theme song
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Strong Bad sings a completely redundant theme song.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Strong Mad, Strong Sad, The Cheat, Homestar Runner, Trogdor, Senor Cardgage, Strong Mad
Places: Computer Room...
Computer: Lappy 486
Date: August 7, 2006
Running Time: 3:57
Page Title: Lappy 486
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Transcript
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STRONG BAD: {singing} When email comes to town, you know, you know it's like a rainstorm ... in your browser. {brings up the email}
subject: theme songDear Super Bad, It bugs me how your email show doesn't have a theme song.
If it did have a theme song, your show would be a whole
lot cooler.
Jonathan Shaheen
Ontario, Canada
{He pronouces "Shaheen" as "Shaheeeeen", and lens flares and a sound effect appear over the name.}
STRONG BAD: Oooh, a little south of the border flavor.
STRONG BAD: {typing} Dear Supper Bag, It bugs <it>me</> how your face doesn't have a not tons of acne. If it did have a not tons of acne, you would be a whole lot cooler.
{Strong Bad clears the screen.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Look, you don't what you're talking about, Shaheen {Strong Bad pronounces "Shaheen" as "Shaheeeen", and the Shaheen special effect appears over the word} Theme songs are just an excuse for showmakers to make less show. I'm sure viewership would triple if I had one of those crappy cartoon theme songs that bludgeons you over the head with the blunt end of the show's premise.
{Theme song music fades in over his last words. Cut to a smiling Strong Bad walking in front of the basement wall. The stripe on the wall turns into waves, and the tile "STRONG BAD" appears on the top of the screen.}
Crappy Cartoon Theme Song: {singing}
Strong Bad is a wrestle man,
He's-a email-checkin' the sky and the land.
He checks real emails from the net,
He's got two brothers and The Cheat, his pet. The Cheat, his Pet!
{"pet" is pronounced as "peeeeet" each time}
There's nobody dumber than Homestar Runner,
On the Strong Bad Email Show!
{The music ends. Cut back to Strong Bad sitting in front of the lappy}
STRONG BAD: {typing} And the ratings have gone through the roof. And let's not forget the life-affirming pop-ballad type theme song. Probably sung by some variety of Neville.
{Fade to a scene with an empty computer desk. The title "the Strong Bad Email Show" flies into the screen. There are flowers on the desk and pictures of The Cheat, Strong Mad and Strong Bad on the wall.}
Pop-Ballad Type Theme Song {singing}
You and me babe, live for dreams.
Life is for love, dreaming for free.
This is no time for the long road but sharing and caring it all.
Memory struggling and... {fade out}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} And of course the best clips they show are from the un-aired pilot that you'll never see.
Pop-Ballad Type Theme Song {singing}
Livery shurming you down... {fade out}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} And just when you think you finally get to start watching some of the actual show, now you get to watch a commercial!
Commercial Guy 1: {voiceover} Do you make butt at your current job? Do you want to make twice butt? A shady online degree is just four clicks away at CGNU online e-niversity. Most colleges take four years to complete. At CGNU, one year equals one click.
Senor Cardgage: I got fourteen degress while on my lunch break. Now I can legally prescribe marriages in the state of Kansattica.
Commercial Guy 1: {voiceover} Enrol now, and join the e-niversity e-volution e-day. Uh, well, today. That last one didn't quite work out.
Anouncer 1: {voiceover} We'll be right back with more Strong Bad emails.
Commercial Guy 2: {voiceover} Do you wanna cut your own arm off?
Balding Man: Huuuuaaaahuuuh...
{Cut back to String Bad typing on his computer.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Now, don't worry. Just in case you were hoping to get gipped out of another minute of actual show, you get to hear the jazzy instrumental version over the end credits!
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} And on the off-chance that you actually wanted to hear the theme song ... we've taken care of that, too.
Anouncer 2: {voiceover} Coming up later on "Three is 4 Tonite": join Mandy, Brandy, Andy, and Scurge, as they learn how to give a care. But first: they're tiny, they're cutey, they're all a little looney. It's the Cheat Commandos.
STRONG BAD: {typing} You see, Shaheen {The Shaheen special effect appears}? You're basically asking me to dedicate 2 minutes of my 3 to 5 minute email show, to what is essentially a commercial for something you're already watching! And besides, I give you people a new sbemail song every freakin' week.
Easter Eggs
- Click on the talk show guest's gold tooth at the end of the email to see the Shaheen special effect.
Fun Facts
Inside Refrences
- Once again, Strong Bad is called a Wrestleman.
- In the theme song we see a close-up on how Strong Bad types with boxing gloves.
- The email shown in the first theme song asks Strong Bad to draw Tragdor again – one of the commonly sent emails that will not be answered.
- Homestar Runner was first obssesed with light bulbs in long pants.
- The flowers in the pot in the second theme song are from Summer Short Shorts.
- Strong Bad is drinking Coldson Lite from his hat.
- The email show is produced by Levert Burtmore.
- The tank have the Strong Badia emblam on it.
- The second theme song says the show is created by Lem Sportsinterviews.
- "BUTT X 2" is shown on a Cakkalate-brand calculator.
- Crazy Go Nuts University is offering online degrees.
- "Homestar's Knees Tech" is mentioned in mascot.
- One of the courses Senor Cardgage took was "e-Cutting Ones" – "Cutting Ones" was offered in CGNU.
- "Escrow" is one of the services offered by Senor Cardgage Mort-gage.
- The Balding Man is in the same scene as he was in Senor Mortgage.
- According to the end credits, the email show is co-created by Cherry Greg.
- It is also based on the comedy stylings of Little Strong Bad, a reference to stand-up.
- The teleplay was written by Sir Dolph Hauldhagen, from other days.
- The email show is a Cheap As Free production.
- According to the final end credits, the show was written by Geoff Rondleman, previously mentioned in Biz Cas Fri 1.
- It was directed by "Hot Tub T", a character in Dangeresque 1: Dangeresque, Too?.
- It was produced by A. Chimendez.
- The script supervisor was "Sid Hoffrenchman", a reference to Homestar's "Sid" Game in date.
- Strong Mad's having his own show was previously suggested in the facts.
- The "Number Five Action Cool" logo, in the lower right hand coner at the end of the email, and the "Incredibly Local News", are refrences to local news.
Real-World References
- The Strong Bad Email logo with the various differently-coloured hearts in the background is a reference to The Powerpuff Girls.
- "They're tiny, they're toony, they're all a little loony" is a paraphrase of the first line of the theme tune to Tiny Toon Adventures.
External Links
- watch "theme song"
- watch "theme song" on the old Flash site
- view the Flash file for "theme song"
- forum thread re: "theme song"
