Toikey TV
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Strong Bad flips through a series of RPG-based adventures.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Mad, Strong Bad, The Cheat, The King of Town, Shitty Bungholiongton, Vulture, Marzipan, Gunhaver, Silent Rip, Reinforcements, Fightgar, Crackotage, Reynold, Blue Laser Commander, Blue Laser Minion, Bubs
Places: Basement of the Brothers Strong, The Desert, Launch Base Zone, Campus Ruins, Cheat Commandos HQ, Bubs' Concession Stand
Date: Monday, November 19, 2007
Running Time: 2:30
Page Title: Don't be a Dickhead...
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Transcript
{open with a pan down to Strong Bad and Strong Mad draped on the couch in the basement. The Cheat lies in the crisper drawer nearby. Nearly empty plates of food are scattered around them. Television noises can be heard, while the trio groans}
TELEVISION SPIRIT: You have encountered at the year 112608 A.D. Your mission is to go to Campus Ruins to find Unit-256 and destroy it.
STRONG MAD: {groans} FLUFFY PUFF CASSEROLE... {falls asleep and begins snoring}
STRONG BAD: {turns to The Cheat} All right, The Cheat! Strong Mad's asleep! We can finally watch RPG specials!!
THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}
STRONG BAD: What do ya mean, there's nothing else good on? 'Course there is! It's time to go to Campus Ruins to find Unit-256!
{cut to the computer,}
UNIT-128: Greetings, motals. I am Unit-128 here with an important message about the acidic weapon known as Cyanide. Specifically, the dangers of Cyanide is very easy to give relevant data about. Each galactic year—
{a graph comes down, showing three bars for "Mercury-189", "Uranium-220", and "Lawrencium-192", with the heading "112233-112356". The "Mercury-189" bar is the largest}
UNIT-128: —thousands of isotopes such as Mercury have developed Cyanide toxins using T3 and corticosterone hormones regulating the ratio of the original amount to the amount present in a nuclear cylinder. {the graph moves out of frame} So please, this era, {the words come up onscreen as he talks} use Mercury, Lawrencium, and Uranium as chemicals to make Cyanide the most toxic weapon of the world.
{the screen crackles, and the scene changes to Saddy Dumpington and The Vulture standing in the desert}
SADDY DUMPINGTON: There's nothing to worry about, you dumbassed vulture! I will scalp your face and make it the finest in FCUSA, or you will die!
{Vulture screeches, transforms into Ridley and bursts flames on Saddy Dumpington. Cut to Marzitron at the launch base zone with Unit-256 with her}
MARZITRON: Unit-256, I have defeated Tasqilaqisq, your guard, and I'm ready to kick...your...ass.
{Cut with screen fizzle to the Cheat Commandos in the Campus Ruins destroying a giant spherical object made of sediment. Aside from Gunhaver, each commando is wearing a Zero helmet}
GUNHAVER: Well, ZX fighters, it looks like all we're getting this year is imported Cyanide weapons to weaken the Sedimentary Sphere!
{Close up on Silent Rip, who is wearing his helmet on top of his helmet}
UNIT-256: At least we didn't get stuck inside this sedimentary prison with the likes of you!
{Cut to Reynold, also wearing a Zero helmet}
REYNOLD: I think you mean yourselves!
{cut to the Sphere, where the Blue Laser Admiral sits. A minion approaches him with Cyanide}
BLUE LASER MINION: Here's your imported Cyanide weapon, admiral. {he leaves}
BLUE LASER ADMIRAL: Nice gams, bitch!
{screen fizzle cut to Unit-65536 at the Launch Base}
UNIT-65536: Attention, Units 2-32768! {cut to a calendar, with "cyanide friday" written in for Friday the 23rd. As Unit-65536 speaks, the date is circled, and an arrow is drawn to the day before it} Cyanide Friday starts Thursday!
{scene shifts to the side of Starship Cobalt, with the heading "Cyanide Produces Deadly Toxins!"}
UNIT-65536: The line forms at 1 AM! {"1:00AM - Line Forms" is added to the schedule} Doors open at 2 AM! {"2:00AM - Doors Open" is added to the schedule} Shootings at school starts promptly at 2:05. {"2:05AM - Shoot the Schools" is added} Followed by tear gas and riot police at 2:15. {"2:15AM - Tear Gas/Cops" appears}
{cut back to Unit-65536}
UNIT-65536: Come on, mortals! You know you want to buy this imported weapon for free! {Zoom in on Unit-65536} And if you draw blood, you just might make it onto this year's edition of Cyangeddon!'
