Kick The Cheat Returns!
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A classic returns in this commercial for the Kick The Cheat reissue from Fangamer.
Cast (in order of appearance): Puppet Strong Bad, Puppet Homestar Runner, Puppet The Cheat, Shark-Tooth Bubs
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Running Time: 1:31
Page Title: The Stinkt of Exbrinction!
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Transcript
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Strong Bad, no one has seen this elusive creature for 18 years. It has to be extinct!
No way. I know it's out there! We're so close I can smell it!
{The Cheat noises}
I heard a rustling!
Shut up!
{The Cheat noises}
There he is!
It's Kick The Cheat!
That's right! Your favorite kickable yellow cheese-anvil is back!
{The Cheat noise}
Expert Fangamer zoologists have successfully bred Kick The Cheats in the wild, bringing this beloved endangered species back from the stinkt of exbrinction!
And thanks to unethical genetic techniques, they've made 'im better than ever! Like new additional squimperin' sounds!
{angry The Cheat noise}
{whimpering The Cheat noises}
I'm sorry, The Cheat! I don't know what I'm doing with my puppet life!
And a new, zipper'd voice box pouch so you can change batt'ries!
You can hide the cash and jewels inside of it... for me.
It's truly a miracle of nature that this beautiful creature has been saved!
Now, let's kick the crap out of him!
{both yelling}
Reborn Kick The Cheat plush!
Only available at fangamer.com!
What about my overpriced online auctions? I gotta make a livin'... somewhat.
Fun Facts
Remarks
- As the Homestar Runner puppet does not have legs, a Homestar Puppet Plush was presumably used in the scene where Homestar kicks The Cheat.
Trivia
- The original run of Kick The Cheat dolls were described as "going extinct" when the doll had nearly sold out in December 2007.
- "The Stinkt of Exbrinction" is a spoonerism for "the brink of extinction".
- The Compy used by Shark-Tooth Bubs is a Tomy Tutor Play Computer.
Inside References
- The Cheat was previously compared to a cheese and an anvil in the Strong Bad Email huttah!.
- Mike Chapman described The Cheat as "a leopard/gerbil/anvil type thing" in a 2003 interview with Run Devil Run.
- The Cheat was also compared to an anvil in retirement.
- The cross-section of The Cheat is adapted from an illustration of the bisected Blue Laser Commander seen in Blue Laserdisc Challenge.
- Homestar Runner similarly rolled on the ground and wept "I don't know what I'm doing with my life!" in crying.
- The zippered pouch is labeled "Zipper'd".
- The open zipper talks in the same voice as the incision in Kick The Cheat Voicebox Replacement Surgery.
YouTube Version
- The YouTube version is titled "Kick The Cheat Plush Returns!"
- Its description reads:
Brought back from the stinkt of exbrinction! Fangamer zoologists have done the impossible!
Buy 'em up Dan: https://www.fangamer.com/collections/...- Buy 'em up and Dan are running gags.
