. It seems there is some sort of bug that allows previously-protected pages to be edited. I would suspect it was due to the recent upgrade to MediaWiki 1.5.0. Feel free to unprotect it again. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 02:35, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
::There's a simpler solution. Tom protected it from page moves only. You must not have checked the box when you re-protected it. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 03:09, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

:::I've unprotected and reprotected from just page moves. Hmm, we might want to submit a bug report for that (that is, that there's no distinction between the two types of protection in the log), or at least make it a feature request.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 06:39, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

==Donation==

I don't usually comment on donations, since it's kinda tacky, but I just had to comment on yours. Even if it wasn't on purpose, or if [[User:JoeyDay|JoeyDay]] floated a cent or two or something, it's still pure genius. [[$11.01]] on November 1st. Pure genius. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 05:55, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
:Hehe, thanks for noticing! I actually made a check out for that exact amount with the extra cent on purpose. I'm glad JoeyDay honoured my request to post it to [[HRWiki:Ledger|the ledger]] on Matt Chapman's birthday. I guess I'm treating it as a gift to him via the wiki. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 15:27, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
::Heck, that's brilliant, I wish I had thought of it. Now I've gotta come up with an equally clever ammount/date to match. Btw, I even got you a special meantion on the [[HRWiki:Ledger|ledger]]. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 05:33, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

== The Paper images ==

The Paper, I've noticed that some of your images, [http://fanstuff.hrwiki.org/images/b/bb/thepapersmall.PNG] [http://fanstuff.hrwiki.org/images/8/88/thepaper.PNG], are currently broken. I don't know if this is a minor issue with the Fanstuff Wiki, but perhaps you wanted to know. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 01:30, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
:Thanks for letting me know about this issue. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 12:20, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

== You deserve a pizza ==

[[Image:Bubs Old Pizza.png|thumb|150px|I'm buying you a pizza]]
Hey there The Paper, I just wanted to say that I think you deserve a pizza for re-uploading all of my crappy pictures for [[More Fan Costumes]]. Keep up the good work! {{User:Dantheburgerking/sig}} 03:26, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
:Hi there. Thanks! It's-a really appreciated. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 20:08, 16 November 2005

== A very electronic-type thank you! ==

Sir Paper, you are quite a kind chap! '''Stop'''

I thank you ever so, for the delivery of the telegramopicture to my electronic discussion page! '''Stop'''

You are now an honorary member of my group of meddling skinflints! '''Stop'''

Thank you once more! '''Stop'''

[[User:Sir Strong Bad|Sir Strong Bad]]

== Pewter Van Buren Award ==

[[Image:Pewtervanburen.PNG|right|thumb|Presidential glory!]]
Congradu'''r'''ations '''The Paper'''! You have won the [[User:Kookykman/vanburen|'''Pewter Van Buren Award''']] for your image-related exploits! - {{User:Kookykman/sig}} 17:53, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
:Thank you. Here's hoping that [[The Cheat]] doesn't throw it at anyone! {{User:The Paper/sig}}

==Hi==
Hi{{User:The thing/sig}} [[User:The thing|The thing]] 23:52, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
:Hi, the thing. Thanks for stopping by! {{User:The Paper/sig}} 00:14, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

== Where is The Paper? ==

Obviously, The Paper is attatched to Strong Bad's head--{{User:Benol/sig}} 16:08, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
:Uh... that theory doesn't exactly work. The Paper comes down from the top of the screen, but Strong Bad's head doesn't go up that high. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 03:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
::Actually, everyone is entitled to his/her own theory as nobody can be exactly sure. [http://www.strongfans.com/upload/thepaper/thepaperlocation.png This image] seems to clarify the situation. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 21:19, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
:::I think that the paper has no printer, and can spontaneously appear whenever it wants to. [[User:Bluebry muffin|Bluebry muffin]] 21:03, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
::::that image is hilarious. good times. {{User:Seriously/sig}} 17:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

== Image tags ==

How do you think we should tag the images from the NYU talk that you uploaded? We don't have a tag that that really seems to fit them, and I'm having a hard time coming up with a new one that would really be accurate for them. {{User:ACupOfCoffee/sig}} 19:45, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

: [[Template:pd]] or [[Template:permission]] would both work, depending on the copyright status of the images. Do we know who took the photos and do we have permission to post them? '''Edit:''' Oh, these are screen-caps of Tom's video, right? You'd have to find out from Tom if he's released that into the public domain or if he's retaining his own copyright and giving consent for these screen-caps. Other than that, the one that comes closest is [[Template:tv-screenshot]], but the wording isn't quite right because this is a home movie and not a tv show. — {{User:JoeyDay/sig}} 20:49, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

::See [[HRWiki talk:FAQ#Image tags]]. -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 21:14, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

