That a Ghost

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Dig my grave.

The old-timey characters seek a reward for the capture of a ghost.

Cast (in order of appearance): Old-Timey Marzipan, The Homestar Runner, Fat Dudley, Old-Timey Strong Bad, The Sneak, Strong Man, The Guys, Old-Timey Bubs, Sickly Sam, The Ghost

Places: The Field (Old-Timey), The Old Pietimer Place, Punkin Patch, Cholera Acres Cemetary

Page Title: Bury me deep I'm cold and clammy!

Date: October 18, 2004

Running Time: 3:44

Transcript

{The following titles appear:}

{Open to Old-Timey Marzipan with a plate of bones on the table}

OLD-TIMEY MARZIPAN: We haven't eaten in weeks!

{The camera zooms out to reveal The Homestar Runner and Fat Dudley standing behind Old-Timey Marzipan.}

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: Guess what I read in the news-papper today.

OLD-TIMEY MARZIPAN: I can't guess!

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: I read that a ghost.

{Cut to a closeup of Old-Timey Marzipan. The screen flickers for a brief moment.}

OLD-TIMEY MARZIPAN: You read that a ghost what?

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: {cut to closeup} I read that a ghost is.

OLD-TIMEY MARZIPAN: {cut to wide shot} You read that a ghost is what?

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: I read that a ghost is here in town and there's a 27 cent ree-ward for its capture.

FAT DUDLEY: {musical noises}

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: You said it Fat Duds. We sure could buy a lot of corn pone with 27 big ones.

{Cut to Old-Timey Strong Bad's Telescope. You can see the three characters in the telescope's reflection. The camera pans along the telescope to reveal that nobody is watching it on the other end. Cut to Old-Timey Strong Bad, standing nearby reading a newspaper.}

OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD: Says here in the news-papper that the encapturement of the new apparition garners a top reward of 26 and one pennies!

{Cut to Old-Timey Strong Bad, Strong Man and The Sneak}

OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD: We could buy the monocle off Rockefeller's very eyeball with that kind of cash!

STRONG MAN: Raaar!

{The Sneak moves his nose}

{Danger music. Cut to The Homestar Runner, Old-Timey Marzipan and Fat Dudley in front of a gate signed 'Pietimer'. A spooky house can be seen in the background.}

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: Let's check out the old Pietimer place.

OLD-TIMEY MARZIPAN: We should split up.

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: We can do more damage that way.

{They walk in. Cut to a closeup of Old-Timey Marzipan with a teacup on a table.}

OLD-TIMEY MARZIPAN: {lifts the teacup} Under here?

{Cut to The Homestar Runner, who is looking at a bookshelf full of ghost books.}

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hmm. Let's see. Maybe it's in here.

{He removes a book labeled 'A Goodtime Story'. He opens it and a moth flies out.}

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: Just a moth. {He tries to eat the moth, but it flies away.} Dernit!

{Cut to Old-Timey Marzipan looking under a plate.}

OLD-TIMEY MARZIPAN: Under here? {Spiders run out.}

{Cut to The Homestar Runner walking past a set of portraits. The portrait on the left, marked "Mr. Pietimer", appears to be watching him.}

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: That picturemadrawin' looks sur-spicious. {He lifts it off the wall, revealing two one-eyed crows with a label reading "The Guys".} It's just two weird one-eyed crows. Ah, phooey.

{Cut to Fat Dudley amidst some barrels, holding a cigar and raising a jug marked 'XXX'. The Homestar Runner pops out of a barrel.}

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: Fat Dudley? Were you gonna sneak a nip of hooch?

FAT DUDLEY: {musical noises}

{Cut to outside the house. The Homestar Runner, Old-Timey Marzipan and Fat Dudley are standing inside the gate.}

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: Aw, there's no ghosts here. Just a bunch of gross aminals. Let's go look somewheres else.

{Cut to Cholera Acres Cemetary, then to Old-Timey Strong Bad and The Sneak in front of a grave. The gravestone reads "Eustice Pietimer (skinflint and junk codger)".}

OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD: Listen smoothly, The Sneak! {The Sneak stands up on his hind legs.} We're certain to catch a ghost once we exhume this grave using my new grave-exhuming invention!

{Cut to Strong Man holding a shovel.}

STRONG MAN: Raaar!

{Cut back to Old-Timey Strong Bad and The Sneak. The Sneak moves his nose.}

OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD: What what? Why, no! Of course that's not just the Strong Man holding a shovel! It's my newest invention! Besides, the Strong Man's over there doing some manner of stylish jig!

{Cut to Strong Man, who is now tapping his foot on an unmarked grave (son of mark grave). The Homestar Runner's dance music plays in the background. Old-Timey Bubs' head comes up out of the grave.}

OLD-TIMEY BUBS: Would you please keep it down?

{Cut to The Homestar Runner, Old-Timey Marzipan and Fat Dudley in the Punkin Patch.}

OLD-TIMEY MARZIPAN: The Homestar Runner, I'm suh-suh-suh-suh-scared!

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: Scared of what? Punkins? They're just punkins.

OLD-TIMEY MARZIPAN: But I'm suh-suh-suh-suh-SUH-scared!

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, fine. We'll go look in the graveyard.

OLD-TIMEY MARZIPAN: {smiles} Hooray!

{Cut back to Cholera Acres Cemetary. The Homestar Runner, Old-Timey Marzipan and Fat Dudley enter and meet Old-Timey Strong Bad, Strong Man and The Sneak, who have dug up the grave of Eustice Pietimer.}

OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD: You're too late! The reward will be ours! I'll be marching around in gold pants in no time!

