videography

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Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat, Homestar Runner, Lil' Strong Sad, Grandmaw Auntpaw (Easter egg)

Places: Computer Room, The Field, Basement of The Brothers Strong, Homestar Runner's House

Computer: Compy Compé

Date: Monday, October 5, 2009

Running Time: 3:30

Page Title: Compy Compé

Transcript

{Strong Bad is at the Compé. The wallpaper is a picture of marshmallows.}

STRONG BAD: Checkin' e-mails with boxing gloves. The sweet computer science. {double-clicks on the sbemail.exe icon}

To Whom It May Concern; (aka Strong Bad)
I'm getting married in August. I'm looking to hire
a "videographer" to videotape our wedding. Could
you use all your skills and powers and take on such
a task? I want it to look real nice.
Robert McSwain
Video Media Technologist
ITS Department

{Strong Bad reads "aka" as written and "ITS Department" as "It's Da Partment!"}

STRONG BAD: {typing} Well McSwobert, that works out perfectly, because "videographer" is just one of my many professions that have quotes around them.

{clears screen}

STRONG BAD: {typing} I'm also a "heart surgeon," a "licensed technician," a "poultry farmer," and a "fireman." And you say you're getting married in August? So like, 2 months ago? Also, not a problem. My videograph will have so many fancy wipes, fades, and transitions, your wife will never even know you guys aren't in it! Take a look at my demo reel.

{cut through static to a miniature screen of Strong Bad in The Field. It disjointedly gets larger until it fills the entire screen}

STRONG BAD: Hello there. I'm famed quotation marked videographer Strong Bad. Do you like quick zooms and solarizing effects? What about diamondy transitions, pixelated wipes, or slow fade-outs? All these effects and more will make your cherished event that happened last month be cherished forever.

(diamond cut to Locker Room}

STRONG BAD: Jimmy's lacrosse debacle never looked so good.

(Static cut to Strong Bad's shoes at The Field)

STRONG BAD: {Unintelligent mumbles} Little Jimmy is playing lacrosse! {More mumbles} Oh, he scores the winning lacrosse point! { A whistle is heard}

{Wipe to three lacrosse sticks being held in the air}

STRONG BAD: Oh, and his dad was totally there and not at Applebees'! {The camera lowers to reveal The Cheat holding the sticks.} Good shot, John-Jimmy!

{static cut to The Garage. Strong Bad is holding a "Seedy Rom".}

STRONG BAD: Add panache, pizzaz, and pep with a CD Rom work of animated clip art and copyright-free classical music.

{Cut to a title screen reading "Video Evidence of Homestar & Marzipan's 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 10th Anniversary Celebration!!!"}

HOMESTAR: Are you sure this will work, aka Strong Bad?

{Cut to Homestar in his living room}

STRONG BAD: {whispered} Definitely! Just act like you're celebrating!

HOMESTAR: {dancing} Oh, twice! I'm a lavish gift-giver!

{Cut to Strong Bad in The Garage}

STRONG BAD: Weddings? Bar-mitzfvfahs? Bar-Fvfights? First steps? Droopy drawers? You name it! I'll videographafize it!

{Cut to Strong Bad in a cowboy outfit at a table}

STRONG BAD: Take family meat loaf night back to the old west! Did somebody say sepia tones?

VOICES: Uh, no. Uh uh. I definitely didn't.

{Cut to Strong Bad in the kitchen}

STRONG BAD: And with our new sweet sweet suite of video toasters, your precious memories will have titles that defy the very laws of reason.

{Cut to a picture of a decoration. "Your Wedding Video" appears onscreen, followe by "The Union of ROBERT McSWAIN: VIDEO MEDIA TECHNOLOGIST and THE LADY HE MARRIED IN AUGUST".}

STRONG BAD: Hopefully that will be enough to keep your wife from wondering why her video technolgist husband wasn't smart enough to put a video camera on a tripod across the room and press record.

{Cut to Computer Room}

STRONG BAD: {typing} But you could probably also get away with just putting a label that says, 'WEDDIN TAPE' on a VHS cassette since none-out-of-none couples actually ever watch their wedding video. Unless of course a baby drops an f-bomb, somebody pukes in their toupee, or Grandmaw Auntpaw rolls down the stairs in her wheelchair. In which case you simply post it online and turn it into internet gold! And I can definitely arrange for some of that stuff to happen at your wedding, if you enlist my services as an "even coordinator." {stops typing} Eh. Eh heh heh. Hm.

{The Compé-per comes up}

Easter Eggs

• Clicking on "internet gold" at the end takes you to the YouTube video Coach Z pukes in dude's toupee.
• Clicking on "Grandma Aundpaw" at the end shows a short clip of Strongbad showing off his video camera, with the mic conveniently located by the cassette motor, followed by footage of Grandma Auntpaw at her 109th birthday saying something inaudible over the sound of said cassette motor.

Fun Facts

Inside References

• Strong Bad sings about typing with boxing gloves.
• Strong Bad was last shown with pan with a chicken leg in it first appeared in slumber party.
• The music has been used for all Sbemailiarized toons.
• Strong Bad's wallpaper is one of the wallpapers from the Download page.

Real-World References

• Applebee's is a US chain of family dining restaurants (that used to be based in Atlanta).
• Problem Child was a series of early 1990s films and an animated series about a bratty child. However, there was only three films in the series.

External Links

• watch "videography"
• watch "videography" on the old Flash site
• view the Flash file for "videography"
• forum thread re: "videography"