A Jorb Well Done

{Cut to a silhouetted sport field with the scoreboard on the right. Music fades out. Coach Z stands on the left twirling his whistle as Pom Pom and Homestar run towards Strong Sad, who is holding a ball. Also, Bubs is there for some reason. Sports ambience plays as Homestar knocks over Strong Sad with a glass-breaking sound and runs away with the ball. Pom Pom starts jumping on Strong Sad and the electronic scoreboard keeps count of his stomps, which produce a boinging noise. Cut to a close-up of Coach Z, who blows his whistle.}

COACH Z: Okay there boys, pack it up, pack it in.

{Homestar walks over to him, sweating.}

COACH Z: Great jaerb there, Homestar.

{Homestar briefly pauses to open his mouth in shock.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Uhhhm... I'm sorry. What?

{Cut to a view of Coach Z from behind Homestar.}

COACH Z: I uh, I say you did a great jorb out there.

{Cut to a close-up of Homestar.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I did a great WHAT?

{Cut to a close-up of Coach Z. A faint scribble rotates in the background.}

COACH Z: A great jaerb!

{Cut back to the two-shot. Coach Z scratches his head.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, man. Pom Pom, you've gotta check this out. {Zoom slightly out as Pom Pom bounces into frame} Okay, Coach, tell Pom Pom what I did today.

{Cut to a shot from behind Homestar of Pom Pom and Coach Z.}

COACH Z: Err, uh well, I was just telling Homestar here that he done a great joearb.

{After a pause, Pom Pom bubbles in laughter. Cut to a close-up of Homestar.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {laughs} Coach, that's ridiculous. We've got to do something about that.

{Music starts. Pan right to a new scene at the chalkboard, where Homestar is wearing a mortar board and holding a pointer. A silhouetted Coach Z stands in the foreground. Words appear one at a time where Homestar points on the chalkboard, reading "JOB vs. JAERB". Homestar crosses out Jaerb and circles Job}

{Pan up to a scene of Marzipan at a wall with a flower design. She has 3 posters on the wall of mouths labeled with "A", "O", and "E", respectively, and she alternates pointing between the "O" label and its picture as she speaks.}

MARZIPAN: O. Job. O. Job.

{Cut to a close-up of Coach Z on an orange, scribbly background.}

COACH Z: JEEOOORGHHHBBB!!

{As Coach Z talks, the word "JOERGHB!" slides across the screen in the background. Cut back to Marzipan, still pointing to the "O" mouth.}

MARZIPAN: Coach Z, you need to make your mouth into an O, like this. {singing a high note} OOOOOOOOOO.

{Cut back to Coach Z}

COACH Z: You mean like this? OOORREEAARRRORRR.

{Cut back to Marzipan}

MARZIPAN: That's better!

{Pan left to the movie theater. As a projector flashes from the background, Coach Z, strapped into a seat, fidgets while his eyes are forced open very wide with a red outline. Pom Pom supervises from behind the seats. Cut to the screen, with silhouettes of, from right to left, Pom Pom, Coach Z, and Tom Servo in front. Coach Z continues struggling. The film flashes the word "job" over and over, followed by captioned pictures of people with Pom heads: first, a blond Pom-headed human with a business suit and briefcase walking in a city.}

CAPTION: the businessman's job is giving the business

{Next, a Pom-headed man in a white shirt and hard hat holding a hammer, with a construction beam behind.}

CAPTION: the construction worker's job is to smash things

{Then, a picture of the Poopsmith, whose head is similar in proportion to the Poms, shoveling whatsit.}

CAPTION: the poopsmith's job is obvious

{Cut to Coach Z, who looks to be in pain; his face is red and is sweating. Zoom in as a dark grey scribble in the black background turns to red.}

COACH Z: JEEEOOORREEAARRB!!

{Pan up to some sort of alleyway. Strong Bad, Strong Mad and The Cheat are standing on a sidewalk in front of a brick wall with the word JOB stylishly written in graffiti, with Coach Z silhouetted in the foreground. Strong Bad has a smile on his face and a pointer in his hand. Music fades out.}

STRONG BAD: Okay, Coach, let's give this one more try. Repeat after me. {points to the graffiti} JOB. {Because of his accent, he pronounces it "jobe".}

{Cut to a close-up of Coach Z, also against a brick wall.}

COACH Z: Jorb.

