Mr. Shmallow (toon)
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An Old-Timey marshmallow commercial for Fluffy Puff Air-Puffed Sugar Delights gives The Homestar Runner nightmares.
Cast (in order of appearance): Mr. Shmallow, The Sad Kids, Mr. Bossman, The Moon, The Homestar Runner, Sickly Sam (Easter egg), The Sneak (Easter egg)
Places: The Moon, The Old Movie Reel Room
Date: August 4, 2003
Running Time: 1:03
Page Title: Mr. Shmallow makes good!
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Transcript
{The screen displays the words "A Filmed Commercial Advertisement". Then Mr. Shmallow appears on the screen.}
MR. SHMALLOW: Greetings, fallows. I'm Mr. Shmallow. {his name appears on the screen}
{Mr. Shmallow jumps to the next scene-he peeps in from the left as a bunch of candies appear on a table. The candies are in containers labeled Dandied Sugar, Sweet Brand Meats, Choco-Lumps, and Delicious "Bag"}
Have you grown loath of ordinary confections?
{cuts to a shack in the arctic labeled "Sugah Shak", with Mr. Shmallow peeping in from the right}
Has the Sugah Shak left you out in the cold?
{the walls of the shack collapse outwards,The Sad Kids are there. The shack roof falls on them}
{we see a man in clad in dress shirt, dress pants and tie smoking a pipe and carrying a briefcase next to a woman dressed in a '50s style party dress. Both are wearing jetpacks and hover before a curtain with a star-burst pattern evocative of the 1950s. The words "Look Lively" appear in front of them}
Look lively at today's go-get-em lifestyle with Fluffy Puffs Air-Puffed Sugar Delights!
{The Fluffy Puff box is displayed, then cut to a pile of sugar being "puffed" by a bellows into a marshmallow shape.}
Each delight is hand puffed with a blend of only the finest airs.
{A cartoon cloud wearing a medal labeled "O2" enters from the upper right while a turkey and a spear of broccoli are "puffed" by the bellows into marshmallow shapes.}
Air puffing is surely the future of eating delicious foodstuffs.
{cut to a fat, rich-looking man at a desk smiling and snapping his suspenders}
Mr. Bossman wouldn't settle for much less!
{cut to marshmallow roasting over a fire}
Add open flames to create a flavor taste that will send you to the moon!
{Mr. Shmallow is shown in a glass ship, he flies up to the moon, which eats him}
THE MOON: Air-puffed sugar delights.
MR. SHMALLOW: {sweating} That's right, the moon. {his forelock swings down and cleans off his glasses, which have fogged up} Enjoy Fluffy Puffs Air-Puffed Sugar Delights. Hand-puffed at the factory in Neuconsin.
ANNOUNCER: {singing} Fluffy Puffs air-puffed sugar delights, hand-puffed at the factory in Neuconsin! {stops singing} {quickly, sotto voce} Fluffy Puffs Air-Puffed Sugar Delights. Hand-puffed at the factory in Neuconsin.
{The camera pulls back to reveal The Homestar Runner watching the commercial.}
MR. SHMALLOW: Look lively. {suddenly louder, darting toward the camera} Look lively! {The Homestar Runner jumps and Mr. Shmallow tip-toes off the screen to the left with Homsar's walking noise}
THE HOMESTAR RUNNER: That monster's gonna give me nightmares.
{Cut back to a closeup of the Fluffy Puffs Air-Puffed Sugar Delights box; the cartoon ends.}
Easter Eggs
- At the end, click on "Air-Puffed Sugar Delights" to see a short scene featuring Sickly Sam.
- {Cut to Sickly Sam standing next to a bag of Delicious "Bag".}
- SICKLY SAM: This empty bag of Delicious "Bag" would make a fine sock for the colder of my two feet.
- {Sickly Sam shakes his left foot, then begins reaching for the bag. The Sneak runs up and rips the bag to shreds, then runs away}
- SICKLY SAM: Well, folks, you know what that means. {disappears in a puff of smoke}
Fun Facts
Explanations
- A "Sugar Shack" is a structure where maple sap is converted into maple syrup. The term appears in popular songs to refer to a cheap residence of a couple in love.
- "O2" is the chemical formula for molecular dioxygen, which comprises about twenty-one percent (by volume) of the Earth's atmosphere.
Trivia
- The sound effect used for the hovering jet packs and the "tip-toeing" Mr. Shmallow is the same one used when Homsar walks.
- The noise made when the various food items are hand puffed is the same noise Sickly Sam makes when he disappears in a puff of smoke.
- The inbox and outbox on Mr. Bossman's desk read "Fired" and "To Be Fired." The "Fired" stack is larger.
Inside References
- This cartoon is roughly equivalent to Meet Marshie where Marshie talks about how Fluffy Puff Marshmallows are made and what you can do with them. It even includes a comment from The Homestar Runner at the end, echoing Homestar's appearance at the end of Meet Marshie.
- Sickly Sam says, "Well folks, you know what that means," which may be a reference to The Homestar Runner's saying of, "Well folks, you know what that means. Now I'll do a dance."
- The page title "Mr. Shmallow makes good!" and the summary in the Toons Menu reading "He's no apothecary" are both references to the Easter egg in the email 2 emails, in which Old-Timey Strong Bad said variations of these two things.
- The Sad Kids are seen in the "Sugar Shak" that are in the modern Marshie commercials.
- It asked if the Sugar Shak has left you out even though people were in there.
Fast Forward
- The Delicious "Bag" later appears in 3 Times Halloween Funjob.
