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Strong Bad Email #51

Strong Bad gives an emailer advice on building a website, and shows off his own.

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad

Places: Computer Room

Computer: Compy 386

Date: November 18, 2002

Running Time: 1:53

Transcript

STRONG BAD: Oh-you-thought-there-was-no-more-emails-but-guess-what-there's-an-EMAIL!

{reading email}

Dear Strong Bad,
I want to start a new website but I
don't have any ideas of what to do for
my website. I was wondering if you
could give me some ideas for my new
website. This website will be cool and
I'll e-mail you when I'm done.

Sincerely Yours:
James

{Strong Bad says "Website. I mean, James" instead of just "James"}

STRONG BAD: {typing} You know, James, I've been around this great, big Internet of ours a few times, so I know what I'm talking about, and I can safely say, that whatever idea you have is completely unimportant as long as you adhere to these fundamentals: {clears screen} First of all, you want to start out with a long Flash intro. {stops typing} Like this one The Cheat made for me.

{"The Cheat presents" on a black background appears on the screen, followed by two green, bean-shaped eyes.}

STRONG BAD: Check it out, those are supposed to be my eyes, I think.

{The eyes fade and the letters "SB" appear. "Strong" and "Bad" are inside each letter}

STRONG BAD: that stands for my name.

{The "S" and "B" turn into "The Web" in cursive}

STRONG BAD: The Web.

{"The Web" turns into "Welcomes 'u' '2'" with only letters going horizontally and vertically. The words "strong bad's cybersite" appear in red below "Welcomes 'u' '2'". A rainbow circle about 3/4 the size of the "2" comes and rolls in, stopping at the quotation mark before the "2"}

STRONG BAD: That little rainbow thing's kinda cool.

{The word "cybersite" turns into rainbow colors. The words exit and a blackhole-like thing appears.}

STRONG BAD: Oh, go through the tunnel, oh look out!

{As he says "Oh, look out!", a hand appears to punch you, and after it does, the word "OUCH!" appears above it. The words "Get on in!" appear in a long button.}

STRONG BAD: Oh, you got punched! Aw, man, right in the face. {typing} Okay, next on the checklist: lots of animated GIFS! {pronounces it /gifs/; stops typing} or... GIFs... {pronounces it /jifs/} or however you say it. I don't know. I heard a couple of nerds arguing about it one time. But you want as many of those as possible. Especially the rotate-y kind. Those are awesome, man. Nobody gets tired of looking at those. {typing} So, then you can pretty much just pick whatever for your subject. It doesn't really matter as long as you got the rest of that stuff on there. {stops typing} I mean, {resumes typing} James, the Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens. You need to take advantage of that. {stops typing}I mean, you can make a webpage of your cat.

{A picture of a cat lying on a football with red eye thinking "It's 4th and 10. Now WHERE'S MY SUPPER?!?" appears}

STRONG BAD: or your The Cheat.

{A picture of The Cheat sleeping on a couch on his back on a couch thinking "It's 4th and 10. I hate cats."}

STRONG BAD: And, {typing} Who knows? Maybe tomorrow you'll be really big in Pakistan. Or at least, with some guy named Stan. {Stops typing}Anyways, I gotta go work on my webpage.

{Strong Bad leaves. The Paper comes down}

Easter Eggs

• Click on "strong bad's web page" to go to the Flash intro. Then click on "get on in!" to go to Strong Bad's Website.
• Click on the F10 button at the bottom of the Strong Bad's website to read Strong Sad's Lament, Strong Sad's LiveJournal-esque weblog.
• At the bottom of Strong Bad's website, click on the envelope in the mouse GIF. You get to the room where the emails are received.

Fun Facts

Explanations

• The reason Strong Bad says, "Oh-you-thought-there-was-no-more-emails-but-guess-what-there's-an-EMAIL!" might be because fans thought the emails would stop because the previous email ended with the Compy 386 in a "flagrant system error."

Trivia

• The cat featured in the email is Mabel, owned by Matt Chapman and his wife Jackie.

Remarks

• The "get on in" Flash link during the email itself is clickable, but doesn't do anything.
• At the end of the e-mail Strong Bad says he has to go work on his web site, but then he leaves his computer.

Fast Forward

• According to "flashback," this is where Strong Bad lost count of the emails.

DVD Version

• Strong Bad's website isn't browsable on the DVD. However, the intro to his website is still accessible (via a hidden Strong Bad icon in the lower right corner of the Compy 386 screen).
  • Note that the DVD version of the intro is out of sync—Strong Bad begins talking long before the animation ends.

External Links

• watch "website"
• view the Flash file for "website"
• watch the long Flash intro
• Strong Bad's website, skipping the intro