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== Fun Facts == | == Fun Facts == | ||
===Explanations=== | ===Explanations=== | ||
+ | * The opening of the cartoon is a parody of cartoons that make public safety awareness announcements in tandem with governmental entities, most commonly [[Wikipedia:UNICEF|UNICEF]]. | ||
* [[Wikipedia:U.S. Route 66|Route 66]] is an old highway in the United States, which ran from Chicago to Santa Monica. | * [[Wikipedia:U.S. Route 66|Route 66]] is an old highway in the United States, which ran from Chicago to Santa Monica. | ||
+ | * [[Wikipedia:Omega 3 fatty acid|Omega 3 fatty acids]] help the body metabolize food and are postulated to assist in brain development; they are often touted as a "miracle" supplement and are most commonly associated with fish. | ||
===Trivia=== | ===Trivia=== | ||
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* This is the first time [[Sticklyman]] has been seen wearing a visible article of clothing (in this case, pants) | * This is the first time [[Sticklyman]] has been seen wearing a visible article of clothing (in this case, pants) | ||
* The SWF file is called "ween12_teaser.swf" rather then "weensaftey". | * The SWF file is called "ween12_teaser.swf" rather then "weensaftey". | ||
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=== Remarks === | === Remarks === | ||
* halloweensafety.gov is not an actual website. | * halloweensafety.gov is not an actual website. | ||
- | * This toon is the second toon in a row (following [[Fish Eye Lens]]) to contain no back button. | + | * This toon is the second toon in a row (following [[Fish Eye Lens]]) and the first Halloween teaser to contain no back button. |
+ | * At the end of the toon, both [[Strong Sad]] and [[The Poopsmith]] lack arms, despite having visible arms. | ||
+ | * During the fake thumbnails part of the YouTube version, Marzipan's eyes in the middle-right thumbnail will blink once. | ||
===Goofs=== | ===Goofs=== | ||
* On the loading screen, the ground is technically a round box, and can potentially fill the whole ground, but part of the rounded area is still visible, and even the edge can be seen. | * On the loading screen, the ground is technically a round box, and can potentially fill the whole ground, but part of the rounded area is still visible, and even the edge can be seen. | ||
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===Inside References=== | ===Inside References=== | ||
- | * In the beginning, [[The Brothers Chaps]] refer to the characters as [[ | + | * In the beginning, [[The Brothers Chaps]] refer to the characters as [[dumb animal characters]]. |
* Homestar's echoing voice in the first sign idea is the same as [[Homestarmecium]] from the sbemail [[highschool]]. | * Homestar's echoing voice in the first sign idea is the same as [[Homestarmecium]] from the sbemail [[highschool]]. | ||
* Homestar mentions [[Stinkoman|asking for a challenge]] in the second sign. | * Homestar mentions [[Stinkoman|asking for a challenge]] in the second sign. | ||
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** Hidden text behind the characters | ** Hidden text behind the characters | ||
** Strong Bad depicted in an outrageous costume (a Bug from the ''[[Wikipedia:Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' franchise) | ** Strong Bad depicted in an outrageous costume (a Bug from the ''[[Wikipedia:Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' franchise) | ||
- | *This teaser stands out from the others as: | + | * This teaser stands out from the others as: |
- | **It's the first | + | ** It's the first to start like a normal toon instead of the silhouetted characters scene. |
- | **It's | + | **It's the first to be listed in a category other than the New Stuff category on the [[TV Time Toons Menu]]. |
- | **It's the first | + | ** It's the first to contain Easter eggs other than the "hidden shape" Easter egg. |
- | + | ** The ground looks slightly different, and the text lacks the orange outlines and has a gradient of white to orange instead of white to grey. | |
- | **The ground looks slightly different, and the text lacks the orange outlines and has a gradient of white to orange instead of white to grey. | + | |
