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[[Image:111snailmail.png|thumb|"Um... Where's my house?"]]

Brian asks what Strong Bad does on all the other days of the week.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]], [[The Classroom]], [[Strong Badia]], [[The Office]], [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]] (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Compy 386}}, [[Block]]

'''Date:''' Monday, August 16, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 3:12

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}

==Transcript==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' I got an email in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt. ''{stops singing}'' Again with the—

''{reading email}''

<blockquote class="email">dear strong bad, 
what do you do on all the other days 
of the week? 
sincerely, 
brian holmes CA</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads the name as "B. Ryan Holmes, certified... arborist..."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing and speaking like a robot while bobbing his head sporadically}'' Good question, Brian. I am going to answer this email like a robot. Don't you think this is a great idea? ''{normal voice}'' Yeah, sorry, me neither. OK, other days o' the week. Let's see ''{spells "lessee"}''...

''{A calendar appears with a heading "A Month" and weeks starting on Monday. On Monday is written "checka my email".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' On Tuesdays, I check my snail mail.

''{"checka my snail mail" appears in handwriting on Tuesday. Cut to Strong Bad at a mailbox that reads "sb_snailmail.exe"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' I got a snail mail in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt...

''{He opens his letter, clears his throat and reads it.}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000">Dear Mr. Bad, 
This constitutes your final warning. 
Please remit payment of three(3) 
dollars and sixty-two(62) cents or 
you will be turned over to a "cut off 
your toes" -style collections agency. 

Swarthily, 
Bubs' Concession Stand</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{speaking sarcastically}'' Oh no, final warning. Is there nothing I can do to dissuade you? Like maybe give you a ride in my... ''{normally}'' BMW?!?

''{Strong Bad pulls out the [[BMW lighter]] and incinerates the paper, laughing. He then looks around.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' BWA HA HA HA HA HA! Haa ha haw... Hoh... Oh... Um... Where's my house?

''{Cut back to the calendar.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Then to better help folks over the hump, on Wednesdays I give free motivational lectures.

''{"give lecture" appears on Wednesday. Cut to the chalkboard with Coach Z and Strong Mad listening to Strong Bad. The chalkboard reads "this week: a pie in the face?"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You gots to look insiiide yourself! Positate the negative! When life throws pies atcha, you make yourself a tall, cool glass of piemonade.

'''COACH Z:''' I'm a new man!

'''STRONG MAD:''' I'M THE HUMP!!

''{Cut back to the calendar.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Due to a prior arrest, Thursdays are community service days, so me and the old Cheatasaurus head down to Strong Badia and give the place a firm scrubbin'.

''{"community service" appears for Thursday. Cut to Strong Badia, where Strong Bad is vacuuming the dirt and The Cheat is washing the Tire.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You know what I always say, The Cheat. Stay smart, vacuum... dirt.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Don't forget to wash where the sun don't shine.

''{Cut back to the calendar.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Then there's Business Casual Fridays, or as we say around the office, Biz Cas Fri.

''{"biz cas fri" appears on the Friday box}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' You know... because we have to abbreve everything.

''{Cut to the office.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' That's the day we all wear the free polo shirts we got from various software companies.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, man. Did you play Online Gaming last night? No, yeah, no? I did. I got ''so'' many frags.

''{Cut back to the calendar.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' On Saturday I certainly don't wake up at 6 A.M., put on a Speedo, and go to swim practice.

''{"NOT swim practice" appears in the Saturday box}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' No, no, definitely not Speedo. ''{Short pause}'' But I do attend:

{''A flyer for Battle Axe Lessons appears onscreen; "NOT swim practice" is replaced by "BATTLE AXE LESSONS!" in the Saturday box.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...BATTLE AXE LESSONS AT THE REC CENTER, with my teacher Dolph Hauldhagen, The Instruc-TOR! And of course, Sunday is the ''other'' day I check my email, for our Eastern European viewers across the pond.

''{"checka my eastern european emails" appears for Sunday. Cut to Strong Bad sitting at a gray computer with the word "BLOCK" in the bottom-left corner.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing, types 'polish_email.exe'}'' I got a Polish email in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt.

''{reading, translator speaks over Strong Bad in Polish: Silne Złe: Proszę rozwiązywać sznurowadło z tyłu głowy. Janusz, Polska}''

<blockquote class="email" style="border: 4px solid #999">Dear Strong Bad: 
Please to be untieing that shoelace on 
the back of your head? 
 
Janus 
Poland</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Untie my shoelace, eh Janus? Your 
mother is the speed limit. 
Your aspirin, 
Strong Bad

''{Translator continues: Rozwiązywać sznurowadło, eh Janek? Twoja matka jest ograniczenie prędkości. Z aspiryną, Silne Złe}''

''{Cut back to Compy 386.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' That's pretty much my week. Now time for a refreshing glass of piemonade, or as we say around the office, p-nade.

''{Strong Bad gets up and leaves. [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:Arborist.png|thumb|"B. Ryan Holmes, certified... arborist..."]]
*Click on "brian holmes CA" after Strong Bad says "Certified Arborist" to see B. Ryan Holmes's business card. The card reads:
<blockquote>B. Ryan Holmes 
Certified Arborist 
 
PHONE: 555-XYLM 
MOBILE: COMING SOON 
 
"I think it has to do with trees!" </blockquote>

*At the end, click on "my week" to see Strong Sad waking Strong Bad up for swim practice.

:''{cut to the couch. Strong Bad is sleeping on it, as usual. Strong Sad walks in wearing a pair of swimming goggles and a swimming cap}''
:'''STRONG SAD:''' Strong Bad...
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{mumbling}'' Dangit... chrona trigga!
:'''STRONG SAD:''' Strong Bad, wake up!
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{mumbling}'' Chrona trigga!
:'''STRONG SAD:''' We're going to be late for swim practice!
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{mumbling}'' Chrhn - Chrono Trigger!
:''{Strong Sad produces a stick with a pair of Speedo-style swimming trunks at the end of it, face turns away in disgust}''
:'''STRONG SAD:''' I've got your swim trunks.
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{mumbling}'' Magus, I'm gonn... I'll kill ya.

*At the end, click on "piemonade" to see an advertisement for real life [[Piemonade]].

==Fun Facts==
=== Explanations ===
*"Snail mail" is a term that refers to the postal service, in comparison to the significantly faster email service.

===Trivia===

*In Biz Cas Fri, Homestar wears a shirt labeled 'Diskettes Etc.', while Strong Bad's has 'Micro Palace'.
*The Battle Axe flyer reads:
<blockquote>BAD AT 
BATTLE AXEING??? 
 
Come join 
Dolph Hauldhagen 
and learn professional 
techniques that will 
boost your confidence 
and deadliness. 
 
Community Rec Center     "The Instruc-TOR" 
Sat. 6am-9am                 Dolph Hauldhagen 
 
PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN BATTLE 
AXE AND AN EXERCISE MAT. 
 
555-4AXE{x9}</blockquote>
*Brian Holmes and 'Holmes' (from [[huttah!]]) are both from California.
*[[Dolph Hauldhagen]] is just [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] with a [[horned helmet]]. The battle axe is actually [[Puppet Stuff|Puppet Homestar]]'s stand, after being edited in Photoshop.
*The translator for Strong Bad's Polish email is the voice of [[Dan Kubis]], a friend of [[The Brothers Chaps]].
*The email was originally released without the translations.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Since Mondays are traditionally for email checking, Strong Bad explains what he does the rest of the week."

===Remarks===
*In the calendar, Monday is the first day of the week, which is the convention in some European countries. North American calendars usually begin weeks on Sunday.
*Strong Bad's advice to "make Piemonade" is a reference to the saying "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade."
*While talking about online gaming, Homestar Runner says, "I got so many frags". This suggests that he has been playing numerous [[Wikipedia:First-person shooter|first-person shooters]], in which a "[[Wikipedia:Frag|frag]]" is a kill.
*Strong Bad helps people "over the hump" on Wednesdays. Some people refer to Wednesday as "[[Wikipedia:Hump day|Hump Day]]" since it is in the middle of the week.
*The Cheat is seen cleaning the [[Tire]], suggesting that Strong Bad has temporarily disabled the [[Bear Holding a Shark]].
*At the end, The Paper comes down, but does not cover the first line of the email, as it does in other emails. (This is probably because the Strong Sad Easter egg on "my week" is on this line, and could not be covered up.)
*In the "my week" Easter egg, Strong Sad enters the basement empty-handed, yet he [[Hammerspace|somehow produces Strong Bad's swimming trunks]] from behind the couch.
*Strong Bad's mailbox says "sb_snailmail.exe".
*In the scene for biz caz fri at the office, Strong Bad appears to be typing with his hands sideways. In most emails that show his typing, he would be typing like a normal person.
*Strong Bad's polo has no buttons on it.
*In the voiceover accompanying Janus's email, Strong Bad's name is translated into Polish literally as "Silne Złe", which is rather incorrect (it is in the wrong [[Wikipedia:Polish grammar#gender|grammatical gender]]). A more proper translation would be "Silny Zły", which is in the masculine gender.

===Goofs===
[[Image:setteksiD .ctE.PNG|thumb|Homestar got his polo shirt from setteksiD .ctE!]]
*When Homestar says "so many frags" and is looking to the left, his torso is [[Flipped Images|flipped]], and consequently the buttons on his collar appear on the wrong side and "Diskettes Etc." appears backwards for a split second. However, this does not happen when he says "No, yeah, no?"
*When Strong Bad turns off the vacuum in Strong Badia, a patch is still visible behind the vacuum of the dirt cloud.
*When Strong Bad is vacuuming, his right eye is a lighter shade of green.

===Inside References===
*This is another instance of Strong Bad's [[couch mumbling]].
*The Office where "biz cas fri" takes place is the same as in [[dullard]] and the [[Senor Mortgage]] short, and the conversation is very reminiscent of that from "dullard".
*When Strong Bad mentions having to do community service for a prior arrest, it is likely a reference to the [[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]].
*The way that Strong Bad answers the Polish email is a likely reference to the email [[little questions]], in which he answers another foreign email.
*InstrucTOR is an instance of [[-or pronounced with a long O]].
*The glass of Piemonade is a [[Real-Live Foods|live-action drink]].
*The Polish email includes a reference of [[Please to be]].

===Real-World References===
*Strong Bad's intro song for this email (as well as for the snail-mail and the Eastern European email) is sung to the tune of ''[[Wikipedia:Oh! Susanna|Oh! Susanna]]''.
*When Strong Sad is waking up Strong Bad for swim practice, he mumbles various things, ranging from "I'll kill you" to the name of the classic [[Nintendo#Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)|SNES]] [[Wikipedia:Role-playing video game|RPG]], ''[[Wikipedia:Chrono Trigger|Chrono Trigger]]''. The "I'll kill you" in the swim practice Easter egg is directed at [[Wikipedia:Magus (Chrono Trigger)|Magus]], a villain/party member in the game. ''(Also see Inside References.)''
**Janus, the name of the Polish email sender, is also a significant name in Chrono Trigger.
*The name of Strong Bad's other computer, "[[Block]]", is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Eastern Bloc|Soviet Bloc]]—the group of Eastern European nations which were under communist government.
*The style of voice-over during the Polish email is reminiscent of that used on Polish television, where foreign language programs are not dubbed with different actors, but instead [[Wikipedia:Voice-over translation|narrated entirely by a single actor]], usually male. Also, unlike American dubbing, in which the re-dubbed track replaces the original, Polish dubbing is laid on top of the original audio track, as the narrator's voice is here.
*The text on the battle axe lesson flyer which instructs you to bring your own axe and exercise mat is in the same [[font]] as [[Wikipedia:Iron Maiden (band)|Iron Maiden]]'s name almost always appears ([http://www.abstractfonts.com/search/Metal%20Lord Metal Lord]). One of their first songs ever, "Invasion", released only on a four-track album of which 5000 copies were made, was about Viking invaders.
*Strong Bad's imitation of a robot seems to be a reference to Harry in the documentary "[[IMDB:tt0334405|Spellbound]]", a spelling bee contestant who spontaneously replies to a question from the interviewer in a robotic voice, and finishes off by saying "I-am-a-musical-robot. Do-I-sound-like-a-musical-robot?"
*"Stay smart, vacuum...dirt" may be based on "Be Smart! Don't Start!", a motto used in a series of '80s PSAs trying to discourage minors from drinking alcohol.
*The phone number for Brian Holmes, Certified Arborist (555-XYLM), is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Xylem|xylem]], the major water transporting tissue of vascular plants.
*Strong Bad's line "Again with the Dear Strong Bad..." is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Jerry Lewis|Jerry Lewis]]'s unique style of speaking.

===Fast Forward===

*"Biz Cas Fri" would be the subject of three Puppet Stuff features: [[Biz Cas Fri 1]], [[Biz Cas Fri 2]], and [[Biz Cas Fri 3]].
*Strong Bad's final payment notice is signed with Bubs's full name, which was revealed to be Bubs Concession Stand in [[Senorial Day]]. Here, "Bubs'" has an apostrophe, though as a possessive, which isn't seen in [[Senorial Day]].
*In [[Summer Short Shorts]], The Cheat is called "The Cheatasaurus" in the [[Powered By The Cheat]] clip.
*The Battle Axe Lessons flyer reappears in [[Lappynapped!]].
*In [[pizza joint]], Homestar shortens pepperoni to "p-roni", etc., similar to piemonade being shortened to "p-nade".
*According to ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]]'', Strong Bad's house is actually [http://files.telltalegames.com/strongbad/screenshots/strongbad-3.jpg just off the screen to the left] when he's checking his snail mail.

==DVD Version==

*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]]

'''MIKE:''' Hi, Matt!

'''MATT:''' Hi, Mike!

'''MIKE:''' Welcome to the email commentary for this email.

'''MATT:''' Thanks! I feel really good about this one, and I am ready to go.

'''MIKE:''' All right, let's get started. All right. We started here, well Strong Bad has started,

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad needs to learn the abbreviations for states.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, that's true. He has a problem with them.

'''MATT:''' This part reminds me about that kid from that movie "Spell Bound". About...

'''MIKE:''' When he's a musical robot?

'''MATT:''' When he's being a musical robot, yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, it's true.

'''MATT:''' All right, here's Strong Bad's...

'''MIKE:''' Mailbox. Which has appeared one more time, one other time?

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Still no sign of his house, though.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. No house. Just a mailbox. Not on the road.

'''MATT:''' No.

'''MIKE:''' Just in the grass.

'''MATT:''' In the greens. I don't think Strong Bad's being very sincere right now, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' This is a good example of sarcasm.

'''MATT:''' We've had lots of requests for the BMW lighter. Did you mention that on the last DVD?

'''MIKE:''' I dunno. I don't think it exists.

'''MATT:''' No, it doesn't.

'''MIKE:''' I've tried to find them at BMW dealers.

'''MATT:''' That's right.

'''MIKE:''' I actually got to make a glass of piemonade when I was making the uh, Easter Egg at the end, there.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it was early in the morning, wasn't it?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, it was, like, 2 in the morning, and I went to Kroger and got some pie and some lemonade,

'''MATT:''' Nice work!

'''MIKE:''' I think I got an extra piece of pie and ate it and I drank some lemonade.

'''MATT:''' I think that vacuum has never made an appearance again.

'''MIKE:''' No. Although I think the flowers on it are from...

'''MATT:''' Homsar?

'''MIKE:''' For kids email.

'''MATT:''' Kids show?

'''MIKE:''' Kids show. Yeah, what'd I say?

'''MATT:''' ''{simultaneously}'' For kids. Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' I think it's called for kids.

'''MATT:''' You're probably right. I used to shop at Diskettes Et Cetera.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' One time. What's Strong Bad's say?

'''MIKE:''' Uhhhhh, can't read it. Micro...

'''MATT:''' Something?

'''MIKE:''' Micro something.

''{Pause until Battle Axeing advertisement appears}''

'''MIKE:''' That's me!

'''MATT:''' That's Mike!

'''MIKE:''' Holding a stand, Homestar's puppet stand. That's what that stick is, and I just Photoshopped out the bottom and put in that axe.

'''MATT:''' I like that.

'''MIKE:''' Thanks!

'''MATT:''' This is our friend, Dan Kubis.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''MATT:''' Speaking this.

'''MIKE:''' He lived in Poland for two years.

'''MATT:''' Shoslav!

'''MIKE:''' Good job, Dan! We went to the Braves game, uh, the night of this.

'''MATT:''' Did you?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Got a ghetto burger at the uh, what is that place called?

'''MIKE:''' We got a ghetto burger at Miss Ann's Snack Stand. Good times.

'''MATT:''' Z aspiryną!

'''MIKE:''' Uhhh!

==External Links==
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other days

2021-12-09T00:10:39Z

24.253.236.202: /* Transcript */

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[[Image:111snailmail.png|thumb|"Um... Where's my house?"]]

Brian asks what Strong Bad does on all the other days of the week.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]], [[The Classroom]], [[Strong Badia]], [[The Office]], [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]] (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Compy 386}}, [[Block]]

'''Date:''' Monday, August 16, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 3:12

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}

==Transcript==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' I got an email in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt. ''{stops singing}'' Again with the—

''{reading email}''

<blockquote class="email">dear strong bad, 
what do you do on all the other days 
of the week? 
sincerely, 
brian holmes CA</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads the name as "B. Ryan Holmes, certified... arborist..."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing and speaking like a robot while bobbing his head sporadically}'' Good question, Brian. I am going to answer this email like a robot. Don't you think this is a great idea? ''{normal voice}'' Yeah, sorry, me neither. OK, other days o' the week. Let's see ''{spells "lessee"}''...

''{A calendar appears with a heading "A Month" and weeks starting on Monday. On Monday is written "checka my email".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' On Tuesdays, I check my snail mail.

''{"checka my snail mail" appears in handwriting on Tuesday. Cut to Strong Bad at a mailbox that reads "sb_snailmail.exe"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' I got a snail mail in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt...

''{He opens his letter, clears his throat and reads it.}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000">Dear Mr. Bad, 
This constitutes your final warning. 
Please remit payment of three(3) 
dollars and sixty-two(62) cents or 
you will be turned over to a "cut off 
your toes" -style collections agency. 

Swarthily, 
Bubs' Concession Stand</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{speaking sarcastically}'' Oh no, final warning. Is there nothing I can do to dissuade you? Like maybe give you a ride in my... ''{normally}'' BMW?!?

''{Strong Bad pulls out the [[BMW lighter]] and incinerates the paper, laughing. He then looks around.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' BWA HA HA HA HA HA! Haa ha haw... Hoh... Oh... Um... Where's my house?

''{Cut back to the calendar.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Then to better help folks over the hump, on Wednesdays I give free motivational lectures.

''{"give lecture" appears on Wednesday. Cut to the chalkboard with Coach Z and Strong Mad listening to Strong Bad. The chalkboard reads "this week: a pie in the face?"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You gots to look insiiide yourself! Positate the negative! When life throws pies atcha, you make yourself a tall, cool glass of piemonade.

'''COACH Z:''' I'm a new man!

'''STRONG MAD:''' I'M THE HUMP!!

''{Cut back to the calendar.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Due to a prior arrest, Thursdays are community service days, so me and the old Cheatasaurus head down to Strong Badia and give the place a firm scrubbin'.

''{"community service" appears for Thursday. Cut to Strong Badia, where Strong Bad is vacuuming the dirt and The Cheat is washing the Tire.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You know what I always say, The Cheat. Stay smart, vacuum... dirt.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Don't forget to wash where the sun don't shine.

''{Cut back to the calendar.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Then there's Business Casual Fridays, or as we say around the office, Biz Cas Fri.

''{"biz cas fri" appears on the Friday box}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' You know... because we have to abbreve everything.

''{Cut to the office.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' That's the day we all wear the free polo shirts we got from various software companies.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, man. Did you play Online Gaming last night? No, yeah, no? I did. I got ''so'' many frags.

''{Cut back to the calendar.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' On Saturday I certainly don't wake up at 6 A.M., put on a Speedo, and go to swim practice.

''{"NOT swim practice" appears in the Saturday box}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' No, no, definitely not Speedo. ''{Short pause}'' But I do attend:

{''A flyer for Battle Axe Lessons appears onscreen; "NOT swim practice" is replaced by "BATTLE AXE LESSONS!" in the Saturday box.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...BATTLE AXE LESSONS AT THE REC CENTER, with my teacher Dolph Hauldhagen, The Instruc-TOR! And of course, Sunday is the ''other'' day I check my email, for our Eastern European viewers across the pond.

''{"checka my eastern european emails" appears for Sunday. Cut to Strong Bad sitting at a gray computer with the word "BLOCK" in the bottom-left corner.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' I got a Polish email in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt.

''{reading, translator speaks over Strong Bad in Polish: Silne Złe: Proszę rozwiązywać sznurowadło z tyłu głowy. Janusz, Polska}''

<blockquote class="email" style="border: 4px solid #999">Dear Strong Bad: 
Please to be untieing that shoelace on 
the back of your head? 
 
Janus 
Poland</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Untie my shoelace, eh Janus? Your 
mother is the speed limit. 
Your aspirin, 
Strong Bad

''{Translator continues: Rozwiązywać sznurowadło, eh Janek? Twoja matka jest ograniczenie prędkości. Z aspiryną, Silne Złe}''

''{Cut back to Compy 386.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' That's pretty much my week. Now time for a refreshing glass of piemonade, or as we say around the office, p-nade.

''{Strong Bad gets up and leaves. [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:Arborist.png|thumb|"B. Ryan Holmes, certified... arborist..."]]
*Click on "brian holmes CA" after Strong Bad says "Certified Arborist" to see B. Ryan Holmes's business card. The card reads:
<blockquote>B. Ryan Holmes 
Certified Arborist 
 
PHONE: 555-XYLM 
MOBILE: COMING SOON 
 
"I think it has to do with trees!" </blockquote>

*At the end, click on "my week" to see Strong Sad waking Strong Bad up for swim practice.

:''{cut to the couch. Strong Bad is sleeping on it, as usual. Strong Sad walks in wearing a pair of swimming goggles and a swimming cap}''
:'''STRONG SAD:''' Strong Bad...
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{mumbling}'' Dangit... chrona trigga!
:'''STRONG SAD:''' Strong Bad, wake up!
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{mumbling}'' Chrona trigga!
:'''STRONG SAD:''' We're going to be late for swim practice!
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{mumbling}'' Chrhn - Chrono Trigger!
:''{Strong Sad produces a stick with a pair of Speedo-style swimming trunks at the end of it, face turns away in disgust}''
:'''STRONG SAD:''' I've got your swim trunks.
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{mumbling}'' Magus, I'm gonn... I'll kill ya.

*At the end, click on "piemonade" to see an advertisement for real life [[Piemonade]].

==Fun Facts==
=== Explanations ===
*"Snail mail" is a term that refers to the postal service, in comparison to the significantly faster email service.

===Trivia===

*In Biz Cas Fri, Homestar wears a shirt labeled 'Diskettes Etc.', while Strong Bad's has 'Micro Palace'.
*The Battle Axe flyer reads:
<blockquote>BAD AT 
BATTLE AXEING??? 
 
Come join 
Dolph Hauldhagen 
and learn professional 
techniques that will 
boost your confidence 
and deadliness. 
 
Community Rec Center     "The Instruc-TOR" 
Sat. 6am-9am                 Dolph Hauldhagen 
 
PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN BATTLE 
AXE AND AN EXERCISE MAT. 
 
555-4AXE{x9}</blockquote>
*Brian Holmes and 'Holmes' (from [[huttah!]]) are both from California.
*[[Dolph Hauldhagen]] is just [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] with a [[horned helmet]]. The battle axe is actually [[Puppet Stuff|Puppet Homestar]]'s stand, after being edited in Photoshop.
*The translator for Strong Bad's Polish email is the voice of [[Dan Kubis]], a friend of [[The Brothers Chaps]].
*The email was originally released without the translations.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Since Mondays are traditionally for email checking, Strong Bad explains what he does the rest of the week."

===Remarks===
*In the calendar, Monday is the first day of the week, which is the convention in some European countries. North American calendars usually begin weeks on Sunday.
*Strong Bad's advice to "make Piemonade" is a reference to the saying "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade."
*While talking about online gaming, Homestar Runner says, "I got so many frags". This suggests that he has been playing numerous [[Wikipedia:First-person shooter|first-person shooters]], in which a "[[Wikipedia:Frag|frag]]" is a kill.
*Strong Bad helps people "over the hump" on Wednesdays. Some people refer to Wednesday as "[[Wikipedia:Hump day|Hump Day]]" since it is in the middle of the week.
*The Cheat is seen cleaning the [[Tire]], suggesting that Strong Bad has temporarily disabled the [[Bear Holding a Shark]].
*At the end, The Paper comes down, but does not cover the first line of the email, as it does in other emails. (This is probably because the Strong Sad Easter egg on "my week" is on this line, and could not be covered up.)
*In the "my week" Easter egg, Strong Sad enters the basement empty-handed, yet he [[Hammerspace|somehow produces Strong Bad's swimming trunks]] from behind the couch.
*Strong Bad's mailbox says "sb_snailmail.exe".
*In the scene for biz caz fri at the office, Strong Bad appears to be typing with his hands sideways. In most emails that show his typing, he would be typing like a normal person.
*Strong Bad's polo has no buttons on it.
*In the voiceover accompanying Janus's email, Strong Bad's name is translated into Polish literally as "Silne Złe", which is rather incorrect (it is in the wrong [[Wikipedia:Polish grammar#gender|grammatical gender]]). A more proper translation would be "Silny Zły", which is in the masculine gender.

===Goofs===
[[Image:setteksiD .ctE.PNG|thumb|Homestar got his polo shirt from setteksiD .ctE!]]
*When Homestar says "so many frags" and is looking to the left, his torso is [[Flipped Images|flipped]], and consequently the buttons on his collar appear on the wrong side and "Diskettes Etc." appears backwards for a split second. However, this does not happen when he says "No, yeah, no?"
*When Strong Bad turns off the vacuum in Strong Badia, a patch is still visible behind the vacuum of the dirt cloud.
*When Strong Bad is vacuuming, his right eye is a lighter shade of green.

===Inside References===
*This is another instance of Strong Bad's [[couch mumbling]].
*The Office where "biz cas fri" takes place is the same as in [[dullard]] and the [[Senor Mortgage]] short, and the conversation is very reminiscent of that from "dullard".
*When Strong Bad mentions having to do community service for a prior arrest, it is likely a reference to the [[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]].
*The way that Strong Bad answers the Polish email is a likely reference to the email [[little questions]], in which he answers another foreign email.
*InstrucTOR is an instance of [[-or pronounced with a long O]].
*The glass of Piemonade is a [[Real-Live Foods|live-action drink]].
*The Polish email includes a reference of [[Please to be]].

===Real-World References===
*Strong Bad's intro song for this email (as well as for the snail-mail and the Eastern European email) is sung to the tune of ''[[Wikipedia:Oh! Susanna|Oh! Susanna]]''.
*When Strong Sad is waking up Strong Bad for swim practice, he mumbles various things, ranging from "I'll kill you" to the name of the classic [[Nintendo#Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)|SNES]] [[Wikipedia:Role-playing video game|RPG]], ''[[Wikipedia:Chrono Trigger|Chrono Trigger]]''. The "I'll kill you" in the swim practice Easter egg is directed at [[Wikipedia:Magus (Chrono Trigger)|Magus]], a villain/party member in the game. ''(Also see Inside References.)''
**Janus, the name of the Polish email sender, is also a significant name in Chrono Trigger.
*The name of Strong Bad's other computer, "[[Block]]", is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Eastern Bloc|Soviet Bloc]]—the group of Eastern European nations which were under communist government.
*The style of voice-over during the Polish email is reminiscent of that used on Polish television, where foreign language programs are not dubbed with different actors, but instead [[Wikipedia:Voice-over translation|narrated entirely by a single actor]], usually male. Also, unlike American dubbing, in which the re-dubbed track replaces the original, Polish dubbing is laid on top of the original audio track, as the narrator's voice is here.
*The text on the battle axe lesson flyer which instructs you to bring your own axe and exercise mat is in the same [[font]] as [[Wikipedia:Iron Maiden (band)|Iron Maiden]]'s name almost always appears ([http://www.abstractfonts.com/search/Metal%20Lord Metal Lord]). One of their first songs ever, "Invasion", released only on a four-track album of which 5000 copies were made, was about Viking invaders.
*Strong Bad's imitation of a robot seems to be a reference to Harry in the documentary "[[IMDB:tt0334405|Spellbound]]", a spelling bee contestant who spontaneously replies to a question from the interviewer in a robotic voice, and finishes off by saying "I-am-a-musical-robot. Do-I-sound-like-a-musical-robot?"
*"Stay smart, vacuum...dirt" may be based on "Be Smart! Don't Start!", a motto used in a series of '80s PSAs trying to discourage minors from drinking alcohol.
*The phone number for Brian Holmes, Certified Arborist (555-XYLM), is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Xylem|xylem]], the major water transporting tissue of vascular plants.
*Strong Bad's line "Again with the Dear Strong Bad..." is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Jerry Lewis|Jerry Lewis]]'s unique style of speaking.

===Fast Forward===

*"Biz Cas Fri" would be the subject of three Puppet Stuff features: [[Biz Cas Fri 1]], [[Biz Cas Fri 2]], and [[Biz Cas Fri 3]].
*Strong Bad's final payment notice is signed with Bubs's full name, which was revealed to be Bubs Concession Stand in [[Senorial Day]]. Here, "Bubs'" has an apostrophe, though as a possessive, which isn't seen in [[Senorial Day]].
*In [[Summer Short Shorts]], The Cheat is called "The Cheatasaurus" in the [[Powered By The Cheat]] clip.
*The Battle Axe Lessons flyer reappears in [[Lappynapped!]].
*In [[pizza joint]], Homestar shortens pepperoni to "p-roni", etc., similar to piemonade being shortened to "p-nade".
*According to ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]]'', Strong Bad's house is actually [http://files.telltalegames.com/strongbad/screenshots/strongbad-3.jpg just off the screen to the left] when he's checking his snail mail.

==DVD Version==

*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]]

'''MIKE:''' Hi, Matt!

'''MATT:''' Hi, Mike!

'''MIKE:''' Welcome to the email commentary for this email.

'''MATT:''' Thanks! I feel really good about this one, and I am ready to go.

'''MIKE:''' All right, let's get started. All right. We started here, well Strong Bad has started,

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad needs to learn the abbreviations for states.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, that's true. He has a problem with them.

'''MATT:''' This part reminds me about that kid from that movie "Spell Bound". About...

'''MIKE:''' When he's a musical robot?

'''MATT:''' When he's being a musical robot, yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, it's true.

'''MATT:''' All right, here's Strong Bad's...

'''MIKE:''' Mailbox. Which has appeared one more time, one other time?

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Still no sign of his house, though.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. No house. Just a mailbox. Not on the road.

'''MATT:''' No.

'''MIKE:''' Just in the grass.

'''MATT:''' In the greens. I don't think Strong Bad's being very sincere right now, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' This is a good example of sarcasm.

'''MATT:''' We've had lots of requests for the BMW lighter. Did you mention that on the last DVD?

'''MIKE:''' I dunno. I don't think it exists.

'''MATT:''' No, it doesn't.

'''MIKE:''' I've tried to find them at BMW dealers.

'''MATT:''' That's right.

'''MIKE:''' I actually got to make a glass of piemonade when I was making the uh, Easter Egg at the end, there.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it was early in the morning, wasn't it?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, it was, like, 2 in the morning, and I went to Kroger and got some pie and some lemonade,

'''MATT:''' Nice work!

'''MIKE:''' I think I got an extra piece of pie and ate it and I drank some lemonade.

'''MATT:''' I think that vacuum has never made an appearance again.

'''MIKE:''' No. Although I think the flowers on it are from...

'''MATT:''' Homsar?

'''MIKE:''' For kids email.

'''MATT:''' Kids show?

'''MIKE:''' Kids show. Yeah, what'd I say?

'''MATT:''' ''{simultaneously}'' For kids. Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' I think it's called for kids.

'''MATT:''' You're probably right. I used to shop at Diskettes Et Cetera.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' One time. What's Strong Bad's say?

'''MIKE:''' Uhhhhh, can't read it. Micro...

'''MATT:''' Something?

'''MIKE:''' Micro something.

''{Pause until Battle Axeing advertisement appears}''

'''MIKE:''' That's me!

'''MATT:''' That's Mike!

'''MIKE:''' Holding a stand, Homestar's puppet stand. That's what that stick is, and I just Photoshopped out the bottom and put in that axe.

'''MATT:''' I like that.

'''MIKE:''' Thanks!

'''MATT:''' This is our friend, Dan Kubis.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''MATT:''' Speaking this.

'''MIKE:''' He lived in Poland for two years.

'''MATT:''' Shoslav!

'''MIKE:''' Good job, Dan! We went to the Braves game, uh, the night of this.

'''MATT:''' Did you?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Got a ghetto burger at the uh, what is that place called?

'''MIKE:''' We got a ghetto burger at Miss Ann's Snack Stand. Good times.

'''MATT:''' Z aspiryną!

'''MIKE:''' Uhhh!

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|111|504|youtube=E5U8MqEUgHk}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Emails With DVD Commentary]]

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<line start="16" end="69" speaker="strongbad">I got an email in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt.</line>
<line start="70" end="89" speaker="strongbad">Again with the "Dear Strong Bad"...</line>
<line start="90" end="118" speaker="strongbad">"What do you do on all the other days of the week?"</line>
<line start="119" end="192" speaker="strongbad">"Sincerely, B. Ryan Holmes, certified... arborist."</line>
<line start="193" end="220" speaker="strongbad">(monotonous) Good question, Brian.</line>
<line start="221" end="278" speaker="strongbad">I am going to answer this email like a robot.</line>
<line start="279" end="322" speaker="strongbad">Don't you think this is a great idea?</line>
<line start="323" end="336" speaker="strongbad">(speaks normally) Yeah, sorry, me neither.</line>
<line start="337" end="366" speaker="strongbad">Okay, other days o' the week, let's see...</line>
<line start="367" end="396" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">On Tuesdays, I check my snail mail.</line>
<line start="397" end="446" speaker="strongbad">I got a snail mail in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt.</line>
<line start="462" end="483" speaker="strongbad">(clears throat) "Dear Mr Bad."</line>
<line start="484" end="508" speaker="strongbad">"This constitutes your final warning."</line>
<line start="509" end="598" speaker="strongbad">"Please remit payment of three dollars and sixty-two cents or you will be turned over to a "cut off your toes" style collections agency."</line>
<line start="599" end="640" speaker="strongbad">"Swarthily, Bubs' Concession Stand."</line>
<line start="641" end="672" speaker="strongbad">Oh, no, final warning.</line>
<line start="673" end="711" speaker="strongbad">Is there nothing I can do to dissuade you?</line>
<line start="712" end="739" speaker="strongbad">Like maybe give you a ride in my...</line>
<line start="740" end="754" speaker="strongbad">BMW?</line>
<line start="755" end="819" speaker="strongbad" sfx="sfx">laughs</line>
<line start="820" end="850" speaker="strongbad">Um... where's my house?</line>
<line start="861" end="921" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Then to better help folks over the hump, on Wednesdays I give free motivational lectures.</line>
<line start="931" end="971" speaker="strongbad">You gots to look inside yourself!</line>
<line start="972" end="999" speaker="strongbad">Positate the negative.</line>
<line start="1000" end="1072" speaker="strongbad">When life throws pies at you, you make yourself a tall, cool glass of piemonade.</line>
<line start="1073" end="1089" speaker="coachz">I'm a new man!</line>
<line start="1090" end="1110" speaker="strongmad">I'M THE HUMP!</line>
<line start="1111" end="1161" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Due to a prior arrest, Thursdays are community service days,</line>
<line start="1162" end="1222" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">So me and the old Cheatasaurus head down to Strong Badia and give the place a firm scrubbin'.</line>
<line start="1238" end="1264" speaker="strongbad">You know what I always say, The Cheat.</line>
<line start="1265" end="1303" speaker="strongbad">Stay smart, vacuum... dirt.</line>
<line start="1304" end="1323" speaker="thecheat">The Cheat noises</line>
<line start="1324" end="1350" speaker="strongbad">Don't forget to wash where the sun don't shine.</line>
<line start="1351" end="1422" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Then there's Business Casual Fridays, or as we say around the office, Biz Cas Fri.</line>
<line start="1423" end="1466" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">You know, because we have to abbrev. everything.</line>
<line start="1467" end="1517" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">That's the day we all wear the free polo shirts we got from various software companies.</line>
<line start="1518" end="1525" speaker="homestar">Oh, man.</line>
<line start="1526" end="1554" speaker="homestar">Did you play Online Gaming last night?</line>
<line start="1555" end="1577" speaker="homestar">No, yeah, no? I did.</line>
<line start="1578" end="1604" speaker="homestar">I got so many frags.</line>
<line start="1611" end="1673" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">On Saturday I certainly don't wake up at 6 AM, put on a Speedo, and go to swim practice.</line>
<line start="1687" end="1739" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">No, no, definitely not Speedo.</line>
<line start="1740" end="1856" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">But I do attend: BATTLE AXE LESSONS AT THE REC CENTER, with my teacher Dolph Hauldhagen, The Instruc-TOR!</line>
<line start="1857" end="1897" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">And of course, Sunday is the other day I check my email,</line>
<line start="1898" end="1931" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">for our Eastern European viewers across the pond.</line>
<line start="1938" end="1992" speaker="strongbad">I got a Polish e-mail in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt.</line>
<line start="1997" end="2007" speaker="strongbad">"Dear Strong Bad,"</line>
<line start="2013" end="2060">
<strongbad volume="0.7">"Please to be untieing that shoelace on the back of your head?"</strongbad>
<other voiceover="voiceover" xml:lang="pl">Silne Złe: Proszę rozwiązywać sznurowadło z tyłu głowy.</other>
</line>
<line start="2061" end="2088">
<strongbad volume="0.7">"Janus, Poland"</strongbad>
<other voiceover="voiceover" xml:lang="pl">Janusz, Polska</other>
</line>
<line start="2089" end="2119">
<strongbad volume="0.7">Untie my shoelace, eh Janus?</strongbad>
<other voiceover="voiceover" xml:lang="pl">Rozwiązywać sznurowadło, eh Janek?</other>
</line>
<line start="2120" end="2144">
<strongbad volume="0.7">Your mother is the speed limit.</strongbad>
<other>Twoja matka jest ograniczenie prędkości.</other>
</line>
<line start="2145" end="2170">
<strongbad volume="0.7">Your asprin, Strong Bad.</strongbad>
<other voiceover="voiceover" xml:lang="pl">Z aspiryną, Silne Złe</other>
</line>
<line start="2188" end="2211" speaker="strongbad">That's pretty much my week.</line>
<line start="2212" end="2284" speaker="strongbad">Now time for a refreshing glass of piemonade, or as we say around the office, p-nade.</line>
<line start="2328" end="2337" speaker="strongsad">Strong Bad...</line>
<line start="2338" end="2347" speaker="strongbad">Dangit, chrona trigga!</line>
<line start="2348" end="2362" speaker="strongsad">Strong Bad, wake up!</line>
<line start="2363" end="2373" speaker="strongbad">Chrona trigga!</line>
<line start="2374" end="2400" speaker="strongsad">We're going to be late for swim practice!</line>
<line start="2401" end="2426" speaker="strongbad">Chrhn- Chrono Trigger!</line>
<line start="2427" end="2457" speaker="strongsad">I've got your swim trunks.</line>
<line start="2458" end="2488" speaker="strongbad">Magus, I'm gonn... I'll kill you.</line>
</transcript>
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2021-12-07T17:27:36Z

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<transcript xml:lang="en-us" file="sbemail111.swf" width="550" height="400">
<line start="16" end="69" speaker="strongbad">I got an email in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt.</line>
<line start="70" end="89" speaker="strongbad">Again with the "Dear Strong Bad"...</line>
<line start="90" end="118" speaker="strongbad">"What do you do on all the other days of the week?"</line>
<line start="119" end="192" speaker="strongbad">"Sincerely, B. Ryan Holmes, certified... arborist."</line>
<line start="193" end="220" speaker="strongbad">(monotonous) Good question, Brian.</line>
<line start="221" end="278" speaker="strongbad">I am going to answer this email like a robot.</line>
<line start="279" end="322" speaker="strongbad">Don't you think this is a great idea?</line>
<line start="323" end="336" speaker="strongbad">(speaks normally) Yeah, sorry, me neither.</line>
<line start="337" end="366" speaker="strongbad">Okay, other days o' the week, let's see...</line>
<line start="367" end="396" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">On Tuesdays, I check my snail mail.</line>
<line start="397" end="446" speaker="strongbad">I got a snail mail in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt.</line>
<line start="462" end="483" speaker="strongbad">(clears throat) "Dear Mr Bad."</line>
<line start="484" end="508" speaker="strongbad">"This constitutes your final warning."</line>
<line start="509" end="598" speaker="strongbad">"Please remit payment of three dollars and sixty-two cents or you will be turned over to a "cut off your toes" style collections agency."</line>
<line start="599" end="640" speaker="strongbad">"Swarthily, Bubs' Concession Stand."</line>
<line start="641" end="672" speaker="strongbad">Oh, no, final warning.</line>
<line start="673" end="711" speaker="strongbad">Is there nothing I can do to dissuade you?</line>
<line start="712" end="739" speaker="strongbad">Like maybe give you a ride in my...</line>
<line start="740" end="754" speaker="strongbad">BMW?</line>
<line start="755" end="819" speaker="strongbad" sfx="sfx">laughs</line>
<line start="820" end="850" speaker="strongbad">Um... where's my house?</line>
<line start="861" end="921" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Then to better help folks over the hump, on Wednesdays I give free motivational lectures.</line>
<line start="931" end="971" speaker="strongbad">You gots to look inside yourself!</line>
<line start="972" end="999" speaker="strongbad">Positate the negative.</line>
<line start="1000" end="1072" speaker="strongbad">When life throws pies at you, you make yourself a tall, cool glass of piemonade.</line>
<line start="1073" end="1089" speaker="coachz">I'm a new man!</line>
<line start="1090" end="1110" speaker="strongmad">I'M THE HUMP!</line>
<line start="1111" end="1161" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Due to a prior arrest, Thursdays are community service days,</line>
<line start="1162" end="1222" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">So me and the old Cheatasaurus head down to Strong Badia and give the place a firm scrubbin'.</line>
<line start="1238" end="1264" speaker="strongbad">You know what I always say, The Cheat.</line>
<line start="1265" end="1303" speaker="strongbad">Stay smart, vacuum... dirt.</line>
<line start="1304" end="1323" speaker="thecheat">The Cheat noises</line>
<line start="1324" end="1350" speaker="strongbad">Don't forget to wash where the sun don't shine.</line>
<line start="1351" end="1422" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Then there's Business Casual Fridays, or as we say around the office, Biz Cas Fri.</line>
<line start="1423" end="1466" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">You know, because we have to abbrev. everything.</line>
<line start="1467" end="1517" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">That's the day we all wear the free polo shirts we got from various software companies.</line>
<line start="1518" end="1525" speaker="homestar">Oh, man.</line>
<line start="1526" end="1554" speaker="homestar">Did you play Online Gaming last night?</line>
<line start="1555" end="1577" speaker="homestar">No, yeah, no? I did.</line>
<line start="1578" end="1604" speaker="homestar">I got so many frags.</line>
<line start="1611" end="1673" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">On Saturday I certainly don't wake up at 6 AM, put on a Speedo, and go to swim practice.</line>
<line start="1687" end="1739" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">No, no, definitely not Speedo.</line>
<line start="1740" end="1856" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">But I do attend: BATTLE AXE LESSONS AT THE REC CENTER, with my teacher Dolph Hauldhagen, The Instruc-TOR!</line>
<line start="1857" end="1897" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">And of course, Sunday is the other day I check my email,</line>
<line start="1898" end="1931" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">for our Eastern European viewers across the pond.</line>
<line start="1938" end="1992" speaker="strongbad">I got a Polish e-mail in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt.</line>
<line start="1997" end="2007" speaker="strongbad">"Dear Strong Bad,"</line>
<line start="2013" end="2060">
<strongbad volume="0.7">"Please to be untieing that shoelace on the back of your head?"</strongbad>
<other voiceover="voiceover" xml:lang="pl">Silny Zle: Prosze rozwiazywac sznurowadlo z styl glowe.</other>
</line>
<line start="2061" end="2088">
<strongbad volume="0.7">"Janus, Poland"</strongbad>
<other voiceover="voiceover" xml:lang="pl">Janus, Polska.</other>
</line>
<line start="2089" end="2119">
<strongbad volume="0.7">Untie my shoelace, eh Janus?</strongbad>
<other voiceover="voiceover" xml:lang="pl">Rozwiazywac sznurowadlo, eh Janek?</other>
</line>
<line start="2120" end="2144">
<strongbad volume="0.7">Your mother is the speed limit.</strongbad>
<other>Twoja matka jest ograniczenia predkosci.</other>
</line>
<line start="2145" end="2170">
<strongbad volume="0.7">Your asprin, Strong Bad.</strongbad>
<other voiceover="voiceover" xml:lang="pl">Z asprina, Silny Zle.</other>
</line>
<line start="2188" end="2211" speaker="strongbad">That's pretty much my week.</line>
<line start="2212" end="2284" speaker="strongbad">Now time for a refreshing glass of piemonade, or as we say around the office, p-nade.</line>
<line start="2328" end="2337" speaker="strongsad">Strong Bad...</line>
<line start="2338" end="2347" speaker="strongbad">Dangit, chrona trigga!</line>
<line start="2348" end="2362" speaker="strongsad">Strong Bad, wake up!</line>
<line start="2363" end="2373" speaker="strongbad">Chrona trigga!</line>
<line start="2374" end="2400" speaker="strongsad">We're going to be late for swim practice!</line>
<line start="2401" end="2426" speaker="strongbad">Chrhn- Chrono Trigger!</line>
<line start="2427" end="2457" speaker="strongsad">I've got your swim trunks.</line>
<line start="2458" end="2488" speaker="strongbad">Magus, I'm gonn... I'll kill you.</line>
</transcript>
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2021-11-25T18:30:24Z

24.253.236.202: /* Transcript */

{{sbenav}}
[[Image:111snailmail.png|thumb|"Um... Where's my house?"]]

Brian asks what Strong Bad does on all the other days of the week.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]], [[The Classroom]], [[Strong Badia]], [[The Office]], [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]] (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Compy 386}}, [[Block]]

'''Date:''' Monday, August 16, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 3:12

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}

==Transcript==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' I got an email in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt. ''{stops singing}'' Again with the—

''{reading email}''

<blockquote class="email">dear strong bad, 
what do you do on all the other days 
of the week? 
sincerely, 
brian holmes CA</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads the name as "B. Ryan Holmes, certified... arborist..."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing and speaking like a robot while bobbing his head sporadically}'' Good question, Brian. I am going to answer this email like a robot. Don't you think this is a great idea? ''{normal voice}'' Yeah, sorry, me neither. OK, other days o' the week. Let's see ''{spells "lessee"}''...

''{A calendar appears with a heading "A Month" and weeks starting on Monday. On Monday is written "checka my email".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' On Tuesdays, I check my snail mail.

''{"checka my snail mail" appears in handwriting on Tuesday. Cut to Strong Bad at a mailbox that reads "sb_snailmail.exe"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' I got a snail mail in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt...

''{He opens his letter, clears his throat and reads it.}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000">Dear Mr. Bad, 
This constitutes your final warning. 
Please remit payment of three(3) 
dollars and sixty-two(62) cents or 
you will be turned over to a "cut off 
your toes" -style collections agency. 

Swarthily, 
Bubs' Concession Stand</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{speaking sarcastically}'' Oh no, final warning. Is there nothing I can do to dissuade you? Like maybe give you a ride in my... ''{normally}'' BMW?!?

''{Strong Bad pulls out the [[BMW lighter]] and incinerates the paper, laughing. He then looks around.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' BWA HA HA HA HA HA! Haa ha haw... Hoh... Oh... Um... Where's my house?

''{Cut back to the calendar.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Then to better help folks over the hump, on Wednesdays I give free motivational lectures.

''{"give lecture" appears on Wednesday. Cut to the chalkboard with Coach Z and Strong Mad listening to Strong Bad. The chalkboard reads "this week: a pie in the face?"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You gots to look insiiide yourself! Positate the negative! When life throws pies atcha, you make yourself a tall, cool glass of piemonade.

'''COACH Z:''' I'm a new man!

'''STRONG MAD:''' I'M THE HUMP!!

''{Cut back to the calendar.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Due to a prior arrest, Thursdays are community service days, so me and the old Cheatasaurus head down to Strong Badia and give the place a firm scrubbin'.

''{"community service" appears for Thursday. Cut to Strong Badia, where Strong Bad is vacuuming the dirt and The Cheat is washing the Tire.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You know what I always say, The Cheat. Stay smart, vacuum... dirt.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Don't forget to wash where the sun don't shine.

''{Cut back to the calendar.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Then there's Business Casual Fridays, or as we say around the office, Biz Cas Fri.

''{"biz cas fri" appears on the Friday box}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' You know... because we have to abbreve everything.

''{Cut to the office.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' That's the day we all wear the free polo shirts we got from various software companies.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, man. Did you play Online Gaming last night? No, yeah, no? I did. I got ''so'' many frags.

''{Cut back to the calendar.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' On Saturday I certainly don't wake up at 6 A.M., put on a Speedo, and go to swim practice.

''{"NOT swim practice" appears in the Saturday box}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' No, no, definitely not Speedo. ''{Short pause}'' But I do attend:

{''A flyer for Battle Axe Lessons appears onscreen; "NOT swim practice" is replaced by "BATTLE AXE LESSONS!" in the Saturday box.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...BATTLE AXE LESSONS AT THE REC CENTER, with my teacher Dolph Hauldhagen, The Instruc-TOR! And of course, Sunday is the ''other'' day I check my email, for our Eastern European viewers across the pond.

''{"checka my eastern european emails" appears for Sunday. Cut to Strong Bad sitting at a gray computer with the word "BLOCK" in the bottom-left corner.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' I got a Polish email in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt.

''{reading, translator speaks over Strong Bad in Polish: Silne Złe: Proszę rozwiązywać sznurowadło z tyłu głowy. Janusz, Polska}''

<blockquote class="email" style="border: 4px solid #999">Dear Strong Bad: 
Please to be untieing that shoelace on 
the back of your head? 
 
Janus 
Poland</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Untie my shoelace, eh Janus? Your 
mother is the speed limit. 
Your aspirin, 
Strong Bad

''{Translator continues: Rozwiązywać sznurowadło, eh Janek? Twoja matka jest ograniczenie prędkości. Z aspiryną, Silne Złe}''

''{Cut back to Compy 386.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's pretty much my week. Now time for a refreshing glass of piemonade, or as we say around the office, p-nade.

''{Strong Bad gets up and leaves. [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:Arborist.png|thumb|"B. Ryan Holmes, certified... arborist..."]]
*Click on "brian holmes CA" after Strong Bad says "Certified Arborist" to see B. Ryan Holmes's business card. The card reads:
<blockquote>B. Ryan Holmes 
Certified Arborist 
 
PHONE: 555-XYLM 
MOBILE: COMING SOON 
 
"I think it has to do with trees!" </blockquote>

*At the end, click on "my week" to see Strong Sad waking Strong Bad up for swim practice.

:''{cut to the couch. Strong Bad is sleeping on it, as usual. Strong Sad walks in wearing a pair of swimming goggles and a swimming cap}''
:'''STRONG SAD:''' Strong Bad...
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{mumbling}'' Dangit... chrona trigga!
:'''STRONG SAD:''' Strong Bad, wake up!
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{mumbling}'' Chrona trigga!
:'''STRONG SAD:''' We're going to be late for swim practice!
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{mumbling}'' Chrhn - Chrono Trigger!
:''{Strong Sad produces a stick with a pair of Speedo-style swimming trunks at the end of it, face turns away in disgust}''
:'''STRONG SAD:''' I've got your swim trunks.
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{mumbling}'' Magus, I'm gonn... I'll kill ya.

*At the end, click on "piemonade" to see an advertisement for real life [[Piemonade]].

==Fun Facts==
=== Explanations ===
*"Snail mail" is a term that refers to the postal service, in comparison to the significantly faster email service.

===Trivia===

*In Biz Cas Fri, Homestar wears a shirt labeled 'Diskettes Etc.', while Strong Bad's has 'Micro Palace'.
*The Battle Axe flyer reads:
<blockquote>BAD AT 
BATTLE AXEING??? 
 
Come join 
Dolph Hauldhagen 
and learn professional 
techniques that will 
boost your confidence 
and deadliness. 
 
Community Rec Center     "The Instruc-TOR" 
Sat. 6am-9am                 Dolph Hauldhagen 
 
PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN BATTLE 
AXE AND AN EXERCISE MAT. 
 
555-4AXE{x9}</blockquote>
*Brian Holmes and 'Holmes' (from [[huttah!]]) are both from California.
*[[Dolph Hauldhagen]] is just [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] with a [[horned helmet]]. The battle axe is actually [[Puppet Stuff|Puppet Homestar]]'s stand, after being edited in Photoshop.
*The translator for Strong Bad's Polish email is the voice of [[Dan Kubis]], a friend of [[The Brothers Chaps]].
*The email was originally released without the translations.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Since Mondays are traditionally for email checking, Strong Bad explains what he does the rest of the week."

===Remarks===
*In the calendar, Monday is the first day of the week, which is the convention in some European countries. North American calendars usually begin weeks on Sunday.
*Strong Bad's advice to "make Piemonade" is a reference to the saying "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade."
*While talking about online gaming, Homestar Runner says, "I got so many frags". This suggests that he has been playing numerous [[Wikipedia:First-person shooter|first-person shooters]], in which a "[[Wikipedia:Frag|frag]]" is a kill.
*Strong Bad helps people "over the hump" on Wednesdays. Some people refer to Wednesday as "[[Wikipedia:Hump day|Hump Day]]" since it is in the middle of the week.
*The Cheat is seen cleaning the [[Tire]], suggesting that Strong Bad has temporarily disabled the [[Bear Holding a Shark]].
*At the end, The Paper comes down, but does not cover the first line of the email, as it does in other emails. (This is probably because the Strong Sad Easter egg on "my week" is on this line, and could not be covered up.)
*In the "my week" Easter egg, Strong Sad enters the basement empty-handed, yet he [[Hammerspace|somehow produces Strong Bad's swimming trunks]] from behind the couch.
*Strong Bad's mailbox says "sb_snailmail.exe".
*In the scene for biz caz fri at the office, Strong Bad appears to be typing with his hands sideways. In most emails that show his typing, he would be typing like a normal person.
*Strong Bad's polo has no buttons on it.
*In the voiceover accompanying Janus's email, Strong Bad's name is translated into Polish literally as "Silne Złe", which is rather incorrect (it is in the wrong [[Wikipedia:Polish grammar#gender|grammatical gender]]). A more proper translation would be "Silny Zły", which is in the masculine gender.

===Goofs===
[[Image:setteksiD .ctE.PNG|thumb|Homestar got his polo shirt from setteksiD .ctE!]]
*When Homestar says "so many frags" and is looking to the left, his torso is [[Flipped Images|flipped]], and consequently the buttons on his collar appear on the wrong side and "Diskettes Etc." appears backwards for a split second. However, this does not happen when he says "No, yeah, no?"
*When Strong Bad turns off the vacuum in Strong Badia, a patch is still visible behind the vacuum of the dirt cloud.
*When Strong Bad is vacuuming, his right eye is a lighter shade of green.

===Inside References===
*This is another instance of Strong Bad's [[couch mumbling]].
*The Office where "biz cas fri" takes place is the same as in [[dullard]] and the [[Senor Mortgage]] short, and the conversation is very reminiscent of that from "dullard".
*When Strong Bad mentions having to do community service for a prior arrest, it is likely a reference to the [[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]].
*The way that Strong Bad answers the Polish email is a likely reference to the email [[little questions]], in which he answers another foreign email.
*InstrucTOR is an instance of [[-or pronounced with a long O]].
*The glass of Piemonade is a [[Real-Live Foods|live-action drink]].
*The Polish email includes a reference of [[Please to be]].

===Real-World References===
*Strong Bad's intro song for this email (as well as for the snail-mail and the Eastern European email) is sung to the tune of ''[[Wikipedia:Oh! Susanna|Oh! Susanna]]''.
*When Strong Sad is waking up Strong Bad for swim practice, he mumbles various things, ranging from "I'll kill you" to the name of the classic [[Nintendo#Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)|SNES]] [[Wikipedia:Role-playing video game|RPG]], ''[[Wikipedia:Chrono Trigger|Chrono Trigger]]''. The "I'll kill you" in the swim practice Easter egg is directed at [[Wikipedia:Magus (Chrono Trigger)|Magus]], a villain/party member in the game. ''(Also see Inside References.)''
**Janus, the name of the Polish email sender, is also a significant name in Chrono Trigger.
*The name of Strong Bad's other computer, "[[Block]]", is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Eastern Bloc|Soviet Bloc]]—the group of Eastern European nations which were under communist government.
*The style of voice-over during the Polish email is reminiscent of that used on Polish television, where foreign language programs are not dubbed with different actors, but instead [[Wikipedia:Voice-over translation|narrated entirely by a single actor]], usually male. Also, unlike American dubbing, in which the re-dubbed track replaces the original, Polish dubbing is laid on top of the original audio track, as the narrator's voice is here.
*The text on the battle axe lesson flyer which instructs you to bring your own axe and exercise mat is in the same [[font]] as [[Wikipedia:Iron Maiden (band)|Iron Maiden]]'s name almost always appears ([http://www.abstractfonts.com/search/Metal%20Lord Metal Lord]). One of their first songs ever, "Invasion", released only on a four-track album of which 5000 copies were made, was about Viking invaders.
*Strong Bad's imitation of a robot seems to be a reference to Harry in the documentary "[[IMDB:tt0334405|Spellbound]]", a spelling bee contestant who spontaneously replies to a question from the interviewer in a robotic voice, and finishes off by saying "I-am-a-musical-robot. Do-I-sound-like-a-musical-robot?"
*"Stay smart, vacuum...dirt" may be based on "Be Smart! Don't Start!", a motto used in a series of '80s PSAs trying to discourage minors from drinking alcohol.
*The phone number for Brian Holmes, Certified Arborist (555-XYLM), is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Xylem|xylem]], the major water transporting tissue of vascular plants.
*Strong Bad's line "Again with the Dear Strong Bad..." is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Jerry Lewis|Jerry Lewis]]'s unique style of speaking.

===Fast Forward===

*"Biz Cas Fri" would be the subject of three Puppet Stuff features: [[Biz Cas Fri 1]], [[Biz Cas Fri 2]], and [[Biz Cas Fri 3]].
*Strong Bad's final payment notice is signed with Bubs's full name, which was revealed to be Bubs Concession Stand in [[Senorial Day]]. Here, "Bubs'" has an apostrophe, though as a possessive, which isn't seen in [[Senorial Day]].
*In [[Summer Short Shorts]], The Cheat is called "The Cheatasaurus" in the [[Powered By The Cheat]] clip.
*The Battle Axe Lessons flyer reappears in [[Lappynapped!]].
*In [[pizza joint]], Homestar shortens pepperoni to "p-roni", etc., similar to piemonade being shortened to "p-nade".
*According to ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]]'', Strong Bad's house is actually [http://files.telltalegames.com/strongbad/screenshots/strongbad-3.jpg just off the screen to the left] when he's checking his snail mail.

==DVD Version==

*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]]

'''MIKE:''' Hi, Matt!

'''MATT:''' Hi, Mike!

'''MIKE:''' Welcome to the email commentary for this email.

'''MATT:''' Thanks! I feel really good about this one, and I am ready to go.

'''MIKE:''' All right, let's get started. All right. We started here, well Strong Bad has started,

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad needs to learn the abbreviations for states.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, that's true. He has a problem with them.

'''MATT:''' This part reminds me about that kid from that movie "Spell Bound". About...

'''MIKE:''' When he's a musical robot?

'''MATT:''' When he's being a musical robot, yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, it's true.

'''MATT:''' All right, here's Strong Bad's...

'''MIKE:''' Mailbox. Which has appeared one more time, one other time?

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Still no sign of his house, though.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. No house. Just a mailbox. Not on the road.

'''MATT:''' No.

'''MIKE:''' Just in the grass.

'''MATT:''' In the greens. I don't think Strong Bad's being very sincere right now, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' This is a good example of sarcasm.

'''MATT:''' We've had lots of requests for the BMW lighter. Did you mention that on the last DVD?

'''MIKE:''' I dunno. I don't think it exists.

'''MATT:''' No, it doesn't.

'''MIKE:''' I've tried to find them at BMW dealers.

'''MATT:''' That's right.

'''MIKE:''' I actually got to make a glass of piemonade when I was making the uh, Easter Egg at the end, there.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it was early in the morning, wasn't it?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, it was, like, 2 in the morning, and I went to Kroger and got some pie and some lemonade,

'''MATT:''' Nice work!

'''MIKE:''' I think I got an extra piece of pie and ate it and I drank some lemonade.

'''MATT:''' I think that vacuum has never made an appearance again.

'''MIKE:''' No. Although I think the flowers on it are from...

'''MATT:''' Homsar?

'''MIKE:''' For kids email.

'''MATT:''' Kids show?

'''MIKE:''' Kids show. Yeah, what'd I say?

'''MATT:''' ''{simultaneously}'' For kids. Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' I think it's called for kids.

'''MATT:''' You're probably right. I used to shop at Diskettes Et Cetera.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah?

'''MATT:''' One time. What's Strong Bad's say?

'''MIKE:''' Uhhhhh, can't read it. Micro...

'''MATT:''' Something?

'''MIKE:''' Micro something.

''{Pause until Battle Axeing advertisement appears}''

'''MIKE:''' That's me!

'''MATT:''' That's Mike!

'''MIKE:''' Holding a stand, Homestar's puppet stand. That's what that stick is, and I just Photoshopped out the bottom and put in that axe.

'''MATT:''' I like that.

'''MIKE:''' Thanks!

'''MATT:''' This is our friend, Dan Kubis.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''MATT:''' Speaking this.

'''MIKE:''' He lived in Poland for two years.

'''MATT:''' Shoslav!

'''MIKE:''' Good job, Dan! We went to the Braves game, uh, the night of this.

'''MATT:''' Did you?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Got a ghetto burger at the uh, what is that place called?

'''MIKE:''' We got a ghetto burger at Miss Ann's Snack Stand. Good times.

'''MATT:''' Z aspiryną!

'''MIKE:''' Uhhh!

==External Links==
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{{Strong Bad Email}}

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for kids

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[[Image:sbemail110.png|thumb|right|"Okay, kids, we're gonna play ''Where's The Cheat!''"]]

Allison wonders what a Strong Bad television series for kids would be like.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Rather Dashing}}, {{Film|Kerrek}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Homsar}}, [[Stave It Off Guy]]

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]]

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Monday, August 9, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 3:24

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

== Transcript ==
''{Strong Bad is at the Compy 386, playing ''Peasant's Quest''. He has a score of -38 and is in the area with Kerrek.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, let's see here... ''{typing}'' Make friends with Kerrek.

''{A message appears, reading, "The Kerrek says he has enough friends already. And he doesn't like your short, short pants." His score also drops to -40.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' What the...!? ''{presses enter; the Kerrek starts making his way over to Rather Dashing}'' Um... ''{typing}'' Buy Kerrek a cold one.

''{Kerrek smashes Rather Dashing on the head. The Game Over tune plays. Another message appears, reading, "The Kerrek is a teetotaller and is offended by your offer. He pounds your head into the ground. You dead." His score also drops to -45.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' WHAT?!? Oh man... Stupid game! ''{presses enter; types "quit". A message reads, "You quitter."}'' I guess I should do the thing... that I do. ''{pulls up the a> prompt and types "strongbad_email.exe"}'' ''{Reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Coolest guy ever - - - Strong Bad, 
I've been wondering if you ever 
thought of making your own television 
series? Kids everywhere would love 
you, and your awesomeness. 
 
Allison , NJ</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads "- - -" as "henna henna henna". After reading the greeting, he says, "Whoa! Three hennas! Must be an important one!" After the comma in the last sentence, he says "unnecessary comma," and he pronounces "Allison" as "All is on"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Television?!! Kids?!! Wait, do you people think I'm intended for children? Like, the littlest, tiniest babies? You know, they watch those shows on public television. I don't think I'm cut out for that sort of sugarjob.

''{Cut to a piece of yellow paper of the sort used to teach kindergarteners writing. Strong Bad is superimposed on it with a rocket launcher/bazooka, a monster with horns, a bunny with fangs, and a creature that resembles a man sticking its tongue out drawn in crayon around him.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Smiling beatifically}'' Okay, kids, we're gonna play "Where's The Cheat?".

''{Cut to a side-view of Strong Bad, who faces at the camera.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Can you say, "a-The Cheat"?

'''KIDS:''' ''{half incoherent}'' The Cheat. ''{one child mumbles}'' Christopher Columbus.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{stops smiling}'' Not good enough. F minus minus.

''{"F--" appears on the screen. The [[DELETED]] [[Sound Effects|buzzer]] is heard. Cut back to Strong Bad. Behind him are crayon drawings of a tree, an open box and a toilet.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{smiling again}'' All right, dumb children. ''{rubs his hands together}'' Find The Cheat!

''{The Cheat comes out from behind the box and waves.}''

'''KIDS:''' ''{say things like "He's over there," or "Right there." They continue saying this.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{stops smiling}'' Um, no, he's behind the box. ''{turns around and points to The Cheat}'' No, uh, he's not even ''behind'' the box, he's ''barely obscured'' by the box. ''{turns around and looks downwards; his hands becomes fists and he looks back up}'' Look, ''The Cheat is behind the freaking box!!''

''{Kids stop talking and the music soundtrack screeches to a halt accompanied by a record scratch. The Cheat jumps slightly. Strong Bad breathes heavily, then suddenly jumps to a position much closer to the viewer, and starts waving his arms}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{screaming} HE'S BEHIND THE BOX! {slides down, then gets even closer}'' '''I'LL KILL YA!! I'LL KILL ALL YOUR DOGS!!'''

''{Cut back via static to Strong Bad at the Compy 386}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So, you can see how that might be less than pleasant. What with all the letter writing and the angry mothers and the subsequent stringing me up in town square for all to see. But you know who's a natural for that sorta thing? None other than America's favorite blue midget Homestar: Homsar!!

''{Cut to an all-white scene. Homsar comes through a faraway door. He walks closer to the viewer and stops.}''

'''KIDS:''' Whaddaya know, Haddi-man?

''{Homsar opens his mouth and his hat flies up in the air. Cut to a background with white, yellow, purple and green flowers spinning counter-clockwise. As the words are sung, they are shown one by one at the bottom of the viewer's screen. A caricature of Homsar rides by from right to left in a boat with a red flag. His shirt says "if you lived here you'd be home".}''

'''MAN:''' We'll have an adventure, and several long trips. We'll make some new friends—

''{Smiling, multi-ethnic children appear behind Homsar as he sails left off the screen}''

'''MAN:''' —and maybe get a bite to eat!!!

''{An orange with "abc" on it appears. Seven Homsar silhouettes now fan like a hand of cards from left to right, and then disappear in reverse order.}''

'''MAN:''' All 'cause we say...

''{A red silhouette of Homsar with the flag from the boat appears. White liquid spills onto the screen. A logo that says '''"Whaddaya Know Haddi-man?"''' with a second caricature of Homsar on it appears.}''

'''KIDS:''' Whaddaya know, Haddi-man?

''{The real Homsar pops up on the left side of the screen in the lower left corner.}''

'''HOMSAR:''' DaAaAaA! I'm a trendy tote bag!

''{Cut to a tan scene. Homsar disappears and reappears in various places, accompanied by raspberry noises. When he stops in the left half of the foreground, a blue lower case "g" appears beside him.}''

'''KIDS:''' A "G"!

'''HOMSAR''': I'm not gonna lie to you, that's a healthy piece of real estate!

'''KIDS:''' A "G"!

''{Cut to a purple background with a seated, mustachioed man playing a guitar. As the words are sung, they appear on the screen.}''

'''STAVE IT OFF GUY:''' Stave it off, 1-2-3, and now you can count to three.

'''HOMSAR:''' That's a real popular song! Who wants to hear of it fifty times more?

'''KIDS''': ''{shouts of approval}''

''{Cut to the previous screen. Now we see two of the guitar-playing people, one in a darker shade superimposed behind the other. Again, as the words are sung, they appear on the screen.}''

'''STAVE IT OFF GUY:''' Stave it off, 1-2-3, and now you can count to three.

''{The darker shaded guitarist is suddenly upside-down, and the song is repeated as are the words on the screen.}''

'''STAVE IT OFF GUY:''' Stave it off, 1-2-3, and now you can count to three.

''{Cut back to the Compy via static.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Good gravy. ''{Spoken: GOOD... GRAVY.}'' I've got two words for the children that are raised on that crap: ''{in monotone}'' HELD BACK. REPEATING THE THIRD GRADE. LOW STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES. I GUESS THIS WAS MORE THAN TWO WORDS. THE PAPER, PLEASE TAKE US HOME.

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*At the end, click on the words "good gravy" to see [[the King of Town]]'s new food product.
[[Image:kot-gravy.png|thumb|"I don't lets the Poopsmith near it!"]]
<blockquote>the KOT's 
Good 
GRAVY 
"I don't lets the 
Poopsmith near it!" 
104 oz.</blockquote>
*Also at the end, click "crap" to see a CD jewel case and hear a sample of [[All Is On]]'s album:
<blockquote>ALL IS ON!!! 
Mega Hits!! 
PARTY MIX!</blockquote>
<blockquote>(on spine) Songs We Found On The Street</blockquote>
:'''SINGER:''' All is on... feel it, feel it, feel it, feel it...

