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| + | [[Image:Trogdor was dragon man.png|thumb|"Trogdor was a dragon-man"]] |
- | [[Image:Trogdor was dragon man.png|thumb|"It was a terrible song of Trogdor."]] | + | A Powered by The Cheat video for a song from a '70s commercial for a board game. |
- | A [[Powered by The Cheat]] video for a song from a '70s commercial for a [[Trogdor!! The Board Game|board game]]. | + | |
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- | '''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Trogdor}}, [[Peasants]], [[The Red and Blue Knights]], {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|The Dancing Brothers}} | + | '''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Trogdor}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, [[The Dancing Brothers]], |
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- | '''Places:''' [[The Cheat's Computer Room]], [[Peasantry]] | + | '''Places:''' [[The Cheat's Computer Room]] |
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- | '''Date:''' Thursday, September 13, 2018 | + | '''Date:''' Thursday, September 13th 2018 |
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- | '''Running Time:''' 2:17 | + | '''Running Time:''' 2.17 |
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| '''Page Title:''' Trogdor Musk - For Dragon Men | | '''Page Title:''' Trogdor Musk - For Dragon Men |
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| == Transcript == | | == Transcript == |
- | ''{Open to a close-up of a person's red shirt, against a background fading from red to yellow. The shirt reads "WHEN THE Seventies", with "Seventies" written in a Coca-Cola-resembling font.}'' | + | {{transcriptinprogress}} |
| + | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD:''' When the seventies there was a commercial for board game. |
| + | it was a terrible song of trogdor they made seven inches but even Strong Sad thought it was not- |
| + | So The Cheat made a video. Does this sound like Strong Bad at all? |
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- | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD:''' When the seventies, there was{{--}}
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- | ''{The shirt morphs into a Trogdor!! The Board Game box against a black background. It reads "TRAGDAR". Trogdor is smiling and making the "OK" sign with his hand, with armpit hair and a wristband. The side of the box reads "CONTAINS: CONTENTS".}''
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- | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD:''' {{--}}a commercial for a board game. | + | '''SINGERS''': Trogdor was a man.<br /> |
- | | + | Trogdor was a DRAGON Man. |
- | ''{The board game box shakes and bursts open, with Trogdor, the Red and Blue Knights, two peasants, five tiles, a cottage base, and a burninated cottage roof flying out. The cottage roof stays in place for a moment, then moves with the rest a few seconds later.}''
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- | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD:''' It was a terrible song{{--}}
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- | ''{A vinyl record rotates as it comes into view. The top has a logo for "Terrible SONGS RECORDS". At the bottom, it reads "-TROGDOR WAS A MAN-", and below it, "THE POW-UH SURGE". The side reads "SIDE A".}''
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- | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD:''' {{--}}of Trogdor. They made seven inches{{--}}
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- | ''{Zoom out into Powered by The Cheat Strong Sad holding the record, against a blurry photographic house background. He closes his eyes and shakes his head, throwing the record over his shoulder.}''
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- | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD:''' {{--}}but even Strong Sad thought it was not ver{{--}}
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- | ''{Cut to Strong Bad's head bouncing exaggeratedly on The Cheat's computer against a rainbow background. The Cheat is silhouetted in front of the computer, and the desk is brown instead of blue. The record flies into a CD slot on the side of the computer.}''
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- | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD:''' So The Cheat made a video. ''{turns toward the camera and stops bouncing}'' Does this ''{snickering}'' sound like Strong Bad at all?
