Make a Scene with Telltale: Strong Bad Edition
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The audience of PAX got to help Telltale make their own little short with the Telltale Tool. Complete with guest voices!
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The King of Town, Homestar Runner, Homsar, Strong Sad (voice only)
Places: Computer Room, Strong Badia
Date: Sunday, August 31, 2008
Running Time: 2:56
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[edit] Transcript
{The following messages appear on the screen along with music}
At PAX '08, we hosted a panel called
"Make A Scene With Telltale."
We worked with the audience to create
a scenario and cutscene starring the cast of
Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People
The scene was conceived, written, and voiced
by the audience, and built in the Telltale Tool
by some of our choreographers during the panel.
First, a little set-up...
{Cut to the computer room, with Strong Bad's 3D variation checking his email as usual. The music has stopped.}
STRONG BAD: Give me the emails, Lappy! Shama-lama-dingalama-doomalama-domow!
Where are you?Strong Bad ...
Uh, where are you?
Our panel at PAX is about to start! Are you comeing?
We'll try to kill time with the crowd until you show up.
Please hurry!
Emily M., Seattle WA
{He skips "Uh, where are you?" with a quick shake of his head. He pronounces "comeing" as "koh-may-ing". He first begins "We'll try to kill time..." as "We'll try to kill the crowd..." He interrupts himself with "Oh, 'scuse me," and corrects himself. He says "Emily M." as "Emily...M...ily."}
STRONG BAD: PAX? {unemotionally} Oh, right. {snottily} That is so 2004. Is that thing even cool anymore? {clears the screen} {angrily} Well, even though you guys have me working NON-STOP making SBCG4AP, I'd LOVE to drop everything and fly halfway across the country to spend the weekend trading Wii friend codes with a bunch of {yelling} web-comic reading dorks. {Refrains from yelling back to his normal tone} But, I can't. Some, uh, thing {types "something"} came up. But I can explain everything in about 1 minute or less. See, {speaking hesitantly} I was at that place talking to somebody...
{Fades out to a shot of an angled view of Strong Bad from the ground, with the Strong Badia flag in the background.}
STRONG BAD: {The guest imitates him with a deeper-pitch} Uh, man, that guy, that, guy, uh, the King of Town, yeah.
{Cut to an angled straight view the fence, with the King of Town in the middle.}
THE KING OF TOWN: {The guest imitates him with a higher-pitch} Hmm... butter! Rich, creamery— {blandly} Whaaat?! Strong Bad!
{Cut back to Strong Bad}
STRONG BAD: Uh, are you invading Strong Badia with... butter?
{Cut back to the King of Town}
THE KING OF TOWN: Of course not! That's ridiculous! What I'm really doing is... making the largest pancake. {His moustache curves up to resemble a smile}
{Cut to back to Strong Bad, less angled and more close-up.}
STRONG BAD: Okay, now that's much more sensible.
{Cut to Homestar, who appears to have been standing next to the King of Town the entire time.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {The guest imitates him without his usual speech impediments} Uhhh... I'm standing right here, guys, uhhh... {looks below him} in this pancake.
{Cut to Homsar who is floating in front of the fence's left end.}
HOMSAR: {The guest imitates him almost perfectly} DaaAAAAAaaa! I'm a butter-soaked pancake!
{Cut back to Homestar}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: He's not kidding, you know. He really is buttery... {soothingly} and delicious. {grins}
{Cut back to Strong Bad}
STRONG BAD: This is ridiculous. We gotta hang out with the coherent people of... Seattle.
{Cut to the King of Town}
THE KING OF TOWN: Coherent? Have you ever been {pronounces "been" as it's spelled} to PAX? {the "P" in "PAX" pops the mic}
{Fades out back to the Lappy.}
STRONG BAD: {Voiced normally} {music plays} So, E-maily, that why I couldn't make it. Besides, have you seen {does not say "have"} the kind of people {a stretched picture of a PAX audience twirls in from the centers with swoosh sound effects} that show up at those things? {stops typing and mumbles to himself disgustedly} No thanks, man! {The photo twirls back with the same sound} {new line} But, uh, Tell Ensign {pronounced "en-sine"} Crusher or Jonathan Coulton or whoever that I said what's up. I'll send my seasonal-depressed brother Strong Sad in my place.