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*A person who practices total abstinence from alcoholic beverages and narcotic substances is called a [[wikipedia:Teetotaler|teetotaller]].

===Trivia===
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad describes what his television show for kids would be like."

===Remarks===
*The [[Peasant's Quest Responses|commands]] Strong Bad uses in [[Peasant's Quest]] were not originally part of the game but were added after this email debuted.
**Typing "make friends with kerrek" results in the message "Look, it didn't work for Strongbad  and it's not gonna work for you either."
**Typing "buy kerrek a [[cold one]]" results in the message "The Kerrek is a teetotaller and is offended by your request. You've really cheesed him off now.", and causes the Kerrek to move twice as fast.
*If you type "quit" in the real Peasant's Quest, the game shows a different message than the "you quitter" message, and quits.
*Given the use of "teetotaller," this email seems to prove that the oft-mentioned "cold one" is in fact an alcoholic beverage.
*It is impossible to get a negative score in the real game, despite Strong Bad's miserable showing.
*In [[Peasant's Quest Preview]], it is said the maximum requirements for Peasant's Quest are a 286 CGA enabled PC. The Compy, judging by its name, contains a 386 processor.
*The positions of the crayon graphics in the first scene are all rearranged when the scene zooms in on Strong Bad's face.
*If the "Stave it off" song were really looped 50 times (including the pause heard in the email) it would last for 6 minutes, 10 seconds.
*As Homsar says the word "trendy," his hat changes in size; first larger, then smaller, then back to normal.
*Homsar's eyes on the "Whaddaya Know Haddi-man?" logo are mirrored versions of the smaller of [[Bubs]]' eyes.
*The "All Is On" tune is [[Singing Out Of Tune|not in the same key]] as the lyrics.

===Goofs===
*Adjusting the contrast while Strong Bad plays Peasant's Quest affects his reflection in the game, but not the game itself.
*All the Haddi-Man children have shadows except the girl.
*When Homsar talks after the lowercase "[[g]]" shows up (complete with various head movements and hat flyings, as per usual), his shadow stays still.
*The real Peasant's Quest game shows the score as "# of 150", not "# ''out'' of 150".
*If you click on the "All is on" album while the music is still playing it will disappear but the music will continue to play.

===Inside References===
*The sounds that Homsar makes when he opens and closes the door are the same sounds made by the front door in [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]].
*Strong Bad says "HE'S BEHIND THE BOX! I'LL KILL YA!! I'LL KILL ALL YOUR DOGS!!" This is an instance of one speaking of [[Killing Dogs|killing someone's dog]].

===Real-World References===
*The fake show hosted by Strong Bad is a spoof of many children's shows. Specifically, Strong Bad mentions that the kids watch [[Wikipedia:PBS|public television]], and the kids heard shouting the answers to Strong Bad's questions are taken from the [[Nickelodeon]] show [[Wikipedia:Blue's Clues|Blue's Clues]]. Strong Bad's show is actually a strange reversal of Blue's Clues; in Blue's Clues the kids know all the answers to the questions asked but the host is completely clueless, whilst in this email, Strong Bad knows the answers and the kids are clueless.
*The way Homsar enters and walks closer to the viewer is from the British kids' show [[Wikipedia:Bod (television)|"Bod"]]. This is likely, as [[The Brothers Chaps]] have claimed that [http://www.retrocrush.com/homestar/index2.html Bod was one of their influences.]
*The noise Homsar makes when he teleports around are similar to noises on the [[PBS]] show [[Wikipedia:Boohbah|Boohbah]].
*The Guitar Playing Man bears a striking resemblance to folk singer [[Wikipedia:James Taylor|James Taylor]]. Taylor has made numerous appearances on the children's TV program [[Sesame Street]], often singing educational songs.
*Homsar asking the kids if they want to "hear of [the song] 50 times more" may be a reference to the [[Wikipedia:British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] show [[Wikipedia:Teletubbies|Teletubbies]], in which whenever a "real-life" clip is shown, it is always repeated per request of the Teletubbies.
*The "letter of the day" feature in Homsar's show is reminiscent of Sesame Street, which ends each show with the mock sponsorship, "Sesame Street was brought to you... by the letter __!"
*The bizarre way Homsar comes onto the screen from an unseen door in the unseen distance, and the way he jumps around the screen without moving otherwise, is a reference to early Sesame Street skits which were noted for their surreality.
*The "animated" Homsar's shirt says "If you lived here you'd be home," bringing to mind the common billboard campaign for new houses under construction, "If you lived here, you'd be home by now."

===Fast Forward===
*The "[[All Is On]]" song from this email is used again in the Easter egg for [[extra plug]].
*The words "Stave it off, 1, 2, 3..." were used again in the email [[virus]].
*[[Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man?]] is heard in the background in [[secret identity]].
*Part of the song played in the "Where's The Cheat?" part of this email is heard in the [[Very, Very Little Girl]] Easter egg in [[Summer Short Shorts]].
*The guitarist, nicknamed the [[Stave It Off Guy]], would later become a recurring character. In [[Crystal Fortress]], he appears alongside the round children heads.
*Strong Bad eventually does feature on his own public television preschool show, [[Characters from Yonder Website]].

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]], [[Jonathan Howe]], [[Ryan Sterritt]] ''on guitar'')

''{Ryan's guitar playing throughout the commentary}''

'''MIKE:''' You're listening to the smooth, sultry sounds of the Strong Bad DVD commentary.

'''JON:''' Dim the lights, Matt. Who's on lights? Matt, are you on lights?

'''MIKE:''' I know one thing for sure.

'''MATT:''' What's that, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Ryan Sterritt's on the guitar right now.

'''JON:''' ''{over Mike}'' Oooooohhhhhhhh yyyyyyeeeeeaaaaaahhh.

'''MATT:''' That's right, Ryan.

'''JON:''' Hey um— re—

'''MATT:''' ''{over Jon}'' Make it sing. Make it sing.

'''JON:''' Regarding the P— the Peasant's Quest thing we— for— before the email or just after we went back and added the phrases.

'''MATT:''' ''{over Ryan}'' Those two commands.

'''JON:''' Yes—

'''MIKE:''' Oh, into the game?

'''JON:''' Yes.

'''MIKE:''' Oh.

'''MATT:''' And you'd get the same responses, right?

'''JON:''' Y— something like that.

'''MATT:''' Or something similar. Or maybe— no.

'''MIKE:''' Oh no, that's right.

'''RYAN:''' ''{yelling}'' Check— Try— Try it out at home.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''RYAN:''' Find out for yourselves.

'''MATT:''' Give it a shot.

'''JON:''' I'm sorry. I'm not being sufficiently jazzy and mellow.

'''MATT:''' No! We're all, uh—

'''MIKE:''' Hey it's all good. It's all hot.

'''MATT:''' Everything— we're all a family here at Strong Bad Email.

'''MIKE:''' There's—

'''MATT:''' This is a little technique I used to make look like crayon drawing Flash it's the— it's the stippled stroke. There's a stroke in your stroke tool all you Flash animators at home.

'''MIKE:''' ''{slowly}'' Stroke.

'''MATT:''' It looks sort of like pebbles. Just do several different layers of it and maybe—

'''MIKE:''' ''{slowly}'' Stroke.

'''MATT:''' —cut and paste the same layer, move it up a little bit. Instant crayon effect.

'''MIKE:''' ''{imitating child in the email}'' Christopher Columbus!

'''JON:''' Oh, wait, this is where Strong Bad gets violent.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah this is gonna be good contrast to—

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I don't think— I don't think I wanna watch this part.

'''MIKE:''' Strong Bad! Calm down, man!

'''MATT:''' You need to cool out, Strong Bad.

'''JON:''' Does he say, "I'll kill all your dogs"?

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''JON:''' Or "dolls?"

'''MIKE AND MATT:''' Dogs.

'''JON:''' That's what I thought he said.

'''MATT:''' He's ang— he's angry. It's a little rough. There's some kids at home who I don't think could handle that.

'''JON:''' Yeah. It's like— it's like the new Star Wars episodes. ''{Matt laughs}'' Not suitable for children.

'''MATT:''' That's what I hear.

'''JON:''' The world's most childish...

'''MIKE:''' Hey Ryan. How 'bout some more finger picking. ''{Ryan plays a little more}'' Thank you. That's ''nice''.

'''JON:''' Ah...

'''MATT:''' This is a, uh— this is a sweet intro I think to Homsar's show.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. I really wanna make this whole show, or at least watch it. I don't want to make it. I wanna watch it. ''{Matt laughs}''

'''JON:''' Uh, I like the, um, the construction paper appearance in this.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Those kids and that orange— that orange I wanna snack on.

'''MIKE:''' Those kids are diverse.

'''MATT:''' They are! ''{talks over Mike}'' They're from all over the world, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' ''{talks over Matt}'' There's some diversity in those kids.

''{Jon laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Haddi-man is accepting of all cultures. ''{Jon and Mike laugh}''

''{short pause}''

'''MIKE:''' And fart noises.

''{all laugh}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' I wonder—

'''JON:''' I remember like a— statistical analysis on the number of, uh, fart noises or toilets or something like that, the— the late is 130.

'''MATT:''' ''Is'' there?

'''JON:''' I don't know. There's the toilet and the claymation thing that—

'''MATT:''' There's probably a lot!

'''JON:''' Not that you guys resort to—

'''MATT:''' Who's uncle? That's— that's Ryan right now. Looks just like that guy.

'''MIKE:''' He does! His legs crossed, just like that!

'''MATT:''' He's got his legs crossed, tapping one foot.

'''MIKE:''' You need to put some socks on underneath your flip-flops. ''{Jon laughs}''

''{short pause}''

'''MATT:''' Me! Me! Me! Me! That's my favorite kid that's in the background—

'''JON:''' Is he wearing sandals and socks?

'''MIKE:''' I don't think he is, but I always sort of interpreted those weird lines around his foot as that.

'''JON:''' Hey guys, I'm sorry if I was implying that you guys do a lot of potty humor.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. We're gonna cut this out— we're gonna cut you out of the DVD.

''{all laugh}''

'''JON:''' But, I'm not in the DVD, actually.

'''MATT:''' You are cut out! Umm—

'''JON:''' Nothing to cut.

''{short pause}''

'''JON:''' Keep it going. Keep it going, bro.

'''MATT:''' Keep it going. Low standard—

'''MIKE:''' How long can you do this for, Ry?

'''MATT: ''' Let's keep our standardized test scores low this evening, ladies and gentlemen.

'''JON:''' Dim the scores.

'''MATT:''' The Paper— Ryan, take us home.

''{Ryan's guitar playing until the end}''

===Fun Facts===
*The comment that the new [[Wikipedia:Star Wars|Star Wars]] episodes are not suitable for children refers to the fact that the latest episode at that time, [[Wikipedia:Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith|Revenge of the Sith]], was rated [[Wikipedia:MPAA film rating system|PG-13]], whereas all previous Star Wars movies were rated PG.

==See Also==
*[[Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man?]]

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|110|459|youtube=wnPm3h6sl84}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category: Emails With DVD Commentary]]

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2021-11-14T17:30:13Z

24.253.236.202: /* Remarks */

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[[Image:lilbrudder.png|thumb|"Don't cry for me, The Cheatentina..."]]

{{aboutemail}} {{for|[[running gag]]|Crying}}

DJ Solerous asks Strong Bad if he had ever made Homestar cry. All weep when they see Li'l Brudder.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, [[Li'l Brudder]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, [[Tendafoot]]

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]]

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Monday, July 26, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 3:26

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Rapping}'' I'm not gonna sing an email song this week e—''{realizes mistake, talking}'' Oh. Never mind.

''{Pulls up email}'' ''{Reading}''

<blockquote class="email">YO Yo Strongbad, 
Hey Strongbad I was wondering if you 
have ever made homestar cry. 
DJ Solerous Australia</blockquote>

''{After "Hey Strongbad" he stops mid-sentence and says: "Well, which is it? 'Yo yo' or 'Hey' Strong Bad? I mean, the outcome of the rest of this whole email hinges on the decision made—" Without skipping a beat, as if it no longer matters, he finishes reading the email.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Typing}'' Whoa! ''THE'' DJ Solerous? What an honor! I saw you spin in a warehouse in Canberra ''{He pronounces it as can-BEAR-uh.}'' a few years back! Uh, no wait. I lied. I, nor anyone else, have ever heard of DJ Smoldyface.

''{clears screen}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Typing}'' So, have I ever made Homestar cry? Uh, yes. Yes, I have. A lot. I can pretty much make anybody cry just by showing them this drawing I invented of a one-legged puppy named "Li'l Brudder."

''{Strong Bad holds up a picture of a one-legged puppy saying "I can make it on my own."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{says}'' I mean, ''{types}'' it cracks me up, but Homestar just falls apart when he sees him. A-like so... ''{Gets up and exits.}''

''{Cut to The Field. Homestar is standing there, looking angrily offscreen right. Enter Strong Bad.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah, you ''stay'' over there.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, Homestar. I've got something for you.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Thanks, Strong Bad! What is it what is it what is it what is it what is it?

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's just this drawing I made...

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{uneasy}'' Oh, no. Don't do it. You know the storm that will unleash!

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, I think you'll like it!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{on the verge of tears}'' Strong Bad, no! I can't handle it!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ta-daaah! ''{Holds the Li'l Brudder drawing in front of his face.}''

''{Homestar breaks down crying, falls to his knees}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' No-ho-hooo... LIDD'L BRUDDOR! That little guy... He's got the heart of a champion! You're gonna make it, Li'l Brudder! You just keep scrapin' along!

''{Strong Bad looks on in disbelief; Homestar is lying on the ground, sobbing hysterically and kicking at the air}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Li'l Brudder... I... ''I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING WITH MY LIFE!'' I-I'm thinking of getting into male modeling—o-or maybe high finance... I JUST DON'T KNOW!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{As Li'l Brudder, shaking the drawing like a crude hand puppet.}'' I'm gonna be all right, Homestar.'' {Homestar is heard sobbing hysterically}'' I can make it on my own!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{sobs}'' It's like I said—the heart of a champion!

''{Enter The Cheat, from offscreen left.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises}''

''{Strong Bad turns to The Cheat and does his Li'l Brudder act.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, The Cheat, I'm gonna be a quarterback when I grow up! I'm gonna throw for 2,000 yards! ''{The Cheat begins sobbing.}'' Don't cry for me, The Cheatentina...

''{Enter Strong Sad, his eyes red around the edges and all watery, apparently trying not to cry.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, Strong Bad, is Li'l Brudder named after me? Do you think of ''me'' as a... one-legged puppy?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uhh, no. I think of you as a two-legged elephant... named "Tendafoot." ''{Pronounces name as "Tenderfoot."}''

''{He holds up a picture of this, with "Tendafoot" saying "I'm tops!"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Speaking as Tendafoot/Strong Sad}'' I could power a small city with my whining!

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{dejected}'' I probably could.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{still sobbing}'' Oh-h-h-h, Tendafoot, can you tell me how to get the most out of life?

''{Cut to the Compy 386. Strong Bad enters and sits down.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' There ya go. Homestar crying. Not a problem. I bet all a ya'lls  are prob'ly crying all over the place. That Li'l Brudder sure knows how to tug at your heartstrings. ''{begins to choke up as he speaks}'' ''{not typed}'' He's... ''{typing}'' He's just such a trooper.  Got such a strong... one leg. ''{recovers}'' Um, yeah. I think I've got a ''{hesitates}'' food in the oven. ''{begins to choke up again}'' I gotta go.

''{Strong Bad gets up and hurries out.}''

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click on "YO Yo" to see a Strong Bad yo-yo.
*Click on "''The'' DJ Solerous" to see a flyer for a DJ event.
<blockquote>Perfectly Legal WAREHOUSE RAVE 
featuring: 
DJ Solerous 
DJ Stank 
and DJ from Roseanne 
Don't tell the cops!!</blockquote>
*Click on "Homestar crying" at the end to see more of him crying:
:''{Homestar is still bawling.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ohh, Tendafoot! Can you tell me what to do with myself? I feel like I'm at a crossroads, and there's like, a Denny's on one corner, and an IHOP on the other!
:''{Homestar is kneeling over the Tendafoot drawing.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Can you give me some sound financial advice?
:''{Homestar is lying on the ground again.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Tendafoot, can you help advise me on my future?
*Click on "Li'l Brudder" at the end to see Li'l Brudder falling off his one leg.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The summary on the [[Podstar Runner]] RSS feed for this video says "Strong Bad invents a 1-legged puppy and the tears flow."
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad makes Homestar cry with his drawing of a one legged puppy with an indomitable spirit! Enter Li'l Brudder!"

===Remarks===
*The tears flying off Homestar's face are the same as in [[A Jorb Well Done]]. In A Jorb Well Done, the water coming off his face is sweat.
*The pieces of notebook paper are unusually rigid. Even when Strong Bad is holding the Lil' Brudder picture from the bottom it still stands straight up.
*When Homestar is rolling on the ground, it seems his shading stays on one side of his body.
*Homestar's height is different in this email, as he's proportionate to Strong Bad, whereas in most other toons and emails, he's taller than Strong Bad.
*Although Strong Bad is known to be a stickler for proper grammar, in the sentence "I, nor anyone else, have ever heard of DJ Smoldyface," he misuses the conjunction nor by failing to negate either of the elements it connects, and he also fails to make the subject(s) and verb agree. The sentence should read "I, ''along with'' anyone else, have ''never'' heard of DJ Smoldyface."
**He also puts the apostrophe in between the wrong letters of "y'all", instead spelling it "ya'll".

===Inside References===
*The DJ flyer is a reference to an Easter egg in [[techno]] for The Cheat's light-switch rave.
*"I can make it on my own" might be a reference to the Easter egg in [[invisibility]], where the tossed-out [[Tandy 400]] says it.
*Li'l Brudder and Tendafoot are both [[Severed Body Parts|missing body parts]].
*When Li'l Brudder's leg wobbles, it makes the same sound that [[Homsar]] makes when he walks.
*Homestar is [[Homestar Runner Left Behind|left behind]] in the field in the Easter egg of this email.
*Strong Bad says that he has "[[Nondescript Nouns|a food]]" in the oven.

===Real-World References===
*On the DJ flyer, "DJ from Roseanne" is a reference to the television show "[[IMDB:tt0094540|Roseanne]]". Actor [[IMDB:nm0279896|Michael Fishman]] played the role of Roseanne's son D. J. Conner.
*"Don't cry for me, The Cheatentina" is a reference to the song "[[Wikipedia:Don't Cry For Me, Argentina|Don't Cry For Me, Argentina]]" from [[Wikipedia:Andrew Lloyd Webber|Andrew Lloyd Webber's]] musical "[[Wikipedia:Evita|Evita]]".
*"Tendafoot" is possibly a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scouts']] rank of "[[Wikipedia:List of BSA rank requirements#Tenderfoot Scout|Tenderfoot]]", which is the first rank a Scout can achieve. The term originated in the American Old West to refer to inexperienced ranchers or miners.
*[[Wikipedia:Canberra|Canberra]] is Australia's capital city. Most Australians pronounce the city's name "CAN-bruh." A minority pronounce it "CAN-buh-ruh" and a few use "can-BEAR-uh," though the latter is generally considered incorrect. The varying pronunciation is to some extent a class-based difference.
*[[Wikipedia:IHOP (restaurant)|IHOP]] and [[Wikipedia:Denny's|Denny's]] are restaurant chains that both specialize in breakfast items.

===Fast Forward===
*Li'l Brudder and Tendafoot later star in their own TV show, [[The Li'l Brudder Show]].
*Homestar cries again from Li'l Brudder in [[Strong Badia the Free]] when you spin him on the Peace Draft wheel. During the scene that follows, Homestar wonders "why I even put that on the board".
*Despite his claim that he is over it, Homestar once again cries at the image of Li'l Brudder in the 2009 update of [[Punkin Stencils]].

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
===Commentary Transcript===
'''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]]

'''MIKE:''' An email. Hi, guys!

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad— You just did that.

'''MIKE:''' Ummmm, gah, start us over. Start us over. No, let's keep going. Let's keep going. Let's keep going.

'''MATT:''' Are you sure?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' All I can think to do is, like, start saying the email.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Just recite the lines along with it.

'''MATT:''' Mmmhmm.

'''MIKE:''' Don't we, don't you mispronounce uh...

'''MATT:''' Canberra?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' How are you supposed to say it?

'''MIKE:''' I dunno. I think it's supposed to be... Canberra, or something.

'''MATT:''' Oh. Have we gotten complaints?

'''MIKE:''' I think there was, I think in one of the message boards, there was a...

'''MATT:''' I can't imagine Strong Bad being a stickler for, uh...

'''MIKE:''' Pronouncing foreign cities.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Even though he is a stickler about a lot of other things. So this is where Little Brudder came from.

'''MIKE:''' That's right. He's since gone on to uhh, have his own theme song. Who do you think Homestar was talking to?

'''MATT:''' I think he was talking to that pile of, uh, Swiss Cake Rolls that he's friends with.

'''MIKE:''' Those things are bad for you!

'''MATT:''' They got in a fight and he told them to stay over there. Ober dere. Did you draw those new feet for this one, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' No, that was actually for the Cheat Commandos.

'''MATT:''' Oh, right.

'''MIKE:''' And Homestar's kneeling down, playing Cheat Commandos in the commercial.

'''MATT:''' I think the drool, the puddle of drool, is really what does it with Little Brudder.

'''MIKE:''' Makes it what?

'''MATT:''' Even sadder. ''{simultaneously with Mike}'' More pathetic.

'''MIKE:''' Those tears, that Homestar has, were originally sweat from, uh, an old cartoon.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Jumping Jacks cartoon.

'''MATT:''' That's been around forever, and unchanged, mostly.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, not very good.

'''MATT:''' No, they're not.

'''MIKE:''' They probably, they probably need to be updated.

'''MATT:''' Don't look at 'em.

'''MIKE:''' ''{noises, sounds like "thang, thang, thang"}''

'''MIKE:''' I always wondered about the abbreviation, or the shortening of little to li'l, and where the apostrophe goes. Because there technically should be an apostrophe after both, before and after the l.

'''MATT:''' Well, right, because there's an e at the end of...

'''MIKE:''' 'Cause sometimes I do lil', and sometimes I do li'l.

'''MATT:''' It's back when they spelled little litel.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, it's replacing all of those. One of the few times when Strong Sad, these days, is actually sad. He has really not been sad, in a long time.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, he's, yeah, it's true. We, our website sucks now.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' No, it's better. He became more um... developed. He used to just say things like, ''{imitating Strong Sad}'' "We die a little more every day," or something like that.

'''MATT:''' "Each day we die a little more," Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Ha! Well, my impression was pretty good. Look at his extensive use of apostrophes, right there.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Prob'ly, and y'alls.

'''MATT:''' Um...

'''MIKE:''' He used an apostrophe there, in "I've." This is the apostrophe email.

=== Fun Facts ===
*[[The Brothers Chaps]] make reference to the [[swiss cake rolls]] from [[invisibility]].

== External Links ==
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{{Strong Bad Email}}[[Category: Emails With DVD Commentary]]
[[Category:Podstar Runner]]

Subtitles:kingcomment/en

2021-11-02T00:01:13Z

24.253.236.202:

{{subtitles|The King of Town DVD Commentary}}
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<line start="20" end="72" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Uh, hello and welcome to The King of Town special edition DVD. </line>
<line start="73" end="150" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">I'm your host, America's number one son and sweetheart to all the ladies, Strong Bad. </line>
<line start="151" end="199" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">You're probably wondering what I'm doing the commentary on this cartoon for; </line>
<line start="200" end="240" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">It's because they didn't put me in this freakin' cartoon,</line>
<line start="240" end="279" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">so, the least they could do is let me make fun of it. </line>
<line start="280" end="305" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">So, let's uh, let's begin.</line>
<line start="306" end="349" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Okay, now, this guy does not belong in cartoons. </line>
<line start="350" end="386" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">From what I understand, he's everybody's least favorite character, </line>
<line start="387" end="421" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">And I don't understand how he got his own freakin' cartoon, </line>
<line start="422" end="460" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">And I haven't even got... my own cartoon yet.</line>
<line start="491" end="527" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Oh, and the special effects here; look at that piece of crap! </line>
<line start="528" end="573" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">I mean, I really think that was a piece of crap tied to some strings... </line>
<line start="574" end="608" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">That they just... pulled up behind the mountains, you know...</line>
<line start="661" end="738" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Oh, and here comes mister prancy-time himself, Homestar Runner, to save the day. </line>
<line start="739" end="776" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Personally, I don't know what he's doing not wearing his hat, because, </line>
<line start="777" end="824" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">He looks kinda creepy whe—when he doesn't wear his baseball hat. </line>
<line start="825" end="862" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Or whatever that hat is, you got the propeller on it...</line>
<line start="871" end="898" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">I hate everything about that guy.</line>
<line start="944" end="965" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Oh, now this guy had some class. </line>
<line start="966" end="990" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">The Blacksmith, that guy was a good guy. </line>
<line start="991" end="1050" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">I hung out with him after the cartoon; yeah, we had some good times, I mean.... </line>
<line start="1051" end="1104" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Oh, and this freakin' guy, man, he STANK SO BAD! </line>
<line start="1105" end="1157" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">I mean...you know, I would say that he smelled like crap, but that doesn't go far enough. </line>
<line start="1158" end="1217" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Imagine the worst smell you ever smelled, and pretend that took a crap. </line>
<line start="1218" end="1231" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">That's that guy. </line>
<line start="1232" end="1255" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Oh, and that little guy, ohh!!</line>
<line start="1256" end="1320" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">That guy gave me the creeps... I didn't trust that guy any farther than I could throw him.</line>
<line start="1353" end="1389" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Oh, and Homestar wearing the graduate cap... </line>
<line start="1390" end="1448" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">I'll tell you what, I mean, Homestar never graduated from anything in his life. </line>
<line start="1449" end="1479" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">And, uh, that little X he just made... </line>
<line start="1480" end="1518" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">To tell you the truth, I don't think that he could tell you that it was an X because </line>
<line start="1519" end="1543" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">I'm pretty sure he doesn't know the alphabet </line>
<line start="1544" end="1598" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">And I'm almost positive that he can't read, so. </line>
<line start="1611" end="1663" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Oh yeah, everybody has a good laugh...</line>
<line start="1679" end="1723" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">And that place, the King of Town does not live in that castle! </line>
<line start="1724" end="1739" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">I can tell you that right now. </line>
<line start="1740" end="1795" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">I mean, like, he lives in like some two bedroom job, like, next door to me. </line>
<line start="1796" end="1832" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">It's kinda run down and creepy, actually. </line>
<line start="1833" end="1866" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Yeah, you don't want to go over there, man. </line>
<line start="1879" end="1918" speaker="other">You have no new messages. Ever.</line>
<line start="1919" end="1934" speaker="other">You have no new messages. Ever. </line>
<line start="1941" end="1969" speaker="other">Nobody likes you. </line>
<line start="1978" end="2019" speaker="other">You still have zero messages. </line>
<line start="2028" end="2062" speaker="other">You have no friends.</line>
</transcript>
</pre>

Subtitles:sbemail106/en

2021-11-01T23:55:49Z

24.253.236.202:

{{subtitles|dangeresque 3}}
<pre>
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<transcript xml:lang="en-us" file="sbemail106.swf" width="550" height="400">
<line start="15" end="67" speaker="strongbad">Oh, here comes little e-mail, with a gun in his hand...</line>
<line start="68" end="131" speaker="strongbad">"Hi there Strong Bad, I was just wondering: when is Dangeresque 3 koh-may-ing out?"</line>
<line start="132" end="168" speaker="strongbad">"Yours truly, Johnny Well, on"</line>
<line start="169" end="200" speaker="strongbad">Whoa. I left my Johnny Well on.</line>
<line start="201" end="220" speaker="strongbad">Johnny Well: off.</line>
<line start="221" end="238" speaker="sfx">powering down sound</line>
<line start="239" end="272" speaker="strongbad">Man, peoples won't leave me alone about this one!</line>
<line start="273" end="320" speaker="strongbad">Okay, okay, okay, okay. Dangeresque 3 production update!</line>
<line start="321" end="368" speaker="strongbad">Day one-fourteen: Things are comeing along right on schedule.</line>
<line start="369" end="407" speaker="strongbad">So far, we seem to have only hit one major snag.</line>
<line start="408" end="478" speaker="strongbad">Um, and that is I haven't um, made Dangeresque 3 yet.</line>
<line start="479" end="547" speaker="strongbad">But, before you start throwing full wine bottles at your computer screen, let me offer this as a cop-out:</line>
<line start="548" end="582" speaker="strongbad">The digitally remastered director's cut of: Dangeresque 1: Dangeresque, too?</line>
<line start="583" end="620" speaker="strongbad">The digitally remastered director's cut of: Dangeresque 1: Dangeresque, too?</line>
<line start="621" end="717" speaker="strongbad">(sings the Dangeresque theme)</line>
<line start="718" end="752" speaker="strongbad">Brring... brring...</line>
<line start="753" end="781" speaker="strongbad">Oh, my car phone.</line>
<line start="782" end="818" speaker="strongbad">You got Dangeresque. Who this is?</line>
<line start="819" end="827" speaker="coachz">Now?</line>
<line start="828" end="844" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover" volume="0.8">Yeah, go, go.</line>
<line start="845" end="918" speaker="coachz">Dangeresque, it's Renaldo. I need you back here away, right? I mean, right away.</line>
<line start="919" end="978" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Uh, I'm in a car right now, but I can drive it to the office.</line>
<line start="979" end="1006" speaker="coachz">Sounds like a plan.</line>
<line start="1007" end="1014" speaker="coachz">How was tha—</line>
<line start="1015" end="1062" speaker="strongbad">Hang on, car phone! Get ready for some fancy driving!</line>
<line start="1063" end="1119">
<strongbad sfx="sfx">makes engine noises</strongbad>
<strongbad sfx="sfx" voiceover="voiceover">sings the Dangeresque theme</strongbad>
</line>
<line start="1120" end="1144" speaker="strongbad" sfx="sfx" voiceover="voiceover">sings the Dangeresque theme</line>
<line start="1145" end="1163" speaker="coachz">What took you so long?</line>
<line start="1164" end="1234" speaker="strongbad">Oh, I had to swing by Cool Weapons Surplus for a new nunchuck gun.</line>
<line start="1235" end="1256" speaker="strongbad">And a Reesy Cup milkshake.</line>
<line start="1257" end="1329" speaker="coachz">Well, anyways, I called you in to meet your new partner: Dangeresque, too?</line>
<line start="1330" end="1374" speaker="homestar">The name's Dangeresque. Nice to meet ya.</line>
<line start="1375" end="1389" speaker="strongbad">Whaaa?</line>
<line start="1390" end="1405" speaker="coachz">Dangeresque!</line>
<line start="1406" end="1413">
<strongbad>Yeah?</strongbad>
<homestar>What?</homestar>
</line>
<line start="1426" end="1439" speaker="strongbad" sfx="sfx" voiceover="voiceover">sings musical sting</line>
<line start="1440" end="1479">
<coachz>Perducci's intercepted the serum at the border!</coachz>
</line>
<line start="1480" end="1536" speaker="coachz">If that serum doesn't make it through, they'll kidnap Cutesy Buttons!</line>
<line start="1537" end="1569">
<strongbad>Perducci!</strongbad>
<homestar>Perducci!</homestar>
</line>
<line start="1570" end="1627" speaker="strongbad" sfx="sfx" voiceover="voiceover">sings the Dangeresque theme</line>
<line start="1658" end="1679" speaker="homestar">What is your malfunction?</line>
<line start="1680" end="1710" speaker="strongbad">Let's get one thing straight, meatball... face... butt: I work alone.</line>
<line start="1711" end="1719" speaker="strongbad">Let's get one thing straight, meatball... face... butt: I work alone.</line>
<line start="1720" end="1729" speaker="strongbad">Let's get one thing straight, meatball... face... butt: I work alone.</line>
<line start="1730" end="1739" speaker="strongbad">Let's get one thing straight, meatball... face... butt: I work alone.</line>
<line start="1740" end="1785" speaker="strongbad">'Cept when I work with Renaldo... which is all the time.</line>
<line start="1786" end="1866" speaker="homestar">Oh yeah? Well, you need me because I'm the only one that knows where Perducci is,</line>
<line start="1867" end="1908" speaker="homestar">and where that is is that he is... in... Istanbul.</line>
<line start="1909" end="1921" speaker="homestar">and where that is is that he is... in... Istanbul.</line>
<line start="1922" end="1932" speaker="homestar">and where that is is that he is... in... Istanbul.</line>
<line start="1933" end="1968" speaker="strongbad">Istanbul! Of course!</line>
<line start="1969" end="1993" speaker="strongbad" sfx="sfx" voiceover="voiceover">sings the Dangeresque theme</line>
<line start="1994" end="2039" speaker="homestar">Perducci's got to be here around in Istanbul somewhere.</line>
<line start="2040" end="2105" speaker="strongbad">I hope you're right. We've got to get that serum through...</line>
<line start="2106" end="2130" speaker="homestar">Let's ask this passers-by.</line>
<line start="2131" end="2160" speaker="homestar">What do you know about Perducci, doughboy?</line>
<line start="2161" end="2207" speaker="strongsad">Ugh, I told you guys already I'm not going to be in your stupid movie!</line>
<line start="2208" end="2225" speaker="homestar">What do you know about Perducci?</line>
<line start="2226" end="2268" speaker="strongsad">Only that I am not one of his minions.</line>
<line start="2269" end="2309" speaker="homestar">Well, thanks anyways. Move it along, hot tub!</line>
<line start="2324" end="2388" speaker="strongbad">That stranger seemed to know a little bit too little about Perducci...</line>
<line start="2389" end="2404" speaker="strongbad" sfx="sfx" voiceover="voiceover">sings musical sting</line>
<line start="2405" end="2438" speaker="kingoftown">What? Two Dangeresques?</line>
<line start="2439" end="2489" speaker="kingoftown">Well, they'll still be no match for my secret weapon!</line>
<line start="2490" end="2524" speaker="strongbad" sfx="sfx" voiceover="voiceover">sings musical sting</line>
<line start="2533" end="2604" speaker="strongbad">Once we get to the top of this high-scraper, we'll hopefully be able to throw some people off.</line>
<line start="2605" end="2627" speaker="strongbad">Maybe even Perducci.</line>
<line start="2645" end="2659" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">chikka-wa!</line>
<line start="2660" end="2680" speaker="kingoftown">Dangeresque!</line>
<line start="2681" end="2688">
<strongbad>What?</strongbad>
<homestar>Yeah?</homestar>
</line>
<line start="2696" end="2764" speaker="kingoftown">Allow me to introduce you to both my secret weapon and your doom:</line>
<line start="2765" end="2781" speaker="kingoftown">Killingyouguy!</line>
<line start="2782" end="2832" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover" sfx="sfx">makes guitar noises</line>
<line start="2833" end="2853" speaker="homestar">Oh. Gad.</line>
<line start="2854" end="2869" speaker="strongbad">That guy is tall.</line>
<line start="2881" end="2905">
<strongbad>You take the big guy.</strongbad>
<homestar>You take the big guy.</homestar>
</line>
<line start="2906" end="2926" speaker="homestar">The pipes are broken!</line>
<line start="2927" end="2947" speaker="strongsad">Oof! Ow! Ouff! Ouwh!</line>
<line start="2948" end="2966" speaker="strongsad">Getting! Dizzy! Blacking! Out!</line>
<line start="2967" end="2983" speaker="strongsad">Oof! Geez! Oouf!</line>
<line start="2991" end="3016" speaker="coachz">Nice work there, Dangeresque!</line>
<line start="3017" end="3027">
<strongbad>Thanks.</strongbad>
<homestar>Thanks.</homestar>
</line>
<line start="3028" end="3054">
<strongbad>Ahahahahaha.</strongbad>
<homestar>Ahahahahaha.</homestar>
</line>
<line start="3055" end="3112" speaker="marzipan">Mmm. Thanks for the serum, boys. Now I won't be kidnapped.</line>
<line start="3113" end="3129" speaker="strongbad">Oh no...</line>
<line start="3130" end="3171">
<strongbad>Looks like we're gonna have to jump!</strongbad>
<homestar>Looks like we're gonna have to jump!</homestar>
</line>
<line start="3172" end="3217" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">(singing) Today is all right for tonight,</line>
<line start="3218" end="3250" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Riding in a Corvette and feeling all right,</line>
<line start="3251" end="3293" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Today is all right for tonight!</line>
<line start="3328" end="3371" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Today is all right for tonight,</line>
<line start="3372" end="3409" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">Riding in a Corvette and feeling all right,</line>
<line start="3410" end="3446" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">All right for tonight!</line>
</transcript>
</pre>

crying

2021-11-01T19:25:14Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}

[[Image:lilbrudder.png|thumb|"Don't cry for me, The Cheatentina..."]]

{{aboutemail}} {{for|[[running gag]]|Crying}}

DJ Solerous asks Strong Bad if he had ever made Homestar cry. All weep when they see Li'l Brudder.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, [[Li'l Brudder]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, [[Tendafoot]]

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]]

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Monday, July 26, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 3:26

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Rapping}'' I'm not gonna sing an email song this week e—''{realizes mistake, talking}'' Oh. Never mind.

''{Pulls up email}'' ''{Reading}''

<blockquote class="email">YO Yo Strongbad, 
Hey Strongbad I was wondering if you 
have ever made homestar cry. 
DJ Solerous Australia</blockquote>

''{After "Hey Strongbad" he stops mid-sentence and says: "Well, which is it? 'Yo yo' or 'Hey' Strong Bad? I mean, the outcome of the rest of this whole email hinges on the decision made—" Without skipping a beat, as if it no longer matters, he finishes reading the email.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Typing}'' Whoa! ''THE'' DJ Solerous? What an honor! I saw you spin in a warehouse in Canberra ''{He pronounces it as can-BEAR-uh.}'' a few years back! Uh, no wait. I lied. I, nor anyone else, have ever heard of DJ Smoldyface.

''{clears screen}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Typing}'' So, have I ever made Homestar cry? Uh, yes. Yes, I have. A lot. I can pretty much make anybody cry just by showing them this drawing I invented of a one-legged puppy named "Li'l Brudder."

''{Strong Bad holds up a picture of a one-legged puppy saying "I can make it on my own."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{says}'' I mean, ''{types}'' it cracks me up, but Homestar just falls apart when he sees him. A-like so... ''{Gets up and exits.}''

''{Cut to The Field. Homestar is standing there, looking angrily offscreen right. Enter Strong Bad.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah, you ''stay'' over there.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, Homestar. I've got something for you.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Thanks, Strong Bad! What is it what is it what is it what is it what is it?

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's just this drawing I made...

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{uneasy}'' Oh, no. Don't do it. You know the storm that will unleash!

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, I think you'll like it!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{on the verge of tears}'' Strong Bad, no! I can't handle it!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ta-daaah! ''{Holds the Li'l Brudder drawing in front of his face.}''

''{Homestar breaks down crying, falls to his knees}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' No-ho-hooo... LIDD'L BRUDDOR! That little guy... He's got the heart of a champion! You're gonna make it, Li'l Brudder! You just keep scrapin' along!

''{Strong Bad looks on in disbelief; Homestar is lying on the ground, sobbing hysterically and kicking at the air}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Li'l Brudder... I... ''I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING WITH MY LIFE!'' I-I'm thinking of getting into male modeling—o-or maybe high finance... I JUST DON'T KNOW!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{As Li'l Brudder, shaking the drawing like a crude hand puppet.}'' I'm gonna be all right, Homestar.'' {Homestar is heard sobbing hysterically}'' I can make it on my own!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{sobs}'' It's like I said—the heart of a champion!

''{Enter The Cheat, from offscreen left.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises}''

''{Strong Bad turns to The Cheat and does his Li'l Brudder act.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, The Cheat, I'm gonna be a quarterback when I grow up! I'm gonna throw for 2,000 yards! ''{The Cheat begins sobbing.}'' Don't cry for me, The Cheatentina...

''{Enter Strong Sad, his eyes red around the edges and all watery, apparently trying not to cry.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, Strong Bad, is Li'l Brudder named after me? Do you think of ''me'' as a... one-legged puppy?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uhh, no. I think of you as a two-legged elephant... named "Tendafoot." ''{Pronounces name as "Tenderfoot."}''

''{He holds up a picture of this, with "Tendafoot" saying "I'm tops!"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Speaking as Tendafoot/Strong Sad}'' I could power a small city with my whining!

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{dejected}'' I probably could.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{still sobbing}'' Oh-h-h-h, Tendafoot, can you tell me how to get the most out of life?

''{Cut to the Compy 386. Strong Bad enters and sits down.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' There ya go. Homestar crying. Not a problem. I bet all a ya'lls  are prob'ly crying all over the place. That Li'l Brudder sure knows how to tug at your heartstrings. ''{begins to choke up as he speaks}'' ''{not typed}'' He's... ''{typing}'' He's just such a trooper.  Got such a strong... one leg. ''{recovers}'' Um, yeah. I think I've got a ''{hesitates}'' food in the oven. ''{begins to choke up again}'' I gotta go.

''{Strong Bad gets up and hurries out.}''

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click on "YO Yo" to see a Strong Bad yo-yo.
*Click on "''The'' DJ Solerous" to see a flyer for a DJ event.
<blockquote>Perfectly Legal WAREHOUSE RAVE 
featuring: 
DJ Solerous 
DJ Stank 
and DJ from Roseanne 
Don't tell the cops!!</blockquote>
*Click on "Homestar crying" at the end to see more of him crying:
:''{Homestar is still bawling.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ohh, Tendafoot! Can you tell me what to do with myself? I feel like I'm at a crossroads, and there's like, a Denny's on one corner, and an IHOP on the other!
:''{Homestar is kneeling over the Tendafoot drawing.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Can you give me some sound financial advice?
:''{Homestar is lying on the ground again.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Tendafoot, can you help advise me on my future?
*Click on "Li'l Brudder" at the end to see Li'l Brudder falling off his one leg.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The summary on the [[Podstar Runner]] RSS feed for this video says "Strong Bad invents a 1-legged puppy and the tears flow."
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad makes Homestar cry with his drawing of a one legged puppy with an indomitable spirit! Enter Li'l Brudder!"

===Remarks===
*The tears flying off Homestar's face are the same as in [[A Jorb Well Done]]. In A Jorb Well Done, the water coming off his face is sweat.
*The pieces of notebook paper are unusually rigid. Even when Strong Bad is holding the Lil' Brudder picture from the bottom it still stands straight up.
*When Homestar is rolling on the ground, it seems his shading stays on one side of his body.
*Homestar's height is different in this email, as he's proportionate to Strong Bad, whereas in most other toons and emails, he's taller than Strong Bad.
*Although Strong Bad is known to be a stickler for proper grammar, in the sentence "I, nor anyone else, have ever heard of DJ Smoldyface," he misuses the conjunction nor by failing to negate either of the elements it connects, and he also fails to make the subject(s) and verb agree. The sentence should read "Neither I, nor anyone else, has ever heard of DJ Smoldyface."
**He also puts the apostrophe in between the wrong letters of "y'all", instead spelling it "ya'll".

===Inside References===
*The DJ flyer is a reference to an Easter egg in [[techno]] for The Cheat's light-switch rave.
*"I can make it on my own" might be a reference to the Easter egg in [[invisibility]], where the tossed-out [[Tandy 400]] says it.
*Li'l Brudder and Tendafoot are both [[Severed Body Parts|missing body parts]].
*When Li'l Brudder's leg wobbles, it makes the same sound that [[Homsar]] makes when he walks.
*Homestar is [[Homestar Runner Left Behind|left behind]] in the field in the Easter egg of this email.
*Strong Bad says that he has "[[Nondescript Nouns|a food]]" in the oven.

===Real-World References===
*On the DJ flyer, "DJ from Roseanne" is a reference to the television show "[[IMDB:tt0094540|Roseanne]]". Actor [[IMDB:nm0279896|Michael Fishman]] played the role of Roseanne's son D. J. Conner.
*"Don't cry for me, The Cheatentina" is a reference to the song "[[Wikipedia:Don't Cry For Me, Argentina|Don't Cry For Me, Argentina]]" from [[Wikipedia:Andrew Lloyd Webber|Andrew Lloyd Webber's]] musical "[[Wikipedia:Evita|Evita]]".
*"Tendafoot" is possibly a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scouts']] rank of "[[Wikipedia:List of BSA rank requirements#Tenderfoot Scout|Tenderfoot]]", which is the first rank a Scout can achieve. The term originated in the American Old West to refer to inexperienced ranchers or miners.
*[[Wikipedia:Canberra|Canberra]] is Australia's capital city. Most Australians pronounce the city's name "CAN-bruh." A minority pronounce it "CAN-buh-ruh" and a few use "can-BEAR-uh," though the latter is generally considered incorrect. The varying pronunciation is to some extent a class-based difference.
*[[Wikipedia:IHOP (restaurant)|IHOP]] and [[Wikipedia:Denny's|Denny's]] are restaurant chains that both specialize in breakfast items.

===Fast Forward===
*Li'l Brudder and Tendafoot later star in their own TV show, [[The Li'l Brudder Show]].
*Homestar cries again from Li'l Brudder in [[Strong Badia the Free]] when you spin him on the Peace Draft wheel. During the scene that follows, Homestar wonders "why I even put that on the board".
*Despite his claim that he is over it, Homestar once again cries at the image of Li'l Brudder in the 2009 update of [[Punkin Stencils]].

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
===Commentary Transcript===
'''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]]

'''MIKE:''' An email. Hi, guys!

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad— You just did that.

'''MIKE:''' Ummmm, gah, start us over. Start us over. No, let's keep going. Let's keep going. Let's keep going.

'''MATT:''' Are you sure?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' All I can think to do is, like, start saying the email.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Just recite the lines along with it.

'''MATT:''' Mmmhmm.

'''MIKE:''' Don't we, don't you mispronounce uh...

'''MATT:''' Canberra?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' How are you supposed to say it?

'''MIKE:''' I dunno. I think it's supposed to be... Canberra, or something.

'''MATT:''' Oh. Have we gotten complaints?

'''MIKE:''' I think there was, I think in one of the message boards, there was a...

'''MATT:''' I can't imagine Strong Bad being a stickler for, uh...

'''MIKE:''' Pronouncing foreign cities.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Even though he is a stickler about a lot of other things. So this is where Little Brudder came from.

'''MIKE:''' That's right. He's since gone on to uhh, have his own theme song. Who do you think Homestar was talking to?

'''MATT:''' I think he was talking to that pile of, uh, Swiss Cake Rolls that he's friends with.

'''MIKE:''' Those things are bad for you!

'''MATT:''' They got in a fight and he told them to stay over there. Ober dere. Did you draw those new feet for this one, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' No, that was actually for the Cheat Commandos.

'''MATT:''' Oh, right.

'''MIKE:''' And Homestar's kneeling down, playing Cheat Commandos in the commercial.

'''MATT:''' I think the drool, the puddle of drool, is really what does it with Little Brudder.

'''MIKE:''' Makes it what?

'''MATT:''' Even sadder. ''{simultaneously with Mike}'' More pathetic.

'''MIKE:''' Those tears, that Homestar has, were originally sweat from, uh, an old cartoon.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Jumping Jacks cartoon.

'''MATT:''' That's been around forever, and unchanged, mostly.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, not very good.

'''MATT:''' No, they're not.

'''MIKE:''' They probably, they probably need to be updated.

'''MATT:''' Don't look at 'em.

'''MIKE:''' ''{noises, sounds like "thang, thang, thang"}''

'''MIKE:''' I always wondered about the abbreviation, or the shortening of little to li'l, and where the apostrophe goes. Because there technically should be an apostrophe after both, before and after the l.

'''MATT:''' Well, right, because there's an e at the end of...

'''MIKE:''' 'Cause sometimes I do lil', and sometimes I do li'l.

'''MATT:''' It's back when they spelled little litel.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, it's replacing all of those. One of the few times when Strong Sad, these days, is actually sad. He has really not been sad, in a long time.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, he's, yeah, it's true. We, our website sucks now.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' No, it's better. He became more um... developed. He used to just say things like, ''{imitating Strong Sad}'' "We die a little more every day," or something like that.

'''MATT:''' "Each day we die a little more," Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Ha! Well, my impression was pretty good. Look at his extensive use of apostrophes, right there.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Prob'ly, and y'alls.

'''MATT:''' Um...

'''MIKE:''' He used an apostrophe there, in "I've." This is the apostrophe email.

=== Fun Facts ===
*[[The Brothers Chaps]] make reference to the [[swiss cake rolls]] from [[invisibility]].

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|109|353|youtube=l1P_hPf-woA}}
{{Strong Bad Email}}[[Category: Emails With DVD Commentary]]
[[Category:Podstar Runner]]

crying

2021-11-01T19:14:08Z

24.253.236.202: /* Transcript */

{{sbenav}}

[[Image:lilbrudder.png|thumb|"Don't cry for me, The Cheatentina..."]]

{{aboutemail}} {{for|[[running gag]]|Crying}}

DJ Solerous asks Strong Bad if he had ever made Homestar cry. All weep when they see Li'l Brudder.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, [[Li'l Brudder]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, [[Tendafoot]]

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]]

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Monday, July 26, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 3:26

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Rapping}'' I'm not gonna sing an email song this week e—''{realizes mistake, talking}'' Oh. Never mind.

''{Pulls up email}'' ''{Reading}''

<blockquote class="email">YO Yo Strongbad, 
Hey Strongbad I was wondering if you 
have ever made homestar cry. 
DJ Solerous Australia</blockquote>

''{After "Hey Strongbad" he stops mid-sentence and says: "Well, which is it? 'Yo yo' or 'Hey' Strong Bad? I mean, the outcome of the rest of this whole email hinges on the decision made—" Without skipping a beat, as if it no longer matters, he finishes reading the email.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Typing}'' Whoa! ''THE'' DJ Solerous? What an honor! I saw you spin in a warehouse in Canberra ''{He pronounces it as can-BEAR-uh.}'' a few years back! Uh, no wait. I lied. I, nor anyone else, have ever heard of DJ Smoldyface.

''{clears screen}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Typing}'' So, have I ever made Homestar cry? Uh, yes. Yes, I have. A lot. I can pretty much make anybody cry just by showing them this drawing I invented of a one-legged puppy named "Li'l Brudder."

''{Strong Bad holds up a picture of a one-legged puppy saying "I can make it on my own."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{says}'' I mean, ''{types}'' it cracks me up, but Homestar just falls apart when he sees him. A-like so... ''{Gets up and exits.}''

''{Cut to The Field. Homestar is standing there, looking angrily offscreen right. Enter Strong Bad.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah, you ''stay'' over there.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, Homestar. I've got something for you.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Thanks, Strong Bad! What is it what is it what is it what is it what is it?

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's just this drawing I made...

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{uneasy}'' Oh, no. Don't do it. You know the storm that will unleash!

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, I think you'll like it!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{on the verge of tears}'' Strong Bad, no! I can't handle it!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ta-daaah! ''{Holds the Li'l Brudder drawing in front of his face.}''

''{Homestar breaks down crying, falls to his knees}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' No-ho-hooo... LIDD'L BRUDDOR! That little guy... He's got the heart of a champion! You're gonna make it, Li'l Brudder! You just keep scrapin' along!

''{Strong Bad looks on in disbelief; Homestar is lying on the ground, sobbing hysterically and kicking at the air}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Li'l Brudder... I... ''I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING WITH MY LIFE!'' I-I'm thinking of getting into male modeling—o-or maybe high finance... I JUST DON'T KNOW!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{As Li'l Brudder, shaking the drawing like a crude hand puppet.}'' I'm gonna be all right, Homestar.'' {Homestar is heard sobbing hysterically}'' I can make it on my own!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{sobs}'' It's like I said—the heart of a champion!

''{Enter The Cheat, from offscreen left.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises}''

''{Strong Bad turns to The Cheat and does his Li'l Brudder act.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, The Cheat, I'm gonna be a quarterback when I grow up! I'm gonna throw for 2,000 yards! ''{The Cheat begins sobbing.}'' Don't cry for me, The Cheatentina...

''{Enter Strong Sad, his eyes red around the edges and all watery, apparently trying not to cry.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, Strong Bad, is Li'l Brudder named after me? Do you think of ''me'' as a... one-legged puppy?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uhh, no. I think of you as a two-legged elephant... named "Tendafoot." ''{Pronounces name as "Tenderfoot."}''

''{He holds up a picture of this, with "Tendafoot" saying "I'm tops!"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Speaking as Tendafoot/Strong Sad}'' I could power a small city with my whining!

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{dejected}'' I probably could.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{still sobbing}'' Oh-h-h-h, Tendafoot, can you tell me how to get the most out of life?

''{Cut to the Compy 386. Strong Bad enters and sits down.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' There ya go. Homestar crying. Not a problem. I bet all a ya'lls  are prob'ly crying all over the place. That Li'l Brudder sure knows how to tug at your heartstrings. ''{begins to choke up as he speaks}'' He's... ''{typing}'' He's just such a trooper.  Got such a strong... one leg. ''{recovers}'' Um, yeah. I think I've got a ''{hesitates}'' food in the oven. ''{begins to choke up again}'' I gotta go.

''{Strong Bad gets up and hurries out.}''

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click on "YO Yo" to see a Strong Bad yo-yo.
*Click on "''The'' DJ Solerous" to see a flyer for a DJ event.
<blockquote>Perfectly Legal WAREHOUSE RAVE 
featuring: 
DJ Solerous 
DJ Stank 
and DJ from Roseanne 
Don't tell the cops!!</blockquote>
*Click on "Homestar crying" at the end to see more of him crying:
:''{Homestar is still bawling.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ohh, Tendafoot! Can you tell me what to do with myself? I feel like I'm at a crossroads, and there's like, a Denny's on one corner, and an IHOP on the other!
:''{Homestar is kneeling over the Tendafoot drawing.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Can you give me some sound financial advice?
:''{Homestar is lying on the ground again.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Tendafoot, can you help advise me on my future?
*Click on "Li'l Brudder" at the end to see Li'l Brudder falling off his one leg.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The summary on the [[Podstar Runner]] RSS feed for this video says "Strong Bad invents a 1-legged puppy and the tears flow."
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad makes Homestar cry with his drawing of a one legged puppy with an indomitable spirit! Enter Li'l Brudder!"

===Remarks===
*The tears flying off Homestar's face are the same as in [[A Jorb Well Done]]. In A Jorb Well Done, the water coming off his face is sweat.
*The pieces of notebook paper are unusually rigid. Even when Strong Bad is holding the Lil' Brudder picture from the bottom it still stands straight up.
*When Homestar is rolling on the ground, it seems his shading stays on one side of his body.
*Homestar's height is different in this email, as he's proportionate to Strong Bad, whereas in most other toons and emails, he's taller than Strong Bad.
*Although Strong Bad is known to be a stickler for proper grammar, in the sentence "I, nor anyone else, have ever heard of DJ Smoldyface," he misuses the conjunction nor by failing to negate either of the elements it connects, and he also fails to make the subject(s) and verb agree. The sentence should read "Neither I, nor anyone else, has ever heard of DJ Smoldyface."
**He also puts the apostrophe in between the wrong letters of "y'all", instead spelling it "ya'll".

===Inside References===
*The DJ flyer is a reference to an Easter egg in [[techno]] for The Cheat's light-switch rave.
*"I can make it on my own" might be a reference to the Easter egg in [[invisibility]], where the tossed-out [[Tandy 400]] says it.
*Li'l Brudder and Tendafoot are both [[Severed Body Parts|missing body parts]].
*When Li'l Brudder's leg wobbles, it makes the same sound that [[Homsar]] makes when he walks.
*Homestar is [[Homestar Runner Left Behind|left behind]] in the field in the Easter egg of this email.
*Strong Bad says that he has "[[Nondescript Nouns|a food]]" in the oven.

===Real-World References===
*On the DJ flyer, "DJ from Roseanne" is a reference to the television show "[[IMDB:tt0094540|Roseanne]]". Actor [[IMDB:nm0279896|Michael Fishman]] played the role of Roseanne's son D. J. Conner.
*"Don't cry for me, The Cheatentina" is a reference to the song "[[Wikipedia:Don't Cry For Me, Argentina|Don't Cry For Me, Argentina]]" from [[Wikipedia:Andrew Lloyd Webber|Andrew Lloyd Webber's]] musical "[[Wikipedia:Evita|Evita]]".
*"Tendafoot" is possibly a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scouts']] rank of "[[Wikipedia:List of BSA rank requirements#Tenderfoot Scout|Tenderfoot]]", which is the first rank a Scout can achieve. The term originated in the American Old West to refer to inexperienced ranchers or miners.
*[[Wikipedia:Canberra|Canberra]] is Australia's capital city. Most Australians pronounce the city's name "CAN-bruh." A minority pronounce it "CAN-buh-ruh" and a few use "can-BEAR-uh," though the latter is generally considered incorrect. The varying pronunciation is to some extent a class-based difference.
*[[Wikipedia:IHOP (restaurant)|IHOP]] and [[Wikipedia:Denny's|Denny's]] are restaurant chains that both specialize in breakfast items.

===Fast Forward===
*Li'l Brudder and Tendafoot later star in their own TV show, [[The Li'l Brudder Show]].
*Homestar cries again from Li'l Brudder in [[Strong Badia the Free]] when you spin him on the Peace Draft wheel. During the scene that follows, Homestar wonders "why I even put that on the board".
*Despite his claim that he is over it, Homestar once again cries at the image of Li'l Brudder in the 2009 update of [[Punkin Stencils]].

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
===Commentary Transcript===
'''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]]

'''MIKE:''' An email. Hi, guys!

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad— You just did that.

'''MIKE:''' Ummmm, gah, start us over. Start us over. No, let's keep going. Let's keep going. Let's keep going.

'''MATT:''' Are you sure?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' All I can think to do is, like, start saying the email.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Just recite the lines along with it.

'''MATT:''' Mmmhmm.

'''MIKE:''' Don't we, don't you mispronounce uh...

'''MATT:''' Canberra?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' How are you supposed to say it?

'''MIKE:''' I dunno. I think it's supposed to be... Canberra, or something.

'''MATT:''' Oh. Have we gotten complaints?

'''MIKE:''' I think there was, I think in one of the message boards, there was a...

'''MATT:''' I can't imagine Strong Bad being a stickler for, uh...

'''MIKE:''' Pronouncing foreign cities.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Even though he is a stickler about a lot of other things. So this is where Little Brudder came from.

'''MIKE:''' That's right. He's since gone on to uhh, have his own theme song. Who do you think Homestar was talking to?

'''MATT:''' I think he was talking to that pile of, uh, Swiss Cake Rolls that he's friends with.

'''MIKE:''' Those things are bad for you!

'''MATT:''' They got in a fight and he told them to stay over there. Ober dere. Did you draw those new feet for this one, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' No, that was actually for the Cheat Commandos.

'''MATT:''' Oh, right.

'''MIKE:''' And Homestar's kneeling down, playing Cheat Commandos in the commercial.

'''MATT:''' I think the drool, the puddle of drool, is really what does it with Little Brudder.

'''MIKE:''' Makes it what?

'''MATT:''' Even sadder. ''{simultaneously with Mike}'' More pathetic.

'''MIKE:''' Those tears, that Homestar has, were originally sweat from, uh, an old cartoon.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Jumping Jacks cartoon.

'''MATT:''' That's been around forever, and unchanged, mostly.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, not very good.

'''MATT:''' No, they're not.

'''MIKE:''' They probably, they probably need to be updated.

'''MATT:''' Don't look at 'em.

'''MIKE:''' ''{noises, sounds like "thang, thang, thang"}''

'''MIKE:''' I always wondered about the abbreviation, or the shortening of little to li'l, and where the apostrophe goes. Because there technically should be an apostrophe after both, before and after the l.

'''MATT:''' Well, right, because there's an e at the end of...

'''MIKE:''' 'Cause sometimes I do lil', and sometimes I do li'l.

'''MATT:''' It's back when they spelled little litel.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, it's replacing all of those. One of the few times when Strong Sad, these days, is actually sad. He has really not been sad, in a long time.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, he's, yeah, it's true. We, our website sucks now.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' No, it's better. He became more um... developed. He used to just say things like, ''{imitating Strong Sad}'' "We die a little more every day," or something like that.

'''MATT:''' "Each day we die a little more," Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Ha! Well, my impression was pretty good. Look at his extensive use of apostrophes, right there.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Prob'ly, and y'alls.

'''MATT:''' Um...

'''MIKE:''' He used an apostrophe there, in "I've." This is the apostrophe email.

=== Fun Facts ===
*[[The Brothers Chaps]] make reference to the [[swiss cake rolls]] from [[invisibility]].

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|109|353|youtube=l1P_hPf-woA}}
{{Strong Bad Email}}[[Category: Emails With DVD Commentary]]
[[Category:Podstar Runner]]

crying

2021-10-27T17:40:06Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}

[[Image:lilbrudder.png|thumb|"Don't cry for me, The Cheatentina..."]]

{{aboutemail}} {{for|[[running gag]]|Crying}}

DJ Solerous asks Strong Bad if he had ever made Homestar cry. All weep when they see Li'l Brudder.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, [[Li'l Brudder]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, [[Tendafoot]]

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]]

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Monday, July 26, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 3:26

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Rapping}'' I'm not gonna sing an email song this week e—''{realizes mistake, talking}'' Oh. Never mind.

''{Pulls up email}'' ''{Reading}''

<blockquote class="email">YO Yo Strongbad, 
Hey Strongbad I was wondering if you 
have ever made homestar cry. 
DJ Solerous Australia</blockquote>

''{After "Hey Strongbad" he stops mid-sentence and says: "Well, which is it? 'Yo yo' or 'Hey' Strong Bad? I mean, the outcome of the rest of this whole email hinges on the decision made—" Without skipping a beat, as if it no longer matters, he finishes reading the email.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Typing}'' Whoa! ''THE'' DJ Solerous? What an honor! I saw you spin in a warehouse in Canberra ''{He pronounces it as can-BEAR-uh.}'' a few years back! Uh, no wait. I lied. I, nor anyone else, have ever heard of DJ Smoldyface.

''{clears screen}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Typing}'' So, have I ever made Homestar cry? Uh, yes. Yes, I have. A lot. I can pretty much make anybody cry just by showing them this drawing I invented of a one-legged puppy named "Li'l Brudder."

''{Strong Bad holds up a picture of a one-legged puppy saying "I can make it on my own."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{says}'' I mean, ''{types}'' it cracks me up, but Homestar just falls apart when he sees him. A-like so... ''{Gets up and exits.}''

''{Cut to The Field. Homestar is standing there, looking angrily offscreen right. Enter Strong Bad.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah, you ''stay'' over there.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, Homestar. I've got something for you.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Thanks, Strong Bad! What is it what is it what is it what is it what is it?

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's just this drawing I made...

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{uneasy}'' Oh, no. Don't do it. You know the storm that will unleash!

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, I think you'll like it!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{on the verge of tears}'' Strong Bad, no! I can't handle it!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ta-daaah! ''{Holds the Li'l Brudder drawing in front of his face.}''

''{Homestar breaks down crying, falls to his knees}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' No-ho-hooo... LIDD'L BRUDDOR! That little guy... He's got the heart of a champion! You're gonna make it, Li'l Brudder! You just keep scrapin' along!

''{Strong Bad looks on in disbelief; Homestar is lying on the ground, sobbing hysterically and kicking at the air}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Li'l Brudder... I... ''I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING WITH MY LIFE!'' I-I'm thinking of getting into male modeling—o-or maybe high finance... I JUST DON'T KNOW!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{As Li'l Brudder, shaking the drawing like a crude hand puppet.}'' I'm gonna be all right, Homestar.'' {Homestar is heard sobbing hysterically}'' I can make it on my own!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{sobs}'' It's like I said—the heart of a champion!

''{Enter The Cheat, from offscreen left.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises}''

''{Strong Bad turns to The Cheat and does his Li'l Brudder act.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, The Cheat, I'm gonna be a quarterback when I grow up! I'm gonna throw for 2,000 yards! ''{The Cheat begins sobbing.}'' Don't cry for me, The Cheatentina...

''{Enter Strong Sad, his eyes red around the edges and all watery, apparently trying not to cry.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, Strong Bad, is Li'l Brudder named after me? Do you think of ''me'' as a... one-legged puppy?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uhh, no. I think of you as a two-legged elephant... named "Tendafoot." ''{Pronounces name as "Tenderfoot."}''

''{He holds up a picture of this, with "Tendafoot" saying "I'm tops!"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Speaking as Tendafoot/Strong Sad}'' I could power a small city with my whining!

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{dejected}'' I probably could.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{still sobbing}'' Oh-h-h-h, Tendafoot, can you tell me how to get the most out of life?

''{Cut to the Compy 386. Strong Bad enters and sits down.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' There ya go. Homestar crying. Not a problem. I bet all a ya'lls  are prob'ly crying all over the place. That Li'l Brudder sure knows how to tug at your heartstrings. ''{begins to choke up as he speaks}'' He's just such a trooper.  Got such a strong... one leg. ''{recovers}'' Um, yeah. I think I've got a ''{hesitates}'' food in the oven. ''{begins to choke up again}'' I gotta go.

''{Strong Bad gets up and hurries out.}''

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click on "YO Yo" to see a Strong Bad yo-yo.
*Click on "''The'' DJ Solerous" to see a flyer for a DJ event.
<blockquote>Perfectly Legal WAREHOUSE RAVE 
featuring: 
DJ Solerous 
DJ Stank 
and DJ from Roseanne 
Don't tell the cops!!</blockquote>
*Click on "Homestar crying" at the end to see more of him crying:
:''{Homestar is still bawling.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ohh, Tendafoot! Can you tell me what to do with myself? I feel like I'm at a crossroads, and there's like, a Denny's on one corner, and an IHOP on the other!
:''{Homestar is kneeling over the Tendafoot drawing.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Can you give me some sound financial advice?
:''{Homestar is lying on the ground again.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Tendafoot, can you help advise me on my future?
*Click on "Li'l Brudder" at the end to see Li'l Brudder falling off his one leg.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The summary on the [[Podstar Runner]] RSS feed for this video says "Strong Bad invents a 1-legged puppy and the tears flow."
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad makes Homestar cry with his drawing of a one legged puppy with an indomitable spirit! Enter Li'l Brudder!"

===Remarks===
*The tears flying off Homestar's face are the same as in [[A Jorb Well Done]]. In A Jorb Well Done, the water coming off his face is sweat.
*The pieces of notebook paper are unusually rigid. Even when Strong Bad is holding the Lil' Brudder picture from the bottom it still stands straight up.
*When Homestar is rolling on the ground, it seems his shading stays on one side of his body.
*Homestar's height is different in this email, as he's proportionate to Strong Bad, whereas in most other toons and emails, he's taller than Strong Bad.
*Although Strong Bad is known to be a stickler for proper grammar, in the sentence "I, nor anyone else, have ever heard of DJ Smoldyface," he misuses the conjunction nor by failing to negate either of the elements it connects, and he also fails to make the subject(s) and verb agree. The sentence should read "Neither I, nor anyone else, has ever heard of DJ Smoldyface."
**He also puts the apostrophe in between the wrong letters of "y'all", instead spelling it "ya'll".

===Inside References===
*The DJ flyer is a reference to an Easter egg in [[techno]] for The Cheat's light-switch rave.
*"I can make it on my own" might be a reference to the Easter egg in [[invisibility]], where the tossed-out [[Tandy 400]] says it.
*Li'l Brudder and Tendafoot are both [[Severed Body Parts|missing body parts]].
*When Li'l Brudder's leg wobbles, it makes the same sound that [[Homsar]] makes when he walks.
*Homestar is [[Homestar Runner Left Behind|left behind]] in the field in the Easter egg of this email.
*Strong Bad says that he has "[[Nondescript Nouns|a food]]" in the oven.

===Real-World References===
*On the DJ flyer, "DJ from Roseanne" is a reference to the television show "[[IMDB:tt0094540|Roseanne]]". Actor [[IMDB:nm0279896|Michael Fishman]] played the role of Roseanne's son D. J. Conner.
*"Don't cry for me, The Cheatentina" is a reference to the song "[[Wikipedia:Don't Cry For Me, Argentina|Don't Cry For Me, Argentina]]" from [[Wikipedia:Andrew Lloyd Webber|Andrew Lloyd Webber's]] musical "[[Wikipedia:Evita|Evita]]".
*"Tendafoot" is possibly a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scouts']] rank of "[[Wikipedia:List of BSA rank requirements#Tenderfoot Scout|Tenderfoot]]", which is the first rank a Scout can achieve. The term originated in the American Old West to refer to inexperienced ranchers or miners.
*[[Wikipedia:Canberra|Canberra]] is Australia's capital city. Most Australians pronounce the city's name "CAN-bruh." A minority pronounce it "CAN-buh-ruh" and a few use "can-BEAR-uh," though the latter is generally considered incorrect. The varying pronunciation is to some extent a class-based difference.
*[[Wikipedia:IHOP (restaurant)|IHOP]] and [[Wikipedia:Denny's|Denny's]] are restaurant chains that both specialize in breakfast items.

===Fast Forward===
*Li'l Brudder and Tendafoot later star in their own TV show, [[The Li'l Brudder Show]].
*Homestar cries again from Li'l Brudder in [[Strong Badia the Free]] when you spin him on the Peace Draft wheel. During the scene that follows, Homestar wonders "why I even put that on the board".
*Despite his claim that he is over it, Homestar once again cries at the image of Li'l Brudder in the 2009 update of [[Punkin Stencils]].

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
===Commentary Transcript===
'''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]]

'''MIKE:''' An email. Hi, guys!

'''MATT:''' Strong Bad— You just did that.

'''MIKE:''' Ummmm, gah, start us over. Start us over. No, let's keep going. Let's keep going. Let's keep going.

'''MATT:''' Are you sure?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Okay.

'''MIKE:''' All I can think to do is, like, start saying the email.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Just recite the lines along with it.

'''MATT:''' Mmmhmm.

