Editing The Cheat Theme Song

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[[Image:cheattheme.PNG|thumb|220px|"Who's the dude that moves to the beat?"]]

A music video by [[The Skate Party]]. Directed by The Cheat.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}

'''Places:''' [[The Cheat's Computer Room]]

'''Date:''' February 25, 2002

'''Running Time:''' 1:20

'''Page Title:''' The Cheat Theme Song

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== Lyrics ==
Who's always givin' Strong Bad a hand?<br>
The Cheat! The Cheat!

Who's always messin' up Homestar's plans?<br>
The Cheat! The Cheat!

Who's gonna start a rock and roll band?<br>
The Cheat! The Cheat!

Who's ''{[[Homestar Talker]] voice}'' Making - Out - With - Marzipan! ''{in Homestar's voice}''<br>
The Cheat! The Cheat!

(The Cheat, The Cheat is in the house!)<br>

Who's the man that looks like The Cheat?<br>
The Cheat! The Cheat!

''{In falsetto}'' Who's the one with the yellow feet?<br>
The Cheat! The Cheat!

Who's the dude that moves to the beat?<br>
The Cheat! The Cheat!

Who's the guy from 21 Jump Street?<br>
Not The Cheat! Not The Cheat!

The Cheat!<br>
The Cheat!

''{Music ends, cut to Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, and The Cheat in front of Tangerine Dreams.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Um, I dunno, The Cheat, I don't think it was very good.. at all. I mean, the song was kinda catchy but the visuals were lacking, at best.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' This is the best video game I've ever played.

== Easter Eggs ==

*At the end, click on "The Skate Party" at the bottom left hand corner to access [http://www.geocities.com/theskateparty/ The Skate Party's website].

== Fun Facts ==

===Inside References===
*"Making Out With Marzipan" was once part of the secret key phrase from the game [[Homestar Talker]].

===Real-World References===
*[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0092312/ 21 Jump Street] was a TV-Series that ran from 1987 to 1992, and starred, (among others) [[Wikipedia:Johnny Depp|Johnny Depp]].
*The Cheat, drawn as one single animated line, may be a reference to [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0406432/combined La Linea], an old Italian TV show with a slightly choleric person that was drawn in the same style.
*The line "Who's gonna start a rock and roll band?" is accompanied by a "The Cheat" symbol that looks like the logo for the band [[Wikipedia:Van Halen|Van Halen]].
*The scene with the line "The Cheat is in the house" is reminiscent of the [[Wikipedia:Daft Punk|Daft Punk]] music video "One More Time." The way in which it is performed is most likely a reference to the [[Wikipedia:talk box|talk box]], a musical device often used by Daft Punk.
*When the song asks "Who's the man that looks like The Cheat", an image of the similarly-shaped and colored [[Wikipedia:Pikachu|Pikachu]] floats by.

===Fast Forward===
*This song is also heard in the email "[[band names]]."

== DVD Version ==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]])

'''MIKE:''' So, here is the debut of The Cheat's flash animation style, right?

'''MATT:''' That's right, Mike!

'''MIKE:''' And this song was made by these two guys that just emailed us, Jesse and Josh, who we've, uh, since met.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, they're nice boys.

'''MIKE:''' They're nice boys. Where're they from, Nashville?

''{pause}''

'''MATT:''' Yes.

'''MIKE:''' I think, Tennessee, somewhere?

'''MATT:''' I believe so. Sorry, guys!

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Anyway, so, they made this song, and uh, it was good, and we liked it. And lots of people thought it was us. Even our sister, like, really thought it was us, even after we put the Skate Party up there, they... "This is you, right"?

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Which is a testament to how, you know, it just matched out sensibilities so well! ''{pause}'' Umm... what else? I remember you made this in, like, a few hours! I&mdash; I was&mdash; I went to work; you had sort of messed around with it; I went to work at, like, eleven, of course, and then by, like, four, I think you were done.

'''MIKE:''' It'd be nice if we could do updates like that these days!

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' Yeah, I agree.''{pause}'' Umm, and I think we&mdash; did we even decide that it was The Cheat that made it until we kind of thought like, "Oh, we should make it at the end!" Like, I don't think we set out&mdash; I think it was set out to be kind of weird and bad.

'''MIKE:''' T&mdash; Bad Flash video?

'''MATT:''' Yeah. ''{pause}'' This is the Debut of The Cheat's iMac, too, right&mdash; or no, was that&mdash; that email come first; I don't remember.

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Yeah, I'm not sure.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Tangerine, Matt.

'''MATT:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Tanqueray. Ta&mdash;

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Tanqueray and Tab. Ernie McCracken.

===Fun Facts===
====Remarks====
*"That email" with [[Tangerine Dreams]] in it that Matt refers to is [[i she be]], which did come out shortly before this toon.

====Real-World References====
*Ernie McCracken was Bill Murray's role in the movie [[Wikipedia:Kingpin (film)|''Kingpin'']].
*[http://www.tanqueray.com/ Tanqueray] is a popular brand of gin, and [http://www.virtualvender.coca-cola.com/ft/detail.jsp?brand_id=279 Tab] is a diet cola produced by Coca-Cola.
==See Also==
*The [[The Cheat Theme Song Visuals|visuals]] that occur during the film.

== External Links ==

*[[HR:cheatvideo.html|watch The Cheat Theme Song]]
*[[HR:cheatvideo.swf|view the Flash file for The Cheat Theme Song]]

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