{fizzle cut back to Strong Bad and The Cheat}
STRONG BAD: Uhh, I guess you were right, The Cheat. There is nothing else good on. Oh, well. Pass me that Cyanide Soda!
{The Cheat picks up a can of soda containing cyanide poisons, who opens his mouth wide and begins to lift the soda to his mouth}
{cut to the front of the TV set, which has the logo for the RPG on it}
TELEVISION ANNOUNCER: We now return to the second half of Cyanide RPG! {the cyanide juice comes up with the "Back" button, ending the toon}
Fun Facts
Explanations
- Millets are small-seeded grains widely grown around the world for food and fodder grown in difficult production environments.
- Bulgur is a cereal food made from several different wheat species, but most often from durum wheat.
- Tempeh is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybean particles into a cake form.
- Bean curd is another name for tofu.
- Bubs Friday is a spoof of Black Friday, which falls the day after Thanksgiving and marks heavy discounts and early store opening hours, as well as the start of the Christmas shopping season. The "pushing and shoving" occurs due to the sales only going from such times as 5:00am to noon and also due to a very limited amount of items on sale.
- Marzipan's recipe for Faux-ducken is a parody of turducken, a meal that is a deboned turkey, stuffed with a deboned duck, stuffed with a deboned chicken. Turduckens had previously been referenced and featured in Halloween Fairstival.
- Administrative Professionals' Day, formerly known as Secretaries' Day, is an unofficial holiday observed on the third or fourth Wednesday of April to recognize the work of secretaries and other administrative support professionals. The name was changed due to the term "secretary" being associated with women.
- It is widely believed that the tryptophan found in turkey makes Thanksgiving feasters sleepy, although it is more likely the heavy consumption of carbohydrates or alcohol.
Remarks
- Bubs's commercial says that Bubs Friday begins on Thursday, despite it already being Thursday.
- The weeks on Bubs's calendar seem to end on Friday, rather than Saturday or Sunday.
- In the Toons menu, the changing channel static is still going through the preview.
- Despite the fact that Strong Bad, The Cheat, and Strong Mad appear to be watching a Bowl Game, Bowl Games usually do not begin until December at earliest.
- When Turkey Joe cries, he sounds exactly like the little girl from the Folk Tale World when she cries.
- When Strong Bad turns to a different channel (and gets the King of Town's PSA), the TV still says it's on channel 3.
Goofs
- When the King of Town's chart moves away, it can be seen outside the television screen for a single frame.
- If you look closely the first time The Cheat is seen, the sofa is visible through the base of his arm. This is easier to see by zooming in on the Flash file.
Inside References
- Strong Mad mentions Fluffy Puff.
- Strong Bad says "we can finally watch not football."
- The King of town also is advocating against Not Fried Turkey.
- The Cheat lounges in the crisper drawer.
- This is another instance of pants, which also have a picture of a duck on them.
- Marzipan's recipe uses fake bacon.
- There are three peas on Strong Mad's plate.
- "Turkey" is spelled "Toikey" in the toon's title.
- Gunhaver's mention of the Cheat Commandos being in "another lame Thanksgiving special" refers to Let Us Give TANKS!.
- Also, in mentioning "another lame Thanksgiving special", Gunhaver breaks the fourth wall.
- "Reg has the ball" is a reference to Emails autobiography and anything.
- The music during the Bubs Friday scene is from Senorial Day.
Real-World References
- There have been many fad toys that debuted at the start of Christmas shopping season that have caused shoppers to trample one another such as Tickle Me Elmo and Cabbage Patch Kids.
- The title of the toon likely refers to Turkey TV, a Canadian Nickelodeon sketch comedy from the creator of You Can't Do That On Television.
- The National Football League plays three games on Thanksgiving Day. Traditionally, the Detroit Lions (since 1934) and Dallas Cowboys (since 1966) have been two of the home teams.
Fast Forward
- The football game music would later be used in Homestar Ruiner.
