Editing Everybody to the Limit

{{abouttoon}} {{forsong|Everybody to the Limit (Live)}} {{for|karaoke video|Fhqwhgads (karaoke)}}

{{toonnav|Powered by The Cheat|fhqwhgads|The Cheat Theme Song|Crazy Cartoon}}

[[Image:everybody to the limit.png|200px|thumb|"Everybody come on fhqwhgads!"]]

The Cheat's [[Powered by The Cheat]] music video for Strong Bad's song about [[Fhqwhgads]].

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Visor Robot}}, [[Atari Dragon]], {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}

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

'''Date:''' Monday, July 1, 2002

'''Running Time:''' 1:54

'''Page Title:''' Everybody to the Limit

{{dvd|Everything Else, Volume 1}}

== Lyrics ==
'''VISOR ROBOT:''' Come on, Fhqwhgads.

'''STRONG BAD:'''  I said come on Fhqwhgads<br>
I said come on Fhqwhgads<br>
Everybody to the limit<br>
Everybody to the limit<br>
Everybody come on Fhqwhgads

I said come on Fhqwhgads<br>
I said come on Fhqwhgads<br>
Everybody to the limit<br>
Who's that? It's to the limit<br>
Everybody come on Fhqwhgads

Come on Fhqwhgads<br>
I see you jockin' me<br>
Tryin' to play like<br>
You know me

I'm like come on Fhqwhgads<br>
I said come on Fhqwhgads<br>
Everybody to the limit<br>
The Cheat is to the limit<br>
Everybody come on Fhqwhgads

I said ooh ah Fhqwhgads<br>
I said ooh ah Fhqwhgads<br>
Who's that fh-huh-hoo-huga-wha<br>
I said who is that Fhqwhgads

I don't know who it is<br>
But it probably is Fhqwhgads<br>
I asked my friend Joe<br>
I asked my friend Jake<br>
They said it was Fhqwhgads

I said come on Fhqwhgads<br>
I said come on Fhqwhgads<br>
Who's-a to the limit?<br>
Say me! I'm to the limit<br>
Everybody come on Fhqwhgads

Man, Fhqwhgads<br>
You're just making yourself look worse, y'know<br>
I mean, everybody's just gonna feel sorry for ya<br>
I mean, I do.

''{Zooms out to reveal Strong Bad and The Cheat watching the video on [[Tangerine Dreams]].}''

'''STRONG BAD:'''  ''{talking to The Cheat}'' Now that's what I'm talkin' about! That was amazing! I mean you—... I—... I can't b—... Chi-g-d-b ... He—g ... ''{rubs The Cheat's head}'' I'm buyin' you a pizza!

== Fun Facts ==
[[File:Armchair room.PNG|thumb|"Come on Fhqwhgads. I see you jockin' me."]]
===Explanations===
*Fhqwhgads originated in the Strong Bad Email [[i love you]].

===Trivia===
*A "[[Everybody to the Limit (Live)|Live from West Reykjavik]]" version of this song can be found on [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits]].
*Clicking the Back button at the end of the video will always take you to [[Main Page 15]], The Cheat's [[Main Pages|main page]].
*On April 12, 2006, this was the first non-[[Strong Bad Email]] or [[Teen Girl Squad]] cartoon to be added to [[Podstar Runner]].  The summary read, "The Cheat directs a video for Strong Bad's [[number one jam]]."

===Remarks===
*On the MP3 version, the Visor Robot's laser doesn't play.
*The word "on" appears as two stars when Strong Bad raps "I said come on, Fhqwhgads!" for the fourth time. This is because the [[font]] used is WP IconicSymbolsA.
*The tempo of the song is 110 beats per minute.
*When the toon is loading, the Visor Robot's shoulder is missing, but after the loading is completed, it suddenly appears.
*Even after the Visor Robot's lasers stop, the laser sound is still made.
*When the Visor Robot zaps the word "fhqwhgads," the "q" in "fhqwhgads" turns into a "g", the first "h" becomes bolder for a frame (like '''h'''), and the second "h" disappears.