{Cut to Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and The Cheat. Strong Bad and Strong Mad briefly exchange looks; Strong Bad then clears his throat}

STRONG BAD: Yes, uh, this sounds very good. Uh, my only recommendation would be, next time, try to add some more syllables. Perhaps three. Perhaps four.

{Strong Bad snickers, then bursts out laughing wildly, along with Strong Mad and The Cheat. Cut back to Coach Z, who looks down, ashamed and embarrassed, and walks off. Cut to a close-up of Strong Bad as he and the others continue laughing hysterically.}

{Cut to the locker room. Coach Z is sitting on the bench, depressed with his head on one hand.}

COACH Z: {dejectedly} Oh, jeez. I'm just not cut out to say the word "jaerb". How am I ever gonna face the boys at practice tomorrow?

{Strong Sad enters, holding a cassette tape.}

STRONG SAD: Uhh, Coach Z?

{Cut to a close-up of Strong Sad.}

STRONG SAD: Uhh, I heard about your problem and I think that I can help.

{Cut back to the wide shot.}

STRONG SAD: This is a tape I made from when I was practicing the dictionary.

{Strong Sad hands Coach Z the tape. He then looks up and raises his hand as he speaks.}

STRONG SAD: Listen to it while you slumber. {Coach Z slowly raises his head} And tomorrow, you may wake to find that...

COACH Z: {interrupting; jumps up excitedly} Oh, wow! {slaps Strong Sad} Thanks a lot, Strong Sad!

{Cut to a tape machine, into which Coach Z's hand puts the tape. The tape is labeled "'job' — 285,194 times." He then presses play.}

STRONG SAD: {on tape} Job. Job. Job.

{Cut to Coach Z, wearing headphones wired to the tape player, going to sleep on a bench in the locker room.}

STRONG SAD: {on tape} Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job...

{Fade through black to Coach Z's dream, with multiple Strong Sads jumping over a fence, each saying the word "job", in front of a black background with a rotating blue scribble. The word fades in multiple times.}

{Fade to black. As a rooster crows, fade to the next day at the athletic field, silhouetted as before, with only Coach Z and Homestar there. The scoreboard keeps track of how many times Homestar changes directions while running, while a ball bounces on its own to the right. Cut to a close-up of Coach Z as he blows his whistle. Homestar walks up to him.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {eagerly} Well, Coach, how'd I do today?

COACH Z: Well, I tell ya. You did a great... job, {Homestar looks happily surprised} Hamstray.

{Homestar becomes annoyed and sighs. A small plume of black smoke appears over his head. The music from the start begins to play.}

COACH Z: No, wait, I mean Hamster! I mean Stramstar. I mean Stairmaster.

{Homestar starts to leave. Cut to the wide shot of the athletic field as Homestar continues walking.}

COACH Z: Homegrown! Ramrod? Humphel?!

{The words "the end" appear on the scoreboard. Music fades out. After a few seconds, the "Coach Z Talker" appears.}

[edit] Fun Facts

[edit] Trivia

Old style Homestar?

This is the first full-length Homestar Runner cartoon that uses the Chaps' current animation style, albeit only for Homestar (when he's facing forward) and Coach Z. Marzipan, Strong Bad, Bubs, Strong Sad, The Cheat, Pom Pom, Strong Mad (although his M is different), and Homestar (when he's facing away) are still drawn in the old style.
- It is revealed from the DVD commentary that this cartoon was updated after it was made. Newer character designs from the front side were added, but the back of Homestar's head was left unchanged.
  - With a flash decomplier, it's revealed that Bubs is in his design from A Jumping Jack Contest instead of the colored outline.
This is the only time that a sidewalk in Free Country, USA can be seen. This may suggest that it has at least some pavement in it.
This toon contains one of the first instances of Strong Bad smiling.
At the rate Strong Sad repeats the word job on the tape (about once per second), it would take him approximately 3 days, 7 hours, 13 minutes, and 14 seconds to say it 285,194 times.