STRONG SAD: {Offscreen, with Strong Bad turning his to the left} I can't be bothered with panels. I'm DM-ing the climax of my epic Maps and Minions campaign in tabletop freeplay!
STRONG BAD: Uh, {turns his head forward again} yeah. {new line} Maybe next year. {new line} Buy SBCG4AP! {ends sentence with a period} {new line} That wasn't an ad. {new line} I was just telling SBCG4AP goodbye. {new line} Bye! {quickly} SBCG4AP
[edit] Fun Facts
[edit] Explanations
- PAX is a series of annual gaming conventions. It was started by the creators of the webcomic Penny Arcade, hence Strong Bad's remark about "trading Wii friend codes with a bunch of webcomic-reading dorks".
[edit] Remarks
- Lipsyncing was notably out-of-sync at times, probably from a short time frame the panel had to work with.
[edit] Trivia
- During the "fan-made" scene, there are constant laughs. They're quite hard to hear because of their low volume.
[edit] Inside References
- The audience's plot includes a mention of butter.
- Strong Bad's pronunciation of "comeing" is the same as in dangeresque 3.
- The music at the start is Hi, Gene from hygiene, the music during the scene in Strong Badia is DNA Evidence Upbeat from DNA Evidence, and the music that plays after the cut back to the Lappy 486 is Lappy 486 by Compy from animal.
[edit] Real-World References
- Ensign Crusher is a major character from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The actor who played him, Wil Wheaton, is a well-known participant in online culture and frequent attendee of PAX.
- Strong Bad mentions popular musician Jonathan Coulton.
- Emily M. refers to Telltale Games employee Emily Morganti.
[edit] Fast Forward
- Maps and Minions would appear in Strong Badia the Free.
- In September 2010, a Telltale panel once again collaborated with an audience at PAX in Make a Scene with Telltale at PAX 2010. However the only Homestar Runner character in the final product was Marzipan, and she only had one line.
[edit] DVD Version
- The video ends with the message:
For the story behind this clip,
watch the extended cut!
- The DVD includes an extended version of this short, including the "making of" segments.
Running Time: 12:03
[edit] Transcript
{The following messages appear on the screen along with music}
At PAX '08, we hosted a panel called
"Make A Scene With Telltale."
We worked with the audience to create
a scenario and cutscene starring the cast of
Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People
The scene was conceived, written, and voiced
by the audience, and built in the Telltale Tool
by some of our choreographers during the panel.
Let's watch...
{Cut to several people at a PAX panel. The text "Kevin Bruner, Telltale Games CTO" fades onscreen.}
KEVIN BRUNER: We're here to... show you a little bit about how we do what we do, and, um, answer some questions for you. So, um, currently, we at Telltale make episodic games, so we do like a game a month, more like a comic book than like a regular game. And we've done this with 11 Sam & Max episodes, we're doing it right now with Strong Bad, which is downloadable on WiiWare, and available on PC, and we just recently announced that we're going to be doing the same thing with Wallace & Gromit, coming up soon.
{The audience applauds.}
KEVIN BRUNER: And we also do some games based on the CSI television shows, which is a little different {inaudible}. So that's kind of who we are and what we do, our games are a little different, they're more... you know, since they're every month, they're a little more based on comedy and being funny, and... by the time we make 11 Sam & Max games, we gotta keep thinking of new stuff, so, uh...
{He turns to the person next to him, who shakes his head. The audience laughs.}
KEVIN BRUNER: And we're gettin' rollin' on season 3, so, um... it's been a whole lot of fun. But, today is all about Strong Bad, so — Make a Scene with Strong Bad — so I think we have an email for Strong Bad. Is everybody familiar with Strong Bad?
