Gfd's Random Stuff/Commentaries

These are transcriptions of some of the commentaries on the currently unreleased Everything Else Vol. 4 DVD.

I Killed Pom Pom
MIKE: So this is the, uh&mdash;

MATT: {overlapping} Splat!

MIKE: 2014... yep, splat. We used a lot of splatters in this one.

MATT: That was a fun... artistic direction. A motif, you could say.

MIKE: Yeah. So this is, um, I feel like, one of the toons we worked on for the longest...

MATT: Right.

MIKE: ...without actually working on it, right?

MATT: Pretty much, yeah. We were&mdash; we had this idea, in our heads as early as, like, 2010 I feel like?

MIKE: I think so, yeah.

MATT: But of course we didn't get around to doing it that year...

MIKE: Or the next...

MATT: {overlapping} Or the next, yeah... so for a few years we would like, text each other little dialogue exchanges and stuff...

MIKE: Like, he talks to Bubs and Bubs is like, "Don't worry, Homestar, we've all made mistakes", just little snippets...

MATT: Yeah. I feel like, this and, uh, sbemail206, we worked on&mdash; planned the most over the... hiatus.

MIKE: I remember texting each other a scene where&mdash; with, uh... Homsar, was it? Where he, uh...?

MATT: No, that's the... uh, it was Senor Cardgage I believe.

MIKE: That's right. Like, Senor Cardgage somehow gets Homestar to confess to his crimes, or he accidentally confesses, and Homestar has to... tries to kill Senor Cardgage to eliminate any witnesses.

MATT: Kind of dark.

MIKE: We couldn't really fit it in either, yeah. This was already crammed with... what was it, like three, four years of ideas.

{Pause.}

MATT: So, uh, how do you think Strong Bad pulled off that costume, Mike?

MIKE: I don't know...

MATT: You did the, uh, the graphics, didn't you? The good graphics?

MIKE: I did the good graphics, yeah.

MATT: Strong Bad... uh, put pointy stuff on his face, and Homestar swam in blue paint, I guess.

MIKE: Like... that's not even a costume. He just got out of swimming in blue paint.

MATT: {laughing} It's a thing he does&mdash;

MIKE: {overlapping} It's his favorite pastime.

MATT: What do you think Coach Z swam in?

MIKE: Uh, black, red, green... juice.

MATT: Oh, that's creative. {pause} Sounds&mdash; {advertiser voice} Black red green juice, now with artificial flavors! {normal voice} We need to put that&mdash; market that, Mike. Put it on the shelves.

{Pause.}

MATT: There you have the, uh, "zoom in on the thinky brain" shot. We don't&mdash;

MIKE: That's&mdash; that's the official terminology. For that kind of shot.

MATT: Yeah, that's what we learned&mdash;

MIKE: Matt went to film school. He knows technical terms like... thinky brain shot.

MATT: Yeah. Um... is that... the only time we hear a character's thoughts like that?

MIKE: I feel like it isn't.

MATT: There has to be... other instances, I feel like, yeah.

MIKE: {Strong Bad voice} "Is this guy rubbing a sandwich on his head?"

MATT: Right, I guess that's pretty close.

MIKE: With the two, uh, halves... the angel and devil. Uh, that's what film-schoolers call a "zoom inside thinky brain" shot.

{Pause.}

MATT: Now we're just watching the cartoon.

{Mike laughs.}

MATT: We need to say something. Say a talk, Mike.

MIKE: Yeah, this is, uh... we haven't seen this, probably since we made it. Which is a shame, 'cause it's one of my favorites.

MATT: Uh, why did you have the King of Town talk like that?

MIKE: That was your idea. Uh, we just&mdash; when we're planning a toon, we just kind of blurt out whatever... and bounce ideas off each other, and a lot of the time it ends up in the cartoon, almost as an inside joke for ourselves. So we were like... thinking about the King of Town having an argument, and I think you did the voice like, uh... {King of Town voice} Ugh, Poopsmith, that's so lame... {normal voice} I can't do the voice, but we ended up throwing it in there.