[edit] Remarks

The name of the SWF file is cantsayjob2, despite the toon being located at cantsayjob.html. The cantsayjob.swf file used to exist, but since it was later updated to include Homestar's newest design, the file was replaced.
The old pop-up menu appears on this cartoon (at the bottom). All the buttons still work. Only this toon, Lucky Toons Menu, Where's The Cheat?, Broken Tandy Menu, the Strong Bad Email Vacation Menu, and the Yearbook Character Page seem to still have it.
In the scene with Homestar at the chalkboard, the older version of Homestar's legs are used. They're supposed to be long and close together, but these are shorter and placed apart.
Marzipan says to make Coach Z's "mouth" round, even though he has no visible mouth.
Marzipan tells Coach Z to round his mouth to make the vowel in job; however, she, like most North American English speakers, pronounces an open back unrounded vowel in the word. Also, she tells him to "make your mouth into an O, like this. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO", but she pronounces "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" with a different vowel sound (approx. IPA [o]), which does not occur in the word job.
Strong Bad's mocking of Coach Z seems out of place, considering that job and jorb actually both have the same number of syllables, one.

Nice Use of Light and shadow, without picnic supplies — brightness turned up

In the Coach Z talker, the voices overlap. This is most evident when selecting "jorearb" and then another word.
- Also in the Talker, Coach Z's head doesn't move until the mouse is let go.

[edit] Goofs

Before Coach Z blows his whistle the first time, the chain on it disappears.
Near the end of the scene where Homestar is showing Pom Pom Coach Z's pronouncing of "job", Homestar's head starts to shake.
When Homestar is laughing in the beginning, the front of his head slightly comes off of his body.
In the chalkboard scene, Coach Z is looking toward the camera instead of at the chalkboard.
During the closeup on Coach Z when Pom Pom is showing him the movie, the outline on his neck sticks out a bit from where it should.
While Strong Bad is laughing, his right arm is disconnected from his body.
The sound effect of Strong Bad laughing is played too early for the second time, overlapping the first sound.
All the locks on the lockers look identical, even though the ones on the open lockers should appear to be at a different angle from the ones on the closed lockers.
When Strong Sad first walks into the locker room, the label on his "job" tape is written backwards.
Oddly enough, when Strong Sad and Coach Z are in the locker room, the wheels on the cassette tape are spinning, even though it isn't in a tape player.
- This goof can't be seen until Strong Sad hands the tape to Coach Z, because the tape wheels are the same gray color as Strong Sad's body.
In Coach Z's dream, the "JOB" words flying in the background appear under the fence, but over the small hill that it's on.

[edit] Inside References

Homestar at the chalkboard wearing a teacher's cap refers to The King of Town DVD.
This is an appearance of hypnosis.

[edit] Real-World References

"Pack it up, pack it in" is a reference to the House of Pain song "Jump Around."
In the scene with Pom Pom in the movie theater, the silhouette of Tom Servo of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame is present to the left of Coach Z. The entire scene of having the characters silhouetted against the movie screen is a parody of the style of the show.
Coach Z strapped into the chair in the theater is a reference to the Ludovico technique in the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange.
Coach Z's stereo is called Ghetto Blastro. This is a take on ghetto blaster, a popular nickname for boomboxes.
The background noises in Coach Z's dream are from the "Human Voice" preset on the Casio SK-1.
The smoke cloud appearing above Homestar when Coach Z mispronounces his name is an imitation of Peanuts.
Coach Z calls Homestar Runner "Stairmaster," a reference to the Stairmaster work-out product.

[edit] Fast Forward

The A and O background noises in Coach Z's "Job Dream" are used again in lures & jigs.
In boring (really), Coach Z tells Strong Bad that "jorb" is a four letter word in a list of three-letter words.
The montage music is later used in Accent, when Coach Z is teaching Strong Bad to use his old Mexican accent more often.
Coach Z later says job, in The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck In His Craw.
This cartoon was later converted into a Strong Bad Email in Sbemailiarized.
Coach Z saying jorb was later referenced in the toon Squintmojis, when the recipient of a text asks who is the one that says jorb.

[edit] DVD Version

The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch the DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
The Coach Z Talker is removed.