===Inside References===
[[Image:everybodytothelemke.png|200px|thumb|Lemke strikes again!]]
*For a split second, as the Visor Robot's head opens to reveal Strong Bad, the words "come on" are replaced on screen by the word "[[lemke]]".  
*When Strong Bad comes out of the Visor Robot, he is holding a [[Big Knives|Big Knife]].
*When the multiple CDs fly across the screen, a roll of [[duct tape]] is also visible.
*This is another mention of [[pizza]].
*The Abraham Lincoln heads are from an Easter egg in [[Fluffy Puff Commercial]].

===Real-World References===
*Several real-world songs have been identified as possible inspirations for "Everybody to the Limit".
**The beat The Cheat uses (minus the handclap) is a sample from James Brown's "Funky Drummer", the basis for countless raps. The "Woo!" sample is most likely a reference to Rob Base's hit "It Takes Two", which used the infamous "yeah/woo" loop from "Think (About It)", another oft-sampled James Brown classic.
**The song is similar to that of the "[[wikipedia:Wham Rap|Wham Rap]]" by Wham!.
**The beat and bassline to the song itself bears a strong resemblance to The Meat Beat Manifesto's "God O.D." from their album, "Storm the Studio" (which also has the voice of William S. Burroughs repeating the same phrase on a sample).
**The chorus is very similar in rhythm to [[Wikipedia:Gap Band|The Gap Band]]'s 1979 hit song "I Don't Believe You Wanna Get Up and Dance (Oops Upside Your Head)", the chorus of which features the lyrics "I said oops upside your head, I said oops upside your head."
*The red and white "enjoy fhqwhgads" ad on the billboard is based on [[Coca-Cola]], who used the slogan "Enjoy Coke".
*The disembodied clapping hands at the beginning are similar to those in the intro of the video for John Cougar Mellencamp's "Jack And Diane".
*There are two references to [[Presidents]]:
**The lyric "I asked my friend Joe, I asked my friend Jake" is accompanied by portraits of brothers President [[Wikipedia:John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy]] and Senator [[Wikipedia:Robert F. Kennedy|Robert F. Kennedy]].
**During one of the times the screen is flashing, a profile view of [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s head can be easily noticed.
*The yellow and white [[duck]]-like creatures are [[Atari Dragon]]s from the old [[Atari 2600]] game [[Wikipedia:Adventure (Atari 2600)|Adventure]].
*The Visor Robot's voice is [[Wikipedia:PlainTalk|MacInTalk]]'s Zarvox.
*The drums The Cheat plays are modeled after Simmons [[Wikipedia:Electronic drum#Early Electronic Drums|electronic drums]], whose distinctive hexagonal shape became mildly iconic in the 1980s.

===Fast Forward===
*In the Strong Bad Email [[your friends]], [[Strong Bad]] hits [[Bubs]] and [[The King of Town]] over the head with a [[Wikipedia:Gold album|Gold Record]] (such as are awarded when an album or single sells 500,000 copies) titled "Everybody To The Limit".
*In the email [[sibbie]], Sibbie mentioned the song Strong Bad wrote about Fhqwhgads, and requested his/her own song.
*The scene where [[Strong Bad]] is sitting in the armchair with the glass of wine is used in [[rock opera]] when Strong Bad says "Ooh, I'm pleasant", although there he is in the [[Smoky Office]].
*The [[milk carton]] appears again in [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 12.2]] and [[kind of cool]].
*In the Powered by the Cheat cartoon [[Crazy Cartoon]], Strong Bad says that the cartoon doesn't deserve a pizza.
*In the Strong Bad Email [[what I want]], this song is played by the [[Dancin' Musical Nobots|Dancin' Strong Bad Musical Nobot]].
*At the beginning of [[Place ya bets!]], Strong Sad recites the last two lines of the song.
*The same silhouette of Abraham Lincoln's profile is seen carved into a pumpkin in the [[Brainkrieg]] music video [[Decomposing Pumpkins]].
*In [[Main Page 22]], pop-ups pop up and every time one comes up, the robot's voice says "fhqwagads".
*The last scene with Strong Bad at The Cheat's computer was parodied in an Easter egg of [[Fish Eye Lens]].
*In [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2]], Strong Bad wants to do a sequel, "Let's Fhqwhgads Again", for the song's tenth anniversary. Everybody else, including the [[Visor Robot]], doesn't want him to do so.

== 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:''' [[Strong Bad]], [[Mike Chapman]])

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, it's Strong Bad.

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's right.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, hey, holy crap, right?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh&mdash; I'm gonna kick you out of this room, this tiny room we're in...