MATT: I like the Poopsmith... that, uh, like he had to get his arms removed. For that costume.

MIKE: That's dedication.

MATT: Yeah. Or does he just, like, have no arms at all? This is the only time we see under 'em, I think, so we don't know if he has gloves&mdash; arms under his gloves.

MIKE: Yeah, I guess. In this world, you never know who has what.

MATT: That should be the tagline&mdash; the slogan of the show. {movie trailer voice} In this world, you never know who has what. Uh, coming this summer.

''{Mike laughs. Pause.}''

MIKE: Oh, that's gross.

MATT: I kinda forgot about that joke.

MIKE: Well, we never say what it is. Whatsit, is maybe like... pudding...

MATT: {Stinkoman voice} Iiit's pudding!

MIKE: Yeah, let's go with that. {cut to the basement} Uh, this one has a lot of... costumes that are, like, unrealistic, I feel like.

MATT: Like the arms. Strong Mad's...

MIKE: {overlapping} Yeah. The arms move too, you can see, so it's not just like... a backpack or whatever.

MATT: Animatronics, maybe? {stumbling as he speaks} Aminated aminatromics?

{Cut to a close-up with a blurred background.}

MATT: A little blurry background action there.

MIKE: Yeah, that's the kind of thing we find time to do when we're not... rushing ourselves...

MATT: {overlapping} Oop, he said it.

MIKE: Okay, but... I mean, Homestar doesn't know it's crap, it could still be pudding.

MATT: Yeah, sure.

MIKE: There's no proof.

{Brief pause.}

MIKE: He's really into bismarcks in this one.

MATT: Well, he never got him the ones he asked for earlier, in the first place...

MIKE: Yeah, that's true.

MATT: Look at Strong Mad.

MIKE: He's... his smile is unnerving, almost.

MATT: He really likes bismarcks.

MIKE: Apparently. He somehow&mdash; Homestar somehow managed to stack them on top of Strong Mad.

{Cut to a close-up shot with a blurred background.}

MATT: Oh, and he's not smiling anymore.

MIKE: He changed his mind about the bismarcks. {cut back to the scene} And it's totally not because I reused the background.

MATT: There, he's smiling again. Like, he's not even eating them, he's just holding them and smiling into&mdash; at nothing in particular.

MIKE: He's ecstatic.

''{Pause. Cut to Marzipan's house.}''

MATT: Thank boo.

MIKE: This&mdash; see, it's like I said. More unrealistic costumes than, uh, than usual, I feel like.

MATT: Marzipan's costume was going to be Anton Chigurh from, uh, No Country for Old Men, but we, uh... we got the idea, to do Tom Servo instead, and we couldn't not do it.

MIKE: Yeah. It was in the silhouettes too, I think, wasn't it?

MATT: It was, yeah. I remember we used that&mdash; our puppet for reference.

MIKE: We got a puppet&mdash; a Tom Servo puppet from Jim Mallon, a while back, creator of Mystery Science Theater. It's one of our proudest achievements.

MATT: So, uh, there's more evidence to Homestar having hands.

MIKE: That's right.

{Pause.}

MATT: So, Strong Bad's really making the most of Homestar's situation.

MIKE: Yeah. That was fun. I feel like, once we brought Strong Bad into the mix, the opportunities really opened up.

MATT: Yep. That's the case with a lot of cartoons, I feel like. Strong Bad never fails to... bring something new to the table. {pause} Aaand... wait for it. {Pom Pom pops} There we go.

MIKE: Happy new year.

MATT: Yep. Uh, that's one of the few onscreen deaths of a character.

MIKE: Yeah, it's a real cliffhanger.

MATT: I remember we got a bunch of comments and messages, asking like "So is Pom Pom really dead?"

MIKE: And we toyed with the idea for a bit, didn't we?

MATT: We, uh, briefly pondered it, but it felt too... too dramatic.

MIKE: Yeah.

