Editing 4 Gregs

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[[Image:FourGregs.png|200px|thumb|"Not one, not two, not three, not five, four Gregs."]]

[[The Gregs]] go to a varsity football game.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[D N'D Greg]], [[Science Fiction Greg]], [[Open Source Greg]], [[Japanese Culture Greg]], {{Film|Tompkins}}, {{Film|Cheerleader}}, Short Girl, Mascot/Regular Greg, Color Guard Maiden, {{Film|So and So}}, {{Film|What's Her Face}}, {{Film|The Ugly One}}, {{Film|Strong Bad}}

'''Places:''' Football Stadium, [[Strong Bad's Room]]

'''Date:''' Monday, February 16, 2009

'''Running Time:''' 3:20

'''Page Title:''' I knew they'd come back to me...

==Transcript==
''{"4 Gregs" appears in the center of the screen.}''

'''TEEN GIRL SQUAD VOICE:''' Four Gregs!

''{The numbers 1, 2, 3, and 5 appear, and each number is crossed out over the next line.}''

'''TEEN GIRL SQUAD VOICE:''' Not one, not two, not three, not five...

''{"4 Gregs" appears again.}''

'''TEEN GIRL SQUAD VOICE:''' Four Gregs!

''{Science Fiction Greg appears, holding a bubbly-looking toy gun.}''

'''TEEN GIRL SQUAD VOICE:''' Sci Fi Greg! One Greg! 

''{Science Fiction Greg holds up one finger. Cut to D N'D Greg holding a twenty-sided die.}''

'''TEEN GIRL SQUAD VOICE:''' D N'D Greg! Two Gregs!

''{D N'D Greg holds up two fingers. Cut to Open Source Greg holding a laptop.}''

'''TEEN GIRL SQUAD VOICE:''' Open Source Greg! Three Gregs!

''{Open Source Greg holds up three fingers. Cut to Japanese Culture Greg, holding an anime-like action figure.}''

'''TEEN GIRL SQUAD VOICE:''' Japanese Culture Greg, four Gregs! ''{Japanese Culture Greg holds up four fingers.}'' Four Gregs!

''{"4 Gregs" appears again. Cut to the four Gregs standing together.}''

'''SCIENCE FICTION GREG:''' Shields up, everyone. I figured out what we're doing tonight, and it's not any of the stuff you're about to suggest.

'''D N'D GREG:''' Play some serious tabletop&mdash;

'''JAPANESE CULTURE GREG:''' Staring at vinyl figurines?

'''OPEN SOURCE GREG:''' Downloading several hours of&mdash;

'''ALL GREGS EXCEPT SCI-FI GREG:''' ''{disappointed}'' Oh.

'''SCIENCE FICTION GREG:''' Tonight, new Earthlings... tonight, we go... TO A VARSITY FOOTBALL GAME!

'''OTHER THREE GREGS:''' ''{gasp, with the word "Gasp!" drawn above them}''

'''D N'D GREG:''' Into the dragon's lair?

''{The text bubble remains the same but points to Japanese Culture Greg, with the word "Robotic" inserted into the sentence as he says it.}''

'''JAPANESE CULTURE GREG:''' Into the robotic dragon's lair?

'''OPEN SOURCE GREG:''' Into the Apple store? ''{As he says "Apple", the text bubble has a "bite" taken out of it, and a leaf appears on it.}''

'''SCIENCE FICTION GREG:''' That's right. It's the one time we can co-exist at the same social function with football players, but they will be powerless to ridicule and/or wedgie us!

'''D N'D GREG:''' Revenge is at hand!

'''OPEN SOURCE GREG:''' Huzzah!

'''JAPANESE CULTURE GREG:''' ''{his head suddenly looks extremely animeish}'' Otaku!

''{Cut to the back of a football player wearing a jersey that reads "AT THE GAME", with "888" written below it. Then cut to a set of stands. All of the Gregs except Open Source Greg are visible.}''

'''SCIENCE FICTION GREG:''' Here we are. In the middle of it all!

''{Cut back to show that the three Gregs are sitting in the corner of the stands, and there is a huge radius around them where no one else is sitting; the stands are otherwise packed. There are 14:54 left on the clock, the Growlbacks have "000000" points, and the "Visitor" has 24 points.}''

'''CROWD:''' YAY!!!

'''JAPANESE CULTURE GREG:''' How does football work again?

''{Cut to a closeup of the Gregs.}''

'''JAPANESE CULTURE GREG:''' Is it anything like drift racing?