{The audience cheers. Cut to the computer room, with Strong Bad's 3D variation checking his email as usual.}
STRONG BAD: Give me the emails, Lappy! Shama-lama-dingalama-doomalama-domow!
Where are you?Strong Bad ...
Uh, where are you?
Our panel at PAX is about to start! Are you comeing?
We'll try to kill time with the crowd until you show up.
Please hurry!
Emily M., Seattle WA
{He skips "Uh, where are you?" with a quick shake of his head. He pronounces "comeing" as "koh-may-ing". He first begins "We'll try to kill time..." as "We'll try to kill the crowd..." He interrupts himself with "Oh, 'scuse me," and corrects himself. He says "Emily M." as "Emily...M...ily."}
STRONG BAD: PAX? {unemotionally} Oh, right. {snottily} That is so 2004. Is that thing even cool anymore? {clears the screen} {angrily} Well, even though you guys have me working NON-STOP making SBCG4AP, I'd LOVE to drop everything and fly halfway across the country to spend the weekend trading Wii friend codes with a bunch of {yelling} web-comic reading dorks. {Refrains from yelling back to his normal tone} But, I can't. Some, uh, thing {types "something"} came up. But I can explain everything in about 1 minute or less. See, {speaking hesitantly} I was at that place talking to somebody...
{Cut back to the panel.}
MARK DARIN: {offscreen} So it looks like Strong Bad isn't gonna be able to make it here today, and he was a little vague on the details, and that's where you guys are gonna come in, you're gonna help us make a scene to show why Strong Bad wasn't able to make it here at PAX today.
{Cut to Mark. The text "Mark Darin, Game Designer, SBCG4AP" fades onscreen.}
MARK DARIN: All right! Uh, let's find out where this is gonna take place. {gesturing to a projector screen} We have our locations here, we got a couple to choose from... Which place do you like best?
{Images of Strong Badia, the Basement, and Marzipan's backyard slide in from the left.}
AUDIENCE: Strong Badia!
MARK DARIN: You like Strong Badia? We have the the basement... Round of applause, Strong Badia! {loud audience applause} How 'bout the basement? {audience applause} Hold on for the Trogdor machine. How about Marzipan's backyard? {audience applause} We are in Strong Badia. All right, let's, uh, choose some— oh, I'm right in front... {trails off, moves out of the way of the projector}
{An image of the 12 main characters minus Strong Sad, Pom Pom, and The Poopsmith fades onscreen.}
AUDIENCE: Homsar!
MARK DARIN: Okay! So we have Homsar.
{Cut to a man at a laptop. The text "Chuck Jordan, Game Designer, SBCG4AP" fades onscreen.}
MARK DARIN: {offscreen} Okay, we're gonna start writing then. So we start it off, Strong Bad's gonna beat up somebody and you guys guess the character, who is he going there to beat up?
AUDIENCE: The King of Town!
MARK DARIN: {offscreen} King of Town? All right.
{Clock wipe to Mark.}
AUDIENCE MEMBER: The largest pancake!
{The audience laughs. Another clock wipe.}
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Buttery and delicious!
MARK DARIN: What was that?
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Buttery and delicious!
MARK DARIN: Buttery and delicious.
{Cut to Chuck. The text "Daniel Herrera, Choreographer, SBCG4AP" fades onscreen in front of another panel member.}
CHUCK JORDAN: All right, who should follow the last line?
AUDIENCE: Homsar!
OTHER AUDIENCE MEMBER: The King of Town. "Have you been to PAX?"
ANOTHER AUDIENCE MEMBER: "Have you been to Seattle?"
