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Revision as of 15:59, 9 August 2005
Strong Bad Email #18
Joe P. asks Strong Bad if he has ever done any stand-up comedy.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Strong Sad, Coach Z, Lil' Strong Bad
Places: Computer Room, Strong Sad's Room, The Stage
Computer: Tandy 400
Date: March 18, 2002
Running Time: 1:26
Contents |
Transcript
STRONG BAD: Something has compelled me to check my email.
dear strong bad,
ur a real, funy guy. have you ever done any
stand up comidic stuff?
crapfully crappy,
joe p.
{He pronouces it as it is spelled: "Err a real fewney guy."}
STRONG BAD: What? No. No. No. I mean, no. Never. No. What? No.
{He walks away from the computer in a huff. Strong Sad walks in}
STRONG SAD: Psst. Come with me.
{Strong Sad takes us to his room. He puts a video tape marked "S.B. Talent Show" in his VCR. The video shows a younger-looking Coach Z with a huge afro and mustache on-stage talking into a microphone.}
COACH Z: Once again, thank you to little Marzipan and her wonderful clogging. Okay, so up next we got the comedy styling of little Strong Bad.
{Coach Z steps away from the front stage and Lil' Strong Bad walks on stage to general applause and lowers the microphone.}
LIL' STRONG BAD: Thank you Coach Z, {pause} for not patting my butt. {audience laughs} Good evening, ladies and germs. Um... How about this cafeteria food? Is it cardboard or is it pizza? {more audience laughs, though less pronounced; Lil' Strong Bad looks uneasy} You know, 'cause it...tastes bad. Um... What about that one...that joke... Coach Z's hair is funny looking. Don't you guys think? 'Cause it's big... He has really big hair...
{Lil' Strong Bad's pants fall down with a whistle sound. He looks down, and the audience laughs.}
LIL' STRONG BAD: Oh no!
{Lil' Strong Bad tries to run offstage out of embarassment, and falls down because of his pants. The screen goes blank. The Paper comes down.}
Fun Facts
Trivia
- This is the first email in which Strong Bad is seen with a shirt on.
- This is the first e-mail showing Strong Bad as a kid.
- This is the first time we see Coach Z with an afro.
Remarks
- The VCR is made by Totaltronics.
- Lil' Strong Bad doesn't have the highlights in his eyes that the older Strong Bad does.
- When the Tandy blurs out, the green lines on its screen stop moving.
- Strong Sad shows us this tape on his own TV/VCR in Strong Sad's Room. Note the purple walls. Strong Bad's Basement has red wallpaper. While the TV is identical, Strong Bad's VCR is not nearly so retro.
Goofs
- If you change the contrast to anything but black, it will change back to black when Strong Sad steps in front of the Tandy, and back to whatever color you had when he moves away.
Inside References
- The TV is the same as in an old Toons menu.
- Lil' Strong Bad is wearing underwear in this email. In New Boots, he says he doesn't wear "underwears."
Fast Forward
- The VCR's time is 12:00, which is the subject of 12:00.
DVD Version
- The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
Commentary Transcript
(Commentary by: Mike Chapman, Matt Chapman)
MIKE: So... here's another email that we made.
MATT: On our wed— {trips over his own tongue} wedthighs. It's, uh... I remember thinking how ambitious it was at the time.
MIKE: It is ambitious for—
MATT: Not only do we cut away... Um... Ahhh... Yeah... What?
MIKE: We've got a rack focus right here. Oooh, blurry monitor.
MATT: That's the old Strong Bad mouth, though. That's not very good. I remember this, that VCR was pretty complicated—
MIKE: That's Strong Sad.
MATT: S—what'd I say?
MIKE: Strong Bad. Strong Bad's the one with the red face.
MATT: {laughs} The tracking is amazing. Mike did that tracking and that little rainbow effect.
MIKE: Yeah, we used that a lot of times.
MATT: Yeah, 'cause it's so good. Nobody ever-
MIKE: Hold up!
MATT: —Why are people not as concerned with Coach Z with the fro and moustache?
MIKE: Yeah, no one cared.
MATT: I think it's great! And little Strong Bad, he's wearing a—that's not a tuxedo, Mike, it's one of those tuxedo T-shirts.
MIKE: Like...the kind that Mark Cohen used to have.
MATT: Yeah. And if you, uh, look, he's wearing—he's got elastic waistband pants, khaki pants.
MIKE: {laughing} Grranimals.
MATT: {laughing} Grranimals. Yep, that's the stage from our elementary school, from Vanderlyn Elementary School, which we later make even more obvious in a Christmas cartoon.
MIKE: Yes.
MATT: Oooh! So this is also the only other time we reveal that Strong Bad actually has, like, legs, like flesh— flesh legs.
MIKE: Oh yeah.
Fun Facts
- Grranimals is a children's clothing line from Sears.