'''SCIENCE FICTION GREG:''' Uh, I think there are some foots ''{said to rhyme with "loots"}''... and uh... perchance a balls?

''{Cut to a closeup of D N'D Greg. He's smiling and has sharp teeth. A scroll appears next to him, which has the following written on it:}''

<blockquote>The offensive team has 4<br/>
chances to advance the ball<br/>
10 yards at a time with the<br/>
objective being to cross the<br/>
opposing teams<!--sic--> goal line<br/>
using either running plays<br/>
or passing plays or any<br/>
combination thereof.</blockquote>

'''D N'D GREG:''' The offensive team has four chances to advance the ball ten yards at a time with the objective being...

''{The other two Gregs are visibly confused. D N'D Greg looks at them with annoyance. Crickets chirp.}''

'''SCIENCE FICTION GREG:''' It's like I don't even know you anymore.

'''D N'D GREG:''' Fantasy football still counts as fantasy!

''{Open Source Greg appears, holding a box of food.}''

'''OPEN SOURCE GREG:''' Gentlemen, I've taken advantage in a security flaw in the concession stand mainframe and bit-torrented us some Sugar Daddys and hot dogs!

'''JAPANESE CULTURE GREG:''' But the concession stand is just some booster club okasan ''{the word in the text bubble is "moms" until he gets to it; his face returns to the "anime" style on that word alone}'' with a shoebox full of ones.

'''OPEN SOURCE GREG:''' Then who did I launch my denial of service attack against?

''{Cut to a drawing of a computer screen. The computer is in a browser, on the page "www.tompkins.tv", which is for "Tompkins' Hot Lady Escort Service". Tompkins' face is in the middle of the screen. The page has been viewed "2.4" times.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' ''{in a high-pitched voice; the word appears across the screen as he says it}'' HAXXORED!!!

'''TOMPKINS:''' Ow! All my client!

''{Cut back to the game. D N'D and Science Fiction Greg are in the background, as Cheerleader and a short bespectacled girl in braces walk by.}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' Didja hear when we walked through the seniors' section? That one boy only got BOTH my names wrong!

'''SHORT GIRL:''' You have been chosen.

'''SCIENCE FICTION GREG:''' Uh, Cheerleader, shouldn't you be out&mdash;

''{Cut to a closeup of his mouth, showing misshapen teeth.}''

'''SCIENCE FICTION GREG:''' Uuuuuhhhhhh...

''{Cut back.}''

'''SCIENCE FICTION GREG:''' &mdash;leading cheers?

'''CHEERLEADER:''' No, I'm more a cheerleader in the way I dress... and in the way I treat other girls.

'''SHORT GIRL:''' That's right.

'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{smacks the short girl, yelling:}'' YOU DON'T SPEAK UNLESS SPOKEN TO!

''{Cut to a ratty-looking mascot.}''

'''MASCOT:''' COME ON GROWLBACKS! WE'RE NOT DEAD! AT LEAST TRY TO BEAT THE SPREAD!

''{He does a cartwheel near an exasperated-looking color guard member.}''

'''MASCOT:''' YAAAAY!

''{Cut to D N'D Greg.}''

'''D N'D GREG:''' That level 4 shambling Krenshar is attacking that slightly attractive, slightly overweight color guard maiden!

''{He is then seen stomping on the mascot. The color guard member smirks lightly.}''

'''MASCOT:''' Oh! Crap! Dang! Ribs! Oof!

''{He takes off the mascot head.}''

'''REGULAR GREG:''' Stop! It's just me, Regular Greg from AP Calculus!

'''D N'D GREG:''' Trying to take human form, eh? I'll not fall for your sorcery, shapeshifter!

''{He continues stomping on Regular Greg. Cut to a hot dog with a face.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' Halftime!

''{Cut to Science Fiction Greg.}''

'''SCIENCE FICTION GREG:''' There's a... halph-thyme?

''{Cut back to all four Gregs.}''

'''OPEN SOURCE GREG:''' Uh-oh.

''{A bunch of football players crowd around the Gregs and chuckle to themselves. Cut to a scene of some underwear and jock straps flying around, with the words "EXPLiCiT WEDGiE!!" in the middle.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' ''{in a high-pitched voice}'' EXPLICIT WEDGIE!!

''{Cut to the Teen Girl Squad. They've actually been the ones drawing the cartoon. They laugh as "HA HA HA HA"s move around above them.}''

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' Those Gregs are such losers!

