Decemberweenvent Calendar
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A Decemberween Advent calendar with new music every day from December 1st to the 24th.
Cast (in order of appearance): Homestar Runner (pictured), Strong Bad, The King of Town, Pom Pom (pictured), Marzipan (pictured), Coach Z (pictured), Bubs (pictured), Strong Sad, Homsar (pictured), Stave It Off Guy (pictured), Strong Mad, The Homestar Runner (pictured), Stinkoman (pictured)
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2022
Page Title: Remember to practice your Scales of an Artist!
Total Running Time: 2:17
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Calendar
A small, saddle-stitched booklet is shown on a wooden surface. The booklet is titled "Decemberweenvent Calendar" in a large banner. Tiny versions of Homestar Runner and Strong Bad race across the keys of a real-life, worn-down piano keyboard.
The top corners show that this is the Scales of an Artist Beginner Piano Series produced by Cheap As Free Music. A caption in the center reads, "New H*R sheet music everyday!"
Along the bottom are two rows of numbers. All but the first number were dimmed upon first release and lit up one-by-one as the month progressed. Clicking a lit number opens up the booklet to the sheet music for that day, which also features characters and diagrams.
The drawing style throughout the booklet is more stylized than normal, with most characters gaining noses and some gaining arms, and being drawn in a style loosely resembling Alfred's Basic Piano.
| Day | Song | Key | Running Time | Transcript | Visuals | Flash File |
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| 1 | Everybody, Everybody | C major | 0:19 | STRONG BAD: {offscreen} What the crap?! A non chocolate and/or Lego Decemberweenvent calendar? I used to could eat both of thems. | The King of Town stands alone with his arms across his chest, tongue sticking out, moved to tears with some emotion.
Pom Pom, Homestar Runner, and Marzipan stand in a group in the center. Homestar and Marzipan are looking pleasantly at each other while Pom Pom has a neutral or unimpressed expression. A keyboard is featured with the white keys labeled "C D E F G A B C". A caption above it reads, "Remember the keys this a-way: 'Crispy Duck Eggs For Goodness And Badness, Champ!'" Coach Z and Bubs stand at the far right with happy expressions and their arms across each other's shoulders. | view |
| 2 | Stave It Off | C major | 0:34 | STRONG BAD: {offscreen} Maybe if I play the song correctly, then chocolates will, like, come out of the piano.
STRONG SAD: {offscreen} Or maybe just holiday cheer will come out of the piano. STRONG BAD: {offscreen} That's useless! You can't suck on that and swish it around in your mouth until it turns into, like, a pudding goo and then spit it onto marshmallows! KING OF TOWN: {offscreen} That doesn't mean I can't try! | Homsar stands with one arm across his midsection and one arm raised, belting out a note. The Stave It Off Guy is seated on a stool with his stringless guitar and looks on, impressed.
To the right, three left hands showing one, two, and three fingers are accompanied by the caption "Use your staving fingers to play this kids' learn'em up song!" | view |
| 3 | Skills of an Artist | F major | 0:21 | STRONG BAD: {offscreen} Uh, you can check today's, Strong Mad. Imma go see if we have any baking chocolate or... somethin'.
STRONG MAD: {offscreen} I HOPE IT'S THE THEME FROM DOUG THE DINO! STRONG BAD: {offscreen} Isn't the theme from Doug the Dino just you yelling "DINOSAUR"? STRONG MAD: {offscreen} IT'S MY GREATEST COMPOSITION! | Strong Bad, dressed as an art painter wearing a smock and a beret, stands next to an easel with an S drawn on it. He holds a paintbrush in his right glove and a pizza in his left glove. The pizza vaguely resembles a paint palette.
A keyboard is shown with "Middlin' C" labeled. Above it is the caption "How to play piano with boxing gloves on". Dashed lines show the outline of where the gloves should go and are labeled "Left-O" and "Right-O". At the far right is a mostly full canister of Taster's Choice instant coffee. | view |
| 4 | {first page}
{second page} | C major / C minor | 0:42 | {On the cover page}
STRONG SAD: {offscreen} Isn't anything in this calendar in a minor key? I need some of that Dickensian holiday doom and gloom. {After Caleb Rentpayer Funeral Dirge is played} STRONG SAD: {offscreen} Ah, that's the stuff. It's like a stovepipe hat full of gruel, poor air quality and inhumane working conditions. Now that's the holiday spirit! | At the far left is a frog in a straw boater hat on top of an old television with one bent antenna.
At the top left is a large beard resembling those worn by ZZ Top. In the center is a makeshift tent made of a dark blue suit jacket and a stick. At the top right is a guitar with a wedding veil on its headstock. At the far right is a suitcase covered in labels and stuffed full of bricks. One brick sits next to the suitcase and another protrudes from it. | view |
| 5 | Now I'll Do A Dance | 0:21 | STRONG BAD: {offscreen, singing} On the fifth day of Decemberweenvent this stupid calendar gave to me, more useless sheet music! | On the left The Homestar Runner is smiling while dancing with one leg raised and crossed over the other.
A dancing chart with numbered outlines of feet and a hand connected by dotted arrows. Above it the caption is "The Well-Folks-You-Know-What-That-Means Shuffle" On the right Stinkoman is standing with an opened mouth and his leg raised | view
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Fun Facts
Explanations
- An Advent calendar is used to count the days of Advent in anticipation of Christmas.
Trivia
- All of the sheet music is written in 4/4 time and no listed key signature.
Remarks
- A saddle-stiched booklet should show the staples on the inside only on the center spread, around day 12.
- Day 1: The keyboard keys are clickable, but do nothing.
- Day 2: The instructions say to "use your staving fingers to play this kids' learn'em up song".
- Day 3: The instructions show how to play piano with boxing gloves on.
Goofs
- "New H*R sheet music everyday" should be "every day".
- Day 3:
- The repeat sign is not vertically aligned to the staff.
- The first three notes should be pickups to the first measure. Instead, the first beat of each measure is written as the third beat of the measure, and the notation rhythm is therefore displaced by two beats.
Inside References
- Day 1: "Used to could" is a double modal, much like "might could".
- Day 3:
- Strong Mad mentions his stop-motion movie Doug the Dino from the facts.
- Strong Bad says that he will look for baking chocolate. Strong Sad says that he used to eat baking chocolate when there was no chocolate in the house in The House that Gave Sucky Treats.
- The "S" drawn on the canvas and the label on the canister of coffee grinds that says "Taster's Choice" both refer to dragon.
- Day 4:
- The images relate to previous audio clips heard from Caleb Rentpayer throughout the series:
- The beard is a reference to Tucksworth telling Caleb he can't grow a ZZ Top beard in winter pool.
- The jacket tent and suitcase full of bricks are from the show's appearance in Bug in Mouth Disease.
- The guitar with a wedding veil refers to Caleb attempting to marry his guitar, as heard in secret recipes.
- Strong Sad previously mentioned that he "needed some doom and gloom" in Happy Hallow-Day.
- The images relate to previous audio clips heard from Caleb Rentpayer throughout the series:
Real-World References
- Day 1: LEGO has produced Advent calendars, each with 24 doors containing a minifigure or a simple small set, annually since 1998. Recent years have seen multiple calendars released each year, with themes such as Star Wars.
- Day 4: Strong Sad mentions he needs "Dickensian" Holiday doom and gloom, referencing author Charles Dickens.
- Day 5: Strong Bad sings to the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas".
External Links
| Decemberween |
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