'''MIKE:''' Don't we, don't you mispronounce uh...

'''MATT:''' Canberra?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' How are you supposed to say it?

'''MIKE:''' I dunno. I think it's supposed to be... Canberra, or something.

'''MATT:''' Oh. Have we gotten complaints?

'''MIKE:''' I think there was, I think in one of the message boards, there was a...

'''MATT:''' I can't imagine Strong Bad being a stickler for, uh...

'''MIKE:''' Pronouncing foreign cities.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Even though he is a stickler about a lot of other things. So this is where Little Brudder came from.

'''MIKE:''' That's right. He's since gone on to uhh, have his own theme song. Who do you think Homestar was talking to?

'''MATT:''' I think he was talking to that pile of, uh, Swiss Cake Rolls that he's friends with.

'''MIKE:''' Those things are bad for you!

'''MATT:''' They got in a fight and he told them to stay over there. Ober dere. Did you draw those new feet for this one, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' No, that was actually for the Cheat Commandos.

'''MATT:''' Oh, right.

'''MIKE:''' And Homestar's kneeling down, playing Cheat Commandos in the commercial.

'''MATT:''' I think the drool, the puddle of drool, is really what does it with Little Brudder.

'''MIKE:''' Makes it what?

'''MATT:''' Even sadder. ''{simultaneously with Mike}'' More pathetic.

'''MIKE:''' Those tears, that Homestar has, were originally sweat from, uh, an old cartoon.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Jumping Jacks cartoon.

'''MATT:''' That's been around forever, and unchanged, mostly.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, not very good.

'''MATT:''' No, they're not.

'''MIKE:''' They probably, they probably need to be updated.

'''MATT:''' Don't look at 'em.

'''MIKE:''' ''{noises, sounds like "thang, thang, thang"}''

'''MIKE:''' I always wondered about the abbreviation, or the shortening of little to li'l, and where the apostrophe goes. Because there technically should be an apostrophe after both, before and after the l.

'''MATT:''' Well, right, because there's an e at the end of...

'''MIKE:''' 'Cause sometimes I do lil', and sometimes I do li'l.

'''MATT:''' It's back when they spelled little litel.

'''MIKE:''' Yes, it's replacing all of those. One of the few times when Strong Sad, these days, is actually sad. He has really not been sad, in a long time.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, he's, yeah, it's true. We, our website sucks now.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' No, it's better. He became more um... developed. He used to just say things like, ''{imitating Strong Sad}'' "We die a little more every day," or something like that.

'''MATT:''' "Each day we die a little more," Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Ha! Well, my impression was pretty good. Look at his extensive use of apostrophes, right there.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Prob'ly, and y'alls.

'''MATT:''' Um...

'''MIKE:''' He used an apostrophe there, in "I've." This is the apostrophe email.

=== Fun Facts ===
*[[The Brothers Chaps]] make reference to the [[swiss cake rolls]] from [[invisibility]].

== External Links ==
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theme park

2021-10-08T02:47:45Z

24.253.236.202: /* Transcript */

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[[Image:themepark.png|thumb|"* please do not bring your grandmother"]]

Strong Bad tells us about his plans for a Strong Badia theme park.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Cheerleader}} (Easter egg), {{Film|The Ugly One}} (Easter egg), [[Monkey D]] (Easter egg), {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|Shark-Tooth Bubs}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}/[[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA#Mascots|Stoppy the Sign]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}/[[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA#Mascots|Poppy the Tire]], {{Film|Homsar}}/[[General Tso's Chicken]], [[Bear Holding a Shark]]

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA]], Strong Badia ([[Riverquest Safariventure]])

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Tuesday, May 25, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 4:14

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Everybody loves this, everybody needs this, it's time for funny stuff. ''{reading the email, in a Teen Girl Squad voice}'' Dear strong bad, you are the coolest... ''{stops reading and clears his throat}'' Oh! Excuse me.

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Dear strong bad, 
you are the coolest, any way onto 
buisness. i think that you should 
make your own theme park. 
 
crapfully crap, 
Rafael FL.</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pronounces "buisness" just as it is spelled ("bweez-ness"), sighs and says "sincerely yours" instead of "crapfully crap", and "football league" instead of "FL".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well, Rafi, being the distinguished buisnessman ''{continues with the misspelling/pronunciation used earlier}'' that I am, I've had a theme park in development for quite some time now. Almost as long as I've been growin' this mustache.

''{A magnification of Strong Bad's upper lip appears with "x10,000" in the corner, showing a growth of one hair.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Anyways, it'd be called

''{Cut to view of a theme park by the Stop Sign and Cinder Block.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Strong Bad's Mount RIDESPLACE! USA

''{As this is said, the appropriate words flash on the screen above the view of the theme park. "Strong Bad's" (in a handwritten font) slides from the left, a mountain which reads "MOUNT RIDESPLACE!" falls from the top, and "USA" pops in.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And it will have more rides than you or your grandmother can handle.

''{As this is said, the words "More Rides Than You Or Your Grandmother Can Handle!*" appear along with a "*please do not bring your grandmother" disclaimer on the bottom.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Of course, our flagship roller coaster would be

''{Cut to a view of the roller coaster, which is perfectly circular and spins continually without stopping. The Trogdor arcade game music is playing in the background}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' The Bowels of Trogdor!!

''{Pan out to see that The King of Town is riding the roller coaster and screaming.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Which would like whip you around and around until you either throw up or catch fire somehow.

''{The King of Town catches fire somehow.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Hooieooieooieooieooieooieooieooie!

''{Cut to Strong Bad and The Cheat and the entrance to the ride. A Trogdor sign is there that says "Peasants must be as tall as my beefy arm to ride this ride." The Cheat is clearly not tall enough.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Sorry, little guy, ''{The Cheat starts to stand on tip-toes.}'' I can't do nothing for you. ''{The Cheat puts on a top hat and starts to stand on tip-toes again.}'' Maybe you better head over to Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land instead.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{disappointed The Cheat noise}''

''{Cut to Strong Sad standing on a stage.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And every hour, at the main stage, there'd be a performance of "The Strong Sad Gets Decked Repeatedly Stunt Spook-tacular"!

''{A banner lowers behind Strong Sad that says "The Strong Sad Gets Decked Repeatedly Stunt SPOOK-tacular!!". Strong Sad is wearing a witch's hat standing patiently. Strong Mad comes from stage right to flying tackle Strong Sad.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' MAUHHH!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh!

''{Strong Sad climbs back up on the stage again standing patiently. Strong Mad comes from stage left this time to flying tackle Strong Sad again.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' MAUHHH!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh!

''{Cut to Strong Bad behind a table with a layout of the theme park on it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' To make sure you don't have any money left when you leave,—

''{The words "not to scale" appear with an arrow pointing at the layout.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —there'd be more games than you or your grand''father'' could handle.

''{Cut to Bubs working the "Throw Game."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' You know, the ones where you throw hoops or rings or baseballs at different stuff and try to win cheap generic stuffed animal versions of ten-year-old cartoons.

''{During this voice over, Pom Pom plays the "Throw Game" while Bubs looks on. Pom Pom successfully gets all three rings that he tosses around the "[[Cold One|Xtra Cold One]]" bottle. Strong Bad's arm appears, holding up a cheap stuffed animal.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Like this Bubs with a horn.

'''BUBS:''' No, no, no. You gotta get those rings ''inside'' the bottle.

'''POM POM:''' ''{bubble noises}''

''{Pom Pom picks up a baseball and throws it at the bottle in frustration. A shattering noise is heard. Cut back to Strong Bad behind the layout of the park.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No theme park would be complete without a bunch of costumed mascots running around anticking... ''{scratches head}'' antiquing... Whatever.

''{Cut to view of an area behind some fencing. The King of Town still rides "The Bowels of Trogdor!!" in the distance.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' ''{distant}'' Hooieooieooieooie!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' You know, there'd be one of the Stop Sign,

''{Coach Z appears wearing a costume that has a cartoonish looking Stop Sign design}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' call him "Stoppy", Stoppy the Sign, and then there'd be the tire...

''{Homestar appears wearing a costume that has a very cartoonish-looking Tire design.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' call him "Poppy the Tire"... And who could forget "General Tso's Chicken"?

''{A carton of what could only be General Tso's Chicken falls from the sky. It has "Ryan S." written on the side. Homsar's feet appear beneath it.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, Stoppy, is your suit chafing you like crazy?

'''COACH Z:''' Well, to tell ya da truth dere Poppy, I've always enjoyed a good chafe.

'''HOMSAR:''' AaAaAaAaA! It's time for tasteball!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, crap! It's tasteball already?

''{Cut to Strong Bad back at the Compy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' But yeah, it's a pretty unrealistic vision. I'm gonna have to start robbing WAY more hot actresses if I ever hope to make that dream a reality. But for now, I'll settle for giving tours on The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure.

''{He gets up. Cut to Strong Bad standing in a box in Strong Badia. He holds some sort of microphone.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Strong Bad makes a microphone click noise and speaks in an emotionless theme park tour guide-styled voice throughout the rest of the email. In each phrase, the pitch rises, reaches a high in the middle, and then falls}'' Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen my name is Strong Bad and welcome to The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure. ''{Strong Bad makes a click noise again.}''

''{Cut to wide view of Strong Bad standing in a box labeled "riverquest safariventure." Homestar sits in front of him in the box. To the left is a running hose. The water from the hose forms a puddle around the box.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Please keep your arms legs and valuables inside the vehicle at all times and get ready to experience the fury of: The Strong Badian Riverboat Superfun...ride. ''{click}''

''{Strong Bad inches closer to Homestar as he says this, while Homestar backs away.}''

''{[[The Paper]] comes down. About five seconds later, it cuts to Strong Bad and Homestar and the tour continues. The Paper disappears.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' And first up on our tour if you look to your right ''{Homestar looks to his right}'' experience the fury of: ''{cut to wider view}'' a big rock that's going to fall on uuuus.

''{An obviously fake rock pops up behind the fence, mounted on a stick.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ooooh.

''{The rock goes back down behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That was a close call, I hope everyone is okaaaay.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I'm not ok—

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{quickly, interrupting}'' ''{click}'' Shut up. ''{click}''

''{Cut to closeup of Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' And if you look up the river here comes another one of our tour guides his name is The Cheat—

''{Cut to wide view again. The Cheat walks by in his own box, which is labeled "R.Q. 2".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —everybody say "Hi, The Cheeeeat."

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hide and seeeeek.

''{Some drum sounds can be heard.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Oh, what's that I hear is it the sound of island drums? Oh no, it's headhunteeerrrs.

''{The bear holding a shark, posing as a "headhunter", pops up from behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Everyone stay in the boat, I'll take care of thiiis. ''{click}''

''{Strong Bad pulls out a starter's pistol, and turns his head away as he fires up into the air twice. The cutout goes back down behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Looks like we scared those headhunters. Let's hope they don't come baaack. ''{click}''

''{Cut to closeup of Strong Bad again.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Well folks we've made it back safely did everyone have a good time?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Not really.

''{Strong Bad continues to talk while Homestar answers.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Goooood. Please leave your valuables under your seat and exit to your riiiight. ''{click}''

''{Cut to wide view again.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Strong Bad, I gotta level with ya. That might have been ''{short pause}'' the worst three thousand dollars I ever spent.

''{The Paper comes down again. After another pause, Strong Bad speaks again.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Don't forget to experience the fury of: our gift shooop. ''{click}''

''{Once again, Strong Bad moves closer to Homestar as he says this while Homestar backs away.}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[File:Monkey Dude2.PNG|thumb|Monkey D's season pass]]
*Click on "buisness" after Strong Bad says it in the first part of the email to see a picture of The Ugly One and Cheerleader.
:'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{Her shirt reads "kiss boys."}'' The Ugly One, why you always gotta be all up in my bweez-NASS? ''{Cheerleader looks angry, while The Ugly One looks sad.}''
*Click on "Rafi" to see a mock NFL patch.
*Click on "Mount" in "Mount Ridesplace USA" after Strong Bad says "USA" to see [[Monkey D]]'s season pass.
<blockquote>Strong Bad's Mount Ridesplace! USA 
Season Pass 
Name: Monkey D 
Has: Fun 
Valid thru 9/04 
''{signed}'' Monkey D</blockquote>
*Click on the second Bubs doll in full sight in the "Throw Game" stand to see a real Bubs plushie, [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]], looking from left to right.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The paper on Strong Bad's desk is labeled "plans for stuff".
*The box in the throw game is labeled "BOX FOR THROW GAME", in capital letters.
*This is the second email with a voice-over of a character invented by Strong Bad. The email [[japanese cartoon]] had a Stinkoman voice-over.
**This is also the first time Strong Bad has used his [[Teen Girl Squad]] voice outside of a TGS cartoon.
*This email has the longest cartoon extension after the Paper comes down.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad describes what the Strong Badia theme park would be like."

===Remarks===
*This is one of the few emails where [[The Paper]] comes down twice. The only other time this happened was in [[50 emails]]. (The [[New Paper]] later came down twice in [[mini-golf]] and [[web comics]], however.)
*The Bowels of Trogdor is not visible in the panoramic view of the park.
*When Homestar looks at the boulder, he appears to turn his head around 180 degrees, without moving his body.

===Goofs===
*When Pom Pom hits the bottle with the ball, a crashing sound is heard yet it doesn't break. Also, the crashing sound is played right after Pom Pom throws the ball, but before it reaches the bottle.
*At the end of the Strong Bad's Riverquest Safariventure, the [[Stop Sign]] is not there. It disappeared sometime between the pause the first time The Paper came down and the fake boulder.
*The Bowels of Trogdor abruptly stops spinning while the mascots are talking. Also, The King of Town isn't on fire.
*When the toon finally ends, the flowing water animation freezes.

===Glitches===
*On some computers, the email stops abruptly at the scene with the Bowels of Trogdor. Only one car appears, and it is off the rails with nobody inside.

===Inside References===
*This is the first time since [[vacation]] (email 40) that Strong Bad has answered an email with a "[[crapfully yours]]"-style signature.
**It is also the only Compy-era email to feature such a closing.
*The "headhunter" is the [[Bear holding a Shark]] from [[date]].
*Pom Pom throws rings around an "Xtra Cold One", first seen in [[Cheat Commandos (toon)|Cheat Commandos]].
*The music played during Strong Sad's "Stunt Spooktacular" is the same music that was used in both [[Homestarloween Party]] and [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]].
*The music that plays when Strong Bad is describing the "Bowels of Trogdor" roller coaster is from the game [[TROGDOR!]].
*Cheerleader uses the phrase "[[All up ons|all up in]]".
*"Ryan S." on the box of General Tso's chicken is a reference to [[Ryan Sterritt]], a friend of [[The Brothers Chaps]], who helps them with the website and the [[strongbad_email.exe]] DVD.
*This is another reference to Homestar's [[Best/Worst X bucks I ever spent|best/worst money spent]].
*[[Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]] Land, the ride Strong Bad sends The Cheat to, is originally from [[crazy cartoon]] as the name of the cartoon.

===Real-World References===
*The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure is reminiscent of the [[Wikipedia:Jungle Cruise|Jungle Cruise]] found in [[Disney]] theme parks. The way Strong Bad does not breathe or show any expression and his rise-and-fall delivery is reminiscent of Jungle Cruise tour guides who have given the same tour over and over again. The shooting of a warning shot (in this case a starter's pistol) to scare off the bear and shark "headhunters" is directly from the tour guide script. Most of Strong Bad's speech correlates to the tour.

===Fast Forward===
*In [[boring (really)]], Strong Bad says, "...prepare to experience the fury of... me naming all the three letter words I can think of," in a voice similar to the one used in this toon.
*The "[[riverquest safariventure]]" ride reappears a few times.
*The [[Female Lappy 486]] mentions bwees-ness in [[hremail 3184]].
*Homestar's and Coach Z's costumes reappear in [[On Break]].
*The Shark-Tooth Bubs doll seen in the Easter egg would later become a full fledged member of the Puppet Stuff characters.
*Strong Bad will use a Teen Girl Squad voice again in the email [[death metal]].

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]])

'''MIKE:''' ''{singing}'' Theme paaaaark!

'''MATT:''' That's a good one.

'''MIKE:''' That's my theme park... theme song.

'''MATT:''' I like that. Oh, Mike, Strong Bad's talking in the wrong voice.

'''MIKE:''' He's talking like one of the Teen Girl Squads.

'''MATT:''' Which one do you think it was?

'''MIKE:''' The original Teen Girl Squad. Uh, I think that was... So and So?

'''MATT:''' Yeah?

'''MIKE:''' Nah, it was either The Ug... I think it was The Ugly One. All right, let's talk about something else.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I like "buisness."

'''MIKE:''' Buisness. Didn't we record, um, 'cuz there's a little Easter egg with him saying "Why you're all up on my buisness."

'''MATT:''' Oh, yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Teen Girl Squad.

'''MATT:''' We never put it out. We were gonna make it the Quote of the— Let's do that this week, make it the Quote of the Week.

'''MIKE:''' Maybe, it'll seem like we're talking about something really old when they hear this on the DVD.

'''MATT:''' Perhaps.

'''MIKE:''' But we're ''really'' talking about the ''future''.

''{awkward pause}''

'''MATT:''' So, we sh— I feel like we should start over on this commentary already.

'''MIKE:''' That's... let's keep going.

'''MATT:''' All right.

'''MIKE:''' Let's plug on through.

'''MATT:''' We'll give it a shot.

''{Pause until Strong Bad mentions "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land"}''

'''MATT:''' I'd like to see what Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land looks like.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I think maybe originally that was gonna be in the email; I think we talked about showing, you know, like the teacups that were the spinning-around teacups that were Eh! Steves or something.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. But then the email would be nine minutes long.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, it was really long already. So, back in the background there is a Shark-Tooth Bubs, um, which is a real plush, plush doll that a factory in China made for us. It was a prototype. They misinterpreted Bubs's eyes and teeth, and... pretty much everything!

'''MATT:''' As his fangs.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' His fangs.

'''MATT:''' And a horn.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' I like that the box there, that he just that knocked that over on, says "Box for Throw Game" stenciled on the side of it. It's mass-produced somewhere and shipped to Mt. Ridesplace... for that sole purpose. ''{lets Coach Z as Stoppy appear}'' Stoppy has some things in his cheeks, maybe.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, he's got some nuts, maybe he's saving up acorns for the winter.

'''MATT:''' ''{at Homsar as General Tso's Chicken}'' Now ''that's'' a reference to our friend Ryan Sterritt, who has authored this very DVD you're watching.

'''MIKE:''' He's sitting in the room right next to us. Unbeknownst to him, we're talking about him.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, let's go in... let's throw stuff at him next time we see him.

'''MIKE:''' We should. I like to throw stuff at Ryan.

''{pause}''

'''MIKE:''' What should we talk about on this part? Oh, this is a good... this is, this is my favorite part.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, we... this should have been two emails, I feel like.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, 'cuz it was done up to this point, and then there's another ten minutes.

'''MATT:''' So there's a particular visit, uh, to Busch Gardens I took, and I believe there's a roller coaster called The Scorpion, where— that I'm basing this, I mean, definitely, it's obviously based on...

'''MIKE:''' No! You can't say it!

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' Sorry. I was just saying that my name was Klaus Meine and that I was The Scorpion... Sorry.

'''MATT:''' Does this keep going? Yeah, we can keep talking.

'''MIKE:''' Is this a waiting egg?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it's just gonna start playing again I think, isn't it? ''{The email continues after The Paper comes down}'' Yeah, see?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, okay, I couldn't remember how it worked on the DVD...

'''MATT:''' You just wait.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, okay.

'''MATT:''' ''{of the fake rock}'' I like, uh, the damage, obviously, when I see that.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, it's fiberglass.

'''MATT:''' Mm-hmm. Chicken wire. Uh, anyways, uh I went... Mike and I went...

'''MIKE:''' Oh, yeah, you were at Busch Gardens!

'''MATT:''' Yeah! And I just remember that guy being particularly unenthusiastic about us experiencing the fury of The Scorpion. ''{Mike laughs}'' It was wonderfully scripted.

'''MIKE:''' So was it just a roller coaster, or was that a ride...

'''MATT:''' No, it was just a roller coaster.

'''MATT:''' And so they have the guy just before it starts...

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Okay, yeah, at the beginning, right.

'''MATT:''' You see, we were just talking over each other again.

'''MIKE:''' We can talk at the same time.

'''MATT:''' I know, but it's probably hard for people to understand what we're saying. Go!

'''MIKE:''' Go!

'''MATT:''' I take!

'''MIKE:''' I take!

'''MATT:''' Hi Lois! Raise your arms, watch your knees. Exit to your right, please! They did that at Six Flags all the time, I remember.

'''MIKE:''' Six Flags over Georgia, that is.

''{The Paper comes down in the email for the second time.}''

'''MATT:''' Wait for it, wait for it...

'''MIKE:''' Is it still going?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hang on! ''{pause for the end}'' Now it's done.

===Fun Facts===
*Cheerleader's statement has yet to be a Quote of the Week, even though the Brothers Chaps indicate it will be.
*[[Wikipedia:Scorpion (roller coaster)|The Scorpion]] is a single-looping steel roller coaster found at [[Wikipedia:Busch Gardens Tampa Bay|Busch Gardens Tampa Bay]].
*[[Wikipedia:Klaus Meine|Klaus Meine]] is the frontman of German rock band [[Wikipedia:Scorpions (band)|the Scorpions]].
*[[Wikipedia:Six Flags Over Georgia|Six Flags Over Georgia]] is a [[Wikipedia:Six Flags|Six Flags]] theme park found near [[Wikipedia:Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]].

== External Links ==
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theme park

2021-10-08T02:37:49Z

24.253.236.202: /* Transcript */

{{sbenav}}
[[Image:themepark.png|thumb|"* please do not bring your grandmother"]]

Strong Bad tells us about his plans for a Strong Badia theme park.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Cheerleader}} (Easter egg), {{Film|The Ugly One}} (Easter egg), [[Monkey D]] (Easter egg), {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|Shark-Tooth Bubs}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}/[[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA#Mascots|Stoppy the Sign]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}/[[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA#Mascots|Poppy the Tire]], {{Film|Homsar}}/[[General Tso's Chicken]], [[Bear Holding a Shark]]

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA]], Strong Badia ([[Riverquest Safariventure]])

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Tuesday, May 25, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 4:14

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Everybody loves this, everybody needs this, it's time for funny stuff. ''{reading the email, in a Teen Girl Squad voice}'' Dear strong bad, you are the coolest... ''{stops reading and clears his throat}'' Oh! Excuse me.

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Dear strong bad, 
you are the coolest, any way onto 
buisness. i think that you should 
make your own theme park. 
 
crapfully crap, 
Rafael FL.</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pronounces "buisness" just as it is spelled ("bweez-ness"), sighs and says "sincerely yours" instead of "crapfully crap", and "football league" instead of "FL".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well, Rafi, being the distinguished buisnessman ''{continues with the misspelling/pronunciation used earlier}'' that I am, I've had a theme park in development for quite some time now. Almost as long as I've been growin' this mustache.

''{A magnification of Strong Bad's upper lip appears with "x10,000" in the corner, showing a growth of one hair.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Anyways, it'd be called

''{Cut to view of a theme park by the Stop Sign and Cinder Block.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Strong Bad's Mount RIDESPLACE! USA

''{As this is said, the appropriate words flash on the screen above the view of the theme park. "Strong Bad's" (in a handwritten font) slides from the left, a mountain which reads "MOUNT RIDESPLACE!" falls from the top, and "USA" pops in.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And it will have more rides than you or your grandmother can handle.

''{As this is said, the words "More Rides Than You Or Your Grandmother Can Handle!*" appear along with a "*please do not bring your grandmother" disclaimer on the bottom.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Of course, our flagship roller coaster would be

''{Cut to a view of the roller coaster, which is perfectly circular and spins continually without stopping. The Trogdor arcade game music is playing in the background}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' The Bowels of Trogdor!!

''{Pan out to see that The King of Town is riding the roller coaster and screaming.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Which would like whip you around and around until you either throw up or catch fire somehow.

''{The King of Town catches fire somehow.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Hooieooieooieooieooieooieooieooie!

''{Cut to Strong Bad and The Cheat and the entrance to the ride. A Trogdor sign is there that says "Peasants must be as tall as my beefy arm to ride this ride." The Cheat is clearly not tall enough.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Sorry, little guy, ''{The Cheat starts to stand on tip-toes.}'' I can't do nothing for you. ''{The Cheat puts on a top hat and starts to stand on tip-toes again.}'' Maybe you better head over to Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land instead.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{disappointed The Cheat noise}''

''{Cut to Strong Sad standing on a stage.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And every hour, at the main stage, there'd be a performance of "The Strong Sad Gets Decked Repeatedly Stunt Spook-tacular"!

''{A banner lowers behind Strong Sad that says "The Strong Sad Gets Decked Repeatedly Stunt SPOOK-tacular!!". Strong Sad is wearing a witch's hat standing patiently. Strong Mad comes from stage right to flying tackle Strong Sad.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' MAUHHH!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh!

''{Strong Sad climbs back up on the stage again standing patiently. Strong Mad comes from stage left this time to flying tackle Strong Sad again.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' MAUHHH!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh!

''{Cut to Strong Bad behind a table with a layout of the theme park on it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' To make sure you don't have any money left when you leave,—

''{The words "not to scale" appear with an arrow pointing at the layout.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —there'd be more games than you or your grand''father'' could handle.

''{Cut to Bubs working the "Throw Game."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' You know, the ones where you throw hoops or rings or baseballs at different stuff and try to win cheap generic stuffed animal versions of ten-year-old cartoons.

''{During this voice over, Pom Pom plays the "Throw Game" while Bubs looks on. Pom Pom successfully gets all three rings that he tosses around the "[[Cold One|Xtra Cold One]]" bottle. Strong Bad's arm appears, holding up a cheap stuffed animal.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Like this Bubs with a horn.

'''BUBS:''' No, no, no. You gotta get those rings ''inside'' the bottle.

'''POM POM:''' ''{bubble noises}''

''{Pom Pom picks up a baseball and throws it at the bottle in frustration. A shattering noise is heard. Cut back to Strong Bad behind the layout of the park.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No theme park would be complete without a bunch of costumed mascots running around anticking... ''{scratches head}'' antiquing... Whatever.

''{Cut to view of an area behind some fencing. The King of Town still rides "The Bowels of Trogdor!!" in the distance.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' ''{distant}'' Hooieooieooieooie!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' You know, there'd be one of the Stop Sign,

''{Coach Z appears wearing a costume that has a cartoonish looking Stop Sign design}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' call him "Stoppy", Stoppy the Sign, and then there'd be the tire...

''{Homestar appears wearing a costume that has a very cartoonish-looking Tire design.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' call him "Poppy the Tire"... And who could forget "General Tso's Chicken"?

''{A carton of what could only be General Tso's Chicken falls from the sky. It has "Ryan S." written on the side. Homsar's feet appear beneath it.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, Stoppy, is your suit chafing you like crazy?

'''COACH Z:''' Well, to tell ya da truth dere Poppy, I've always enjoyed a good chafe.

'''HOMSAR:''' AaAaAaAaA! It's time for tasteball!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, crap! It's tasteball already?

''{Cut to Strong Bad back at the Compy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' But yeah, it's a pretty unrealistic vision. I'm gonna have to start robbing WAY more hot actresses if I ever hope to make that dream a reality. But for now, I'll settle for giving tours on The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure.

''{He gets up. Cut to Strong Bad standing in a box in Strong Badia. He holds some sort of microphone.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Strong Bad makes a microphone click noise and speaks in an emotionless theme park tour guide-styled voice throughout the rest of the email. In each phrase, the pitch rises, reaches a high in the middle, and then falls}'' Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen my name is Strong Bad and welcome to The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure. ''{Strong Bad makes a click noise again.}''

''{Cut to wide view of Strong Bad standing in a box labeled "riverquest safariventure." Homestar sits in front of him in the box. To the left is a running hose. The water from the hose forms a puddle around the box.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Please keep your arms legs and valuables inside the vehicle at all times and get ready to experience the fury of: The Strong Badian Riverboat Superfun...ride. ''{click}''

''{Strong Bad inches closer to Homestar as he says this, while Homestar backs away.}''

''{[[The Paper]] comes down. About five seconds later, it cuts to Strong Bad and Homestar and the tour continues. The Paper disappears.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' And first up on our tour if you look to your right ''{Homestar looks to his right}'' experience the fury of: ''{cut to wider view}'' a big rock that's going to fall on uuuus.

''{An obviously fake rock pops up behind the fence, mounted on a stick.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ooooh.

''{The rock goes back down behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That was a close call, I hope everyone is okaaaay.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I'm not okay—

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{quickly, interrupting}'' ''{click}'' Shut up. ''{click}''

''{Cut to closeup of Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' And if you look up the river here comes another one of our tour guides his name is The Cheat—

''{Cut to wide view again. The Cheat walks by in his own box, which is labeled "R.Q. 2".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —everybody say "Hi, The Cheeeeat."

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hide and seeeeek.

''{Some drum sounds can be heard.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Oh, what's that I hear is it the sound of island drums? Oh no, it's headhunteeerrrs.

''{The bear holding a shark, posing as a "headhunter", pops up from behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Everyone stay in the boat, I'll take care of thiiis. ''{click}''

''{Strong Bad pulls out a starter's pistol, and turns his head away as he fires up into the air twice. The cutout goes back down behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Looks like we scared those headhunters. Let's hope they don't come baaack. ''{click}''

''{Cut to closeup of Strong Bad again.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Well folks we've made it back safely did everyone have a good time?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Not really.

''{Strong Bad continues to talk while Homestar answers.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Goooood. Please leave your valuables under your seat and exit to your riiiight. ''{click}''

''{Cut to wide view again.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Strong Bad, I gotta level with ya. That might have been ''{short pause}'' the worst three thousand dollars I ever spent.

''{The Paper comes down again. After another pause, Strong Bad speaks again.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Don't forget to experience the fury of: our gift shooop. ''{click}''

''{Once again, Strong Bad moves closer to Homestar as he says this while Homestar backs away.}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[File:Monkey Dude2.PNG|thumb|Monkey D's season pass]]
*Click on "buisness" after Strong Bad says it in the first part of the email to see a picture of The Ugly One and Cheerleader.
:'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{Her shirt reads "kiss boys."}'' The Ugly One, why you always gotta be all up in my bweez-NASS? ''{Cheerleader looks angry, while The Ugly One looks sad.}''
*Click on "Rafi" to see a mock NFL patch.
*Click on "Mount" in "Mount Ridesplace USA" after Strong Bad says "USA" to see [[Monkey D]]'s season pass.
<blockquote>Strong Bad's Mount Ridesplace! USA 
Season Pass 
Name: Monkey D 
Has: Fun 
Valid thru 9/04 
''{signed}'' Monkey D</blockquote>
*Click on the second Bubs doll in full sight in the "Throw Game" stand to see a real Bubs plushie, [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]], looking from left to right.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The paper on Strong Bad's desk is labeled "plans for stuff".
*The box in the throw game is labeled "BOX FOR THROW GAME", in capital letters.
*This is the second email with a voice-over of a character invented by Strong Bad. The email [[japanese cartoon]] had a Stinkoman voice-over.
**This is also the first time Strong Bad has used his [[Teen Girl Squad]] voice outside of a TGS cartoon.
*This email has the longest cartoon extension after the Paper comes down.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad describes what the Strong Badia theme park would be like."

===Remarks===
*This is one of the few emails where [[The Paper]] comes down twice. The only other time this happened was in [[50 emails]]. (The [[New Paper]] later came down twice in [[mini-golf]] and [[web comics]], however.)
*The Bowels of Trogdor is not visible in the panoramic view of the park.
*When Homestar looks at the boulder, he appears to turn his head around 180 degrees, without moving his body.

===Goofs===
*When Pom Pom hits the bottle with the ball, a crashing sound is heard yet it doesn't break. Also, the crashing sound is played right after Pom Pom throws the ball, but before it reaches the bottle.
*At the end of the Strong Bad's Riverquest Safariventure, the [[Stop Sign]] is not there. It disappeared sometime between the pause the first time The Paper came down and the fake boulder.
*The Bowels of Trogdor abruptly stops spinning while the mascots are talking. Also, The King of Town isn't on fire.
*When the toon finally ends, the flowing water animation freezes.

===Glitches===
*On some computers, the email stops abruptly at the scene with the Bowels of Trogdor. Only one car appears, and it is off the rails with nobody inside.

===Inside References===
*This is the first time since [[vacation]] (email 40) that Strong Bad has answered an email with a "[[crapfully yours]]"-style signature.
**It is also the only Compy-era email to feature such a closing.
*The "headhunter" is the [[Bear holding a Shark]] from [[date]].
*Pom Pom throws rings around an "Xtra Cold One", first seen in [[Cheat Commandos (toon)|Cheat Commandos]].
*The music played during Strong Sad's "Stunt Spooktacular" is the same music that was used in both [[Homestarloween Party]] and [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]].
*The music that plays when Strong Bad is describing the "Bowels of Trogdor" roller coaster is from the game [[TROGDOR!]].
*Cheerleader uses the phrase "[[All up ons|all up in]]".
*"Ryan S." on the box of General Tso's chicken is a reference to [[Ryan Sterritt]], a friend of [[The Brothers Chaps]], who helps them with the website and the [[strongbad_email.exe]] DVD.
*This is another reference to Homestar's [[Best/Worst X bucks I ever spent|best/worst money spent]].
*[[Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]] Land, the ride Strong Bad sends The Cheat to, is originally from [[crazy cartoon]] as the name of the cartoon.

===Real-World References===
*The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure is reminiscent of the [[Wikipedia:Jungle Cruise|Jungle Cruise]] found in [[Disney]] theme parks. The way Strong Bad does not breathe or show any expression and his rise-and-fall delivery is reminiscent of Jungle Cruise tour guides who have given the same tour over and over again. The shooting of a warning shot (in this case a starter's pistol) to scare off the bear and shark "headhunters" is directly from the tour guide script. Most of Strong Bad's speech correlates to the tour.

===Fast Forward===
*In [[boring (really)]], Strong Bad says, "...prepare to experience the fury of... me naming all the three letter words I can think of," in a voice similar to the one used in this toon.
*The "[[riverquest safariventure]]" ride reappears a few times.
*The [[Female Lappy 486]] mentions bwees-ness in [[hremail 3184]].
*Homestar's and Coach Z's costumes reappear in [[On Break]].
*The Shark-Tooth Bubs doll seen in the Easter egg would later become a full fledged member of the Puppet Stuff characters.
*Strong Bad will use a Teen Girl Squad voice again in the email [[death metal]].

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]])

'''MIKE:''' ''{singing}'' Theme paaaaark!

'''MATT:''' That's a good one.

'''MIKE:''' That's my theme park... theme song.

'''MATT:''' I like that. Oh, Mike, Strong Bad's talking in the wrong voice.

'''MIKE:''' He's talking like one of the Teen Girl Squads.

'''MATT:''' Which one do you think it was?

'''MIKE:''' The original Teen Girl Squad. Uh, I think that was... So and So?

'''MATT:''' Yeah?

'''MIKE:''' Nah, it was either The Ug... I think it was The Ugly One. All right, let's talk about something else.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I like "buisness."

'''MIKE:''' Buisness. Didn't we record, um, 'cuz there's a little Easter egg with him saying "Why you're all up on my buisness."

'''MATT:''' Oh, yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Teen Girl Squad.

'''MATT:''' We never put it out. We were gonna make it the Quote of the— Let's do that this week, make it the Quote of the Week.

'''MIKE:''' Maybe, it'll seem like we're talking about something really old when they hear this on the DVD.

'''MATT:''' Perhaps.

'''MIKE:''' But we're ''really'' talking about the ''future''.

''{awkward pause}''

'''MATT:''' So, we sh— I feel like we should start over on this commentary already.

'''MIKE:''' That's... let's keep going.

'''MATT:''' All right.

'''MIKE:''' Let's plug on through.

'''MATT:''' We'll give it a shot.

''{Pause until Strong Bad mentions "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land"}''

'''MATT:''' I'd like to see what Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land looks like.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I think maybe originally that was gonna be in the email; I think we talked about showing, you know, like the teacups that were the spinning-around teacups that were Eh! Steves or something.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. But then the email would be nine minutes long.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, it was really long already. So, back in the background there is a Shark-Tooth Bubs, um, which is a real plush, plush doll that a factory in China made for us. It was a prototype. They misinterpreted Bubs's eyes and teeth, and... pretty much everything!

'''MATT:''' As his fangs.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' His fangs.

'''MATT:''' And a horn.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' I like that the box there, that he just that knocked that over on, says "Box for Throw Game" stenciled on the side of it. It's mass-produced somewhere and shipped to Mt. Ridesplace... for that sole purpose. ''{lets Coach Z as Stoppy appear}'' Stoppy has some things in his cheeks, maybe.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, he's got some nuts, maybe he's saving up acorns for the winter.

'''MATT:''' ''{at Homsar as General Tso's Chicken}'' Now ''that's'' a reference to our friend Ryan Sterritt, who has authored this very DVD you're watching.

'''MIKE:''' He's sitting in the room right next to us. Unbeknownst to him, we're talking about him.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, let's go in... let's throw stuff at him next time we see him.

'''MIKE:''' We should. I like to throw stuff at Ryan.

''{pause}''

'''MIKE:''' What should we talk about on this part? Oh, this is a good... this is, this is my favorite part.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, we... this should have been two emails, I feel like.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, 'cuz it was done up to this point, and then there's another ten minutes.

'''MATT:''' So there's a particular visit, uh, to Busch Gardens I took, and I believe there's a roller coaster called The Scorpion, where— that I'm basing this, I mean, definitely, it's obviously based on...

'''MIKE:''' No! You can't say it!

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' Sorry. I was just saying that my name was Klaus Meine and that I was The Scorpion... Sorry.

'''MATT:''' Does this keep going? Yeah, we can keep talking.

'''MIKE:''' Is this a waiting egg?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it's just gonna start playing again I think, isn't it? ''{The email continues after The Paper comes down}'' Yeah, see?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, okay, I couldn't remember how it worked on the DVD...

'''MATT:''' You just wait.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, okay.

'''MATT:''' ''{of the fake rock}'' I like, uh, the damage, obviously, when I see that.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, it's fiberglass.

'''MATT:''' Mm-hmm. Chicken wire. Uh, anyways, uh I went... Mike and I went...

'''MIKE:''' Oh, yeah, you were at Busch Gardens!

'''MATT:''' Yeah! And I just remember that guy being particularly unenthusiastic about us experiencing the fury of The Scorpion. ''{Mike laughs}'' It was wonderfully scripted.

'''MIKE:''' So was it just a roller coaster, or was that a ride...

'''MATT:''' No, it was just a roller coaster.

'''MATT:''' And so they have the guy just before it starts...

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Okay, yeah, at the beginning, right.

'''MATT:''' You see, we were just talking over each other again.

'''MIKE:''' We can talk at the same time.

'''MATT:''' I know, but it's probably hard for people to understand what we're saying. Go!

'''MIKE:''' Go!

'''MATT:''' I take!

'''MIKE:''' I take!

'''MATT:''' Hi Lois! Raise your arms, watch your knees. Exit to your right, please! They did that at Six Flags all the time, I remember.

'''MIKE:''' Six Flags over Georgia, that is.

''{The Paper comes down in the email for the second time.}''

'''MATT:''' Wait for it, wait for it...

'''MIKE:''' Is it still going?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hang on! ''{pause for the end}'' Now it's done.

===Fun Facts===
*Cheerleader's statement has yet to be a Quote of the Week, even though the Brothers Chaps indicate it will be.
*[[Wikipedia:Scorpion (roller coaster)|The Scorpion]] is a single-looping steel roller coaster found at [[Wikipedia:Busch Gardens Tampa Bay|Busch Gardens Tampa Bay]].
*[[Wikipedia:Klaus Meine|Klaus Meine]] is the frontman of German rock band [[Wikipedia:Scorpions (band)|the Scorpions]].
*[[Wikipedia:Six Flags Over Georgia|Six Flags Over Georgia]] is a [[Wikipedia:Six Flags|Six Flags]] theme park found near [[Wikipedia:Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]].

== External Links ==
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[[Image:themepark.png|thumb|"* please do not bring your grandmother"]]

Strong Bad tells us about his plans for a Strong Badia theme park.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Cheerleader}} (Easter egg), {{Film|The Ugly One}} (Easter egg), [[Monkey D]] (Easter egg), {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|Shark-Tooth Bubs}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}/[[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA#Mascots|Stoppy the Sign]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}/[[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA#Mascots|Poppy the Tire]], {{Film|Homsar}}/[[General Tso's Chicken]], [[Bear Holding a Shark]]

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA]], Strong Badia ([[Riverquest Safariventure]])

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Tuesday, May 25, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 4:14

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Everybody loves this, everybody needs this, it's time for funny stuff. ''{reading the email, in a Teen Girl Squad voice}'' Dear strong bad, you are the coolest... ''{stops reading and clears his throat}'' Oh! Excuse me.

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Dear strong bad, 
you are the coolest, any way onto 
buisness. i think that you should 
make your own theme park. 
 
crapfully crap, 
Rafael FL.</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pronounces "buisness" just as it is spelled ("bweez-ness"), sighs and says "sincerely yours" instead of "crapfully crap", and "football league" instead of "FL".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well, Rafi, being the distinguished buisnessman ''{continues with the misspelling/pronunciation used earlier}'' that I am, I've had a theme park in development for quite some time now. Almost as long as I've been growin' this mustache.

''{A magnification of Strong Bad's upper lip appears with "x10,000" in the corner, showing a growth of one hair.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Anyways, it'd be called

''{Cut to view of a theme park by the Stop Sign and Cinder Block.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Strong Bad's Mount RIDESPLACE! USA

''{As this is said, the appropriate words flash on the screen above the view of the theme park. "Strong Bad's" (in a handwritten font) slides from the left, a mountain which reads "MOUNT RIDESPLACE!" falls from the top, and "USA" pops in.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And it will have more rides than you or your grandmother can handle.

''{As this is said, the words "More Rides Than You Or Your Grandmother Can Handle!*" appear along with a "*please do not bring your grandmother" disclaimer on the bottom.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Of course, our flagship roller coaster would be

''{Cut to a view of the roller coaster, which is perfectly circular and spins continually without stopping. The Trogdor arcade game music is playing in the background}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' The Bowels of Trogdor!!

''{Pan out to see that The King of Town is riding the roller coaster and screaming.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Which would like whip you around and around until you either throw up or catch fire somehow.

''{The King of Town catches fire somehow.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Hooieooieooieooieooieooieooieooie!

''{Cut to Strong Bad and The Cheat and the entrance to the ride. A Trogdor sign is there that says "Peasants must be as tall as my beefy arm to ride this ride." The Cheat is clearly not tall enough.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Sorry, little guy, ''{The Cheat starts to stand on tip-toes.}'' I can't do nothing for you. ''{The Cheat puts on a top hat and starts to stand on tip-toes again.}'' Maybe you better head over to Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land instead.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{disappointed The Cheat noise}''

''{Cut to Strong Sad standing on a stage.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And every hour, at the main stage, there'd be a performance of "The Strong Sad Gets Decked Repeatedly Stunt Spook-tacular"!

''{A banner lowers behind Strong Sad that says "The Strong Sad Gets Decked Repeatedly Stunt SPOOK-tacular!!". Strong Sad is wearing a witch's hat standing patiently. Strong Mad comes from stage right to flying tackle Strong Sad.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' MAUHHH!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh!

''{Strong Sad climbs back up on the stage again standing patiently. Strong Mad comes from stage left this time to flying tackle Strong Sad again.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' MAUHHH!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh!

''{Cut to Strong Bad behind a table with a layout of the theme park on it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' To make sure you don't have any money left when you leave,—

''{The words "not to scale" appear with an arrow pointing at the layout.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —there'd be more games than you or your grand''father'' could handle.

''{Cut to Bubs working the "Throw Game."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' You know, the ones where you throw hoops or rings or baseballs at different stuff and try to win cheap generic stuffed animal versions of ten-year-old cartoons.

''{During this voice over, Pom Pom plays the "Throw Game" while Bubs looks on. Pom Pom successfully gets all three rings that he tosses around the "[[Cold One|Xtra Cold One]]" bottle. Strong Bad's arm appears, holding up a cheap stuffed animal.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Like this Bubs with a horn.

'''BUBS:''' No, no, no. You gotta get those rings ''inside'' the bottle.

'''POM POM:''' ''{bubble noises}''

''{Pom Pom picks up a baseball and throws it at the bottle in frustration. A shattering noise is heard. Cut back to Strong Bad behind the layout of the park.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No theme park would be complete without a bunch of costumed mascots running around anticking... ''{scratches head}'' antiquing... Whatever.

''{Cut to view of an area behind some fencing. The King of Town still rides "The Bowels of Trogdor!!" in the distance.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' ''{distant}'' Hooieooieooieooie!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' You know, there'd be one of the Stop Sign,

''{Coach Z appears wearing a costume that has a cartoonish looking Stop Sign design}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' call him "Stoppy", Stoppy the Sign, and then there'd be the tire...

''{Homestar appears wearing a costume that has a very cartoonish-looking Tire design.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' call him "Poppy the Tire"... And who could forget "General Tso's Chicken"?

''{A carton of what could only be General Tso's Chicken falls from the sky. It has "Ryan S." written on the side. Homsar's feet appear beneath it.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, Stoppy, is your suit chafing you like crazy?

'''COACH Z:''' Well, to tell ya da truth dere Poppy, I've always enjoyed a good chafe.

'''HOMSAR:''' AaAaAaAaA! It's time for tasteball!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, crap! It's tasteball already?

''{Cut to Strong Bad back at the Compy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' But yeah, it's a pretty unrealistic vision. I'm gonna have to start robbing WAY more hot actresses if I ever hope to make that dream a reality. But for now, I'll settle for giving tours on The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure.

''{He gets up. Cut to Strong Bad standing in a box in Strong Badia. He holds some sort of microphone.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Strong Bad makes a microphone click noise and speaks in an emotionless theme park tour guide-styled voice throughout the rest of the email. In each phrase, the pitch rises, reaches a high in the middle, and then falls}'' Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen my name is Strong Bad and welcome to The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure. ''{Strong Bad makes a click noise again.}''

''{Cut to wide view of Strong Bad standing in a box labeled "riverquest safariventure." Homestar sits in front of him in the box. To the left is a running hose. The water from the hose forms a puddle around the box.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Please keep your arms legs and valuables inside the vehicle at all times and get ready to experience the fury of: The Strong Badian Riverboat Superfun...ride. ''{click}''

''{Strong Bad inches closer to Homestar as he says this, while Homestar backs away.}''

''{[[The Paper]] comes down. About five seconds later, it cuts to Strong Bad and Homestar and the tour continues. The Paper disappears.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' And first up on our tour if you look to your right ''{Homestar looks to his right}'' experience the fury of: ''{cut to wider view}'' a big rock that's going to fall on uuuus.

''{An obviously fake rock pops up behind the fence, mounted on a stick.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ooooh.

''{The rock goes back down behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That was a close call, I hope everyone is okaaaay.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I'm not okay—

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{quickly, interrupting}'' Shut up. ''{click}''

''{Cut to closeup of Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' And if you look up the river here comes another one of our tour guides his name is The Cheat—

''{Cut to wide view again. The Cheat walks by in his own box, which is labeled "R.Q. 2".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —everybody say "Hi, The Cheeeeat."

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hide and seeeeek.

''{Some drum sounds can be heard.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Oh, what's that I hear is it the sound of island drums? Oh no, it's headhunteeerrrs.

''{The bear holding a shark, posing as a "headhunter", pops up from behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Everyone stay in the boat, I'll take care of thiiis. ''{click}''

''{Strong Bad pulls out a starter's pistol, and turns his head away as he fires up into the air twice. The cutout goes back down behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Looks like we scared those headhunters. Let's hope they don't come baaack. ''{click}''

''{Cut to closeup of Strong Bad again.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Well folks we've made it back safely did everyone have a good time?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Not really.

''{Strong Bad continues to talk while Homestar answers.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Goooood. Please leave your valuables under your seat and exit to your riiiight. ''{click}''

''{Cut to wide view again.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Strong Bad, I gotta level with ya. That might have been ''{short pause}'' the worst three thousand dollars I ever spent.

''{The Paper comes down again. After another pause, Strong Bad speaks again.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Don't forget to experience the fury of: our gift shooop. ''{click}''

''{Once again, Strong Bad moves closer to Homestar as he says this while Homestar backs away.}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[File:Monkey Dude2.PNG|thumb|Monkey D's season pass]]
*Click on "buisness" after Strong Bad says it in the first part of the email to see a picture of The Ugly One and Cheerleader.
:'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{Her shirt reads "kiss boys."}'' The Ugly One, why you always gotta be all up in my bweez-NASS? ''{Cheerleader looks angry, while The Ugly One looks sad.}''
*Click on "Rafi" to see a mock NFL patch.
*Click on "Mount" in "Mount Ridesplace USA" after Strong Bad says "USA" to see [[Monkey D]]'s season pass.
<blockquote>Strong Bad's Mount Ridesplace! USA 
Season Pass 
Name: Monkey D 
Has: Fun 
Valid thru 9/04 
''{signed}'' Monkey D</blockquote>
*Click on the second Bubs doll in full sight in the "Throw Game" stand to see a real Bubs plushie, [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]], looking from left to right.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The paper on Strong Bad's desk is labeled "plans for stuff".
*The box in the throw game is labeled "BOX FOR THROW GAME", in capital letters.
*This is the second email with a voice-over of a character invented by Strong Bad. The email [[japanese cartoon]] had a Stinkoman voice-over.
**This is also the first time Strong Bad has used his [[Teen Girl Squad]] voice outside of a TGS cartoon.
*This email has the longest cartoon extension after the Paper comes down.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad describes what the Strong Badia theme park would be like."

===Remarks===
*This is one of the few emails where [[The Paper]] comes down twice. The only other time this happened was in [[50 emails]]. (The [[New Paper]] later came down twice in [[mini-golf]] and [[web comics]], however.)
*The Bowels of Trogdor is not visible in the panoramic view of the park.
*When Homestar looks at the boulder, he appears to turn his head around 180 degrees, without moving his body.

===Goofs===
*When Pom Pom hits the bottle with the ball, a crashing sound is heard yet it doesn't break. Also, the crashing sound is played right after Pom Pom throws the ball, but before it reaches the bottle.
*At the end of the Strong Bad's Riverquest Safariventure, the [[Stop Sign]] is not there. It disappeared sometime between the pause the first time The Paper came down and the fake boulder.
*The Bowels of Trogdor abruptly stops spinning while the mascots are talking. Also, The King of Town isn't on fire.
*When the toon finally ends, the flowing water animation freezes.

===Glitches===
*On some computers, the email stops abruptly at the scene with the Bowels of Trogdor. Only one car appears, and it is off the rails with nobody inside.

===Inside References===
*This is the first time since [[vacation]] (email 40) that Strong Bad has answered an email with a "[[crapfully yours]]"-style signature.
**It is also the only Compy-era email to feature such a closing.
*The "headhunter" is the [[Bear holding a Shark]] from [[date]].
*Pom Pom throws rings around an "Xtra Cold One", first seen in [[Cheat Commandos (toon)|Cheat Commandos]].
*The music played during Strong Sad's "Stunt Spooktacular" is the same music that was used in both [[Homestarloween Party]] and [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]].
*The music that plays when Strong Bad is describing the "Bowels of Trogdor" roller coaster is from the game [[TROGDOR!]].
*Cheerleader uses the phrase "[[All up ons|all up in]]".
*"Ryan S." on the box of General Tso's chicken is a reference to [[Ryan Sterritt]], a friend of [[The Brothers Chaps]], who helps them with the website and the [[strongbad_email.exe]] DVD.
*This is another reference to Homestar's [[Best/Worst X bucks I ever spent|best/worst money spent]].
*[[Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]] Land, the ride Strong Bad sends The Cheat to, is originally from [[crazy cartoon]] as the name of the cartoon.

===Real-World References===
*The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure is reminiscent of the [[Wikipedia:Jungle Cruise|Jungle Cruise]] found in [[Disney]] theme parks. The way Strong Bad does not breathe or show any expression and his rise-and-fall delivery is reminiscent of Jungle Cruise tour guides who have given the same tour over and over again. The shooting of a warning shot (in this case a starter's pistol) to scare off the bear and shark "headhunters" is directly from the tour guide script. Most of Strong Bad's speech correlates to the tour.

===Fast Forward===
*In [[boring (really)]], Strong Bad says, "...prepare to experience the fury of... me naming all the three letter words I can think of," in a voice similar to the one used in this toon.
*The "[[riverquest safariventure]]" ride reappears a few times.
*The [[Female Lappy 486]] mentions bwees-ness in [[hremail 3184]].
*Homestar's and Coach Z's costumes reappear in [[On Break]].
*The Shark-Tooth Bubs doll seen in the Easter egg would later become a full fledged member of the Puppet Stuff characters.
*Strong Bad will use a Teen Girl Squad voice again in the email [[death metal]].

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]])

'''MIKE:''' ''{singing}'' Theme paaaaark!

'''MATT:''' That's a good one.

'''MIKE:''' That's my theme park... theme song.

'''MATT:''' I like that. Oh, Mike, Strong Bad's talking in the wrong voice.

'''MIKE:''' He's talking like one of the Teen Girl Squads.

'''MATT:''' Which one do you think it was?

'''MIKE:''' The original Teen Girl Squad. Uh, I think that was... So and So?

'''MATT:''' Yeah?

'''MIKE:''' Nah, it was either The Ug... I think it was The Ugly One. All right, let's talk about something else.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I like "buisness."

'''MIKE:''' Buisness. Didn't we record, um, 'cuz there's a little Easter egg with him saying "Why you're all up on my buisness."

'''MATT:''' Oh, yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Teen Girl Squad.

'''MATT:''' We never put it out. We were gonna make it the Quote of the— Let's do that this week, make it the Quote of the Week.

'''MIKE:''' Maybe, it'll seem like we're talking about something really old when they hear this on the DVD.

'''MATT:''' Perhaps.

'''MIKE:''' But we're ''really'' talking about the ''future''.

''{awkward pause}''

'''MATT:''' So, we sh— I feel like we should start over on this commentary already.

'''MIKE:''' That's... let's keep going.

'''MATT:''' All right.

'''MIKE:''' Let's plug on through.

'''MATT:''' We'll give it a shot.

''{Pause until Strong Bad mentions "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land"}''

'''MATT:''' I'd like to see what Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land looks like.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I think maybe originally that was gonna be in the email; I think we talked about showing, you know, like the teacups that were the spinning-around teacups that were Eh! Steves or something.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. But then the email would be nine minutes long.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, it was really long already. So, back in the background there is a Shark-Tooth Bubs, um, which is a real plush, plush doll that a factory in China made for us. It was a prototype. They misinterpreted Bubs's eyes and teeth, and... pretty much everything!

'''MATT:''' As his fangs.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' His fangs.

'''MATT:''' And a horn.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' I like that the box there, that he just that knocked that over on, says "Box for Throw Game" stenciled on the side of it. It's mass-produced somewhere and shipped to Mt. Ridesplace... for that sole purpose. ''{lets Coach Z as Stoppy appear}'' Stoppy has some things in his cheeks, maybe.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, he's got some nuts, maybe he's saving up acorns for the winter.

'''MATT:''' ''{at Homsar as General Tso's Chicken}'' Now ''that's'' a reference to our friend Ryan Sterritt, who has authored this very DVD you're watching.

'''MIKE:''' He's sitting in the room right next to us. Unbeknownst to him, we're talking about him.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, let's go in... let's throw stuff at him next time we see him.

'''MIKE:''' We should. I like to throw stuff at Ryan.

''{pause}''

'''MIKE:''' What should we talk about on this part? Oh, this is a good... this is, this is my favorite part.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, we... this should have been two emails, I feel like.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, 'cuz it was done up to this point, and then there's another ten minutes.

'''MATT:''' So there's a particular visit, uh, to Busch Gardens I took, and I believe there's a roller coaster called The Scorpion, where— that I'm basing this, I mean, definitely, it's obviously based on...

'''MIKE:''' No! You can't say it!

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' Sorry. I was just saying that my name was Klaus Meine and that I was The Scorpion... Sorry.

'''MATT:''' Does this keep going? Yeah, we can keep talking.

'''MIKE:''' Is this a waiting egg?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it's just gonna start playing again I think, isn't it? ''{The email continues after The Paper comes down}'' Yeah, see?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, okay, I couldn't remember how it worked on the DVD...

'''MATT:''' You just wait.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, okay.

'''MATT:''' ''{of the fake rock}'' I like, uh, the damage, obviously, when I see that.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, it's fiberglass.

'''MATT:''' Mm-hmm. Chicken wire. Uh, anyways, uh I went... Mike and I went...

'''MIKE:''' Oh, yeah, you were at Busch Gardens!

'''MATT:''' Yeah! And I just remember that guy being particularly unenthusiastic about us experiencing the fury of The Scorpion. ''{Mike laughs}'' It was wonderfully scripted.

'''MIKE:''' So was it just a roller coaster, or was that a ride...

'''MATT:''' No, it was just a roller coaster.

'''MATT:''' And so they have the guy just before it starts...

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Okay, yeah, at the beginning, right.

'''MATT:''' You see, we were just talking over each other again.

'''MIKE:''' We can talk at the same time.

'''MATT:''' I know, but it's probably hard for people to understand what we're saying. Go!

'''MIKE:''' Go!

'''MATT:''' I take!

'''MIKE:''' I take!

'''MATT:''' Hi Lois! Raise your arms, watch your knees. Exit to your right, please! They did that at Six Flags all the time, I remember.

'''MIKE:''' Six Flags over Georgia, that is.

''{The Paper comes down in the email for the second time.}''

'''MATT:''' Wait for it, wait for it...

'''MIKE:''' Is it still going?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hang on! ''{pause for the end}'' Now it's done.

===Fun Facts===
*Cheerleader's statement has yet to be a Quote of the Week, even though the Brothers Chaps indicate it will be.
*[[Wikipedia:Scorpion (roller coaster)|The Scorpion]] is a single-looping steel roller coaster found at [[Wikipedia:Busch Gardens Tampa Bay|Busch Gardens Tampa Bay]].
*[[Wikipedia:Klaus Meine|Klaus Meine]] is the frontman of German rock band [[Wikipedia:Scorpions (band)|the Scorpions]].
*[[Wikipedia:Six Flags Over Georgia|Six Flags Over Georgia]] is a [[Wikipedia:Six Flags|Six Flags]] theme park found near [[Wikipedia:Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]].

== External Links ==
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[[Image:themepark.png|thumb|"* please do not bring your grandmother"]]

Strong Bad tells us about his plans for a Strong Badia theme park.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Cheerleader}} (Easter egg), {{Film|The Ugly One}} (Easter egg), [[Monkey D]] (Easter egg), {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|Shark-Tooth Bubs}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}/[[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA#Mascots|Stoppy the Sign]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}/[[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA#Mascots|Poppy the Tire]], {{Film|Homsar}}/[[General Tso's Chicken]], [[Bear Holding a Shark]]

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA]], Strong Badia ([[Riverquest Safariventure]])

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Tuesday, May 25, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 4:14

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Everybody loves this, everybody needs this, it's time for funny stuff. ''{reading the email, in a Teen Girl Squad voice}'' Dear strong bad, you are the coolest... ''{stops reading and clears his throat}'' Oh! Excuse me.

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Dear strong bad, 
you are the coolest, any way onto 
buisness. i think that you should 
make your own theme park. 
 
crapfully crap, 
Rafael FL.</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pronounces "buisness" just as it is spelled ("bweez-ness"), sighs and says "sincerely yours" instead of "crapfully crap", and "football league" instead of "FL".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well, Rafi, being the distinguished buisnessman ''{continues with the misspelling/pronunciation used earlier}'' that I am, I've had a theme park in development for quite some time now. Almost as long as I've been growin' this mustache.

''{A magnification of Strong Bad's upper lip appears with "x10,000" in the corner, showing a growth of one hair.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Anyways, it'd be called

''{Cut to view of a theme park by the Stop Sign and Cinder Block.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Strong Bad's Mount RIDESPLACE! USA

''{As this is said, the appropriate words flash on the screen above the view of the theme park. “Strong Bad’s” (in a handwritten font) slides from the left, a mountain which reads “MOUNT RIDESPLACE!” falls from the top, and “USA” pops in.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And it will have more rides than you or your grandmother can handle.

''{As this is said, the words "More Rides Than You Or Your Grandmother Can Handle!*" appear along with a "*please do not bring your grandmother" disclaimer on the bottom.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Of course, our flagship roller coaster would be

''{Cut to a view of the roller coaster, which is perfectly circular and spins continually without stopping. The Trogdor arcade game music is playing in the background}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' The Bowels of Trogdor!!

''{Pan out to see that The King of Town is riding the roller coaster and screaming.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Which would like whip you around and around until you either throw up or catch fire somehow.

''{The King of Town catches fire somehow.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Hooieooieooieooieooieooieooieooie!

''{Cut to Strong Bad and The Cheat and the entrance to the ride. A Trogdor sign is there that says "Peasants must be as tall as my beefy arm to ride this ride." The Cheat is clearly not tall enough.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Sorry, little guy, ''{The Cheat starts to stand on tip-toes.}'' I can't do nothing for you. ''{The Cheat puts on a top hat and starts to stand on tip-toes again.}'' Maybe you better head over to Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land instead.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{disappointed The Cheat noise}''

''{Cut to Strong Sad standing on a stage.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And every hour, at the main stage, there'd be a performance of "The Strong Sad Gets Decked Repeatedly Stunt Spook-tacular"!

''{A banner lowers behind Strong Sad that says "The Strong Sad Gets Decked Repeatedly Stunt SPOOK-tacular!!". Strong Sad is wearing a witch's hat standing patiently. Strong Mad comes from stage right to flying tackle Strong Sad.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' MAUHHH!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh!

''{Strong Sad climbs back up on the stage again standing patiently. Strong Mad comes from stage left this time to flying tackle Strong Sad again.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' MAUHHH!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh!

''{Cut to Strong Bad behind a table with a layout of the theme park on it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' To make sure you don't have any money left when you leave,—

''{The words "not to scale" appear with an arrow pointing at the layout.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —there'd be more games than you or your grand''father'' could handle.

''{Cut to Bubs working the "Throw Game."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' You know, the ones where you throw hoops or rings or baseballs at different stuff and try to win cheap generic stuffed animal versions of ten-year-old cartoons.

''{During this voice over, Pom Pom plays the "Throw Game" while Bubs looks on. Pom Pom successfully gets all three rings that he tosses around the "[[Cold One|Xtra Cold One]]" bottle. Strong Bad's arm appears, holding up a cheap stuffed animal.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Like this Bubs with a horn.

'''BUBS:''' No, no, no. You gotta get those rings ''inside'' the bottle.

'''POM POM:''' ''{bubble noises}''

''{Pom Pom picks up a baseball and throws it at the bottle in frustration. A shattering noise is heard. Cut back to Strong Bad behind the layout of the park.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No theme park would be complete without a bunch of costumed mascots running around anticking... ''{scratches head}'' antiquing... Whatever.

''{Cut to view of an area behind some fencing. The King of Town still rides "The Bowels of Trogdor!!" in the distance.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' ''{distant}'' Hooieooieooieooie!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' You know, there'd be one of the Stop Sign,

''{Coach Z appears wearing a costume that has a cartoonish looking Stop Sign design}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' call him "Stoppy", Stoppy the Sign, and then there'd be the tire...

''{Homestar appears wearing a costume that has a very cartoonish-looking Tire design.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' call him "Poppy the Tire"... And who could forget "General Tso's Chicken"?

''{A carton of what could only be General Tso's Chicken falls from the sky. It has "Ryan S." written on the side. Homsar's feet appear beneath it.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, Stoppy, is your suit chafing you like crazy?

'''COACH Z:''' Well, to tell ya da truth dere Poppy, I've always enjoyed a good chafe.

'''HOMSAR:''' AaAaAaAaA! It's time for tasteball!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, crap! It's tasteball already?

''{Cut to Strong Bad back at the Compy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' But yeah, it's a pretty unrealistic vision. I'm gonna have to start robbing WAY more hot actresses if I ever hope to make that dream a reality. But for now, I'll settle for giving tours on The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure.

''{He gets up. Cut to Strong Bad standing in a box in Strong Badia. He holds some sort of microphone.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Strong Bad makes a microphone click noise and speaks in an emotionless theme park tour guide-styled voice throughout the rest of the email. In each phrase, the pitch rises, reaches a high in the middle, and then falls}'' Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen my name is Strong Bad and welcome to The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure. ''{Strong Bad makes a click noise again.}''

''{Cut to wide view of Strong Bad standing in a box labeled "riverquest safariventure." Homestar sits in front of him in the box. To the left is a running hose. The water from the hose forms a puddle around the box.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Please keep your arms legs and valuables inside the vehicle at all times and get ready to experience the fury of: The Strong Badian Riverboat Superfun...ride. ''{click}''

''{Strong Bad inches closer to Homestar as he says this, while Homestar backs away.}''

''{[[The Paper]] comes down. About five seconds later, it zooms in on Strong Bad and Homestar and the tour continues. The Paper disappears.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' And first up on our tour if you look to your right ''{Homestar looks to his right}'' experience the fury of: ''{cut to wider view}'' a big rock that's going to fall on uuuus.

''{An obviously fake rock pops up behind the fence, mounted on a stick.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ooooh.

''{The rock goes back down behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That was a close call, I hope everyone is okaaaay.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I'm not okay—

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{quickly, interrupting}'' Shut up. ''{click}''

''{Cut to closeup of Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' And if you look up the river here comes another one of our tour guides his name is The Cheat—

''{Cut to wide view again. The Cheat walks by in his own box, which is labeled "R.Q. 2".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —everybody say "Hi, The Cheeeeat."

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hide and seeeeek.

''{Some drum sounds can be heard.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Oh, what's that I hear is it the sound of island drums? Oh no, it's headhunteeerrrs.

''{The bear holding a shark, posing as a "headhunter", pops up from behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Everyone stay in the boat, I'll take care of thiiis. ''{click}''

''{Strong Bad pulls out a starter's pistol, and turns his head away as he fires up into the air twice. The cutout goes back down behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Looks like we scared those headhunters. Let's hope they don't come baaack. ''{click}''

''{Cut to closeup of Strong Bad again.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Well folks we've made it back safely did everyone have a good time?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Not really.

''{Strong Bad continues to talk while Homestar answers.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Goooood. Please leave your valuables under your seat and exit to your riiiight. ''{click}''

''{Cut to wide view again.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Strong Bad, I gotta level with ya. That might have been ''{short pause}'' the worst three thousand dollars I ever spent.

''{The Paper comes down again. After another pause, Strong Bad speaks again.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Don't forget to experience the fury of: our gift shooop. ''{click}''

''{Once again, Strong Bad moves closer to Homestar as he says this while Homestar backs away.}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[File:Monkey Dude2.PNG|thumb|Monkey D's season pass]]
*Click on "buisness" after Strong Bad says it in the first part of the email to see a picture of The Ugly One and Cheerleader.
:'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{Her shirt reads "kiss boys."}'' The Ugly One, why you always gotta be all up in my bweez-NASS? ''{Cheerleader looks angry, while The Ugly One looks sad.}''
*Click on "Rafi" to see a mock NFL patch.
*Click on "Mount" in "Mount Ridesplace USA" after Strong Bad says "USA" to see [[Monkey D]]'s season pass.
<blockquote>Strong Bad's Mount Ridesplace! USA 
Season Pass 
Name: Monkey D 
Has: Fun 
Valid thru 9/04 
''{signed}'' Monkey D</blockquote>
*Click on the second Bubs doll in full sight in the "Throw Game" stand to see a real Bubs plushie, [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]], looking from left to right.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The paper on Strong Bad's desk is labeled "plans for stuff".
*The box in the throw game is labeled "BOX FOR THROW GAME", in capital letters.
*This is the second email with a voice-over of a character invented by Strong Bad. The email [[japanese cartoon]] had a Stinkoman voice-over.
**This is also the first time Strong Bad has used his [[Teen Girl Squad]] voice outside of a TGS cartoon.
*This email has the longest cartoon extension after the Paper comes down.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad describes what the Strong Badia theme park would be like."

===Remarks===
*This is one of the few emails where [[The Paper]] comes down twice. The only other time this happened was in [[50 emails]]. (The [[New Paper]] later came down twice in [[mini-golf]] and [[web comics]], however.)
*The Bowels of Trogdor is not visible in the panoramic view of the park.
*When Homestar looks at the boulder, he appears to turn his head around 180 degrees, without moving his body.

===Goofs===
*When Pom Pom hits the bottle with the ball, a crashing sound is heard yet it doesn't break. Also, the crashing sound is played right after Pom Pom throws the ball, but before it reaches the bottle.
*At the end of the Strong Bad's Riverquest Safariventure, the [[Stop Sign]] is not there. It disappeared sometime between the pause the first time The Paper came down and the fake boulder.
*The Bowels of Trogdor abruptly stops spinning while the mascots are talking. Also, The King of Town isn't on fire.
*When the toon finally ends, the flowing water animation freezes.

===Glitches===
*On some computers, the email stops abruptly at the scene with the Bowels of Trogdor. Only one car appears, and it is off the rails with nobody inside.

===Inside References===
*This is the first time since [[vacation]] (email 40) that Strong Bad has answered an email with a "[[crapfully yours]]"-style signature.
**It is also the only Compy-era email to feature such a closing.
*The "headhunter" is the [[Bear holding a Shark]] from [[date]].
*Pom Pom throws rings around an "Xtra Cold One", first seen in [[Cheat Commandos (toon)|Cheat Commandos]].
*The music played during Strong Sad's "Stunt Spooktacular" is the same music that was used in both [[Homestarloween Party]] and [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]].
*The music that plays when Strong Bad is describing the "Bowels of Trogdor" roller coaster is from the game [[TROGDOR!]].
*Cheerleader uses the phrase "[[All up ons|all up in]]".
*"Ryan S." on the box of General Tso's chicken is a reference to [[Ryan Sterritt]], a friend of [[The Brothers Chaps]], who helps them with the website and the [[strongbad_email.exe]] DVD.
*This is another reference to Homestar's [[Best/Worst X bucks I ever spent|best/worst money spent]].
*[[Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]] Land, the ride Strong Bad sends The Cheat to, is originally from [[crazy cartoon]] as the name of the cartoon.