{The text "Jon Sgro, Director of Production Technologies" fades onscreen in front of another panel member.}
MARK DARIN: All right! It's your guys' turn. We're gonna {cut to Mark} get you to do some voices for us and record 'em, right here, live, right now. So, uh, let's start off with some Strong Bad, who can do a good Strong Bad impression in here? {points} Back there. {walks over, speaks inaudibly over audience cheering}
STRONG BAD IMITATOR #1: {Strong Bad impression} Well, I'll give it to you, but, uh... I really don't feel it's working for me right now.
MARK DARIN: What do you guys think? {audience cheers} You guys wanna give it a shot?
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yeah!
MARK DARIN: Who wants to give it a shot? Come on up! {silence} Better hurry up. All right! How about, uh, how about Homestar, who does a good Homestar? Who does a Homestar?
AUDIENCE MEMBER: No, he does Strong Bad.
OTHER AUDIENCE MEMBER: Right here!
MARK DARIN: {inaudible} Strong Bad real quick, does he have it?
AUDIENCE MEMBER: This guy.
MARK DARIN: {walks over} Oh, I'm sorry, man, {inaudible} Let me hear your Strong Bad real quick.
STRONG BAD IMITATOR #2: {Strong Bad impression} Uh, hey you guys, uh, we gotta go and find Homestar.
{The audience applauds. The man walks off.}
STRONG BAD IMITATOR #2: {normal voice} All right, all right, I'm sittin' down!
AUDIENCE MEMBER: It was good!
STRONG BAD IMITATOR #2: No, it sucked.
MARK DARIN: Let's get that Homestar, you got a Homestar for me?
STRONG BAD IMITATOR #3: Nope, Strong Bad.
MARK DARIN: Strong Bad? Last Strong Bad.
STRONG BAD IMITATOR #3: {Strong Bad impression} All right, so we got, uh, this guy right here is trying to do Homestar—
{The audience cheers. Mark brings the Strong Bad imitator to the front of the room, where he hugs the first imitator as he walks off.}
MARK DARIN: All right, seriously, let's get a Homestar now. Who does a good Homestar? Right here! {walks over}
HOMESTAR IMITATOR #1: {Homestar impression} Hey stupid, I made you this sandwich. I mean hey Marzipan, I made you this veggie burger. {normal voice} Aw, I lost it. Sorry. Somebody can do better!
MARK DARIN: Anybody better? {walks over} All right, let's hear this Homestar. Say whatever you want.
HOMESTAR IMITATOR #2: {Homestar impression} Uh, I'm standing right here, guys. {the audience cheers}
{Fade to Mark walking through the audience with a King of Town imitator.}
MARK DARIN: {inaudible} Homsar! {the audience cheers} Go ahead, give a shout out.
AUDIENCE: AaAaAaAah...
{Fade to Mark and the voice actors at the front of the room looking at the script on the projector screen.}
MARK DARIN: You ready? Let's do it. Go ahead.
STRONG BAD IMITATOR #3: {Strong Bad impression} You ready, Joe? Okay. {Strong Bad impression} Uh, man, that guy, that, guy, uh, the King of Town, yeah.
THE KING OF TOWN IMITATOR: {The King of Town impression} Hmm... butter! Rich, creamery— Whaaat?! Strong Bad!
STRONG BAD IMITATOR #3: {Strong Bad impression} Uh, are you invading Strong Badia with... butter? {the audience laughs}
THE KING OF TOWN IMITATOR: {The King of Town impression} Of course not! That's ridiculous! What I'm really... {normal voice} Sorry. {The King of Town impression} Of course not! That's ridiculous! What I'm really doing is... making the largest pancake.
STRONG BAD IMITATOR #3: {Strong Bad impression} Okay, now that's much more sensible.
HOMESTAR IMITATOR #2: {Homestar impression} Uhhh... I'm standing right here, guys, uhhh... in this pancake.
HOMSAR IMITATOR: {Homsar impression} DaaAAAAAaaa! I'm a butter-soaked pancake!
{The audience laughs and cheers in the middle of the line.}
PANEL MEMBER: Can you re-read that one? Um, the audience laughed.
MARK DARIN: So you guys messed it up!
