Sick Day

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The citizens of Free Country, USA are very unwell.

Taking one for the team

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, Strong Mad, The Cheat, Strong Sad (Easter egg)

Places: Computer Room, Strong Sad's Room (Easter egg)

Date: October 3, 2005

Computer: Lappy 486

Running Time: 1:43

Page Title: Here Comes Sickness!

Transcript

{We are presented with a silent view of the Lappy, Strong Bad apparently absent, and the following email is on the screen.}

subject: sick

Dear Strong Bad,

I've noticed you never seem to get sick. How do you
stay so dang healthy all the time?

Sincerely Crap,

Grant, BC

{Cut to a view of Strong Bad's desk. Strong Bad is severely ill and curled up into a ball under the table, coughing and shivering. A box of tissues that reads "Tish You!", lies next to him along with a mess of used up tissues. }

STRONG BAD: {coughing} The Cheat! Get in here with my puke pail. {coughing} And bring me some tissues. Lots more tissues!

{Homestar walks in from the right of the screen with a thermometer in his mouth and an obvious look of sickness}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Strong Bad, my burps smell really bad. Check this out. {making breathing noises} Hang on.

STRONG BAD: Ugh. Go away. I can't smell anything anyways.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, I'm betting you can smell these!

STRONG BAD: Yeah, well you're lucky it's your burps that smell. DO NOT go into Strong Mad's room. Or, as I've taken to calling it, Rotten Egglünd.

{Cut to outside Strong Mad's room. The door is covered with police tape that reads "Quarantine!". There is a green haze coming out from the bottom of the door.}

STRONG MAD: SOMEBODY HEEEEELP!

{Cut back to Strong Bad and Homestar in the Computer Room.}

STRONG BAD: Ugh. The Cheat! What's taking so long with my tissues?

THE CHEAT: {in a green bucket that reads "Puke Pail for Him!"} (crying noises)

STRONG BAD: {coughing} Oh well. I guess I'll just re-use some of these already re-reused ones. {grabs a tissue} Ow! They're pointy now!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Strong Bad, I don't think you're going to be able to answer your word problem this week. So I'll take one for the team. Two trains enter a tunnel going four miles per hour. {As he talks, pictures of two trains, a tunnel, and the number 4 appear to his left.} At what time do they reach Poughkeepsie?

STRONG BAD: {groans and coughs while speaking} The Paapeeeer!

{The Paper comes down, with a distorted noise. It appears crinkled and says "Strong Bad, I can't come in today".}

STRONG BAD: Oh no, not you too! Can I blow my nose on you?

{The Paper goes back up.}

Rotten Egglünd

Easter Eggs

• Click on the word "healthy" at the end of the toon to see a short scene with Strong Sad.

{Strong Sad is laying in his bed. His face is green with spots and he has red around his eyes. The rest of his body is normal.}

STRONG SAD: {groans} This is the greatest day of my life! I feel like a few dollars!

• Click on the word "Crap" at the end to see a map of "Rotten Egglünd".

Fun Facts

Remarks

• Homestar has the wrong end of the thermometer in his mouth. The side with the bulb measures temperature.

Goofs

Armless Strong Bad

• Clicking the Lappy does not cause the screen to ripple like it normally does.
• The bags under Strong Bad's eyes disappear shortly after his remark about Strong Mad's room, although they reappear later.
• When Strong Bad's eye bags disappear, the tint of his face changes.
• When Strong Bad reaches out for a tissue, he has no arm connecting to his glove.
  • This happens again when he hurts himself on the pointy tissue.
  • His arm usually wouldn't be able to stretch far enough to reach the tissue.
• When we zoom in to Homestar answering the "word problem," the desk behind him disappears and the shading changes. When we zoom out, the designs on the wall move.

Real-World References

• "Here Comes Sickness" is a song by Mudhoney.
• Poughkeepsie is a city in New York located in the Hudson River Valley between New York City and Albany.

External Links

• Watch "Sick Day"
• View the Flash file for "Sick Day"
• Forum thread re: Sick Day