Airdate: November 25, 2020
Strong Bad pokes fun at yet more fan costumes, including such hits as a surprisingly accurate group costume of the 4 Gregs, a fake-stubbled kid in a Crack Stuntman costume, and cyberpunk versions of Dangeresque and The Cheat.
Tropes:
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The Gregs themselves show up to compliment some costumes of themselves.Sci-Fi Greg: We're scientifically accurate!
D&D Greg: We're fantastically accurate!
Open Source Greg: We're technically accurate!
Japanese Culture Greg: We're... the Japanese word for accurate? My language app hasn't taught me that one yet. - Bait-and-Switch Comment: Strong Bad praises a costume depicting a muscular version of himself for its accuracy. You might think it's just him being self-serving again, but he's actually talking about the fact that the boxing gloves are the brand he usually wears. Then he goes on to claim the picture depicts an annual tradition of himself covering his upper torso in expired seasonal marshmallows.
- Continuity Nod:
- Strong Bad brings up the fact that the gloves he wears are "A+ #1 All-Pro Panache", which was first mentioned in the 2016 fan costume round-up.
- Marshie's line "clog 'em up, clog 'em up, clog 'em up y'all!" is a nod to the Strong Bad Email "pop up", where Strong Bad says "boot 'em up, boot 'em up, boot 'em up y'all!" while playing with the "Kick The Cheat" spread in his imaginary pop-up book.
- The Crack Stuntman costume inspires a reference to "An Important Rap Song".
- The "Dangeresque: Cyberthymez" costume is indeed based on a tweet Strong Bad made to his official Twitter account in November 2019.
- Strong Bad tells Strong Sad to "stop it with your try-to-pronounce-foreign-words-authentically-but-not-do-a-very-good-job-of-it," a nod to Strong Sad exaggeratedly pronouncing "anime" in "Trogdor Con '97", "Hercule Poirot" in "Haunted Photo Booth", and "Tove Jansson" in "The Homestar Runner Enters the Spooky Woods".
- Literal Metaphor: Marshie tells viewers to "open up your pores, and let me into your heart... literally!"
- Overly Long Gag: Strong Bad provides a long, rambling, childish description of what Troghammer Junior supposedly does.
- Shout-Out:
- The cyberpunk version of The Cheat is accompanied by a diagram including the phrase "reindeer flotilla".
- The "Jibbliepoof" song Homestar sings is to the tune of Jigglypuff's song in Pokémon: The Series.