===Real-World References===
*The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure is reminiscent of the [[Wikipedia:Jungle Cruise|Jungle Cruise]] found in [[Disney]] theme parks. The way Strong Bad does not breathe or show any expression and his rise-and-fall delivery is reminiscent of Jungle Cruise tour guides who have given the same tour over and over again. The shooting of a warning shot (in this case a starter's pistol) to scare off the bear and shark "headhunters" is directly from the tour guide script. Most of Strong Bad's speech correlates to the tour.

===Fast Forward===
*In [[boring (really)]], Strong Bad says, "...prepare to experience the fury of... me naming all the three letter words I can think of," in a voice similar to the one used in this toon.
*The "[[riverquest safariventure]]" ride reappears a few times.
*The [[Female Lappy 486]] mentions bwees-ness in [[hremail 3184]].
*Homestar's and Coach Z's costumes reappear in [[On Break]].
*The Shark-Tooth Bubs doll seen in the Easter egg would later become a full fledged member of the Puppet Stuff characters.
*Strong Bad will use a Teen Girl Squad voice again in the email [[death metal]].

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]])

'''MIKE:''' ''{singing}'' Theme paaaaark!

'''MATT:''' That's a good one.

'''MIKE:''' That's my theme park... theme song.

'''MATT:''' I like that. Oh, Mike, Strong Bad's talking in the wrong voice.

'''MIKE:''' He's talking like one of the Teen Girl Squads.

'''MATT:''' Which one do you think it was?

'''MIKE:''' The original Teen Girl Squad. Uh, I think that was... So and So?

'''MATT:''' Yeah?

'''MIKE:''' Nah, it was either The Ug... I think it was The Ugly One. All right, let's talk about something else.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I like "buisness."

'''MIKE:''' Buisness. Didn't we record, um, 'cuz there's a little Easter egg with him saying "Why you're all up on my buisness."

'''MATT:''' Oh, yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Teen Girl Squad.

'''MATT:''' We never put it out. We were gonna make it the Quote of the— Let's do that this week, make it the Quote of the Week.

'''MIKE:''' Maybe, it'll seem like we're talking about something really old when they hear this on the DVD.

'''MATT:''' Perhaps.

'''MIKE:''' But we're ''really'' talking about the ''future''.

''{awkward pause}''

'''MATT:''' So, we sh— I feel like we should start over on this commentary already.

'''MIKE:''' That's... let's keep going.

'''MATT:''' All right.

'''MIKE:''' Let's plug on through.

'''MATT:''' We'll give it a shot.

''{Pause until Strong Bad mentions "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land"}''

'''MATT:''' I'd like to see what Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land looks like.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I think maybe originally that was gonna be in the email; I think we talked about showing, you know, like the teacups that were the spinning-around teacups that were Eh! Steves or something.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. But then the email would be nine minutes long.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, it was really long already. So, back in the background there is a Shark-Tooth Bubs, um, which is a real plush, plush doll that a factory in China made for us. It was a prototype. They misinterpreted Bubs's eyes and teeth, and... pretty much everything!

'''MATT:''' As his fangs.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' His fangs.

'''MATT:''' And a horn.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' I like that the box there, that he just that knocked that over on, says "Box for Throw Game" stenciled on the side of it. It's mass-produced somewhere and shipped to Mt. Ridesplace... for that sole purpose. ''{lets Coach Z as Stoppy appear}'' Stoppy has some things in his cheeks, maybe.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, he's got some nuts, maybe he's saving up acorns for the winter.

'''MATT:''' ''{at Homsar as General Tso's Chicken}'' Now ''that's'' a reference to our friend Ryan Sterritt, who has authored this very DVD you're watching.

'''MIKE:''' He's sitting in the room right next to us. Unbeknownst to him, we're talking about him.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, let's go in... let's throw stuff at him next time we see him.

'''MIKE:''' We should. I like to throw stuff at Ryan.

''{pause}''

'''MIKE:''' What should we talk about on this part? Oh, this is a good... this is, this is my favorite part.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, we... this should have been two emails, I feel like.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, 'cuz it was done up to this point, and then there's another ten minutes.

'''MATT:''' So there's a particular visit, uh, to Busch Gardens I took, and I believe there's a roller coaster called The Scorpion, where— that I'm basing this, I mean, definitely, it's obviously based on...

'''MIKE:''' No! You can't say it!

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' Sorry. I was just saying that my name was Klaus Meine and that I was The Scorpion... Sorry.

'''MATT:''' Does this keep going? Yeah, we can keep talking.

'''MIKE:''' Is this a waiting egg?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it's just gonna start playing again I think, isn't it? ''{The email continues after The Paper comes down}'' Yeah, see?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, okay, I couldn't remember how it worked on the DVD...

'''MATT:''' You just wait.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, okay.

'''MATT:''' ''{of the fake rock}'' I like, uh, the damage, obviously, when I see that.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, it's fiberglass.

'''MATT:''' Mm-hmm. Chicken wire. Uh, anyways, uh I went... Mike and I went...

'''MIKE:''' Oh, yeah, you were at Busch Gardens!

'''MATT:''' Yeah! And I just remember that guy being particularly unenthusiastic about us experiencing the fury of The Scorpion. ''{Mike laughs}'' It was wonderfully scripted.

'''MIKE:''' So was it just a roller coaster, or was that a ride...

'''MATT:''' No, it was just a roller coaster.

'''MATT:''' And so they have the guy just before it starts...

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Okay, yeah, at the beginning, right.

'''MATT:''' You see, we were just talking over each other again.

'''MIKE:''' We can talk at the same time.

'''MATT:''' I know, but it's probably hard for people to understand what we're saying. Go!

'''MIKE:''' Go!

'''MATT:''' I take!

'''MIKE:''' I take!

'''MATT:''' Hi Lois! Raise your arms, watch your knees. Exit to your right, please! They did that at Six Flags all the time, I remember.

'''MIKE:''' Six Flags over Georgia, that is.

''{The Paper comes down in the email for the second time.}''

'''MATT:''' Wait for it, wait for it...

'''MIKE:''' Is it still going?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hang on! ''{pause for the end}'' Now it's done.

===Fun Facts===
*Cheerleader's statement has yet to be a Quote of the Week, even though the Brothers Chaps indicate it will be.
*[[Wikipedia:Scorpion (roller coaster)|The Scorpion]] is a single-looping steel roller coaster found at [[Wikipedia:Busch Gardens Tampa Bay|Busch Gardens Tampa Bay]].
*[[Wikipedia:Klaus Meine|Klaus Meine]] is the frontman of German rock band [[Wikipedia:Scorpions (band)|the Scorpions]].
*[[Wikipedia:Six Flags Over Georgia|Six Flags Over Georgia]] is a [[Wikipedia:Six Flags|Six Flags]] theme park found near [[Wikipedia:Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]].

== External Links ==
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[[Image:themepark.png|thumb|"* please do not bring your grandmother"]]

Strong Bad tells us about his plans for a Strong Badia theme park.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Cheerleader}} (Easter egg), {{Film|The Ugly One}} (Easter egg), [[Monkey D]] (Easter egg), {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|Shark-Tooth Bubs}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}/[[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA#Mascots|Stoppy the Sign]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}/[[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA#Mascots|Poppy the Tire]], {{Film|Homsar}}/[[General Tso's Chicken]], [[Bear Holding a Shark]]

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace! USA]], Strong Badia ([[Riverquest Safariventure]])

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Tuesday, May 25, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 4:14

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Everybody loves this, everybody needs this, it's time for funny stuff. ''{reading the email, in a Teen Girl Squad voice}'' Dear strong bad, you are the coolest... ''{stops reading and clears his throat}'' Oh! Excuse me.

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Dear strong bad, 
you are the coolest, any way onto 
buisness. i think that you should 
make your own theme park. 
 
crapfully crap, 
Rafael FL.</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pronounces "buisness" just as it is spelled ("bweez-ness"), sighs and says "sincerely yours" instead of "crapfully crap", and "football league" instead of "FL".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well, Rafi, being the distinguished buisnessman ''{continues with the misspelling/pronunciation used earlier}'' that I am, I've had a theme park in development for quite some time now. Almost as long as I've been growin' this mustache.

''{A magnification of Strong Bad's upper lip appears with "x10,000" in the corner, showing a growth of one hair.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Anyways, it'd be called

''{Cut to view of a theme park by the Stop Sign and Cinder Block.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Strong Bad's Mount RIDESPLACE! USA

''{As this is said, the appropriate words flash on the screen above the view of the theme park. “Strong Bad’s” (in a handwritten font) slides from the left, a mountain which reads “MOUNT RIDESPLACE!” falls from the top, and “USA” pops in.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And it will have more rides than you or your grandmother can handle.

''{As this is said, the words "More Rides Than You Or Your Grandmother Can Handle!*" appear along with a "*please do not bring your grandmother" disclaimer on the bottom.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Of course, our flagship roller coaster would be

''{Cut to view of the roller coaster, which is perfectly circular and spins continually without stopping. The Trogdor arcade game music is playing in the background}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' The Bowels of Trogdor!!

''{Pan out to see that The King of Town is riding the roller coaster and screaming.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Which would like whip you around and around until you either throw up or catch fire somehow.

''{The King of Town catches fire somehow.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Hooieooieooieooieooieooieooieooie!

''{Cut to Strong Bad and The Cheat and the entrance to the ride. A Trogdor sign is there that says "Peasants must be as tall as my beefy arm to ride this ride." The Cheat is clearly not tall enough.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Sorry, little guy, ''{The Cheat starts to stand on tip-toes.}'' I can't do nothing for you. ''{The Cheat puts on a top hat and starts to stand on tip-toes again.}'' Maybe you better head over to Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land instead.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{disappointed The Cheat noise}''

''{Cut to Strong Sad standing on a stage.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And every hour, at the main stage, there'd be a performance of "The Strong Sad Gets Decked Repeatedly Stunt Spook-tacular"!

''{A banner lowers behind Strong Sad that says "The Strong Sad Gets Decked Repeatedly Stunt SPOOK-tacular!!". Strong Sad is wearing a witch's hat standing patiently. Strong Mad comes from stage right to flying tackle Strong Sad.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' MAUHHH!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh!

''{Strong Sad climbs back up on the stage again standing patiently. Strong Mad comes from stage left this time to flying tackle Strong Sad again.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' MAUHHH!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh!

''{Cut to Strong Bad behind a table with a layout of the theme park on it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' To make sure you don't have any money left when you leave,—

''{The words "not to scale" appear with an arrow pointing at the layout.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —there'd be more games than you or your grand''father'' could handle.

''{Cut to Bubs working the "Throw Game."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' You know, the ones where you throw hoops or rings or baseballs at different stuff and try to win cheap generic stuffed animal versions of ten-year-old cartoons.

''{During this voice over, Pom Pom plays the "Throw Game" while Bubs looks on. Pom Pom successfully gets all three rings that he tosses around the "[[Cold One|Xtra Cold One]]" bottle. Strong Bad's arm appears, holding up a cheap stuffed animal.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Like this Bubs with a horn.

'''BUBS:''' No, no, no. You gotta get those rings ''inside'' the bottle.

'''POM POM:''' ''{bubble noises}''

''{Pom Pom picks up a baseball and throws it at the bottle in frustration. A shattering noise is heard. Cut back to Strong Bad behind the layout of the park.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No theme park would be complete without a bunch of costumed mascots running around anticking... ''{scratches head}'' antiquing... Whatever.

''{Cut to view of an area behind some fencing. The King of Town still rides "The Bowels of Trogdor!!" in the distance.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' ''{distant}'' Hooieooieooieooie!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' You know, there'd be one of the Stop Sign,

''{Coach Z appears wearing a costume that has a cartoonish looking Stop Sign design}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' call him "Stoppy", Stoppy the Sign, and then there'd be the tire...

''{Homestar appears wearing a costume that has a very cartoonish-looking Tire design.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' call him "Poppy the Tire"... And who could forget "General Tso's Chicken"?

''{A carton of what could only be General Tso's Chicken falls from the sky. It has "Ryan S." written on the side. Homsar's feet appear beneath it.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, Stoppy, is your suit chafing you like crazy?

'''COACH Z:''' Well, to tell ya da truth dere Poppy, I've always enjoyed a good chafe.

'''HOMSAR:''' AaAaAaAaA! It's time for tasteball!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, crap! It's tasteball already?

''{Cut to Strong Bad back at the Compy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' But yeah, it's a pretty unrealistic vision. I'm gonna have to start robbing WAY more hot actresses if I ever hope to make that dream a reality. But for now, I'll settle for giving tours on The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure.

''{He gets up. Cut to Strong Bad standing in a box in Strong Badia. He holds some sort of microphone.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Strong Bad makes a microphone click noise and speaks in an emotionless theme park tour guide-styled voice throughout the rest of the email. In each phrase, the pitch rises, reaches a high in the middle, and then falls}'' Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen my name is Strong Bad and welcome to The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure. ''{Strong Bad makes a click noise again.}''

''{Cut to wide view of Strong Bad standing in a box labeled "riverquest safariventure." Homestar sits in front of him in the box. To the left is a running hose. The water from the hose forms a puddle around the box.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Please keep your arms legs and valuables inside the vehicle at all times and get ready to experience the fury of: The Strong Badian Riverboat Superfun...ride. ''{click}''

''{Strong Bad inches closer to Homestar as he says this, while Homestar backs away.}''

''{[[The Paper]] comes down. About five seconds later, it zooms in on Strong Bad and Homestar and the tour continues. The Paper disappears.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' And first up on our tour if you look to your right ''{Homestar looks to his right}'' experience the fury of: ''{cut to wider view}'' a big rock that's going to fall on uuuus.

''{An obviously fake rock pops up behind the fence, mounted on a stick.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ooooh.

''{The rock goes back down behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That was a close call, I hope everyone is okaaaay.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I'm not okay—

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{quickly, interrupting}'' Shut up. ''{click}''

''{Cut to closeup of Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' And if you look up the river here comes another one of our tour guides his name is The Cheat—

''{Cut to wide view again. The Cheat walks by in his own box, which is labeled "R.Q. 2".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —everybody say "Hi, The Cheeeeat."

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hide and seeeeek.

''{Some drum sounds can be heard.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Oh, what's that I hear is it the sound of island drums? Oh no, it's headhunteeerrrs.

''{The bear holding a shark, posing as a "headhunter", pops up from behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Everyone stay in the boat, I'll take care of thiiis. ''{click}''

''{Strong Bad pulls out a starter's pistol, and turns his head away as he fires up into the air twice. The cutout goes back down behind the fence.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Looks like we scared those headhunters. Let's hope they don't come baaack. ''{click}''

''{Cut to closeup of Strong Bad again.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Well folks we've made it back safely did everyone have a good time?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Not really.

''{Strong Bad continues to talk while Homestar answers.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Goooood. Please leave your valuables under your seat and exit to your riiiight. ''{click}''

''{Cut to wide view again.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Strong Bad, I gotta level with ya. That might have been ''{short pause}'' the worst three thousand dollars I ever spent.

''{The Paper comes down again. After another pause, Strong Bad speaks again.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{click}'' Don't forget to experience the fury of: our gift shooop. ''{click}''

''{Once again, Strong Bad moves closer to Homestar as he says this while Homestar backs away.}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[File:Monkey Dude2.PNG|thumb|Monkey D's season pass]]
*Click on "buisness" after Strong Bad says it in the first part of the email to see a picture of The Ugly One and Cheerleader.
:'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{Her shirt reads "kiss boys."}'' The Ugly One, why you always gotta be all up in my bweez-NASS? ''{Cheerleader looks angry, while The Ugly One looks sad.}''
*Click on "Rafi" to see a mock NFL patch.
*Click on "Mount" in "Mount Ridesplace USA" after Strong Bad says "USA" to see [[Monkey D]]'s season pass.
<blockquote>Strong Bad's Mount Ridesplace! USA 
Season Pass 
Name: Monkey D 
Has: Fun 
Valid thru 9/04 
''{signed}'' Monkey D</blockquote>
*Click on the second Bubs doll in full sight in the "Throw Game" stand to see a real Bubs plushie, [[Shark-Tooth Bubs]], looking from left to right.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The paper on Strong Bad's desk is labeled "plans for stuff".
*The box in the throw game is labeled "BOX FOR THROW GAME", in capital letters.
*This is the second email with a voice-over of a character invented by Strong Bad. The email [[japanese cartoon]] had a Stinkoman voice-over.
**This is also the first time Strong Bad has used his [[Teen Girl Squad]] voice outside of a TGS cartoon.
*This email has the longest cartoon extension after the Paper comes down.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad describes what the Strong Badia theme park would be like."

===Remarks===
*This is one of the few emails where [[The Paper]] comes down twice. The only other time this happened was in [[50 emails]]. (The [[New Paper]] later came down twice in [[mini-golf]] and [[web comics]], however.)
*The Bowels of Trogdor is not visible in the panoramic view of the park.
*When Homestar looks at the boulder, he appears to turn his head around 180 degrees, without moving his body.

===Goofs===
*When Pom Pom hits the bottle with the ball, a crashing sound is heard yet it doesn't break. Also, the crashing sound is played right after Pom Pom throws the ball, but before it reaches the bottle.
*At the end of the Strong Bad's Riverquest Safariventure, the [[Stop Sign]] is not there. It disappeared sometime between the pause the first time The Paper came down and the fake boulder.
*The Bowels of Trogdor abruptly stops spinning while the mascots are talking. Also, The King of Town isn't on fire.
*When the toon finally ends, the flowing water animation freezes.

===Glitches===
*On some computers, the email stops abruptly at the scene with the Bowels of Trogdor. Only one car appears, and it is off the rails with nobody inside.

===Inside References===
*This is the first time since [[vacation]] (email 40) that Strong Bad has answered an email with a "[[crapfully yours]]"-style signature.
**It is also the only Compy-era email to feature such a closing.
*The "headhunter" is the [[Bear holding a Shark]] from [[date]].
*Pom Pom throws rings around an "Xtra Cold One", first seen in [[Cheat Commandos (toon)|Cheat Commandos]].
*The music played during Strong Sad's "Stunt Spooktacular" is the same music that was used in both [[Homestarloween Party]] and [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]].
*The music that plays when Strong Bad is describing the "Bowels of Trogdor" roller coaster is from the game [[TROGDOR!]].
*Cheerleader uses the phrase "[[All up ons|all up in]]".
*"Ryan S." on the box of General Tso's chicken is a reference to [[Ryan Sterritt]], a friend of [[The Brothers Chaps]], who helps them with the website and the [[strongbad_email.exe]] DVD.
*This is another reference to Homestar's [[Best/Worst X bucks I ever spent|best/worst money spent]].
*[[Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]] Land, the ride Strong Bad sends The Cheat to, is originally from [[crazy cartoon]] as the name of the cartoon.

===Real-World References===
*The Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure is reminiscent of the [[Wikipedia:Jungle Cruise|Jungle Cruise]] found in [[Disney]] theme parks. The way Strong Bad does not breathe or show any expression and his rise-and-fall delivery is reminiscent of Jungle Cruise tour guides who have given the same tour over and over again. The shooting of a warning shot (in this case a starter's pistol) to scare off the bear and shark "headhunters" is directly from the tour guide script. Most of Strong Bad's speech correlates to the tour.

===Fast Forward===
*In [[boring (really)]], Strong Bad says, "...prepare to experience the fury of... me naming all the three letter words I can think of," in a voice similar to the one used in this toon.
*The "[[riverquest safariventure]]" ride reappears a few times.
*The [[Female Lappy 486]] mentions bwees-ness in [[hremail 3184]].
*Homestar's and Coach Z's costumes reappear in [[On Break]].
*The Shark-Tooth Bubs doll seen in the Easter egg would later become a full fledged member of the Puppet Stuff characters.
*Strong Bad will use a Teen Girl Squad voice again in the email [[death metal]].

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]])

'''MIKE:''' ''{singing}'' Theme paaaaark!

'''MATT:''' That's a good one.

'''MIKE:''' That's my theme park... theme song.

'''MATT:''' I like that. Oh, Mike, Strong Bad's talking in the wrong voice.

'''MIKE:''' He's talking like one of the Teen Girl Squads.

'''MATT:''' Which one do you think it was?

'''MIKE:''' The original Teen Girl Squad. Uh, I think that was... So and So?

'''MATT:''' Yeah?

'''MIKE:''' Nah, it was either The Ug... I think it was The Ugly One. All right, let's talk about something else.

'''MATT:''' Okay. I like "buisness."

'''MIKE:''' Buisness. Didn't we record, um, 'cuz there's a little Easter egg with him saying "Why you're all up on my buisness."

'''MATT:''' Oh, yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Teen Girl Squad.

'''MATT:''' We never put it out. We were gonna make it the Quote of the— Let's do that this week, make it the Quote of the Week.

'''MIKE:''' Maybe, it'll seem like we're talking about something really old when they hear this on the DVD.

'''MATT:''' Perhaps.

'''MIKE:''' But we're ''really'' talking about the ''future''.

''{awkward pause}''

'''MATT:''' So, we sh— I feel like we should start over on this commentary already.

'''MIKE:''' That's... let's keep going.

'''MATT:''' All right.

'''MIKE:''' Let's plug on through.

'''MATT:''' We'll give it a shot.

''{Pause until Strong Bad mentions "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land"}''

'''MATT:''' I'd like to see what Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Land looks like.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I think maybe originally that was gonna be in the email; I think we talked about showing, you know, like the teacups that were the spinning-around teacups that were Eh! Steves or something.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. But then the email would be nine minutes long.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, it was really long already. So, back in the background there is a Shark-Tooth Bubs, um, which is a real plush, plush doll that a factory in China made for us. It was a prototype. They misinterpreted Bubs's eyes and teeth, and... pretty much everything!

'''MATT:''' As his fangs.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' His fangs.

'''MATT:''' And a horn.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' I like that the box there, that he just that knocked that over on, says "Box for Throw Game" stenciled on the side of it. It's mass-produced somewhere and shipped to Mt. Ridesplace... for that sole purpose. ''{lets Coach Z as Stoppy appear}'' Stoppy has some things in his cheeks, maybe.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, he's got some nuts, maybe he's saving up acorns for the winter.

'''MATT:''' ''{at Homsar as General Tso's Chicken}'' Now ''that's'' a reference to our friend Ryan Sterritt, who has authored this very DVD you're watching.

'''MIKE:''' He's sitting in the room right next to us. Unbeknownst to him, we're talking about him.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, let's go in... let's throw stuff at him next time we see him.

'''MIKE:''' We should. I like to throw stuff at Ryan.

''{pause}''

'''MIKE:''' What should we talk about on this part? Oh, this is a good... this is, this is my favorite part.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, we... this should have been two emails, I feel like.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, 'cuz it was done up to this point, and then there's another ten minutes.

'''MATT:''' So there's a particular visit, uh, to Busch Gardens I took, and I believe there's a roller coaster called The Scorpion, where— that I'm basing this, I mean, definitely, it's obviously based on...

'''MIKE:''' No! You can't say it!

'''MATT:''' What?

'''MIKE:''' Sorry. I was just saying that my name was Klaus Meine and that I was The Scorpion... Sorry.

'''MATT:''' Does this keep going? Yeah, we can keep talking.

'''MIKE:''' Is this a waiting egg?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it's just gonna start playing again I think, isn't it? ''{The email continues after The Paper comes down}'' Yeah, see?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, okay, I couldn't remember how it worked on the DVD...

'''MATT:''' You just wait.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, okay.

'''MATT:''' ''{of the fake rock}'' I like, uh, the damage, obviously, when I see that.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, it's fiberglass.

'''MATT:''' Mm-hmm. Chicken wire. Uh, anyways, uh I went... Mike and I went...

'''MIKE:''' Oh, yeah, you were at Busch Gardens!

'''MATT:''' Yeah! And I just remember that guy being particularly unenthusiastic about us experiencing the fury of The Scorpion. ''{Mike laughs}'' It was wonderfully scripted.

'''MIKE:''' So was it just a roller coaster, or was that a ride...

'''MATT:''' No, it was just a roller coaster.

'''MATT:''' And so they have the guy just before it starts...

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Okay, yeah, at the beginning, right.

'''MATT:''' You see, we were just talking over each other again.

'''MIKE:''' We can talk at the same time.

'''MATT:''' I know, but it's probably hard for people to understand what we're saying. Go!

'''MIKE:''' Go!

'''MATT:''' I take!

'''MIKE:''' I take!

'''MATT:''' Hi Lois! Raise your arms, watch your knees. Exit to your right, please! They did that at Six Flags all the time, I remember.

'''MIKE:''' Six Flags over Georgia, that is.

''{The Paper comes down in the email for the second time.}''

'''MATT:''' Wait for it, wait for it...

'''MIKE:''' Is it still going?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, hang on! ''{pause for the end}'' Now it's done.

===Fun Facts===
*Cheerleader's statement has yet to be a Quote of the Week, even though the Brothers Chaps indicate it will be.
*[[Wikipedia:Scorpion (roller coaster)|The Scorpion]] is a single-looping steel roller coaster found at [[Wikipedia:Busch Gardens Tampa Bay|Busch Gardens Tampa Bay]].
*[[Wikipedia:Klaus Meine|Klaus Meine]] is the frontman of German rock band [[Wikipedia:Scorpions (band)|the Scorpions]].
*[[Wikipedia:Six Flags Over Georgia|Six Flags Over Georgia]] is a [[Wikipedia:Six Flags|Six Flags]] theme park found near [[Wikipedia:Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]].

== External Links ==
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[[Image:haircut01.png|thumb|"I DON'T WANT TO EAT A GUITAR!"]]

Strong Bad gives advice to a Deutschlander on cool "haircuts".

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, [[Ready For Primetime]], {{Film|Strong Sad}} (Easter egg), {{Film|Strong Badman}} (Easter egg), [[Strong Badman Characters#Deutschman|Deutschman]] (Easter egg), [[Larry Palaroncini]] (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Marzipan's Gazebo]], [[The Field]], [[King of Town's Castle]], [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]] (Easter egg), [[Strong Sad's Room]] (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Monday, May 3, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 2:59

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' Man, if I had a nickel for every email I get, I would throw them at people in the food court. From that railing, like up above.

''{Starts reading with "Da da da—"}''

<blockquote class="email">Dear Strong Bad, 
Dude, who cuts your hair? It's 
sooo coull. I can't decide what to 
do with mine, any suggestions? 
 
Harry Earlenmacherg 
Düsseldorf</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pronounces "coull" just like it is spelled, and in place of "Earlenmacherg," he says "ergonomics".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I got no hair, Düsseldörke, so I'm gonna have to reach on this one. Now who's got hair around here?

''{Cut to Strong Bad and Marzipan by the gazebo. Strong Bad is holding scissors.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{angrily}'' You gotta be kidding me.

''{Cut to Strong Bad and The Poopsmith in the field. The Poopsmith points to one of his hairs.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh... Never mind.

''{Cut to Strong Bad and Marzipan by the gazebo again.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' I'm growing it out for charity.

''{Cut to Strong Bad and The King of Town by the castle.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Nobody touches the 'stache!

''{Cut to a close up of Homestar. He's got an angry look on his face.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' N-O spells no!

''{Cut back to show that Homestar is off by himself, talking to no one, while Strong Bad and the King of Town are in the background.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I didn't even ask you, baldy!

''{Homestar looks shocked. Cut to Strong Bad and Marzipan by the gazebo again.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' This is a weave.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Compy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Aw, ''{typing}'' Sorry Ger-man. Looks like I can't practice my barber wizardry, or barbzerdry as I call it, on anybody around here. So, I guess you're on your own. I ghe—

''{Widen to show Strong Mad standing next to Strong Bad. Strong Mad is holding a cardboard box.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' MAKE IT DANCE! MAKE IT PRANCE!!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, I'll make that cardboard box dance and prance later, big guy. I'm in the middle of...

''{Zoom in on Strong Mad's eyebrows.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ah ha! Pay dirt!

''{A camera flash goes off and the screen goes white. Fade back to Strong Bad at the Compy. An instant camera type photo of Strong Mad is taped to the Compy. It develops as Strong Bad talks.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Okay, now that I have Strong Mad's image... um... scanned in to the computer, I'll use my cutting-art, state of the edge technology to simulate different hairstyles. On his eyebrows. I'll just get out my "LIGHT PEN" here.

''{Strong Bad's hand comes up. He has a dry-erase marker and starts to draw on the picture.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' First, for the Strong Mad who's out on the prowl, no woman can resist the distinguished grace of what I like to call: The "Gentleman Caller".

''{Strong Bad draws gentleman-like eyebrows. "Gentleman Caller" flashes on the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Or...

''{Strong Bad wipes the picture clean. Cut to the picture.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' experience the lightning brows of "Jagged Metal".

''{Strong Bad draws lightning-shaped eyebrows. "Jagged Metal" flashes on the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, and he's definitely gonna need a guitar.

''{Strong Bad draws a guitar. It ends up in the middle of Strong Mad's face.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' I DON'T WANT TO EAT A GUITAR!

'''STRONG BAD:''' You're not eating it! You're shredding some hott lixx... with your teeth.

''{Strong Bad makes a guitar noise as he draws a whammy bar on the guitar. He then wipes the picture clean.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Or experience the urban flavor of: "Hammer Pants".

''{He draws some funky eyebrows with a fade and adds a comic balloon pointing to Strong Mad's mouth that says "proper!" He then wipes the picture clean.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And for the Strong Mad who's not so concerned with attracting ladies: "Big Ol' Eyebrows".

''{He draws some large rectangular eyebrows.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I should probably go ahead and give him a couple missing teeth...

''{He blackens Strong Mad's upper-right central incisor and upper-left cuspid.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Acne...

''{He draws spots on Strong Mad's face.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' One of them butt chins.

''{He draws a cleft.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' There we go. One hundred and ten percent lady-proof.

''{He wipes the picture clean. He then draws a dog and a cat for eyebrows.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' "A Dog and Also a Cat Shaped Eyebrows."

''{"A Dog and Also a Cat Shaped Eyebrows" flashes on the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And a couple of muskrat.

''{He adds two muskrats. He then wipes the picture clean.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And don't forget: the "Ready for Primetime."

''{He draws a weird-looking character over Strong Mad's face. "Ready for Primetime" flashes on the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Which I admit I got a little carried away with.

'''STRONG MAD:''' SWEETIE CAKES! SWEETIE CAKES!!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Sweetie cakes? What are you ta— O-oh, yeah I guess it does look a little bit like one of them "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes" guys.

''{He draws an "[[Eh! Steve!]]"-esque character.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Eh! Greg!

''{He wipes the picture clean.}''

''{Strong Bad takes the picture down and starts typing.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So that gives you a lot to choose from, Deutschman. I think you could easily apply all my eyebrow style to your ''{pauses}'' headbrow style. So good luck witchasself. I have to go use my "LIGHT PEN" on napping Strong Sad. Prreeow.

''{Strong Bad gets up and [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:Deutschman.PNG|thumb|Sufferin' Schnitzels It's...DEUTSCHMAN!]]
*Click on "[[Strong Bad's School Of Barbzerdry|Barbzerdry]]" to see a piece of parchment about this obscure trade.
<blockquote style="border:1px solid black;background:#C7C2A1;color:#000;width:190px">specializing in: 
:-elixirs 
:-faeries 
:-high top fades 
absolutely NO: 
:-cuts 
:-butts 
:-coconuts 

'''Strong Bad's''' 
'''School Of Barbzerdry'''</blockquote>
*At the end, click on "Deutschman" to see a [[Strong Badman]] comic book.
<blockquote>Cheap as Free Comics 
The Total Adventures of STRONG BADMAN 
Sufferin' Schnitzels It's...DEUTSCHMAN!</blockquote>
*At the end, click on "eyebrow style" to see Strong Bad make the box dance.
:''{Cut to the basement. Strong Bad is behind the couch, holding up the cardboard box. We can see Strong Mad standing in the foreground watching.}''
:'''STRONG BAD''': ''{singing as he moves the box around}'' Doo dit doo doo! It's tough being a box! But I'm livin' it up! Livin' it up! Do dit do dit! Livin' it up! Do dit do dit do! Box!
:'''STRONG MAD''': HOORAY FOR BOX!
:*While Strong Bad is singing, click on the [[Limozeen]] poster in the top-right corner to hear Limozeen's version of the song. (It will play at the end of the Easter egg.)
::'''LIMOZEEN SINGERS''': It's tough being a box! But I'm livin' it up! I'm livin' it up! Livin' it up! I'm livin' it up! Box!
::''{on "Box!", the cardboard box is thrown into the air in front of the poster}''
*At the end, click on "napping Strong Sad" to see how Strong Bad used the "light pen" on Strong Sad.
:''{Cut to Strong Sad's room. Strong Sad is laying in bed asleep. A funny face has been drawn on him with the "light pen".}''
:'''STRONG SAD''': ''{murmuring in his sleep}'' Jokey Smurf... Brainy... Brainy Smurf... that Carpenter Smurf...Oh, watch out, Julian Sands!

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*A [[Wikipedia:Hi-top fade|High top fade]] is a hairstyle where the hair on the sides are cut short and the hair on the top of the head remains long and sticks up.

=== Trivia ===
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#tengen classix|tengen classix]]".
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad struggles to answer an email about haircuts."

===Remarks===
*"Barbzerdry" is a [[portmanteau]].
*The cardboard box has "GLUTEMATES (BOX OF 6)" very faintly printed on it.
*Strong Bad's [[Fine Tip Permanent Marker|"permanent" marker]] apparently isn't permanent at all, although permanent markers frequently rub off smooth surfaces, such as the Polaroid picture of Strong Mad.
**A few times, he does not wipe all of the Polaroid, yet all the marker is erased.
*Strong Bad can [[Wikipedia:Germanic umlaut|umlaut]] his U's and O's unusually quickly. Normally, when one needs to change the language on their keyboard, they use special keyboard shortcuts.
**Also, he mispronounces his umlauted "U"s and "O"s.
*The "Gentleman Caller" bears a striking resemblance to [[Old Timey Strong Bad]]'s mustache and hair.
*The font for the Deutschman comic book logo is the same as the one used for the words that flash on-screen when Homestar says Neva-Die in the email [[car]].
*There are no words in the English language that begin with "ghe" that fit the context of what Strong Bad is typing when he is interrupted.
*Strong Bad says he has no hair, yet in the following email, [[theme park]], it is shown that he at least has the ability to grow a (very thin) mustache.
*The guitar that [[Strong Bad]] draws on [[Strong Mad]]'s picture is a [[Gibson Flying V|Flying V]].
**It also appears to be a bass, based on the number of strings Strong Bad draws on it. Strong Mad is shown to be a capable bass player in [[Cool Tapes]], [[Weclome Back]], and [[Baddest of the Bands]].
*Marzipan states her hair is a weave, implying that the length is due to hair extensions and is not her actual hair.

===Goofs===
*In the Easter egg containing Strong Bad singing the box song, his arms are much longer than normal.
*When Strong Bad is drawing on Strong Mad's picture in the close up, the Compy is much brighter than usual.
*One can click on "eyebrow style" and "napping Strong Sad" through the Strong Badman comic.


===Inside References===
*The Deutschman comic book is published by [[Cheap as Free]]. The comic is a reference to [[superhero name]]. [[The Cheat]] appears on it in a cape and mask—another reference to "superhero name".
*"[[Preeeeow]]" was first used to describe the noise that The Paper makes in [[autobiography]].
*Strong Mad wants Strong Bad to make the box dance and [[Prancing|prance]].
*Strong Sad's muttering about the Smurfs in his sleep could be a reference to Strong Bad's own [[Couch Mumbling]].

===Real-World References===
*In the "napping Strong Sad" Easter egg, Strong Sad says the names of [[Wikipedia:Jokey Smurf|Jokey Smurf]] and [[Wikipedia:Brainy Smurf|Brainy Smurf]] from the animated television series ''[[Wikipedia:The Smurfs|The Smurfs]]''. (When Strong Sad mentions "that Carpenter Smurf", he is probably referring to [[Wikipedia:Handy Smurf|Handy Smurf]].)
*[[Wikipedia:Julian Sands|Julian Sands]] is a British horror film actor.
*When Strong Bad draws the guitar on "jagged metal" Strong Bad says that Strong Mad is playing the guitar with his teeth, he is referencing [[Wikipedia:Jimi Hendrix|Jimi Hendrix]], who gained notoriety playing "[[Wikipedia:Wild Thing|Wild Thing]]" with his teeth at the [[Wikipedia:Woodstock Festival|Woodstock Music Festival]] in 1969.
*"Ready for Primetime" may refer to "The Not Ready For Primetime Players," the name of the original cast of [[Wikipedia:Saturday Night Live|Saturday Night Live]].
*When you zoom in on the comic book Easter egg where there is a picture of The Cheat, the price reads "$1.25". Below that, it reads in a smaller font "$8.00 CAN." This is probably a reference to the difference in value between U.S. and Canadian dollars (though it isn't nor has it ever been that big). This comic book is modeled after Marvel Comics of the late '80s and early '90s.
**On the comic book, "Sufferin' Schnitzels It's...Deutschman!!" is a reference to Robin from [[Batman]]. He often used cheesy phrases fraught with alliteration.
*Hammer Pants is a nickname given to the [[Wikipedia:Parachute Pants|parachute pants]] worn by rapper [[Wikipedia:MC Hammer|MC Hammer]] in the early '90s.
**Strong Bad also adds the word "Proper" to the Hammer Pants drawing. MC Hammer was known for using this as an exclamation, most famously in a [[Wikipedia:Pepsi|Pepsi]] commercial from 1991.
*Hammer Pants's eyebrow style was frequently seen on early '90s hip-hop stars, most notably [[Wikipedia:Vanilla Ice|Vanilla Ice]].
*The barbzerdry parchment references a grade-school rhyme about cutting in line: "No cuts, no butts, no coconuts."
*"Deutsch" (pronounced "doytch") is [[German]] for "German" (the nationality or the language). A male German is called a "Deutscher".
*The LIGHT PEN mentioned by Strong Bad was an accessory for a vector-graphics video game system known as the [[Wikipedia:Vectrex|Vectrex]].
*When Marzipan talks about growing her hair out for charity, she is referring to organizations such as Locks of Love, which lets people grow their hair long and then donate it after it is cut, so that it can be made into wigs for ill people who have lost their hair.

===Fast Forward===
*The "[[Sweet Cuppin' Cakes|Sweetie Cakes]]" character Strong Bad inadvertently creates in this email, Ready For Primetime, appears later in [[Decemberween Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]] and [[mini-golf]].
*The scissors that Strong Bad uses are the same ones as the "snip-snipperrooskies" Marzipan uses in [[lady fan]].
*In [[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]], Marzipan doesn't allow Strong Bad to cut her hair.
*A variation of Strong Sad's line "Watch out, Julian Sands!" would be said in [[Record Store Day]].

== DVD Version ==
*The music during Strong Bad's hair-search scene ends early.
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], [[Jonathan Howe]])

'''RYAN:''' This is— This is Matt Chapman here.

'''MATT:''' This is Ryan, Mark.

'''JON:''' And I don't have anyone else to pretend to be, so I'm Jonathan. ''{laughs}''

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' Uh no, look, this is Matt. Um—

'''JON:''' Ryan...

'''RYAN:''' Ron D.

'''MATT:''' What do you guys think of this? Do you really think this is from a dude in Germany? It sounds like from a German, actually, even.

'''RYAN:''' Wasn't ''Düsseldorf'' John Denver's real last name?

'''MATT:''' Really? I don't know.

'''RYAN:''' John ''Düsseldorf''.

'''MATT:''' Nice.

'''RYAN:''' Switched it to Denver—

''{Matt laughs}''

'''RYAN:''' for his folky songs.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, exactly. Figured that sounded...

'''JON:''' more American.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, definitely.

'''RYAN:''' I like the blurry backgrounds.

'''MATT:''' You do that? You like that? The rack focus, sorta?

'''RYAN:''' I do.

'''MATT:''' Well I guess we're not rack focusing, but—

'''RYAN:''' You ''do'' do that sometimes.

'''MATT:''' Sometimes we do that. We do have—

'''JON:''' Does Homestar have hair?

'''MATT:''' Ha—hair?

'''JON:''' Hair.

'''MATT:''' No, see, he called him "baldy". That's sort of a joke.

'''RYAN:''' Marzipan has some blonde hair.

'''MATT:''' She does. She's mostly bald on top. She has a very receded hair line.

'''JON:''' I wanna— I wanna Easter egg right there on the word "wizardry" which shows that screenshot from—

'''RYAN:''' We got it. Check the alternate angle.

'''MATT:''' There's barbzerdry.

'''JON:''' ''{laughing}'' Barbzerdry.

'''RYAN:''' That's a card.

'''MATT:''' That shows his, uh, card.

'''JON:''' I'm just, totally...wait, no. I mean like the game "Wizardry". Remember the game?

'''MATT:''' Oh, oh. Gotcha, sorry.

'''RYAN:''' I like your Polaroid...fading in. That's a good—

'''MATT:''' Thanks. It looks pretty good. I think Mike did that. I think this might have been one that Mike— I was out of town again and Mike ended up finishing. But, hey, I record ''all'' the voices, you guys!

'''JON:''' Not lately, man. I mean, Shark-Tooth Bubs is a central figure on the site now.

'''MATT:''' Not really. He still hasn't appeared on the site, actually.

'''JON:''' Yeah, he's very important. ''{laughs}''

'''RYAN:''' Um, I like how you guys rub off sharpie from the Polaroid—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it works. You've never done that? It works like dry-erase.

''{All three laugh in turn}''

'''MATT:''' Totally.

'''JON:''' Polaroids are actually a great dry-erase surface. I don't know if you know that.

'''MATT:''' If you're using a dry-erase marker it probably would work, but not the sharpie.

'''JON:''' Not the permanent... See, we're just setting up the—later on, he's gonna have a tough time rubbing off paint pen.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, that's sorta—

'''JON:''' That's great. ''{laughs}''

'''RYAN:''' —was a good—

'''JON:''' Favorite hair style thus far? Yeah, you're starting to lose me on, yeah, the chin.

'''MATT:''' What? You don't like this one?

'''JON:''' I was, you had me at, you had me at—

'''RYAN:''' You had me at chin strap. This is one of my favorites, though.

''{Matt and Jon laugh}''

'''RYAN:''' I think it's pretty hilarious. That, that got me the first time.

'''MATT:''' Really?

'''RYAN:''' It did.

'''MATT:''' You made it laugh?

'''JON:''' It takes a lot to make Ryan laugh.

'''MATT:''' A chuckle laugh?

'''RYAN:''' I am not a laugher.

'''JON:''' Is that "Ready—"? That's the name of—

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I mean, we've never— It's never been referred to, but I would imagine—

'''JON:''' His name is "Ready For Primetime?"

'''MATT:''' —that Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Universe's name is "Ready For Primetime".

'''JON:''' You made the poster, see.

'''MATT:''' ''{character voice}'' Ready For Primetime, you and Eh! Steve are in cahoots!

'''MATT:''' ''{returns to normal voice}'' That sort of thing?

'''RYAN:''' It's good, it's good.

'''MATT:''' Thanks.

'''JON:''' ''{laughing}'' Did you spell "Deutschman" right?

'''MATT:''' I think so. I think that's "Deutsch", correct? And with "man" added in.

'''RYAN:''' Deutschmarks.

'''JON:''' Sounds like a pretzel. Sounds like a type of pretzel.

'''RYAN:''' That's all. Wait.

'''JON:''' There's more?

===Fun Facts===
*[[Wikipedia:John Denver|John Denver]]'s real name was Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., not ''Düsseldorf''.
*[[Shark-Tooth Bubs]] finally makes a speaking appearance on the site on [[Main Page 25]], three years and one month since the release of the DVD this commentary was recorded on.

== External Links ==
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<line start="15" end="65" speaker="strongbad">What do you get when you email Strong Bad? You get a world of hurt.</line>
<line start="69" end="108" speaker="strongbad">"Hey Strong Bad, I think that you should do more e-mails every week."</line>
<line start="111" end="156" speaker="strongbad">"Like two. Then we could have double the Strong Bad, and double the fun."</line>
<line start="158" end="181" speaker="strongbad">Ooh! That's like Strong Bad gum!</line>
<line start="187" end="201" speaker="strongbad">"Jimmy, Minini"</line>
<line start="207" end="270" speaker="strongbad">Okay little Jimmy. I'll do two emails this week.</line>
<line start="270" end="281" speaker="strongbad">Number two.</line>
<line start="286" end="385" speaker="strongbad">"Hey Strong Bad, If you could time travel, what period in time would you travel to? Dave Nienaber, Antioccch, Ill-annoy-us"</line>
<line start="390" end="436" speaker="strongbad">Well Naber, I'd definitely travel ahead about 15 minutes</line>
<line start="437" end="492" speaker="strongbad">to when all the ladies show up for my "2003 Ladies' Choice Awards."</line>
<line start="512" end="594" speaker="strongbad">About 70 or 50 fine women will be showing up to vote on which one gets to dance with yours truly.</line>
<line start="604" end="657" speaker="strongbad">But since I don't have a time machine, I'll just have to wait it out.</line>
<line start="801" end="836" speaker="strongbad">I don't get it! Where could the ladies be?</line>
<line start="842" end="863" speaker="bubs">You said there'd be the ladies!</line>
<line start="864" end="922" speaker="strongbad">I know! I know! Maybe their bus flew off a bottomless cliff...</line>
<line start="928" end="961" speaker="strongbad">and into, like... a bottomless pit.</line>
<line start="966" end="1001" speaker="strongbad">Strong Sad, did anybody call and say they weren't coming?</line>
<line start="1003" end="1010" speaker="strongsad">Oh yeah I forgot—</line>
<line start="1011" end="1036" speaker="strongbad">Or mention anything about a bottomless pit?</line>
<line start="1037" end="1083" speaker="strongsad">Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. About a million ladies called</line>
<line start="1084" end="1125" speaker="strongsad">while you were checking your email and said they'd be a few minutes late.</line>
<line start="1131" end="1161" speaker="strongbad">Oh, good! So their bus is okay.</line>
<line start="1167" end="1233" speaker="strongsad">No, I'm just kidding! But Homsar called and said he was a million ladies tall.</line>
<line start="1240" end="1281" speaker="strongbad">What?! Oh, this has gone from bad to worse!</line>
<line start="1288" end="1337" speaker="coachz">Hey, guys, check it out! I'm hot girl number 37!</line>
<line start="1342" end="1395" speaker="strongbad">Oh, Coach, don't do it! This is depressing enough as it is.</line>
<line start="1396" end="1442" speaker="coachz">No, lookit me! I'm shakin' it to the left and to the right!</line>
<line start="1443" end="1500">
<strongbad>Auuuuuuuuuuugh!</strongbad>
<coachz>Doo doo duh DOO doo doo doo duh doo doo!</coachz>
</line>
<line start="1506" end="1534" speaker="strongmad">I WANT ACTION!</line>
<line start="1558" end="1639" speaker="strongbad">I'm sorry you had to see that. I shoulda played it safe and gone back in time to where I know I'm awesome.</line>
<line start="1645" end="1706" speaker="strongbad">But, since I don't have a time machine I guess I'll just have to wait it out.</line>
<line start="1706" end="1739" speaker="strongbad">Umm... Backwards.</line>
<line start="1756" end="1770" speaker="thepaper">Preeeeow!</line>

<line start="1797" end="1866" speaker="oldstrongbad">I'm no apothecary, but before you trek long and wide on the Muskeegee trail,</line>
<line start="1869" end="1929" speaker="oldstrongbad">don't forget to try Uncle Strong Bad's Flavor Taste Style Chewing Powders!</line>
<line start="1937" end="1972" speaker="oldstrongbad">Nothing else increases brain juice quite like it!</line>
<line start="1979" end="2060" speaker="oldstrongbad">Once again, that's Strong Bad's Flavor Taste Style Chewing Powders. Whisk away the worries!</line>
<line start="2073" end="2133" speaker="oldstrongbad">How was that phraseology, The Sneak? Are your worries adequately whisked? </line>
<line start="2148" end="2206" speaker="oldstrongbad">Smashing! No, I mean... start smashing!</line>
<line start="2210" end="2216" speaker="sfx">smashing noises</line>
<line start="2217" end="2260" speaker="oldstrongbad">Yes! It's curtains for you, Ming vase!</line>
<line start="2263" end="2286" speaker="oldstrongbad">Uncle Strong Bad makes good!</line>
<line start="2288" end="2317" speaker="oldstrongbad">Strong Bad Powdertory, Saint Louis Mo!</line>
</transcript>
</pre>

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[[Image:haircut01.png|thumb|"I DON'T WANT TO EAT A GUITAR!"]]

Strong Bad gives advice to a Deutschlander on cool "haircuts".

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, [[Ready For Primetime]], {{Film|Strong Sad}} (Easter egg), {{Film|Strong Badman}} (Easter egg), [[Strong Badman Characters#Deutschman|Deutschman]] (Easter egg), [[Larry Palaroncini]] (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Marzipan's Gazebo]], [[The Field]], [[King of Town's Castle]], [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]] (Easter egg), [[Strong Sad's Room]] (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Monday, May 3, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 2:59

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' Man, if I had a nickel for every email I get, I would throw them at people in the food court. From that railing, like up above.

''{Starts reading with "Da da da—"}''

<blockquote class="email">Dear Strong Bad, 
Dude, who cuts your hair? It's 
sooo coull. I can't decide what to 
do with mine, any suggestions? 
 
Harry Earlenmacherg 
Düsseldorf</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pronounces "coull" just like it is spelled, and in place of "Earlenmacherg," he says "ergonomics".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I got no hair, Düsseldörke, so I'm gonna have to reach on this one. Now who's got hair around here?

''{Cut to Strong Bad and Marzipan by the gazebo. Strong Bad is holding scissors.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{angrily}'' You gotta be kidding me.

''{Cut to Strong Bad and The Poopsmith in the field. The Poopsmith points to one of his hairs.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh... Never mind.

''{Cut to Strong Bad and Marzipan by the gazebo again.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' I'm growing it out for charity.

''{Cut to Strong Bad and The King of Town by the castle.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Nobody touches the 'stache!

''{Cut to a close up of Homestar. He's got an angry look on his face.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' N-O spells no!

''{Cut back to show that Homestar is off by himself, talking to no one, while Strong Bad and the King of Town are in the background.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I didn't even ask you, baldy!

''{Homestar looks shocked. Cut to Strong Bad and Marzipan by the gazebo again.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' This is a weave.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Compy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Aw, ''{typing}'' Sorry Ger-man. Looks like I can't practice my barber wizardry, or barbzerdry as I call it, on anybody around here. So, I guess you're on your own. I ghe—

''{Widen to show Strong Mad standing next to Strong Bad. Strong Mad is holding a cardboard box.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' MAKE IT DANCE! MAKE IT PRANCE!!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, I'll make that cardboard box dance and prance later, big guy. I'm in the middle of...

''{Zoom in on Strong Mad's eyebrows.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ah ha! Pay dirt!

''{A camera flash goes off and the screen goes white. Fade back to Strong Bad at the Compy. An instant camera type photo of Strong Mad is taped to the Compy. It develops as Strong Bad talks.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Okay, now that I have Strong Mad's image... um... scanned in to the computer, I'll use my cutting-art, state of the edge technology to simulate different hairstyles. On his eyebrows. I'll just get out my "LIGHT PEN" here.

''{Strong Bad's hand comes up. He has a dry-erase marker and starts to draw on the picture.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' First, for the Strong Mad who's out on the prowl, no woman can resist the distinguished grace of what I like to call: The "Gentleman Caller".

''{Strong Bad draws gentleman-like eyebrows. "Gentleman Caller" flashes on the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Or...

''{Strong Bad wipes the picture clean. We zoom in a bit on the picture.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Experience the lightning brows of "Jagged Metal".

''{Strong Bad draws lightning-shaped eyebrows. "Jagged Metal" flashes on the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, and he's definitely gonna need a guitar.

''{Strong Bad draws a guitar. It ends up in the middle of Strong Mad's face.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' I DON'T WANT TO EAT A GUITAR!

'''STRONG BAD:''' You're not eating it! You're shredding some hott lixx... with your teeth.

''{Strong Bad makes a guitar noise as he draws a whammy bar on the guitar. He then wipes the picture clean.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Or experience the urban flavor of: "Hammer Pants".

''{He draws some funky eyebrows with a fade and adds a comic balloon pointing to Strong Mad's mouth that says "proper!" He then wipes the picture clean.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And for the Strong Mad who's not so concerned with attracting ladies: "Big Ol' Eyebrows".

''{He draws some large rectangular eyebrows.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I should probably go ahead and give him a couple missing teeth...

''{He blackens Strong Mad's upper-right central incisor and upper-left cuspid.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Acne...

''{He draws spots on Strong Mad's face.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' One of them butt chins.

''{He draws a cleft.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' There we go. One hundred and ten percent lady-proof.

''{He wipes the picture clean. He then draws a dog and a cat for eyebrows.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' "A Dog and Also a Cat Shaped Eyebrows."

''{"A Dog and Also a Cat Shaped Eyebrows" flashes on the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And a couple of muskrat.

''{He adds two muskrats. He then wipes the picture clean.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And don't forget: the "Ready for Primetime."

''{He draws a weird-looking character over Strong Mad's face. "Ready for Primetime" flashes on the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Which I admit I got a little carried away with.

'''STRONG MAD:''' SWEETIE CAKES! SWEETIE CAKES!!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Sweetie cakes? What are you ta— O-oh, yeah I guess it does look a little bit like one of them "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes" guys.

''{He draws an "[[Eh! Steve!]]"-esque character.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Eh! Greg!

''{He wipes the picture clean.}''

''{Strong Bad takes the picture down and starts typing.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So that gives you a lot to choose from, Deutschman. I think you could easily apply all my eyebrow style to your ''{pauses}'' headbrow style. So good luck witchasself. I have to go use my "LIGHT PEN" on napping Strong Sad. Prreeow.

''{Strong Bad gets up and [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:Deutschman.PNG|thumb|Sufferin' Schnitzels It's...DEUTSCHMAN!]]
*Click on "[[Strong Bad's School Of Barbzerdry|Barbzerdry]]" to see a piece of parchment about this obscure trade.
<blockquote style="border:1px solid black;background:#C7C2A1;color:#000;width:190px">specializing in: 
:-elixirs 
:-faeries 
:-high top fades 
absolutely NO: 
:-cuts 
:-butts 
:-coconuts 

'''Strong Bad's''' 
'''School Of Barbzerdry'''</blockquote>
*At the end, click on "Deutschman" to see a [[Strong Badman]] comic book.
<blockquote>Cheap as Free Comics 
The Total Adventures of STRONG BADMAN 
Sufferin' Schnitzels It's...DEUTSCHMAN!</blockquote>
*At the end, click on "eyebrow style" to see Strong Bad make the box dance.
:''{Cut to the basement. Strong Bad is behind the couch, holding up the cardboard box. We can see Strong Mad standing in the foreground watching.}''
:'''STRONG BAD''': ''{singing as he moves the box around}'' Doo dit doo doo! It's tough being a box! But I'm livin' it up! Livin' it up! Do dit do dit! Livin' it up! Do dit do dit do! Box!
:'''STRONG MAD''': HOORAY FOR BOX!
:*While Strong Bad is singing, click on the [[Limozeen]] poster in the top-right corner to hear Limozeen's version of the song. (It will play at the end of the Easter egg.)
::'''LIMOZEEN SINGERS''': It's tough being a box! But I'm livin' it up! I'm livin' it up! Livin' it up! I'm livin' it up! Box!
::''{on "Box!", the cardboard box is thrown into the air in front of the poster}''
*At the end, click on "napping Strong Sad" to see how Strong Bad used the "light pen" on Strong Sad.
:''{Cut to Strong Sad's room. Strong Sad is laying in bed asleep. A funny face has been drawn on him with the "light pen".}''
:'''STRONG SAD''': ''{murmuring in his sleep}'' Jokey Smurf... Brainy... Brainy Smurf... that Carpenter Smurf...Oh, watch out, Julian Sands!

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*A [[Wikipedia:Hi-top fade|High top fade]] is a hairstyle where the hair on the sides are cut short and the hair on the top of the head remains long and sticks up.

=== Trivia ===
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#tengen classix|tengen classix]]".
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad struggles to answer an email about haircuts."

===Remarks===
*"Barbzerdry" is a [[portmanteau]].
*The cardboard box has "GLUTEMATES (BOX OF 6)" very faintly printed on it.
*Strong Bad's [[Fine Tip Permanent Marker|"permanent" marker]] apparently isn't permanent at all, although permanent markers frequently rub off smooth surfaces, such as the Polaroid picture of Strong Mad.
**A few times, he does not wipe all of the Polaroid, yet all the marker is erased.
*Strong Bad can [[Wikipedia:Germanic umlaut|umlaut]] his U's and O's unusually quickly. Normally, when one needs to change the language on their keyboard, they use special keyboard shortcuts.
**Also, he mispronounces his umlauted "U"s and "O"s.
*The "Gentleman Caller" bears a striking resemblance to [[Old Timey Strong Bad]]'s mustache and hair.
*The font for the Deutschman comic book logo is the same as the one used for the words that flash on-screen when Homestar says Neva-Die in the email [[car]].
*There are no words in the English language that begin with "ghe" that fit the context of what Strong Bad is typing when he is interrupted.
*Strong Bad says he has no hair, yet in the following email, [[theme park]], it is shown that he at least has the ability to grow a (very thin) mustache.
*The guitar that [[Strong Bad]] draws on [[Strong Mad]]'s picture is a [[Gibson Flying V|Flying V]].
**It also appears to be a bass, based on the number of strings Strong Bad draws on it. Strong Mad is shown to be a capable bass player in [[Cool Tapes]], [[Weclome Back]], and [[Baddest of the Bands]].
*Marzipan states her hair is a weave, implying that the length is due to hair extensions and is not her actual hair.

===Goofs===
*In the Easter egg containing Strong Bad singing the box song, his arms are much longer than normal.
*When Strong Bad is drawing on Strong Mad's picture in the close up, the Compy is much brighter than usual.
*One can click on "eyebrow style" and "napping Strong Sad" through the Strong Badman comic.


===Inside References===
*The Deutschman comic book is published by [[Cheap as Free]]. The comic is a reference to [[superhero name]]. [[The Cheat]] appears on it in a cape and mask—another reference to "superhero name".
*"[[Preeeeow]]" was first used to describe the noise that The Paper makes in [[autobiography]].
*Strong Mad wants Strong Bad to make the box dance and [[Prancing|prance]].
*Strong Sad's muttering about the Smurfs in his sleep could be a reference to Strong Bad's own [[Couch Mumbling]].

===Real-World References===
*In the "napping Strong Sad" Easter egg, Strong Sad says the names of [[Wikipedia:Jokey Smurf|Jokey Smurf]] and [[Wikipedia:Brainy Smurf|Brainy Smurf]] from the animated television series ''[[Wikipedia:The Smurfs|The Smurfs]]''. (When Strong Sad mentions "that Carpenter Smurf", he is probably referring to [[Wikipedia:Handy Smurf|Handy Smurf]].)
*[[Wikipedia:Julian Sands|Julian Sands]] is a British horror film actor.
*When Strong Bad draws the guitar on "jagged metal" Strong Bad says that Strong Mad is playing the guitar with his teeth, he is referencing [[Wikipedia:Jimi Hendrix|Jimi Hendrix]], who gained notoriety playing "[[Wikipedia:Wild Thing|Wild Thing]]" with his teeth at the [[Wikipedia:Woodstock Festival|Woodstock Music Festival]] in 1969.
*"Ready for Primetime" may refer to "The Not Ready For Primetime Players," the name of the original cast of [[Wikipedia:Saturday Night Live|Saturday Night Live]].
*When you zoom in on the comic book Easter egg where there is a picture of The Cheat, the price reads "$1.25". Below that, it reads in a smaller font "$8.00 CAN." This is probably a reference to the difference in value between U.S. and Canadian dollars (though it isn't nor has it ever been that big). This comic book is modeled after Marvel Comics of the late '80s and early '90s.
**On the comic book, "Sufferin' Schnitzels It's...Deutschman!!" is a reference to Robin from [[Batman]]. He often used cheesy phrases fraught with alliteration.
*Hammer Pants is a nickname given to the [[Wikipedia:Parachute Pants|parachute pants]] worn by rapper [[Wikipedia:MC Hammer|MC Hammer]] in the early '90s.
**Strong Bad also adds the word "Proper" to the Hammer Pants drawing. MC Hammer was known for using this as an exclamation, most famously in a [[Wikipedia:Pepsi|Pepsi]] commercial from 1991.
*Hammer Pants's eyebrow style was frequently seen on early '90s hip-hop stars, most notably [[Wikipedia:Vanilla Ice|Vanilla Ice]].
*The barbzerdry parchment references a grade-school rhyme about cutting in line: "No cuts, no butts, no coconuts."
*"Deutsch" (pronounced "doytch") is [[German]] for "German" (the nationality or the language). A male German is called a "Deutscher".
*The LIGHT PEN mentioned by Strong Bad was an accessory for a vector-graphics video game system known as the [[Wikipedia:Vectrex|Vectrex]].
*When Marzipan talks about growing her hair out for charity, she is referring to organizations such as Locks of Love, which lets people grow their hair long and then donate it after it is cut, so that it can be made into wigs for ill people who have lost their hair.

===Fast Forward===
*The "[[Sweet Cuppin' Cakes|Sweetie Cakes]]" character Strong Bad inadvertently creates in this email, Ready For Primetime, appears later in [[Decemberween Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]] and [[mini-golf]].
*The scissors that Strong Bad uses are the same ones as the "snip-snipperrooskies" Marzipan uses in [[lady fan]].
*In [[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]], Marzipan doesn't allow Strong Bad to cut her hair.
*A variation of Strong Sad's line "Watch out, Julian Sands!" would be said in [[Record Store Day]].

== DVD Version ==
*The music during Strong Bad's hair-search scene ends early.
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], [[Jonathan Howe]])

'''RYAN:''' This is— This is Matt Chapman here.

'''MATT:''' This is Ryan, Mark.

'''JON:''' And I don't have anyone else to pretend to be, so I'm Jonathan. ''{laughs}''

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' Uh no, look, this is Matt. Um—

'''JON:''' Ryan...

'''RYAN:''' Ron D.

'''MATT:''' What do you guys think of this? Do you really think this is from a dude in Germany? It sounds like from a German, actually, even.

'''RYAN:''' Wasn't ''Düsseldorf'' John Denver's real last name?

'''MATT:''' Really? I don't know.

'''RYAN:''' John ''Düsseldorf''.

'''MATT:''' Nice.

'''RYAN:''' Switched it to Denver—

''{Matt laughs}''

'''RYAN:''' for his folky songs.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, exactly. Figured that sounded...

'''JON:''' more American.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, definitely.

'''RYAN:''' I like the blurry backgrounds.

'''MATT:''' You do that? You like that? The rack focus, sorta?

'''RYAN:''' I do.

'''MATT:''' Well I guess we're not rack focusing, but—

'''RYAN:''' You ''do'' do that sometimes.

'''MATT:''' Sometimes we do that. We do have—

'''JON:''' Does Homestar have hair?

'''MATT:''' Ha—hair?

'''JON:''' Hair.

'''MATT:''' No, see, he called him "baldy". That's sort of a joke.

'''RYAN:''' Marzipan has some blonde hair.

'''MATT:''' She does. She's mostly bald on top. She has a very receded hair line.

'''JON:''' I wanna— I wanna Easter egg right there on the word "wizardry" which shows that screenshot from—

'''RYAN:''' We got it. Check the alternate angle.

'''MATT:''' There's barbzerdry.

'''JON:''' ''{laughing}'' Barbzerdry.

'''RYAN:''' That's a card.

'''MATT:''' That shows his, uh, card.

'''JON:''' I'm just, totally...wait, no. I mean like the game "Wizardry". Remember the game?

'''MATT:''' Oh, oh. Gotcha, sorry.

'''RYAN:''' I like your Polaroid...fading in. That's a good—

'''MATT:''' Thanks. It looks pretty good. I think Mike did that. I think this might have been one that Mike— I was out of town again and Mike ended up finishing. But, hey, I record ''all'' the voices, you guys!

'''JON:''' Not lately, man. I mean, Shark-Tooth Bubs is a central figure on the site now.

'''MATT:''' Not really. He still hasn't appeared on the site, actually.

'''JON:''' Yeah, he's very important. ''{laughs}''

'''RYAN:''' Um, I like how you guys rub off sharpie from the Polaroid—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it works. You've never done that? It works like dry-erase.

''{All three laugh in turn}''

'''MATT:''' Totally.

'''JON:''' Polaroids are actually a great dry-erase surface. I don't know if you know that.

'''MATT:''' If you're using a dry-erase marker it probably would work, but not the sharpie.

'''JON:''' Not the permanent... See, we're just setting up the—later on, he's gonna have a tough time rubbing off paint pen.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, that's sorta—

'''JON:''' That's great. ''{laughs}''

'''RYAN:''' —was a good—

'''JON:''' Favorite hair style thus far? Yeah, you're starting to lose me on, yeah, the chin.

'''MATT:''' What? You don't like this one?

'''JON:''' I was, you had me at, you had me at—

'''RYAN:''' You had me at chin strap. This is one of my favorites, though.

''{Matt and Jon laugh}''

'''RYAN:''' I think it's pretty hilarious. That, that got me the first time.

'''MATT:''' Really?

'''RYAN:''' It did.

'''MATT:''' You made it laugh?

'''JON:''' It takes a lot to make Ryan laugh.

'''MATT:''' A chuckle laugh?

'''RYAN:''' I am not a laugher.

'''JON:''' Is that "Ready—"? That's the name of—

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I mean, we've never— It's never been referred to, but I would imagine—

'''JON:''' His name is "Ready For Primetime?"

'''MATT:''' —that Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Universe's name is "Ready For Primetime".

'''JON:''' You made the poster, see.

'''MATT:''' ''{character voice}'' Ready For Primetime, you and Eh! Steve are in cahoots!

'''MATT:''' ''{returns to normal voice}'' That sort of thing?

'''RYAN:''' It's good, it's good.

'''MATT:''' Thanks.

'''JON:''' ''{laughing}'' Did you spell "Deutschman" right?

'''MATT:''' I think so. I think that's "Deutsch", correct? And with "man" added in.

'''RYAN:''' Deutschmarks.

'''JON:''' Sounds like a pretzel. Sounds like a type of pretzel.

'''RYAN:''' That's all. Wait.

'''JON:''' There's more?

===Fun Facts===
*[[Wikipedia:John Denver|John Denver]]'s real name was Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., not ''Düsseldorf''.
*[[Shark-Tooth Bubs]] finally makes a speaking appearance on the site on [[Main Page 25]], three years and one month since the release of the DVD this commentary was recorded on.

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|103|10|youtube=nJuqfv89UVo}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

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[[Image:haircut01.png|thumb|"I DON'T WANT TO EAT A GUITAR!"]]

Strong Bad gives advice to a Deutschlander on cool "haircuts".

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, [[Ready For Primetime]], {{Film|Strong Sad}} (Easter egg), {{Film|Strong Badman}} (Easter egg), [[Strong Badman Characters#Deutschman|Deutschman]] (Easter egg), [[Larry Palaroncini]] (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Marzipan's Gazebo]], [[The Field]], [[King of Town's Castle]], [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]] (Easter egg), [[Strong Sad's Room]] (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Monday, May 3, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 2:59

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' Man, if I had a nickel for every email I get, I would throw them at people in the food court. From that railing, like up above.

''{Starts reading with "Da da da—"}''

<blockquote class="email">Dear Strong Bad, 
Dude, who cuts your hair? It's 
sooo coull. I can't decide what to 
do with mine, any suggestions? 
 
Harry Earlenmacherg 
Düsseldorf</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pronounces "coull" just like it is spelled, and in place of "Earlenmacherg," he says "ergonomics".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I got no hair, Düsseldörke, so I'm gonna have to reach on this one. Now who's got hair around here?

''{Cut to Strong Bad and Marzipan by the gazebo. Strong Bad is holding scissors.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{angrily}'' You gotta be kidding me.

''{Cut to Strong Bad and The Poopsmith in the field. The Poopsmith points to one of his hairs.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh... Never mind.

''{Cut to Strong Bad and Marzipan by the gazebo again.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' I'm growing it out for charity.

''{Cut to Strong Bad and The King of Town by the castle.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Nobody touches the 'stache!

''{Cut to a close up of Homestar. He's got an angry look on his face.}''

'''HOMESTAR:''' N-O spells no!

''{Cut back to show that Homestar is off by himself, talking to no one, while Strong Bad and the King of Town are in the background.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I didn't even ask you, baldy!

''{Homestar looks shocked. Cut to Strong Bad and Marzipan by the gazebo again.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' This is a weave.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Compy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Aw, ''{typing}'' Sorry Ger-man. Looks like I can't practice my barber wizardry, or barbzerdry as I call it, on anybody around here. So, I guess you're on your own. I ghe—

''{Widen to show Strong Mad standing next to Strong Bad. Strong Mad is holding a cardboard box.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' MAKE IT DANCE! MAKE IT PRANCE!!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, I'll make that cardboard box dance and prance later, big guy. I'm in the middle of...

''{Zoom in on Strong Mad's eyebrows.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ah ha! Pay dirt!

''{A camera flash goes off and the screen goes white. Fade back to Strong Bad at the Compy. An instant camera type photo of Strong Mad is taped to the Compy. It develops as Strong Bad talks.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Okay, now that I have Strong Mad's image... um... scanned in to the computer, I'll use my cutting-art, state of the edge technology to simulate different hairstyles. On his eyebrows. I'll just get out my "LIGHT PEN" here.

