Flash is Dead!
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Flash is dying, and the citizens of Free Country, USA have to head for the hills (or bushes) until they can learn HTML5.
Cast (in order of appearance): Homestar Runner, Strong Bad, Bubs (voice only), Coach Z (voice only)
Places: The Field, Bubs' Concession Stand (Easter egg)
Date: Monday, August 3, 2015
Running Time: 2:00
Page Title: Oh man! We're so doomed!!
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Transcript
{The Flash Plugin Error appears reading "This plugin is vulnerable and should be updated" and the text below it reading "Activate Flash". Homestar Runner soon after pops up from below}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Wo-ho! Check it out! I'm vulnerable and should be updated. {The scene pans out to show the error screen is a sign being held up by two planks, as Homestar Runner is in the field with it} Hey, that sounds like my dating profile!
{Strong Bad runs to Homestar Runner, hyperventilating, with a filthy sack behind his back.}
STRONG BAD: {dropping his sack} Homestar! What are you doing, man?! This is horse giblets!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {bending forward towards the sack} Oh, hello horse giblets! {Strong Bad turns around at the sack} I thought you were just a filthy sack!
STRONG BAD: {Strong Bad turns around to Homestar as Homestar stands back upright} No, I'm not referring to the filthy sack, whose name incidentally is F.Sack. I'm talking about the situation, man!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: What situation? I'm trying to update my dating profile!
STRONG BAD: Haven't you heard? Flash is dying!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, well good! I'm a way better runner than that guy anyways!
STRONG BAD: No, I'm talking about Flash! Like, what we breathe! The thing what creates us all!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Strong Bad! If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were getting a little {Homestar's cap hovers a bit} relegioso on me.
{The hsbody layer and the draw from Flash call from a sky and onto the ground, slightly piercing the ground}
STRONG BAD: Ahh! See, that's a chunk of Flash Altering Interface right there! It's falling apart! We gotta head for the hills!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Are those hills? I always thought they was bushes.
STRONG BAD: Figurative.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: But actually, I never walked a couple of feet to find out for sure.
STRONG BAD: I meant it figuratively.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hey, let's do it right now!
STRONG BAD: I'm being figurative!
{Homestar runs towards the bushes in the background, eventually running into them and falling back.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Blah! Bush. Definitely Bush.
STRONG BAD: Now listen. I've got enough classic motion tweens and deprecated actions in ol' F-sack, to last us at least 6 months until we can learn HTML5.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Ooh, I know what that stands for! Hyper-Text Markup Lotion! {Homestar holds up a lotion with the HTML Logo, minus the L, which is used at the bottom with the word LOSCHE!.} Let me poop a little bit out for you! {Homestar squeezes the bottle three times}
STRONG BAD: Nope, nope, nope, the land of ten-thousand nopes. Homestar, the death of Flash is equivalent to a giant meteor heading straight for the Earth!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oohhh, I got you. Sounds like somebody's asking for another heaping helping of... {Homestar holds up a DVD cover of Deep Impact} Deep Impaaact!
{Strong Bad groans}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {putting the DVD in front of his face and the impersonating a commander} Strong Bad, this is Morgan Joshegg, I need you to hit that meteor with every duvall <~-- ????? --> you've got.
STRONG BAD: Nevermind. I'll be in Bubs' Fallout Shelter if anybody needs me. {Picking up his sack and walking away} Good luck with yourself, Homestar!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: I don't want to miss a thing!
STRONG BAD: {in the distance} Wrong Movie!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Wait, those were two different movies?
{The Flash Plugin Error screen fills the scene with the text Oh, man, and below it, We gotta figure something out, fast!.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: But they both came out, like, the same summer even!
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Fun Facts
Trivia
- The entire short alludes to Flash's apparent discontinuation due to security issues in favor of the more modern and secure HTML5.
Remarks
Goofs
- Homestar Runner's shirt viewed from behind appears in a faded shade of red in the middle.
- The tall grass around objects embedded into the ground is a different shade of green from the rest of the grass.
Inside References
Real-World References
- Homestar mistakes Flash for the comic book hero of the same name, known for his super speed.
- Michael Stipe is a musician best known as the lead singer of the band REM.