* Homestar compliments somebody's costume (in this case, his own) in the "[[Hey, X, I really like your X costume]]" format. | * Homestar compliments somebody's costume (in this case, his own) in the "[[Hey, X, I really like your X costume]]" format. | ||
* [[Crack Stuntman]] mentions [[Pistols For Pandas]]. | * [[Crack Stuntman]] mentions [[Pistols For Pandas]]. | ||
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===Real-World References=== | ===Real-World References=== | ||
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* Homestar (the silhouetted criminal) and Crack Stuntman (the eye against the blue background) are dressed as symbols of the [[Wikipedia:neighborhood watch|neighborhood watch]] campaign, a civilian effort to monitor their own neighborhoods for suspicious or criminal activity. | * Homestar (the silhouetted criminal) and Crack Stuntman (the eye against the blue background) are dressed as symbols of the [[Wikipedia:neighborhood watch|neighborhood watch]] campaign, a civilian effort to monitor their own neighborhoods for suspicious or criminal activity. | ||
* "That one guy from [[Wikipedia:MAD Magazine|Mad Mazagine]]" Homestar is referring to is the Black Spy from [[Wikipedia:Spy vs. Spy|Spy vs. Spy]]. | * "That one guy from [[Wikipedia:MAD Magazine|Mad Mazagine]]" Homestar is referring to is the Black Spy from [[Wikipedia:Spy vs. Spy|Spy vs. Spy]]. | ||
** The misspelling "mazagine" is derived from competitor ''[[Wikipedia:Cracked (magazine)|Cracked]]'' magazine, which always used the same misspelling on its front cover. | ** The misspelling "mazagine" is derived from competitor ''[[Wikipedia:Cracked (magazine)|Cracked]]'' magazine, which always used the same misspelling on its front cover. | ||
* In an Easter egg, [[Crack Stuntman|Crack Stuntman's]] appearance looks like that of the original design for [[Wikipedia:Pac-Man|Pac-Man]] from the original Arcade Games. | * In an Easter egg, [[Crack Stuntman|Crack Stuntman's]] appearance looks like that of the original design for [[Wikipedia:Pac-Man|Pac-Man]] from the original Arcade Games. | ||
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== YouTube Version == | == YouTube Version == |
Revision as of 02:49, 21 October 2014
Toon Category: Holiday Toon |
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A teaser for the 2014 Halloween cartoon.
Cast (in order of appearance): The Brothers Chaps (vocal only), Homestar Runner, Sticklyman, Coach Z (silhouette), Bubs (silhouette), Strong Mad (silhouette), The Cheat (silhouette) Marzipan (silhouette), Pom Pom (silhouette), Strong Sad (silhouette), The Poopsmith (silhouette), The King of Town (silhouette), Homsar (silhouette), Tiny-Handed Strong Bad (Easter egg), Strong Bad (Easter egg, vocal only), The Homestar Runner (storybook) (Easter egg), Tucker Donaldson (Easter egg, vocal only)
Places: Spooky Woods, The Field, Marzipan's House
Date: Monday, October 20, 2014
Running Time: 0:76 official, 1:40 actual
Page Title: Official Partner of HalloweenSafety.gov!
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Transcript
{A sign appears beneath a starry night sky, featuring a suspicious silhouette with a red circle and slash over it and the words "WARNING! Neighbors are a-watchin'!".}
THE BROTHERS CHAPS: Hi; we're the Brothers Chaps from HomestarRunner.com!
MIKE: Normally we let our dumb animal characters do the talking.
MATT: But this year we're partnering with "halloweensafety.gov" {The web address "halloweensafety.gov" appears at the bottom of the screen before disappearing} to raise awareness about "halloweensafety.gov". {The web address appears and disappears again.}
SILHOUETTE:{gradually tilting} Ugh....
MIKE: So please, find it in your heart to donate to—
HOMESTAR: {Disguised as the silhouette on the sign, he interrupts} Peh! I say, peh! Whew! It's hard sittin' there with your mouth open like that, holdin' it just so. {Homestar demonstrates his previous position} Buhhhhhhh.
{Zoom out to a full-body shot of Homestar in the Spooky Woods. He removes the sign portion of his costume and his eyes become normal.}
HOMESTAR: Check out my roadside silhouette costume! I tried dressin' up in some other ones, but, uhh... they didn't work out so great.
{Swipe cut to a "Slippery When Wet" road sign that sprouts two sets of Homestar's eyes. The two tire tracks become mouths as they speak.
HOMESTARS: This one makes my voice hurt!