MATT: The little scene at the end is kind of meant to hint at a return, but a lot of people were still kinda... freakin' out about it.

''{Pause. Pom Pom pops the inflatable pumpkin.}''

MIKE: Oh wow.

MATT: Disturbing imagery.

MIKE: Yeah, it's more gruesome than I remembered. As much as a... balloon&mdash; a cartoon balloon can be gruesome.

MATT: And now the costumes.

MIKE: Yeah, what do we say here?

MATT: Um... yeah, we kind of commented a bunch on the costumes already.

{Pause.}

MATT: {Homestar's voice, with an exaggerated speech impediment} Dwarfs murdering wharfs...

MIKE: Those&mdash; {laughs} Those marbles must have been in his throat for twenty years at this point.

MATT: Yep. Uh, bargle nawdle zouss.

MIKE: Some deep... uh, deep lore there.

{Brief pause.}

MIKE: I think that Fish Eye Lens... uh, with the Beastie Boys influence, definitely, uh, influenced Bubs's costume here.

MATT: Yeah. Waughmp waughmp.

MIKE: Yep, that's...

MATT: I don't have anything meaningful to contribute. So, I'm saying waughmp waughmp.

MIKE: Waughmp waughmp.

MATT: {exaggerated voice} Whaaaughmp... {normal voice} Oh, there it goes.

sbemail206
STRONG BAD: Hey, Mike.

MIKE: Oh, hey, Strong Bad. This&mdash; here we're discussing the Strong Bad Email #206, creatively titled sbemail206.

STRONG BAD: Yes.

MIKE: So, uh, this is an email we worked on for a long time, and, uh...

STRONG BAD: I checked this email. What are you... tryin' to take credit for my achievements?

MIKE: Right. You checked this email.

STRONG BAD: Don't you forget it.

MIKE: Why's that toast have an email on it?

STRONG BAD: The toast-mail. You know how you, sometimes, you&mdash; you get emails on your toast? It's like that.

MIKE: That doesn't&mdash;

STRONG BAD: {overlapping} Seein' emails in your toast?

MIKE: That doesn't happen to me.

STRONG BAD: Clearly you don't make enough toast.

MIKE: {laughs} So, did you&mdash; did you have to get other people to write on the toast, or...?

STRONG BAD: I had peoples write on the toast, then I put it in the toaster with my eyes closed, so I can read it as it... pops up.

MIKE: That's, uh, that's quite an elaborate process.

STRONG BAD: {overlapping} So I&mdash; so I can enloy reasing. Do you ever enloy reasing, Mike?

MIKE: Well, I wouldn't know...

STRONG BAD: That&mdash; that's what the Tawdry Man asked me, just there.

MIKE: The Tawdry Man. Uh, did you&mdash; is that a real email, that you got?

STRONG BAD: No. That is... a lie that's been perpetuated&mdash;

MIKE: Propagated...

STRONG BAD: {overlapping} It's being propagated to the masses. I never received such an email.

''{Pause. As Strong Bad blows off the dust, blowing is heard in the commentary.}''

MIKE: Stop that, you'll get&mdash; you know that'll sound terrible in the audio.

STRONG BAD: You weren't saying anything, Mike. I had to pipe up. With my two cents.

MIKE: You got spittles on the mic.

STRONG BAD: Spittles. Uh, taste the rainbow. You know, 'cause my spittles tastes... {laughing} tastes like rainbow.

MIKE: I'll, uh, I'll take your word for it. {clears throat} So what, is the Lappier, like, an actual product you can...?

STRONG BAD: It's the product of... the Compé being reshaped by the pressure. It's dealing with p&mdash; pressure and stressure.

MIKE: Peer pressure. Uh, but like, you just said it's more expensive, so it must be a thing you can buy, right?

STRONG BAD: I find it's easiest not to ask these questions.

MIKE: Yeah, that's...

STRONG BAD: Is your face a product? Ooh! Answer that one, Mike. That... scathing comeback.

MIKE: I'd hope not.