==Coming June 2007, To A Computer Near You...==

Based on more recent calculations, I place the infamous email #173 around June of 2007 . Email #117 debuted on November 8th, 2004. Around a year later, we were at email #138. 138 - 117 = around 21 emails this past year. Therefore, the difference between 173 - 117 = 56 emails from the release of montage until the release of 173. 56 / 21 = 2.67 years after November 8th, 2004. That brings us to roughly around June of 2007. That's considerably later than my original prediction of September 5th, 2006, since we've had a slow Strong Bad Email year compared to the old trend of an email nearly every week. If it continues to slow in this fashion, we could be looking at it being replaced as late as 2008. I dunno, I was just bored and figured it was due for a recalculation. 
Eat Steak, 
-- {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 07:08, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
:Thanks for keeping me up-to-date with the calculations. I really hadn't thought about the eventual replacement in some time. I'll update that section on my page to reflect your newest prediction. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 15:07, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

::Thanks! Although it's still a ways off. The next milestone to look forward to is [[sbemail150|Number 150]] (link'll be red for a few months yet). {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 03:01, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
:::Actually, that be about to happen. ;) [[User:69.160.0.227|69.160.0.227]] 21:46, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
::::True. They've sure been speeding up production lately. Although I still think [[sbemail150|one five oh]] is weeks off. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 22:00, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
:::::There's a chance that they'll do what they did with 100, so you're right. I hope they don't though. [[User:69.160.0.227|69.160.0.227]]
::::::Man, what did I tell you?! He's procrastinating! Man, this sucks. Ah well. [[User:69.160.0.227|69.160.0.227]] 20:04, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey, whattaya know! The June 2007 prediction looks like it's going to either be very close or right on. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 14:38, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
:Well, TBC have been known to take extra time writing emails in which something dramatic happens. In this case, I think it'll take a week past Memorial Day. In memory of The Paper? I hate to see it turn out like this, but the last tie to the ol' tandy must be phased out eventually... :( *sniff* {{User:The Paper/sig}} 21:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

== the post ==

Hey The Paper, I just wanted to let you know I replied to your post [[User_talk:Stux#New_forum_account|here]]. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 17:11, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

== Favorite Quote ==

Hi The Paper. What is your favorite quote on homestarrunner.com? [[User:Gravy Train|Gravy Train]] 12:50, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
:Thanks for your question. Although it's difficult to single out just ''one'' favorite quote, I'd have to say that my favorite quote overall involves [[Homestar Runner]] in the email [[invisibility]]. He exclaims "Oh, hey, guys!", gets punched by floating boxes of [[Swiss Cake Rolls]], and then says "Owww! Those things are bad for you." Classic quote, and probably my favorite. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 14:30, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

== statistics spreadsheet ==

Do you still have it? The link on [[Strong Bad Email Statistics]] doesn't work, and I'm planning on going through it and completely update it real soon. {{User:ACupOfCoffee/sig}} 16:14, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
:I've since uploaded the excel file to the server again. See my comment on the [[Talk:Strong_Bad_Email_Statistics#Excel_file|talk page]] for more details. Thank you for reminding me. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 11:18, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

== Theory ==

Your theory about the paper can't work, because the characters can interact with it. It would have to be able to slide back and forth, as well as change size. {{User:Einstein runner/sig}} 00:29, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
:Which theory are you referring to? I haven't adopted any theory as of yet and on my page, I've simply provided others' explanations to show widely varying opinion. Nevertheless, thanks for providing your thoughts on the matter. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 08:01, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

== Hey friend ==

[[Image:Shades.png|thumb|right|100px|<3]]
Lemme get my money back for these cool shades.

I miss you.

—[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 22:22, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
:Hiya! Glad that someone missed me. Hey, maybe I'll stick around for a while? Thanks for the kind "weclome" back. =) {{User:The Paper/sig}} 22:27, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

== You sure it wasn't April 2? ==

Haldo, El Papel! Nice to see you again. Are you sure you didn't see the store update on Monday, April 2? I checked on Sunday morning and there was a slight [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Store&diff=438365&oldid=436824 update] to the front page news. I'm not sure if I checked the store after that. I might have done so on Sunday night and seen no update, but I can't remember. It seems more reasonable to assume they updated the store late Sunday night or on Monday. Or are you absolutely sure that you saw it on Sunday? What time? Write me back! Preeeow, [[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 13:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

:Hi! Thanks for the "weclome back" message. I'm in the Eastern time zone and I was browsing the store late on Sunday night. I was checking to see if the 10% sale had caused any items to sell out and I noticed '''flowers''' on the bushes. It had to be after 7PM because I came to the wiki first and saw [[Pan Pan]] as the newest featured article. This may have been shortly before midnight but I cannot verify that. Now that you mention it, an update to the footer after the sale that ended Sunday seems more likely. April 2 probably should be the official change date. Thanks for asking me about this because I know we both value accurate dates on the wiki. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 20:46, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

== Prediction ==
Your [[User:The_Paper#Future after Strong Bad Email #173?|prediction]] about email #173 coming in June '07 seems like it will be pretty accurate, since we're getting so close (I think mid-May is the expected week?) --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 21:38, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
:Hey yeah, you're right. I still hope Matt and Mike weren't serious about that "upgrade". I don't think that dot matrix technology should ever be replaced! Come mid-May, I think the 173 milestone will occur then if TBC continue to "churn out" new emails! {{User:The Paper/sig}} 22:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC)