geddup noise
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Strong Bad Email #136
We learn of the latest sensation that's sweeping the nation: the Geddup Noise.
Cast (in order of appearance): Gavin, Strong Bad, Coach Z, Bubs, Strong Sad, Homestar Runner, The Cheat, Pom Pom, The King of Town, Strong Mad
Places: Computer Room, Bubs' Concession Stand, Strong Sad's Room, The Show, Club Technochocolate, King of Town's Castle, Strong Bad's Basement
Computer: Lappy 486, Compy 386
Date: September 26, 2005
Running Time: 3:38
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Transcript
{Cut to the Lappy, Gavin is crawling on the screen, the lights are out, Strong Bad is not present, the lights suddenly turn on}
STRONG BAD: {Walks in} A little bit of email. Some you-and-me mail. {begins reading}
subject: questionWhat ever happened to the get up noise? I think it
Sincerely yours marc baroni AZ
was cool.
{Reads "marc baroni AZ" as "macaroni from A to Z"}
STRONG BAD: Oh! Alphabet macaroni! {typing} The get up noise? Oh wait, you mean the Geddup Noise. This guy!
{Strong Bad gets up and sits down three time, making the noise each time}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Ahhh, what fun! But that's not even the real Geddup Noise. That's just his cousin, Chairscoot. {clears screen} No, the real Geddup noise split quite some time ago. Somewheres around email 84, Ol' Geddy got all big overseas. And then then the phone calls started coming in.
{Cut to a close-up shot of Strong Bad. He is holding a phone.}
STRONG BAD: {into phone} Hello? What? Yes, no, yes.
{Zoom out to show that he's in his computer room. The email from kids' book is displayed on the screen of the Compy.}
STRONG BAD: It's for you. {tosses phone at stool}
{The Geddup Noice is heard. Cut back to the Lappy.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} And before I know it, every-freakin-body’s talkin about the Geddup Noice.
{Cut to Coach Z and Bubs at the concession stand.}
COACH Z: Okay, now I got one Bubs-O. Who am I supposed to be? {imitates geddup noise}
BUBS: Is that supposed to be the geddup noise?
COACH Z: Hang on! Hang on! Let me switch my pitch up! Waaay-oh! Waaaay-oh!
BUBS: Way-oh way-oh? I’ll be in the basement!
{The concession stand turns dark with only a yellow light shining from the top. Bubs slowly sinks into the basement.}
COACH Z: Way-oh! Waaaay-oh!
{Cut to the booOOM box, which holds a cassette tape labeled "Normal Bias"}
BOOOOM BOX (STRONG BAD'S RADIO ANNOUNCER VOICE): Hang on to your panties, people. {fart noise} Uh oh, what’s up? ‘Cause we got the Geddup Noise all up in this piece! {geddup noise, followed by laughter} Oh, man, we got a live one here!
{Cut to Strong Sad listening to the radio. He is wearing a black T-shirt that reads "This Is Not A The Geddup Noise T-Shirt".}
STRONG SAD: Oh, man. The Geddup Noise used to be cool.
{Cut to the set of The Show with Homestar}
HOMESTAR: As always, at center square, The Geddup Noise. {Pan to a wider shot. The Geddup Noise is not visible.} What do you say, Geddy?
GEDDUP NOISE: {makes the geddup noise, followed by applause}
HOMESTAR: Now that is just special. But I’m afraid the correct answer was way-oh, way-oh {"WAY-O WAY-O" appears on screen as Homestar says it}. But you will receive some fine parting gifts.
{Cut to a copy of The Show's Stupid Homegame}
FEW PRIZES!
THE SHOW! STUPID HOME EDITION
- choose to recite a list!
- ask questions, demand answers
- mostly play by oneself
boardelectrix
ANNOUNCER: That’s right, Kevin. The Geddup Noise will receive a year’s supply of our home game!
{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Lappy}
STRONG BAD: Even The Cheat was able to snag a piece of the Geddup Pie with his indie-tronic remix.
{CD of "DJ Teh Cheat - The Geddup Noise" appears; scene switches to Club Technochocolate, where The Cheat is spinning his own record. Bubs and Pom Pom put their weight on it.}
STRONG BAD: And before long, a bunch of cheap knock-offs started popping up.
{Cut to the King of Town, seated at a table in his castle}
KING OF TOWN: Hello America! It’s the Standing Up Noise! {stands up and makes an imitation geddup noise} Dooooo-oooo! {The King looks over to his right.}
{Cut to the Brothers Strongs' living room. Strong Bad is seated in a yellow chair}
STRONG BAD: {to screen} And now, everybody's favourite style, the Git Outcha Seat Sound! {Strong Bad gets up from a yellow seat and makes a low-pitched imitation geddup noise.} Isn’t that right, the Teach?