STRONG BAD: I'd think we'd know if the local stores were selling your face. We'd be seein' lines... 'round the block.

MIKE: Yeah, no.

STRONG BAD: I must say, Mike, I appreciate your integrity. You're not selling out by selling your face, and I applaud you for it.

MIKE: Uh, thank you. Every day I'm {laughs} turning down millions of dollars...

STRONG BAD: You're turning down millions of dollars right now by not talking about the... the dang email.

MIKE: Right. Uh, does Homestar sit on your desk often?

STRONG BAD: He&mdash; I dunno how he gets in, man. I walk in, and he's there, and... the desk is broken, most of the time. I have to replace my desk like several times... in a blue moon. At least twelve times per blue moon, if I calculate...

MIKE: That's a lot of desks.

STRONG BAD: {overlapping} ...If my calculations are correct. Doesn't support his weight.

''{Pause. Homestar comments on the Index Page.}''

STRONG BAD: Another scathing comeback.

MIKE: Yep. A little self-deprecation.

STRONG BAD: We&mdash; we don't need to self-deprecate, our website is deprecated enough as it is.

MIKE: {laughs, then pauses} Uh... I like the old-timey website aesthetic.

STRONG BAD: Yeah. I like the way&mdash; this kind of... mixing modern technologies with the, uh, the beforetimes.

MIKE: Yeah.

{Pause.}

MIKE: This was one of those fun emails where we got to do a lot of stuff... different stuff, as opposed to, like, just animating the same stuff we always do. We got the old-timey website, then this trailer...

STRONG BAD: The beefy-armed backpack.

MIKE: And yeah, coming up, the fake products. {pause} Uh, is Google Buzz a thing still?

STRONG BAD: I feel like in these newer toons, Homestar is a lot of the times, uh, obsessed with short-lived fads and...

MIKE: Yeah, like that Marzipan's Answering Machine.

STRONG BAD: Like Marzipan's Answering Machine is a short-lived fad?

MIKE: I meant the cartoon... But I mean, yeah, I guess you could say that.

STRONG BAD: "Nerd cultures". One of our... worst or best jokes.

MIKE: There we go. Nerd Cultch. That took a lot of Photoshop, to make it, uh, consistent from the different angles... I had to search a bunch of stock images of, like, pockets and zippers...

STRONG BAD: That's a handsome model there.

MIKE: Yeah. We had a little photo shoot, and, uh... that's what I was saying, it's fun when we get to do stuff other than animating characters talking.

STRONG BAD: That peasant hoodie is real, and it rules.

MIKE: Yeah.

STRONG BAD: We've actually gotten a lot of requests to make these things. But we actually joke about it here, like making a thing as a joke and then selling it later, and if we sold those things it would...

MIKE: The joke would lose its merit.

STRONG BAD: Yeah. A little hypocritical there.

{Brief pause.}

MIKE: Uh, can you imagine Homestar with three arms?

STRONG BAD: I&mdash; I'm not sure I want to.

MIKE: Oh, look, "level 10". I, uh, I wonder...

STRONG BAD: {overlapping} That is an homage... a subtle homage to, uh, a top secret... project we may or may not be working on. Some or none of you may have heard of it, it's called Stinkoman.

MIKE: Very discreet.

STRONG BAD: Top discreetret.

MIKE: So, this is another... uh, we don't like to have a set continuity, but uh, we sometimes joke about, when there's two Homestars, one of them has a mustache. So this is kind of continuing that trend.

STRONG BAD: The, uh, mythology. So does that mean... there's the implication, that there is a Chauncey?

MIKE: Well, I mean, there was that Homestar with a mustache, uh, offscreen at some point, so he must be real.

STRONG BAD: I always thought it was just Homestar being Homestar here.

MIKE: Probably is. Nothing's really... set in stone.

STRONG BAD: Look at that. These pranks were hard to pull off, man.

MIKE: How'd you manage to get Marzipan to, uh, to eat The Cheat?

STRONG BAD: Oh, that one was easy. I told her The Cheat was gluten-free.

