Meeple Grove

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===Real-World References===
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*A similar show with a pleasant British narrator was featured in the "Trauncles" segment of [[Two More Eggs]], also produced by [[The Brothers Chaps]].
*A similar show with a pleasant British narrator was featured in the "Trauncles" segment of [[Two More Eggs]], also produced by [[The Brothers Chaps]].
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*The meeples reference the board games ''[[wikipedia:Candy Land|Candy Land]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Monopoly|Monopoly]]'', and ''[[wikipedia:Risk (game)|Risk]]''. <!-- don't know what games Bubs, Strong Mad and Strong Sad are referencing, help me out -->
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*The meeples reference the board games ''[[wikipedia:Candy Land|Candy Land]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Monopoly|Monopoly]]'', and ''[[wikipedia:Risk (game)|Risk]]'', <!-- don't know what games Bubs, Strong Mad and Strong Sad are referencing, help me out --> and the non-board game ''[[Jenga]]''.
==See Also==
==See Also==

Revision as of 06:54, 27 July 2018

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"Where the meeples all speak in board-gamery terms while I over-explain everything."

Twelve Homestar Runner meeples stand around on a board game and chat. Homsar's Jengaship gets shanked again.

Cast (in order of appearance): The Poopsmith, Strong Mad, Bubs, Marzipan, Pom Pom, The King of Town, Homsar, The Cheat, Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, Coach Z, Strong Sad, Pleasant Narrator, Balding Man

Places: Basement of the Brothers Strong

Date: Thursday, July 26, 2018

Running Time: 1:55

Contents

Transcript

{Open on a game board sitting on a table in the basement of the Brothers Strong, with meeples of the twelve main characters standing on it. Soft music plays. Whenever a meeple speaks, he rattles back and forth.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Uh, you guys? How come we look like this? {close up} And how come I can only kinda... shimmy in place? Not that I'm complaining. Everybody knows Homestar Runner loves a good stand-in-place shimmy!

{Pan to the Strong Sad meeple in the bottom-right corner}

STRONG SAD: We're meeples! I've had so many dreams like this!

{Wide shot. The Cheat meeple turns to face Strong Bad as he speaks.}

STRONG BAD: {rhythmically} Gross. I hate you. Gross, gross, I hate you.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: What's a meeple? Sounds like Intendo.

{Close up on Strong Sad meeple}

STRONG SAD: A meeple is a wooden approximation of a human character in a tabletop game!

STRONG BAD: We look like we belong in one of those old British stop-motion shows. You know, where we all speak in board-gamery terms while a pleasant narrator over-explains everything?

{Pan over the board while music plays and the title "Meeple Grove Market" appears over top. During the narration, panning shots are shown of various meeples toddling around the board.}

PLEASANT NARRATOR: {voiceover} Welcome to Meeple Grove Market. Where the meeples all speak in board-gamery terms while I over-explain everything.

{Close up of Strong Bad meeple}

STRONG BAD: {fake Italian accent} Okay, as is the custom of-a my meeples, everybody sound off!

STRONG MAD: I TRADE FOR GRAIN!

BUBS: I just eradicated all disease in Jakarta!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I lost a turn in the chocolate swamp! Chocolate?! What happened to molasses? Kids love molasses!

COACH Z: I'm creepin' and I'm creepin' down Baltic Ave!

KING OF TOWN: I'm takin' back Irkutsk!

STRONG SAD: Pret-ty sneaky, sis!

{Wide shot, drum roll plays}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Do it Homsar, do it, do it, do it!

STRONG BAD: Do it Homsar, do it!

BUBS: Yeah, yeah! Do it!

COACH Z: Dort!

KING OF TOWN: Yeah, do it! Do it, do it!

COACH Z: DORT!

HOMSAR: Oh, no! {close up} You just shanked my Jengaship!

{Triumphant tune plays. Wide shot.}

STRONG BAD: Oh no, it's our mortal enemy: someone going to get a drink during the game!

{A silhouette of the Balding Man sighs his drawn-out sigh as he gets up from the table, jostling it and knocking over all the meeples. Everybody yells in alarm.}

{Slow zoom out as music plays.}

PLEASANT NARRATOR: And so, all the meeples fell down, because you see, when you're playing a tabletop game and you get up to go to the loo—

STRONG BAD: {still lying on his back} Yeah, we get it.

PLEASANT NARRATOR: —sometimes your knee strikes—

STRONG BAD: We get it!

PLEASANT NARRATOR: —the corner of the table—

STRONG BAD: WE GET IT!

PLEASANT NARRATOR: —upsetting everything on the—

STRONG BAD: WE GET IT, OLD MAN!

{"End" screen}

Fun Facts

Explanations

  • This was a surprise video posted to Kickstarter to promote Trogdor!! The Board Game. It was linked to by the board game's Facebook and Twitter accounts, along with this message:
Everybody (Everybody) Check out our surprise meeple video we made! We're still working on the other stuff, but we figured this would be a good amuse bouche.

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