New Boots
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Powered by The Cheat
The Cheat gets some "New Boots". With a Coach Z video, "Hip Hop Dance"!
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat, Homestar Runner, Coach Z, Nebulon, Striped Green Rabbit
Places: The Field, The Cheat's Computer Room
Date: April 7, 2004
Running Time: 2:46
Page Title: Powered by The Cheat!!
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Transcript
{This cartoon was created by The Cheat. Strong Bad is singing to himself, while dribbling one basketball and spinning the other on his hand. He is wearing purple boxing gloves and his head appears to be rendered in clay. His pants are hiked up on one side so that his underwear shows on the other side. The Cheat enters wearing cowboy boots.}
STRONG BAD: Whoa, The Cheat! I can't believe what cool boots you have on, where did you get them?
THE CHEAT: {responds}
STRONG BAD: Oh, I see; a cute girl and an astronaut gave them to you.
THE CHEAT: {imperative The Cheat noises}
STRONG BAD: Yes, I'll go get you a patty melt.
{He exits with his different body parts overcrossing. A giant fist, maybe Strong Mad's, sends Homestar tumbling onscreen. He is missing a shoe. A basketball which Strong Bad had left behind finally falls to the ground.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Dang The Cheat, I like your boots!
{Homestar's cell phone rings in his shirt. He answers it.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {on the cell} Thanks for calling me. The Cheat is wearing cool boots. Can I have my shoe back?
{His missing shoe comes flying in and hits him in the face.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER {on the cell}: Thanks one million, talk to you later.
{Strong Bad walks in as Homestar puts the cell away. Strong Bad's arm briefly detaches from his body, then reattaches itself.}
STRONG BAD: The Cheat I made your favorite, a picnic plate with wine and a baguette. {smiles and a "ding" sound is heard} Can I get you something else?
HOMESTAR RUNNER: I'll have some, soup.
{Strong Bad's leg extends, snakes over The Cheat, and finally trips Homestar.}
STRONG BAD: The Cheat, get that man some soup.
{The Cheat makes a noise and pours soup on Homestar's eyes.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: OK! Hot soup is on my eye.
{The Cheat jumps on Homestar's head and starts doing a hip-hop dance. A hip-hop-style loop of vocal samples starts up out of nowhere.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh no! Now you're doing a hip-hop dance on my head!
COACH Z: {entering} Hey that's a good dance! {leaves}
STRONG BAD: High five, The Cheat!
THE CHEAT: {a short exclamation.}
{Strong Bad and The Cheat extend their hands into space, where they slap a high five. The words, 'A very high-five' appear for a moment then disappear. An alien named Nebulon floats on screen.}
STRONG BAD: {Talking through his hand} Get out of here, Nebulon! No one likes your style.
{Heartbroken, Nebulon floats off screen. The "Strong Mad in space" sound signifies his departure.}
STRONG BAD: {Talking through his hand} The Cheat, do you like Nebulon's style?
{We see Strong Bad and The Cheat watching the scene in The Cheat's Computer Room.}
STRONG BAD: PURPLE BOXING GLOVES?! Did you do any fact-checking before you turned this in? What if I did that to you? Oh yeah, The Cheat, he's a...stripe-ed, green rabbit! With two butts!
THE CHEAT: {responds angrily}
STRONG BAD: But you made my underwears showing! Everybody knows I don't wear underwears!
THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}
STRONG BAD: Mmm...all right... You get an...iron cup. Full of Brunswick Stew. {places cup of stew on table}
THE CHEAT: {responds excitedly and pushes the cup over to his side of the table}
STRONG BAD: But lemme tell ya's. With a little extra effort, it would have been a trophy full of Steak-umms.
THE CHEAT: (sad The Cheat noise (in an "Awww" pattern)}
STRONG BAD: Guy drops a couple of JPEGs in his cartoon and thinks he's like, the guy who draws The Lockhorns or something. Now that guy knows funny!