MIKE: And that was enough to...

STRONG BAD: That was enough, yeah.

MIKE: I like that shot. Back of the Lappier.

STRONG BAD: The satisfying sheen.

MIKE: Yeah.

STRONG BAD: Satisfying Sheen and the... it sounds like a band name. Help me out here.

{The Shockwave pop-up appears.}

MIKE: Satisfying Sheen and the... uh, Shockwaves.

STRONG BAD: Yes. We need to make that a thing. I'm Sheen, you're the Shockwaves. All&mdash; you're all of them.

MIKE: Yeah. No more cartoons, we're... we're putting all our eggs in Satisfying Sheen and the Shockwaves.

STRONG BAD: Look at that fancy CG magic. Uh, that&mdash; that animation is not based on anything in particular.

MIKE: That's right.

Characters from Yonder Website
STRONG BAD: Tap it... tap it down, with our yonder... characters, cartoon website, in the commentation booth, far out.

MIKE: Oh, okay. I'm here with far out Strong Bad, and, uh...

STRONG BAD: Far out Strong Bad and Mikey Mikey, takin' a trip down yonder to the website.

MIKE: Mikey&mdash; Am I Mikey Mikey now?

STRONG BAD: Mikey Chap-Chap.

MIKE: No, that's&mdash; {laughing} That's worse.

STRONG BAD: We're gonna commentate... do a little bit of commentation, a bit of narration, with our friend good ol' Mikey Chap-Chap, I said-a far out.

{Pause.}

STRONG BAD: Tell us, Mikey Chappers, what's y&mdash; what's your spice of liiife? {draws out the last syllable}

MIKE: My spice of life? It's, uh... a sandwich, maybe&mdash; a club sandwich with eyes, I'll say.

STRONG BAD: That's a&mdash;

MIKE: Googly eyes.

STRONG BAD: That's the worst spice I've ever... laid ears upon. Shut your face, Michael. Shut it up&mdash; right up, far out.

MIKE: Hey, that's not fair. Yours is, what, like a squirrel with... what is it again?

STRONG BAD: {overlapping} You'll never get gumption with that attit&mdash; that imagination of yours.

{Pause.}

STRONG BAD: See look, with absolutely... no talking. My cartoon self agrees.

MIKE: I feel like this is...

STRONG BAD: Five out of six cartoon selves agree.

MIKE: This commentary is supposed to be a collaborative effort, I feel like.

STRONG BAD: Yeah well, you can take that mouth of yours, and zip it right up, far, far out.

{Pause.}

MIKE: Characters 3 through 7. That was fun, making characters in the style of that one Skills of an Artist. Um... far out Strong Bad, are there any other characters... we're not seeing here?

STRONG BAD: Uh, Character 15, and 23, and, uh... 14 billion thousand ferty twice, farther out.

MIKE: What would be my, uh, character... number? My number name? Character M maybe?

STRONG BAD: That's a&mdash; there's no letters, here in the characters website of the yonder cartoon man show. Get outta here with that garbage talk. You're spouting&mdash;

MIKE: I feel like you're not being as... as soothing here as you are in the cartoon.

STRONG BAD: {overlapping} What are you talking about, Mikey Mike-Mike, I'm all... you know, let your mind flow freely, stretch it out, once and twice, feel the breeze, have a time, everyone far out and whatnot.

MIKE: That's pretty soothing.

STRONG BAD: Yes, now shut up and let me... let me soothe the masses.

MIKE: You're not reall&mdash; but&mdash; you're not talking about the cartoon.

{Pause.}

MIKE: I like these drawings, the spices of life. We&mdash;

STRONG BAD: You wouldn't know.

MIKE: I would, I drew most of them. Some of them.

STRONG BAD: {overlapping} You don't even&mdash; you don't have half the gumption it takes to spice one's life.

MIKE: So, uh, what's the story here? They all have their own spice of life, and, uh, Homest&mdash; Character 2 is inspired to get his own spice and then he gets his gumption, or...