''{Strong Bad's hand comes up. He has a dry-erase marker and starts to draw on the picture.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' First, for the Strong Mad who's out on the prowl, no woman can resist the distinguished grace of what I like to call: The "Gentleman Caller".

''{Strong Bad draws gentleman-like eyebrows. "Gentleman Caller" flashes on the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Or...

''{Strong Bad wipes the picture clean. We zoom in a bit on the picture.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Experience the lightning brows of "Jagged Metal".

''{Strong Bad draws lightning-shaped eyebrows. "Jagged Metal" flashes on the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, and he's definitely gonna need a guitar.

''{Strong Bad draws a guitar. It ends up in the middle of Strong Mad's face.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' I DON'T WANT TO EAT A GUITAR!

'''STRONG BAD:''' You're not eating it! You're shredding some hott lixx... with your teeth.

''{Strong Bad makes a guitar noise as he draws a whammy bar on the guitar. He then wipes the picture clean.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Or experience the urban flavor of: "Hammer Pants".

''{He draws some funky eyebrows with a fade and adds a comic balloon pointing to Strong Mad's mouth that says "proper!" He then wipes the picture clean.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And for the Strong Mad who's not so concerned with attracting ladies: "Big Ol' Eyebrows".

''{He draws some large rectangular eyebrows.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I should probably go ahead and give him a couple missing teeth...

''{He blackens Strong Mad's upper-right central incisor and upper-left cuspid.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Acne...

''{He draws spots on Strong Mad's face.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' One of them butt chins.

''{He draws a cleft.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' There we go. One hundred and ten percent lady-proof.

''{He wipes the picture clean. He then draws a dog and a cat for eyebrows.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' "A Dog and Also a Cat Shaped Eyebrows."

''{"A Dog and Also a Cat Shaped Eyebrows" flashes on the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And a couple of muskrat.

''{He adds two muskrats. He then wipes the picture clean.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And don't forget: the "Ready for Primetime."

''{He draws a weird-looking character over Strong Mad's face. "Ready for Primetime" flashes on the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Which I admit I got a little carried away with.

'''STRONG MAD:''' SWEETIE CAKES! SWEETIE CAKES!!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Sweetie cakes? What are you ta— O-oh, yeah I guess it does look a little bit like one of them "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes" guys.

''{He draws an "[[Eh! Steve!]]"-esque character.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Eh! Greg!

''{He wipes the picture clean.}''

''{Strong Bad takes the picture down and starts typing.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So that gives you a lot to choose from, Deutschman. I think you could easily apply all my eyebrow style to your ''{pauses}'' headbrow style. So good luck witchasself. I have to go use my "LIGHT PEN" on napping Strong Sad. Prreeow.

''{Strong Bad gets up and [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:Deutschman.PNG|thumb|Sufferin' Schnitzels It's...DEUTSCHMAN!]]
*Click on "[[Strong Bad's School Of Barbzerdry|Barbzerdry]]" to see a piece of parchment about this obscure trade.
<blockquote style="border:1px solid black;background:#C7C2A1;color:#000;width:190px">specializing in: 
:-elixirs 
:-faeries 
:-high top fades 
absolutely NO: 
:-cuts 
:-butts 
:-coconuts 

'''Strong Bad's''' 
'''School Of Barbzerdry'''</blockquote>
*At the end, click on "Deutschman" to see a [[Strong Badman]] comic book.
<blockquote>Cheap as Free Comics 
The Total Adventures of STRONG BADMAN 
Sufferin' Schnitzels It's...DEUTSCHMAN!</blockquote>
*At the end, click on "eyebrow style" to see Strong Bad make the box dance.
:''{Cut to the basement. Strong Bad is behind the couch, holding up the cardboard box. We can see Strong Mad standing in the foreground watching.}''
:'''STRONG BAD''': ''{singing as he moves the box around}'' Doo dit doo doo! It's tough being a box! But I'm livin' it up! Livin' it up! Do dit do dit! Livin' it up! Do dit do dit do! Box!
:'''STRONG MAD''': HOORAY FOR BOX!
:*While Strong Bad is singing, click on the [[Limozeen]] poster in the top-right corner to hear Limozeen's version of the song. (It will play at the end of the Easter egg.)
::'''LIMOZEEN SINGERS''': It's tough being a box! But I'm livin' it up! I'm livin' it up! Livin' it up! I'm livin' it up! Box!
::''{on "Box!", the cardboard box is thrown into the air in front of the poster}''
*At the end, click on "napping Strong Sad" to see how Strong Bad used the "light pen" on Strong Sad.
:''{Cut to Strong Sad's room. Strong Sad is laying in bed asleep. A funny face has been drawn on him with the "light pen".}''
:'''STRONG SAD''': ''{murmuring in his sleep}'' Jokey Smurf... Brainy... Brainy Smurf... that Carpenter Smurf...Oh, watch out, Julian Sands!

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*A [[Wikipedia:Hi-top fade|High top fade]] is a hairstyle where the hair on the sides are cut short and the hair on the top of the head remains long and sticks up.

=== Trivia ===
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#tengen classix|tengen classix]]".
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad struggles to answer an email about haircuts."

===Remarks===
*"Barbzerdry" is a [[portmanteau]].
*The cardboard box has "GLUTEMATES (BOX OF 6)" very faintly printed on it.
*Strong Bad's [[Fine Tip Permanent Marker|"permanent" marker]] apparently isn't permanent at all, although permanent markers frequently rub off smooth surfaces, such as the Polaroid picture of Strong Mad.
**A few times, he does not wipe all of the Polaroid, yet all the marker is erased.
*Strong Bad can [[Wikipedia:Germanic umlaut|umlaut]] his U's and O's unusually quickly. Normally, when one needs to change the language on their keyboard, they use special keyboard shortcuts.
**Also, he mispronounces his umlauted "U"s and "O"s.
*The "Gentleman Caller" bears a striking resemblance to [[Old Timey Strong Bad]]'s mustache and hair.
*The font for the Deutschman comic book logo is the same as the one used for the words that flash on-screen when Homestar says Neva-Die in the email [[car]].
*There are no words in the English language that begin with "ghe" that fit the context of what Strong Bad is typing when he is interrupted.
*Strong Bad says he has no hair, yet in the following email, [[theme park]], it is shown that he at least has the ability to grow a (very thin) mustache.
*The guitar that [[Strong Bad]] draws on [[Strong Mad]]'s picture is a [[Gibson Flying V|Flying V]].
**It also appears to be a bass, based on the number of strings Strong Bad draws on it. Strong Mad is shown to be a capable bass player in [[Cool Tapes]], [[Weclome Back]], and [[Baddest of the Bands]].
*Marzipan states her hair is a weave, implying that the length is due to hair extensions and is not her actual hair.

===Goofs===
*In the Easter egg containing Strong Bad singing the box song, his arms are much longer than normal.
*When Strong Bad is drawing on Strong Mad's picture in the close up, the Compy is much brighter than usual.
*One can click on "eyebrow style" and "napping Strong Sad" through the Strong Badman comic.


===Inside References===
*The Deutschman comic book is published by [[Cheap as Free]]. The comic is a reference to [[superhero name]]. [[The Cheat]] appears on it in a cape and mask—another reference to "superhero name".
*"[[Preeeeow]]" was first used to describe the noise that The Paper makes in [[autobiography]].
*Strong Mad wants Strong Bad to make the box dance and [[Prancing|prance]].
*Strong Sad's muttering about the Smurfs in his sleep could be a reference to Strong Bad's own [[Couch Mumbling]].

===Real-World References===
*In the "napping Strong Sad" Easter egg, Strong Sad says the names of [[Wikipedia:Jokey Smurf|Jokey Smurf]] and [[Wikipedia:Brainy Smurf|Brainy Smurf]] from the animated television series ''[[Wikipedia:The Smurfs|The Smurfs]]''. (When Strong Sad mentions "that Carpenter Smurf", he is probably referring to [[Wikipedia:Handy Smurf|Handy Smurf]].)
*[[Wikipedia:Julian Sands|Julian Sands]] is a British horror film actor.
*When Strong Bad draws the guitar on "jagged metal" Strong Bad says that Strong Mad is playing the guitar with his teeth, he is referencing [[Wikipedia:Jimi Hendrix|Jimi Hendrix]], who gained notoriety playing "[[Wikipedia:Wild Thing|Wild Thing]]" with his teeth at the [[Wikipedia:Woodstock Festival|Woodstock Music Festival]] in 1969.
*"Ready for Primetime" may refer to "The Not Ready For Primetime Players," the name of the original cast of [[Wikipedia:Saturday Night Live|Saturday Night Live]].
*When you zoom in on the comic book Easter egg where there is a picture of The Cheat, the price reads "$1.25". Below that, it reads in a smaller font "$8.00 CAN." This is probably a reference to the difference in value between U.S. and Canadian dollars (though it isn't nor has it ever been that big). This comic book is modeled after Marvel Comics of the late '80s and early '90s.
**On the comic book, "Sufferin' Schnitzels It's...Deutschman!!" is a reference to Robin from [[Batman]]. He often used cheesy phrases fraught with alliteration.
*Hammer Pants is a nickname given to the [[Wikipedia:Parachute Pants|parachute pants]] worn by rapper [[Wikipedia:MC Hammer|MC Hammer]] in the early '90s.
**Strong Bad also adds the word "Proper" to the Hammer Pants drawing. MC Hammer was known for using this as an exclamation, most famously in a [[Wikipedia:Pepsi|Pepsi]] commercial from 1991.
*Hammer Pants's eyebrow style was frequently seen on early '90s hip-hop stars, most notably [[Wikipedia:Vanilla Ice|Vanilla Ice]].
*The barbzerdry parchment references a grade-school rhyme about cutting in line: "No cuts, no butts, no coconuts."
*"Deutsch" (pronounced "doytch") is [[German]] for "German" (the nationality or the language). A male German is called a "Deutscher".
*The LIGHT PEN mentioned by Strong Bad was an accessory for a vector-graphics video game system known as the [[Wikipedia:Vectrex|Vectrex]].
*When Marzipan talks about growing her hair out for charity, she is referring to organizations such as Locks of Love, which lets people grow their hair long and then donate it after it is cut, so that it can be made into wigs for ill people who have lost their hair.

===Fast Forward===
*The "[[Sweet Cuppin' Cakes|Sweetie Cakes]]" character Strong Bad inadvertently creates in this email, Ready For Primetime, appears later in [[Decemberween Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]] and [[mini-golf]].
*The scissors that Strong Bad uses are the same ones as the "snip-snipperrooskies" Marzipan uses in [[lady fan]].
*In [[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]], Marzipan doesn't allow Strong Bad to cut her hair.
*A variation of Strong Sad's line "Watch out, Julian Sands!" would be said in [[Record Store Day]].

== DVD Version ==
*The music during Strong Bad's hair-search scene ends early.
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Ryan Sterritt]], [[Jonathan Howe]])

'''RYAN:''' This is— This is Matt Chapman here.

'''MATT:''' This is Ryan, Mark.

'''JON:''' And I don't have anyone else to pretend to be, so I'm Jonathan. ''{laughs}''

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' Uh no, look, this is Matt. Um—

'''JON:''' Ryan...

'''RYAN:''' Ron D.

'''MATT:''' What do you guys think of this? Do you really think this is from a dude in Germany? It sounds like from a German, actually, even.

'''RYAN:''' Wasn't ''Düsseldorf'' John Denver's real last name?

'''MATT:''' Really? I don't know.

'''RYAN:''' John ''Düsseldorf''.

'''MATT:''' Nice.

'''RYAN:''' Switched it to Denver—

''{Matt laughs}''

'''RYAN:''' for his folky songs.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, exactly. Figured that sounded...

'''JON:''' more American.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, definitely.

'''RYAN:''' I like the blurry backgrounds.

'''MATT:''' You do that? You like that? The rack focus, sorta?

'''RYAN:''' I do.

'''MATT:''' Well I guess we're not rack focusing, but—

'''RYAN:''' You ''do'' do that sometimes.

'''MATT:''' Sometimes we do that. We do have—

'''JON:''' Does Homestar have hair?

'''MATT:''' Ha—hair?

'''JON:''' Hair.

'''MATT:''' No, see, he called him "baldy". That's sort of a joke.

'''RYAN:''' Marzipan has some blonde hair.

'''MATT:''' She does. She's mostly bald on top. She has a very receded hair line.

'''JON:''' I wanna— I wanna Easter egg right there on the word "wizardry" which shows that screenshot from—

'''RYAN:''' We got it. Check the alternate angle.

'''MATT:''' There's barbzerdry.

'''JON:''' ''{laughing}'' Barbzerdry.

'''RYAN:''' That's a card.

'''MATT:''' That shows his, uh, card.

'''JON:''' I'm just, totally...wait, no. I mean like the game "Wizardry". Remember the game?

'''MATT:''' Oh, oh. Gotcha, sorry.

'''RYAN:''' I like your Polaroid...fading in. That's a good—

'''MATT:''' Thanks. It looks pretty good. I think Mike did that. I think this might have been one that Mike— I was out of town again and Mike ended up finishing. But, hey, I record ''all'' the voices, you guys!

'''JON:''' Not lately, man. I mean, Shark-Tooth Bubs is a central figure on the site now.

'''MATT:''' Not really. He still hasn't appeared on the site, actually.

'''JON:''' Yeah, he's very important. ''{laughs}''

'''RYAN:''' Um, I like how you guys rub off sharpie from the Polaroid—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it works. You've never done that? It works like dry-erase.

''{All three laugh in turn}''

'''MATT:''' Totally.

'''JON:''' Polaroids are actually a great dry-erase surface. I don't know if you know that.

'''MATT:''' If you're using a dry-erase marker it probably would work, but not the sharpie.

'''JON:''' Not the permanent... See, we're just setting up the—later on, he's gonna have a tough time rubbing off paint pen.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, that's sorta—

'''JON:''' That's great. ''{laughs}''

'''RYAN:''' —was a good—

'''JON:''' Favorite hair style thus far? Yeah, you're starting to lose me on, yeah, the chin.

'''MATT:''' What? You don't like this one?

'''JON:''' I was, you had me at, you had me at—

'''RYAN:''' You had me at chin strap. This is one of my favorites, though.

''{Matt and Jon laugh}''

'''RYAN:''' I think it's pretty hilarious. That, that got me the first time.

'''MATT:''' Really?

'''RYAN:''' It did.

'''MATT:''' You made it laugh?

'''JON:''' It takes a lot to make Ryan laugh.

'''MATT:''' A chuckle laugh?

'''RYAN:''' I am not a laugher.

'''JON:''' Is that "Ready—"? That's the name of—

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I mean, we've never— It's never been referred to, but I would imagine—

'''JON:''' His name is "Ready For Primetime?"

'''MATT:''' —that Sweet Cuppin' Cakes Universe's name is "Ready For Primetime".

'''JON:''' You made the poster, see.

'''MATT:''' ''{character voice}'' Ready For Primetime, you and Eh! Steve are in cahoots!

'''MATT:''' ''{returns to normal voice}'' That sort of thing?

'''RYAN:''' It's good, it's good.

'''MATT:''' Thanks.

'''JON:''' ''{laughing}'' Did you spell "Deutschman" right?

'''MATT:''' I think so. I think that's "Deutsch", correct? And with "man" added in.

'''RYAN:''' Deutschmarks.

'''JON:''' Sounds like a pretzel. Sounds like a type of pretzel.

'''RYAN:''' That's all. Wait.

'''JON:''' There's more?

===Fun Facts===
*[[Wikipedia:John Denver|John Denver]]'s real name was Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., not ''Düsseldorf''.
*[[Shark-Tooth Bubs]] finally makes a speaking appearance on the site on [[Main Page 25]], three years and one month since the release of the DVD this commentary was recorded on.

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|103|10|youtube=nJuqfv89UVo}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

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<line start="15" end="87" speaker="strongbad">Oh email, I'm gonna let you down easy... when I break up with you.</line>
<line start="95" end="165" speaker="strongbad">"Hey Strong Bad, Get Bubs to give out free lunkch specials and I'll show you a hot girl."</line>
<line start="169" end="194" speaker="strongbad">Hmm. Sounds like a solid deal!</line>
<line start="199" end="218" speaker="strongbad">"Sincerly, Someone"</line>
<line start="221" end="246" speaker="strongbad">Aww, I hate it when they don't put a name.</line>
<line start="249" end="270" speaker="strongbad">And when they misspell "sincerely."</line>
<line start="280" end="298" speaker="strongbad">"Luncch" doesn't bother me so much. </line>
<line start="308" end="350" speaker="strongbad">Keep on tranglin, Larry Pat</line>
<line start="363" end="423" speaker="strongbad">Well Larry, legend has it that Bubs has to give you a free lunch special</line>
<line start="424" end="452" speaker="strongbad">if you can get him to say his name backwards</line>
<line start="461" end="475" speaker="strongbad">minus the first b.</line>
<line start="483" end="522" speaker="strongbad">"Sbu." You have to get him to say, "Sbu."</line>
<line start="530" end="576" speaker="strongbad">How hard could that be, right? I mean, I'm saying "sbu" all the time.</line>
<line start="580" end="616" speaker="strongbad">This'll be a cakewalk. At least a sbu-walk.</line>
<line start="625" end="654" speaker="bubs">Shinin' up a chicken in the mo'nin', mo'nin'...</line>
<line start="655" end="689" speaker="strongbad">Hey, Bubs... Read this sign for me.</line>
<line start="698" end="721" speaker="bubs">"Duck A L'Orange."</line>
<line start="725" end="779" speaker="strongbad">What? The Cheat, I thought I told you to make it say "sbu"!</line>
<line start="781" end="801" speaker="thecheat">The Cheat sounds</line>
<line start="802" end="833" speaker="strongbad">Oh, you really want some duck a l'orange, huh?</line>
<line start="834" end="883" speaker="strongbad">You know we can't afford to eat like that! Aren't you a duck anyways?</line>
<line start="885" end="893" speaker="thecheat">angry The Cheat sounds</line>
<line start="895" end="924" speaker="strongbad">I dunno. You kinda remind me of a duck...</line>
<line start="950" end="980" speaker="strongbad">Hey, Bubbsie! Say your name into this mirror.</line>
<line start="984" end="992" speaker="bubs">Bubs!</line>
<line start="995" end="1006" speaker="strongbad">Uh, hold on.</line>
<line start="1013" end="1048" speaker="strongbad">Okay, say it again. Say it real clear this time.</line>
<line start="1057" end="1076" speaker="bubs">Buh-ubs.</line>
<line start="1084" end="1102" speaker="strongbad">Oh, this thing is worthless!</line>
<line start="1135" end="1194" speaker="coachz">Gimme a basket of double hot wings, pants down, a couple of egg rolls...</line>
<line start="1199" end="1215" speaker="coachz">and a cod plank platter!</line>
<line start="1217" end="1225" speaker="bubs">You got it!</line>
<line start="1246" end="1267" speaker="strongbad">All right, The Cheat! Crank it!</line>
<line start="1289" end="1303" speaker="bubs">Can I help you?</line>
<line start="1309" end="1325">
<coachz>I think he's flooding you out.</coachz>
<strongbad>I'm flooding you out!</strongbad>
</line>
<line start="1342" end="1349">
<coachz>I think—</coachz>
<strongbad>I'm floo—</strongbad>
</line>
<line start="1359" end="1403" speaker="strongbad">I'm flooding you out until you say your name backwards minus the first B!</line>
<line start="1411" end="1442" speaker="bubs">Why are you trying to get me to say "sbu"?</line>
<line start="1447" end="1486" speaker="strongbad">THERE! You said it! Now you gotta give me a free lunch special!</line>
<line start="1491" end="1577" speaker="bubs">No, no, no. Getting me to say my name backwards minus the B just makes me lose my super power!</line>
<line start="1581" end="1596" speaker="strongbad">What super power?</line>
<line start="1598" end="1614" speaker="bubs">Being able to fly.</line>
<line start="1616" end="1627" speaker="strongbad">You can fly?!</line>
<line start="1629" end="1652" speaker="bubs">Well... not anymore I can't.</line>
<line start="1655" end="1669" speaker="strongbad">Oh. Right.</line>
<line start="1672" end="1700" speaker="bubs">Eh, I never really used it all that much.</line>
<line start="1704" end="1775" speaker="bubs">Since I gained all this weight, I could really only hover a couple two or three inches above the ground anyways.</line>
<line start="1779" end="1811" speaker="coachz">Either of you ladies gonna get me my cod plank platter?!?</line>
<line start="1816" end="1878" speaker="strongbad">I'm pretty sure Bubs is a big liar, but I did get him to say his name backwards minus the first B.</line>
<line start="1881" end="1911" speaker="strongbad">So now you gotta show me a hot girl, Larry Pat.</line>
<line start="1913" end="1956" speaker="strongbad">Or, buy me lunch. Or... whatever the deal was.</line>
<line start="1963" end="2012" speaker="strongbad">I'll just go ahead and sit here and wait for the hot girl to appear on my screen, I guess.</line>
<line start="2023" end="2079" speaker="strongbad">Not like I got a whole lot else going on...mmm.</line>
<line start="2086" end="2100" speaker="thepaper">Preeeeow!</line>
<line start="2177" end="2180" speaker="sfx">ding</line>
<line start="2181" end="2190" speaker="strongbad">Ooh, an email!</line>
<line start="2199" end="2329" speaker="strongbad">"Deur Strond bad, I hava a emau.. bracket n ow. Cheet helps. Stlong Mad"</line>
<line start="2333" end="2411" speaker="strongbad">Well, looks like ol' Strong Mad has finally hit the Information Superhighway like a flaming sack o' crap.</line>
<line start="2417" end="2461" speaker="strongbad">Oh, and there's an attachment! Maybe he sent me a picture of a hot girl.</line>
<line start="2484" end="2537" speaker="strongbad">An MS Paint drawing of a Brontosaurus havin' breakfast.</line>
<line start="2546" end="2582" speaker="strongbad">Well... It's a fairly hot Brontosaurus anyhow!</line>
<line start="2594" end="2642" speaker="strongbad">Well hey, what's happenin' Brontosaurus baby...</line>
<line start="2646" end="2655" speaker="strongbad">What are you doing—</line>
<line start="2656" end="2673" speaker="strongbad">Okay I gotta get out of the house!</line>
<line start="2884" end="2948" speaker="homestar" voiceover="voiceover">Oh man, that is so fake. Seriously. You can totally see the strings!</line>
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<line start="15" end="87" speaker="strongbad">Oh email, I'm gonna let you down easy... when I break up with you.</line>
<line start="95" end="165" speaker="strongbad">"Hey Strong Bad, Get Bubs to give out free lunkch specials and I'll show you a hot girl."</line>
<line start="169" end="194" speaker="strongbad">Hmm. Sounds like a solid deal!</line>
<line start="199" end="218" speaker="strongbad">"Sincerly, Someone"</line>
<line start="221" end="246" speaker="strongbad">Aww, I hate it when they don't put a name.</line>
<line start="249" end="270" speaker="strongbad">And when they misspell "sincerely."</line>
<line start="280" end="298" speaker="strongbad">"Luncch" doesn't bother me so much. </line>
<line start="308" end="350" speaker="strongbad">Keep on tranglin, Larry Pat</line>
<line start="363" end="423" speaker="strongbad">Well Larry, legend has it that Bubs has to give you a free lunch special</line>
<line start="424" end="452" speaker="strongbad">if you can get him to say his name backwards</line>
<line start="461" end="475" speaker="strongbad">minus the first b.</line>
<line start="483" end="522" speaker="strongbad">"Sbu." You have to get him to say, "Sbu."</line>
<line start="530" end="576" speaker="strongbad">How hard could that be, right? I mean, I'm saying "sbu" all the time.</line>
<line start="580" end="616" speaker="strongbad">This'll be a cakewalk. At least a sbu-walk.</line>
<line start="625" end="654" speaker="bubs">Shinin' up a chicken in the mo'nin', mo'nin'...</line>
<line start="655" end="689" speaker="strongbad">Hey, Bubs... Read this sign for me.</line>
<line start="698" end="721" speaker="bubs">"Duck A L'Orange."</line>
<line start="725" end="779" speaker="strongbad">What? The Cheat, I thought I told you to make it say "sbu"!</line>
<line start="781" end="801" speaker="thecheat">The Cheat sounds</line>
<line start="802" end="833" speaker="strongbad">Oh, you really want some duck a l'orange, huh?</line>
<line start="834" end="883" speaker="strongbad">You know we can't afford to eat like that! Aren't you a duck anyways?</line>
<line start="885" end="893" speaker="thecheat">angry The Cheat sounds</line>
<line start="895" end="924" speaker="strongbad">I dunno. You kinda remind me of a duck...</line>
<line start="950" end="980" speaker="strongbad">Hey, Bubbsie! Say your name into this mirror.</line>
<line start="984" end="992" speaker="bubs">Bubs!</line>
<line start="995" end="1006" speaker="strongbad">Uh, hold on.</line>
<line start="1013" end="1048" speaker="strongbad">Okay, say it again. Say it real clear this time.</line>
<line start="1057" end="1076" speaker="bubs">Buh-ubs.</line>
<line start="1084" end="1102" speaker="strongbad">Oh, this thing is worthless!</line>
<line start="1135" end="1194" speaker="coachz">Gimme a basket of double hot wings, pants down, a couple of egg rolls...</line>
<line start="1199" end="1215" speaker="coachz">and a cod plank platter!</line>
<line start="1217" end="1225" speaker="bubs">You got it!</line>
<line start="1246" end="1267" speaker="strongbad">All right, The Cheat! Crank it!</line>
<line start="1289" end="1303" speaker="bubs">Can I help you?</line>
<line start="1309" end="1325">
<coachz>I think he's flooding you out.</coachz>
<strongbad>I'm flooding you out!</strongbad>
</line>
<line start="1342" end="1349">
<coachz>I think</coachz>
<strongbad>I'm floo—</strongbad>
</line>
<line start="1359" end="1403" speaker="strongbad">I'm flooding you out until you say your name backwards minus the first B!</line>
<line start="1411" end="1442" speaker="bubs">Why are you trying to get me to say "sbu"?</line>
<line start="1447" end="1486" speaker="strongbad">THERE! You said it! Now you gotta give me a free lunch special!</line>
<line start="1491" end="1577" speaker="bubs">No, no, no. Getting me to say my name backwards minus the B just makes me lose my super power!</line>
<line start="1581" end="1596" speaker="strongbad">What super power?</line>
<line start="1598" end="1614" speaker="bubs">Being able to fly.</line>
<line start="1616" end="1627" speaker="strongbad">You can fly?!</line>
<line start="1629" end="1652" speaker="bubs">Well... not anymore I can't.</line>
<line start="1655" end="1669" speaker="strongbad">Oh. Right.</line>
<line start="1672" end="1700" speaker="bubs">Eh, I never really used it all that much.</line>
<line start="1704" end="1775" speaker="bubs">Since I gained all this weight, I could really only hover a couple two or three inches above the ground anyways.</line>
<line start="1779" end="1811" speaker="coachz">Either of you ladies gonna get me my cod plank platter?!?</line>
<line start="1816" end="1878" speaker="strongbad">I'm pretty sure Bubs is a big liar, but I did get him to say his name backwards minus the first B.</line>
<line start="1881" end="1911" speaker="strongbad">So now you gotta show me a hot girl, Larry Pat.</line>
<line start="1913" end="1956" speaker="strongbad">Or, buy me lunch. Or... whatever the deal was.</line>
<line start="1963" end="2012" speaker="strongbad">I'll just go ahead and sit here and wait for the hot girl to appear on my screen, I guess.</line>
<line start="2023" end="2079" speaker="strongbad">Not like I got a whole lot else going on...mmm.</line>
<line start="2086" end="2100" speaker="thepaper">Preeeeow!</line>
<line start="2177" end="2180" speaker="sfx">ding</line>
<line start="2181" end="2190" speaker="strongbad">Ooh, an email!</line>
<line start="2199" end="2329" speaker="strongbad">"Deur Strond bad, I hava a emau.. bracket n ow. Cheet helps. Stlong Mad"</line>
<line start="2333" end="2411" speaker="strongbad">Well, looks like ol' Strong Mad has finally hit the Information Superhighway like a flaming sack o' crap.</line>
<line start="2417" end="2461" speaker="strongbad">Oh, and there's an attachment! Maybe he sent me a picture of a hot girl.</line>
<line start="2484" end="2537" speaker="strongbad">An MS Paint drawing of a Brontosaurus havin' breakfast.</line>
<line start="2546" end="2582" speaker="strongbad">Well... It's a fairly hot Brontosaurus anyhow!</line>
<line start="2594" end="2642" speaker="strongbad">Well hey, what's happenin' Brontosaurus baby...</line>
<line start="2646" end="2655" speaker="strongbad">What are you doing—</line>
<line start="2656" end="2673" speaker="strongbad">Okay I gotta get out of the house!</line>
<line start="2884" end="2948" speaker="homestar" voiceover="voiceover">Oh man, that is so fake. Seriously. You can totally see the strings!</line>
</transcript>
</pre>

lunch special

2021-09-20T05:26:25Z

24.253.236.202: /* Transcript */

{{sbenav}}
[[Image:Sbemail102.PNG|thumb|"Aren't you a duck anyways?"]]

<s>Someone</s> Larry Pat says he'll show Strong Bad a hot girl if he can get Bubs to give out some free lunch specials. Strong Bad switches it up a bit.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}} (Easter egg)'''

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]], [[The Field]] (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Monday, April 26, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 3:43

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{sings}'' Oh email, I'm gonna let you down easy... when I break up with you.

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Hey Strong Bad, 
Get Bubs to give out free luncch 
specials and I'll show you a hot girl. 
 
Sincerly, 
Someone</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad says "Hmm. Sounds like a solid deal!" after "hot girl." He pronounces "luncch" as "lunkch" and pronounces "sincerly" as written.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Aww, I hate it when they don't put a name. And when they misspell "sincerely." "Luncch" ''{pronounced as before}'' doesn't bother me so much.

''{Strong Bad backspaces and erases the last two lines, then types out two new ones and reads them.}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none">Keep on tranglin, 
Larry Pat</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well Larry, legend has it that Bubs has to give you a free lunch special if you can get him to say his name backwards - minus the first b. "Sbu." You have to get him to say, "Sbu." How hard could that be, right? I mean, I'm saying "sbu" all the time. This'll be a cakewalk. At least a sbu-walk.

''{Cut to Bubs' Concession Stand. A sign that reads "Super Chinese Fish Buffalo Rice—Smoothies Too!" is hanging over the "Bubs' Concession Stand" marquee. Bubs is inside holding a chicken in one arm and wiping it with a cloth. Strong Bad enters.}''

'''BUBS:''' ''{sings}'' Shinin' up a chicken in the mo'nin', mo'nin'...

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, Bubs... Read this sign for me. ''{holds up a sign}''

'''BUBS:''' ''{He squints at the sign, then reads slowly.}'' "Duck A L'Orange."

'''STRONG BAD:''' What? ''{He spins the sign around and reads it. Indeed, it says, "Duck A L'Orange." He produces a walkie-talkie.}'' The Cheat, I thought I told you to make it say "sbu"!

''{The screen splits diagonally down the center. On the right is Strong Bad. On the left is The Cheat, who also has a walkie talkie and is sitting next to Strong Bad's computer, which has a recipe for duck a l'orange on the screen. A piece of paper pinned to the back wall says "Home Base" and has a Strong Badified skull and crossbones drawn on it.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{assorted The Cheat sounds}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, you really want some duck a l'orange, huh? You know we can't afford to eat like that! ''{He looks to the side, then puts his hand near his mouth to hide his voice.}'' Aren't you a duck anyways?

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{angry The Cheat sounds}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I dunno. You kinda remind me of a duck...

''{The screen fades to black. Fade back in to the Concession Stand. Strong Bad enters holding a mirror.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, Bubsy! Say your name into this mirror. ''{He holds up the mirror.}''

'''BUBS:''' Bubs!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, hold on. ''{He puts the mirror closer to Bubs's face.}'' Okay, say it again. Say it ''real'' clear this time.

'''BUBS:''' ''{slower}'' Buh-ubs.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, this thing is worthless!

''{Strong Bad smashes the mirror on the ground and walks away.}''

''{Fade to black again. Fade back in to the Concession Stand. This time, Coach Z is there ordering something.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Gimme a basket of double hot wings, pants down, a couple of egg rolls... ''{He slams his hands to the countertop and speaks forcefully.}'' ...and a cod plank platter!

'''BUBS:''' You got it!

''{Strong Bad walks up and throws a hose into the stand.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{shouting off to the side}'' All right, The Cheat! Crank it! ''{water starts pouring through the hose}''

'''BUBS:''' ''{annoyed}'' Can I help you?

''{simultaneously}'' 
'''COACH Z:''' I think he's flooding you out. 
'''STRONG BAD:''' I'm flooding you out! 
''{They stop and stare at each other.}''

''{simultaneously}'' 
'''COACH Z:''' I think— 
'''STRONG BAD:''' I'm floo— 
''{They stop and stare at each other again, and Strong Bad puts his hand in front of Coach Z.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I'm flooding you out until you say your name backwards minus the first B!

'''BUBS:''' Why are you trying to get me to say "sbu"?

'''STRONG BAD:''' THERE! You said it! Now you gotta give me a free lunch special!

'''BUBS:''' ''{shakes his head}'' No, no, no. Getting me to say my name backwards minus the B just makes me lose my super power!

'''STRONG BAD:''' What super power?

'''BUBS:''' Being able to fly.

'''STRONG BAD:''' You can fly?!

'''BUBS:''' Well... ''{He hangs his head down.}'' Not anymore I can't.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh. Right.

'''BUBS:''' Eh, I never really used it all that much. Since I gained all this weight, I could really only hover a couple two or three inches above the ground anyways.

''{Coach Z slams his hands to the countertop and looks around and speaks frantically.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Either of you ladies gonna get me my cod plank platter?!?

''{Back to the computer.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I'm pretty sure Bubs is a big liar, but I did get him to say his name backwards minus the first B. So now you gotta show me a hot girl, Larry Pat. Or, buy me lunch. Or... whatever the deal was. I'll just go ahead and sit here and wait for the hot girl to appear on my screen, I guess. ''{stops typing, speaks quietly}'' Not like I got a whole lot else going on...mmm.

''{[[The Paper]] comes down. Seven seconds later, the computer beeps and a new email scrolls up.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ooh, an email!

''{Strong Bad reads the email, talking slowly and pronouncing each word just as it is written.}''

<blockquote class="email">Deur Strond bad, 
I hava a emau] n ow. Cheet helps. 
 
Stlong Mad 
 
''attachment''</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' Well, looks like ol' Strong Mad has finally hit the Information Superhighway like a flaming sack o' crap. Oh, and there's an attachment! Maybe he sent me a picture of a hot girl. [[Image:dinosaurbreakfast.PNG|thumb|A fairly hot Brontosaurus.]]

''{Strong Bad double-clicks on the word "attachment" underneath the email. A very poorly drawn picture of a dinosaur standing by a plate of bacon and eggs and a glass of orange juice, all in front of a volcano, pops up.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{monotone}'' An MS Paint drawing of a Brontosaurus having breakfast. ''{ends monotone}'' Well... It's a fairly hot Brontosaurus anyhow! ''{talking softly}'' Well hey, what's happenin' Brontosaurus baby... What are you doing—Okay I gotta get out of the house!

''{Strong Bad gets up and runs away.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:Cheatsmile1.PNG|thumb|"...do dooo dooo dooooo..."]]
*Click on the words "Larry, legend" to see a screenshot of the game [[Wikipedia:Jordan vs Bird: One on One|''Jordan vs. Bird: One-on-One'']] for the [[Nintendo|NES]].
*After the Paper comes down, but before Strong Mad's email comes up, click on the word "Bubs" to see The Cheat lounging in the flooded concession stand as [[The Brothers Chaps]] sing to the tune of "[[Wikipedia:Aloha 'Oe|Aloha 'Oe]]".
*Also after the Paper comes down, but before Strong Mad's email comes up, click on the word ''liar'' to see Bubs hovering above the ground:
::'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{offscreen}'' Oh man, that is so fake. Seriously. You can totally see the strings!

==Fun Facts==
===Explanations===
*The [[Wikipedia:Information superhighway|Information Superhighway]] was a term used to refer to the Internet up until the early 1990s.

===Trivia===
*When The Cheat is next to the Compy 386, it reads:
<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none">Kickin' Recipes For 
Duck A L'Orange 
 
- 1 orange duck 
- 2 oranges 
- 3 frenchies 
- 4 ovens 
- 5 heats 
- 6 coupons 
 
Go to Captain D's 
Order the Snow C 
Tell your friends 
really Duck A L' 
It'll work!</blockquote>
*The Cheat's [[The Cheat Evolution|sixth design]] is used in the Concession Stand Easter Egg. He is also in this design whenever he is in his Crisper Drawer.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad tries to trick Bubs into giving him a free lunch special. And we find out that Bubs can fly. Canon!"

===Remarks===
*This is another case of the Compy 386 acquiring a mouse cursor, despite the fact that it does not have a mouse and no cursor is normally seen.
*Strong Mad's email contains a use of The Cheat's name without the [[integral article]].
*The dinosaur Strong Mad described as a Brontosaurus was renamed Apatosaurus as of the email's release date. However, the name Brontosaurus was eventually given to a different sauropod dinosaur closely related to Apatosaurus since then.

===Goofs===
*The MS Paint drawing of a Brontosaurus eating breakfast is not affected by the contrast buttons. However, the screen behind it is.
*When Strong Bad angrily throws the mirror at the ground, Bubs's reflection can still be seen in the mirror, but with no body.
*The hose's shadow in the "floating" Easter egg does not expand when the hose expands.
*When Bubs is holding the notepad (taking Coach Z's order), the paper folded to the back is from behind the rest of pages instead of in front of them.
*When Strong Bad is holding the mirror, it shows the sky behind Bubs in the reflection, yet the background really should be bricks.
*When Coach Z yells about his cod plank platter, part of the outline of his arm overlaps the brim of his hat for a frame.

===Inside References===
*The author of the email seems to be referring to the lunch specials at the end of [[no loafing]].
*The [[Cold One]] that The Cheat is lounging with in the Easter egg is a Coldson Lite, first seen in [[labor day]].
*This email marks the second time The Cheat has been mistaken for a bird of some kind, the other being in [[helium]], in which Homestar identified the floating, helium-filled The Cheat as "an ugly bird."
*In [[big white face]], the runcode for the pixelated Bubs image Strong Bad brings up is "Bu-Hubs", which is how Bubs "clearly pronounces" his name in this email.
*This is another appearance of [[flying]].
*Coach Z orders his double hot wings [[pants]] down.
*The "fairly hot brontosaurus'" breakfast consists of [[bacon]] and [[eggs]].

===Real-World References===
*The "Larry, legend" Easter egg refers to [[Wikipedia:Larry Bird|Larry Bird]], a former player for the [[Wikipedia:Boston Celtics|Boston Celtics]]. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest [[Wikipedia:NBA|NBA]] players ever and is often referred to as "Larry Legend" by his fans.
*Getting Bubs to say his name backwards (minus the first 'B') sounds like a spoof of [[Wikipedia:Mr. Mxyzptlk|Mr. Mxyzptlk]], a mischief-making villain from the Superman comics. In order to get the reality-warping imp to go back to his home dimension, Superman had to trick Mxyzptlk into saying his name backwards.
*The [[Wikipedia:walkie-talkie|walkie-talkies]] used by Strong Bad and The Cheat are World War II portable radios.
*[[Wikipedia:Captain D's|Captain D's]] is a chain of fast-food stores that sells seafood.
*[[MS Paint]] is a small utility that ships with [[Wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Microsoft Windows]].
*The song Bubs sings is sung roughly to the tune of [[Wikipedia:Shortnin' Bread|Shortnin' Bread]].

===Fast Forward===
*The word "sbu" shows up in Strong Bad's list of 3-letter words in [[boring (really)#Fun Facts|boring (really)]].
*In [[the facts]], Strong Mad shows his love for [[dinosaurs]] again through [[Doug the Dino]].
*In [[Strongest Man in the World]], the picture Strong Bad gives Homestar is signed at first as "Strond Ba...", almost the same as Strong Mad's email.
*In [[Summer Short Shorts]], a [[Powered By The Cheat]] scene is shown resembling the prehistoric background in Strong Mad's MS paint drawing.
*Strong Bad would later fly with the aid of strings in [[dreamail]].

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version has all the Easter Eggs close to the end to the very end of the SBEmail.
*For unknown reasons, The Cheat Easter Egg is cut off.
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]], [[Ryan Sterritt]])

'''MATT:''' All right, we're going "all in" on this one guys.

'''RYAN:''' All in.

'''MATT:''' All in.

'''RYAN:''' Gotta groove.

'''MATT:''' Sound, sound off.

'''RYAN:''' Sound one.

'''MATT:''' Sound two.

'''MIKE:''' Sound three!

''{Mike starts to say "Sound four" and laughs}''

'''MATT:''' All right, guys.

'''RYAN:''' I think we're ready.

'''MATT:''' um, what do you guys think of this proposition—

'''MIKE:''' Matt and I made this email, guys. Matt and I made this cartoon. What do you think?

'''RYAN:''' I think you guys are...you got something.

''{Mike laughs}''

'''RYAN:''' I'm not afraid to say that you guys are very good.

''{Mike laughs again}''

'''RYAN:''' Keep on "keepin' on". Keep on.

'''MIKE:''' Keepin' on? Keep on.

'''RYAN:''' That was a ''Family Ties'' slogan.

'''MIKE:''' Really?

'''RYAN:''' They had like—

'''MIKE:''' Really? Nice.

'''RYAN:''' ''Nick At Nite'' showed a bunch in a row.

'''MIKE:''' Oh.

'''RYAN:''' And all the commercials are "keep on keepin' on"

''{Mike and Matt laugh}''

'''MATT:''' That's a good one.

'''MIKE:''' I was gonna be impressed if they had done that back in [[1987]] or something.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Oh it was on retro stuff or retrothon like that.

'''RYAN:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Oh so super Chinese—

'''MIKE:''' super Chinese fish buffalo rice is pretty much...There was a place by the Braves Stadium that we were driving by one time. And there are several restaurants around Atlanta that are—

'''MATT:''' It's a trend, I think, in all metro areas.

'''MIKE:''' —like buffalo wings. Chinese food and—

'''MATT:''' there's one that was called "Philly", "Philly...", "Philly...wing", "Philly wing rice". "Philly wing fish" I think, and underneath it said it says "Chinese food".

''{Mike laughs}''

'''MATT:''' So, yeah, we were missing "Philly cheese steaks" because that seems to be...that seems to be a part. It's just wings, Chinese food, Philly cheese steaks, fish, fried fish, rice.

'''MIKE:''' Sign me up—

'''RYAN:''' Fried chicken.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Sign me up.

'''MATT:''' I'm in.

'''RYAN:''' What's not to trust about it?

'''MATT:''' Exactly.

'''RYAN:''' I bet there's a gravy that you can get to put over all of it.

'''MIKE:''' MMMmmm.

'''MATT:''' That sounds good. Gravy?

'''RYAN:''' Cod plank platter—

'''MATT:''' Let's go for lunch today, guys. We haven't had lunch today yet. Let's go get a cod plank platter

'''RYAN:''' What is a cod plank platter? I had to ask—

'''MATT:''' ''{different voice}'' Back to Red Lobster, boys.

''{Everyone laughs}''

'''MATT:''' Red Lobster Friday!

'''RYAN:''' Uh—

'''MATT:''' Uh, so were you gonna comment on how great that uh, hose thing towards the camera was, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Yes.

'''RYAN:''' I like it.

'''MIKE:''' I was gonna wonder about how long you spent—

'''MATT:''' Probably two to three hours while you finished the rest of the email—

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, this is the point of contention that whenever Matt leaves the room, Mike always complains about how, how detailed the animations are.

'''MIKE:''' It's good—

'''MATT:''' We're trying to finish. It's three in the morning. Isn't that good?

'''MIKE:''' It is good.

'''RYAN:''' Quality artwork.

'''MIKE:''' It's good ''now''.

'''RYAN:''' yeah. It's not good—

'''MIKE:''' At four in the morning on Sunday. I'd rather you make a really crappy—looking hose. ''{laughs}''. Oh, by the way, this one— it's not gonna be on the commentary, but the Easter egg on this one where it shows The Cheat floating inside—

'''MATT:''' Uh huh.

'''MIKE:''' right, Bubs' Concession Stand on the inner tube. That is, by far, my favorite Easter egg or just scene that still just looks like— nice ripples.

'''MATT:''' It's your fine—

'''MIKE:''' It's so relaxing.

'''MATT:''' It's your finest moment. It's almost as relaxing as, yeah, as—

'''MATT AND MIKE:''' Taking a break.

'''MIKE:''' Awww, that makes me depressed for Strong Bad.

'''MIKE:''' ''{quickly}'' and me.

''{pause}''

'''RYAN:''' And me?

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' We still going here? ''{cough}''

'''RYAN:''' This might be a delayed—

'''MATT AND MIKE:''' oh, look at that!

'''MATT:''' This is that one where we've got this whole part where it's Stlong Mad—

'''MIKE:''' The Uh...

'''RYAN:''' Great MS Paint drawing.

'''MIKE:''' —Dinosaur. I wanted to keep doing this, like have, you know, weekly or semi—weekly feature of Strong Mad's bad MS Paint drawings.

'''RYAN:''' You got a lot of images we could put on there. Isn't that on the DVD, where there was extra emails? This is from that.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, here it is. Here's 102B. ''{laugh}'' Look at that thing! That thing's amazing.

'''RYAN:''' People have their own versions of that drawing.

'''MATT AND MIKE:''' Really?

'''RYAN:''' Uh huh.

'''MIKE:''' People still use MS Paint.

'''RYAN:''' A lot.

'''MATT:''' and see this is even more depressing. Strong Bad starts hitting on that MS Paint Brontosaurus

'''MIKE:''' Good lookin'

'''MATT:''' A low point for Strong Bad—

'''RYAN:''' —Is that OJ?

'''MATT:''' So he runs off.

'''RYAN:''' Yeah.

===Fun Facts===
*The [[Atlanta Braves|Braves]] are a [[Wikipedia:Major League Baseball|Major League Baseball]] team based in Atlanta, Georgia.
*[[Wikipedia:Red Lobster|Red Lobster]], much like Captain D's, is a seafood restaurant chain.

== External Links ==
{{preforumsbemailextlinks|102|youtube=n4-dqXSUvNc}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]][[Category:Emails With DVD Commentary]]

flashback

2021-08-26T04:23:00Z

24.253.236.202: /* Easter Eggs */

{{sbenav}}

[[Image:sbemailahundred.png|thumb|300px|Puttin' their weight on it.]]

In the long-anticipated 100th email, Jon from NH asks Strong Bad how long he has known Homestar Runner. The answer is too big to be shown in anything but... [[Widescreen|WIDESCREEEEEEEEEEEEN]]!

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Tiny-Handed Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|The Homestar Runner (storybook)}}, [[The Prince of Town]], {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Mr. Bland}}, {{Film|Señor}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Limozeen}} (Easter egg), {{Film|Senor Cardgage}} (Easter egg), {{Film|Old-Timey Strong Bad}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Moon]], The Sweet Sweet Rainbow Bridge, [[The Field]], [[Marzipan's House]] (Easter egg), [[Telegraph Room]] (Easter egg), [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]] (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Tuesday, March 16, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 5:01

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD''': ''{shouting}'' ONE TWO THREE FOUR—

''{Strong Bad starts singing hard rock with instruments in the background, and the following words appear as they are said:}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' EMAIL IS AWESOME ''{"AWESOME"}'', EMAIL IS WEIRD ''{"WEiRD"}'', EMAIL IS AWESOME ''{"AWESOME"}'' AND EMAIL IS WEIRD ''{"WEiRD"}''! And I'll never forget the way it was, GRRRL ''{"grrrl"}''...uh!

''{Starts reading the email in his abandoned Mexican accent. The text is in the style of the Tandy, and it is in fact the [[some kinda robot|very first email]] he ever did.}''

<blockquote class="tandy email">Dear Strong Bad, 
 
Do you take your wrestling mask and boxing 
gloves off before you go to bed? 
 
Sincerely, 
Abdi LaRue 
San Diego, CA</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad starts to stutter when reading "before you go to".}''

'''STRONG BAD''': ...dajede... wait a minute! ''{hits Compy, the text fixes itself to be a new email}'' There we go!

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Hey there, Strong Bad! 
I was wondering. How long have you 
known Homestar? Is there some sort of 
flashback that could describe how 
and when you guys met? 
Your Fan, 
Jon, NH</blockquote>

''{Instead of "New Hampshire," Strong Bad says "No Hamsters."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Oh, I got flashbacks alright, Jon. I'm like, Discount Flashback Warehouse over here. But this particular flashback has way too much historical significance to be shown in anything but WIDESCREEEEEEEEEEEEN. Left side: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAH!

''{As he says this with a resonating noise, the left side of the screen expands out. The camera then cuts out to a wide shot. Strong Bad stops typing and turns to his right.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Right side: WOOOOOAHH—

''{the right side of the screen starts to expand, then abruptly bounces out to its full extent, revealing Homestar.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Wha-uh, what are you doin' over there?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER''': Oh, I'm pretty much here every week. It's just that usually I'm behind the black.

'''STRONG BAD''': Guess I should start... lookin' to the right more often.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER''': In fact, I think I might live here.

'''STRONG BAD''': I don't think so. If you lived here, you'd have less non-broken bones. And more crushed spirits.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER''': ''{leaning forward}'' Yes, sir.

'''STRONG BAD''': Frame shift left! WOOOOOAAHHH!

''{The screen starts shifting left to get Homestar out of the shot.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER''': See ya after the flashback!

''{The screen shows a picture of Strong Bad on the moon with a tennis racket. The drawing is in the style of the original children's book, though the characters have limited animation. Strong Bad narrates the story but doesn't read everything—text that he doesn't read is included in this transcript in parentheses. Also, character voices are imitated and are denoted in brackets.}''

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{narrating}'' Strong Bad meets the Homestar Runner.

''{The page turns to a picture of just Strong Bad.}''

Everyone loves Strong Bad. He is an okay guy.

''{The page turns to a picture of Strong Bad and Coach Z playing tennis on the moon.}''

One day Strong Bad was finishing up a game of tennis on the moon with his pal, the Coach Z. He won 1,000,000 to 3. ''{Strong Bad}'' "You see, 3 is clearly a smaller number than a million," said Strong Bad. ''{Coach Z}'' "Ooooooh. Now I understand."

''{The page turns to Strong Bad and Coach Z flying down a rainbow from the moon to earth.}''

They flew on a sweet, sweet rainbow bridge back down to Free Country, USA.

''{The page turns to Coach Z holding a towel and talking to Strong Bad.}''

''{Coach Z}'' "I'ma go shower up!" said the Coach Z. ''{Strong Bad}'' "Gross!" said Strong Bad. "Shut up!"

''{The page turns to see Strong Bad walking toward a giant pink egg with yellow spots.}''

Walking home, Strong Bad came upon a big ol' egg. "Waaaaaaaaagh!"

''{The page turns to a closer view of Strong Bad and the egg.}''

"I wonder what's inside," thought tiny-handed Strong Bad.

''{The page turns to see Homestar behind the egg wearing a yellow shirt with a [[duck]] on it.}''

''{Homestar}'' "Hello! How do you like my egg, Mr. Strong Bad?" said a voice from behind. ''{Strong Bad}'' "Who the crap are you, Duckshirt?" asked No-shirt. ''{Homestar}'' "I'm The Homestar Runner!" said the duckshirt. "Some folk say I'm a terrific athlete."

''{The page turns to a closer view of the scene.}''

''{Strong Bad}'' "Well I folk say you're a terrific liar!" ''(said Strong Bad.)'' "This is plainly my egg." ''{The Prince of Town}'' "What's all the commotion about?"

''{The page zooms out, showing the Prince of Town looking at Strong Bad and Homestar.}''

...said the svelt, young Prince of Town. "And who's this weirdo in the duckie shirt?" ''{Homestar}'' "I'm The Homestar Runner! Some folk say I'm a terrific ''(athlete!" said Duckshirt.)'' ''{Strong Bad}'' "Prancibald over here says this egg belongs to him, when I found it first."

''{Zoom in to a closeup of the Prince of Town.}''

''{The Prince of Town}'' "We'll settle this with a ten-step footrace."

''{The page turns to show a crowd of characters, including Mr. Bland and Señor from the original children's book. Everyone is watching Strong Bad and Homestar at the start line of a race.}''

And so they all gathered for a ten-step footrace. The slim and trim young Prince of Town explained the rules.

''{A piece of paper shows up reading: "Ten-step Footrace Official Rules. Rule One. Whoever goes the most distance in ten steps, will be the winner! Rule Two. No biting."}''

''{The Prince of Town}'' "Whoever goes the most distance in ten steps, will be the winner!"

''{The page turns to see Strong Bad and Homestar at the line and Marzipan giving the startoff.}''

''{Marzipan}'' "Ready-and-set-and-go-now." ''{they start running, with Homestar counting}'' ''{Homestar}'' "One, two, three, four, five, six..." ''{Strong Bad takes tiny steps and is way behind}'' ''{Strong Bad}'' "Keep up the pace. Gotta break 4:40"

''{The page turns to see silhouettes of everyone, and Homestar has reached the end.}''

''{Homestar}'' "Ten!"

''{The Prince of Town}'' "And the Duckie-man is the winner. Loser gets the egg."

''{The background music plays several confused notes, then the page turns to a closeup of Homestar, with Strong Bad and the egg in the background.}''

''{Homestar}'' "WHAAAAT??!!?&,:;%${}" ''{Strong Bad}'' "Hooray a-for me!!"

''{The page turns to show Strong Mad holding the egg over his head while Strong Bad watches.}''

And so Strong Mad helped to break open the egg. ''{Strong Mad tosses the egg}''

''{The page turns to show the egg broken, and with a bunch of fish sticks inside it.}''

And out poured a lifetime supply of fishsticks. And a The Cheat!!!!

''{The Cheat springs out of the egg, then the page turns to a closeup of The Cheat. The page turns again to see Strong Bad and The Cheat with the egg in the background.}''

''{Strong Bad}'' "Awesome! My very own a The Cheat!"

''{The page turns again, showing everyone hanging out by a boombox.}''

And so, The Cheat mashed play on an extremely expensive jambox with high-speed dubbing and everybody put their weight on it! ''{The Cheat plays a remix of the [[Old Intro|original intro]] music for H*R.com, and everyone dances.}''

''{Cut back to Strong Bad sitting at the stool, talking to Homestar, who's sitting on the floor listening to the tale.}''

'''STRONG BAD''': So that's pretty much how it all went down, huh?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER''': Oh, yes. Read me another one! Another one!

'''STRONG BAD''': Ohhhhh, very well. This one's called The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck In His Craw!

''{Strong Bad pulls out a children's book of the same name. Compy beeps and turns blue with the caption "Congratulations! You have answered 100 emails." and pixelated fireworks.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' What the—Whoa! Would ya look at that! 100 emails. I had no idea! I lost count around 51. Well, I suppose I should do something to celebrate... uh... ooh! I'll say email 100 times! Email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email...

''{As Strong Bad continues, [[The Paper]] comes down}''


'''STRONG BAD:''' ...email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email eMAIL-a email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email-mail-nahduhluh email email email email e-meh-meh-meh-meh-mail email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email email-mail email email email email email email email EMAIL! ''{takes a big breath}'' Ooh. I'm pa—I'm parched. ''{wheezes}'' I need a glass of water.

''{A pixelated glass of water appears onscreen.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:The homestar runner gets something stuck in his craw.PNG|thumb|A children's book by [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] and [[Craig Zobel|Craig]]]]
*When Strong Bad pulls out the book "The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck In His Craw", you can click on it to get a closer look.

*After Strong Bad says "Email" 100 times, you can click on the words:
**"Congratulations!" for a message from [[Limozeen]].
::'''LIMOZEEN:''' Congratulations, Strong Bad, on your 100th email!
::''{slight pause}''
::'''LARRY:''' ''{startling the other bandmembers}'' WE'RE FROM THE BAND LIMOZEEN-UH!
::'''PERRY:''' Uh, I think it says that at the top of the screen, Larry.
::'''LARRY:''' WELL, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT-UH!
::''{The band members strike various poses and the frame freezes, as the central riff from "[[Because, It's Midnite]]" plays.}''

:*click on "you" to see Homestar deliver his message.
::''{Homestar is standing in the field, wearing the Duckie Shirt.}''
::'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Happy hundredth birthday, Strong Bad!

:*click on "have" to see a message from Marzipan.
::''{Marzipan is standing in her house near her answering machine.}''
::'''MARZIPAN:''' Whoo-hoo, Strong Bad, whoo-hoo. I've almost caught up with you. I only have 90 more answering machines to go.

:*click on "answered" to see Senor Cardgage say some stuff.
::''{Senor Cardgage is standing in The Field near his bush.}''
::'''SENOR CARDGAGE:''' Many combolations, Elizagerth! ''{holds up a sign reading "combolations, elizagerth," and puts it back down, then produces a melty candy bar from behind his back}'' I hope you get all my... particles.
::'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{off screen}'' Man, so cool!

:*click on "100" to see Old-Timey Strong Bad making a telegram.
::''{Old-Timey Strong Bad is standing next to a telegraph machine. Half of his mustache has been ripped off, and he is holding an envelope that looks like it contains the missing half of the mustache. The "[[No Loafing Sign|Loafing Not Permitted]]" sign hangs on the wall.}''
::'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' ''{operating the telegraph}'' Well done, my doppelgänger! Stop! By the time you read this telegrammaparcel, I'll be long dead! Stop! Therefore, I've enclosed half of my mustache herein. Stop! I bid you good tidings, and may you continue to flummox those less fortunate than you!

*Also, clicking in the 2 areas where the fireworks go off will bring you to two other shorts.
**The firework on the left takes you to a TV ad for [[Discount Flashback Warehouse]].
::''{cut to Strong Bad's basement with the Television. Strong Bad's face appears on it}''
::'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{in a mumbling voice}'' Come on down to Discount Flashback Warehouse.
::''{Discount Flashback Warehouse text appears, then disappears. Cut back so the screen shows Strong Bad's body}''
::'''STRONG BAD:''' I've got this season. ''{He gestures to the left, where a screen from "different town", also featuring [[Different Town Character Variations|Modestly Hot Homsar]], appears.}'' Last season. ''{He gestures to the right where a screen from "band names" appears.}'' Even stuff I've just made up! ''{The screenshots disappear and "just made up!!" appears as he says it.}''
::''{Cuts to just his head again, next to text reading "These prices: $9 $6.53."}''
::'''STRONG BAD:''' How can I make these prices any lower?
::''{Cut to Strong Bad standing beneath yellow text that reads "Discount Flashback Warehouse".}''
::'''STRONG BAD:''' Just ask for me, the guy that works here ''{very quietly, trailing off}'' at the flashback place.

:*The firework on the right shows you what became of the lifetime supply of fishsticks.
::''{Cut to the field back in the flashback. The Prince of Town is standing near the broken-open egg.}''
::'''THE PRINCE OF TOWN:''' Will no one claim this lifetime supply of fishsticks?
::''{Prince of Town does an over-the-top look left and right. This is the dance he did when The Cheat mashed play on the expensive jambox during the flashback.}''

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*To "stick in one's craw" is an [[Wikipedia:Idiom|idiom]] referring to a behavior or act that one can not tolerate. It originated as a literal statement, such as a stone being stuck in the [[Wikipedia:Crop (anatomy)|craw]] of a bird; the stone is impossible to swallow, or tolerate.
*High-speed [[Wikipedia:Dubbing (music)|dubbing]] is a feature of many dual-cassette [[Wikipedia:Boombox|boomboxes]] that enables the user to copy one [[Wikipedia:Compact Cassette|cassette tape]] to another at a higher speed than normal playback speed, albeit with less accuracy.
*A "[[Wikipedia:Doppelgänger|doppelgänger]]" is commonly known as a "copy" of someone.
*The widescreen is 750×400 pixels, a perfect 1.85:1 [[Wikipedia:Aspect ratio (image)|aspect ratio]]. Normal toons are 550×400, or 1.375:1.

===Trivia===
[[Image:Homestar Sandals.jpg|thumb|Homestar with sandals and a (green) duckie shirt]]
*At 5 minutes and 1 second in length, this was longest Strong Bad Email when it was released, and it is the longest [[Compy 386]]-era email.
*The DVD commentary for this episode reveals several interesting facts—originally, it would have been animated in the normal style, and would have told a different story, until the Brothers Chaps decided to re-write it halfway through. Originally, story elements included Strong Bad wearing a star shirt, and Marzipan attempting to do something about Homestar's awful fashion sense (his [[duckie shirt]], and also in this version, a pair of sandals). She gets him a star shirt, and Strong Bad rips his own shirt off in protest, which is why nowadays, Strong Bad almost never wears a shirt.
*The email was assigned the URL of "http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemailahundred.html", breaking the convention of the previous ninety-nine. This was done because of [[Not the 100th Email!!!]].
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#Cave Quest|Cave Quest]]".
*This is the first time a character has mentioned [[Free Country, USA]].
*Strong Bad ''actually'' says the word "email" exactly 100 times.
*This is the debut of [[live action]] in the Homestar Runner universe.
*Old-Timey Strong Bad appearing with half a mustache was inspired by a waiter [[The Brothers Chaps]] once encountered who sported the same odd facial hair style, as revealed in the [[Flashforward Interview - 10 Feb 2006|Flashforward Interview]].
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad answers his 100th email in WIDESCREEEEEEEEEEEEN! Reveals the secret origins of Duck Shirt Homestar and The Cheat!"

===Remarks===
*It is debatable whether the story in the book really "happened", since Strong Bad could be [[History according to Strong Bad|making it up]]. Homestar verifies the tale, but this may just be typical, dense Homestar behavior.
*Though the style of the artwork and the voice acting for most of the characters resembled closely that of the classic Homestar cartoons, Strong Bad in the flashback, for some reason, sounds nothing like the real Strong Bad from [[Marshmallow's Last Stand]]-era cartoons. Old Strong Bad's manner of speaking was very loud and dramatic (almost overacted), and he had a strong Mexican accent. Tiny Handed Strong Bad in the flashback is just the opposite, speaking in a monotonic, mumbling fashion.
*When he reads the Tandy email, his accent is more like it is in the old cartoons (most notably, he pronounces "you" as "joo" a few times).
*Strong Bad walks ten steps before he even crosses the starting line.
*Strong Bad couldn't have lost count at [[website|Email #51]], because in [[caffeine|Email #91]], the intro is "Coming in at number 91, it's, EMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIL!" Email 51 follows [[50 emails|the last milestone email]], in which Strong Bad celebrates checking his 50th email.
**Also, he knew that it was the 100th email because he confronted users trying to find the email before it was finished in [[Not the 100th Email!!!]].
*When the Compy said Strong Bad had answered 100 emails, that's not entirely true. He answered two in [[50 emails]] (as well as one answered by Homestar), two more in [[2 emails]] (3 more if the email answered while the clip was in fast forward is counted), and he (sort of) answered more than one in [[huttah!]] (although he didn't answer any in [[mile]], while Homestar answered one in [[anything]]). Depending on one's definition of "answering" an email, Strong Bad read extras in [[spring cleaning]] (although they were promptly deleted). In [[sisters]], he accidentally deleted one email, then responded to and accidentally saved a second. If each toon is counted as an email, then he still answered in excess of 103 emails, since the three bonus emails on the DVD are presumably pre-100th. In addition, there is a "preview email" in the [[TV Time Toons Menu]] and never before seen emails in [[personal favorites]], but these could just be [[History according to Strong Bad|false history]]. So really, at the time of the hundredth email, Strong Bad actually has answered more than 100 emails. The hundredth email was actually answered somewhere between Emails 81-94.
**In addition, he answered about half the emails on the [[Tandy 400]], so unless he transferred the memory somehow, the Compy should not have been able to know.
*Mary, in the Limozeen Easter egg, is wearing a [[Store Accessories#Baseball Caps|Strong Bad baseball cap]].
*The Old-Timey Strong Bad Easter egg contradicts [[That A Ghost]], in which Old-Timey Strong Bad's mustache is depicted as having a skeletal structure. The Easter egg shows it as hair.
*At times, the legs on the left-hand side of Strong Bad's desk rest on an uncarpetted area; however, in this email they are resting on carpet.
*Homestar sits down on the floor, but he does not seem to have a bottom, as his legs bend up into his shirt.
**This was also seen in [[extra plug]] and [[79 Seconds Left]].
*In the Easter egg, before she starts speaking, Marzipan's mouth looks like her [[Marzipan Evolution|third design's mouth]]. Once she begins talking, it becomes the current style mouth again.
*The characters who didn't appear in the [[original book]] take their designs from the [[Sketchbook (museum)|museum sketchbook]]; they include Marzipan, Strong Mad, Strong Sad, and Bubs.
*Although Strong Bad calls the Prince of Town "young", he still has a white beard and grey mustache.
*Strong Bad should have said "fewer non-broken bones", not "less".

===Goofs===
*When Strong Bad says, "Keep up the pace, gotta break 4:40", there is no period at the end of the sentence.
*When Strong Mad breaks the [[egg]], it cracks open, but nothing appears to be inside. In the next frame, "the lifetime supply of fishsticks" suddenly appears inside the egg.
*When Homestar says, "Read me another one. Another one!", the outline on his head moves.
*At the very end of the email, changing the contrast on the Compy does not affect the outline of the glass of water on the screen.
*"Svelt", as it is spelled in the book, is actually spelled as "svelte".
*The bows of Senor Cardgage's glasses are missing.
*When the Limozeen Easter egg is playing, it is still possible to press the other Easter eggs, making them play in the background.
*In the Limozeen Easter egg, Gary and Mary do not seem to be in sync with Larry during their congratulation and start reacting to Larry's line "We're from the band Limozeen!" before he even begins to say it.
**This is due to the fact that all four members of Limozeen are being portrayed by [[Matt Chapman]], and despite using computer effects to overlay the footage of each member, Gary and Mary's timing was not completely perfect when they were recorded.
*When Marzipan is saying congratulations, a small section of her hair is not filled in.

===Glitches===
[[File:HeadGoof.png|thumb|200px|"Oh, I'm pretty much here every week. It's just that usually my head is behind the shirt."]]
*When Strong Bad shifts the screen left, the carpet appears to slide to the right, moving without the stool and the table.
*When Homestar looks down in sadness (before Strong Bad shifts himself to the left to start the flashback), the lining for his head pops out of his shirt.

===Inside References===
*The word "WEiRD" appearing at the beginning of the email is another instance of [[lowercase i's]].
*Strong Bad first uses "[[grrl]]" (seen here as "grrrl") in [[i she be]]. The word is also used in the [[Teen Girl Squad]] menu and [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]].
*Homestar's comment about being behind the black is a [[fourth wall break]].
*Old-style Coach Z and Bubs are from "[[Where My Hat Is At?]]".
*This marks another instance of Homestar Runner being referred to as [[Prancing|prancy]].
*Present in the flashback are [[Mr. Bland]] and [[Señor]], who hadn't been seen since [[Marshmallow's Last Stand]].
*This is another mention of [[mashing]].
*The [[Telebision|TV]] in the Discount Flashback Warehouse egg is from the old [[Telebision Toons Menu]].
*The two emails in the Discount Flashback Warehouse egg are [[different town]] and [[band names]].
*Senor Cardgage's use of the word "combolations" is a reference to the ending credits in [[japanese cartoon]].
*In the Senor Cardgage Easter egg, Strong Bad says, "Man, so cool!" He previously said this in relation to Cardgage in [[kind of cool]].
*In her Easter egg, Marzipan refers to her [[Marzipan's Answering Machine|answering machine feature]] on the site.
**At the time this email was released, there were 10 answering machine versions.
*Coach Z goes to "[[Showering|shower up]]".
*Strong Bad pulls "The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck in His Craw" out of [[hammerspace]].
*The melty candy bar Senor Cardgage holds up near the end is a [[Zagnut bar]].

=== Real-World References ===
*"Put your weight on it!" was a famous line from the [[Wikipedia:Dolemite|Dolemite]] movie ''Disco Godfather''.
*The guitar Larry is holding in the Limozeen egg is the same guitar that Homestar Runner steals in [[Puppet Time]], an Epiphone "Evolution", a variation on the more popular [[Wikipedia:Gibson Explorer|Gibson Explorer]] shape. The bass Perry is holding is a [[Wikipedia:Fender|Fender]] Jazz-Bass.

===Fast Forward===
*Prancibald appears as a [[Trading Cards|trading card]] name in [[trading cards]].
*The duckie shirt makes an appearance in several other cartoons, starting with [[your funeral]].
*Widescreen would later be used in [[virus]].
*[[The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck In His Craw]] is eventually read to Homestar.
*The Limozeen Easter egg is reused and dubbed over with different music for the 200th email, [[email thunder]].

== DVD Version ==
*All the Easter eggs can be viewed at the end of the video by selecting the hidden Strong Bad logos located in the following locations:
**The top left corner icon launches Marzipan's greeting
**The top right corner icon launches a commercial for Discount Flashback Warehouse
**The middle left side icon launches Old Timey Strong Bad's greeting
**The center screen icon on the graphic of the glass of water launches Limozeen's greeting
**The middle right side icon launches Homestar's greeting
**The bottom left corner icon launches Senor Cardgage's greeting
**The bottom right corner icon launches a scene of the young King of Town
*The Limozeen video is now in fullscreen and much higher quality.
**In addition, you can use your DVD player's angle Button while watching the Limozeen clip to change the clip's background image. There are three separate backgrounds in all.
*The email is presented letterboxed (black bars at the top and bottom) to maintain the widescreen ratio, so it may appear smaller in comparison to other cartoons on the DVD.
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]])

'''MATT:''' The guitar just fell on the floor.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Ooh, I like this, uh, part. The song—

'''MATT:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Yeah, we should make a full song of that. And I'll never forget the way it was, Mike. I thought—I wanted it to be, like, a sort of nostalgic punk rock song, you know, 'cause, what if we decided after doing a hundred, we weren't going to make anymore Strong Bad Emails? So I wanted it to kinda be like that.