{Fade to black, cut to Coach Z's Hip Hop Dance music video.}
Easter Eggs
- Click on The Cheat's computer screen when Strong Bad says "Oh yeah, The Cheat; he's a... striped green rabbit with two butts" and you will see a The Cheat render of such a rabbit.
- Click on The Cheat's computer screen when Strong Bad mentions "the guy who draws The Lockhorns" to see a The Lockhorns comic strip style The Cheat.
Fun Facts
Explanations
- A patty melt is a sandwich consisting of a hamburger patty, swiss cheese and sautéed onion between two slices of rye bread. The sandwich is grilled so that the cheese melts thoroughly and the outside becomes toasted to a crunchy golden brown.
- Brunswick Stew is a genuine stew. You can make your own with this "poem" recipe, written by Virginia S. Woodroof in 1930. For more information, you can visit this site.
Trivia
- When this toon premeired, it was entitled, "Powered by the Cheat". When the "Powered by the Cheat" option was added to the Toons menu, it was renamed, "New Boots".
- Strong Bad's head in this cartoon is a picture of a Strong Bad miniature action figure's head.
Remarks
- The sky background reverses color when The Cheat first walks in.
- When The Cheat starts dancing on Homestar's face, his sprite flips horizontally, causing the dollar signs on his boots to appear backwards.
- We actually have seen evidence of Strong Bad wearing underwear before, in the Strong Bad Email stand-up.
- The Cheat appears to have The Lockhorns confused with Andy Capp. Although it is true Loretta often makes fun of Leroy behind his back, she doesn't ever threaten to beat him with a rolling pin.
- In "step 3" of Coach Z's dance, his arms bend backwards.
- In The Cheat's animation, Homestar Runner's tongue is visible when he talks, while in normal animations this does not happen; there is in fact no indication that Homestar even has a tongue.
- The animation also seems to show that Homestar does have shoes, and even wears socks under them. However, The Cheat's cartoons are often not true to reality (or at least to the "reality" of Free Country USA).
Inside References
- The part about pouring hot soup in Homestar's eyes is a reference to different town where Strong Bad initially thinks that's what the author of that email was asking him to do.
- Coach Z reverts to his old-school purple The Cheat style during his lines "Cool time!" and "The Locomotive!"
- The sound that plays when Nebulon leaves is the same as when Strong Mad is in space in Marshmallow's Last Stand.
- During Coach Z's video, there is a small 3-D clip similar to the Easter egg in stunt double.
- The album title "The Z Is All Up Ins" is a reference to Strong Bad's comment in suntan about the ladies being "all up ons."
- The "Unda-wears showing" line is a reference to Teen Girl Squad.
Real-World References
- The 8-bit computer sprite of Coach Z running back and forth during his Hip Hop Dance video is a re-rendering of Capcom's original Mega Man.
- The Cheat's boots are possibly a reference to the David Bowie song "The Man Who Sold The World". On the inside liner cover of the similarly titled record album, there is a picture of a cowboy holding a shotgun, with a pair of boots with dollar signs emblazoned on the sides of them that look almost exactly like the boots The Cheat is wearing in the toon.
- "Steak-umm's" are a brand of refrigerated strips of cooked beef that can be heated in a pan and put on sandwiches. They are frequently used in the creation of Philly cheese steaks.
- It is interesting to note that there is no single "guy" who draws The Lockhorns. The one-panel strip was created in 1968 by Bill Hoest, who wrote it for twenty years, collaborating with his spouse, Bunny Hoest. When he died in 1988 Bunny kept the comic strip active. Currently the comic strip is still done by Bunny with the help of her capable assistant, John Reiner, the son of famous comedian Carl Reiner.
Fast Forward
- The name of the album "The Z is All Up Ins" appears in the secret music video for These peoples try to fade me on Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits.
- The phrase "Get out of here, Nebulon! No one likes your style!" is also used in the game Stinkoman 20X6 when beating the end boss of Level 5.