{Strong Mad's left hand appears from behind the sofa. He has a blue sock on his hand with The Cheat-like features drawn on it.}
THE TEACH (STRONG MAD): Blue sock! Blue sock!
{Return to the Lappy}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Heh heh. That was just not, nu-, anything. So after that, Geddy bought a house in the Coches and now he just snowboards all day. He still pops up here and there in the odd, or sometimes very odd celebrity endorsement.
{Cut to a shot of Hamburger Shampoo. The Geddup Noise plays in the background.}
ANNOUNCER: Geddup Noise Approved!
{Cut to Strong Sad watching television. He is wearing a white T-shirt that reads "Corporate The Geddup Noise Still Sucks".}
STRONG SAD: Frickin’ sell-out!
{Cut back to the Lappy again}
STRONG BAD: {typing} So I suppose that more than adequately answers your question, Shoshoni Macaroni.
{Pan out to a medium shot. Homestar is kneeling to Strong Bad's right, holding a notepad.}
HOMESTAR: {to stool} Excuse me sir, could I trouble you for an autograph?
STRONG BAD: Homestar, you know that’s not even the original Geddup Noise. It’s his cousin...
HOMESTAR: I know, Chairstool. It’s my generation’s Geddup Noise! Uh, could you make it out to Lou Dobbs?
STRONG BAD: That’s it, I’m outta here. {Makes the geddup noise}
HOMESTAR: Ah! There it is! It’s positively dreamy! {little hearts float up out of Homestar's head and pop like bubbles} Ohhhh! {Homestar faints. He knocks the stool which makes the geddup noise one more time.}
{The Paper comes down.}
Easter Eggs
- Click "Coches" before we cut to Strong Sad to see a postcard from Coches Mountains with Monkey D.
- Click on the stool to see additional footage of The Cheat's trance mix in Club Technochocolate.
- {Cut back to The Cheat, Pom Pom and Bubs dancing at Club Tecnhochocolate. Coach Z enters and dances across the room. Then Strong Mad's sock puppet appears up front for a bit, then disappears and reappears to the left, and then goes back up front, where it "dances" to the music. Then it fades to black and the Geddup Noise is heard.}
- Click on the notepad and it'll bring up autograph #1:
My Pal Lou Dobbs, Stay real! Chairscoot
Click on it again and it'll bring up autograph #2:
Lou Dobbs, you've been working out? - Brent Musburger
- The notepad egg can be opened just before The Paper comes down.
Fun Facts
Trivia
- Not counting anything, where Strong Bad didn't appear, this is the first SBEmail to have a character other than Strong Bad appearing first.
Remarks
- The lights are off and Gavin is shown on the Lappy because it had been 7 weeks since the previous Strong Bad Email.
- Clicking on Gavin at the beginning of the email still makes the Lappy 486 respond with the white circle wave, as if you were clicking directly on the screen.
- A get up noise like that is not even possible on carpet. Strong Bad's stool makes a noise as if it were scraping against tile or hardwood floor.
- The sign on Bubs' Concession Stand reads "Bubso's Concession Stand", since Coach Z called him Bubso.
- The email kids' book is on the Compy 386 when the Geddup Noise gets his phone call. Kids' book is the 84th email Strong Bad mentioned.
- Strong Bad says the "get up noise" is correctly the "geddup noise", even though at the end of the bet he calls it the "get up noise".
- The shirt that Strong Sad was wearing "Corporate Geddup Noise still sucks" is a reference to Kurt Cobain from the band Nirvana wearing a shirt that said "Corporate Magazines still suck"
Goofs
- When the close-up of the Disconnected Phone is shown, there are no cords extruding from it. The cords are only visible when Strong Bad throws the phone on the floor.
Inside References
- Coach Z's dance in the easter egg is from A Folky Tale.
- The wacky DJ was first heard in radio.
- Strong Bad uses a Disconnected Telephone.
- boardelextrtx was mentioned. They make Jurvy-Skat in Family Resemblence
Real-World References
- Strong Sad's "Corporate The Geddup Noise Still Sucks" shirt is akin to the shirt worn by the late Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain on the cover of Rolling Stone, which read "Corporate Magazines Still Suck".
- Lou Dobbs is the anchor and managing editor of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight.
- Brent Musburger is a sports announcer for ABC.
- Homestar referring to the center square is a reference to the game show Wikipedia:Hollywood Squares.
