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Wagon Fulla Pancakes

Strong Bad Email #117

Strong Bad creats a few montages about a Wagon Fulla Pancakes.

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat, Homestar Runner, Coach Z

Transcript

STRONG BAD: {announcing} Tonight on Strong Bad Email: Comedian Coach Z, actress Marzipan, and some guy from a zoo.

{reading}

Dear Strong Bad,
Why don't you creat a montage?

Steve
Surf City, NJ

{Strong Bad pronounces "creat" as it is spelled and reads NJ as "No Job"}

STRONG BAD: {typing} {in a high-pitched, mocking voice} Oooohhh! Why don't you creat an alternate reality where you don't have to spell correctly and I talk like this. And your name is Watered Down. {clears screen, continues typing in normal voice} A montage, eh Watered Down? Like, about whatever? Okay. I'll make a montage about...

{cut to an empty field}

me {Strong Bad appears}

and a wagon. {a wagon appears}

Full of pancakes. {pancakes appear in the wagon}

{Diamond wipe to Strong Bad and the wagon walking past Bubs's Concession Stand.}

{Wipe to a field where Strong Bad kicks the wagon calmly.}

{Cut to Strong Bad pulling the wagon uphill.}

STRONG BAD: Oooh, or maybe a montage of me falling in love with the wagon full of pancakes.

{Heart wipe to Strong Bad in a boat with the wagon. They are both holding glasses of wine.}

{singing}

Let's make this moment be the symbol of our lives
{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon listening to a Taranchula LP on headphones.}
We'll pawn your dad's computer
{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon, under the stars. Strong Bad points to some shooting stars in the distance.}
and we'll sail to paradise
{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon spinning around, holding "hands".}
{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon at the movies. Strong Bad drops some popcorn.}
You're a girl... or maybe a wagon...
{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon at a fast food place. Strong Bad puts ketchup on some fries.}
filled up with pancakes
{Cut to Strong Bad frolicing across a field as the wagon follows.}

STRONG BAD: Or maybe a montage of the wagon full of pancakes {cut to a front door view of The Cheat and the wagon} and The Cheat being down on their luck door to door salesmen.

{Cut to The Cheat lying in the wagon as the wagon rolls past.}

{Several doors slam on The Cheat at different angles.}

{singing}

You can't do it so give up now
Whatcha gonna do when your dough runs out
Ain't that a drag?

{Cut to the wagon sitting in an arm chair while the Cheat lies on the floor in front, smoking.}

STRONG BAD: {stops singing} No, I got it. A montage of the wagon full of pancakes training {cut to Homestar in a shirt that says "The #1" looking at the wagon in a field} for the championship.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: A wagon full of pamcakes in the champeenship? I'd like to see you try.

{Zoom in on pancakes as training music starts to play.}

{Cut to the wagon climbing the stairs of a football bleachers.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} Guts, guts and might {The wagon's handle slowly collapses on top of a barbell.}
{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon on a track.}
Lifting weights and feeling alright {Strong Bad clicks a stop watch.}
{Cut to a silhoutte of Strong Bad and the wagon running past a sunset and an ocean.}
It's a showdown going down
Now you're starting to mess around showdown
{Cut to the wagon ascending the bleachers again.}
Put your nose down showdown

{Cut to Homestar Runner and the wagon in a gym as Coach Z looks on in a referee costume.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hiya! Hiya! {Homestar kicks.}

{The wagon's handle falls on Homestar and Homestar falls down, just like he did with the barbell in training.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oof!

COACH Z: The pamcakes wins!

{A buzzer sounds and the score changes from 6-6 to 6-7 on the scoreboard.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} Show down.

{Cut to Strong Bad at the Compy 386.}

STRONG BAD: {typing} Those were some good montages, eh Watered Down? That was like, a montage of montages. The only thing we left out is the end credits photo montage. Hit it!

{Cut to a glossy of Strong Bad and the wagon in the boat.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Partying party party party
{Cut to glossy of Strong Bad and the wagon on the beach.} It's the weekend party party party
{Cut to glossy of Strong Bad and the wagon in the movie theater.}
{Cut to a closeup of The Cheat lying on the floor.}
CAPTION: The Cheat never sold a single box of toner. He is currently unemployed. HOMESTAR RUNNER: {still singing} And a wagon party party party.
Full of pancakes
{Cut to Homestar kicking in the gym.}
CAPTION: Homestar sold his "The #1" shirt for $3(US). He got a good deal.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {still singing} party party party
{Cut to a glossy of Strong Bad frolicing across the field, the wagon not in the photo.}
CAPTION: Strong Bad went on to host some show on Animal Planet.
It was cancelled before the first commercial break.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {still singing} And we're partying party party party
{Cut to the wagon with a fedora.}
CAPTION: After winning the champeenship, the Wagon Fulla Pancakes did some local TV spots for a used car dealership.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} It's the weekend party party party
And we're partying party party party
Everybody does it tonight
CAPTION: It currently resides in Long Beach with its spouse and 2 children.

{Homestar quits singing.}

Easter Eggs

• Wait a bit at the end to see what becomes of The Paper.
• At the end, click on "4 Wheels" on the wagon to see Homestar, undefeated in spirit.
• At the end, click on "Strong Bad" to see a scene remniscient of an old Nintendo game, Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!!.

Fun Facts

• The song Homestar is singing in the Easter Egg ("You're the Best") comes from the fighting montage during the tournament in the 1984 masterpiece, "The Karate Kid."

• In the Homestar Easter Egg, at the end, you'll see that his score reverts to "-1 points" even though the machine is off.

• The scene with Strong Bad and the Wagon Fulla Pancakes sitting in the canoe is reminiscent of lures & jigs, where Strong Bad and Coach Z fish in the exact same spot.

• Much of the wagon's training sequence (especially the wagon "running" up the stairs) is a parody of the training sequence from the immortal boxing epic, Rocky.

• The Taranchula album cover is the same one from the liner notes of the Strong Bad Sings CD

• When Strong Bad is in the Marshmallow shop (The Interview) with the wagon, he's using the Bottle of Ketchup from funny.

• There actually is a system call in the Unix operating system called "creat." It creat(e)s a new file.

• The reference to Strong Bad going on to host a show on Animal Planet that got cancelled before the first commericial break is a reference to how the Cable network Animal Planet will sometimes hype a new show beyond a belief, making you think it will be a great new series.... then all they show is the pilot and nothing else.

• This is an email that was written by a HRWiki member. Congratulations!

• Besides the smoking game, this is the first actual cartoon in which you see The Cheat smoking.

• The "some guy from a zoo" line by Strong Bad during the "Late-Night Talk Show"-style intro is most likely a reference to how such shows often resort to the gimmick of having zoo workers appear on the show, accompanied by their animal partners, whose mischievous antics can often get a cheap laugh from the audience.

• When The Cheat tries to sell to houses, you can see that he visits the house from The House That Gave Sucky Treats. Twice, to be exact.

• The Strong Bad easter egg is a take on the popular NES game "Punchout", in which halfway through the game you saw a similar sequence.

• When Strong Bad is swinging the wagon around the stick shows up in the background but it disapears in between each head

External Links

• watch "montage"
• view the flash file for "montage"