Characters from Yonder Website
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Let it all slip away with the smooth, far-out children's programming, courtesy of Smarty Juice.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Character 1, Character 2, Character 3, Character 4, Character 5, Character 6, Character 7, Homestar Runner, The Cheat, Strong Mad, Coach Z, Strong Sad
Places: Yonder Website, Basement of the Brothers Strong
Date: Wednesday, September 27 2017
Running Time: 3:04, 3:32 (YouTube)
Page Title: Lost Gumption!? Spice of Life!
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Transcript
{Open to a light blue background, with soft music playing. The title slowly zooms out: a banner reading "characters from yonder website", and a bubble featuring cartoony stylizations of Strong Bad and Homestar Runner. Throughout, Strong Bad speaks in a soft, relaxed tone.}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Let's let it all slip away, with another soothing episode of: Characters from Yonder Website. That's right. {these words are added in quotes at the bottom} Brought to you by a grant from: GreenCheat. {the GreenCheat logo appears on screen} And our corporate sponsors: Smarty Juice. {a bottle of "Swirly Font Flavored" Smarty Juice replaces the GreenCheat logo} And Faceless Megacorp, {a simple, circular logo with the words "Faceless Megacorp" and some black and white hills replaces the Smarty Juice} with a couple of hills in the logo. Look at those hills. Plant some crops... and grow some smarty juice plants. {as he says this, crop lines appear on one of the hills, from which dozens of plants sprout, each bearing bottles of Smarty Juice} Alright, far out.
CHARACTER 2:
CHARACTER 1:
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Oh, what's this?
CHARACTER 2:
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Slow down, little buddy!
CHARACTER 1:
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Sounds like Character 2... has lost his gumption.
CHARACTER 2:
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Well, you know what that means. We gotta get him a little... spice o' life. That's right. Let's go on an inordinately long walk.
CHARACTER 2:
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} With absolutely... no talking.
CHARACTER 1:
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} I said, with absolutely... no talking.
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} I think that's inordinate enough. And take a look! It's Characters 3 through 7! I say there, Characters 3 through 7, Character 2 here... has lost his gumption.
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} That's right. Not far out. Can any of you teach him a little bit o' spice?
CHARACTER 3:
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} You got a little spice. And character 5!
CHARACTER 5:
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} You got your own spice!
CHARACTER 7:
CHARACTER 6:
CHARACTER 4:
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Why, it almost seems like everybody's... got their own personal type of spice.
CHARACTER 1:
CHARACTER 2:
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Maybe if we put them all together, we can create—
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Oh! You know what that chime means. It's time for everyone... to bend at the knees. That's right.
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} {singing} The time has come... to bend at the knees... So I invite you, everybody, no pressure, put your mind at ease.
STRONG SAD: {voiceover} Uh, Strong Bad? {music stops, Character 1 and Character 2 look around} Homestar?
{Cut to Basement of the Brothers Strong. Strong Bad is passed out on the couch, with the Cheat's arm sticking out from under the far cushion, Strong Mad's legs sticking out from behind the couch, Homestar's leg sticking up over the back, and Coach Z's arm hanging down from the ceiling. Bottles of Smarty Juice litter the room.}
STRONG SAD: {enters from left} You guys? {stops} Whaaaaaaaat is going on in here? Were you guys drinking this— {picks up bottle from couch, squints at label} —"Smarty Juice"? This stuff expired in 2007! {squints again} It says, side effects include—
{View of label, which reads, "Side Effect May Include: Drowsiness, Euphoria, & Unbelievably Soothing Children's Programming"}
STRONG SAD: —"Drowsiness, Euphoria, & Unbelievably Soothing {cuts to close up of Strong Sad} Children's Programming". Hm. Doesn't sound half bad. {wide shot} Down the hatch! Down the hatch. {gulps down contents of bottle}
{Cut to close up of Strong Sad, who turns to camera. His eyes and mouth shrink with deflating balloon sound effect. A thought balloon with image of a coffee mug with a picture of a dagger appears.}
STRONG SAD: Mope mope, mope-mope-mope-mope-mope mope, mope mope mope mope mope. {starts to fall backwards}
{Wide shot. Strong Sad slowly tilts backwards, making a soft whining noise. Suddenly falls over with a crash, leaving the Smarty Juice bottle to spin in the air, before bouncing off the couch off to the left, then crashing on Strong Sad's (presumably) head.}
{Cut back to light blue background. The text "that's right" writes itself in the center.}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} That's right.
Fun Facts
Inside References
- This cartoon draws heavily from the Skills of an Artist episode "Cartoon Characters", including the art style, Character 1 and Character 2 in particular, background music, soothing Strong Bad voiceover and Smarty Juice.
- GreenCheat first appeared in environment.
Real World References
- The "bend at the knees" parts refer to the bending at the knees protests done recently by various athletes against United States President Donald Trump.
- The sponsors at the start refer to the donors listed at the start and end of PBS programs.