'''MIKE:''' Oh, right, say it. Let me&mdash; let me hear you say it. Come on&mdash;

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right, let's talk about this sweet video that The Cheat made.

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously with previous line}'' I like your shades, right there. 

'''STRONG BAD:''' This was a milestone in The Cheat's Flash animating career, I think.

'''MIKE:''' This was the second, uh, thing he made, wasn't it? 

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah. 

'''MIKE:''' After the&mdash; his own theme song.

'''STRONG BAD:''' That, that travesty that was The Cheat Theme Song. But the song was okay, thanks to The Skate Partay.

'''MIKE:''' So how much, uh, how much did you have to say about this, in terms of, uh, what did you contribute to the video?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, everything. That was my wiffle ball, that was my duct tape, that was my CD...

'''MIKE:''' Oh, so all of the&mdash; the JPEG pictures were yours?

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{simultaneously with previous line}'' Look, I was riding the L train, back out to Brooklyn.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah?

'''STRONG BAD:''' At that time, yeah. 

'''MIKE:''' Okay.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Reading&mdash; reading the new, the new James L. Took novel.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Yeah?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah, it's one of my favorite... authors. 

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, yeah. That's not true.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, look out for that big wiffle ball!

'''MIKE:''' Why is your wiffle ball eating you?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Well, that was The Cheat, he was&mdash;

'''MIKE:''' Who- who was that, by the way? The guy with the bag over his head?

'''STRONG BAD:''' That was&mdash;

'''MIKE:''' Was that the Unknown Comic?

'''STRONG BAD:''' I think it was. From the Gong Show? ''{Mike laughs}'' Oh, the Bobbys and the Jakeys. ''{pause}'' Man, this&mdash; I'm surprised I haven't been sued from people going into convulsions from watching some of these Cheat videos. They're&mdash;

'''MIKE:''' They do have some flashing images.

'''STRONG BAD:''' They're flashy. For sure. Lookit, oh&mdash; ''{unintelligible}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{unintelligible}'' Don't swallow your tongue!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Sorry, that was insensitive. 

'''MIKE:''' I was always very afraid of swallowing my tongue when I was younger, that was one of my-

'''STRONG BAD:''' It was in, like, ''Airport 76'' or something.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, was it? 

'''STRONG BAD:''' Freaked us out.

'''MIKE:''' I think I saw it on ''Real People'' with John Davison.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ohhh.

'''MIKE:''' Or maybe ''That's Incredible!''.

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's in&mdash; that's real...

'''MIKE:''' ''{unintelligible}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I always said chiggidi-buh. Now... nowadays.

===Fun Facts===

*[[Wikipedia:The Gong Show|The Gong Show]] was a comedic television show in the late '70s; one recurring feature was [[Wikipedia:The Unknown Comic|the Unknown Comic]], who wore a paper bag over his head.
*The mention of convulsions from flashing images is a reference to the phenomenon of [[Wikipedia:Photosensitive epilepsy|photosensitive seizures]], and in particular the [[Wikipedia:Dennō Senshi Porygon|1997 incident]] in which hundreds of Japanese children reported such seizures after watching a ''[[Pokémon]]'' episode featuring rapidly flashing colored frames.
*Although "Airport 76" was not a real movie, Strong Bad may have been referring to the disaster film ''[[wikipedia:Airport '77|Airport '77]]''.
*''[[Wikipedia:Real People|Real People]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:That's Incredible!|That's Incredible!]]'' were both reality television shows in the early '80s that interviewed "ordinary" people. ''That's Incredible!'' emphasized paranormal or remarkable phenomena.

== See Also ==
*The [[Everybody to the Limit Visuals|visuals]] that occur during the film.

== External Links ==
{{extlinks|fhqwhgads|youtube=votBDwhTu1E}}

*[[HR:fhqwhgads.zip|download the song "Everybody to the Limit" for PC]]
*[[HR:fhqwhgads.sit|download the song "Everybody to the Limit" for Mac]]
*[[TMBW:Everybody To The Limit|This Might Be A Wiki entry for Everybody To The Limit]]

[[Category:Powered by The Cheat]][[Category:Songs]][[Category:DVD Commentary]][[Category:Podstar Runner]][[Category:Strong Bad Email Spin-offs]]