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- | ''{Cut to a silhouetted plug that reads "The Pow-uh Surge" against an electric green background. White text appears at the bottom:}''
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- | <blockquote>
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- | The Pow-uh Surge<br>
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- | "Trogdor was a man"<br>
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- | Terrible Songs Records<br>
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- | Dir:The Cheat
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- | </blockquote>
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- | ''{Cut to a zooming shot of Peasantry}''
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- | '''SINGERS:''' Trogdor was a man.<br />
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- | Trogdor was a ''dragon'' man. | + | |
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| Trogdor was a man.<br /> | | Trogdor was a man.<br /> |
- | Trogdor was a ''dragon'' man. | + | Trogdor was a DRAGON Man. |
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| And he was burninating, burninating, burninating the countryside! | | And he was burninating, burninating, burninating the countryside! |
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| Trogdor was a man. (S, more different S) <br /> | | Trogdor was a man. (S, more different S) <br /> |
- | Trogdor was a ''dragon'' man. (S, more different S) | + | Trogdor was a DRAGON Man. (S, more different S) |
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- | (S, more different S)<br /> | + | (S, more differant S) |
- | (Whispering things in the '70s) | + | (Whispering into the '70s) |
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| And he was burninating, burninating, burninating the countryside! | | And he was burninating, burninating, burninating the countryside! |
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- | Trogdor was a man. (Get consummate, get consummate)<br /> | + | Trogdor was a man. (Consemate, Consemate) <br /> |
- | Trogdor was a ''dragon'' man. (Get consummate, get consummate) | + | Trogdor was a DRAGON Man. (Consemate, Consemate) |
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- | Get consummate, get consummate<br />
| + | Consemate, Consemate <br /> |
- | Consummate V's
| + | Consemate V's |
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| Maybe he was just a dragon.<br /> | | Maybe he was just a dragon.<br /> |
- | Maybe he was just a dragon.<br /> | + | Maybe he was just a dragon. |
- | Maybe he was just a dragon.<br /> | + | Maybe he was just a dragon. |
| Well, he was still Trogdor.<br /> | | Well, he was still Trogdor.<br /> |
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- | And the Trogdor comes in the NIGHT! | + | And the Trogdor comes in THE NIGHT! |
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- | ''{Cut to The Cheat and Strong Bad at The Cheat's computer desk}''
| + | (Cuts to Strong Sad and The Cheat at The Cheat's computer desk) |
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- | '''STRONG SAD:''' ''{turns toward The Cheat}'' I don't know, The Cheat. There are a lot of inaccuracies present. | + | '''STRONG SAD:''' I don't know The Cheat there are a lot |
| + | of inaccuracies present. |
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- | '''THE CHEAT:''' ''{turns toward Strong Sad; The Cheat noises}'' | + | '''THE CHEAT''': (The Cheat noises) |
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- | '''STRONG SAD:''' Well, for starters, Trogdor wasn't even around when the '70s. Strong Bad made him in the early 2000s. ''{emphasizes the "a" in "thousand"}'' | + | '''STRONG SAD:''' Well for starters, Trogdor wasn't even around in the 70s. |
| + | Strong Bad made him in the early 2000s. |
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- | '''THE CHEAT:''' ''{lowers his eyebrows and turns back to his computer; The Cheat noises}'' | + | '''THE CHEAT''': (The Cheat noises) |
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- | '''STRONG SAD:''' And what was going on with your depiction of me? | + | '''STRONG SAD:''' And what was going on with depiction of me? and have creepy bony spine. |
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- | ''{The Cheat clicks and brings up the picture of Powered by The Cheat Strong Sad}''
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- | '''STRONG SAD:''' I have that creepy bony spine...
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- | ''{The Cheat clicks every time before Powered by The Cheat Strong Sad speaks}''
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| '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD:''' The Lusitania is my favorite boat. | | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD:''' The Lusitania is my favorite boat. |
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- | '''STRONG SAD:''' No way! Everybody knows I'm a Mauretania man. | + | '''STRONG SAD:''' No way everybody knows I'm a Mauritania man. |
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- | '''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises}'' | + | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD:''' My boat is not your boat! |
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- | ''{Zoom in to the screen}'' | + | '''STRONG SAD:''' Woah, stop that! |
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- | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD:''' My boat is not your boat! | + | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD:''' This is all gonna be about boats now. |
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- | '''STRONG SAD:''' Ugh, stop that! | + | '''STRONG SAD:''' Oh it's a terrible idea! |
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- | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD:''' This is gonna all be about boats now. ''{smiles with his tongue sticking out}'' | + | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD:''' My boat take- |
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- | ''{Cut back to The Cheat and Strong Sad}'' | + | '''STRONG SAD:'''(interrupts) That's it! I'm going to the chiropractor! |
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- | '''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, that's a terrible idea!
| + | (Strong Sad Walks away) |
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- | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD:''' My boat take{{--}} | + | '''STRONG SAD:''' Got me all self-conscious! |
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- | '''STRONG SAD:''' ''{interrupts}'' That's it! I'm going to the chiropractor! ''{walks away}'' Got me all self-conscious!
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| '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD:''' Don't you like boats? | | '''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD:''' Don't you like boats? |
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- | ''{Zoom in to Powered by The Cheat Strong Sad's back. Three of the bone bumps wiggle and morph into the letters "end".}''
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| ==Fun Facts== | | ==Fun Facts== |
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| ===Trivia=== | | ===Trivia=== |
- | [[Image:The Cheat's New Mac.png|thumb|250px|"Well, this is a new computer."]]
| + | *[[Monosodium Dreams]] has been replaced by a newer computer parodying the newer Intel based [[Wikipedia:iMac|iMacs]]. |
- | *The [[Monosodium Dreams]] has been replaced by a [[The Cheat's iMac (2018)|newer computer]] parodying the newer Intel-based {{wp|iMac}}s. | + | |
- | *This is the first Powered by The Cheat toon since [[Fish Eye Lens]] in October 2014, an almost-four-year gap.