'''MIKE:''' We decided to do more.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' At least twelve more as of this commen—as of the time of this commentary.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. So Abdi LaRue, uh, was our first, uh, the first email.

'''MIKE:''' Mmm, that's true.

'''MATT:''' Was he just a fan that we tal—that just emailed a lot early—in the early days?

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Yeah. Yup.

'''MATT:''' Or—he or she, we don't really—do we know the gender of Abdi LaRue? I always assumed it was a guy.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah...?

'''MATT:''' Abdi, if you—

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' I don't know any other Abdis, so—

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' It's true. So this—we—a lot of—lot of gimmicks sort of in this one, visually. Uh, the widescreen thing...

'''MIKE:''' The song at the beginning. Cave Quest there—

'''MATT:''' ''{interrupting}'' That—That—

'''MIKE:''' Home—

'''MATT:''' Of course...

'''MIKE:''' White character.

'''MATT:''' A game Mike and I made, Cave Quest.

'''MIKE:''' On the Apple II...

'''MATT:''' C+

'''MIKE:''' C++

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Low-res graphics text interface—

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' He threw a spear, at this dinosaur—

'''MATT:''' He threw a rock at one—

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' —to knock the spear out of the little dinosaur's mouth.

'''MIKE:''' Ohhh. And it showed the animation of the rock falling against the, uh—across the screen.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' So this is done in the style of the original children's book, uh, that [[Craig Zobel]], and I—myself made in 1996. Um, so these were the original—That drawing of Coach Z was done, like a couple of years later.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I like that little, like, that little lip, the little flair on the "Z" that used to exist—

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Because like—'Cause he was originally going to have hair like that, didn't he?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, he had like—

'''MATT:''' On like some early drawings you did—

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' —where it has a little "Z" hair sort of.

'''MATT:''' I like the way he walks, though. It looks good, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Thanks, man.

'''MATT:''' So this whole email, we got very far into this email and then completely rewrote it.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, if you watch the, um, [[Making of Email 100|Making of the 100th Email]] time-lapse which is on this DVD in the Bonus Features section—

'''MATT:''' Three disc set, Strong Bad Emails DVD!

'''MIKE:''' That's right. But anyway, if you watch, you can see me making graphics if you look closely of, like, Strong—of Homestar wearing sandals.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, he's got the duckshirt on, but it's like regular graphics. It's—

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' It's using the regular style, yeah. It's before we decided to do—and you can see, like, in the second day of that time-lapse, Matt's looking—like writing, and that's, like, pretty much rewriting the whole thing.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Um, there was lots of stuff about his duckshirt, like, originally, Marzipan gives him his star shirt.

'''MATT:''' Right. Er, we're gonna g—we kinda—we kinda overdid the origin of things.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Like, we were gonna be, like, explaining—

'''MIKE:''' Because Strong Bad had a star shirt on, too, and he tore it off because he didn't want to wear one—

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' —because Homestar had one too—

'''MATT:''' And he had never put a shirt on since then.

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' And that was why— that was why Strong Bad never wore a shirt.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' That's a good Marzipan mouth. ''{imitating Strong Bad}'' Augh!

'''MIKE:''' Do it, Strong Bad, do it!

'''MATT:''' Um...

'''MIKE:''' That old silhouette—The yellow silhouetted thing is a... a... staple of the Dennis the Menace comics. Usually, the—

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' That's right!

'''MIKE:''' Usually the third frame is the yellow silhouette.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' It's true.

'''MIKE:''' I love that.

'''MATT:''' And so in the Easter egg, the fishsticks do sort of explain why the King of Town is—is fat—

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' —and got this lifestyle.

'''MIKE:''' Look at that old Bubs! Lookin' good!

'''MATT:''' That's of course, uh, on the left side is, uh, Mr. Bland—

'''MIKE:''' —doing cartwheels. Then on the right is Senor—Señor.

'''MATT:''' Señor Havin' A Little Trouble is his full name. That Strong Mad is great. And Strong Sad too, is—got little stubs for arms. I like how this is like—Homestar's so excited. ''{Mike laughs}'' He's sat down and is like crowded around the campfire. We should make that.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. So, are we gonna do the commentary of him saying "email" a hundred times?

'''MATT:''' Yeah, we should talk over it anyway.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, what should we talk about? Maybe um...

'''MATT:''' Anything else about this email? This hundredth email? It was kind of a—

'''MIKE:''' It took three days to make—

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it was defin—

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Took a long time to make.

'''MATT:''' It's one of the longest ones. One of the biggest file size-wise.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. Um—

'''MATT:''' What did w—Oh, we had just met for the first time Jonathan Howe, the guy that h—programs all our games for us. We had just met him in person for the first time. He came down to visit, and then he left on... Monday morning? Or Sunday?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I think Monday morning.

'''MATT:''' Oh, no no, he left Sunday morning—

'''MIKE:''' Oh yeah.

'''MATT:''' —and then we started working—

'''MIKE:''' This was Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, and we put this up Tuesday night.

'''MATT:''' But we didn't decide to make the hundredth email; we had been kind of putting it off because we knew we had to make it a big deal. And so we didn't do it until, like, uh, we decided it that day, basically, right? On that Sunday, that we were like, "Ah, let's just do it," like we were going to maybe do some other update or do—or try and put it off, and we just decided to pull the trigger on it or we'd always be putting it off.

'''MIKE:''' There. We're done.

''{pause}''

'''MATT:''' Lemonade stand.

===Fun Facts===
*Judging by Mike's comment, this commentary was recorded between the releases of [[old comics]] and [[pizzazz]].
*[[Wikipedia:Dennis the Menace (US)|Dennis the Menace]] is a long-running comic strip featuring the adventures of a mischievous young boy.
*"[[Wikipedia:Lemonade Stand|Lemonade Stand]]" probably refers to the [[Wikipedia:Apple II family|Apple II]] game, which featured a graphic similar to the glass of water.

== See Also ==

* [[Original Book]]
* [[Main Page 20]]

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|100|youtube=DyZQl0NmQls|old=sbemailahundred}}
*[[oldhr:sbemail100 zeen.swf|view the Flash file for the Limozeen Easter egg]]

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Old-Timey]]
[[Category:Emails With DVD Commentary]]
[[Category:Advertisements]]
[[Category:Widescreen Toons]]

monument

2021-08-15T20:09:39Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}
[[Image:sbemail97.png|thumb|On a massive scale that would rival the Aztecs.]]

Strong Bad is asked to create a monument in his own image. He goes on to explain how the arrival of [[the Thnikkaman]] distracted him and prevented the completion of the monument.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Bubs}}/[[The Thnikkaman]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Badia]], [[The Field]]

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Monday, February 9, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 2:08

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Oh, traipsing along, traipsing traipsing along, and a email got stuck in my eye.

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hey there Strong Bad! 
I was thinking since so many people 
and ladies think you're SUPER COOL, 
why not build a monument to yourself 
for all to enjoy? 
 
Another fan, 
Kaitlin G.</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad puts an emphasis on "SUPER COOL".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I'm assuming the G stands for generally overused girl's first name. Well generic name, you're really onto something here. Turns out I AM super cool. ''{He clears his throat.}'' As for monuments, I already got one. But it's kinda ''{He clears the screen and continues typing.}'' only of my right foot. You might know it better as DUN DUN DAAA!

''{Cut to the [[Stop Sign]], then to a picture of Strong Bad. As he narrates, a diagram of the monument is built.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' The Strong Badia Sign! Yeah, there were big plans once. It was to be made of the finest materials. On a massive scale that would rival the Aztecs and their...techno-chocolate land.

''{Cut back to the Compy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Anyways, we lost our funding or public interest waned or something distracted me. Man, what was it? What could possibly have distracted me from ''{mumbling}'' humbera hum...

''{Cut to Strong Badia, where Strong Bad and The Cheat are building the monument.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh yeah, The Cheat. That totally looks like my right foot. It's got all the rightness of a foot without all the footdom of a right.

'''UNSEEN CHORUS:''' ''{singing}'' Here comes the Thnikkaman!!!

''{These words float across the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No way! Check it out The Cheat. ''{Strong Bad looks and points off-screen.}'' It's the Thnikkaman!!

''{Strong Bad and The Cheat run to meet the Thnikkaman, who is obviously Bubs wearing sunglasses and a "TH" sign taped to his chest.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, Thnikkaman!

'''THE THNIKKAMAN:''' Hey, kid!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Can we have some?

'''THE THNIKKAMAN:''' Yeah, okay.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Thanks, Thnikkaman! 
'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{simultaneously, grateful The Cheat noises}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{in a low voice, to The Cheat}'' Thanks, Thnikkaman.

'''THE THNIKKAMAN:''' Yeah. ''{takes off his sunglasses}'' Shut up, kid! ''{puts the sunglasses back on}''

'''UNSEEN CHORUS:''' ''{singing}'' There goes the Thnikkaman!!!

''{Now these words float across the screen. Strong Bad and The Cheat look at each other, Strong Bad's mouth is agape. Thnikkaman exits. Cut back to the Compy 386.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So you can see why I got distracted. I'd like to see you stay on task when you're starin' down the barrel of a loaded Thnikkaman. I don't care what you're doin. No one can resist. ''{not typing}'' Speakin' of monuments, somebody should make one to the Thnikkaman. Oh the things that man does! Come to think of it, what exactly ''does'' that man do? ''{typing again}'' Anyways, I'm gonna go try and find some of that Technochocolate. That stuff sounds a-prettypretty good!

''{Strong Bad gets up from his seat and leaves. [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click on "Thnikkaman" at the end to see Bubs in his Thnikkaman costume with a flashy background dancing to the Thnikkaman theme song.
:'''UNSEEN CHORUS:''' ''{singing}'' ''{Bubs walks to the left}'' Here comes the Thnikka— ''{Bubs walks to the right.}'' There goes the Thnikka— ''{Bubs walks to the left.}'' Here comes the Thnikka— ''{Bubs walks to the right.}'' There goes the Thnikka— ''{Bubs walks to the left.}'' Here comes the Thnikkaman!
:'''THNIKKAMAN:''' ''{faces camera and removes sunglasses}'' Yeah, shut up, kid! ''{puts sunglasses back on}''
*Click on "I don't care what you're doin" at the end to see Homestar Runner being distracted by the Thnikkaman.
:''{Cut to the field. Homestar Runner is holding a pair of trousers.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Well, I'll just, uh, put these pants on—
:'''UNSEEN CHORUS:''' ''{singing}'' Here comes the Thnikkaman!
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, Thnikkaman. It's the Thnikkaman.
:''{He drops the trousers and runs off to the left.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{He pokes his head back onscreen, singing.}'' Here comes the Thnikkaman!
*Click on "technochocolate" at the end to hear Strong Bad sing a "Technochocolate" song with a beat. The Cheat throws a lightswitch rave to go with the song.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*For a time the website [http://www.thnikkaman.com http://www.thnikkaman.com] redirected to this email, but the site has since been shut down.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "While building an impressive monument to himself, Strong Bad is distracted by Bubs with a piece of paper taped to his chest, I mean the Thnikkaman."

===Remarks===
*During the "technochocolate" Easter egg, the tiny sign above the lower light switch that The Cheat uses says: "The Cheat," as his switch in [[techno]] does.
*During the Technochocolate Easter egg, the beat Strong Bad is making overlaps with him saying "Technochocolate".
*When Homestar is about to put his pants on, the words "here comes the Thnikkaman" don't fly across the screen.

===Goofs===
*Strong Bad forgets the period after "distracted" near the end when he says, "So you can see why I got distracted".
*The Enter-sound when Strong Bad cuts the email away to answer it does not play completely. It has a dead end.
*Strongs Bad's voice in the "technochocolate" Easter egg is not on beat, although it is unknown if it was deliberate or not.
*Homestar Runner's legs don't line up with his body in the "Thnikkaman" Easter egg.

===Inside References===
*Some of the things composing Strong Bad's monument are from other toons: the [[Kiddie Pool]] labeled "[[Pie Factory]]" is from [[stunt double]], the palm tree is from [[island]], and the [[toilet paper]] and the fake afro (from Homestar's [[John McEnroe]] [[3 Times Halloween Funjob Costumes|costume]]) are from [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]].
*The fact that Homestar is attempting to put on [[pants]] and then, after being distracted, doesn't put them on, is in reference to the ongoing joke about Homestar [[Homestar Runner's Pants|not wearing any pants]] (which is discussed in [[long pants]]).
*The Cheat threw a "Light Switch Rave" to Strong Bad's "The System is Down" song in the email [[techno]]; in [[interview]], the viewer can flick the lightswitch himself to turn on the spinning lights.
*[[The Cheat]] has a [[Glow Stick]].

===Real-World References===
*The beginning tune Strong Bad sings is probably a reference to the song "Orange Colored Sky" by Nat "King" Cole, which contains the lyrics "I was walking along, minding my business when love came and hit me in the eye."
*Techno-chocolate-land is an attempt to pronounce [[Wikipedia:Tenochtitlan|Tenochtitlan]], the capital city and religious center of the ancient [[Aztecs]] (actually pronounced teh-NOHTCH-teet-lahn), built where [[Wikipedia:Mexico City|Mexico City]] is today. The inclusion of "chocolate" in the mispronunciation may be due to the fact that the Aztecs are often credited for the discovery of chocolate.
*[http://www.biggreenegg.com Big Green Egg] is a combination ceramic barbecue/meat smoker.
*[[Wikipedia:Blow Pops|Blow Pops]] are lollipops with a center of bubblegum, made by the Charms candy company (now owned by [[Wikipedia:Tootsie Roll Industries|Tootsie Roll Industries]]).

===Fast Forward===
*Technochocolate reappears in later emails as a [[Club Technochocolate|club]].
*Even though Strong Bad does apparently not recognize Bubs when the Thnikkaman removes his shades, [[Coach Z]] believes that removing the Thnikkaman's glasses will reveal his secret "sorcret" identity in the Strong Bad Email [[cliffhangers]].
*Strong Bad explains what the Thnikkaman does in [[Happy Dethemberween]].

===DVD Version===
*The Thnikkaman song Easter egg can be viewed by selecting the hidden Strong Bad logo at the bottom left of the Compy screen at the end of the video.
*The Easter egg of Homestar putting on pants can be viewed by selecting the hidden Strong Bad logo at the bottom center of the Compy screen at the end of the video.
*The Techno-chocolate-land song Easter egg can be viewed by selecting the hidden Strong Bad logo at the bottom right of the Compy screen at the end of the video.

== External Links ==
{{preforumsbemailextlinks|97|youtube=zsdo4JjisAA}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

monument

2021-08-15T20:07:36Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}
[[Image:sbemail97.png|thumb|On a massive scale that would rival the Aztecs.]]

Strong Bad is asked to create a monument in his own image. He goes on to explain how the arrival of [[the Thnikkaman]] distracted him and prevented the completion of the monument.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Bubs}}/[[The Thnikkaman]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Badia]], [[The Field]]

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Monday, February 9, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 2:08

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Oh, traipsing along, traipsing traipsing along, and a email got stuck in my eye.

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hey there Strong Bad! 
I was thinking since so many people 
and ladies think you're SUPER COOL, 
why not build a monument to yourself 
for all to enjoy? 
 
Another fan, 
Kaitlin G.</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad puts an emphasis on "SUPER COOL".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I'm assuming the G stands for generally overused girl's first name. Well generic name, you're really onto something here. Turns out I AM super cool. ''{He clears his throat.}'' As for monuments, I already got one. But it's kinda ''{He clears the screen and continues typing.}'' only of my right foot. You might know it better as DUN DUN DAAA!

''{Cut to the [[Stop Sign]], then to a picture of Strong Bad. As he narrates, a diagram of the monument is built.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Yeah, there were big plans once. It was to be made of the finest materials. On a massive scale that would rival the Aztecs and their...techno-chocolate land.

''{Cut back to the Compy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' The Strong Badia Sign! Anyways, we lost our funding or public interest waned or something distracted me. Man, what was it? What could possibly have distracted me from ''{mumbling}'' humbera hum...

''{Cut to Strong Badia, where Strong Bad and The Cheat are building the monument.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh yeah, The Cheat. That totally looks like my right foot. It's got all the rightness of a foot without all the footdom of a right.

'''UNSEEN CHORUS:''' ''{singing}'' Here comes the Thnikkaman!!!

''{These words float across the screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No way! Check it out The Cheat. ''{Strong Bad looks and points off-screen.}'' It's the Thnikkaman!!

''{Strong Bad and The Cheat run to meet the Thnikkaman, who is obviously Bubs wearing sunglasses and a "TH" sign taped to his chest.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, Thnikkaman!

'''THE THNIKKAMAN:''' Hey, kid!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Can we have some?

'''THE THNIKKAMAN:''' Yeah, okay.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Thanks, Thnikkaman! 
'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{simultaneously, grateful The Cheat noises}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{in a low voice, to The Cheat}'' Thanks, Thnikkaman.

'''THE THNIKKAMAN:''' Yeah. ''{takes off his sunglasses}'' Shut up, kid! ''{puts the sunglasses back on}''

'''UNSEEN CHORUS:''' ''{singing}'' There goes the Thnikkaman!!!

''{Now these words float across the screen. Strong Bad and The Cheat look at each other, Strong Bad's mouth is agape. Thnikkaman exits. Cut back to the Compy 386.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So you can see why I got distracted. I'd like to see you stay on task when you're starin' down the barrel of a loaded Thnikkaman. I don't care what you're doin. No one can resist. ''{not typing}'' Speakin' of monuments, somebody should make one to the Thnikkaman. Oh the things that man does! Come to think of it, what exactly ''does'' that man do? ''{typing again}'' Anyways, I'm gonna go try and find some of that Technochocolate. That stuff sounds a-prettypretty good!

''{Strong Bad gets up from his seat and leaves. [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click on "Thnikkaman" at the end to see Bubs in his Thnikkaman costume with a flashy background dancing to the Thnikkaman theme song.
:'''UNSEEN CHORUS:''' ''{singing}'' ''{Bubs walks to the left}'' Here comes the Thnikka— ''{Bubs walks to the right.}'' There goes the Thnikka— ''{Bubs walks to the left.}'' Here comes the Thnikka— ''{Bubs walks to the right.}'' There goes the Thnikka— ''{Bubs walks to the left.}'' Here comes the Thnikkaman!
:'''THNIKKAMAN:''' ''{faces camera and removes sunglasses}'' Yeah, shut up, kid! ''{puts sunglasses back on}''
*Click on "I don't care what you're doin" at the end to see Homestar Runner being distracted by the Thnikkaman.
:''{Cut to the field. Homestar Runner is holding a pair of trousers.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Well, I'll just, uh, put these pants on—
:'''UNSEEN CHORUS:''' ''{singing}'' Here comes the Thnikkaman!
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, Thnikkaman. It's the Thnikkaman.
:''{He drops the trousers and runs off to the left.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{He pokes his head back onscreen, singing.}'' Here comes the Thnikkaman!
*Click on "technochocolate" at the end to hear Strong Bad sing a "Technochocolate" song with a beat. The Cheat throws a lightswitch rave to go with the song.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*For a time the website [http://www.thnikkaman.com http://www.thnikkaman.com] redirected to this email, but the site has since been shut down.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "While building an impressive monument to himself, Strong Bad is distracted by Bubs with a piece of paper taped to his chest, I mean the Thnikkaman."

===Remarks===
*During the "technochocolate" Easter egg, the tiny sign above the lower light switch that The Cheat uses says: "The Cheat," as his switch in [[techno]] does.
*During the Technochocolate Easter egg, the beat Strong Bad is making overlaps with him saying "Technochocolate".
*When Homestar is about to put his pants on, the words "here comes the Thnikkaman" don't fly across the screen.

===Goofs===
*Strong Bad forgets the period after "distracted" near the end when he says, "So you can see why I got distracted".
*The Enter-sound when Strong Bad cuts the email away to answer it does not play completely. It has a dead end.
*Strongs Bad's voice in the "technochocolate" Easter egg is not on beat, although it is unknown if it was deliberate or not.
*Homestar Runner's legs don't line up with his body in the "Thnikkaman" Easter egg.

===Inside References===
*Some of the things composing Strong Bad's monument are from other toons: the [[Kiddie Pool]] labeled "[[Pie Factory]]" is from [[stunt double]], the palm tree is from [[island]], and the [[toilet paper]] and the fake afro (from Homestar's [[John McEnroe]] [[3 Times Halloween Funjob Costumes|costume]]) are from [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]].
*The fact that Homestar is attempting to put on [[pants]] and then, after being distracted, doesn't put them on, is in reference to the ongoing joke about Homestar [[Homestar Runner's Pants|not wearing any pants]] (which is discussed in [[long pants]]).
*The Cheat threw a "Light Switch Rave" to Strong Bad's "The System is Down" song in the email [[techno]]; in [[interview]], the viewer can flick the lightswitch himself to turn on the spinning lights.
*[[The Cheat]] has a [[Glow Stick]].

===Real-World References===
*The beginning tune Strong Bad sings is probably a reference to the song "Orange Colored Sky" by Nat "King" Cole, which contains the lyrics "I was walking along, minding my business when love came and hit me in the eye."
*Techno-chocolate-land is an attempt to pronounce [[Wikipedia:Tenochtitlan|Tenochtitlan]], the capital city and religious center of the ancient [[Aztecs]] (actually pronounced teh-NOHTCH-teet-lahn), built where [[Wikipedia:Mexico City|Mexico City]] is today. The inclusion of "chocolate" in the mispronunciation may be due to the fact that the Aztecs are often credited for the discovery of chocolate.
*[http://www.biggreenegg.com Big Green Egg] is a combination ceramic barbecue/meat smoker.
*[[Wikipedia:Blow Pops|Blow Pops]] are lollipops with a center of bubblegum, made by the Charms candy company (now owned by [[Wikipedia:Tootsie Roll Industries|Tootsie Roll Industries]]).

===Fast Forward===
*Technochocolate reappears in later emails as a [[Club Technochocolate|club]].
*Even though Strong Bad does apparently not recognize Bubs when the Thnikkaman removes his shades, [[Coach Z]] believes that removing the Thnikkaman's glasses will reveal his secret "sorcret" identity in the Strong Bad Email [[cliffhangers]].
*Strong Bad explains what the Thnikkaman does in [[Happy Dethemberween]].

===DVD Version===
*The Thnikkaman song Easter egg can be viewed by selecting the hidden Strong Bad logo at the bottom left of the Compy screen at the end of the video.
*The Easter egg of Homestar putting on pants can be viewed by selecting the hidden Strong Bad logo at the bottom center of the Compy screen at the end of the video.
*The Techno-chocolate-land song Easter egg can be viewed by selecting the hidden Strong Bad logo at the bottom right of the Compy screen at the end of the video.

== External Links ==
{{preforumsbemailextlinks|97|youtube=zsdo4JjisAA}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

stand-up

2021-08-13T18:30:42Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}

[[Image:sbemail18.PNG|thumb|"Oh no!"]]

Joe P. asks Strong Bad if he has ever done any stand-up comedy.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, [[Lil' Strong Bad]]

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Sad's Room]], [[Stages|The Stage]]

'''Computer:''' [[Tandy 400]]

'''Date:''' Monday, March 18, 2002

'''Running Time:''' 1:27

'''Page Title:''' Tandy 400!!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc One}}

'''SBEmail Menu Description:''' Strong Bad's first and last stand-up comedy performance.

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' Something has compelled me to check my email.

<blockquote class="tandy email">dear strong bad, 
ur a real, funy guy. have you ever done any 
stand up comidic stuff? 
 
crapfully crappy, 
joe p.</blockquote>

''{He pronounces the first sentence as it's spelled: "Urr a real fewney guy." He also pronounces "comidic" as spelled and "joe p." as "Jopy".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' What? No. No. No. I mean, no. Never. No. What? No. ''{leaves computer}''

''{Strong Sad sticks his head in the scene. Computer blurs out of focus.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Psst. Come with me. ''{leaves computer}''

''{Cut to Strong Sad's room, now with a [[Telebision]]. He walks in, carrying a video tape marked "S.B. Talent Show" and inserts it into his old-fashioned wood-paneled VCR. The video shows a younger-looking Coach Z with a huge afro and mustache on-stage talking into a microphone.}''

'''COACH Z:''' ''{while the video stutters}'' Once again, thank you to little Marzipan and her wonderful clogging. ''{the video stops stuttering, and the "PLAY" and the running time disappear from the screen}'' Okay, so up next we got the comedy stylings of little  Strong Bad.

''{Coach Z walks off-stage as Lil' Strong Bad walks on from the left to general applause. He lowers the microphone.}''

'''LIL' STRONG BAD:''' Thank you, Coach Z, ''{pause}'' for not patting my butt. ''{audience laughs}'' Good evening, ladies and germs. Um... How about this cafeteria food? Is it cardboard or is it pizza? ''{more audience laughs, though less pronounced; Lil' Strong Bad looks uneasy}'' You know, 'cause it... tastes bad. Um... What about that one... that joke... Coach Z's hair is funny looking. Don't you guys think? 'Cause it's big... He has really big hair...

''{Lil' Strong Bad's pants fall down. He looks down at them as the audience laughs.}''

'''LIL' STRONG BAD:''' Oh no!

''{Lil' Strong Bad starts running offstage, but falls down just as he reaches the edge of the screen. The screen goes blank. [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Fun Facts ==

===Trivia===
*This is the first email in which Strong Bad is seen [[Strong Bad Wearing a Shirt|with a shirt on]].
*This is the first appearance of Lil' Strong Bad in an email.
*This is the first time [[Strong Bad Losing His Pants|Strong Bad loses his pants]].
*This is the first appearance of Coach Z in an email.
*This is the first instance of [[Strong Bad and Strong Sad's Relationship#Strong Sad's Revenge|Strong Sad getting revenge on Strong Bad]].
*This is Lil' Strong Bad's first speaking role.
*[[The VCR]] is made by Totaltronics.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad's first and last stand-up comedy performance."

===Remarks===
*Lil' Strong Bad doesn't have the highlights in his eyes that the adult Strong Bad has.
*Strong Sad shows us this tape on his own TV/VCR in [[Strong Sad's Room|his room]]. While the TV is identical, Strong Bad's VCR is not nearly as retro.
*[[Marzipan]] is able to clog dance, despite her [[Lack of Visible Body Parts#Marzipan's Legs|lack of visible legs]].

===Goofs===
*If you change the contrast to anything but black, it will change back to black when Strong Sad steps in front of the Tandy, and back to whatever color you had when he moves away.
**Also, when Strong Sad stands in front of the Tandy 400, the green lines stop moving.
*When Lil' Strong Bad runs away screaming "Oh no!", his mouth doesn't move.
*When Strong Sad says to come with him, he's holding the VCR tape off-camera, and its text is mirrored before he turns.

===Inside References===
*Strong Bad receives another email signed with the word "[[Crapfully Yours|crapfully]]".
*Strong Sad's [[Telebision]] is the same as the one used in the [[Old Telebision Toons Menu]].
*This is another mention of [[pizza]].

===Real-World References===
*Strong Sad's VCR resembles a [[Sony]] [[Wikipedia:Sony Betamax|Betamax]].

===Fast-Forward===
*"The Comedy Stylings of Lil' Strong Bad" is mentioned as a credit in the middle of [[theme song]].

== DVD Version ==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]])

'''MIKE:''' So... here's another email that we made.

'''MATT:''' On our wed—''{trips over his own tongue}'' wedthighs. It's, uh... I remember thinking how ambitious it was at the time.

'''MIKE:''' It ''is'' ambitious for—

'''MATT:''' Not only do we cut away... Um... Ahhh... Yeah... What?

'''MIKE:''' We've got a rack focus right here. Oooh, blurry monitor.

'''MATT:''' That's the old Strong Bad mouth, though. That's not very good. I remember this, that VCR was pretty complicated—

'''MIKE:''' That's Strong Sad.

'''MATT:''' S—what'd I say?

'''MIKE:''' Strong ''Bad''. Strong Bad's the one with the ''red'' face.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' The tracking is amazing. Mike did that tracking and that little rainbow effect.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, we used that a lot of times.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, 'cause it's so good. Nobody ever—

'''MIKE:''' Hold up!

'''MATT:''' —Why are people not as concerned with Coach Z with the fro and mustache?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, no one cared.

'''MATT:''' I think it's great! And little  Strong Bad, he's wearing a—that's not a tuxedo, Mike, it's one of those tuxedo T-shirts.

'''MIKE:''' Like... the kind that Mark Cohen used to have.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And if you, uh, look, he's wearing—he's got elastic waistband pants, khaki pants.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' Garanimals.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughing}'' Garanimals. Yep, that's the stage from our elementary school, from [http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/~vanderlyn/ Vanderlyn Elementary School], which we later make even more obvious in a Christmas cartoon.

'''MIKE:''' Yes.

'''MATT:''' Oooh! So this is also the only other time we reveal that Strong Bad actually has, like, legs, like flesh—flesh legs.

'''MIKE:''' Oh yeah.

=== Fun Facts ===
*[[Wikipedia:Garanimals|Garanimals]] is a line of children's clothing manufactured by Garan Incorporated.
*A [[Wikipedia:Racking focus|rack focus]] involves shifting the attention of the viewer from one part of the scene to another by changing the focus of the lens.

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|18|youtube=74x9IJzBXhQ}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Tandy 400 Emails]]
[[Category:Emails With DVD Commentary]]

sb email 22

2021-08-10T21:12:42Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}{{DISPLAYTITLE:sb_email 22}}

[[Image:sbemail22.PNG|thumb|Strong Bad offends the royals!]]

Strong Bad is asked by Mark from England what he thinks of the English. It's a disaster in the making.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}} (Easter egg), {{Film|The Announcer}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], Press Conference (Easter egg)

'''Computer:''' [[Tandy 400]]

'''Date:''' Monday, September 2, 2002

'''Running Time:''' 0:58

'''Page Title:''' The Lost Email!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc One}}

'''SBEmail Menu Description:''' The Cheat helps Strong Bad recover from a PR nightmare after he offends the UK.

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Do, du, dadada do, du, dadada do... ''{stops singing}''

<blockquote class="tandy email">Hi Strong Bad, 
 
I'm from England. What do you think of 
the English? 
 
Thank you, 
Mark</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, gee, Mark, if you're really from England, shouldn't you have some kinda unnecessary vowel at the end of your name? ''{adds an "e" to the end of Mark's name}'' And what is this "Thank you"? Whatever happened to "Cheers" or "Cheerio" or "Nevermind the Bullocks"? ''{changes "Thank you" into these words as he says them}'' Call yourself "English". But, anyways, what do I think of the English, huh? Oh, I'll ''tell'' you what I think of the English!

''{A big red sign with white letters appears across the screen saying "BANNED IN THE UK." Cut to an issue of ''The Guardian'', which contains pictures of a cricketer, [[The King of Town]] and a policeman, and the following article about Strong Bad on the front page.}''

<blockquote>'''Strong Bad Offends''' 
'''The Royals!''' 
 
In this Monday's edition of U.S. based "Strong Bad 
Email," the title character, Strong Bad, an odd little 
bloke with a Mexican wrestling mask for a head and 
boxing gloves for hands made such comments that 
warranted the Queen to ban the edition from UK 
shores. Strong Bad has been charged with "verbal 
crimes against the crown" and the Strong Bad Email, 
now simply being called the infamous "sbemail22," 
has been removed from broadcast in both the UK and 
the States. At a press conference held on Tuesday, 
</blockquote>

== Easter Eggs ==

*After the [[Periodicals|newspaper]] comes up, click the words "press conference" to see the press conference.
:''{Cut to a press conference room, where The Cheat, wearing a suit and tie, and Strong Bad are behind a desk. Multiple cameras flash.}''
:'''THE ANNOUNCER:''' Strong Bad, how do you respond to claims that your comment brought the entire royal family to tears?
:''{The Cheat whispers a response to Strong Bad. Strong Bad clears his throat and speaks into the microphone.}''
:'''STRONG BAD:''' Screw all y'all.
:''{Gasps are heard from the crowd.}''
:'''THE ANNOUNCER:''' Cor blimey!
:''{A black-and-white photograph snaps Strong Bad and The Cheat.}''
:'''MAN:''' ''{off screen, in a Scouse accent}'' I can't believe he said that.
:''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''
*After the press conference, click on the stack of papers to see what The Cheat told Strong Bad. The paper reads, "Just say, 'Screw all ya'll'. Trust me. It'll work."

== Fun Facts ==

===Explanations===
*This is called "The Lost Email!" because after [[The Brothers Chaps]] made email 21, [[cartoon]], they went ahead and made email 23, [[little animal]], skipping over number 22. Between [[vacation]] (#40) and [[invisibility]] (#41), [[Anachronistic Toons|they made]] email 22.
**The skip makes this email the last of the Tandy era.
**The newspaper's date is 10 April, [[References to Years in Which Toons Were Released|2002]]. This date is between the release dates of cartoon and little animal.
** This email was originally listed on the sbemail menu between cartoon and little animal. However, as of the December 31, 2020 update, it is now listed between vacation and invisibility, reflecting when the email was originally released.
*"[[Wikipedia:Bobby|Bobby]]" is English slang for a policeman, hence the joke about a policeman actually named Bobby.
*The article on [[Wikipedia:Cricket|cricket]] is a reference to America's stereotyped attitude to the sport of cricket which the English are renowned for embracing.
*"Some kinda unnecessary vowel at the end" refers to differences between [[Wikipedia:American English|American English]] and [[Wikipedia:British English|British English]] (especially archaic British). Examples include words like ''annexe, programme, shoppe, olde, pointe, towne,'' and ''grille,'' and famous names such as ''Locke''.
*According to ''[[Wikipedia:The Guardian|The Guardian]]'': "The King Of Town Eats Treacle". Although the King of Town is known for his proclivity for strange food items, [[Wikipedia:Treacle|treacle]] is not all that strange. The word is not used by many Americans, but it's really just molasses.
*"[[Wikipedia:Bollocks|Bollocks]]" is a British slang term that would be considered [[swears|swearing]] in Britain. That said, Strong Bad misspells it as "bullocks", which refers to young bulls.
*The section listed for info on cricket is listed as "sport". This is because "sport" is both singular and plural in British English.

===Trivia===
*This is the shortest Strong Bad email, with a time of 34 seconds. Thus the email's Easter egg is the second-most significant proportion of any email to date, after [[comic]].
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "The Cheat helps Strong Bad recover from a PR nightmare after he offends the UK."

===Remarks===
*This is an email in which [[The Paper]] does not come down in the main toon; here it comes down only at the end of the Easter egg. Another example of this would be the end of the email [[part-time job]].
*The black and white picture used when the "BANNED IN THE UK" banner comes up is a [[wikipedia: raster graphics|raster image]].
*Despite supposedly being a British publication, ''The Guardian'' uses American-style punctuation, as opposed to using [[Wikipedia:American and British English differences#Punctuation|the British style]].

[[Image:sbemail22glitch.png|thumb|right|The see-through hand]]

===Goofs===
*When Strong Bad covers the microphone with his hand, there is a gap between his hand and the edge of the mic. Strong Bad's hand also covers the pole that the mic is set on, even though his glove should be behind it.
*The words "press conference" in the newspaper (which form the link to the Easter egg) don't match the stretch and skew of the rest of the words on the page.

===Glitches===
*If the contrast is changed all the way to green during the beginning, the "BANNED IN THE UK" banner changes it back to black just before the newspaper appears.

===Inside References===
*''The Guardian'' describes itself as "Britain's [[Prancing|Pranciest]] Newspaper".

===Real-World References===
*The song Strong Bad sings in the beginning of the email is from original ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' game.
*"Nevermind the Bullocks" refers to the [[Wikipedia:Sex Pistols|Sex Pistols]]' controversial album ''[[Wikipedia:Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols|Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols]]''. Upon its release in 1977, Virgin Records was sued for obscenity but won the case (with the chairman famously declaring "we must reluctantly find you not guilty of each of the four charges."), the album was banned from the three largest retailers (but was otherwise legal), and their proposed tour for the album was drastically shortened after half their shows were canceled by political pressure or illness.
*The newspaper that appears is a very faithfully reproduced version of UK broadsheet ''[[Wikipedia:The Guardian|The Guardian]]'', including references to that paper's supplement, [[Wikipedia:The Guardian#Supplements and features|G2]]. Also referred to are [[Wikipedia:B-2 Spirit|B2]], a class of bomber used by the USAF, and F7, a type of diesel locomotive. ''The Guardian'' has since undergone a major design overhaul and no longer resembles the version depicted in the toon.
*In the corner of the photo of Strong Bad, a classic [[Wikipedia:Buses in London|London bus]] can be seen. There is also an advert on the side of it for [[Wikipedia:EasyJet|easyJet]], a British airline.
*Somebody sounding suspiciously like [[Wikipedia:Ringo Starr|Ringo Starr]] says "I can't believe he said that" at the end of the press conference. This could be in reference to the infamous [[Wikipedia:John Lennon|John Lennon]] quote stating that [[The Beatles]] were "more popular than Jesus" and the uproar that ensued.

===Fast Forward===
*The Cheat's whispering to Strong Bad is one of the quotes on the "Learn to Speak The Cheat" record in [[cheat talk]]. It translates as "Check it out, this is going to be great! Just say, 'Screw all y'all!'"

== External Links ==
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{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Tandy 400 Emails]]

2 years

2021-07-14T19:35:57Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}
[[Image:Strongbadia in 2 years.png|thumb|"I don't like food anymore!"]]

E. Fullmer asks what Strong Badia will be like in approximately 2 years, so Strong Bad shares his predictions for the future.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Badia]], [[Laundry Room of the Brothers Strong]], [[The King of Town's Grill]]

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, September 22, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 2:23

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{very quickly}'' Haselos, theselos, haselos, theselos!

''{Reading email}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Strong Bad, 
I am going on a long trip and won't be 
able to check out "Homestar Runner's 
Website" for a long time. What do you 
think the greatest advancement for 
Strong Badia will be in the next 2 
years? 
 
Your Main Man, 
E. Fullmer</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads "Strong Bad" stressing "Strong" as if it were "Dear," says "Homestar has a website?" after reading "Homestar Runner's Website for a long time" and says "Oh..." before reading the signature}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Umm, Endiment...? ''{typing}'' Hang on Endiment. Just for the record, my main man is, and has been since 1987, Van Mundegaarde. And don't you forget it.

''{not typing, a little picture of Strong Bad with a note from Strong Bad to Van comes down}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, Van, the times we shared. ''{typing}'' Well, as you know, Endy, Strong Badia is on the cutting edge of the future. I can easily predict that the population will have tripled in two years.

''{Cut to Strong Badia}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' So by then it will be population: tire and... bundt cake pan.

''{A bundt cake pan appears out of nowhere. The sign changes its population list accordingly.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...and Coach Z.

''{Coach Z appears behind the fence, facing away from the camera. The sign changes its population list accordingly again.}''

'''COACH Z:''' I'm takin' a leak!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' I also have some good news for you single ladies out there. The cinder block is going to break up with the sign.

''{The stopsign moves away from the cinder block, and a letter from the cinder block to the sign appears on-screen.}''

'''CINDER BLOCK:''' Dear Stop Sign, you are a stop sign and I am a cinder block.

''{The letter disappears}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Ooh! And we will also have developed a world-class hole.

''{A hole appears in the ground}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And by then, hopefully The Cheat will be finished with the mural I commissioned him to paint on the fence...

''{A mural of the words "FIReWORKS or die" appears on the fence}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ...like a freakin' year ago. Slowbie. Oh yeah, and the tire will have definitely won the title.

''(A belt appears on the tire and an invisible crowd cheers.)''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And finally, Strong Sad will have actually succeeded in becoming more whiny.

''{Strong Sad appears out of nowhere}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{pouty voice}'' I don't like food anymore!

''{Cut back to the Compy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Augh. So annoying. Oh, that reminds me. I should probably go let Strong Sad outta the dryer. He's been in there since breakfast.

''{[[The Paper]] comes down. After about 15 seconds, Strong Bad gets up. Cut to the dryer. Strong Bad opens it, and discovers a dizzy, fluffy The Cheat.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' What the—? The Cheat?! Where the crap did I leave Strong Sad?

''{Cut to The King of Town's grill. It's closed, but we can hear Strong Sad's voice from within.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Uh, hello? Can anybody hear me? The Cheat has a really nice place in here. And none of his shirts fit me.

''{Cut back to the Compy, with Strong Bad sitting at it as before.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*You can click on the words "[[Homestar Runner's Website]]" to see a quick peek at it. This can only be done between when he reads the words and when he says "Homestar has a website?"
[[Image:Tire madness.png|thumb|Only on Pay Per View!!!]]
*After you wait and see what happened to Strong Sad, you can click on the reflection of Strong Bad's blue diamond to see the advertisement for the "Rematch" between Strong Mad and the [[Tire]].
:''{Cut to black screen.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Revenge.
:''{Everything he says echoes ridiculously. The word "REVENGE" appears in red on the screen and Strong Mad is seen on the left, half-lit. He then disappears.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Vengeance.
:''{The word "VENGEANCE" is now seen on the screen and the Tire, as with Strong Mad, appears half-lit on the right. It also disappears.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Vengeful.
:''{The word "VENGEFUL" appears and Strong Mad appears as before, more briefly this time.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Revengeanceful.
:''{The word "REVENGEANCEFUL" appears and the Tire reappears and disappears as before. Then Strong Mad is seen straight on, coming closer to the screen.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' This Sunday, watch as Strong Mad attempts to reclaim the title—
:''{Title belts appear around Strong Mad's eyes, and his face starts fading into red}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' —from Strong Badia heavyweight champion,—
:''{The whole screen turns red and the Tire appears on the screen, growing toward us.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' —the Tire. Tire Madness.
:''{A red Tire Madness logo appears, flashes, and explodes onto the screen, which briefly turns yellow, then reverts to red.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Only on pay per view.
:''{The words "ONLY ON PAY PER VIEW!!!" flash in yellow at the bottom.}''

==Fun Facts==

===Trivia===

*"More whiny" has the same definition as "whinier".

*The note on the photograph presumably given to Van Mundegaarde reads:
<blockquote>To My Main Man 
Van Mundegaarde, 
Keep Rocking it [[1987]]-style. 
-Strong 
Bad</blockquote>

*The full text of the letter the Cinder Block writes is:
<blockquote>Dear Stop Sign, 
You are a stop sign and I am a 
cinder block. Therefore I think 
we should break up. I hope we 
can still be's friends. 
 
Love Always, 
Cinder Block</blockquote>

*It's been confirmed that E. Fullmer's first initial stands for "Elder" Fullmer, indicating that he is about to become a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon church; "Elder" is a title applied to all male missionaries). This could explain why he will be going on a two-year trip and will not be able to check the website, as that is how long young men serve as LDS missionaries, and they are discouraged from surfing the Internet during that time.
*The Homestar portrait on his website is done using the [[Wikipedia:Repoussé and chasing|repoussé]] technique.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad's prediction of what Strong Badia will be like in 2 years. At least I think that's what it's about."

===Remarks===

*The [[No Loafing Sign|No Loafing]] sign can be seen when Strong Bad finds The Cheat in the dryer, though the sign is known to be located in the Computer Room.
*This email was released in September 2003, so the changes Strong Bad mentions should have come into fruition by 2005. To date, however, none of these predictions have panned out.
*The fact that Strong Sad says "The Cheat has a really nice place in here" while he is in [[The King of Town's grill]] (and the fact that he fits in it at all) can confirm that The King's grill is much more spacious on the inside than it looks.

===Inside References===

*The music that plays when the Cinder Block's note is displayed is the same music that played in [[A Decemberween Pageant]] when Marzipan was talking to The Cheat (right after Strong Bad had said, "There's a squid.") and, later, in [[pom pom]] when Strong Bad is writing the letter to [[Pom Pom]]'s parents.
*The Cinder Block's note marks the first instance of [[be's]].
*Strong Sad's being in [[The King of Town's Grill]] is a reference to [[Where's The Cheat?]].
*Coach Z's line "I'm taking a leak!" is a reference to [[peeing]].
*Strong Bad says "Endiment" in a similar tone to how he says "Embrodak" in [[the process]].
*The Tire Madness Easter egg resembles the commercial for [[Awexome Cross '98]].

===Real-World References===

*The "Tire Madness" logo is similar to the logo that the now-defunct [[Wikipedia:World Championship Wrestling|World Championship Wrestling (WCW)]] organization used.

===Fast Forward===
*The Cheat ends up in the dryer again in [[lady fan]].
*That glossy autographed photo of Strong Bad appears again in [[Strongest Man in the World]].
*The championship belt re-appears as a costume item in [[Homestar Ruiner]].
*In [[virus]], Strong Bad contradicts this email by saying his main man is Edgar from the [[Edgarware]] program.
*In [[Baddest of the Bands]], a mural is painted on the fence.
*In [[fan club]], the Deleteheads membership card shown is signed by Strong Bad's main man Van Mundegaarde.
*Strong Bad calls The Cheat Slowbie. This name is used again in [[time capsule]] on the slip of newspaper, with a turtle named Slowbie/Mr. Shoe.

== DVD Version ==
*The Homestar's website Easter egg is actually part of the email. When you switch the angle on your DVD remote, it pops up like a regular webpage window and sticks around for ten or fifteen seconds.
*The Cheat in the Dryer and Strong Sad in the Grill Easter eggs have now been separated. A few seconds after The Paper comes down, Strong Bad will automatically find the Cheat in the dryer.
*You can now find Strong Sad by selecting a hidden Strong Bad icon in the lower-left corner of the Compy 386 screen.
*The Strong Mad vs. Tire Easter egg can be viewed by selecting the hidden Strong Bad logo located in the center of the Compy screen (right on the reflection of Strong Bad's blue diamond on his mask)

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|85|youtube=d7eePF65T8o}}
*[[HR:mywedpage.html|view Homestar Runner's "website"]]
*[[HR:sbglossy.swf|view the Flash file for Strong Bad's photograph]]

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]

2 years

2021-07-14T19:34:28Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}
[[Image:Strongbadia in 2 years.png|thumb|"I don't like food anymore!"]]

E. Fullmer asks what Strong Badia will be like in approximately 2 years, so Strong Bad shares his predictions for the future.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Badia]], [[Laundry Room of the Brothers Strong]], [[The King of Town's Grill]]

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, September 22, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 2:23

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{very quickly}'' Haselos, theselos, haselos, theselos!

''{Reading email}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Strong Bad, 
I am going on a long trip and won't be 
able to check out "Homestar Runner's 
Website" for a long time. What do you 
think the greatest advancement for 
Strong Badia will be in the next 2 
years? 
 
Your Main Man, 
E. Fullmer</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads "Strong Bad" stressing "Strong" as if it were "Dear," says "Homestar has a website?" after reading "Homestar Runner's Website for a long time" and says "Oh..." before reading the signature}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Umm, Endiment...? ''{typing}'' Hang on Endiment. Just for the record, my main man is, and has been since 1987, Van Mundegaarde. And don't you forget it.

''{not typing, a little picture of Strong Bad with a note from Strong Bad to Van comes down}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, Van, the times we shared. ''{typing}'' Well, as you know, Endy, Strong Badia is on the cutting edge of the future. I can easily predict that the population will have tripled in two years.

''{Cut to Strong Badia}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' So by then it will be population: tire and... bundt cake pan.

''{A bundt cake pan appears out of nowhere. The sign changes its population list accordingly.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...and Coach Z.

''{Coach Z appears behind the fence, facing away from the camera. The sign changes its population list accordingly again.}''

'''COACH Z:''' I'm takin' a leak!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' I also have some good news for you single ladies out there. The cinder block is going to break up with the sign.

''{The stopsign moves away from the cinder block, and a letter from the cinder block to the sign appears on-screen.}''

'''CINDER BLOCK:''' Dear Stop Sign, you are a stop sign and I am a cinder block.

''{The letter disappears}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Ooh! And we will also have developed a world-class hole.

''{A hole appears in the ground}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And by then, hopefully The Cheat will be finished with the mural I commissioned him to paint on the fence...

''{A mural of the words "FIReWORKS or die" appears on the fence}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ...like a freakin' year ago. Slowbie. Oh yeah, and the tire will have definitely won the title.

''(A belt appears on the tire and an invisible crowd cheers.)''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And finally, Strong Sad will have actually succeeded in becoming more whiny.

''{Strong Sad appears out of nowhere}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{pouty voice}'' I don't like food anymore!

''{Cut back to the Compy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Augh. So annoying. Oh, that reminds me. I should probably go let Strong Sad outta the dryer. He's been in there since breakfast.

''{[[The Paper]] comes down. After about 15 seconds, Strong Bad gets up. Cut to the dryer. Strong Bad opens it, and discovers a dizzy, fluffy The Cheat.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' What the—? The Cheat?! Where the crap did I leave Strong Sad?

''{Cut to The King of Town's grill. It's closed, but we can hear Strong Sad's voice from within.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Uh, hello? Can anybody hear me? The Cheat has a really nice place in here. And none of his shirts fit me.

''{Cut back to the Compy, with Strong Bad sitting at it as before.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*You can click on the words "[[Homestar Runner's Website]]" to see a quick peek at it. This can only be done between when he reads the words and when he says "Homestar has a website?"
[[Image:Tire madness.png|thumb|Only on Pay Per View!!!]]
*After you wait and see what happened to Strong Sad, you can click on the reflection of Strong Bad's blue diamond to see the advertisement for the "Rematch" between Strong Mad and the [[Tire]].
:''{Cut to black screen.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Revenge.
:''{Everything he says echoes ridiculously. The word "REVENGE" appears in red on the screen and Strong Mad is seen on the left, half-lit. He then disappears.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Vengeance.
:''{The word "VENGEANCE" is now seen on the screen and the Tire, as with Strong Mad, appears half-lit on the right. It also disappears.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Vengeful.
:''{The word "VENGEFUL" appears and Strong Mad appears as before, more briefly this time.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Revengeanceful.
:''{The word "REVENGEANCEFUL" appears and the Tire reappears and disappears as before. Then Strong Mad is seen straight on, coming closer to the screen.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' This Sunday, watch as Strong Mad attempts to reclaim the title—
:''{Title belts appear around Strong Mad's eyes, and his face starts fading into red}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' —from Strong Badia heavyweight champion,—
:''{The whole screen turns red and the Tire appears on the screen, growing toward us.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' —the Tire. Tire Madness.
:''{A red Tire Madness logo appears, flashes, and explodes onto the screen, which briefly turns yellow, then reverts to red.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Only on pay per view.
:''{The words "ONLY ON PAY PER VIEW!!!" flash in yellow at the bottom.}''

==Fun Facts==

*"More whiny" is a simple form of "whinier".

===Trivia===

*The note on the photograph presumably given to Van Mundegaarde reads:
<blockquote>To My Main Man 
Van Mundegaarde, 
Keep Rocking it [[1987]]-style. 
-Strong 
Bad</blockquote>

*The full text of the letter the Cinder Block writes is:
<blockquote>Dear Stop Sign, 
You are a stop sign and I am a 
cinder block. Therefore I think 
we should break up. I hope we 
can still be's friends. 
 
Love Always, 
Cinder Block</blockquote>

*It's been confirmed that E. Fullmer's first initial stands for "Elder" Fullmer, indicating that he is about to become a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon church; "Elder" is a title applied to all male missionaries). This could explain why he will be going on a two-year trip and will not be able to check the website, as that is how long young men serve as LDS missionaries, and they are discouraged from surfing the Internet during that time.
*The Homestar portrait on his website is done using the [[Wikipedia:Repoussé and chasing|repoussé]] technique.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad's prediction of what Strong Badia will be like in 2 years. At least I think that's what it's about."

===Remarks===

*The [[No Loafing Sign|No Loafing]] sign can be seen when Strong Bad finds The Cheat in the dryer, though the sign is known to be located in the Computer Room.
*This email was released in September 2003, so the changes Strong Bad mentions should have come into fruition by 2005. To date, however, none of these predictions have panned out.
*The fact that Strong Sad says "The Cheat has a really nice place in here" while he is in [[The King of Town's grill]] (and the fact that he fits in it at all) can confirm that The King's grill is much more spacious on the inside than it looks.

===Inside References===

*The music that plays when the Cinder Block's note is displayed is the same music that played in [[A Decemberween Pageant]] when Marzipan was talking to The Cheat (right after Strong Bad had said, "There's a squid.") and, later, in [[pom pom]] when Strong Bad is writing the letter to [[Pom Pom]]'s parents.
*The Cinder Block's note marks the first instance of [[be's]].
*Strong Sad's being in [[The King of Town's Grill]] is a reference to [[Where's The Cheat?]].
*Coach Z's line "I'm taking a leak!" is a reference to [[peeing]].
*Strong Bad says "Endiment" in a similar tone to how he says "Embrodak" in [[the process]].
*The Tire Madness Easter egg resembles the commercial for [[Awexome Cross '98]].

===Real-World References===

*The "Tire Madness" logo is similar to the logo that the now-defunct [[Wikipedia:World Championship Wrestling|World Championship Wrestling (WCW)]] organization used.

===Fast Forward===
*The Cheat ends up in the dryer again in [[lady fan]].
*That glossy autographed photo of Strong Bad appears again in [[Strongest Man in the World]].
*The championship belt re-appears as a costume item in [[Homestar Ruiner]].
*In [[virus]], Strong Bad contradicts this email by saying his main man is Edgar from the [[Edgarware]] program.
*In [[Baddest of the Bands]], a mural is painted on the fence.
*In [[fan club]], the Deleteheads membership card shown is signed by Strong Bad's main man Van Mundegaarde.
*Strong Bad calls The Cheat Slowbie. This name is used again in [[time capsule]] on the slip of newspaper, with a turtle named Slowbie/Mr. Shoe.

== DVD Version ==
*The Homestar's website Easter egg is actually part of the email. When you switch the angle on your DVD remote, it pops up like a regular webpage window and sticks around for ten or fifteen seconds.
*The Cheat in the Dryer and Strong Sad in the Grill Easter eggs have now been separated. A few seconds after The Paper comes down, Strong Bad will automatically find the Cheat in the dryer.
*You can now find Strong Sad by selecting a hidden Strong Bad icon in the lower-left corner of the Compy 386 screen.
*The Strong Mad vs. Tire Easter egg can be viewed by selecting the hidden Strong Bad logo located in the center of the Compy screen (right on the reflection of Strong Bad's blue diamond on his mask)

== External Links ==
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*[[HR:mywedpage.html|view Homestar Runner's "website"]]
*[[HR:sbglossy.swf|view the Flash file for Strong Bad's photograph]]

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]

Fourth Wall Breaks

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Sometimes, the [[characters]] '''break the [[Wikipedia:Fourth wall|fourth wall]]''' by displaying awareness that they are in an Internet cartoon.

Fourth wall breakages are common in [[Strong Bad Email]]s; Strong Bad often addresses the viewers, and references to his "[[email show]]" are made. Some of these supposed "fourth wall breaks" may be explained by assuming that Strong Bad has a live [[Wikipedia:webcam|webcam]] show in which he answers emails, or that he is talking to an imaginary audience, but in other instances the characters actually refer to the fact that they are in cartoons, which is a real fourth wall break. Excluding Strong Bad Emails that involve a character addressing the viewers, here is a list of fourth wall breakages in the toons.

== Big Toons ==
*[[The King of Town DVD]] — In the commentary, Strong Bad calls the toon a cartoon several times.
*[[In Search of the Yello Dello]] — The TV announcer says that [[the Yello Dello]] is "the most rare and beautiful bird in this entire cartoon."
*[[Where's The Cheat?]] — While reassuring Strong Mad, Strong Bad says "Don't worry, big guy. We'll cut to a montage. I mean, find [[The Cheat]]."
*[[Shopping for Danger]] —
**[[Silent Rip]] informs [[Gunhaver]] that the "[[Cheat Commandos Headquarters]] playset is under attack".
**At the end, Gunhaver screams, "Next episode, [[Blue Laser]]! Next episode!"
*[[Weclome Back]] —
**All of the characters punch in on a time clock after returning from vacation, possibly implying that they work in a studio.
**Marzipan wonders whether anyone has been "taking care of the website".
**Homestar Runner says, "It's time to get this www-dot-show back on the road-dot-com."
*[[2 Part Episode: Part 1]] —
**As the [[Green Helmets]] take him away, Gunhaver remarks, "At least let a Cheat Commanding Officer be escorted out by someone who isn't available in a discount three pack."
**Silent Rip proclaims that it's impossible to break into the "Headquarters Playset".
**Gunhaver commands Silent Rip and [[Crackotage]], "be continued!"
*[[2 Part Episode: Part 2]] —
**Subtlefuge says that each [[Toppleganger]] is "sold separately with rifle and gear."
**The Headquarters Playset is revealed to have a battery compartment and electronic lights and sounds.

== Shorts ==
*[[The System is Down]] — There are references to both the [[Error Page]] and [[homestarrunner.com]] being down.
*[[Cheat Commandos (toon)|Cheat Commandos]] — Gunhaver breaks the fourth wall ''within'' the [[Homestar Runner universe]] itself by saying, "Quick, everyone! To the Action Figure Storage Vehicle!"
*[[Commandos in the Classroom]] — Gunhaver mentions that "[[Buy All Our Playsets and Toys!!|buying all our playsets and toys]]" is a positive thing.
*[[Sbemail 150?!?]] — The [[Female Lappy 486]] is startled by the viewer's arrival, saying "Strong Bad is understairs. Tell whim I love..."
*[[No Hands On Deck!]] — Homestar says, "I'd better get back to work if I'm gonna build a deck in this cartoon!"
*[[One Two, One Two]] — [[Homsar]]'s [[bowler hat]] visibly bounces off the edge of the screen when he is singing.
*[[The Next Epi-Snowed]] — [[Agent Chimendez]] explains that he is an "expanded universe character".
*[[Loading Screens]] —
**The singers mention that this is a cartoon several times.
**Coach Z in particular describes loading screens as a "looping animation".
*[[Where My Hat is At? (toon)]] — Homestar, annoyed at [[The Umpire]] for telling him information he already knew, tells him "we sorta established that in the first scene."
*[[The Animated Adventures of Puppet Homestar]] — Puppet Homestar breaks the fourth wall by showing disgust over Puppet Strong Sad's narrated line "He goed and goed until he finally went". Later, he describes [[Doreauxgard]] and [[Marshie]] as being "the only puppets left".
*[[Flash is Dead!]] — The entire cartoon is about how [[Flash]], the real-world software used to create and display [[homestarrunner.com]], is dying. [[Strong Bad]] refers to Flash as "what we breathe" and "the thing what creates us all". In addition, two chunks of Flash Authoring Interface fall from the sky.

== Holiday Toons ==
*[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]] —
**At the beginning of the toon, Homestar tells the viewers to "pick a treat and drag it on top of us".
**During the end discussion, Homestar asks if the viewers have voted yet (a feature for that year's toon) and then later requests that the characters repeat stuff they have already said to freak "them" out, both indicating that the characters know they are being watched and hand-waving the animation loop.
*[[Halloween Fairstival]] —
**After Strong Sad says that hiccups have to be laughed out, Strong Bad says "Whoa! That sounds like a segue!"
**In the Homsar Easter egg, Homsar walks across all sides of the screen.
*[[Homestar Presents: Presents]] —
**Strong Bad informs the viewers that Homestar runs around frantically from [[Decemberween]] to New Year's.
**In the Easter egg, there is a poster on the wall that reads, "Left Out Characters' Support Group & Buffet."
*[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]] —
**Throughout the [[Wikipedia:cold open|cold open]], Homestar directly addresses the viewer.
**When Homestar comes upon Homsar, he remarks "Oh, great. The secret guy," and then comments on the "choices" that Homsar gives him.
**Then when he reaches the [[Cliffs#Creepy Cliff|Creepy Cliff]], he refers to it as a "cool new background".
**In the [[The Goblin|Goblin]] ending, Marzipan declares the end of the scene and looks into the "camera".
*[[More Fan Costumes]] — Strong Bad comments that [[Coach Z]], [[The King of Town]] and [[Marzipan]] are the least popular ''Homestar Runner'' characters.
*[[Let us give TANKS!]] —
**[[Blue Laser Commander]] reminds [[Ripberger]] that he was only available for a limited time with three proofs of purchase.
**Silent Rip says that he's thankful for the "Blue Laser Thanksgiving action playset".
**All the Commandos and Blue Laser members sing "Buy all our playsets and toys!"
*[[Jibblies 2]] —
**Strong Bad refers to the cast of the Homestar Runner cartoons as "characters".
**Also, Strong Sad asks if there was a Jibblies 1, referring to the name of the toon.
*[[Fan Costumes '07]] — Strong Bad mentions that [[Crack Stuntman]] is a character who voices a character from a cartoon ([[Cheat Commandos]]) inside a cartoon ([[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]]).
*[[Toikey TV]] — Gunhaver informs the other Cheat Commandos that all they got was "another lame Thanksgiving special".
*[[Trogday 08]] — Strong Bad scolds "you internet [[type]]s" for ruining Trogdor, as well as "zombies, pirates, ninjas and Strong Bad".
*[[Costume Commercial]] — Strong Sad tries to correct the announcer when he calls Strong Sad's line, "SAFE-T LOS-R Accessories".
*[[A Death-Defying Decemberween]] —
**Homestar refers to himself as "Homestar Runner.com".
**Bubs's epitaph for Homestar also has the words "Here Lies Homestar Runner.com" written on it.
*[[April Fool 09]] — Strong Bad explains why the website is named after Homestar Runner and not him.
*[[Doomy Tales of the Macabre]] —
**Marzipan reads her lines from a cue card.
**Strong Bad types Strong Sad's narration.
**Strong Sad addresses the audience at the end.
*[[Which Ween Costumes?]] — Homestar comments on Strong Mad's "animation".
*[[April Fools' 2014]] — Homestar and Strong Bad update the website's best features.
*[[I Killed Pom Pom‎]] — Homestar calls Strong Bad "a real cartoon pal".
*[[The House That Gave Sucky Tricks]] — Strong Bad imagines what a haunted house made by him would be like, saying "it would turn out a little something, a-like the following cartoon".
*[[Later That Night...]] — Several lines are said throughout the toon that imply the characters are aware they're in a cartoon, such as Strong Bad's "That's everybody's favorite part anyways!" and his comment to Marzipan about her "never [having] very many lines".

== Strong Bad Emails ==
*[[island]] —
**When Yami Yugi asks what Strong Bad would do if he were stuck on a desert island, Strong Bad nonchalantly replies, "I suspect it would be like most cartoons".
**Later, [[Homestar Runner]] imitates [[Main Page 3]], with similar effects.
*[[personal favorites]] — The explosion of Marzipan's [[answering machine]] also affects the "[[MARZIPAN'S ANSWERING MACHINE]]" title.
*[[crazy cartoon]] — After the [[Powered by The Cheat]] scene depicting Strong Bad giving The Cheat a trophy in front of the [[Tangerine Dreams]], their normal selves are shown in front of the same computer from the same angle. Strong Bad questions whether or not the depiction actually happened.
*[[the process]] — Strong Bad explains how Strong Bad Emails are made, including the more complex parts. For example, he says that "you can usually click on certain words and make little pictures of dumb stuff pop up."
*[[2 years]] — Strong Bad realizes what [[Homestar Runner's Website]] really meant.
*[[couch patch]] — When Strong Sad objects to Strong Bad's side of the couch patch story, the latter sarcastically exclaims that "every loser out there" wanted to hear the former's side. Strong Sad says they do, and proceeds to tell it. Later, Strong Bad points out that the couch patch is clearly already present in Homestar's flashback.
*[[monument]] — Homestar peeks out from behind the black as he sings, "Here comes [[the Thnikkaman]]!"
*[[flashback]] —
**Strong Bad breaks the fourth wall by saying that his flashback can't be viewed in anything but [[widescreen]].
**Homestar says he's usually behind the black.
**Strong Bad shifts the screen leftward after saying, "Frame, shift left."
*[[dangeresque 3]] — After Strong Bad reveals that he has not made [[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]] in time, he says, "But, before you start throwing full wine bottles at your computer screen" before showing [[Dangeresque 1: Dangeresque, Too?]].
*[[old comics]] — Strong Bad says that he and Homestar were used in a comic that was printed at least 60 years earlier. Since they are [[Ages of Characters|obviously not that old]], he may be pointing out the fact that he and Homestar are unaging cartoon characters.
*[[virus]] — The effects of [[the virus]] cause several fourth wall breakages.
*[[animal]] — In Strong Bad's narration at the beginning, he says that he came "from the right side of the screen".
*[[part-time job]] — Strong Bad peeks around the edge of the black on his way to [[Bubs' Concession Stand]].
*[[dreamail]] —
**Strong Bad says "Allow me to ... hit you with the pink border", and after that, a pink border appears on the screen instead of the routine border.
**At the end, he admits he should have used a fluffy white cloud border instead.
*[[best thing]] — [[Teeg Dougland]] informs [[Limozeen]] about the cancellation of ''[[Limozeen: "but they're in space!"]]'' during the ''Limozeen'' cartoon.
*[[bottom 10]] — After the end of the email, Strong Bad acknowledges that there are no Easter eggs at the end.
*[[lady...ing]] — The Cheat displays a [[Laserdisc]] of a [[Marshmallow's Last Stand]]-era Email, to which Strong Bad replies "Oh, yeah. Boy, those old cartoons still pack a wallop."
*[[high school]] — Strong Bad says that he was "probably just like other cartoons" in his high school days.
*[[myths & legends]] — Strong Bad makes a static-like noise indicating a cut through static to the next scene, but is unsuccessful the first time.
*[[senior prom]] — After Strong Bad says that he's "taking Delilelia to see David Coppafeel perform" and gets up, the camera zooms out to reveal him actually standing on the right side, causing him to jump out of view.
*[[unnatural]] — Marzipan thinks that a [[King Bubsgonzola Supreme|giant Bubs]]'s foot is actually "just in the foreground".
*[[from work]] —
**At the beginning, Strong Bad shushes viewers and quietly tells them to shut up.
**After describing his dream job, Strong Bad asks if a cutaway of it will be seen.
**Strong Bad complains that what he imagines doesn't appear while Homestar's imagination does become visible.
*[[the paper]] — Strong Bad claims he can remember the birth of [[The Paper]] "like it was about to happen in a wavy flashback", which follows this line.
*[[original]] —
**The entire email is about the "actor" playing [[Bubs]], [[Original Bubs]], being replaced.
**There are also mentions of "like twelve" different actors portraying [[The King of Town]].
*[[your edge]] — While in a deep, dark hole where only his eyes are visible, Strong Bad comments that he "suddenly feel[s] so easy to animate".
*[[independent]] — Strong Bad refers to the cast of the [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] cartoons as "characters".
*[[sbemail 206]] — Strong Bad says that "[his] favorite website looks like it's from another time period" when the [[Index Page]] is shown. Just before he "modernizes" it, Homestar Runner describes the page as "one of them [[Flash]]-y cartoon websites from 2002".

== Games ==
*[[Blue Laserdisc Challenge]] — If the player succeeds in beating the game, Gunhaver bellows, "Next state-of-the-art laserdisc game, Blue Laser! Next state-of-the-art laserdisc game!"
*[[Peasant's Quest]] —
**If Rather Dashing says "[[Unusual Greetings#Haldo|Haldo]]" to [[Dongolev]] without first talking to [[Mendelev]], he will say, "What'd you read that in PQ Stragedy Guide? Go talk to my brother first."
**If the player types "throw baby" before the baby has been acquired, the game will say that the player must have "misread the walkthrough on [[Wikipedia:GameFAQs|GameFAQS]]".
**If "get broom" is typed in Naked Ned's house, the game will say, "No no. The broom is in the foreground and you can't take things in the foreground. You don't see me all typing 'get browser window', do you?"
**When at the inn, the inn "takes up the entire screen".
**When on the screen with [[Kerrek]], typing "make friends with Kerrek" results in the message "Look, it didn't work for Strongbad and it's not going to work for you either."
*[[Stinkoman 20X6]] —
**When [[1-Up]] requests [[Stinkoman]]'s help, Stinkoman says that he already helped him in Level 4.
**At the beginning of Level 6, Stinkoman appears to be playing his own game.
**At the beginning of Level -0, Stinkoman addresses the player while he's stuck sad inside the wall.
**At the end of Level -0, Stinkoman says he has to get through Level 9 and Level 10 to get to 1-Up and [[Pan Pan]].
**At the opening cinematic of level 9, [[Z Sabre]] says, "So, Stinkoman thinks he'll fly straight through to level 10, does he?"
*[[Thy Dungeonman 3]] —
**If the player talks to some of the characters, they mention events that happened "screens" or "seconds" ago.
**Many characters will reference past, apparently unconnected scenes (such as the dungeon trap at the start).
**In the area that doesn't exist, various objects are listed as "not being there".
**In the same scene, the description reads that "some words are in capital letters".
**When you look at the stairs in the tavern, the description will say "They're just for show. Sheesh, maybe these graphics weren't such a good idea after all."
**The intro also references the addition of graphics.
*[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]] — As well as what is noted below, Strong Bad sometimes appears to talk to the players, often objecting to a certain action the player is trying to perform.
*[[SBCG4AP Tutorial]] —
**Strong Bad guides the player throughout the tutorial.
**Strong Sad also complains about being in the tutorial and Bubs screws up a line during his scene.
**After the tutorial concludes, Bubs states, "Hey, where's my money?! I'm getting paid for this, right?"
*[[Homestar Ruiner]] —
**Strong Bad asks Coach Z to summarize the rules of the Race "for all the kids playing at home."
**When Strong Bad first disguises as Homestar, he quotes the [[Main Pages]].
**After kicking everybody out of his house, he types, "There you have it; the videogame adaptation of how I beat the snot out of Homestar Runner."
*[[Strong Badia the Free]] —
**After Strong Bad exclaims, "Onward to Strong Badia! Strong Badia, the free!" Homestar remarks, "Hey, that's the name of this..." but Strong Bad cuts him off before he can finish.
**Also, when Strong Bad talks to Homsar after putting all the Homsartifacts in the pylon, Homsar tells Strong Bad that he will have to face a punishingly difficult dungeon and disappointing end cutscene.
*[[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]] —
**[[Dangeresque (character)|Dangeresque]] asks [[Renaldo]] and [[Dangeresque Too]] to join him in one last case "for old this movie's sake".
**Upon using the large knife with other characters, Dangeresque will refuse to do so because, as awesome as it would be, the ratings board would not allow it.
**Dangeresque also informs Renaldo that his epic battle with [[The Monster]] is going to be in the movie trailer.
**When Dangeresque asks Dangeresque Too how long he knew that [[Uzi Bazooka]] was an imposter, he replies, "Pretty much from the beginning of the movie."
**When Extended Play is first loaded, Strong Bad introduces the "DVD extras section" directly to the viewers, telling them to load up the map and click on a location to get started.
**If you don't pick up the Taranchula Black Metal Detector during the movie, Strong Bad will call the player out on this when you get it in Extended Play.
*[[8-Bit is Enough]] —
**When he picks up the logic board, Strong Bad comments that he'll "just put the logic board in the machine and we can end this episode early!"
**If you click on the top light switch in the computer room, Strong Bad flips it on and off and says, "Whoo, interactivity!"
**In the finale, where Strong Bad's in-game model suddenly changes to resemble his concept drawing from [[SBCG4AP Advertisement]], he remarks: "<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Telltale Games]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> ''finally'' listened to me!"