STRONG BAD: That's... a terrible interpretation. You're clearly missing the, uh, the character developments and all the subtle... nods, and symbolism of the gumption.

MIKE: What does the gumption symbolize?

STRONG BAD: Wouldn't you like to know.

MIKE: I would.

{Pause.}

MIKE: What were you going to create there? When you put them together?

STRONG BAD: That was&mdash; if you must know, it was going to be a giant, uh, killer robot&mdash; a warrior robot with, uh, flaming eye lasers and&mdash; that shoot flaming squeedly guitars out of his face... and, uh...

MIKE: This episode would've taken a turn.

STRONG BAD: Things would have... taken a turn for the blurst, you could say. Far out.

MIKE: {overlapping} What&mdash; what is this about? The bending of the knees, what is&mdash; what does that accomplish?

STRONG BAD: You&mdash; it's an important part, of the daily routine, exercise. You gotta get exercise, what with the, uh, inordinately long walks and such.

MIKE: Is that... one of the letters in routine?

STRONG BAD: What?

MIKE: The R in routine?

STRONG BAD: No, you're&mdash; that's ridiculous, the R in routine is hey look, there's a bird over there.

MIKE: There's no&mdash;

{Strong Sad enters the basement in the toon.}

STRONG BAD: And a fat gray dumpness. Take a look to your left and observe... the fat gray dumpness, in his natural habitat, far out. Or should I say, far fat.

MIKE: Fat out.

STRONG BAD: That's worse.

{Pause.}

STRONG BAD: When does this trainwreck... arrive back at the station, Mr. Mike?

MIKE: Uh, we just have a few seconds left.

STRONG BAD: Let's just... I'll fill it with the longest far out. Far ooooouuu&mdash; {gets cut off}

too cool
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, hello, Mike!

MIKE: Oh, hey, Homestar.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I'm here to&mdash; I'm in this one!

MIKE: Yeah, you are.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I becomes'd a man, later on, you see.

MIKE: I remember.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I thought I had to remind you. Give you a&mdash; a gentle nudge.

MIKE: "Woefully yours".

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Whoa. Whoa-fully, it should have said. Like, when you see a guy doin' a cool... a cool dance, and you're like whoa... fully.

MIKE: Uh, this was&mdash;

HOMESTAR RUNNER: A full whoa. Not half.

MIKE: {overlapping} This&mdash; that part was from a template we posted on Twitter a while back... We wanted people to email us, but we didn't want to just be like, "Hey, come email us!" so we posted this email template that's like, the most bare-bones template... and it was just blanks with "woefully yours".

HOMESTAR RUNNER: That's ingenious.

{Pause.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Look at that masterful... palm-face that Coach Z's doing.

MIKE: Yeah, that was probably me, uh, doing the animation of the...

HOMESTAR RUNNER: It's like, you can almost tell what he's s'posed to be doing there! Truly masterful.

MIKE: {overlapping} Look, his&mdash; Senor Cardgage's leg is twitching.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Yeah, that's weird. He's a weird guy. A&mdash; a real gnarly dude.

''{Mike laughs. Pause.}''

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, hey! I'm in this part too! I has'd a ladder! Did&mdash; do you remember, Mike, when I has'd a ladder?

MIKE: I do, in fact. I'm seeing&mdash;

HOMESTAR RUNNER: You've got quite the memory.

MIKE: Look, there's&mdash; that sign just says ladder.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I know. Duh. {Mike laughs} Where else would I be bringing this ladder... except a place that says ladder on it?

MIKE: I don't know.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: The supermarket? That's an awful idea, Mike. I just get kicked out when I bring a ladder to the supermarket. {pause} Funerals, too.

MIKE: Why... why would you bring a ladder to a funeral?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Wh&mdash; is that not part of the ceremony?

{Pause.}

MIKE: It's funny we ended up... uh, like the whole email kind of revolves around this one, like, menu on our Flash website that no one visits anymore, and, uh, these videos we made like fifteen years earlier.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: That's true. {brief pause} Oh hey look at that! There&mdash; Strong Bad's got an... expression in his eyes. Is that new?