[edit] Commentary Transcript

(Commentary by: Matt Chapman, Mike Chapman)

MATT: This cartoon invents Coach Z's speech impediment—

MIKE: Yeah?

MATT: —basically, doesn't it?

MIKE: Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, he had the same voice, but he hadn't really mispronounced words. This cartoon I also feel like, sort of, was the start of the not showing a competition or sporting events-related, uh, cartoon, like Jumping Jack Contest or Marshmallow's Last Stand. It just sort of became about the characters.

MATT: The moments in-between those competitions.

MIKE: Yeah.

MATT: This is actually a redone version too, 'cause originally it was the fat-body Homestar.

MIKE: Yeah. This is the only cartoon we did this with, right?

MATT: Yeah, I—

MIKE: We went back and changed graphics?

MATT: I did it with Luau but we never updated it, we never put it on the website.

MIKE: You can tell because the back view of Homestar has the fat, old Homestar backward— back-view head.

MATT: Yeah. So there's a couple cartoons that has that in it, uh—

MIKE: Yeah, later?

MATT: I think the Stinkoman email— there's a back view of Homestar that we hadn't— it's still the fat-body Homestar back view. {Pause} Homestar's voice doesn't match his appearance here, compared to anything else on the site.

MIKE: His legs are a little short there, too.

MATT: Yeah! Look at him!

MIKE: Those might be the old, fat-body legs, too. Yeah, 'cause I bet we just updated the head, and not his legs anyway.

MATT: I remember being very proud of this montage sequence here. I thought it was... genius filmmaking. {Mike laughs} The old Marzipan mouth, too. Look at the flickering flash on that projector! There's Tom Servo, Mike!

MIKE: And this was I think the second appearance of the Poopsmith.

MATT: Yeah, that's right.

MIKE: I don't think he was still... at this point he still wasn't considered a main character.

{Pause, until Strong Bad pronounces "Job" as "Jobe"}

MATT: {Imitating} Jobe.

{Pause}

MIKE: I don't really, uh... we've never gone back to the brick wall location...

MATT: The graffiti wall?

MIKE: The graffiti wall.

MATT: It's a background on the Dancin' Bubs game. Sort of.

MIKE: Oh yeah, with the cardboard.

MATT: Mmm hmm. Look at that— he's got a spotlight on him! Where did that shadow come from? The spotlight that's aiming up at him from the ground. {Pause until Strong Bad laughs manically} Wow, he's really laughing there. {Pause again, until Coach Z says "How am I ever gonna face the boys at practice tomorrow?"} How's he gonna do it, Mike?

MIKE: {Imitating Strong Sad} Oh, I've got some advice for you, Lonely... Swaddler—

MATT: It's not even... you're not good enough! That's too close; you're not doing a bad enough job on your impression. {Doing a Strong Sad impression in a nasally voice that's nothing like him} This is a tape I made of a— when I practice the dictionary. Listen to it while you slumber.

MIKE: That's very good.

MATT: It's not whiny at all!

{Pause until Coach Z starts the tape}

MIKE: He must have recorded that on low quality to get 285,000... 'cause that would take a long time.

{Matt laughs}

MATT: Yeah that's true.

MIKE: More than sixty minutes, definitely.

MIKE: {As Strong Sad is jumping over a fence repeatedly} Here he goes.

MATT: There's some weird stuff with the fence, isn't there, when the word "Job" starts to kind of go through the fence... or maybe not. Look at that ball bouncing all by itself! {Both laugh} Homestar's scoring points somehow.

MIKE: I think the ball was scoring points by bouncing.

MATT: {laughs} The ball was actually—

MIKE: Or maybe Homestar got points for changing direction.

MATT: The ball was shutting Homestar out four to nothing, in the bouncing contest. {Pause until Coach Z says "Hamstray", then Matt sighs exasperatedly:} Arggh!

MIKE: Oh there's the black— I was just wondering where the black, uh, little curly frustration thing— I was gonna use that today. I couldn't remember what we used it in.

MATT: The Peanuts?

MIKE: Yeah, when—

MATT: Frustration smoke?

{Mike laughs}

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A Jorb Well Done

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[edit] Goofs

[edit] Inside References

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