{Homestar's propeller sticks out of the upper left side of the sign and spins, with the left Homestar face making a noise as it does so. The right Homestar face turns the opposite direction and gives an angry glare.}
RIGHT HOMESTAR: Oh, just stop it!
{Cut to a "Construction Zone" sign featuring Stickly Man digging with a shovel. Homestar's eyes and hat appear in the pile he is shoveling.}
HOMESTAR: This one was asking for a challeeeeenge! {The pile rises to resemble a bulked-up version of Homestar's body, and his feet ooze out of the bottom}
STICKLYMAN: {screaming, while running away} Ai-yagh!
HOMESTAR: {Homestar's feet begin dripping black sludge.} I got that sludge foot! I got that sludge foot! {Prancing}
{Cut to a "School Crossing" sign featuring a girl in a dress led across a street by a boy, both carrying books. Homestar's eyes appear sideways next to the girl's legs, and when he speaks they move back and forth like a mouth.}
HOMESTAR: This one just seemed ina-pro-pro! {The word "INA-PRO-PRO!" is stamped onto the screen in red.} Quack quack. Lady's Legs Duck.
{Cut to a Route 66 sign which, when zoomed out, only cover's Homestar's eyes.}
HOMESTAR: And this one was waaaaay too small! {Blinks twice, the 6s in the sign looking like closed eyes.} Blink. Blonk.
{Cut back to the Spooky Woods, with Homestar in his Neighborhood Watch costume again.}
HOMESTAR: I think I picked the best one. Anyways, here are some other silhouettes. I'mah get back to creepin' and peepin' 'round y'alls neighborhood! {squints his eyes into the suspicious eyes of the original sign and slowly slides off-screen.} Uhhhhhhhh...
{Cut to the Field, where the cast is gathered in costume in silhouette. The words "Halloween Cartoon Sometime Before Halloween" are beneath them. After a few seconds of waiting, Homestar speaks.}
HOMESTAR: Hey, Homestar, I really like your "that one guy from Mad Mazagine" costume. You know the one I'm talkin' about. Always blowin' up that pointy white man. {During this, Homestar's Neighborhood Watch costume pops up over the word "Halloween", looks around, then hands a lit bomb to a white version of the same costume, blowing it up and chuckling to himself before disappearing.}
Easter Eggs
- Like the other teasers, when the Flash file is decompiled, there is a hidden shape that reads "hidden words". Every silhouette excluding Homestar and Homsar has one letter behind it. Also, Strong Mad's silhouette actually has two letters.
- Click on the moon at the end:
- {A sign reading "NEIGHBRAHOOD WATCH" fills the screen, with a logo resembling a giant eye. The eye's pupil looks around before donning Crack Stuntman's glasses. When he speaks, an angular mouth appears on the dot.}
- CRACK STUNTMAN: Blah'm Crack Stuntman, the new spokesperson for HalloweenSafety.gov, since Pistols for Pandas found out about my line of frozen panda-burger patties! I swear they're high in Omega-3s!
- {The glasses disappear with a pop.}
- Click on Homestar's silhouette at the end:
- {Tiny-Handed Strong Bad and storybook Homestar are standing in a field, with Homestar wearing a yellow shirt that features the girl from the school crossing sign and his own eyes and Strong Bad holding a scroll; their speech appears beneath them and is narrated by Strong Bad like the other children's books.}
- TINY-HANDED STRONG BAD: "Get your entire face out of here, Lady's Legs Duck Shirt,"
- STRONG BAD: -proclamated DeVry graduate Strong Bad. {Emphasis lines appear next to the scroll in Tiny-Handed Strong Bad's hand}
- STORYBOOK HOMESTAR: "Ina-pro-pro!"
- STRONG BAD: -barfed the Queen of England.
- Click on the second "Halloween" at the end:
- {Marzipan's Answering Machine appears, with the title changed to "Mikezipan's Answering Machine" and the version number listed as "version 1.00001".}
- MIKE: Hi, this is Mikezipan. I'm out looking at the fall colors. Please leave me a message and I'll call you right back.