MIKE: Yeah, I think. Uh, what would you call that expression? Confused, uncertain...

HOMESTAR RUNNER: You should use that&mdash; those eyelids again. Strong Bad's got nice eyelids.

MIKE: Does he have eyelids?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Well, I mean... he just had 'ems in the cartoon.

MIKE: {overlapping} Yeah, yeah.

{Pause.}

MIKE: So, Homestar, what do you think of Senor Cardgage?

SENOR CARDGAGE: Oh, I will never tell.

MIKE: Oh! My...

SENOR CARDGAGE: I am present...

MIKE: Uh&mdash;

SENOR CARDGAGE: Fernendra.

MIKE: I have Senor Cardgage here in the booth, everyone. Just teleported in out of nowhere...

SENOR CARDGAGE: That's one I do best.

MIKE: Yeah. Uh, do you remember filming this character video?

SENOR CARDGAGE: Oh, that was many a time in the... land of days, long since past.

MIKE: You can't remember it?

SENOR CARDGAGE: It was painful memories.

MIKE: {laughs} How painful?

SENOR CARDGAGE: Oh, it got... it ruined my life.

MIKE: Uh... I think it's starting to smell in here, smell like... dry peas.

SENOR CARDGAGE: Dry peas are my escape to fantasy.

MIKE: You know, uh, Senor, you could&mdash; you could probably get away with being less creepy.

SENOR CARDGAGE: No...

''{Mike laughs. Pause.}''

MIKE: I like Strong Bad's occasional New York accent. New&mdash; New Yoik.

SENOR CARDGAGE: New Yoik is the land of my ancestries. Oh look at the terriblision, it's my lime to shine. My limelight.

MIKE: Oh no, here it comes... oh!

SENOR CARDGAGE: It's the nation's flavorite reality show.

MIKE: That is... unnerving. Matt must've drawn that.

SENOR CARDGAGE: I applaud his labors. This... {breaks character laughing} it does justice to...

MIKE: What is the Family Might/Could, Senor?

SENOR CARDGAGE: Oh, it's a... it's might/could be my family.

MIKE: Your, uh, skin folds?

SENOR CARDGAGE: {overlapping} My only company.

{Pause.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Look, there I am! I told you I becames'ded a man!

MIKE: Oh! Homestar, you're still...

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I'm still alive!

MIKE: Were you in the recording booth the whole time?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I, uh, I've been, you know, lurking. In the shadows.

MIKE: Plotting your revenge?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Yeah, you know. Plotting my revenge, plotting a recipe for bran muffins... just general plotting.

MIKE: Any scheming?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Why would I scheme? That&mdash; that's absurd.

MIKE: {laughs} Right, of course. So, uh, Strong Sad seems pretty excited here.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: He's never been happier.

MIKE: So, uh, are you cursed now?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Pretty cursed, yeah. Remember? I grows'm'ded lips and said... {in a different voice} tertiary.

MIKE: That's right.

SENOR CARDGAGE: You wouldn't forget it... Nintendra.

MIKE: Oh, you keep...

SENOR CARDGAGE: Keep-a you on your toes.

MIKE: You're just gonna keep switching between...

COACH Z: You'll never know who's next!

MIKE: Oh no, Coach Z?

COACH Z: I'm here, Mike! Just in time for the sbemail to begin!

MIKE: It's, uh, it's ending.

COACH Z: And I'm out!

{Mike laughs.}

STRONG BAD: "Eight or seven years later". Is this, uh...

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Is this the future, Mike? Are we looking into the future?

MIKE: Changed it up mid-sentence there.

SENOR CARDGAGE: Oh... my larynx had its last burden.

MIKE: We're looking, uh, into a crystal ball, and seeing the future, thus altering the timeline forever.

SENOR CARDGAGE: That is my greatest pastime.

{Pause.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: This is a good movie, you guys. I be's'm'deds'd the narrator.

MIKE: Stop that.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: No.