== Teen Girl Squad ==
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 8|Issue 8]] — Cheerleader sings "It's over! It's over! Strong Bad says it's over" at the end of the issue.
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10|Issue 10]] — In an Easter egg, Cheerleader says it's their "Tenth Issue-versary".
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 11|Issue 11]] — Cheerleader is seen reading the script for the issue, and asking how "uggs" is spelled.
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 13|Issue 13]] — The Ugly One comments to Narrator Strong Bad on the creativity (or lack thereof) of her demise.
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 14|Issue 14]] — Quarterback asks The Ugly One to accompany him to the end credits.
*[[Cave Girl Squad]] —
**One of the girls apologizes to Strong Bad after pointing out an anachronism regarding the dinosaur egg.
**The girls inform Anubis that "wearing animal heads is so 3rd issue!"

==DVDs==
*[[strongbad_email.exe]] — On all of the discs, if the viewer doesn't make a selection in the Bonus Stuff menu, Strong Bad will enter and say "Time's up, choosy! I'm playing Trogdor!", and plays [[TROGDOR!]] for a little bit.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc One]] —
**Strong Bad tells [[The Paper]] to "show these morons what to do". In response, The Paper will then tell the viewer to make a choice.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Three]] —
**Homestar and Strong Bad wonder where the viewer is and Homestar suggests that perhaps they are making a sandwich.
**Strong Bad orders the viewer to bring them some [[cold ones]].
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four]] —
**Homestar proclaims, "Look at me! I'm on TVD!"
**The [[Lappy 486#Female Lappy 486|Female Lappy 486]] asks Strong Bad what's taking the viewers so long.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Five]] — Strong Bad complains the viewer took so long the Lappy's screensaver turned on.
*[[Everything Else, Volume 1]] —
**Strong Bad says there are no emails on the DVD.
**Homestar tells the viewer to make a choice.
*[[Everything Else, Volume 2]] — Homestar complains that the viewer is taking too long deciding and tries to eat some of the menu items.
*In the DVD commentaries, the characters often talk to [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] and [[Matt Chapman]].

==Other==
*[[Where the Crap Are We?]] — Strong Bad beats the left side of the screen.
*[[First Time Here?]] — Sets the stage for fourth wall breakages, especially when Strong Bad says "I'm the reason you're here" and asks people to "check him out".
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 8.0]] — Homestar says, "This is Homestar Runner from HomestarRunner.com".
*[[Strong Sad's Character Video]] — Strong Sad complains about doing a "characters page" and later runs his finger down the left side of the screen.
*[[Not the 100th Email!!!]] — References to the 404 page and the user poking around the site.
*[[Store]] — Most of the [[Store Thank You Messages|thank you messages]] break the fourth wall, especially [[Store Thank You Messages#Back Door Message|the "bonus" message]].
*[[Podstar Runner]] —
**In the original ending video for the emails and music videos, Strong Bad asks, "What am I doing in this tiny box?" and shatters the screen trying to get out.
**In the 2008 ending, Strong Bad leaves a "face print" on the iPod's screen and tells the viewer to use a "shimmy cloth".
*[[The Limozeen Advantage]] — Teeg Dougland informs [[Limozeen]] that they have been relegated to DVD bonus content.
*[[SBCG4AP Advertisement]] —
**Strong Bad later says, "Gimme that camera!" and walks around his house with it.
**He acknowledges the change in animation style by asking the viewers to witness "all 3 of the glorious D's".
**Homestar claims to have a "low polygon count".
*[[Page Load Error]] — Strong Sad addresses the viewers while he and [[The Deleteheads]] camp out in a Mozilla Firefox error page.
*[[Hremail 62]] — Homestar Runner scolds the announcer for pronouncing the word "drawer" correctly.
*[[Sbemailiarized!]] —
**Strong Bad refers to the site's other videos as cartoons.
**[[Matt Chapman]] knocks the word "CREATORS" offscreen when he starts ranting at [[Mike Chapman]]'s idea.
**Strong Bad calls the idea a "4th wall type thing".

[[Category:Lists]]

Fourth Wall Breaks

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Sometimes, the [[characters]] '''break the [[Wikipedia:Fourth wall|fourth wall]]''' by displaying awareness that they are in an Internet cartoon.

Fourth wall breakages are common in [[Strong Bad Email]]s; Strong Bad often addresses the viewers, and references to his "[[email show]]" are made. Some of these supposed "fourth wall breaks" may be explained by assuming that Strong Bad has a live [[Wikipedia:webcam|webcam]] show in which he answers emails, or that he is talking to an imaginary audience, but in other instances the characters actually refer to the fact that they are in cartoons, which is a real fourth wall break. Excluding Strong Bad Emails that involve a character addressing the viewers, here is a list of fourth wall breakages in the toons.

== Big Toons ==
*[[The King of Town DVD]] — In the commentary, Strong Bad calls the toon a cartoon several times.
*[[In Search of the Yello Dello]] — The TV announcer says that [[the Yello Dello]] is "the most rare and beautiful bird in this entire cartoon."
*[[Where's The Cheat?]] — While reassuring Strong Mad, Strong Bad says "Don't worry, big guy. We'll cut to a montage. I mean, find [[The Cheat]]."
*[[Shopping for Danger]] —
**[[Silent Rip]] informs [[Gunhaver]] that the "[[Cheat Commandos Headquarters]] playset is under attack".
**At the end, Gunhaver screams, "Next episode, [[Blue Laser]]! Next episode!"
*[[Weclome Back]] —
**All of the characters punch in on a time clock after returning from vacation, possibly implying that they work in a studio.
**Marzipan wonders whether anyone has been "taking care of the website".
**Homestar Runner says, "It's time to get this www-dot-show back on the road-dot-com."
*[[2 Part Episode: Part 1]] —
**As the [[Green Helmets]] take him away, Gunhaver remarks, "At least let a Cheat Commanding Officer be escorted out by someone who isn't available in a discount three pack."
**Silent Rip proclaims that it's impossible to break into the "Headquarters Playset".
**Gunhaver commands Silent Rip and [[Crackotage]], "be continued!"
*[[2 Part Episode: Part 2]] —
**Subtlefuge says that each [[Toppleganger]] is "sold separately with rifle and gear."
**The Headquarters Playset is revealed to have a battery compartment and electronic lights and sounds.

== Shorts ==
*[[The System is Down]] — There are references to both the [[Error Page]] and [[homestarrunner.com]] being down.
*[[Cheat Commandos (toon)|Cheat Commandos]] — Gunhaver breaks the fourth wall ''within'' the [[Homestar Runner universe]] itself by saying, "Quick, everyone! To the Action Figure Storage Vehicle!"
*[[Commandos in the Classroom]] — Gunhaver mentions that "[[Buy All Our Playsets and Toys!!|buying all our playsets and toys]]" is a positive thing.
*[[Sbemail 150?!?]] — The [[Female Lappy 486]] is startled by the viewer's arrival, saying "Strong Bad is understairs. Tell whim I love..."
*[[No Hands On Deck!]] — Homestar says, "I'd better get back to work if I'm gonna build a deck in this cartoon!"
*[[One Two, One Two]] — [[Homsar]]'s [[bowler hat]] visibly bounces off the edge of the screen when he is singing.
*[[The Next Epi-Snowed]] — [[Agent Chimendez]] explains that he is an "expanded universe character".
*[[Loading Screens]] —
**The singers mention that this is a cartoon several times.
**Coach Z in particular describes loading screens as a "looping animation".
*[[Where My Hat is At? (toon)]] — Homestar, annoyed at [[The Umpire]] for telling him information he already knew, tells him "we sorta established that in the first scene."
*[[The Animated Adventures of Puppet Homestar]] — Puppet Homestar breaks the fourth wall by showing disgust over Puppet Strong Sad's narrated line "He goed and goed until he finally went". Later, he describes [[Doreauxgard]] and [[Marshie]] as being "the only puppets left".
*[[Flash is Dead!]] — The entire cartoon is about how [[Flash]], the real-world software used to create and display [[homestarrunner.com]], is dying. [[Strong Bad]] refers to Flash as "what we breathe" and "the thing what creates us all". In addition, two chunks of Flash Authoring Interface fall from the sky.

== Holiday Toons ==
*[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]] —
**At the beginning of the toon, Homestar tells the viewers to "pick a treat and drag it on top of us".
**During the end discussion, Homestar asks if the viewers have voted yet (a feature for that year's toon) and then later requests that the characters repeat stuff they have already said to freak "them" out, both indicating that the characters know they are being watched and hand-waving the animation loop.
*[[Halloween Fairstival]] —
**After Strong Sad says that hiccups have to be laughed out, Strong Bad says "Whoa! That sounds like a segue!"
**In the Homsar Easter egg, Homsar walks across all sides of the screen.
*[[Homestar Presents: Presents]] —
**Strong Bad informs the viewers that Homestar runs around frantically from [[Decemberween]] to New Year's.
**In the Easter egg, there is a poster on the wall that reads, "Left Out Characters' Support Group & Buffet."
*[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]] —
**Throughout the [[Wikipedia:cold open|cold open]], Homestar directly addresses the viewer.
**When Homestar comes upon Homsar, he remarks "Oh, great. The secret guy," and then comments on the "choices" that Homsar gives him.
**Then when he reaches the [[Cliffs#Creepy Cliff|Creepy Cliff]], he refers to it as a "cool new background".
**In the [[The Goblin|Goblin]] ending, Marzipan declares the end of the scene and looks into the "camera".
*[[More Fan Costumes]] — Strong Bad comments that [[Coach Z]], [[The King of Town]] and [[Marzipan]] are the least popular ''Homestar Runner'' characters.
*[[Let us give TANKS!]] —
**[[Blue Laser Commander]] reminds [[Ripberger]] that he was only available for a limited time with three proofs of purchase.
**Silent Rip says that he's thankful for the "Blue Laser Thanksgiving action playset".
**All the Commandos and Blue Laser members sing "Buy all our playsets and toys!"
*[[Jibblies 2]] —
**Strong Bad refers to the cast of the Homestar Runner cartoons as "characters".
**Also, Strong Sad asks if there was a Jibblies 1, referring to the name of the toon.
*[[Fan Costumes '07]] — Strong Bad mentions that [[Crack Stuntman]] is a character who voices a character from a cartoon ([[Cheat Commandos]]) inside a cartoon ([[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]]).
*[[Toikey TV]] — Gunhaver informs the other Cheat Commandos that all they got was "another lame Thanksgiving special".
*[[Trogday 08]] — Strong Bad scolds "you internet [[type]]s" for ruining Trogdor, as well as "zombies, pirates, ninjas and Strong Bad".
*[[Costume Commercial]] — Strong Sad tries to correct the announcer when he calls Strong Sad's line, "SAFE-T LOS-R Accessories".
*[[A Death-Defying Decemberween]] —
**Homestar refers to himself as "Homestar Runner.com".
**Bubs's epitaph for Homestar also has the words "Here Lies Homestar Runner.com" written on it.
*[[April Fool 09]] — Strong Bad explains why the website is named after Homestar Runner and not him.
*[[Doomy Tales of the Macabre]] —
**Marzipan reads her lines from a cue card.
**Strong Bad types Strong Sad's narration.
**Strong Sad addresses the audience at the end.
*[[Which Ween Costumes?]] — Homestar comments on Strong Mad's "animation".
*[[April Fools' 2014]] — Homestar and Strong Bad update the website's best features.
*[[I Killed Pom Pom‎]] — Homestar calls Strong Bad "a real cartoon pal".
*[[The House That Gave Sucky Tricks]] — Strong Bad imagines what a haunted house made by him would be like, saying "it would turn out a little something, a-like the following cartoon".
*[[Later That Night...]] — Several lines are said throughout the toon that imply the characters are aware they're in a cartoon, such as Strong Bad's "That's everybody's favorite part anyways!" and his comment to Marzipan about her "never [having] very many lines".

== Strong Bad Emails ==
*[[50 emails]] — When Strong Bad hears the phone ringing, he turns to the camera and says "Don't nobody go nowheres. I'll be right back."
*[[island]] —
**When Yami Yugi asks what Strong Bad would do if he were stuck on a desert island, Strong Bad nonchalantly replies, "I suspect it would be like most cartoons".
**Later, [[Homestar Runner]] imitates [[Main Page 3]], with similar effects.
*[[personal favorites]] — The explosion of Marzipan's [[answering machine]] also affects the "[[MARZIPAN'S ANSWERING MACHINE]]" title.
*[[crazy cartoon]] — After the [[Powered by The Cheat]] scene depicting Strong Bad giving The Cheat a trophy in front of the [[Tangerine Dreams]], their normal selves are shown in front of the same computer from the same angle. Strong Bad questions whether or not the depiction actually happened.
*[[the process]] — Strong Bad explains how Strong Bad Emails are made, including the more complex parts. For example, he says that "you can usually click on certain words and make little pictures of dumb stuff pop up."
*[[2 years]] — Strong Bad realizes what [[Homestar Runner's Website]] really meant.
*[[couch patch]] — When Strong Sad objects to Strong Bad's side of the couch patch story, the latter sarcastically exclaims that "every loser out there" wanted to hear the former's side. Strong Sad says they do, and proceeds to tell it. Later, Strong Bad points out that the couch patch is clearly already present in Homestar's flashback.
*[[monument]] — Homestar peeks out from behind the black as he sings, "Here comes [[the Thnikkaman]]!"
*[[flashback]] —
**Strong Bad breaks the fourth wall by saying that his flashback can't be viewed in anything but [[widescreen]].
**Homestar says he's usually behind the black.
**Strong Bad shifts the screen leftward after saying, "Frame, shift left."
*[[dangeresque 3]] — After Strong Bad reveals that he has not made [[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]] in time, he says, "But, before you start throwing full wine bottles at your computer screen" before showing [[Dangeresque 1: Dangeresque, Too?]].
*[[old comics]] — Strong Bad says that he and Homestar were used in a comic that was printed at least 60 years earlier. Since they are [[Ages of Characters|obviously not that old]], he may be pointing out the fact that he and Homestar are unaging cartoon characters.
*[[virus]] — The effects of [[the virus]] cause several fourth wall breakages.
*[[animal]] — In Strong Bad's narration at the beginning, he says that he came "from the right side of the screen".
*[[part-time job]] — Strong Bad peeks around the edge of the black on his way to [[Bubs' Concession Stand]].
*[[dreamail]] —
**Strong Bad says "Allow me to ... hit you with the pink border", and after that, a pink border appears on the screen instead of the routine border.
**At the end, he admits he should have used a fluffy white cloud border instead.
*[[best thing]] — [[Teeg Dougland]] informs [[Limozeen]] about the cancellation of ''[[Limozeen: "but they're in space!"]]'' during the ''Limozeen'' cartoon.
*[[bottom 10]] — After the end of the email, Strong Bad acknowledges that there are no Easter eggs at the end.
*[[lady...ing]] — The Cheat displays a [[Laserdisc]] of a [[Marshmallow's Last Stand]]-era Email, to which Strong Bad replies "Oh, yeah. Boy, those old cartoons still pack a wallop."
*[[high school]] — Strong Bad says that he was "probably just like other cartoons" in his high school days.
*[[myths & legends]] — Strong Bad makes a static-like noise indicating a cut through static to the next scene, but is unsuccessful the first time.
*[[senior prom]] — After Strong Bad says that he's "taking Delilelia to see David Coppafeel perform" and gets up, the camera zooms out to reveal him actually standing on the right side, causing him to jump out of view.
*[[unnatural]] — Marzipan thinks that a [[King Bubsgonzola Supreme|giant Bubs]]'s foot is actually "just in the foreground".
*[[from work]] —
**At the beginning, Strong Bad shushes viewers and quietly tells them to shut up.
**After describing his dream job, Strong Bad asks if a cutaway of it will be seen.
**Strong Bad complains that what he imagines doesn't appear while Homestar's imagination does become visible.
*[[the paper]] — Strong Bad claims he can remember the birth of [[The Paper]] "like it was about to happen in a wavy flashback", which follows this line.
*[[original]] —
**The entire email is about the "actor" playing [[Bubs]], [[Original Bubs]], being replaced.
**There are also mentions of "like twelve" different actors portraying [[The King of Town]].
*[[your edge]] — While in a deep, dark hole where only his eyes are visible, Strong Bad comments that he "suddenly feel[s] so easy to animate".
*[[independent]] — Strong Bad refers to the cast of the [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] cartoons as "characters".
*[[sbemail 206]] — Strong Bad says that "[his] favorite website looks like it's from another time period" when the [[Index Page]] is shown. Just before he "modernizes" it, Homestar Runner describes the page as "one of them [[Flash]]-y cartoon websites from 2002".

== Games ==
*[[Blue Laserdisc Challenge]] — If the player succeeds in beating the game, Gunhaver bellows, "Next state-of-the-art laserdisc game, Blue Laser! Next state-of-the-art laserdisc game!"
*[[Peasant's Quest]] —
**If Rather Dashing says "[[Unusual Greetings#Haldo|Haldo]]" to [[Dongolev]] without first talking to [[Mendelev]], he will say, "What'd you read that in PQ Stragedy Guide? Go talk to my brother first."
**If the player types "throw baby" before the baby has been acquired, the game will say that the player must have "misread the walkthrough on [[Wikipedia:GameFAQs|GameFAQS]]".
**If "get broom" is typed in Naked Ned's house, the game will say, "No no. The broom is in the foreground and you can't take things in the foreground. You don't see me all typing 'get browser window', do you?"
**When at the inn, the inn "takes up the entire screen".
**When on the screen with [[Kerrek]], typing "make friends with Kerrek" results in the message "Look, it didn't work for Strongbad and it's not going to work for you either."
*[[Stinkoman 20X6]] —
**When [[1-Up]] requests [[Stinkoman]]'s help, Stinkoman says that he already helped him in Level 4.
**At the beginning of Level 6, Stinkoman appears to be playing his own game.
**At the beginning of Level -0, Stinkoman addresses the player while he's stuck sad inside the wall.
**At the end of Level -0, Stinkoman says he has to get through Level 9 and Level 10 to get to 1-Up and [[Pan Pan]].
**At the opening cinematic of level 9, [[Z Sabre]] says, "So, Stinkoman thinks he'll fly straight through to level 10, does he?"
*[[Thy Dungeonman 3]] —
**If the player talks to some of the characters, they mention events that happened "screens" or "seconds" ago.
**Many characters will reference past, apparently unconnected scenes (such as the dungeon trap at the start).
**In the area that doesn't exist, various objects are listed as "not being there".
**In the same scene, the description reads that "some words are in capital letters".
**When you look at the stairs in the tavern, the description will say "They're just for show. Sheesh, maybe these graphics weren't such a good idea after all."
**The intro also references the addition of graphics.
*[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]] — As well as what is noted below, Strong Bad sometimes appears to talk to the players, often objecting to a certain action the player is trying to perform.
*[[SBCG4AP Tutorial]] —
**Strong Bad guides the player throughout the tutorial.
**Strong Sad also complains about being in the tutorial and Bubs screws up a line during his scene.
**After the tutorial concludes, Bubs states, "Hey, where's my money?! I'm getting paid for this, right?"
*[[Homestar Ruiner]] —
**Strong Bad asks Coach Z to summarize the rules of the Race "for all the kids playing at home."
**When Strong Bad first disguises as Homestar, he quotes the [[Main Pages]].
**After kicking everybody out of his house, he types, "There you have it; the videogame adaptation of how I beat the snot out of Homestar Runner."
*[[Strong Badia the Free]] —
**After Strong Bad exclaims, "Onward to Strong Badia! Strong Badia, the free!" Homestar remarks, "Hey, that's the name of this..." but Strong Bad cuts him off before he can finish.
**Also, when Strong Bad talks to Homsar after putting all the Homsartifacts in the pylon, Homsar tells Strong Bad that he will have to face a punishingly difficult dungeon and disappointing end cutscene.
*[[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]] —
**[[Dangeresque (character)|Dangeresque]] asks [[Renaldo]] and [[Dangeresque Too]] to join him in one last case "for old this movie's sake".
**Upon using the large knife with other characters, Dangeresque will refuse to do so because, as awesome as it would be, the ratings board would not allow it.
**Dangeresque also informs Renaldo that his epic battle with [[The Monster]] is going to be in the movie trailer.
**When Dangeresque asks Dangeresque Too how long he knew that [[Uzi Bazooka]] was an imposter, he replies, "Pretty much from the beginning of the movie."
**When Extended Play is first loaded, Strong Bad introduces the "DVD extras section" directly to the viewers, telling them to load up the map and click on a location to get started.
**If you don't pick up the Taranchula Black Metal Detector during the movie, Strong Bad will call the player out on this when you get it in Extended Play.
*[[8-Bit is Enough]] —
**When he picks up the logic board, Strong Bad comments that he'll "just put the logic board in the machine and we can end this episode early!"
**If you click on the top light switch in the computer room, Strong Bad flips it on and off and says, "Whoo, interactivity!"
**In the finale, where Strong Bad's in-game model suddenly changes to resemble his concept drawing from [[SBCG4AP Advertisement]], he remarks: "<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Telltale Games]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> ''finally'' listened to me!"

== Teen Girl Squad ==
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 8|Issue 8]] — Cheerleader sings "It's over! It's over! Strong Bad says it's over" at the end of the issue.
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10|Issue 10]] — In an Easter egg, Cheerleader says it's their "Tenth Issue-versary".
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 11|Issue 11]] — Cheerleader is seen reading the script for the issue, and asking how "uggs" is spelled.
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 13|Issue 13]] — The Ugly One comments to Narrator Strong Bad on the creativity (or lack thereof) of her demise.
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 14|Issue 14]] — Quarterback asks The Ugly One to accompany him to the end credits.
*[[Cave Girl Squad]] —
**One of the girls apologizes to Strong Bad after pointing out an anachronism regarding the dinosaur egg.
**The girls inform Anubis that "wearing animal heads is so 3rd issue!"

==DVDs==
*[[strongbad_email.exe]] — On all of the discs, if the viewer doesn't make a selection in the Bonus Stuff menu, Strong Bad will enter and say "Time's up, choosy! I'm playing Trogdor!", and plays [[TROGDOR!]] for a little bit.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc One]] —
**Strong Bad tells [[The Paper]] to "show these morons what to do". In response, The Paper will then tell the viewer to make a choice.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Three]] —
**Homestar and Strong Bad wonder where the viewer is and Homestar suggests that perhaps they are making a sandwich.
**Strong Bad orders the viewer to bring them some [[cold ones]].
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four]] —
**Homestar proclaims, "Look at me! I'm on TVD!"
**The [[Lappy 486#Female Lappy 486|Female Lappy 486]] asks Strong Bad what's taking the viewers so long.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Five]] — Strong Bad complains the viewer took so long the Lappy's screensaver turned on.
*[[Everything Else, Volume 1]] —
**Strong Bad says there are no emails on the DVD.
**Homestar tells the viewer to make a choice.
*[[Everything Else, Volume 2]] — Homestar complains that the viewer is taking too long deciding and tries to eat some of the menu items.
*In the DVD commentaries, the characters often talk to [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] and [[Matt Chapman]].

==Other==
*[[Where the Crap Are We?]] — Strong Bad beats the left side of the screen.
*[[First Time Here?]] — Sets the stage for fourth wall breakages, especially when Strong Bad says "I'm the reason you're here" and asks people to "check him out".
*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 8.0]] — Homestar says, "This is Homestar Runner from HomestarRunner.com".
*[[Strong Sad's Character Video]] — Strong Sad complains about doing a "characters page" and later runs his finger down the left side of the screen.
*[[Not the 100th Email!!!]] — References to the 404 page and the user poking around the site.
*[[Store]] — Most of the [[Store Thank You Messages|thank you messages]] break the fourth wall, especially [[Store Thank You Messages#Back Door Message|the "bonus" message]].
*[[Podstar Runner]] —
**In the original ending video for the emails and music videos, Strong Bad asks, "What am I doing in this tiny box?" and shatters the screen trying to get out.
**In the 2008 ending, Strong Bad leaves a "face print" on the iPod's screen and tells the viewer to use a "shimmy cloth".
*[[The Limozeen Advantage]] — Teeg Dougland informs [[Limozeen]] that they have been relegated to DVD bonus content.
*[[SBCG4AP Advertisement]] —
**Strong Bad later says, "Gimme that camera!" and walks around his house with it.
**He acknowledges the change in animation style by asking the viewers to witness "all 3 of the glorious D's".
**Homestar claims to have a "low polygon count".
*[[Page Load Error]] — Strong Sad addresses the viewers while he and [[The Deleteheads]] camp out in a Mozilla Firefox error page.
*[[Hremail 62]] — Homestar Runner scolds the announcer for pronouncing the word "drawer" correctly.
*[[Sbemailiarized!]] —
**Strong Bad refers to the site's other videos as cartoons.
**[[Matt Chapman]] knocks the word "CREATORS" offscreen when he starts ranting at [[Mike Chapman]]'s idea.
**Strong Bad calls the idea a "4th wall type thing".

[[Category:Lists]]

50 emails

2021-07-13T22:05:36Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}

[[Image:sbemail50.PNG|thumb|"Hey, Strong Bad, I brought back your fondue pot."]]

In honor of his 50th email, Strong Bad tries to answer 50 emails, only to have Homestar unwittingly screw it up.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Old-Timey Strong Bad}} (Easter egg), {{Film|The Sneak}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Telegraph Room]] (Easter egg)

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, November 11, 2002

'''Running Time:''' 2:45

'''Page Title:''' Lordy, Lordy! Look who's over there!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc One}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Oh, girl, I want to email you so nice. ''{stops singing}'' All right, everybody. In honor of this, my 50th email, I've decided to answer 50 of your emails! Ready? Go! ''{hits enter}'' Number one:

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Email #1 
Dear strong bad, 
Can you please write a book about 
come-back jokes! 
Mike 
Canada</blockquote>

''{read as a question despite the exclamation mark}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' More like, ''you'' write a book about come-back jokes, ''NERD!'' ''{hits enter}'' Number two:

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Email #2 
Dear Stong Bad, 
what are some cool ways to spell 
different words? example, fat = phat 
 
matt</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, you mean like ''{types}'' strong = stong? ''{stops}'' You seem to like that one. Or how about this? matt = MATT!! ''{He types matt = DELETED!, and the following appears on the screen as the email is deleted:}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background:#003893; text-align:center">MATT!!</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' Number three:

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Email #3 
Strong Bad, 
What is your favorite leg? 
 
Jess and Tiff 
Los Angeles, CA</blockquote>
''{He stops at "Jess and Tiff"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Well, I like all kinds of legs. You know, like the Great Leg... the Leg of Hope... Tape-Leg? ''{the phone rings}'' Oh, man! I was on a roll! ''{to the camera}'' Don't nobody go nowheres, I'll be right back.

''{He walks offscreen and answers the phone}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{offscreen}'' Hello? Yeah, this is me.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{offscreen}'' Strong Bad!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{on the phone}'' I dunno, what kind of savings?

''{Homestar Runner walks in carrying a fondue pot}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey Strong Bad, I brought back your fondue pot. Strong Bad? ''{He looks around, and then sees the computer}'' Whoa. That TV has words on it.

''{Homestar sits down at the computer and re-reads the email}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Strong Bad, what is your favorite leg? Jess and Tiff. ''{Stops reading}'' Um, ''{typing}'' Hey Crapface! Why dontcha blow it out your ear. Your buddy, Strong Bad. ''{enter}'' Oh, another one!

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none">Email #4 
Dear Strong Bad 
How do you type with gloves on 
your hands? 
 
Scott 
Surrey BC Canada</blockquote>

''{Homestar does not read the signature.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, even ''I'' know what to do with this one. ''{types}'' BALEETED! ''{hits enter, nothing happens}'' Wha—? Oh. Umm... ''{types}'' DELTEATED! ''{enter, nothing happens}'' No? Uhh...

''{Cut to Strong Bad talking on the phone}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{offscreen}'' Del Taco?

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, they're more like elephant feet. Yeah. So what do you think, like, 50 bucks? Sounds good. ''{Whispers}'' I'll leave the key under the at-may.

''{Back to the Compy 386. Homestar has typed in many, many words that he believes to be "deleted", but none of them do anything.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' What is that stupid word?

''{He types in "da cheated" and hits enter. The Compy plays its start up noise and the blue "Flagrant System Error" screen comes up. It reads:}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background:#455fd8; text-align:center">FLAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR 
 
The system is down. I dunno what 
you did, moron, but you sure 
screwed everything up good.</blockquote>

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Uh-oh. This does not look good for Homestar Runner.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad on the phone}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Okay. Bye!

''{He hangs up and walks off. Cut back to the computer}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Okay. Back to the 50 emails.

''{He sits down. There's a piece of paper over the monitor with a Windows error window titled "This is real." It reads:}''
<div style="background:#E1E1E1; border:3px solid black; width:505px; margin-left: 2em; padding: 8px; font-weight: bolder">
<div style="background:#03C; color:white; border:3px solid black; padding:6px; font-size:125%">This is real.</div>
{| style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; background: none"
| style="padding-bottom:10px; width:17%" | [[Image:Warning-gray.png]]
| style="width:80%; font-size:140%; text-align:center; padding:10px; line-height:120%" | System report:
|}
<div style="font-size:140%; text-align:center; border-top:2px solid black; padding-left:18px; padding-top:18px; padding-right:18px; padding-bottom:6px; line-height:120%">Everything is fine. Nothing is ruined.</div>
<div style="border:3px solid black; margin: 0 auto; width: 135px; padding: 4px">
<div style="border:2px dashed black; text-align:center; font-size:135%; padding: 0px; width: 130px" class="noul blocklink"><div style="margin: -9px">ok</div></div>
</div>
</div>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{reading}'' "Everything is fine. Nothing is ruined." Oh, that's good to hear. Let's just—Wait a minute! ''{he tears off the paper and sees the blue screen}'' Wha... "Flagrant Error"? What the... Where did all my emails go?

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' WHAT?!? The Paper?! This isn't over yet! Go back up, go back up!

''{Strong Bad swats at The Paper and then tries to hold it up off the screen}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Wait, wait! I think I can remember some of those emails! Uh, "Dear Strong Bad, why are you so awesome? Yours truly, Dumpface." Well, Dumpface, it's a long story. It all started with The Cheat one day when he was going down the street...

''{The screen, and Strong Bad's voice, slowly fade out. A paper plate with a Swiss Cake Roll with a "50" candle on it fades in. The Paper comes down again.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:Comeback.PNG|thumb|More like, ''YOU'' write a book about comeback jokes, ''NERD!!'']]
*When Strong Bad types the word "book," you can click on it and bring up a picture of [[More Like You Write A Book About Come-back Jokes, NERD!!|Strong Bad's idea]] of this book.
*At the end, click on the "50th email [[Swiss Cake Roll]]" to see an [[Old-Timey]] Strong Bad cartoon.
:''{A title screen reading "Strong Bad and The Electronic Message" appears. Cut to Old-Timey Strong Bad reading a telegram. A "[[No Loafing Sign|Loafing Not Permitted]]" sign can be seen in the background.}''
<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#cccccc;color:#000">Dear Sir Strong Bad, stop! 
How do you manage the telegramophone whilst 
wearing gentleman's sport gloves? Stop! 

signed, Lord Elsington Hallstingdingdingworth </blockquote>
:'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' Curses! This is all anyone ever asks me. ''{manning the telegraph}'' You buffoon! Stop. You... carpetbagger. Stop. I'll give you what's for!
:''{The Sneak walks onscreen}''
:'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' The Sneak! How was that? I told that poor sap I'd give him what's for! Yes... now go and steal me fresh jam!
:''{The Sneak scurries off}''

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*When Strong Bad says, "I'll leave the key under the at-may," he is speaking [[Wikipedia:Pig Latin|Pig Latin]]. "At-may" would mean "mat".
*When Old-Timey Strong Bad responds to Lord Elsington Hallstingdingdingworth in the Easter egg, he calls him a "carpetbagger". A [[Wikipedia:carpetbagger|carpetbagger]] is a post-Civil War pejorative for a Northerner who moved to the South after the war to get rich or gain power.
*In the Old-Timey Strong Bad Easter egg, Strong Bad ends his sentences with the word "stop". At one time, punctuation cost extra for [[Wikipedia:Telegraphy|telegrams]] and four letter words were free, so it became customary for people to replace [[WIkipedia:Full stop|periods]] with the word "stop".

===Trivia===
*Strong Bad [[Strong Bad Email Statistics#Strong Bad Emails featuring more than one email|checks multiple emails]] in this episode.
*The title of the page may be a reference to the phrase "Lordy, Lordy! Look who's forty!" which is usually used on someone's 40th birthday, even though this is Strong Bad's 50th email.
*The phone ringing sound effect is "ringin.wav", from the Microsoft system sounds included in Windows 95 through Windows XP.
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#tongue of the fatman|tongue of the fatman]]".
*The date on the telegram is "11th/x4/29..".
*This is the first email in which the "[[DELETED]]" screen is shown on the Compy (despite reading "MATT!!" instead of the usual "DELETED!!"). The background is blue, whereas it was green on the [[Tandy 400]].
*This is the first instance of [[The Paper]]:
**Being referred to by name.
**Coming down more than once.
*This is the first appearance of [[Strong Bad's Fondue Pot]].
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "In honor of his 50th email, Strong Bad answers 50 emails."
*The Swiss Cake Roll at the end is the first instance of a [[Real-Live Foods|live-action food]].

===Remarks===
*It is strange that Homestar calls the computer screen a "TV [that] has words on it," yet he immediately knows he can type a response to the email.
*Homestar enters the last attempt at Deleted! at the bottom of the left column. This should instead have been at the bottom of the right column, assuming normal progression of the cursor for each time he presses Enter.
*The telegram received by Old-Timey Strong Bad has an incomplete [[Wikipedia:Boolean algebra|boolean]] [[Wikipedia:truth table|truth table]] in the upper right corner.
*In the Easter egg, Old-Timey Strong Bad fails to end his telegram with a 'stop'.
*You can't click The Paper when it first comes down.
*In most DOS versions, it is impossible to have filenames on both the left and right side of the screen.
*When Strong Bad jumps off his stool and the Geddup Noise is made, his stool doesn't move.
*In the Old-Timey email, the sender ended his question with a question mark, yet still wrote "Stop".
*The first two emails come from "Mike" and "Matt", the first names of the Brothers Chaps.
*Right before Strong Bad hangs up the phone, it is [[Disconnected Telephones|not connected to anything]].

===Goofs===
*As Homestar sits down in front of the Compy, his darkened reflection appears in front of the wall.
*When Homestar is talking while reading/answering an email, his lips' movements and the movements in the reflection are not in sync.
*Telegrams are always typed in upper case. They also never use any punctuation, hence the word STOP at the end of each sentence.
*Morse Code uses anywhere from one to four strokes per letter or punctuation mark. Therefore, Old Timey Strong Bad's response telegram, while not expected to be perfectly accurate, is indeed way off.
*Three different shades of blue were used for the system error screen (each of which were a different shade from the "MATT" screen). The color changes from a bright blue to a duller blue as Strong Bad is sitting back down.

===Glitches===
[[File:ErrorEmail50.png|thumb|This does not look good for Homestar Runner.]]
*If the contrast is adjusted while Homestar is at the computer, his reflection is unaffected.
*When Strong Bad says "Matt" while typing "DELETED", his reflection appears above the Compy for a moment.
*If the contrast is adjusted while the "Flagrant System Error" screen is displayed, the text will change color, rather than the background.
*When Strong Bad is talking before he answers the first email, a low pitched humming noise can be heard. For the rest of the email, the pitch is higher.

===Inside References===
*Strong Bad starts his email checking by saying, "Ready? Go!" This is a reference to [[spring cleaning]], when he said that to start his spring cleaning.
*When he responds to Email #3 ("What is your favorite leg?"), Strong Bad mentions tape-leg. This is a reference to [[tape-leg]], one of his past emails, and represents yet another [[Tape-leg|inside joke]] of the Homestar universe.
*The phrase "The system is down" is from [[techno]].
*The "[[How do you type with boxing gloves on?]]" and "[[DELETED]]" running gags play a prominent role in this email.
*This is another instance of [[Strong Bad's computer malfunctioning]].
*This is another instance of the common misspelling "[[Stong Bad]]".

===Real-World References===
*"Leg of Hope" refers to the Violent Femmes song {{inlinecontentwarning|language and themes}} [[Wikipedia: Add It Up|"Add It Up"]], which contains the line "Grasp and reach for a leg of hope".
*The blue "Flagrant System Error" screen is a spoof of the [[Wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Windows 9x]] [[Wikipedia:Blue Screen of Death|blue screen of death]].
*The telegram in the top left corner says "X-11ish". [[Wikipedia: X Window System|X11]] is a windowing system for Unix-like computer systems.

===Fast Forward===
*"Diggity", one of Homestar's attempts at "DELETED" (see below), appears in Strong Bad's deletion chant in [[unused emails]] and [[car]].
*"De la soul", another attempt to say "DELETED", is sung by [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Brainkrieg|Brainkrieg]] in the email [[death metal]].
*The "Flagrant System Error" screen appears again in [[virus]] and (as "Flamboyant System Error") in [[Biz Cas Fri 1]].
*The fake Windows system report appears again in [[The System is Down]], [[Not the 100th Email!!!]], and on [[Main Page 22]].
*Homestar would eventually say "DELETED" correctly in [[retirement]], when he helps Strong Bad delete an email harder than ever before.
*When Strong Bad is on the phone, he may be talking about poachers offering money for [[Strong Sad]]'s "[[Soolnds|elephant feet]]". Strong Sad mentions this in [[modeling]].
*The Swiss Cake Roll and "50" candle appear again in [[big white face]] on top of the cake in the Easter egg at the end.
*The saying "What is that stupid word?" is used again at the beginning of the main menu of [[strongbad_email.exe Disc Three]].

===Homestar's attempts at [[DELETED]]===
<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;width:150px">
a> BALEETED! 
a> DELTEATED! 
a> Del Taco? 
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none">
<table class="emaillinks" style="color:#fff;background:none;width:100%">
<autocolumn cols="2" width="50%">
a> freaky D'td 
a> chadeated 
a> deedleated 
a> meathead? 
a> dltd 
a> duh lee ted 
a> teeteeted 
a> bubs 
a> diddley dee 
a> repeated 
a> 733t3d 
a> 3-D movie 
a> del monte 
a> ddddddd 
a> da cheated 
a> diggity 
a> beefeated 
a> stupid word 
a> believe it 
a> received it 
a> stratego 
a> 3TDted 
a> seabed 
a> whitebread 
a> open sesame 
a> marie 
a> hello 
a> de la soul 
a> geleted 
a> feeted 
</autocolumn>
</table>
</blockquote>
[[Image:Stupid word.png|thumb|300px|"What is that stupid word?"]]
*Some of the commands Homestar tries are references:
**"733t3d" — A reference to [[Internet Slang|Leetspeak]], a variation of language used on the Internet where letters are replaced by numbers or symbols.
**"beefeated" — The [[Wikipedia:Yeomen Warders|Yeomen Warders]] of the [[Wikipedia:Tower of London|Tower of London]] are popularly known as Beefeaters.
**"bubs" — [[Bubs]], not otherwise mentioned or referenced in the email.
**"de la soul" — [[De La Soul]] is a hip-hop group made of Posdnous, Trugoy, and P.A. Mase. They are best known for their groundbreaking 1989 debut album ''[[Wikipedia:3 Feet High and Rising|3 Feet High and Rising]]''. Their second album, ''[[Wikipedia:De La Soul is Dead|De La Soul is Dead]]'', was once on [[Matt Chapman]]'s favorite album list.
**"del monte" — An American [http://www.delmonte.com/ produce company].
**"Del Taco?" — [[Wikipedia:Del Taco|Del Taco]] is a fast food chain that sells American and Mexican food.
**"dltd" — Text message speak for "deleted". It is also "deleted" without vowels.
**"meathead?" — This is probably referring to a catch phrase from the 1970s sitcom ''[[Wikipedia:All in the Family|All in the Family]]'' in which [[Wikipedia:Archie Bunker|Archie Bunker]] called his son-in-law [[Wikipedia:Michael Stivic|Mike]] "Meathead."
**"open sesame" — Famous words from the tale ''[[Wikipedia:Ali Baba|Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves]]''.
**"stratego" — [[Wikipedia:Stratego|Stratego]] is a board game.
**"whitebread" — Another example of Homestar's [[bread]] obsession.
**"da cheated" — A reference to [[The Cheat]].
**"duh lee ted" — "[[DELETED|DELETED!]]" broken into syllables.


==DVD Version==
*The "Comeback joke book" Easter egg is disabled.
**It's restored on the [[Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD]].
{{c|email=true}} This commentary is only available on the [[Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD]].

=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]])

'''MATT:''' This was our first millstone.

'''MIKE:''' ''{agreeing}'' Mm hmm. Almost as good as Folgers.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughing}'' Yeah. Uh... so, you know, this didn't turn out quite the way he wanted, you know, Strong Bad.

'''MIKE:''' No?

'''MATT:''' No. We really talked about trying to do fifty at one point, right?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' We started to write it and we decided, this is going to be terrible!

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Um...

'''MIKE:''' Isn't this the... Swiss Cake Roll at the end?

'''MATT:''' I think so.

'''MIKE:''' We had that Swiss Cake Roll in the apartment for a long time.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, we did. 'Cause it ends up on the Poopsmith's...

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, and that thing's...

'''MATT:''' ...in big white face.

'''MIKE:''' ...in the 80s or something?

'''MATT:''' Yeah. And is that the last time, I think? 'Cause we cut it up in pieces.

'''MIKE:''' Several months later.

'''MATT:''' Cut it up or is it just sitting on it?

'''MIKE:''' I think it was just sitting on it.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, it was sitting on that little, there's a little pass-through window to our kitchen—

'''MIKE:''' Yup.

'''MATT:''' —and it was just sitting on that, like, metal whatever, like an aluminum frame for the pass-through.

'''MIKE:''' Um... nah. Sorry. I don't know what I was gonna say.

'''MATT:''' What game has he got in there? Tongue of the Fatman?

'''MIKE:''' Tongue of the Fatman, yeah. Remember that, uh boss, or the one of the guys who fought in the game, who was all squares?

'''MATT:''' Yeah. You could be him.

'''MIKE:''' You could all stretch around and stuff.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I forget what his name was, but it was like before pixels would've been—

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' —cool, 'cause.

'''MIKE:''' Um, we never really see... who do you think is a bigger fan of fondue?

'''MATT:''' I mean, do you think does Strong Bad use fondue a lot and, or eats fondue a lot, and so that's why he's got a fondue pot or is Homestar like always borrowing it?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I think Homestar's just always borrowing it. Strong Bad...

'''MATT:''' It's just his mom's, probably, Strong Bad's.

'''MIKE:''' ''{interrupting}'' Right.

'''MATT:''' Oh man, what is his mom parent... ing like... today? What is his mom parenting like today?

'''MIKE:''' Is there any cabinet in the house that is more appropriate for a fondue pot than the cabinet above the fridge?

'''MATT:''' Yeah! The cabinet with stuff you're never going to use!

'''MIKE:''' I think I, honestly, I think I've got three fondue pots ''{Matt laughs}'' in the cabinet above my fridge.

'''MATT:''' What are you doing with three fondue pots?

'''MIKE:''' I've got both of Mom's old ones.

'''MATT:''' Oh nice.

'''MIKE:''' And then we got one, uh, for a wedding present.

'''MATT:''' Wow. You use one specifically for cheese, one for hot oil...

'''MIKE:''' Well, the one...

'''MATT:''' ...and one for chocolate.

'''MIKE:''' Only one of them is electric, and so we, any time we actually use it, we just use that one.

'''MATT:''' The oil... gotcha.

'''MIKE:''' Instead of having to stir it over and over or whatever.

'''MATT:''' ''{grunts}'' I kind of wish, I kind of wish I could get the old blue screen of death.

'''MIKE:''' I guess you'll get the red ring of death.

'''MATT:''' I ''hope'' I don't get that. I've lucked out so far, because my Xbox 360 sits around for months at a time.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Without being played.

'''MIKE:''' Mine too.

'''MATT:''' Gets nice rest. Where was The Cheat going, down the street?

'''MIKE:''' Uh huh.

=== Fun Facts ===
*The email [[big white face]] was made five months after 50 emails, but it was number 70, not in the 80s as Mike remembers.
*The [[wikipedia:Xbox_360_technical_problems#.22General_Hardware_Failure.22_errors|Red Ring of Death]] is a circle of red lights on an Xbox 360 signifying a hardware problem with the console.
*"Millstone" is a [[malapropism]] for "milestone," as well as [[wikipedia:Millstone_Coffee|a brand of coffee]], as referenced by the subsequent mention of [[wikipedia:Folgers|Folgers]].
*The enemy in "Tongue of the Fatman" made of squares was named Rubik.

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|50|youtube=7rrZ-sA4FQc}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]
[[Category:Old-Timey]]

caffeine

2021-07-05T02:13:19Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}
[[Image:Parakeet.PNG|thumb|"Did you just say 'parakeet'?"]]

Strong Bad is asked to give Strong Sad some [[Hyperactive Strong Sad|caffeine]], and decides to try it out as a project for the [[All-Wide Science Fair]].

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]], [[The Field]], [[Marzipan's House]], [[The Classroom]]

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Wednesday, December 10, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 2:41

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' And coming in at number 91, it's: E-Maaaaaaaaaaail!

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Dear Strong Bad, 
It must be really annoying living 
with someone as whiny as Strong Sad. 
Why don't you slip him some caffeine? 
 
Justin 
Murfreesboro, TN</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pronounces "TN" as "Tekken".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh-ho-ho-ho! Devilish laugh. ''{types "Ohhhhhhh. (devilish laugh)"}''

''{Strong Bad clears the screen and types again.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Dear Justin, In addition to the cut of your jib, I likes the sound of your town. Murfreesboro. But we got the All-Wide Science Fair just around the corner and I've been straining for a project. So far alls I've come up with is the effects of gasoline. ''{pauses a bit}'' On fire. ''{stops typing}''

''{Cut to a blue-print-style background, with the handwritten title "How to make science work for me".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' So, I figure I just drop a couple of heaping spoonfuls—

''{Said spoon and jar of coffee powder appears}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —of Sanka

''{"heaping spoonful" appears with an arrow pointing at the powder}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —into Strong Sad's orange juice,

''{Said juice appears.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' and collect the ensuing data.

''{The spoon drops in the powder. It spoons some more powder, pauses while "yet another heaping spoonful" and another arrow appear, then stirs it in.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I'll definitely get first place. And who knows? I might even win me a Noble Peacie Prize...

''{"slight discoloration" and another arrow appears next to the juice, and "slightly disgusting" appears with yet another arrow pointing at the jar of coffee.}''

''{Cut to view of Strong Bad and Strong Sad in the basement. Strong Bad is holding a legal pad, in which he makes periodic notes. One of Strong Sad's eyes is open unnaturally wide, and he holds his hands high above his head. His fingers twitch frequently, and some erratic and discordant music plays in the background.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' So Strong Sad, tell me, how do you feel?

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{speaking very quickly and clapping his hands together over his head}'' I feel great! I feel great! I feel great! ''{facing his head to the left}'' I feel bad. ''{facing head back right}'' I don't even watch football! I don't even watch football! ''{facing head left again}'' I can't remember my legs!

''{Cut to Strong Sad following an annoyed The Cheat on hands and knees. Strong Bad is in the background, watching and taking notes.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Hey The Cheat! Listen up! Widdlywiddlywill! What did I say? What did I just say? Did I say anything? What about this one: hoo hee haw whadiawah! Did that mean anything? ''{Strong Bad voice-over begins}'' Did I offend you? I hope I didn't offend you.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voice-over}'' After being exposed to my control Cheat, subject started acting ''way'' creepier than normal...like, even for Strong Sad.

''{Cut to Marzipan's house, where she is trying to paint with Strong Sad next to her. We see Strong Bad in the foreground making more observations and taking more notes.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Mar-zi-pan, Mar-zi-pan! What do you wanna make? You wanna make some wood-davers with me? I got pine cones! I got peanut butter! I got everything we need! I said pine cones! Pine cones! Gonna be successful! Gonna be phenomenally successful! Sell 'em at the corner store! Sell 'em at the five and dime! Marzipan, you gotta get on the train, get on the wood-davers train! Here goes the wood-davers train! It's takin' off! It's a new century! ''{Marzipan walks away and Strong Bad voice-over begins}'' I can't remember cereal, I can't remember TV. Is it football season yet? I'll run you over in football, run you down the field like a clown!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voice-over}'' The subject's condition continued to deteriorate, and he began making up arts and crafts activities. Like wood-davers.

''{Cut to Strong Bad's basement. Strong Mad is sitting on the couch, and Strong Sad is hanging upside-down from the ceiling.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' GET DOWN.

'''STRONG SAD:''' No!

'''STRONG MAD:''' GET DOWN!

'''STRONG SAD:''' No, no... Parakeet.

'''STRONG MAD:''' ''{backing up for space in disbelief, and very clearly}'' Did you just say "parakeet"?

''{Cut to a field with Strong Sad and Coach Z. Strong Sad alternates bouncing on his left and right legs. Strong Bad is in the background making notes and observations again.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' In the final stages, subject became: ''{The following words come up on the screen in Tandy text as Strong Bad says them}'' Erratic, violent, and Really Funny to Watch.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{slapping Coach Z in the face}'' Hey Coach Z! Hey Coach Z! Whaddaya got? Whaddaya got for me? How about that? Wanna play some soccer? ''{while Coach Z is speaking}'' Some hockeyjock? I got whatever it takes! Hey, ya want some salad? Pasta salad? Tuna salad? Fruit salad?

'''COACH Z:''' Woo! Woo! Cut that out! Don't hurt me! I don't wanna die! I'm just an old man— ''{Strong Sad steals Coach Z's hat after it falls to the ground}'' Ooh! Ooh!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Fruit salad! Fruit salad! Fruit salad! ''{Slowing down}'' Salad... ''{powering-down sound}'' ...Salad as a rock? Um... Coach Z, what are we doin' here?

'''COACH Z:''' You was tryin' to jank me!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Feelin' woozy...

''{Strong Sad falls on his back. Coach Z's hat lands on his stomach. Cut to the All-Wide Science Fair auditorium stage, where a picture of Strong Sad on his back is shown on Strong Bad's easel under the caption "Results:".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' At this point, the test subject...was dead. ''{Gasp from the audience}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{Offscreen}'' I was not dead!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...Shut up. And all of this data could only bring us to one conclusion: ...Strong Sad's adopted. ''{another gasp with quiet murmurs from the audience}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{Offscreen}'' That's not true either!

''{[[The Paper]] comes down as a close up of Strong Bad's project is shown.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*At the end of the email, click on the various pictures on the right side of Strong Bad's science project board to see some of his car sketches.
:*Top notecard: "Jalopy"
:*Middle [[Sticky Note]]: "Shark-mobile, can it work?"
:*Bottom Looseleaf: "The Fast"
*Also at the end, hold down the left mouse button over the paper in the folder on the left side to see Strong Bad's original project, The Effects of Gasoline on Fire. The left side reads:
<blockquote>about the 
author: 
strong bad 
has at least 
fifteen 
bucks in his 
wallet right 
now. bet 
that's more 
than you, 
poor person.</blockquote>

The right side, which is on fire, reads:

<blockquote>somebody 
should 
probably 
be keeping 
an eye on 
this. </blockquote>

*Finally at the end, move your mouse to the right side of the screen to find an arrow which you can click on to see Homestar Runner's project. It is blank except for the words "AWW MAN. IT MELTED." and a puddle on the table.
:*Click on the puddle and you'll see Homestar explain his project.
::'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' For my project, I opted to use more social studies...a-than science.
::'''CROWD:''' Yes, I see! Impressive! ''{miscellaneous chatter}''

== Fun Facts ==

===Explanations===
*"Cut of your jib" is an old sailors' phrase, used to describe the expression on one's face, or the appearance of a ship from afar (the shape of the foresail, or "cut of the jib", described a ship's character). [http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/255/1168/19836/1/frameset.html]
*Strong Bad's "Noble Peacie Prize" refers to the [[Wikipedia:Nobel Foundation|Nobel Foundation's]] [[Wikipedia:Nobel Peace Prize|Peace Prize]].
*A [[wikipedia:Five and dime|five and dime]] was a type of store popular in the mid-1900s originally selling items such as candy and small toys. Most items sold at these stores were fifteen cents each.
*Strong Bad refers to the Cheat as "my control Cheat", a reference to [[Wikipedia:Treatment and control groups|control groups]] in scientific experiments. Oddly (but unsurprisingly), the "experiment" on Strong Sad appears to lack an actual control group.

===Trivia===
*With the exception of the Halloween toons, this is the first time [[Coach Z]] is seen without his hat on.
*Two versions of this were put up on the site. The first, which can be viewed on a mirror [http://www.homestarrunner.kitkorp.com/sbemail91.html here] has Coach Z saying "I'm just a crazy old man!" while being slapped. However, [[HR:sbemail91.html|the version currently on the site]] has him saying "I'm just an old man!" The reason for this change is unknown.
*This is the first instance of [[Hyperactive Strong Sad]].
*The "All-Wide Science Fair" sign is printed on fan-fold paper, possibly from the same printer as [[The Paper]].
*In Strong Bad's Science Project display board, the sheet of paper in the pocket under the words "What's a [[Wood-daver]]?" reads:
<blockquote>Strong Bad's
Science Fair Project
(not "The Effects of
Gasoline on Fire" again)</blockquote>
*The summary on the Podstar Runner RSS feed for this video says "Strong Sad gets caffeinated."
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "See what happens when Strong Sad is given caffeine! It's the most understandable Strong Mad has ever been!"

===Remarks===
[[Image:2mss.PNG|thumb|Is this better or worse than 3 noses?]]
*Strong Bad says "coming in at [[Email Number References|number 91]]" at the beginning of the email. In the email [[flashback]], he says he lost count of his emails somewhere around #51.
*The sound of Strong Sad coming down from his caffeine 'high' is the same sound used in [[gimmicks]] when Strong Bad's Tandy 400 shut down and was about to explode.
*Strong Sad's bulging eye is an upside-down copy of [[Bubs]]'s smaller eye.
*Strong Bad says "my control Cheat", a rare use of The Cheat's name without an [[integral article]].
*When looking at Homestar's project, you can find an invisible "back" button by pressing Tab.
*Strong Bad pronounces the emailer's town as "mur-FREES-bro", while the Tennessee city is actually pronounced "MUR-frees-bo-ro".
*The Easter eggs at the end of the email require holding down the left mouse button and not moving the mouse.
*Strong Sad is moving so erratically, he has two mouths to add to the illusion after Marzipan walks away.
*Strong Bad says his experiment might win a "noble peacie prize" (a reference to the Nobel Peace Prize), despite the fact that the experiment's focus is in the [[Wikipedia:Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] category.

===Goofs===
*When Strong Bad types 'in addition to', the D's overlap the A and each other.
*When Strong Sad passes out, Coach Z's hat is doubled for a single frame.

===Inside References===
*"Hockeyjock" is likely a reference to [[personal favorites]].
*Strong Bad says his science fair project was originally going to be "the effects of [[gasoline]] on [[fire]]".
*Strong Sad tells Marzipan he's boarding the [[wood-daver]] [[train]].
*Despite Strong Sad's protests, Strong Bad claims that [[Death#Strong Sad|Strong Sad is dead]] (and adopted).

===Real-World References===
*When reading "TN" Strong Bad says "''Tekken''" instead of "Tennessee". ''[[Wikipedia:Tekken|Tekken]]'' is a popular fighting game by [[Namco]].
*The "shark-mobile" may be a reference to an old [[Wikipedia:Hot Wheels|Hot Wheels]] car called [http://hotwheels.wikia.com/wiki/Sharkruiser "The Sharkruiser."]
*Ironically, [[Wikipedia:Sanka|Sanka]] was the world's first brand of ''decaffeinated'' coffee. Invented in 1903, Sanka was first marketed in the United States in 1923.
*The cadence in Strong Sad's wood-davers speech ("Sell 'em at the corner stores! Sell 'em at the five-and-dime!") may have been inspired by the opening number in the musical ''[[Wikipedia:The Music Man|The Music Man]]''.

===Fast Forward===
*The shark-mobile would be referenced in the [[Weekly Fanstuff 2005#WF-2005-04-21|April 21, 2005 Weekly Fanstuff]].

== DVD Version ==
*All of the Easter eggs are intact, but have been condensed down into two Easter eggs.
**The first DVD Easter egg (found via the hidden Strong Bad Icon to the left of the Project Title) features a peek at what Strong Bad's original project was, closeups of all three of the "cool cars," '''and''' a closeup of the paper in the folder. Plus, the fire from the original project burns a corner off The Paper and also a fire crackling sound effect is added.
**The second DVD Easter egg (found via the hidden Strong Bad Icon to the right of the Project Title) combines Homestar's Project and his comments on it.
{{c|email=true}} This commentary is only available on the [[Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD]].

=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Strong Sad]], Mike's Strong Sad, [[Mike Chapman]])

'''STRONG SAD:''' I'm going to attempt to help you out on this one, Mike.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' Ohh, thank you, Strong Sad.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, I don't like it when you do that, Mike.

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' I can do you pretty good, though.

'''STRONG SAD:''' No, you can't, —

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' It's—

'''STRONG SAD:''' —you don't sound a thing like—

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' I dooo!

'''STRONG SAD:''' You do not!

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' I do tooo!

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Ohhh...sorry, Strong Sad.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{overlapping}'' I'm not—I'm not Canadian!

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' ''{sounding mock-Canadian}'' Ohh, boot a booot!

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{quietly}'' What?

'''MIKE'S STRONG SAD:''' I'm gonna tell you a story aboot a boooot!

'''STRONG SAD:''' That is...not very a—accurate.

'''MIKE:''' Um...so, Strong Sad.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{in response to Strong Bad}'' Tom Waits is always singin' about Murfreesboro.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah? That's in...Tennessee, right?

'''STRONG SAD:''' Yeah. He's like, ''{somewhat nonsense, in a very gravelly voice}'' I said on grine goal, and so me saaay.

'''MIKE:''' Well you didn't—

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{underneath}'' That's my—

'''MIKE:''' —say anything about Murfreesboro!

'''STRONG SAD:''' That's my Tom Waits impression.

'''MIKE:''' But you said he was all the time singin' about Murfreesboro.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Mike, the thing that I don't understand ''{Mike laughs, likely at Strong Sad's attempt to change the subject}'' is that Sanka...is... ''{he laughs the tiniest bit at Mike}'' a non-caffeinated, non-coffee pro-duct.

'''MIKE:''' I don't think we knew that. I sin—certainly didn't know that.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{the email Strong Sad is talking to The Cheat}'' Well, I—look, it seems to have had quite an effect on me!

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' Yeah, it does!

'''STRONG SAD:''' I lost four...days!

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' You just don't remember?

'''STRONG SAD:''' No! I...sat down...

'''MIKE:''' Uh-huh.

'''STRONG SAD:''' —...to sit in silence...for four days...

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' Uh-huh?

'''STRONG SAD:''' ...as I usually do every four days...and the next thing I know, I—the silence was over! I had missed the four days!

'''MIKE:''' What do you usually remember when you sit there for four days? Do you remember the whole thing?

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{overlapping}'' Ohh, sometimes there's quiet...

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' Uh-huh?

'''STRONG SAD:''' Periods of...uh...sebaceousness.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Uh, I'm not familiar with that word.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Other peri—periods of lethargy...apathy...''{email Strong Sad hangs from the ceiling}'' You think I used those boots? Moon Boots?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, the kind— er, the, uh, Hang-'Em-Up—Hang-'Em-Upside-Downs? 

'''STRONG SAD:''' Yeah!

'''MIKE:''' That, uh...

'''STRONG SAD:''' Are those Moon Boots?

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' I dunno!

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{chuckling slightly}'' Or are Moon Boots, like, breakdancing boots?

'''MIKE:''' ''{Strong Sad has began smacking Coach Z in the field}'' Look at that! We got two layers of bushes back there, Strong Sad.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Things had really overgrown!

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' Yeah! Strong Mad forgot to mow that week.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Or Marzipan with her new hedge shears.

'''MIKE:''' I don't remember Coach Z without his hat on there.

'''STRONG SAD:''' He looks...I don't like the way he looks. He looks like a mannequin. ''{Mike snickers, pause} {in response to Coach Z}'' I was not trying to jank him!

'''MIKE:''' What ''were'' you trying to do?

'''STRONG SAD:''' I was w—trying to beat the crap out of him! ''{Mike laughs, Matt tries to hold back laughter}'' Look at those...the silhouettes of those people.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' Yeah, who is that?

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{overlapping}'' Those are some...shapely folks.

'''MIKE:''' The guy on the left, is he wearin' a hat?

'''STRONG SAD:''' I don't know! ''{the Paper comes down}'' Ooh! I said science again!

{{dvdproofread}}

=== Fun Facts ===
*[[Wikipedia:Tom Waits|Tom Waits]] is an American singer-songwriter well-known for his incredibly gravelly voice, as Strong Sad demonstrates. Waits' voice has been described by one critic as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." His 1999 song "Pony" mentions Murfreesboro.
*[[Wikipedia:Sebaceous glands|Sebaceousness]] is the noun form of an adjective referring to sebum, an oily secretion which lubricates the skin and hair of mammals such as humans and, presumably, Homestar Runner characters. What it has to do with four days of silence is unclear, though it's possible that Matt, as Strong Sad, simply wanted to use a long and funny-sounding word.
*[[Wikipedia:Moon Boots|Moon Boots]] are a brand of Italian ski boots. It seems more likely that Strong Sad was referring to [[Wikipedia:Gravity boots|Gravity boots]], a type of leg shackles on a frame that allow a person to hang upside-down for extended periods.
*Strong Sad's mention of Marzipan's hedge shears seems to be referring to an item in [[Homestar Ruiner]].
*Strong Sad quotes a Homestar line from [[stupid stuff]] ("I said science again!").

== External Links ==
{{preforumsbemailextlinks|91|youtube=zKghH10WTB4}}
{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Podstar Runner]]

colonization

2021-07-02T23:32:13Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}
[[Image:sbemail90.png|thumb|"This'll grow ya some nice fishcorn bushes!"]]

Strong Bad is asked if he celebrates Thanksgiving like everyone else. He then shows a [[History According to Strong Bad|history]] book about the colonization of [[Strong Badia]].

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Bubs}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]], [[Strong Badia]]

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Tuesday, November 25, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 1:57

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' E''mail'' me don't e''mail'' me, e''mail'' me don't e''mail'' me. ''{He pulls up the email and reads it aloud.}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hi Strong Bad! 
 
Do you celebrate thanksgiving 
normally? Or do you have special 
traditions for when Strong Badia was 
first colonized? What's the story 
about? 
 
From your Buddy, 
Shana Ma. 
Los Angeles, CA</blockquote>
''{Strong Bad reads "Shana Ma." as one word (Shanama). He also pronounces "Los Angeles" with a hard "g".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Oh, Shanama, the story of the colonization of Strong Badia is a tale as old as, say, the wireless Web ''{pause}'' or energy drinks maybe. It began in a period of strife...

''{Cut to a shot of an old book on a wooden table. It is open and pictures Strong Bad, in a pilgrim hat, squirting ketchup onto a plate of eggs, next to Strong Sad in a wig and typical 17th-century clothing.}''

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{voiceover}'' ...when I was being persecuted for my beliefs.

'''STRONG SAD''': ''{voiceover}'' Ewwww! Ketchup on eggs?!?

''{A caption reading "Ewwww! Ketchup on Eggs?!?" appears beneath the picture. The page turns to show Strong Bad reading the newspaper and seeing an ad saying "LOT FOR SALE!" along with a page saying "Homestar declares eggs not a fruit."}''

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{voiceover}'' I learned of a place where a man can be free. Free to do what he wants to do. Free to ketchup his eggs without being hassled by the man.

''{The page turns to show Strong Bad and The Cheat, also wearing a pilgrim hat, traveling across Free Country, USA, Strong Bad carrying a musket and eating a sandwich and The Cheat dragging a bag along behind him. A caption along the bottom reads "The Three Stout Sub Sandwiches: The Ham 'n' Swiss, The Dijon Chicken and the Veggie Delux."}''

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{voiceover}'' So I set sail with three stout sub sandwiches, and my best The Cheat to find this mystical land.

''{The page turns to show the two of them meeting Bubs, who is waving at them, wearing a Sioux-style feather headband and wearing a loincloth.}''

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{voiceover}'' I met a strange man who had strange ways and strange odors.

''{The page turns to show Strong Badia in front of a glorious sunrise, above a caption reading "The Neu Wirlde."}''

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{voiceover}'' And he led me to the new world, out beyond the dumpsters.

''{The page turns to show the Tire falling onto The Cheat, whose hat is sent flying from his head.}''

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{voiceover}'' There was a brief struggle with the indigenous peoples.

''{The page turns to show Strong Bad handing Bubs the rent check.}''

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{voiceover}'' At last, we reached an agreement to peacefully co-exist in this land, after I gave him my first and last months' rent deposit.

''{The page turns to show a ploughed field where Bubs is planting a fish. Strong Bad is looking at him, holding a fish and a corn cob in his hand.}''

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{voiceover}'' Then the strange man probably showed me how to put fish in the ground with corn, for some reason.

'''BUBS''': ''{voiceover}'' This'll grow ya some nice fishcorn bushes!

''{A caption reading "This'll grow ya some nice fishcorn bushes" appears at the bottom of the page. The page turns to show Bubs, The Cheat and Strong Bad sitting at a picnic table in Strong Badia, feasting on fast food.}''

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{voiceover}'' Then we celebrated with a feast of some cold Hardee's he had lying around.

''{Cut back to the Compy.}''

'''STRONG BAD''': ''{typing}'' So there you have it, Shana... Shanamana... ''{singing}'' Shanamanamanamanamana tonight! That shoulda been in your history books at school. I gotta get on those people over at Hoofton Mifflin. Those guys are slackin off. ''{stops typing}'' Okay, so until next week, leave me alone!

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*After the email is over, click the first part of the word Shanamanamanamanamana and Strong Bad will "Shanama" into some songs.
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing to the tune of "[[Wikipedia:O Canada|O Canada]]", though missing the final note}'' O Shanama... Do do doot doot doot doo... ''{stops singing}'' What else is there? Shana... Shanamatopoeia. Ooh, how 'bout this? ''{singing to the tune of "[[wikipedia:Panama (song)|Panama]]" by [[Van Halen]]}'' Shanama! Shanama ho ho ho huh ho! ''{on each "ho", his head changes position}''
*Also at the end, click on the words "history books" to hear Homestar Runner address the imaginary masses.
:''{Cut to a page in a history book with a drawing of Homestar, dressed in Colonial American attire (with powdered wig), with text below it reading "Homestar Runner addresses the imaginary masses." There is cheering.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' A-hem. From this day forward, I hereby declare eggs... not to be... a fruit!
:''{More cheering.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yes, yes, quiet down. And furthermore, no longer shall dirty diapers be accepted as legal tender!
:''{More cheering.}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hang on, I got one more. Henceforth, those named Henry will no longer be allowed to call themselves Hank. That's just too much of a stretch.
:''{More cheering. Homestar smiles.}''

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*"Shanamatopoeia" is a play on the literary term "[[onomatopoeia]]", defined as a word that sounds like what it represents, such as "sizzle", "pop", or even "[[preeeeow]]".
*The Native Americans taught the Pilgrims that planting fish with corn would help fertilize the soil.
===Trivia===
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad describes the colonization of Strong Badia like a politically incorrect 1980's third grade american history book might."

===Remarks===
*According to the later email [[monument]], the [[Stop Sign]] and [[Cinder Block]] make up a monument of Strong Bad's right foot. However, they are shown in this email as being part of the area when Strong Bad bought it from Bubs.
*In this email, it is shown that Bubs owns Strong Badia (which is located behind the dumpsters), and Strong Bad just rents it from him. This fact may explain why Strong Bad said "Maybe get a little place in Strong Badia" in [[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]].
**Despite this, it says in the [[Periodicals|Bubsifieds]] that there is a lot for sale.

===Goofs===
*When Homestar blinks his eyes in his Easter egg, they are much darker rather than the sepia tone in which the rest of the picture is displayed.