''{Cut to the Gregs. They've actually been drawing the Teen Girl Squad drawing the cartoon.}''

'''SCIENCE FICTION GREG:''' Hey! No way! Whats<!--sic-->-Her-Face would totally come to my defense!

''{Cut to the Teen Girl Squad, with Cheerleader drawing the previous scene.}''

'''WHAT'S HER FACE:''' Ew! Don't put that! No I wouldn't!

''{Cut to the Gregs, as D N'D Greg draws the previous scene.}''

'''OPEN SOURCE GREG:''' Now make them have a pillow fight!

''{Cut to the Teen Girl Squad.}''

'''THE UGLY ONE:''' Make them play with action figures!

''{Cut to the Gregs.}''

'''JAPANESE CULTURE GREG:''' ''{with his anime face}'' AKIHABARA!

''{The Teen Girl Squad}''

'''SO AND SO:''' So good!

''{Gregs}''

'''D N'D GREG:''' SWORDS!

''{Girls}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' BOYS!

''{Cut to Strong Bad, drawing that last scene, falling over.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Waugh!!

''{He weakly holds up one hand.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's... over?

''{Cut to the "4 Gregs" screen.}''

'''TEEN GIRL SQUAD VOICE:''' Four Gregs!

==Fun Facts==
===Explanations===
* [[Wikipedia:Drifting (motorsport)|Drift racing]] is a style of car racing originating in Japan where drivers slide or drift through corners at high speed.  The sport has been featured in a number of manga and anime.
* [[Wikipedia:Otaku|Otaku]] is a Japanese world denoting a fan of something.  Outside of Japan, it denotes specifically a fan of Japanese popular culture.
* [[Wikipedia:Akihabara|Akihabara]] is a shopping district of Tokyo specializing in electronics, computer, and pop-culture goods.
* "Okasan", more commonly romanized as "okāsan" or "okaasan", is a formal word for "mother" in Japanese.
* A [[Wikipedia:Denial-of-service attack|denial-of-service attack]] is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users and is often considered a crime.
* [[Wikipedia:BitTorrent_(protocol)|BitTorrent]] is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for sharing large amounts of data.
* A spread refers to the score difference being wagered on in [[Wikipedia:Spread_betting|spread betting]], which is based on the outcome of an event.

===Trivia===
* The 4 Gregs comic is drawn on hexagonal-grid paper, commonly used for table top role playing games.
* The toons menu description reads "The spin-off no one was asking for!"

===Remarks===
* Open Source Greg and Japanese Culture Greg have four and five fingers, respectively, during the title sequence, despite the fact that all the Gregs (and indeed almost all Teen Girl Squad characters) are normally drawn with only 3 fingers.

===Inside References===
* Open Source Greg and Japanese Culture Greg were previously seen, though unnamed at the time, in the Easter egg for [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 9]].
** The page title is also a reference to that issue.
*This is another appearance of [[thyme]] and [[Internet slang]].
*D N'D Greg has [[fangs]] when explaining football with the scroll.
*The notion for a spinoff based on the Gregs was previously entertained in the [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 11#Commentary Transcript|DVD commentary]] for [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 11]].
*The toons menu description is a reference to the Easter egg in [[Teen Girl Squad issue 14]].
* "Ow! All my client!" is another use of [[Ow! My X!]].
* The Mascot stating "AT LEAST TRY TO BEAT THE SPREAD" in his cheer is an instance of [[gambling]].
* Science Fiction Greg believes that What's Her Face will defend him because they dated previously, as revealed in [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 9]].

===Real-World References===
[[Image:Speechbapple.PNG|thumb|"Into the Apple store?"]]
*Open Source Greg mentions the [[Wikipedia:Apple Store|Apple Store]]. As he does this, the edge of his speech bubble turns into Apple's logo.
* The text on Cheerleader's shirt is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Hollaback Girl|Hollaback Girl]].
* A [[Wikipedia:Sugar Daddy (candy)|Sugar Daddy]] is a caramel lollipop made by Tootsie Roll Industries.
* Open Source Greg's laptop/hot dog box have a picture of a penguin on it, a reference to [[Wikipedia:Tux|Tux]], [[Wikipedia:Linux kernel|Linux's]] mascot.

==External Links==
*[[HR:4gregs.html|Watch "4 Gregs"]]
*[[HR:4gregs.swf|View the Flash file for "4 Gregs"]]
*[[Forum:15115|Forum thread RE: "4 Gregs"]]

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