- {The machine beeps.}
- TUCKER DONALDSON: Look here. This message is for the Brothers Chap- Chapman Brothers. Chapman Brothers? This is Tucker Donaldson with HalloweenSafety.gov. Your little "joke", if that's what you wanna call it? It wasn't funny, and, uh- and it's not appreciated. I don't know who you think you are, or- or who you think I am, or if you even think at all, frankly. It is not cool and it is not funny, and that's real talk, gentlemen. Gentlemen? That is real talk.
- {The machine beeps again.}
Fun Facts
Explanations
- The opening of the cartoon is a parody of cartoons that make public safety awareness announcements in tandem with governmental entities, most commonly UNICEF.
- Route 66 is an old highway in the United States, which ran from Chicago to Santa Monica.
- Omega 3 fatty acids help the body metabolize food and are postulated to assist in brain development; they are often touted as a "miracle" supplement and are most commonly associated with fish.
Trivia
- This is the first time Sticklyman has said anything.
- This is the first time Sticklyman has been seen wearing a visible article of clothing (in this case, pants)
- The SWF file is called "ween12_teaser.swf" rather then "weensaftey".
Remarks
- halloweensafety.gov is not an actual website.
- This toon is the second toon in a row (following Fish Eye Lens) and the first Halloween teaser to contain no back button.
- At the end of the toon, both Strong Sad and The Poopsmith lack arms, despite having visible arms.
- During the fake thumbnails part of the YouTube version, Marzipan's eyes in the middle-right thumbnail will blink once.
Goofs
- On the loading screen, the ground is technically a round box, and can potentially fill the whole ground, but part of the rounded area is still visible, and even the edge can be seen.
Inside References
- In the beginning, The Brothers Chaps refer to the characters as dumb animal characters.
- Homestar's echoing voice in the first sign idea is the same as Homestarmecium from the sbemail highschool.
- Homestar mentions asking for a challenge in the second sign.
- This teaser continues several gags from the previous three teasers: Jibblies 2 Teaser (2007), Most in the Graveyard Teaser (2008), and Doomy Tales of the Macabre Teaser (2009):
- Silhouetted characters (in the same order as the previous teasers)
- Action that occurs after waiting
- Hidden text behind the characters
- Strong Bad depicted in an outrageous costume (a Bug from the Starship Troopers franchise)
- This teaser stands out from the others as:
- It's the first to start like a normal toon instead of the silhouetted characters scene.
- It's the first to be listed in a category other than the New Stuff category on the TV Time Toons Menu.
- It's the first to contain Easter eggs other than the "hidden shape" Easter egg.
- The ground looks slightly different, and the text lacks the orange outlines and has a gradient of white to orange instead of white to grey.
- Homestar compliments somebody's costume (in this case, his own) in the "Hey, X, I really like your X costume" format.
- Crack Stuntman mentions Pistols For Pandas.
- Mikezipan is a Portmanteau.
- Mike's line on the answering machine is the same as Marzipan's answering machine message in Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 1.0.
- The PhoneTime XL8 is used, despite having been replaced by the XL800 model.
Real-World References
- Homestar (the silhouetted criminal) and Crack Stuntman (the eye against the blue background) are dressed as symbols of the neighborhood watch campaign, a civilian effort to monitor their own neighborhoods for suspicious or criminal activity.
- "That one guy from Mad Mazagine" Homestar is referring to is the Black Spy from Spy vs. Spy.
- The misspelling "mazagine" is derived from competitor Cracked magazine, which always used the same misspelling on its front cover.
- In an Easter egg, Crack Stuntman's appearance looks like that of the original design for Pac-Man from the original Arcade Games.
YouTube Version
- Similar to the YouTube version of Fish Eye Lens, after the end of the toon, a group of nine thumbnails appears, parodying YouTube's related video thumbnails. Some of the thumbnails are similar to the ones seen in Fish Eye Lens, while others are new.
- After the thumbnails, the Crack Stuntman Easter egg is shown, followed by Mikezipan's Answering Machine, and finally, the Easter egg with Tiny-Handed Strong Bad and Homestar.
External Links
- watch "Halloween Safety" on the old Flash site
- view the Flash file for "Halloween Safety"
- watch "Halloween Safety" on YouTube
- forum thread re: "Halloween Safety"