Meeple Grove
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Twelve Homestar Runner meeples stand around on a board game and chat. Homsar's Jengaship gets shanked again.
Cast (in order of appearance): The Poopsmith, Strong Mad, Bubs, Marzipan, Pom Pom, The King of Town, Homsar, The Cheat, Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, Coach Z, Strong Sad, Pleasant Narrator, Balding Man
Places: Basement of the Brothers Strong
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2018
Running Time: 1:55
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[edit] Transcript
{Open on a game board sitting on a table in the basement of the Brothers Strong, with meeples of the twelve main characters standing on it. Soft music plays. Whenever a meeple speaks, he rattles back and forth.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Uh, you guys? How come we look like this? {close up} And how come I can only kinda... shimmy in place? Not that I'm complaining. Everybody knows Homestar Runner loves a good stand-in-place shimmy!
{Pan to the Strong Sad meeple in the bottom-right corner}
STRONG SAD: We're meeples! I've had so many dreams like this!
{Wide shot. The Cheat meeple turns to face Strong Bad as he speaks.}
STRONG BAD: {rhythmically} Gross. I hate you. Gross, gross, I hate you.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: What's a meeple? Sounds like Intendo.
{Close up on Strong Sad meeple}
STRONG SAD: A meeple is a wooden approximation of a human character in a tabletop game!
STRONG BAD: We look like we belong in one of those old British stop-motion shows. You know, where we all speak in board-gamery terms while a pleasant narrator over-explains everything?
{Pan over the board while music plays and the title "Meeple Grove Market" appears over top. During the narration, panning shots are shown of various meeples toddling around the board.}
PLEASANT NARRATOR: {voiceover} Welcome to Meeple Grove Market. Where the meeples all speak in board-gamery terms while I over-explain everything.
{Close up of Strong Bad meeple}
STRONG BAD: {fake Italian accent} Okay, as is the custom of-a my meeples, everybody sound off!
STRONG MAD: I TRADE FOR GRAIN!
BUBS: I just eradicated all disease in Jakarta!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: I lost a turn in the chocolate swamp! Chocolate?! What happened to molasses? Kids love molasses!
COACH Z: I'm creepin' and I'm creepin' down Baltic Ave! (actually says "Ave", not "avenue")
KING OF TOWN: I'm takin' back Irkutsk!
STRONG SAD: Pret-ty sneaky, sis!
{Wide shot, drum roll plays}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Do it Homsar, do it, do it, do it!
STRONG BAD: Do it Homsar, do it!
BUBS: Yeah, yeah! Do it!
COACH Z: Dort!
KING OF TOWN: Yeah, do it! Do it, do it!
COACH Z: DORT!
HOMSAR: Oh, no! {close up} You just shanked my Jengaship!
{Triumphant tune plays. Wide shot.}
STRONG BAD: Oh no, it's our mortal enemy: someone going to get a drink during the game!
{A silhouette of the Balding Man sighs his drawn-out sigh as he gets up from the table, making The Geddup Noise and jostling it, which knocks over all the meeples. Everybody yells in alarm.}
{Slow zoom out as music plays.}
PLEASANT NARRATOR: And so, all the meeples fell down, because you see, when you're playing a tabletop game and you get up to go to the loo—
STRONG BAD: {still lying on his back} Yeah, we get it.
PLEASANT NARRATOR: —sometimes your knee strikes—
STRONG BAD: We get it!
PLEASANT NARRATOR: —the corner of the table—
STRONG BAD: WE GET IT!
PLEASANT NARRATOR: —upsetting everything on the—
STRONG BAD: WE GET IT, OLD MAN!
{"End" screen}
[edit] Fun Facts
[edit] Explanations
- This was a surprise video posted to Kickstarter to promote Trogdor!! The Board Game. It was linked to by the board game's Facebook and Twitter accounts, along with this message:
Everybody (Everybody) Check out our surprise meeple video we made! We're still working on the other stuff, but we figured this would be a good amuse bouche.
[edit] Trivia
- The YouTube description for this email is "An old stop-motion show featuring your favorite Homestar characters in meeple form. King of Town is in it, too!"
[edit] Inside References
- Homestar once again says "Everybody knows [...] Homestar Runner loves..." like he did in Doomy Tales of the Macabre.
- Strong Bad's fake Italian accent (particularly his "as is the custom of-a my meeples") is a reference to one of his prank calls in Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2.
- Homsar's "Jengaship" was previously "shanked" in Where's The Cheat?.
- "Intendo" as a shortened version of "Nintendo" first appeared in the second draft of Sbemail 136.
[edit] Real-World References
- A similar show with a pleasant British narrator was featured in the "Trauncles" segment of Two More Eggs, also produced by The Brothers Chaps.
- "What's a meeple? Sounds like Intendo." might be a reference to amiibo, Nintendo's line of plastic figures that interact with their games.
- Strong Bad's description of "old British stop motion shows" involving wooden figures and pleasant narrators calls to mind such shows as Postman Pat.
- The "board-gamery terms" used by the characters refer to various tabletop games:
- Strong Mad's "grain" is a tradeable resource in the popular game Settlers of Catan.
- Bubs eradicates disease in Jakarta, one of the cities players must save in Pandemic.
- Homestar loses a turn in the Chocolate Swamp from the children's board game Candy Land. He also refers to the earlier versions of the game that had Molasses Swamp instead.
- Coach Z creeps down Baltic Ave, one of the properties in the classic board game Monopoly.
- The King of Town takes Irkutsk, a conquerable territory in the strategy game Risk.
- Strong Sad's "Pretty sneaky, sis" comes from an old commercial for Connect Four.
- Homsar's self-quote references Battleship and the non-board game Jenga.
- Coach Z's "I'm creepin' and I'm creepin'" is once again a quote from Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's "Nuthin' But a "G" Thang"
mild language, previously referenced in Strong Sad's Lament.
[edit] Fast Forward
- The fake autoplay image for the YouTube release of the Trogdor!! The Board Game video shows "Meeple Grove Market: Annihilation".
