Weclome Back

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"What is it, like, mid-May or something?"

Homestar and the gang all reflect on their summer vacation.

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

Places: The field, Tope garden, deserted island/beach, Gluten camp, an airplane

Date: July 3, 2006

Running Time: 4:37

Page Title: Your dreams were your ticket out...

Transcript

{A closeup of a time clock attached to a telephone pole. A time card is punched in. The words "Weclome Back" are shown, and flash various colors. Pull out to see Bubs holding a cup of coffee, in front of a table with styrofoam cups and an urn, in the Field. Marzipan enters and also punches in.}

BUBS: Well hello, Marzi-person! Welcome back.

MARZIPAN: Well howdy, stranger!

BUBS: Stranger? I'm Bubs, remember?

MARZIPAN: {unimpressed} Uh, I know. It's a joke.

BUBS: That's hilarious. How was your vacation?

MARZIPAN: It was toot-sweet! I took the Cool Tapes on a midwestern tour {the tour map pops up} of bead shops and topiary gardens.

{Cut to a topiary garden; Marzipan, Strong Mad and The Cheat are playing in the band}

MARZIPAN: {singing}

Cool tapes are cool, and we're better than ever,

Cool tapes are cool, 'cause we're light as a feather.

Keep it down with that real cool flavor,

Me and The Cheat and our bass player.

Rockin' the spot.

Yeah, we're rockin' the spot.

MARZIPAN: {something}, and don't forget we've got cool 7-inches for sale over at our merch table.

{Cut to the merchandise table. Homsar is standing on it, it has a sign reading "Merch Masala" and another reading "Steven Inches $π"}

HOMSAR: I'm a little light in the leftovers.

{Homsar's hat flies off the left of the screen, and comes back on from the right and settles on his head. Cut back to Bubs and Marzipan at the coffee table.}

BUBS: I bet you drove the shape-ed plants wild.

MARZIPAN: Yeah, they were way into it. So what did you do?

BUBS: I drove my baloney sandwich truck down to the beach.

{Cut to the tropical island. Bubs's "Baloney Sammich Truck", which resembles an ice-cream truck, doesn't quite fit, and the rear wheels are in the water.}

BUBS:Baloney! Come on, people! Come on, palm tree! {gibberish, ending with} baloney sammich!

{An Atari seagull flies past.}

BUBS: You shut your face!

{Cut back to the coffee table.}

BUBS: I sold exactly zero baloney sandwiches!

MARZIPAN: Well, that's great.

BUBS: Yeah, it was pretty much my best summer ever.

{Strong Sad arrives.}

STRONG SAD: Same here, I spent two glorious weeks at gluten camp. I learned more about this oft-misunderstood plant protein than I ever thought possible.

{The King of Town enters and punches his card.}

THE KING OF TOWN Whateva! {puts a time card in the time clock} I was across the lake at glutton camp. And we challenged those panseys to an obstacle course!

{Cut to the obstacle course. Strong Sad and the King of Town stuck in two tire wheels.}

STRONG SAD: Well, should we call it a draw?

THE KING OF TOWN: Hecks no! I got stuck in here 10 minutes before you!

{Cut to Coach Z.}

COACH Z: Let;s go, glorten camp! Glorten camp is pain and scranen on yous!

Easter Eggs

• Click on the left-side "everybody" at the end of the toon to see Pom Pom and The Poopsmith on a desert island thinking about baloney sandwiches.
• Click on the "Steven Inches" sign on the Merch table to see a "The Freewheelin' Eh, Steve" album cover.
• When the KOT first appears, click on his crown to see his "I'm with Glutton Camp" t-shirt.

Fun Facts

Trivia

• The time card reads:

• The Cool Tapes tour goes through East Westerburg, Beadsburg, Bead Store City, Sculpted Busheton, New Beadshop, Topiarianapolis, Beeeeeds and Tope Gardens. Other towns on the map are Northtime, Pantsburg, Shoigut, Thuxtable and The Slickster.
• There are trees in the topiary garden shaped as an ice-cream cone, Trogdor, a tree stump, and Van Buren.
• According to the sign on the side of Bubs's truck, he's selling:
  • "Gumball surprise"—A baloney sandwich with a purple gumball on top.
  • "Open Smiley Face"—An open baloney sandwich with a smiley face drawn on it in mustard.
  • "I Heart Baloney"—A baloney sandwich with heart-shaped bread.
  • "Dog Food"—A baloney sandwich with bone-shaped bread.
  • "It's Not a Real Popsicle"—A baloney sandwich with popsicle-shaped bread.
  • "Inside Out"—A piece of bread between two slices of baloney.
• Homestar sleeping through June and the characters on vacation explains why there were no updates during June 2006.

Remarks

• Coach Z's line about "Glorten" camp echos a similar line from him in mascot. There, he refers to the same entity in two different ways, and here, he refers to two different entities in the same way.

Inside References

• One of the bushes, where Cool Tapes play, is a Trogdor shaped bush.
• When Strong Bad says "I can't believe I pulled the "Mash stop when you think you're mashing record, and mash record when you think you're mashing stop" on myself" is a reference to mashing go/play on something
• The Atari seagull is from huttah!
• Marzipan's Cool Tapes band comes from Cool Things.
• Homestar is wearing Nebulon slippers.
• The toon's title includes Weclome.

Real-World References

• The design of the Cool Tapes Marzipan amps are based on the design of the classic Marshall amp.
• A Vlog is a Video Blog, made popular by Youtube.com, a short video of the host sharing a part of their lives.
• The page title references the theme song from the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter ("Welcome back / Your dreams were your ticket out...").
• Athletic competitions between summer camps occupying the same campground are common in family movies and cartoons.
• The "Freewheelin' Eh Steve" album cover is a reference to Bob Dylan's early album, "Freewheelin' Bob Dylan."

External Links

• watch "Weclome Back"
• view the Flash file for "Weclome Back"
• forum thread re: "Weclome Back"