Workin' on the Game

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"I don't understand; they said it would work with all the latest systems!"

The programmers at Videlectrix are hard at work on Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.

Cast (in order of appearance): Videlectrix Guys

Places:

Date: Monday, May 5, 2008

Running Time: 0:30

Page Title: Actually Hard at Work! (some loafing implied)

Transcript

{A static shot shows two Videlectrix programmers working at a computer, one with a Wiimote and the other waving a mouse.}

FIRST PROGRAMMER: I don't understand; they said it would work with all the latest systems.

SECOND PROGRAMMER: Yeah, I heard, but I don't think this is— this system is the lat... est.

FIRST PROGRAMMER: This is a top-of-the-line, state-of-the-art, art computer.

SECOND PROGRAMMER: I— I think I was born after this computer.

FIRST PROGRAMMER: {angrily} Oh, that is it. One more crack like that and you will never graphic in this business again!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: {apologetically} Oh— Okay, I'm sorry. Wo—

FIRST PROGRAMMER: Good or bad!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: Wave it—

FIRST PROGRAMMER: {interrupting} I'll wave it at you!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: {quietly} I'd like that.

Easter Eggs

"WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THESE DAYS?"

• Click on the text on the screen at the end of the preview to see another exchange between the two programmers.

{The first programmer holds up the art from the Planet Alert! box, and a screenshot from Peasant's Quest; the second programmer cowers.}

FIRST PROGRAMMER: {shouting angrily} REMEMBER THESE DAYS?

SECOND PROGRAMMER: I... yeah...

FIRST PROGRAMMER: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THESE DAYS?

SECOND PROGRAMMER: Uh... it was a while ago...

FIRST PROGRAMMER: THE HEYDAYS!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: I can draw hay.

FIRST PROGRAMMER: WHERE'S THE GRAPHICS?

SECOND PROGRAMMER: I can't do them any more...

FIRST PROGRAMMER: 3D? WHAT, DO YOU THINK YOU'RE A SPACEMAN?

SECOND PROGRAMMER: Not really, I thought I was a graphics man.

FIRST PROGRAMMER: WELL, START ACTING LIKE ONE!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: {sings a melody}

FIRST PROGRAMMER: {slightly calmer} That's what I'm talking about!

SECOND PROGRAMMER: It's my good graphics song. {sings a few more notes}

FIRST PROGRAMMER: {overlapping} It's great. It's— Now, see, cut "PRINT", put it in the game!

Fun Facts

Trivia

• The computer screen shows a BASIC program that contains an endless printing loop. It reads:

]LIST

 5  MORE
 10  PRINT "STRONG BAD'S COOL GAM
     E FOR ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE"
 20  GOTO 10
 100  _

]9

Inside References

• The Videlectrix programmers were previously seen in Peasant's Quest Preview.
• The pronunciation of "spaceman" in the Easter egg is another case of "man" pronounced as "m'n".
• The "L" in the loading screen is done in the same style as the "V" in Videlectrix.

External Links

• watch "Workin' on the Game"
• view the Flash file for "Workin' on the Game"