Trudgemank

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"Drown in the Trudgemank!"

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The Cheat animates a music video for Taranchula featuring Peacey P.

Cast (in order of appearance): Taranchula, The Cheat, Peacey P

Places: The Cheat's Computer Room

Date: Monday, August 18, 2008

Running Time: 1:47

Page Title: Get Your Product Phat For Ya!

Lyrics

TARANCHULA:
Mired on the moor!
Swamped in the sludge!
Dying on the floor!
Drown in the trudge!

Drown in the Trudgemank!

Drown in the Trudgemank!

PEACEY P: {talking} Hello? What? Who? Taranckula? Naww, fool. Wait, how much? Dang!

{rapping} Peacey P back on the mic again
Getting paid to rhyme with Scandinavians
Trudging through the mank so it's easy to find me
Mixing rap and heavy metal, like the early nineties.

{talking} '91 or '93. Anthrax and P.E.

I got the Crample-O style and the Crample-O flow
Got these metal-heads all up in my "STU G.O."
And get your product phat for ya

TARANCHULA:
Get your product phat!!

BOTH:
AHHHHHHH!

PEACEY P:
I'll say it once again, just in case'd you missed it,
Clean the gravy out your ears cause your head is a biscuit.
Y'all biscuit-heads!

That's what happens when you're down with the trudgemank!

TARANCHULA:
Get your product phat for ya!

PEACEY P:
That's what happens when you're down with the trudgemank!

TARANCHULA:
Get your product phat for ya!

PEACEY P:
That's what happens when you're down with the trudgemank!

TARANCHULA:
Get your product phat for ya!

PEACEY P:
That's what happens when you're down with the

BOTH:
Trudgemank!

PEACEY P: {talking} Maybe some of y'all fellas can maybe think about taking a shower or somethin' next time before ya come up in here. Stank!

{End video. Cut to The Cheat's Computer Room, where The Cheat is alone at his computer.}

THE CHEAT: {expectant, and then upset, The Cheat noises} {takes out a pizza trophy and places it on the desk} {happy The Cheat noises} {claps hands}

Fun Facts

Trivia

• Peacey P's nightcap reads "Slee P".
• The bubbles (after the meat slithering across the floor) have the Taranchula Logo on them as part of the reflected light pattern.
• The Cheat's trophy reads "PIZZA TROPHY FOR THE CHEAT".

Inside References

• The pizza trophy that Strong Bad said that he would give to The Cheat in crazy cartoon appears in this music video at the end.
• The run-down, industrial-like environment as well as the screw and the slab of meat at the beginning of the music video is a reference to Taranchula's previously-seen music video: "The Decoupage", seen in death metal.
• As with previous songs featuring Peacey P, this song is produced by Crample-O Stow Records. "Crample-O" appears in the lyrics and on the side of Peacey P's yacht.
• Peacey P has blood on his coat during a segment, and mentions showering and stank.

Real-World References

• Peacey P refers to Anthrax and "P.E.", who collaborated on the track "Bring the Noise" in 1991, an early teaming of heavy metal and rap.
• "Trudgment Night Soundtrack" is a reference to the 1993 soundtrack for the movie Judgment Night which featured pairings of rock and hip hop artists.
• In the parts of the video where Peacey P is wearing a multicolored jacket and hat, he is wearing a shirt underneath which references A Tribe Called Quest, a hip-hop group popular in the early '90s.
• The lines "I'll say it once again, just in case'd you missed it, / Clean the gravy out your ears cause your head is a biscuit" may be a reference to a line from a classic Digital Underground song. In "The Humpty Dance," Humpty Hump (a.k.a. Shock G) has this line: "I sang on 'Doowhutchyalike,' and if ya missed it, I'm the one who said, 'Just grab 'em in the biscuits!'"
• In the spirit of the collaboration with Taranchula, Peacey P's boat exhibits "CRAMPLE-O" written as "Crample-Ø". Some Scandinavian languages use the Ø, or an "O with a stroke", in their alphabets.
  • Incidentally, the Ø is usually used to represent a sound similar to the "oo" sound in the word "book".
• The navy and orange "34" jersey that Peacey P wears is similar to a Walter Payton jersey. Wearing retro or fashion sports jerseys is popular with some rappers.
• The loading screen simply says Load, which may be a reference to the Metallica album of same name.
• The line "Down with the Trudgemank" may be a reference to the song "Down With the Sickness" by Disturbed.
• The saw blade seen in the video may be a reference to the "buzzsaw guitar sound" pioneered by Swedish Death Metal bands such as Entombed.

Fast Forward

• The song was later referenced in an Easter Egg for 2 Part Episode: Part 2, with Fudgeclank substituted for Trudgemank.

See Also

• The visuals that occur during this music video.

External Links

• watch "Trudgemank" on the old Flash site
• view the Flash file for "Trudgemank"
• watch "Trudgemank" on YouTube
• forum thread re: "Trudgemank"
• download "Trudgemank"