HOMSAR IMITATOR: Thanks!
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Also there was an extra H in that.
{The audience laughs.}
MARK DARIN: Post it on the wiki.
HOMSAR IMITATOR: {Homsar impression} DaaAAAAAaaa! I'm a butter-soaked pancake!
MARK DARIN: All right, keep it down, keep it down.
HOMESTAR IMITATOR #2: {Homestar impression} He's not kidding, you know. He really is buttery... and delicious.
STRONG BAD IMITATOR #3: {Strong Bad impression} This is ridiculous. We gotta hang out with the coherent people of... Seattle.
THE KING OF TOWN IMITATOR: {The King of Town impression} Coherent? Have you ever been {pronounces "been" as it's spelled} to PAX?
{The audience applauds. Mark shakes hands with the voice actors.}
MARK DARIN: Awesome Strong Bad, real good Homestar, King of Town, and... uh, you know. {the audience laughs} {inaudible}
{Fade out, then fade back in to the panel.}
KEVIN BRUNER: Okay, so, uh... Dan, and Jon, have been busy button-pushing, and, uh, here is the result of it.
{Cut to a shot of an angled view of Strong Bad from the ground, with the Strong Badia flag in the background.}
STRONG BAD: {The guest imitates him with a deeper-pitch} Uh, man, that guy, that, guy, uh, the King of Town, yeah.
{Cut to an angled straight view the fence, with the King of Town in the middle.}
THE KING OF TOWN: {The guest imitates him with a higher-pitch} Hmm... butter! Rich, creamery— {blandly} Whaaat?! Strong Bad!
{Cut back to Strong Bad}
STRONG BAD: Uh, are you invading Strong Badia with... butter?
{Cut back to the King of Town}
THE KING OF TOWN: Of course not! That's ridiculous! What I'm really doing is... making the largest pancake. {His moustache curves up to resemble a smile}
{Cut to back to Strong Bad, less angled and more close-up.}
STRONG BAD: Okay, now that's much more sensible.
{Cut to Homestar, who appears to have been standing next to the King of Town the entire time.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {The guest imitates him without his usual speech impediments} Uhhh... I'm standing right here, guys, uhhh... {looks below him} in this pancake.
{Cut to Homsar who is floating in front of the fence's left end.}
HOMSAR: {The guest imitates him almost perfectly} DaaAAAAAaaa! I'm a butter-soaked pancake!
{Cut back to Homestar}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: He's not kidding, you know. He really is buttery... {soothingly} and delicious. {grins}
{Cut back to Strong Bad}
STRONG BAD: This is ridiculous. We gotta hang out with the coherent people of... Seattle.
{Cut to the King of Town}
THE KING OF TOWN: Coherent? Have you ever been {pronounces "been" as it's spelled} to PAX? {the "P" in "PAX" pops the mic}
{Cut to the audience applauding, then cut back to the Lappy.}
STRONG BAD: {Voiced normally} So, E-maily, that why I couldn't make it. Besides, have you seen {does not say "have"} the kind of people {a stretched picture of a PAX audience twirls in from the centers with swoosh sound effects} that show up at those things? {stops typing and mumbles to himself disgustedly} No thanks, man! {The photo twirls back with the same sound} {new line} But, uh, Tell Ensign {pronounced "en-sine"} Crusher or Jonathan Coulton or whoever that I said what's up. I'll send my seasonal-depressed brother Strong Sad in my place.
STRONG SAD: {Offscreen, with Strong Bad turning his to the left} I can't be bothered with panels. I'm DM-ing the climax of my epic Maps and Minions campaign in tabletop freeplay!
STRONG BAD: Uh, {turns his head forward again} yeah. {new line} Maybe next year. {new line} Buy SBCG4AP! {ends sentence with a period} {new line} That wasn't an ad. {new line} I was just telling SBCG4AP goodbye. {new line} Bye! {quickly} SBCG4AP
{Cut to the audience applauding.}