OLD-TIMEY MARZIPAN: Where's the ghost?

OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD: Behold! The fantoustic phantasm!

{Sickly Sam rises out of the grave and floats above it.}

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: That's no ghost. That's just our worst friend Sickly Sam.

SICKLY SAM: {soft voice} I bury myself alive on Tuesdays.

OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD: Criminy crickets! Foiled again!

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: Then where's the real ghost?

{A black-cloaked ghost with spindly arms fades in, floating above the tombstones and making a motorcycle-like noise.}

THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: {eyes bulging} Wa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a. {Rather than screaming, he merely "says" his scream. His skin falls off, leaving his skeleton.}

OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD: Wa-a-a-a-a-a! {Also "saying" his scream. His skin also falls off, leaving his skeleton.}

{Cut back to the ghost, which fades away, then to The Homestar Runner and Old-Timey Marzipan (who has also turned into a skeleton.}

SKELETAL OLD-TIMEY MARZIPAN: At least we'll never go hungry again.

SKELETAL THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: 'Cept for Fat Dudley. {Cut to skeletal Fat Dudley, who is 'eating' a shoe with a soup spoon, with a jug labelled 'XXX' nearby.} He's livin' the high life!

SKELETAL FAT DUDLEY: {makes musical noises}

{Transition accompanied with closing music, to:}

Easter Eggs

• At the end, click on the "D" in "THE END" to see Old-Timey Strong Bad shopping for gold pants.

{Show Old-Timey Strong Bad's skeleton in a clothing store, trying to pull up a pair of pants, but they continue to fall down. Strong Man's skeleton is in the background.}
OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD: Curses! Now I'll never find gold pants that fit this tiny waist!

Fun Facts

Explanations

• A skinflint is a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means.
• A codger is a mildly eccentric and usually elderly fellow.
• Corn pone is a bread-like dish made from corn meal that is traditionally fried in butter, lard or bacon grease. It's a popular food in the southern United States.

Trivia

• This is the first cartoon featuring the "Old-Timey" characters in the far-flung year of 1937.
• This is Sickly Sam's first appearance where he does not "die".
• The books on the bookshelf are titled:
  • Dead Things Book One
  • Ghostly Measures
  • 27 Cent Ghosties
  • The Ghost In My Pocket
  • Creepiness, Oh My!
  • There Is A Ghost In This Book
  • A Goodtime Story (The Homestar Runner chooses this book)
  • Banshees, Indeed!
  • Ghastly Monsters
  • Zombies Are Cool

Skeletons

The Homestar Runner

The Homestar Runner's skeleton

Marzipan

Marzipan's skeleton

• Marzipan's skeleton also reveals that her "skirt" has its own skeletal structure. This is in agreement with The House that Gave Sucky Treats, where contemporary Marzipan wore jeans with a hole near the hem, and skin was visible underneath.

Strong Bad

• His moustache has bones in it.
• Strong Bad's skeleton also shows that his shoes have bones, or else that his feet are shoe-shaped.
• His hands look like his "gentleman's sports gloves", which proves that he doesn't just wear them; those are really what his hands look like. The same would then apply to modern-day Strong Bad's boxing gloves, and maybe even his mask, which is consistent with his response in the email "some kinda robot."
• He has no visible mouth; it may be behind his moustache, which moves when he talks.
• There is a crack in his skull showing exposed brain; this is similar to his modern counterpart's head injury in "Marshmallow's Last Stand".

Strong Man

• His shoulders are part of his skull.
• His lower jaw is much narrower than the rest of his skull.
• His pelvis is as wide as his skull.

Remarks

• Based on the tombstones in Cholera Acres Cemetary, Sir Rondello Shmallow could be Mr. Shmallow's full name.
• The theme for Old-Timey Strong Bad is different from that of his previous appearances.
• The Homestar Runner's voice isn't as scratchy and Fat Dudley's voice is deeper than in Parsnips-A-Plenty.

Goofs

• The two one-eyed crows' eyeballs do not match up with the painting after the painting is removed.

Inside References

• The page title, "Bury Me Deep I'm Cold and Clammy!” is taken from an interview with Matt Chapman in which he says this line as Homsar. The interview can be seen here.
• The Homestar Runner's eyes ballooning up in fright is similar to The Cheat in Pumpkin Carve-nival.
• On one of the gravestones, it reads, "Sir Rondello Shmallow 'Look Lively?'" This is a reference to the Mr. Shmallow toon, in which he says many times, "Look lively!!!"

Real-World References

• The Old Pietimer Place looks inspired by the house from Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece, Psycho.
• The quote "let's split up, we can do more damage that way" is a reference to the 1984 film Ghostbusters.
• The Homestar Runner says the "news-papper" is offering a reward of 27 cents. This may have come from an old Rocky and Bullwinkle show when Rocky offers a 27-cent reward for the capture of the Boxtop Bandit.
• The sound effect of the spiders scattering from under the mirror is taken from the Skulltulas in the Spider Houses in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. This sound also appears in RhinoFeeder.
• Fat Dudley eating the shoe may be a reference to Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush.

Fast Forward

• 'Cory' is also shown in the Main Page 22 by removing the cursor off of the 'downloads' link.

External Links

• watch "That A Ghost"
• view the Flash file for "That A Ghost"
• forum thread re: "That A Ghost"