New Boots
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Powered by The Cheat
The Cheat gets some "New Boots". With a Coach Z video, "Hip Hop Dance"!
Features: Strong Bad, The Cheat, Homestar Runner, Coach Z, and Nebulon
Page Title: Powered by The Cheat!!
Transcript
{This cartoon was created by The Cheat}. Strong Bad is singing to himself, while dribbling one basketball and spinning the other on his hand. He is wearing purple boxing gloves and his head appears to be rendered in clay. His pants are hiked up on one side so that his underwear shows on the other side. The Cheat enters wearing cowboy boots.}
STRONG BAD: Whoa, The Cheat! I can't believe what cool boots you have on, where did you get them?
{The Cheat responds}
STRONG BAD: Oh, I see; a cute girl and an astronaut gave them to you.
{The Cheat makes a noise somewhat like "Gimme a sandwich"}
STRONG BAD: Yes, I'll go get you a patty melt.
{He exits with his different body parts overcrossing. A giant fist, maybe Strong Mad's, sends Homestar tumbling onscreen. He is missing a shoe. A basketball which Strong Bad had left behind finally falls to the ground.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Dang The Cheat, I like your boots!
{Homestar's cell phone rings in his shirt. He answers it.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {On the cell} Thanks for calling me. The Cheat is wearing cool boots. Can I have my shoe back?
{His missing shoe comes flying in and hits him in the face.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER {On the cell}: Thanks one million, talk to you later.
{Strong Bad walks in as Homestar puts the cell away.}
STRONG BAD: {his arm briefly detaches from his body, then reattaches itself.}The Cheat I made your favorite, a picnic plate with wine and a baguette. {Smiles and a ding sound is heard} Can I get you something else?
HOMESTAR RUNNER: I'll have some, soup.
{Strong Bad's leg extends, shaping itself over The Cheat and finally trips Homestar.}
STRONG BAD: The Cheat, get that man some soup.
{The Cheat pours soup on Homestar's eyes.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: OK! Hot soup is on my eye.
{The Cheat jumps on Homestar's head and starts doing a hip-hop dance. A hip-hop beat starts up out of nowhere}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh no! Now you're doing a hip-hop dance on my head!
COACH Z: {Entering} Hey that's a good dance! {leaves}
STRONG BAD: High five, The Cheat!
{Strong Bad and The Cheat extend their hands into space, where they slap a high five. The words, 'A very high-five' appear for a moment then disappear. An alien named Nebulon floats on screen.}
STRONG BAD: {Talking through his hand} Get out of here, Nebulon! No one likes your style.
{Heartbroken, Nebulon floats off screen. A space-like sound signifies his departure}
STRONG BAD: {Talking through his hand} The Cheat, do you like Nebulon's style?
{We see Strong Bad and The Cheat watching the scene in The Cheat's Computer Room.}
STRONG BAD: PURPLE BOXING GLOVES?! Did you do any fact-checking before you turned this in? What if I did that to you? Oh yeah, The Cheat, he's a... striped, green rabbit! With two butts!
{The Cheat responds angrily}
STRONG BAD: And you made my underwears showing! Everybody knows I don't wear underwears!
{The Cheat responds glumly}
STRONG BAD: Mmm... all right... You get an... iron cup. Full of Brunswick Stew. {places cup of stew on table}
{The Cheat responds excitedly and pushes the cup over to his side of the table}
STRONG BAD: But lemme tell ya's. With a little extra effort, it would have been a trophy full of Steak-ums.
(The Cheat responds glumly}
STRONG BAD: Guy drops a couple of JPEGs in his cartoon and thinks he's like, the guy who draws The Lockhorns or something. Now that guy knows funny!
{Fade to black, cut to Coach Z's Hip Hop Dance music video.}
Easter Eggs
- Click on The Cheat's computer screen when Strong Bad says "Oh yeah, The Cheat; he's a... striped green rabbit with two butts" and you will see a The Cheat render of such a rabbit.
- Click on The Cheat's computer screen when Strong Bad mentions "the guy who draws The Lockhorns" to see a The Lockhorns-style The Cheat
- During Coach Z's video, there is a small 3-D clip for those of you who remember the end of stunt double.
Fun Facts
- The 8-bit sprite of Coach Z running back and forth during his video is a re-rendering of Capcom's original Mega Man.
- The part about pouring hot soup in Homestar's eyes is a reference to different town.
- The alien is from Main Page 1.
- You can see the striped green bunny fly by in the Coach Z video.
- The Coach Z Video in this toon is the second time we actually see a green Coach Z in one of The Cheat's videos, the first was in "These peoples trying to fade" me from the Strong Bad Sings CD.
- Coach Z reverts to his old-school purple The Cheat style during his lines "Cool time!" and "The Locomotive!"
- It is interesting to note that there is no single "guy" who draws The Lockhorns. The Lockhorns was created in 1968 by Bill Hoest, who then collaborated with his wife, Bunny for twenty years making it. When he died in 1988 Bunny kept the cartoon going. Currently it is still done by Bunny with the help of her assistant, John Reiner.
- Brunswick Stew is a real stew. You can make your own with this "poem" recipe, written by Virginia S. Woodroof in 1930. For more information, visit this site
- The Cheat's boots are a reference to the David Bowie (and later covered by Nirvana) song "The Man Who Sold The World". On the inside liner cover of the similarly-titled album, there is a picture of a cowboy holding a shotgun, with a pair of boots with dollar signs on them that look almost exactly like The Cheat's. (That was the American cover - the original cover was of David Bowie in drag.) (Its not the american cover- that does have a coyboy, but no shotgun and no $ visible on the boot.)
- We actually have seen evidence of Strong Bad wearing underwear before, in the Strong Bad Email stand-up.
- The futuristic sound played when we hear Nebulon go by is the same as the one heard when Strong Mad goes up into orbit in Marshmallow's Last Stand.
- In "step 3" of Coach Z's dance, his arms bend backwards
- The real name of this toon is "New Boots" but when it was linked on the main page it was referred to as "Powered by the Cheat"
- This toon first aired right around Easter. Thus the rabbit and the "hip-hop dance"...
- When Strongbad says "High five, The Cheat!" and their hands go into space, is the country Australia where their hands are coming from? Coz It sure looks like Australia with a little Tasmania at the bottom.
Lyrics to "Hip Hop Dance"
Ladies all the time be askin' me,
"Coach Z, how come you don't dance no more?"
And I say ladies.... ladies
Just gimme a chance to do a hip hop dance
gimme a chance to do a dance. oh yeah
gimme a chance to do a hip hop dance
gimme a chance to do a dance. both times
The Roger rabbit, the cabbage patch, the locomotive
Coach Z, how come you don't dance no more?
Just gimme a chance to do a hip hop dance
gimme a chance to do a dance.
gimme a chance to do the hip hop dance
Come on, take a chance.