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- | *There is a photograph of a record store hidden in the Flash file. It was the first Google image result for "record store" as of the release of the short.
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- | *This is the first time that Trogdor has been seen [[flying]].
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- | *"When the Seventies" is an example of [[deliberately poor English]].
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- | ===Remarks===
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- | *Prior to the retirement of [[Flash]], this toon was not shown on the [[TV Time Toons Menu]]. The Flash version was only linked to from the [[Main Page messages]] at the time of its release, and later became a [[secret page]].
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- | *Strong Sad does not have a mouth in The Cheat's video, but he does in the animations at the end.
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- | *"Dragon man" Trogdor lacks his usual wings.
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| ===Inside References=== | | ===Inside References=== |
- | *This song is meant to be a '70s disco version of the [[TROGDOR (song)|Trogdor]] song, which originated in the [[Strong Bad Email]] [[dragon]]. | + | *This song is meant to be a '70s Disco version of the [[TROGDOR_(song)|Trogdor]] song, which also means it's a reference to email [[dragon]]. |
- | **"S, more different S" and "[[consummate V's]]" are referenced, both of which are drawing techniques used by Strong Bad in [[dragon]].
| + | *Powered by The Cheat Strong Sad says "boat take", a term previously seen in [[environment]]. |
- | **"Get consummate" is part of a line from Strong Bad's [[rock opera]].
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- | *This toon prominently features [[Sports#Basketball|basketball]] and [[Buttdance|butt-dancing]].
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- | *The [[board game]] mentioned is [[Trogdor!! The Board Game]].
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- | **The "Tragdar" on the box is a reference to [[Videlectrix One]]'s pronunciation in the [[Trogdor!! The Board Game (video)|Trogdor!! The Board Game promotional video]].
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- | **The song's background rhythm was heard in the promotional video, and later in a [[@StrongBadActual]] Tweet.
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- | *The game box has the [[Nondescript Nouns|nondescript label]] "Contains: Contents".
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- | *"[[The Pow-uh Surge]]" was previously discussed in the DVD commentary for [[road trip]] as being the musicians behind the Dancing Brothers' song, as well as "Jammin' Tunes".
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- | *The Dancing Brothers previously appeared in [[A Folky Tale]].
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- | *Powered by The Cheat Strong Sad says "My [[boat]] take" and is subsequently interrupted. The same occurs twice with Strong Bad in [[environment]]. | + | |
- | *Strong Sad says "2000" the [[-ant pronounced with a hard A#Variations|same way]] he said it in [[suntan]].
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| ===Real-World References=== | | ===Real-World References=== |
- | *In the background of the Strong Sad scene at the beginning, there is a {{wp|Lego}} set of ''[[The Beatles|Yellow Submarine]]'' on the top of a shelf. This is most visible when viewing with an older form of Ruffle that doesn't support the blur function used to blur out the background. | + | *The Lusitania was a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. The ship was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 mi off the southern coast of Ireland |
- | *The scenes featuring two silhouetted Trogdor heads is a reference to a recurring segment of ''{{wp|The Electric Company}}'', a children's show that aired on [[PBS]] in the 1970s, in which two people would say part of a word to each other, with the letters coming out of their mouth in a similar fashion.
| + | *The Mauretania was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Wigham Richardson & Swan Hunter for the British Cunard Line, and launched on the afternoon of 20 September 1906. |
- | *The ''{{w|RMS Lusitania|Lusitania}}'' was a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. The ship, first launched in 1906, was famously {{w|Sinking of the RMS Lusitania|sunk on May 7, 1915 by a German U-boat}} which was a major factor in the US joining World War I.
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- | **The ''{{w|RMS Mauretania (1906)|Mauretania}}'' was the running mate of the ''Lusitania'', also launched in 1906.
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- | *The disco rendition of the song seems to be inspired by the 1970s trend of novelty disco singles based on well-known songs and properties, such as {{w|Meco}}'s {{w|Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band|rendition}} of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' title theme.
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- | ==YouTube Version==
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- | *The toon is titled "Trogdor Was Dragon Man".
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- | **This toon was unnamed on [[homestarrunner.com]] prior to the [[Post-Flash Site Update]].
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- | *The description for this video is "A Powered by The Cheat video for a song from a 70's commercial for a board game."
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- | ==See Also==
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- | *The [[Trogdor Was A Man Visuals|visuals]] that occur during the music video.
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| == External Links == | | == External Links == |
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- | [[Category:Powered by The Cheat]] | + | [[Category:Powered by The Cheat]][[Category:Songs]] |
- | [[Category:Music Videos]] | + | |
- | [[Category:Trogdor!! The Board Game]]
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- | [[Category:Shorts]]
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- | [[Category: Homestar Runner Original Soundtrack Volume 3]]
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