Marshie vs. Little Girl

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"Why ever drink again?"

Little Girl has grown up to sell Malloweens with Marshie.

Cast (in order of appearance): Puppet Marshie, Little Girl, Puppet Homestar Runner (Easter egg)

Date: Monday, October 22, 2007

Running Time: 2:22

Transcript

{The text, "Marshie vs. Little Girl" appears on an orange background as creepy organ music plays. Cut to Little Girl, wearing a skeleton costume and sitting on a box next to a bubbling cauldron.}

LITTLE GIRL: Trick or treat! (inhales silently)

MARSHIE: {swoops in, dressed as a vampire} Boogidy-boogidy! I'll scare your pants! (voice quivers slightly)

LITTLE GIRL: Hey, Marshie? (sincerely)

MARSHIE: Hi, (voice raises .001 decibels) Little Girl! {Cut} What're you doing on (pronounced 'awn') the Halloween?

LITTLE GIRL: Um, you dress up as... (oxygen molecule in the background forms a covalent bond with a hydrogen molecule) costumes, like, scary stuff... or, not scary stuff.

MARSHIE: Like a (proton attaches to an electron right next to marshie's eye) bowler?

{Cut}

LITTLE GIRL: Do you know the secret ingredients in my potion?

MARSHIE: What is it?

LITTLE GIRL: {whispers} Dry ice.

MARSHIE: I think that just killed the magic!

{Cut}

LITTLE GIRL: So when it stops bubbling, that means it's ready to poison the dragons!

MARSHIE: Poison the dragons!

LITTLE GIRL: Yeah—

MARSHIE: That sounds like a heavy metal album!

LITTLE GIRL: Yep. {Cut} Knock knock.

MARSHIE: Who's there?

LITTLE GIRL: Vampire.

MARSHIE: Vampire who?

LITTLE GIRL: Vampires are dumb!

{cricket noises}

MARSHIE: {Zooming in on his face as he screeches} How many times do we have to do this?!

{zoom back}

LITTLE GIRL: My parents cut down the sugar a little bit.

MARSHIE: I can understand! {screeching} I could use a little cutback myself!

{Cut. Little Girl screams and lunges at Marshie, who screams back. Little Girl breaks out laughing.}

MARSHIE: You're freaking me out, kid! {Swoops offscreen.}

{Cut}

MARSHIE: {back onscreen} I was losing control!

LITTLE GIRL: {laughs} You're funny.

MARSHIE: You're pretty quaint! Let's do a Fluffy Puff commercial, okay? With Marshie and the dead kid!

{Cut}

MARSHIE: {Fluffy Puff music plays in the background} Hey, Little Girl. What's your favorite thing about Fluffy Puff Malloweens?

{Cut}

LITTLE GIRL: The orange one is my favorite color, and the black one isn't.

MARSHIE: Yeah? That's not very good advertising!

{Cut}

LITTLE GIRL: Yeah! And they're definitely like... {grips stomach} water.

MARSHIE: Yeah-he-heah. Our marshmallows are just like water! Fluffy Puff Malloweens. Why ever drink again?

{As Marshie says this last line, cartoon blood covers the screen with a bag of Malloweens and the text, "Why Ever Drink Again?" Cut back to Little Girl and Marshie.}

LITTLE GIRL: Zombies aren't real.

MARSHIE: No?

LITTLE GIRL: No.

MARSHIE: What about me?

LITTLE GIRL: Um, talking marshmallows aren't real, but you— you're real to me.

MARSHIE: Really?

LITTLE GIRL: Yep. {Cut} Whenever I'm bad at school and I don't get Halloween, I just pass out candy.

MARSHIE: I just pass out! {makes squishy sound effects as he sinks to the floor}

LITTLE GIRL: No! No. Noooooo! {breaks into fake tears}

{Cut back to the original orange background, upon which the text, "end." is superimposed.}

Easter Eggs

Poison the dragons!

• Click on Marshie after he says "that sounds like a heavy metal album" to see a Taranchula album.
• At the end, click on the word 'end' to see a conversation between Homestar Runner and the Little Girl.

  HOMESTAR RUNNER: {Little Girl removes her hood} Wait a minute you're a little girl! I thought you was a little ghoul. {due to his impediment, he pronounces "girl" and "ghoul" nearly the same}

  LITTLE GIRL: I am.

  HOMESTAR RUNNER: Like Ghouls 'n Ghosts.

  LITTLE GIRL: I....

  HOMESTAR RUNNER: But you're just a little girl.

  LITTLE GIRL: Yup.

  HOMESTAR RUNNER: Not a ghoul.

Fun Facts

Explanations

• Dry Ice is commonly added to water to create low-sinking dense clouds of fog.

Trivia

• The intro music is from the beginning of Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565) by Johann Sebastian Bach, a composition commonly used for Halloween. It has been transposed to F minor.
• This is the first appearance of the Marshie puppet on homestarrunner.com. The Marshie puppet first appeared in Real-Live E-Mails on strongbad_email.exe Disc 4.

Inside References

• Marshie wore the vampire costume in Malloween Commercial, and "Boogidy-boogidy! I'll scare your pants!" is similar to a line from that short.
  • Additionally, the music that opened Malloween Commercial and the game Marshie's Malloween Mix-Up appears in this short.
• The dragon snout shown on the Poison the Dragons album strongly resembles Trogdor's snout.
• This is another occurrence of Heavy Metal.

Real-World References

• In the Easter egg, Homestar mentions Ghouls 'n Ghosts, a real-life arcade game.

External Links

• View the Flash file for "Marshie vs. Little Girl"
• Forum thread re: "Marshie vs. Little Girl"