===Inside References===
*The background music during Strong Bad telling the history of Strong Badia is an expanded version of the background music in the beginning of [[Tis True, Pom Pom, Tis True]].
*The crowd cheers in the second Easter egg are from [[A Decemberween Pageant]] and [[Marshmallow's Last Stand]].
*Strong Badia was originally established as being "out behind the dumpsters" in [[i rule]].
*One of the subs Strong Bad ate while traveling to Strong Badia was titled "The [[French|Dijon]] [[Chicken]]".
*Strong Bad believes himself persecuted for putting [[ketchup]] on his [[eggs]].

===Real-World References===
*The entire story is based on the historical accounts of the [[Wikipedia:Pilgrims|Pilgrims]] founding the [[Wikipedia:Plymouth Colony|Plymouth Colony]], after they were persecuted for their religious beliefs in [[Wikipedia:England|England]]. Bubs's Native American character is probably based on [[Wikipedia:Squanto|Tisquantum]], better known as Squanto, who, among other things, taught the Pilgrims to fertilize their crops.
**Although the story is mainly based upon the Pilgrims, the "Three Stout Sub Sandwiches" most likely reference the [[Wikipedia:Niña|Niña]], the [[Wikipedia:Pinta|Pinta]], and the [[Wikipedia:Santa María (ship)|Santa María]], the three ships used by [[Wikipedia:Christopher Columbus|Christopher Columbus]] to travel across the Atlantic Ocean and discover the New World.
*Homestar declaring [[eggs]] not to be a fruit may be a reference to the famous 1893 Supreme Court decision ([[Wikipedia:Nix v. Hedden|Nix v. Hedden]]) that [[Wikipedia:Tomato#Fruit versus vegetable|tomatoes were not fruit]].
*"Hoofton Mifflin" is a misspelling (and mispronunciation) of scholastic publisher [[Wikipedia:Houghton Mifflin|Houghton Mifflin]].
**Houghton Mifflin is correctly pronounced HOE-ton MIF-lin.
*[[Wikipedia:Hardee's|Hardee's]] is a fast-food chain primarily [http://cke.know-where.com/hardees/ located] in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States. It is known as Carl's Jr. elsewhere in the US.
*Strong Bad saying "Free to do what he wants to do. Free to ketchup his eggs without being hassled by the man." is a reference to the movie ''[[IMDB:tt0061189|The Wild Angels]]'', in which Peter Fonda says "We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. We wanna be free to ride. We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man!".

===Fast Forward===
*Homestar has a brief scene as a founding father in [[Hremail 62]].
*A hand drawing of Homestar in his founding father attire is seen in lieu of stamps on Dangeresque's mail in [[Decemberween Dangeresque]].

==DVD Version==
*The Easter egg of Strong Bad singing about Shana's name can be accessed by selecting the hidden Strong Bad logo at the top right of the Compy screen after the video is over.
*The Easter egg of the Homestar in the history book giving a speech can be accessed by selecting the hidden Strong Bad logo at the bottom left of the Compy screen after the video is over.

== External Links ==
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{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Thanksgiving]]

couch patch

2021-06-30T23:14:25Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}
[[Image:sbemail88.png|thumb|Teddy Graham Memories]]

"Your pal" asks Strong Bad about the history ''behiend'' the patch on his couch.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}} (as [[Has Matt?]]), {{Film|Strong Sad}}, [[Lil' Strong Bad]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|The Cheat}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]]

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, November 10, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 3:01

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}

==Transcript==

'''STRONG BAD:''' I'm going to try something a little different. ''{typing}'' print out million dollar bill.exe

''{The computer responds with "Bad command or file name"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{not typing}'' What? Oh. ''{typing}'' no for real, print me out a million dollar bill, man.exe

''{The computer responds with "Syntax error."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' um, this time really print me out a million dollars bill.nofoolin'

''{The computer responds with "Cut it out, you."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{not typing}'' What the—! Don't give me none of that crosstalk! Oh well, it was worth a shot. Now on to... ''{sighs}'' on to the email.

''{Strong Bad hits enter, types "strongbad_email.exe", and hits enter again}''

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">is there a story behiend the patch 
on the couch? if so, do tell! 
 
form, 
your pal</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pronounces "behiend" as "buh-HEEND"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ooh, my pal! ''{typing}'' Well, Palbert, it's a good story. And now you all have to hear it.

''{Cut to a flashback of Strong Bad in the basement with a sack, acting mysterious.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Seems I was looking for a place to hide all my Aztec gold. But when I made the first incision, not only did I realize that I don't have any Aztec gold,—

''{The bag falls open to reveal it was full of oil filters}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —but I unleashed a stench of biblical proportions.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad in front of the computer}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' They had to call in a hazmat team just to hose me hose me hose me ''{typed then deleted, typed then deleted, then typed}'' down!

''{Cut to The Poopsmith, wearing a [[Wikipedia:HAZMAT|HAZMAT]] suit labeled "Has Matt?", hosing down a screaming Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I had to spend a fortune on Glade plugins.

''{Cut to Strong Sad standing next to Strong Bad at the computer.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Now wait a second! That's not how ''I'' remember it.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, and I'm sure every loser out there wants to hear your loser opinions, loser.

'''STRONG SAD:''' They do!

''{Cut to a flashback of a young Strong Bad in the basement}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' I seem to remember a young Strong Bad thinking that Olympic sprinter Carl Lewis was a woman. And that he was hot!

''{Lil' Strong Bad writes "Strong Bad LUVS Carla Lewis!! and thinks shes hott!!" with a Sharpie on the couch.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That is entirely untrue.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Lies! All lies!

''{Cut to Homestar standing behind Strong Bad.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Clearly I'm the only one who remembers how it all went down.

''{Cut to a flashback of Homestar laying on the couch in the basement. The couch clearly has the patch already on it. Homestar spits Teddy Grahams.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{voiceover}'' It was not so long ago that I was in Strong Bad's basement spitting Teddy Grahams all over the place. One of them got stuck to the ceiling.

''{A Teddy Graham sticks to the ceiling. Homestar spits another up at it repeatedly, trying to dislodge it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Homestar, shut up! This is about that patch on the couch. It's clearly already on there in your flashback.

''{Cut back to the two Brothers Strong and Homestar at the computer}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, oh, ohhhhh. I thought this week's email was entitled "Teddy Graham Memories".

''{Cut to shadowed "This guy's voice has been digitally altered" interview session}''

'''MYSTERIOUS PERSON:''' ''{Clearly Coach Z, with his voice digitally lowered}'' No, no. I got the ''real'' scoop. Strong Bad had me over for gumbo one night, and I don't know what kind of doodoo meat he was using in there, but I had to puke! So I went downstairs...

''{Cut to flashback of Coach Z's shadow in the basement}''

'''COACH Z:''' ''{voiceover}'' ...and I noticed this little rip in the couch, so I puked in it!

''{Coach Z's shadow pukes in the couch. Cut back to interview session}''

'''COACH Z:''' ''{voiceover}'' I... I'm sorry for what I done!

''{Cut back to Strong Bad in front of the computer}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I liked that gumbo! I didn't use no doodoo meat. ''{shaking fist}'' If I ever find out who that guy is... Well, palbert, there's your answer. Me? I'm gonna go over there.

''{Strong Bad starts to get up from his seat, but sits down again.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{not typing}'' Oh wait! ''{types "make homestar's head explode.exe"}''

''{The computer responds with "No can do." The scene cuts to the back to reveal Strong Sad and Homestar again}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' No can do.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh crap! This computer is worthless.

''{Cut back to just Strong Bad and the computer. Strong Bad now gets up and leaves. [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:Million dollar bill.PNG|thumb|print million dollar bill, please.exe]]
*At the end, you can click on a hidden "print million dollar bill, please.exe" at the bottom to print an [[ASCII art]] million dollar bill from The Paper. This is more easily seen if you use the contrast knob to make the background blue. You can click on the million dollar bill once it has printed out to make it go away.
*At the end you can click on the "make homestars head explode.exe" link to cut to a short of Homestar, again spitting Teddy Grahams all over the basement.
:''{cut back to the basement. Homestar is lying on the couch spitting Teddy Grahams all over again, with The Cheat standing nearby. After a few seconds, The Cheat's head explodes}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Dang, The Cheat. That computer's got something against you. Did you ever, like, pour Mountain Dew all over it?

==Fun Facts==

===Explanations===
*[[Wikipedia:Hazmat|Hazmat]] means "Hazardous Material". A Hazmat team, usually associated with fire or other public safety departments, is a group of people specially trained to clean up any hazardous material spills.
*[[Wikipedia:Gumbo|Gumbo]] is a thick soup from Louisiana containing meats and vegetables (primarily okra) and often served over rice.
*[[Wikipedia:Crosstalk (electronics)|Crosstalk]] is any phenomenon by which a signal transmitted on one circuit or channel of a transmission system creates an undesired effect in another circuit or channel.

===Trivia===
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#old game|old game]]".
*This is the first time that The Cheat's eyes are not seen after his [[The Cheat's Head Exploding|head explodes]].
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "The origin story of the duct-tape patch on Strong Bad's couch is finally told! Everyone wanted to know!"

===Remarks===
*The "print out million dollar bill please.exe" Easter egg remains black if the contrast knob is adjusted and will disappear when clicked.
*There has never actually been a $1,000,000 bill. The highest currency ever printed by the U.S. Mint was a [[Wikipedia:Large denominations of United States currency|$100,000 bill]] in 1934 depicting Woodrow Wilson. It was only used among Federal Reserve Banks and was never made available for use by the general public.
*Aside from being able to type with boxing gloves on, Strong Bad appears to be able to type just as quickly with one hand as he can with two.
*The first time Strong Bad says "Palbert", it is capitalized, but the second time, it isn't.
*This email contains two [[fourth wall break]]s: Strong Bad saying "Homestar, shut up! This is about that patch on the couch. It's clearly already on there in your flashback," and Homestar remarking "I thought this week's email was entitled 'Teddy Graham Memories'."

===Goofs===
*During Homestar's flashback, one of the spots of ceiling texture twitches and moves with the flashing of the ceiling light.
*When Coach Z's [[Silhouettes|silhouetted]] figure is speaking, a tiny gap appears on the bill of his cap when his head moves.
*When The Paper comes down in the Easter egg, there is a line jutting out on the left side of it.
*When Strong Bad puts his hand up to the screen at the end of the email in response to Coach Z, its reflection cannot be seen on the screen.
*In Homestar's Easter egg, The Cheat's right arm is missing.
*After The Cheat's head explodes, a small black line of his hair can be seen on the back of his head.
*When Homestar says, "No can do," he doesn't make a regular "O" mouth movement.
*In the Strong Sad flashback where Lil' Strong Bad is writing on the couch, the text on the [[permanent marker]] (reading "MARKER fine tip permanent") is mirrored.

===Inside References===
*In the "make homestars head explode.exe" Easter egg, Homestar Runner asks The Cheat, "Did you ever like, pour [[Mountain Dew]] all over it?", referring to the email [[anything]], in which Homestar Runner poured Mountain Dew all over Strong Bad's computer.
*The knife Strong Bad uses to cut open the couch is similar to the [[Big Knives]] of other Strong Bad Emails.

===Real-World References===
*[[Wikipedia:Glade (brand)#Plug-Ins|Glade PlugIns]] are scented air fresheners that plug into electrical wall sockets.
*Little Strong Bad is wearing a shirt featuring a rather well known advertisement for [[Wikipedia:Rock City (attraction)|"Rock City"]], a tourist attraction in Georgia, near Chattanooga, Tennessee.
*[[Wikipedia:Carl Lewis|Carl Lewis]] was an Olympic sprinter active during the 1980s and early 1990s. His sister [[Wikipedia:Carol Lewis|Carol]] was an Olympic long jumper.
*[[Teddy Grahams]] are any of a number of bear-shaped cookies produced by [[Wikipedia:Nabisco|Nabisco]].
*When Coach Z is silhouetted and his voice is altered, it is a reference to shows like [[Wikipedia:America's Most Wanted|''America's Most Wanted'']], where a witness wants to keep their identity safe. (i.e. Witness X)
*The various characters telling markedly different versions of the same story may be inspired by the Japanese film [[Wikipedia:Rashomon|Rashomon]].

===Fast Forward===
*Coach Z is silhouetted and has his voice digitally altered again in one of the [[myths & legends]] Easter eggs.
*Strong Bad again speaks in triplicate when he asks [[The Baloneyman]] what will "cool me cool me cool me down".

==DVD Version==
*The head explode Easter egg can be viewed by selecting the hidden Strong Bad logo at the bottom left of the Compy's screen at the end of the video.
*The million dollar bill Easter egg can be viewed by selecting the hidden Strong Bad logo at the bottom right of the Compy's screen at the end of the video.

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|88|youtube=K-lM073r7DY}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]

Computer Room

2021-06-28T01:48:06Z

24.253.236.202:

[[Image:ComputerRoomFull.PNG|thumb|Full view of the computer room]]

The '''computer room''' is where [[Strong Bad]] answers most of his [[Strong Bad Email|emails]]. It contains his current computer (the [[Lappier]]) and a [[floppy disk container]] resting on the table, and the [[Stooly|stool]] he sits on. The desk appears to be some way from the wall as shown in most emails by the computer's shadow. Under the table is a power outlet where previous computers were plugged in, as well as an [[extra plug]] for additional electronics. Strong Bad once tried plugging a pair of [['Lectric Boots]] into this outlet, which consequently caused a power outage.

Strong Bad answered emails here until [[hremail 3184]], when he deliberately [[Explosions|blew up]] the [[Lappy 486]], but he answered four emails elsewhere ([[the bird]], [[weird dream]], [[part-time job]], and [[from work]]). Strong Bad answered [[imaginary]] on the [[Corpy NT6]] in [[Basement of the Brothers Strong|his basement]], then went back to answering emails in the computer room when he got the Compé in [[Compy Catalog]]. Strong Bad still used Stooly while in his basement.

On the far right side of the room, there is a window with an old sycamore tree outside. When the branches rub the window, it seems to say "[[Douglas]]." In [[pop-up]], the ceiling of the computer room is shown to have recessed lighting, a fact which was previously stated in [[different town]]. Another custom feature of this room is the [[The Cheat's Lightswitch|special light switch]] set just the right height for [[The Cheat]]. Strangely, the area beneath the light switches has no carpet. [[Mike Chapman]] makes fun of this oversight in the DVD commentary for [[techno]], saying, "The Strong house has problems."

[[Strong Sad]] turned this room into his [[Wikipedia:Tai Chi Chuan|Tai Chi]] space while [[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon|Strong Bad was in jail]]. Also, in [[no loafing]], a picture of the computer room from [[1987]] is shown. The room sported an orange carpet and tacky wallpaper featuring pears and flowers. The wallpaper has since been stripped down and the walls painted blue, but the carpet remains, though it is now faded and unkempt. Also, as shown in the pictures above and to the right, some of it has apparently been removed from the room.

The [[No Loafing sign]] hangs on the wall above the table, but it occasionally moves to different places on the wall. In most emails, it was shown to be to the right of the computer, while in [[no loafing]], it was shown to be to the far left. After the [[Tandy 400]]'s explosion in [[gimmicks]], Strong Bad passes 3 windows and 4 doors in midair, before crashing into [[Strong Sad's room]]. However, in [[little animal]], [[Strong Mad]] chases Strong bad in a circle, and only one door and one window are seen.

In [[montage]], the montage about The Cheat and the [[Wagon Fulla Pancakes]] shows the two in a room with the same walls and carpet as the computer room. In this shot, a window and door are visible and the wagon is sitting in a green recliner with a footrest. It is a bit confusing, though, where the door is. In some Strong Bad Emails, such as [[email thunder]], the door is on the right. But in some other emails, as well as [[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]], the door is on the left.

The Computer Room's [[Old-Timey]] counterpart is [[Old-Timey Strong Bad]]'s [[Telegraph Room]].

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:No Loafing!.PNG|<center>In 1987, according to [[no loafing]]</center>
File:2001 computer room.png|<center>In 2001, according to [[Hremail 7]]</center>
File:Widescreen Computer Room.PNG|<center>With the [[Compy 386]]</center>
File:compecomputerroom.png|<center>With the [[Compé]]</center>
File:LappierComputerRoom.png|<center>With the [[Lappier]]</center>
</gallery>

==Appearances==
*All [[Strong Bad Email]]s except [[the bird]], [[weird dream]], [[part-time job]], [[from work]], and [[imaginary]]
*[[Arcade Game]]
*[[Puppet Time]]
*[[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]]
*[[Decemberween In July]] menu
*[[Sick Day]]
*[[Sbemail 150?!?]]
*[[DNA Evidence]]
*[[Happy Dethemberween]]
*[[The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck In His Craw]]
*[[Homestar Ruiner]]
*[[Strong Badia the Free]]
*[[Baddest of the Bands]]
*[[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]]
*[[8-Bit is Enough]]
*[[Best Caper Ever]]
*[[Sbemailiarized!]]
*[[April Fool 09]]
*[[Hremail 7]] (Easter egg)
*[[Loading Screens]]
*[[Compy Catalog]]
*[[Doomy Tales of the Macabre]]
*[[April Fool 2014]]
*[[The Next April Fools Thing]]
*[[The Homestar Runner Enters the Spooky Woods]] (Easter egg)
*[[Strong Bad's Disk 4 of 12]] series intro

[[Category:Rooms in the House of the Brothers Strong]]
[[Category:Strong Bad Email]]

no loafing

2021-06-28T01:42:02Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}

[[Image:sbemail86.png|thumb|"Get back to work!"]]

{{aboutemail}} {{for|sign|No Loafing Sign}}

Ryan asks Strong Bad about the "No Loafing" sign in Strong Bad's house, and where it went. He puts up inspirational [[Hanging Objects#From no loafing|posters]] to get everybody working.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}} (Easter egg)

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

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, October 6, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 1:54

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Driving down the strip in my cool cool car, checkin' all the emails out!

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hey Strong Bad! 
 
Whatever happened to that "No Loafing" 
sign you used to have? 
 
Ryan, CO</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads "CO" as "Co... colo-colorado."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, great question, stupid! Here's an answer. ''{typing}'' The year was 1987, not a very good year for productivity. And as a result, productivity was down something-eight percent.

''{A pie-chart, circa 1987, falls down displaying the productivity rating}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I realized things were gonna spiral out of control unless I gave them a little jumpstart. A sign that said—

''{A picture of Strong Bad standing by the sign appears}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —"No Loafing" was the answer. ''{clears screen, continues typing}'' But that was a long time ago. I suppose ol' Loafy might be losing his edge. Maybe I should put up some of those inspirational posters and stuff to get things back in gear. You know, the kinds that have ''{stops typing}'' like ''{resumes typing}'' whales or sunsets or windsurfers on em. And they say stuff about determination and giving a care.

''{Cut to the garage. Strong Bad walks in on Strong Mad and the Cheat sleeping under the "No Loafing" sign next to a beat-up muffler and a length of pipe. He has a bunch of posters under one arm.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You guys are pathetic.

'''STRONG MAD:''' Dah?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Have you forgotten what got us here?

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{questioning The Cheat noise}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No Loafing got us here!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{indifferent The Cheat noise}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Take a look at these bad boys and get back to work!

'''STRONG MAD:''' Dah!

''{Strong Bad begins posting the posters. The first one is a picture of a whale's tail sticking out of the clouds and it is captioned "Remember the 'tivities: Creativity; Productivity; Activity; Get Back To Work."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' This one's got like some kinda whale...in space...

''{He puts one up that has a picture of a windsurfer and the caption "Failure is not a four-letter word."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And this one talks about cussing...

'''STRONG BAD:''' And this one's incredibly inspirational...

''{He puts one up with a picture of a guy jumping out of the water and it's captioned "I HAVE FRIENDS! Keep working, little man"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...with the bursting waters...

''{He puts up a framed picture of a dog captioned "The Cheat, watch your freakin' back, Squeaky."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Here's one a-those hush puppies. They'll make you work for it.

''{He places a wood-burning with a horse on it on the wall. It is captioned "The loneliest goat sees the last sunset last..."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And this wood-burny thing's got some kinda old adage on it. About goats.

''{Strong Mad instantly leaps up with a yell. The Cheat tosses him the pipe, which he uses to smash the muffler.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Excellent! That-a way, boys! Chins up! Tifle down! And so on...

''{Strong Bad walks back to his computer}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well, whoever, I see I've gotten things back on track. Sounds like I deserve a three-hour lunch. I'ma head over to Bubs' for one of his 30-cent lunch specials.

''{Strong Bad puts a sticky note on the screen reading "out to lunch, then appointment, then something else" and leaves. [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:Bubs lunch special.PNG|thumb|Out to lunch]]
*At the very end you can click on "lunch specials" to see [[Bubs]]' lunch specials:
** 2 buffalo wing bones (hot)
** A cup of ice
** A half-eaten candy bar
*Also at the end you can click on the word "appointment" on the Post-It to see exactly what that appointment was.

:''{Cut to Strong Sad's room. Strong Sad is in bed.}''
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{jumping up and down on Strong Sad}'' I hate you. I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.
:'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Ooh! Ooh! Ow! Ooh! Oh!

== Fun Facts ==

===Trivia===
[[Image:No Loafing!.PNG|thumb|right|Ol' Loafy in the late-'80s.]]
*When the picture of Strong Bad pointing to the No Loafing sign in 1987 flashes up, the screen of the [[Tandy 400]] reads:
<blockquote class="tandy email" style="background-image:none">Dear Strong Bad, 
I like your wallpaper. 
 
-Mendelev</blockquote>
:The wallpaper shown is done in the style of a typical '80s home, complete with pears and two other angiosperm flowers.
*In an earlier version of this email, this spot contained the same screen seen in [[little animal]] right up until Strong Bad calls the Cheat over.
*The [[Charts|chart]] reads: Productivity 5%, Loafing 95%. Hence the sign.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad increases productivity something-eight percent with the help of some motivational wall hangings."

===Remarks===
*Strong Bad's arms are too short to reach the tops of the posters as he puts them up.
*Instead of being in its original place above the computer desk, the [[no loafing sign]] is in the top left-hand corner.

===Goofs===
[[Image:no loafing glitch.PNG|thumb|"Oh, check me out, it's my featureless head!"]]
*This email's loading screen is queued only to load itself, rather than the email as a whole. As a result, it never shows; Depending on the speed of the email loading, the viewer may instead get an image of Strong Bad's head without facial features in front of the Compy's disembodied screen as the other elements are being loaded.
*When the picture of Strong Bad in front of the Tandy comes up, the green lines on the Tandy are moving, even though it's supposed to be a photo.
*When Strong Mad takes hold of the pipe and his hand is up, he has five fingers. When his hand is down, he only has four.
*When Strong Bad puts up the poster with the bursting water, it is not covering the "NO LOAFING" sign; when the view zooms out, the poster seems to be covering the "NO LOAFING" sign.
*When Strong Bad turns around to leave the scene while Strong Mad is smashing the muffler, his legs disappear for a frame.

===Inside References===
*Strong Bad mentions the year [[1987]] for the second email in a row.
*Bubs's 30-cent lunch special ad features [[Real-Live Foods|live-action food]].

===Real-World References===
[[Image:no_loafing_Strong_Sad_poster.png|thumb|The Promise Ring]]
*The poster on Strong Sad's wall in the "appointment" Easter egg is of the emo band [[Wikipedia:The Promise Ring|The Promise Ring]].

===Fast Forward===
*[[Mendelev]], the wallpaper-admirer, turns out to become a character in [[Peasant's Quest]], much like [[Jhonka]] and [[Kerrek]].
*The [[Hanging Objects|poster]] of the whale's tail that says "Remember the 'Tivities:" is used later in the [[Puppet Stuff#Biz Cas Fri|Biz Cas Fri]] toons on Strong Bad's wall.
*Strong Bad would later try to get Bubs to give him a free lunch special in the [[lunch special|Strong Bad Email of the same name]].
*The No Loafing sign would get redesigned in [[redesign]].
*Strong Mad and The Cheat [[The Smashed Muffler|smash a muffler]] with a pipe again in [[origins]] and [[Strong Bad is a Bad Guy]].
*The "goats" sign and the "hush puppy" picture reappear in the [[Living Room of the Brothers Strong]] in [[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]].
*The flowery wallpaper will return in [[imaginary]].

== DVD Version ==
*To see Bubs's lunch special Easter egg, select the hidden Strong Bad logo at the bottom left of the screen at the end of the video.
*To see Strong Bad's other appointment Easter egg, select the hidden Strong Bad logo at the bottom right of the screen at the end of the video. This Easter egg has been extended from the original version, making it more practical for DVD players that take a while to load the clip.
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]])

'''MATT:''' So, no loafing, the no loafing sign... yeah, we're trying to figure out when it first...where it came from when we first used it.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, well, where it comes from is an old Batman episode. The uh, Joker, in the Joker's lair, in the background, on the wall, there's this sign that says "no loafing".

'''MATT:''' ''{laughing}'' Is that it? When The Joker goes to school?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. Yeah. It's, uh, behind the candy store; their secret hideout's behind the candy store, and—

'''MATT:''' The "Easy Living" Candy Store.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''MATT:''' Um, so anyway, the no loafing sign is uh, another reference to Batman.

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Ooh, that right there, that chart, I used to have this job where I made graphics just like that all the time, so that's why it was so well shaded. Oh, and I want to make that wallpaper.

'''MATT:''' And, tha- that, uh, you'll notice, in that still photograph, the lines are moving on the— on the computer. Still—

'''MIKE:''' What lines?

'''MATT:''' The lines on the old computer. The green lines! They're moving in the still photograph!

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! I missed... Oh!

'''MATT:''' Yeah. It's one of those "Harry Potter" photographs.

''{Mike laughs}''

'''MATT:''' A Muggle photograph. Er, non...non-Muggle.

'''MIKE:''' So this was fun to make. I like— it was fun to make, uh, these posters and stuff.

'''MATT:''' Uh, them, that's a reference to the basis movie I made in college ''{Mike laughs}'' where these nogoodniks are beating on a muffler with a— a lead pipe. ''{about the "Remember the 'Tivities" poster}'' So Mike made that one.

'''MIKE:''' That was fun to do. Whales, whales...

'''MATT:''' That one's great.

'''MIKE:''' And look...

'''MIKE AND MATT:''' There's our friend Matt!

'''MATT:''' There's our friend Matt!

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' At the beach!

'''MATT:''' He's on later, he has a vu- a voice, uh...

'''MIKE:''' Yeah...

'''MATT:''' a voice appearance...

'''MIKE:''' Appearance, yeah. Hey, What email is that in?

'''MATT:''' ''{Imitating the other Matt}'' Mom!!

'''MIKE:''' He says that.

'''MATT:''' Shins up... That guy's really given up the works there.

'''MIKE:''' Batbede... That's another song that gets into our heads ''all'' the time.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE AND MATT:''' ''{singing}'' BatbedededeBatbededede ''{laughing}''

'''MIKE:''' I like Bubs's, uh... Uhh, do we get free– ''{cut off}''

===Fun Facts===

*Matt calls the moving photograph a "Harry Potter" photo. This is referring to the moving pictures in the ''[[Wikipedia:Harry Potter|Harry Potter]]'' series of books and movies. He first calls it a "Muggle" photograph and then corrects himself and calls it a "non-Muggle" (i.e. magical) photograph. [[Wikipedia:Muggle|"Muggle"]] is a word referring to non-magical people in the Harry Potter universe.
*When Matt refers to The Brothers Chaps' friend Matt's voice appearance, he is referring to the TV voice in [[sibbie]]. He is mistaken in saying that the appearance is "on later" because "sibbie" actually comes ''before'' "no loafing".

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|86|youtube=OC0wXyutZNE}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]][[Category:Emails With DVD Commentary]]

no loafing

2021-06-28T01:41:39Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}

[[Image:sbemail86.png|thumb|"Get back to work!"]]

{{aboutemail}} {{for|sign|No Loafing Sign}}

Ryan asks Strong Bad about the "No Loafing" sign in Strong Bad's house, and where it went. He puts up inspirational [[Hanging Objects#From no loafing|posters]] to get everybody working.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}} (Easter egg)

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

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, October 6, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 1:54

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Driving down the strip in my cool cool car, checkin' all the emails out!

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hey Strong Bad! 
 
Whatever happened to that "No Loafing" 
sign you used to have? 
 
Ryan, CO</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads "CO" as "Co... colo-colorado."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, great question, stupid! Here's an answer. ''{typing}'' The year was 1987, not a very good year for productivity. And as a result, productivity was down something-eight percent.

''{A pie-chart, circa 1987, falls down displaying the productivity rating}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I realized things were gonna spiral out of control unless I gave them a little jumpstart. A sign that said—

''{A picture of Strong Bad standing by the sign appears}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' — "No Loafing" was the answer. ''{clears screen, continues typing}'' But that was a long time ago. I suppose ol' Loafy might be losing his edge. Maybe I should put up some of those inspirational posters and stuff to get things back in gear. You know, the kinds that have ''{stops typing}'' like ''{resumes typing}'' whales or sunsets or windsurfers on em. And they say stuff about determination and giving a care.

''{Cut to the garage. Strong Bad walks in on Strong Mad and the Cheat sleeping under the "No Loafing" sign next to a beat-up muffler and a length of pipe. He has a bunch of posters under one arm.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You guys are pathetic.

'''STRONG MAD:''' Dah?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Have you forgotten what got us here?

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{questioning The Cheat noise}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No Loafing got us here!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{indifferent The Cheat noise}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Take a look at these bad boys and get back to work!

'''STRONG MAD:''' Dah!

''{Strong Bad begins posting the posters. The first one is a picture of a whale's tail sticking out of the clouds and it is captioned "Remember the 'tivities: Creativity; Productivity; Activity; Get Back To Work."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' This one's got like some kinda whale...in space...

''{He puts one up that has a picture of a windsurfer and the caption "Failure is not a four-letter word."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And this one talks about cussing...

'''STRONG BAD:''' And this one's incredibly inspirational...

''{He puts one up with a picture of a guy jumping out of the water and it's captioned "I HAVE FRIENDS! Keep working, little man"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...with the bursting waters...

''{He puts up a framed picture of a dog captioned "The Cheat, watch your freakin' back, Squeaky."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Here's one a-those hush puppies. They'll make you work for it.

''{He places a wood-burning with a horse on it on the wall. It is captioned "The loneliest goat sees the last sunset last..."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And this wood-burny thing's got some kinda old adage on it. About goats.

''{Strong Mad instantly leaps up with a yell. The Cheat tosses him the pipe, which he uses to smash the muffler.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Excellent! That-a way, boys! Chins up! Tifle down! And so on...

''{Strong Bad walks back to his computer}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well, whoever, I see I've gotten things back on track. Sounds like I deserve a three-hour lunch. I'ma head over to Bubs' for one of his 30-cent lunch specials.

''{Strong Bad puts a sticky note on the screen reading "out to lunch, then appointment, then something else" and leaves. [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:Bubs lunch special.PNG|thumb|Out to lunch]]
*At the very end you can click on "lunch specials" to see [[Bubs]]' lunch specials:
** 2 buffalo wing bones (hot)
** A cup of ice
** A half-eaten candy bar
*Also at the end you can click on the word "appointment" on the Post-It to see exactly what that appointment was.

:''{Cut to Strong Sad's room. Strong Sad is in bed.}''
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{jumping up and down on Strong Sad}'' I hate you. I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.
:'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Ooh! Ooh! Ow! Ooh! Oh!

== Fun Facts ==

===Trivia===
[[Image:No Loafing!.PNG|thumb|right|Ol' Loafy in the late-'80s.]]
*When the picture of Strong Bad pointing to the No Loafing sign in 1987 flashes up, the screen of the [[Tandy 400]] reads:
<blockquote class="tandy email" style="background-image:none">Dear Strong Bad, 
I like your wallpaper. 
 
-Mendelev</blockquote>
:The wallpaper shown is done in the style of a typical '80s home, complete with pears and two other angiosperm flowers.
*In an earlier version of this email, this spot contained the same screen seen in [[little animal]] right up until Strong Bad calls the Cheat over.
*The [[Charts|chart]] reads: Productivity 5%, Loafing 95%. Hence the sign.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad increases productivity something-eight percent with the help of some motivational wall hangings."

===Remarks===
*Strong Bad's arms are too short to reach the tops of the posters as he puts them up.
*Instead of being in its original place above the computer desk, the [[no loafing sign]] is in the top left-hand corner.

===Goofs===
[[Image:no loafing glitch.PNG|thumb|"Oh, check me out, it's my featureless head!"]]
*This email's loading screen is queued only to load itself, rather than the email as a whole. As a result, it never shows; Depending on the speed of the email loading, the viewer may instead get an image of Strong Bad's head without facial features in front of the Compy's disembodied screen as the other elements are being loaded.
*When the picture of Strong Bad in front of the Tandy comes up, the green lines on the Tandy are moving, even though it's supposed to be a photo.
*When Strong Mad takes hold of the pipe and his hand is up, he has five fingers. When his hand is down, he only has four.
*When Strong Bad puts up the poster with the bursting water, it is not covering the "NO LOAFING" sign; when the view zooms out, the poster seems to be covering the "NO LOAFING" sign.
*When Strong Bad turns around to leave the scene while Strong Mad is smashing the muffler, his legs disappear for a frame.

===Inside References===
*Strong Bad mentions the year [[1987]] for the second email in a row.
*Bubs's 30-cent lunch special ad features [[Real-Live Foods|live-action food]].

===Real-World References===
[[Image:no_loafing_Strong_Sad_poster.png|thumb|The Promise Ring]]
*The poster on Strong Sad's wall in the "appointment" Easter egg is of the emo band [[Wikipedia:The Promise Ring|The Promise Ring]].

===Fast Forward===
*[[Mendelev]], the wallpaper-admirer, turns out to become a character in [[Peasant's Quest]], much like [[Jhonka]] and [[Kerrek]].
*The [[Hanging Objects|poster]] of the whale's tail that says "Remember the 'Tivities:" is used later in the [[Puppet Stuff#Biz Cas Fri|Biz Cas Fri]] toons on Strong Bad's wall.
*Strong Bad would later try to get Bubs to give him a free lunch special in the [[lunch special|Strong Bad Email of the same name]].
*The No Loafing sign would get redesigned in [[redesign]].
*Strong Mad and The Cheat [[The Smashed Muffler|smash a muffler]] with a pipe again in [[origins]] and [[Strong Bad is a Bad Guy]].
*The "goats" sign and the "hush puppy" picture reappear in the [[Living Room of the Brothers Strong]] in [[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]].
*The flowery wallpaper will return in [[imaginary]].

== DVD Version ==
*To see Bubs's lunch special Easter egg, select the hidden Strong Bad logo at the bottom left of the screen at the end of the video.
*To see Strong Bad's other appointment Easter egg, select the hidden Strong Bad logo at the bottom right of the screen at the end of the video. This Easter egg has been extended from the original version, making it more practical for DVD players that take a while to load the clip.
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]])

'''MATT:''' So, no loafing, the no loafing sign... yeah, we're trying to figure out when it first...where it came from when we first used it.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, well, where it comes from is an old Batman episode. The uh, Joker, in the Joker's lair, in the background, on the wall, there's this sign that says "no loafing".

'''MATT:''' ''{laughing}'' Is that it? When The Joker goes to school?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. Yeah. It's, uh, behind the candy store; their secret hideout's behind the candy store, and—

'''MATT:''' The "Easy Living" Candy Store.

'''MIKE:''' That's right.

'''MATT:''' Um, so anyway, the no loafing sign is uh, another reference to Batman.

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Ooh, that right there, that chart, I used to have this job where I made graphics just like that all the time, so that's why it was so well shaded. Oh, and I want to make that wallpaper.

'''MATT:''' And, tha- that, uh, you'll notice, in that still photograph, the lines are moving on the— on the computer. Still—

'''MIKE:''' What lines?

'''MATT:''' The lines on the old computer. The green lines! They're moving in the still photograph!

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! I missed... Oh!

'''MATT:''' Yeah. It's one of those "Harry Potter" photographs.

''{Mike laughs}''

'''MATT:''' A Muggle photograph. Er, non...non-Muggle.

'''MIKE:''' So this was fun to make. I like— it was fun to make, uh, these posters and stuff.

'''MATT:''' Uh, them, that's a reference to the basis movie I made in college ''{Mike laughs}'' where these nogoodniks are beating on a muffler with a— a lead pipe. ''{about the "Remember the 'Tivities" poster}'' So Mike made that one.

'''MIKE:''' That was fun to do. Whales, whales...

'''MATT:''' That one's great.

'''MIKE:''' And look...

'''MIKE AND MATT:''' There's our friend Matt!

'''MATT:''' There's our friend Matt!

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' At the beach!

'''MATT:''' He's on later, he has a vu- a voice, uh...

'''MIKE:''' Yeah...

'''MATT:''' a voice appearance...

'''MIKE:''' Appearance, yeah. Hey, What email is that in?

'''MATT:''' ''{Imitating the other Matt}'' Mom!!

'''MIKE:''' He says that.

'''MATT:''' Shins up... That guy's really given up the works there.

'''MIKE:''' Batbede... That's another song that gets into our heads ''all'' the time.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE AND MATT:''' ''{singing}'' BatbedededeBatbededede ''{laughing}''

'''MIKE:''' I like Bubs's, uh... Uhh, do we get free– ''{cut off}''

===Fun Facts===

*Matt calls the moving photograph a "Harry Potter" photo. This is referring to the moving pictures in the ''[[Wikipedia:Harry Potter|Harry Potter]]'' series of books and movies. He first calls it a "Muggle" photograph and then corrects himself and calls it a "non-Muggle" (i.e. magical) photograph. [[Wikipedia:Muggle|"Muggle"]] is a word referring to non-magical people in the Harry Potter universe.
*When Matt refers to The Brothers Chaps' friend Matt's voice appearance, he is referring to the TV voice in [[sibbie]]. He is mistaken in saying that the appearance is "on later" because "sibbie" actually comes ''before'' "no loafing".

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|86|youtube=OC0wXyutZNE}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]][[Category:Emails With DVD Commentary]]

2 years

2021-06-27T23:39:56Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}
[[Image:Strongbadia in 2 years.png|thumb|"I don't like food anymore!"]]

E. Fullmer asks what Strong Badia will be like in approximately 2 years, so Strong Bad shares his predictions for the future.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Badia]], [[Laundry Room of the Brothers Strong]], [[The King of Town's Grill]]

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, September 22, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 2:23

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{very quickly}'' Haselos, theselos, haselos, theselos!

''{Reading email}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Strong Bad, 
I am going on a long trip and won't be 
able to check out "Homestar Runner's 
Website" for a long time. What do you 
think the greatest advancement for 
Strong Badia will be in the next 2 
years? 
 
Your Main Man, 
E. Fullmer</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads "Strong Bad" stressing "Strong" as if it were "Dear," says "Homestar has a website?" after reading "Homestar Runner's Website for a long time" and says "Oh..." before reading the signature}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Umm, Endiment...? ''{typing}'' Hang on Endiment. Just for the record, my main man is, and has been since 1987, Van Mundegaarde. And don't you forget it.

''{not typing, a little picture of Strong Bad with a note from Strong Bad to Van comes down}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, Van, the times we shared. ''{typing}'' Well, as you know, Endy, Strong Badia is on the cutting edge of the future. I can easily predict that the population will have tripled in two years.

''{Cut to Strong Badia}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' So by then it will be population: tire and... bundt cake pan.

''{A bundt cake pan appears out of nowhere. The sign changes its population list accordingly.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...and Coach Z.

''{Coach Z appears behind the fence, facing away from the camera. The sign changes its population list accordingly again.}''

'''COACH Z:''' I'm takin' a leak!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' I also have some good news for you single ladies out there. The cinder block is going to break up with the sign.

''{The stopsign moves away from the cinder block, and a letter from the cinder block to the sign appears on-screen.}''

'''CINDER BLOCK:''' Dear Stop Sign, you are a stop sign and I am a cinder block.

''{The letter disappears}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Ooh! And we will also have developed a world-class hole.

''{A hole appears in the ground}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And by then, hopefully The Cheat will be finished with the mural I commissioned him to paint on the fence...

''{A mural of the words "FIReWORKS or die" appears on the fence}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ...like a freakin' year ago. Slowbie. Oh yeah, and the tire will have definitely won the title.

''(A belt appears on the tire and an invisible crowd cheers.)''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And finally, Strong Sad will have actually succeeded in becoming more whiny.

''{Strong Sad appears out of nowhere}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{pouty voice}'' I don't like food anymore!

''{Cut back to the Compy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Augh. So annoying. Oh, that reminds me. I should probably go let Strong Sad outta the dryer. He's been in there since breakfast.

''{[[The Paper]] comes down. After about 15 seconds, Strong Bad gets up. Cut to the dryer. Strong Bad opens it, and discovers a dizzy, fluffy The Cheat.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' What the—? The Cheat?! Where the crap did I leave Strong Sad?

''{Cut to The King of Town's grill. It's closed, but we can hear Strong Sad's voice from within.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Uh, hello? Can anybody hear me? The Cheat has a really nice place in here. And none of his shirts fit me.

''{Cut back to the Compy, with Strong Bad sitting at it as before.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*You can click on the words "[[Homestar Runner's Website]]" to see a quick peek at it. This can only be done between when he reads the words and when he says "Homestar has a website?"
[[Image:Tire madness.png|thumb|Only on Pay Per View!!!]]
*After you wait and see what happened to Strong Sad, you can click on the reflection of Strong Bad's blue diamond to see the advertisement for the "Rematch" between Strong Mad and the [[Tire]].
:''{Cut to black screen.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Revenge.
:''{Everything he says echoes ridiculously. The word "REVENGE" appears in red on the screen and Strong Mad is seen on the left, half-lit. He then disappears.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Vengeance.
:''{The word "VENGEANCE" is now seen on the screen and the Tire, as with Strong Mad, appears half-lit on the right. It also disappears.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Vengeful.
:''{The word "VENGEFUL" appears and Strong Mad appears as before, more briefly this time.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Revengeanceful.
:''{The word "REVENGEANCEFUL" appears and the Tire reappears and disappears as before. Then Strong Mad is seen straight on, coming closer to the screen.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' This Sunday, watch as Strong Mad attempts to reclaim the title—
:''{Title belts appear around Strong Mad's eyes, and his face starts fading into red}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' —from Strong Badia heavyweight champion,—
:''{The whole screen turns red and the Tire appears on the screen, growing toward us.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' —the Tire. Tire Madness.
:''{A red Tire Madness logo appears, flashes, and explodes onto the screen, which briefly turns yellow, then reverts to red.}''
:'''VOICEOVER:''' Only on pay per view.
:''{The words "ONLY ON PAY PER VIEW!!!" flash in yellow at the bottom.}''

==Fun Facts==

===Trivia===

*The note on the photograph presumably given to Van Mundegaarde reads:
<blockquote>To My Main Man 
Van Mundegaarde, 
Keep Rocking it [[1987]]-style. 
-Strong 
Bad</blockquote>

*The full text of the letter the Cinder Block writes is:
<blockquote>Dear Stop Sign, 
You are a stop sign and I am a 
cinder block. Therefore I think 
we should break up. I hope we 
can still be's friends. 
 
Love Always, 
Cinder Block</blockquote>

*It's been confirmed that E. Fullmer's first initial stands for "Elder" Fullmer, indicating that he is about to become a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon church; "Elder" is a title applied to all male missionaries). This could explain why he will be going on a two-year trip and will not be able to check the website, as that is how long young men serve as LDS missionaries, and they are discouraged from surfing the Internet during that time.
*The Homestar portrait on his website is done using the [[Wikipedia:Repoussé and chasing|repoussé]] technique.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad's prediction of what Strong Badia will be like in 2 years. At least I think that's what it's about."

===Remarks===

*The [[No Loafing Sign|No Loafing]] sign can be seen when Strong Bad finds The Cheat in the dryer, though the sign is known to be located in the Computer Room.
*This email was released in September 2003, so the changes Strong Bad mentions should have come into fruition by 2005. To date, however, none of these predictions have panned out.
*The fact that Strong Sad says "The Cheat has a really nice place in here" while he is in [[The King of Town's grill]] (and the fact that he fits in it at all) can confirm that The King's grill is much more spacious on the inside than it looks.

===Inside References===

*The music that plays when the Cinder Block's note is displayed is the same music that played in [[A Decemberween Pageant]] when Marzipan was talking to The Cheat (right after Strong Bad had said, "There's a squid.") and, later, in [[pom pom]] when Strong Bad is writing the letter to [[Pom Pom]]'s parents.
*The Cinder Block's note marks the first instance of [[be's]].
*Strong Sad's being in [[The King of Town's Grill]] is a reference to [[Where's The Cheat?]].
*Coach Z's line "I'm taking a leak!" is a reference to [[peeing]].
*Strong Bad says "Endiment" in a similar tone to how he says "Embrodak" in [[the process]].
*The Tire Madness Easter egg resembles the commercial for [[Awexome Cross '98]].

===Real-World References===

*The "Tire Madness" logo is similar to the logo that the now-defunct [[Wikipedia:World Championship Wrestling|World Championship Wrestling (WCW)]] organization used.

===Fast Forward===
*The Cheat ends up in the dryer again in [[lady fan]].
*That glossy autographed photo of Strong Bad appears again in [[Strongest Man in the World]].
*The championship belt re-appears as a costume item in [[Homestar Ruiner]].
*In [[virus]], Strong Bad contradicts this email by saying his main man is Edgar from the [[Edgarware]] program.
*In [[Baddest of the Bands]], a mural is painted on the fence.
*In [[fan club]], the Deleteheads membership card shown is signed by Strong Bad's main man Van Mundegaarde.
*Strong Bad calls The Cheat Slowbie. This name is used again in [[time capsule]] on the slip of newspaper, with a turtle named Slowbie/Mr. Shoe.

== DVD Version ==
*The Homestar's website Easter egg is actually part of the email. When you switch the angle on your DVD remote, it pops up like a regular webpage window and sticks around for ten or fifteen seconds.
*The Cheat in the Dryer and Strong Sad in the Grill Easter eggs have now been separated. A few seconds after The Paper comes down, Strong Bad will automatically find the Cheat in the dryer.
*You can now find Strong Sad by selecting a hidden Strong Bad icon in the lower-left corner of the Compy 386 screen.
*The Strong Mad vs. Tire Easter egg can be viewed by selecting the hidden Strong Bad logo located in the center of the Compy screen (right on the reflection of Strong Bad's blue diamond on his mask)

== External Links ==
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*[[HR:mywedpage.html|view Homestar Runner's "website"]]
*[[HR:sbglossy.swf|view the Flash file for Strong Bad's photograph]]

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]

labor day

2021-06-24T04:46:43Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}

[[Image:sbemail83.png|thumb|Maybe Strong Bad's invitation got "[[DELETED|da-leet-ed]]".]]

{{aboutemail}} {{forshort|Labor Dabor}}

"Chrispy" from Schenectady, NY asks Strong Bad what he's doing for Labor Day. Strong Bad decides to take the day off and not answer an email. Instead, he sits by The Stick and says stuff to the people who walk by.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Gavin}} (Easter egg), {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Stick]], [[The Field]], [[Marzipan's House]] (Easter egg)

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, September 1, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 2:46

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' Which email is your favorite? Mine is "the basics". Shang-a-lang-a- ''{starts reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Dear Strong Bad, 
 
I was wondering what you're doing 
for Labor Day. 
 
Your friend, 
Chrispy 
Schenectady, NY</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Woah! Is today Labor Day?! Well I'm certainly not gonna answer an email! I'ma take the day off. Wow. All of the sudden it's like the world is my ''{brief pause}'' place where I don't have to answer an email. Think I'll go sit on my cooler next to the stick and say stuff to people as they walk by. ''{stops typing}'' Now that's what I call the ol' Labor-Dabor. ''{Strong Bad leaves}''

''{Cut to Strong Bad sitting on top of his cooler next to The Stick. The cooler sports a handmade "labor dabor" sign. Enter Pom Pom with snack tray, bouncing along.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey Pom Pom, man, it's Labor Day. Why don't you get a life?

''{Pom Pom makes bubbling noises and exits.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That guy needs to get a life for real. Like me! I got a great life! Chillin' with my cooler at The Stick, sayin' stuff to people.

''{The Poopsmith enters with jar of BROWN MAYO.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Nice stench there, buddy. Smellin' ''real'' nice. I give you an A+ on smell. Or rather, you get an A+ on smellin' like crap. And a solid F- on smellin' any good.

''{Poopsmith exits.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That guy doesn't smell ''any'' good.

''{Coach Z enters with a six pack of which only one can of Coldson Lite remains.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And if it isn't Coach Z. Good ol'... green Coach Z. Hey, I always wondered, is your skin green or are you wearing a green body suit? Y'know with footies and sockies.

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, I got footies all right— athlete's footies!

''{Coach Z exits, The King of Town enters.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ah, the self-proclaimed King of Town. Like ''you'' aren't an easy target for my witty jabs and clever put-downs. Whatever will I say?

'''KING OF TOWN:''' Do you have anything relatively edible in that cooler?

'''STRONG BAD:''' No. You're fat. High-five, The Stick!

''{Strong Bad [[high fives]] The Stick, causing a piece to break off.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh. Sorry, The Stick.

''{King of Town exits, Strong Mad and The Cheat enter with a pair of badminton racquets.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh! The two guys. Strong Mad and The Cheat. The guys in which one of them is really big and the other is really small. Nice contrast, there, guys! ... That's all I got.

''{Strong Mad and The Cheat exit.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Well, this is shaping up to be one heck of a Labor-Dabor. Hey, The Stick, you want a burger?

''{Cut to Labor Day party tableau with all of the main characters except Strong Bad and [[Homsar]] -- Homestar Runner's "[[Everybody Knows It]]" is playing in the background.}''

'''BUBS:''' This here's the best Labor Day BBQ I ever been BB-to.

'''MARZIPAN:''' I wonder why?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Has anyone seen Strong Bad? I sent him an invitation.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Maybe it got "da-leet-ed".

''{Strong Sad smiles ever so slightly. Everybody else laughs.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' That's a good one, Strong Sad.

'''COACH Z:''' ''{laughing}'' Oh, gee, life of the pratty.

'''BUBS:''' Three cheers for Strong Sad!

''{Cut to Strong Bad laying on the cooler next to The Stick, which has a burger stuck on top of it. The broken-off part of The Stick is sticking out of the top of the burger.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' So, The Stick, how's your burger? Sorry about that high-five thing. ''{mumbles something}'' I'm gonna go check my email.

''{[[The Paper]] comes out.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click on Chrispy's name to see the [[Schenectady Crispies]] [[Breakfast Cereal|cereal]].
*To see what is inside Strong Bad's cooler, click on the cooler when the King of Town comes by and mentions the cooler.
** In the cooler is a marker and [[Gavin]].
*At the end, click on the "Labor Dabor" sign to hear Homestar sing "[[Everybody Knows It]]".
* Also at the end, click on Strong Bad's diamond to see a "Schenectady Crispies" commercial starring himself.

:''{Strong Bad is standing in a kitchen, behind a table with a box of Schenectady Crispies on it}''
:'''STRONG BAD:''' Schenectady Crispies are so freaking good, they taste twice! Once in your mouth, and once in your... esophagus! ''{the following words appear on the bottom of the screen}'' I hope I don't get caught!

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*The [[Wikipedia:Esophagus|esophagus]] is the muscular tube in vertebrates through which ingested food passes from the mouth area to the stomach.

===Trivia===
*When this email was initially released, none of the characters except for Strong Mad and The Cheat were carrying anything to the party. Pom Pom's platter, Coach Z's [[Cold One|Coldson Lite]], and the other items were added after a day or so.
*The part of the Stick that breaks off was never seen before this cartoon. Naturally, it hasn't been seen since, either.
*Strong Bad's cooler is labelled "coola".
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad with his trusty megaphone sits on a cooler for the best Labor Day ever."
**Contrary to this description, there is no megaphone in this email. However, Strong Bad does sit down on a bucket and use a megaphone in [[new hands]].

===Remarks===
*In this email, Strong Bad claims that his favorite email is [[the basics]], but this was never mentioned in [[personal favorites]].
*Strong Bad pronounces [[Wikipedia:Schenectady|Schenectady]] incorrectly during the email (with a "sh" sound) but pronounces it correctly (with a "sk" sound) in the Easter egg for Schenectady Crispies.
*Despite the fact that Strong Bad says he's not going to answer an email, he does.
*When Strong Bad begins typing, he misspells "Whoa" as "Woah".

===Inside References===
*The pen in the cooler is a [[Fine Tip Permanent Marker]].
*The bug inside the cooler with the marker is Gavin the cockroach, who originally appeared in [[personal favorites]].
*This email has instances of [[Strong Sad smiling|Strong Sad]] and [[Strong Mad smiling]].
*Strong Bad mentions [[twice]] in the Schenectady Crispies easter egg.

===Fast Forward===
*The song "Everybody Knows It" later became a [[Puppet Stuff]] video, as well as a [[Puppet Jam: Everybody Knows It|Puppet Jam]].
*Coach Z's Coldson Lite later appears in [[Happy Fireworks]].
*The box of Schenectady Crispies later appears in [[the bet]].
*The theme music for Schenectady Crispies is heard again in [[strong badathlon]].
*The same scene in the diamond Easter egg is used in [[specially marked]].

== DVD Version ==
*The "Schenectady Crispies box" and "inside the cooler" Easter Eggs are viewable using the angle button on your DVD remote.
*To listen to Homestar sing the "Everybody Knows It" song, click on the hidden Strong Bad logo to the left of the stick at the end of the email.
*To see the Schenectady Crispies commercial, click on the hidden Strong Bad logo slightly above and to the right of Strong Bad's head at the end of the email.

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|83|youtube=ZL7JaWsbg-4}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category: Holiday Toons]][[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]

impression

2021-06-24T04:20:10Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}
[[Image:sbemail82.png|thumb|"Nice use of light and shadow. And picnic supplies."]]

"Your friend" asks Strong Bad to do his best impression of Strong Sad. Strong Bad goes to the [[Strong Sad Lookalike Contest]] instead.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, [[Jhonka]] (Easter egg), {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The King of Town}} (voice only), {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Homsar}} (in Strong Sad costume), {{Film|The Cheat}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Telephone Pole]], [[The Field]], [[Living Room of the Brothers Strong]] (Easter egg)

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, August 25, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 3:13

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}

==Transcript==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Email: It's like the sugar on the candy for my stuff.

''{reading email}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Dear Strong Bad, 
 
Could you please do your impression 
of Strong Sad? 
 
Thanks, 
Your friend</blockquote>

''{pauses between "Dear" and "Strong"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...and there's no name. Um... Thanks, Your friend... Jhonka.

''{He types "Jhonka" under "Your friend", then starts typing his reply.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' No way, Jhonka! What a coincidence! I was just on my way out the door to go to the annual Strong Sad Lookalike Contest where contestants are judged on appearance, impression and penmanship. I'm a shoo-in this year, man. Wait'll you see my costume.

''{He runs offscreen, but runs back a few seconds later to say:}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Not beatin' around the bush this week.

''{Strong Bad runs off again. Cut to The Field. Coach Z is standing under a sign that reads: "2003 Sectional Finals — STRONG SAD LOOKALIKE CONTEST".}''

'''COACH Z:''' Okay, I'd like to welcome everybody back! Hope you enjoyed your intermission there. Bubs, the hot cold cuts was great!

'''BUBS:''' ''{off screen}'' Those were moist towelettes!

'''COACH Z:''' So without further ado ''{pronounces "ado" as "adieu"}'', I'd like to introduce the man of the hour, the deathly pallor: Strong Sad!

''{Strong Sad joins Coach Z under the sign}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' ''{off screen}'' Booo!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Thank you! Thank you! I'm simultaneously honored and insulted to be involved in this contest for the fourth year in a row.

'''COACH Z:''' That's enough there, Strong Sad! ''{He shoves Strong Sad out of the way.}'' Your work is done here. Let's get this pratty started!!

''{Cut to a view of Strong Bad in a Strong Sad costume, which consists of a grey "Phys Ed" sweatshirt, a white beret, and a paper plate with Strong Sad's face drawn on it. There's a suspicious looking lump under the sweatshirt.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Lookin' good there, Strong Bad.

'''STRONG BAD:''' I know.

'''COACH Z:''' Nice use of light and shadow.

'''STRONG BAD:''' I know.

'''COACH Z:''' ...and picnic supplies.

'''STRONG BAD:''' I know. Shut up.

'''COACH Z:''' Let's hear what you got.

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right. Let me just push play on my "sweatshirt" here.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{on a tape}'' Why do you want me to say "Hello, my name is Strong Sad"? ''{He fast-forwards the tape}'' Get that tape-recorder out of my face! ''{more fast-forwarding}'' Stop flickin' my ear!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{also on tape}'' More like ''you'' stop flickin' ''my ear''!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{He stops the tape.}'' Ha ha. Oops.

'''COACH Z:''' Okay, then. Very unsuspicious.

'''STRONG BAD:''' I know.

''{Coach Z moves on to Homestar Runner. Homestar is wearing hippo slippers and a grey shirt with a star on it, and he has a sock taped to his head instead of his signature hat.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Hey, there, Homestar. Nice hippo slippers.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Thanks. They're elephants.

'''COACH Z:''' Sure they are! Now let's hear your impression.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Um... Remind me again what type stuff that guy says.

'''COACH Z:''' You know. Depressing-type stuff!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Right, right! Here goes! Ahem. ''{in a depressing voice}'' Oh... Some animal died. ''{In his normal voice}'' That's something he's always saying, right?

'''COACH Z:''' Yeah, I think I heard him say that a few times. Next contestant!

''{The next contestant appears to be Strong Sad.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Strong Sad, you're not eligible for this contest! I thought I told youse to go on home!

''{A familiar-looking hat pops up from behind the Strong Sad lookalike's head revealing that he is, in fact, Homsar. His Strong Sad costume is flawless, except the mouth becomes bigger when Homsar talks. Coach Z (already walking away) doesn't realize who it is.}''

'''HOMSAR:''' ''{sadly}'' AaAaAaAa... I'm cryin' on the inside!

''{The Cheat hops up in a paper bag, painted to look like Strong Sad's left leg.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Okay, The Chort, lay it on me!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{depressed The Cheat noises}''

'''COACH Z:''' Holy crap! It's as if Strong Sad was still alive and with us today! First Prize!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noise}'' ''{Jumps up out of the bag, then lands back inside bag}''

''{Cut to Strong Bad's computer. Strong Bad walks up muttering. He's still in costume.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Stupid friggin' Cheat-in-a-Bag. ''{typing}'' I can't believe The Cheat won sectionals for the 4th year in a row dressed up as Strong Sad's left leg. I knew I should have gone for the bigger butt. ''{stops typing}'' Oh well. ''{resumes typing}'' At least I won the penmanship award. But I should get going if I'm still going to be fashionably late to the afterparty. ''{stops typing}'' So, until next time, all the ladies and dudes say: ''{singing}'' "Strong Bad is a cool guy! And we're not cool in the least!"

''{Strong Bad leaves and [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click on "Jhonka" to see just what a Jhonka is.
<blockquote>JHONKA 
 
The Jhonka are one of many 
tribes of primitive, troll-like 
creatures found in the lowlands 
and throughout lesser dungeons. 
 
Their low intelligence makes 
them quite susceptible to toilet 
humor and cheap gags such as 
"Gimme five. Up high. Down 
low. Too slow." 
 
FREQUENCY: Common 
INTELLIGENCE: Low 
ARMOR CLASS: +2</blockquote>
*Click on "Bigger Butt" to see Strong Bad's alternative plans for his costume.
*Click on "Penmanship Award" to see Strong Bad's entry for the Strong Sad penmanship contest.
*Click on "afterparty" at the end to see what happened at the afterparty.
:''{Homestar and Coach Z are standing in a room filled with balloons. Homestar is dressed in his Strong Sad costume, "[[Poot-Slap]]" is playing in the background, and Coach Z is holding a [[Cold One|Not So Cold One]].}''
:'''COACH Z:''' I meant to tell you the sock on the head was a nice touch.
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I have a sock on my head? ''{shaking back and forth}'' Getitoff getitoff getitoff getitoff getitoff getitoff ''{stops shaking}'' getitoff getitoff.

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*The "not beating around the bush" comment may refer to Strong Bad's normal way of [[Emails Taken in a Different Direction|not really answering an email's question]]. Alternatively, it may mean that there is no delay between his remark and his answer.
*Pallor means paleness.
*The "cheap gag" mentioned in the Jhonka Easter egg involves the perpetrator giving the receiver a [[Wikipedia:high five|high five]] ("Up high"), then pretending to offer a low-five ("down low"), but pulling their hand away before the other person can slap it ("too slow").

===Trivia===
*This toon has the ending Easter egg embedded in the beginning of the Flash file, instead of it being at the end as usual.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad tries to dethrone The Cheat in the annual Strong Sad Lookalike Contest!"

===Remarks===
*Strong Sad on the tape tells Strong Bad to stop flicking his ear, but Strong Sad doesn't have [[Lack of Visible Body Parts#Ears|visible ears]].
*The Cheat's costume has three toenails, whereas Strong Sad's [[soolnds]] only have two toenails each.
*In this email, Strong Bad shows excellent touch-typing skills as he finishes the email with a paper plate mask taped to his face. However, he seems to later lose this ability. In [[pom pom]], Strong Bad is unable to type while blindfolded.
*Strong Sad actually saying "Oh...some animal died" was made the [[Quote of the Week#QW-2003-08-25|Quote of the Week]] the same day this email appeared on the site.
*Both wooden columns supporting the banner have the staples and torn pieces of paper in the exact same spots.
*Coach Z says "adieu" instead of "ado"; this is a rather common mistake, and seemingly all the more probable with Coach Z being the speaker.
*Strong Bad's line "Stupid friggin' Cheat-in-a-Bag..." is a rare instance of using The Cheat's name without the [[integral article]].

===Goofs===
*When Strong Bad comes back to the computer after the contest, still wearing his costume, his hat is incorrectly mirrored in the screen's reflection.
*The form for the penmanship contest says 2004 Sectional Finals; however, the year on the sign for the contest (and the year of the toon's release) is 2003.
*Homestar's eyes reverse direction quickly before he slouches to do his Strong Sad impression.
*Strong Sad doesn't move his mouth to his "whoa!" when he is pushed. Instead, his mouth switches direction.

===Fixed Goofs===
*The initial YouTube upload cut the audio as Strong Bad returned to his computer room. It was re-uploaded with fixed audio a day later.

===Glitches===
*If the "Bigger Butt" Easter egg is clicked while [[The Paper]] is coming down, it will disappear as it is zooming in.

===Inside References===
*At the afterparty, Coach Z is drinking a "[[Cold One|Not So Cold One]]", from [[property of ones]].
*Strong Bad's comeback "[[More like]], YOU stop flicking MY ear," is very similar to his comeback in [[50 emails]].
*The hat Strong Bad wears is similar to the hat Strong Sad originally wore in his original sketches seen in the [[Sketchbook (museum)|Museum Sketchbook]].
*Coach Z's praise of The Cheat's costume ("It's as if Strong Sad was still alive and with us today!") is another instance of [[Strong Sad's Death|Strong Sad's imagined death]].
*The blue ribbon in the penmanship Easter egg is the same as the ribbons from [[Pumpkin Carve-nival]].
*The King of Town [[The King of Town Booing|boos]] Strong Sad.
*The Cheat dresses as Strong Sad's [[Severed Body Parts|leg]].

===Real-World References===
*The picture of Jhonka is reminiscent of the various humanoid creatures in [[Wikipedia:Dungeons & Dragons|Dungeons and Dragons]].
**In previous versions of Dungeons and Dragons, an armor class of +2 would be a decent defense rating. However, in the current incarnation of Dungeons and Dragons it would make the creature very easy to hit in combat. The article's tone seems to indicate that it was written for 2nd edition AD&D.
*In the bigger butt Easter egg, Strong Bad drew the [[Wikipedia:Kangol|Kangol]] kangaroo above his cap. Kangol is a British clothier famous for this kind of hat.

===Fast Forward===
*The Jhonka plays a prominent role in [[Peasant's Quest]].
*Homestar also uses, "Oh... Some animal died" in [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 9.2]].
*[[The Deathly Pallor]] is the name of Strong Sad's radio persona in [[radio]]. It is also used in the email [[trading cards]].
*The King of Town again demonstrates [[The King of Town Booing|his low, one-man "boooo"]] in [[geddup noise]] after showing "The Standing Up Noise".
*Homestar claims he is doing a Strong Sad impression in [[fan club]].

== DVD Version ==
*All of the Easter eggs in this email are viewable using the angle button on your DVD remote.

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|82|youtube=GWrLnbRDNWQ}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]

Subtitles:sbemail82/en

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<pre>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<transcript xml:lang="en-us" file="sbemail82.swf" width="550" height="400">
<line start="19" end="60" speaker="coachz">I meant to tell you the sock on the head is a nice touch.</line>
<line start="60" end="90" speaker="homestar">I have a sock on my head?</line>
<line start="90" end="133" speaker="homestar">Get it off, get it off, get it off, get it off, get it off, get it off, get it off, get it off. </line>
<line start="137" end="199" speaker="strongbad">Email: It's like the sugar on the candy for my stuff.</line>
<line start="206" end="284" speaker="strongbad">"Dear Strong Bad, could you please do your impression of Strong Sad? Thanks, your friend"</line>
<line start="291" end="348" speaker="strongbad">...and there's no name. Um... Thanks, Your friend... Jhonka.</line>
<line start="358" end="391" speaker="strongbad">No way, Jhonka! What a coincidence!</line>
<line start="391" end="441" speaker="strongbad">I was just on my way out the door to go to the annual Strong Sad Lookalike Contest</line>
<line start="442" end="491" speaker="strongbad">where contestants are judged on appearance, impression, and penmanship.</line>
<line start="491" end="540" speaker="strongbad">I'm a shoo-in this year, man. Wait'll you see my costume!</line>
<line start="540" end="555" speaker="sfx">footsteps</line>
<line start="570" end="591" speaker="sfx">footsteps</line>
<line start="591" end="616" speaker="strongbad">Not beatin' around the bush this week.</line>
<line start="616" end="633" speaker="sfx">footsteps</line>
<line start="634" end="671" speaker="coachz">Okay, I'd like to welcome everybody back!</line>
<line start="671" end="735" speaker="coachz">Hope you enjoyed your intermission there. Bubs, the hot cold cuts was great!</line>
<line start="735" end="753" speaker="bubs" voiceover="voiceover">Those were moist towelettes!</line>
<line start="754" end="872" speaker="coachz">So without further adieu, I'd like to introduce the man of the hour, the deathly pallor: Strong Sad!</line>
<line start="877" end="890" speaker="kingoftown" voiceover="voiceover">Booo!</line>
<line start="895" end="920" speaker="strongsad">Thank you! Thank you!</line>
<line start="920" end="973" speaker="strongsad">I'm simultaneously honored and insulted to be involved in this contest</line>
<line start="973" end="997" speaker="strongsad">for the fourth year in a row.</line>
<line start="998" end="1020" speaker="coachz">That's enough there, Strong Sad! Your work is done here.</line>
<line start="1021" end="1033"><coachz>That's enough there, Strong Sad! Your work is done here.</coachz><strongsad>Oof!</strongsad></line>
<line start="1033" end="1059" speaker="coachz">Let's get this pratty started!</line>
<line start="1086" end="1107" speaker="coachz">Lookin' good there, Strong Bad.</line>
<line start="1107" end="1116" speaker="strongbad">I know.</line>
<line start="1116" end="1144" speaker="coachz">Nice use of light and shadow.</line>
<line start="1144" end="1157" speaker="strongbad">I know.</line>
<line start="1157" end="1172" speaker="coachz">...and picnic supplies.</line>
<line start="1173" end="1192" speaker="strongbad">I know. Shut up.</line>
<line start="1192" end="1208" speaker="coachz">Let's hear what you got.</line>
<line start="1208" end="1266" speaker="strongbad">All right. Let me just push play on my sweatshirt here.</line>
<line start="1266" end="1276" speaker="sfx">click</line>
<line start="1276" end="1314" speaker="strongsad" voiceover="voiceover">Why do you want me to say "Hello, my name is Strong Sad"?</line>
<line start="1314" end="1328" speaker="sfx">tape advances</line>
<line start="1328" end="1353" speaker="strongsad" voiceover="voiceover">Get that tape-recorder out of my face!</line>
<line start="1353" end="1367" speaker="sfx">tape advances</line>
<line start="1367" end="1388" speaker="strongsad" voiceover="voiceover">Stop flickin' my ear!</line>
<line start="1388" end="1409" speaker="strongbad" voiceover="voiceover">More like you stop flickin' my ear!</line>
<line start="1410" end="1424" speaker="strongbad">Ha ha. Oops.</line>
<line start="1425" end="1468" speaker="coachz">Ok, then. Very unsuspicious.</line>
<line start="1468" end="1479" speaker="strongbad">I know.</line>
<line start="1483" end="1511" speaker="coachz">Hey, there, Homestar. Nice hippo slippers.</line>
<line start="1512" end="1535" speaker="homestar">Thanks. They're elephants.</line>
<line start="1535" end="1569" speaker="coachz">Sure they are! Now let's hear your impression.</line>
<line start="1569" end="1624" speaker="homestar">Um... Remind me again what type stuff that guy says.</line>
<line start="1624" end="1652" speaker="coachz">You know. Depressing-type stuff!</line>
<line start="1652" end="1690" speaker="homestar">Right, right! Here goes! Ahem.</line>
<line start="1690" end="1734" speaker="homestar">Oh... Some animal died.</line>
<line start="1734" end="1762" speaker="homestar">That's something he's always saying, right?</line>
<line start="1762" end="1806" speaker="coachz">Yeah, I think I heard him say that a few times. Next contestant!</line>
<line start="1817" end="1881" speaker="coachz">Strong Sad, you're not eligible for this contest! I thought I told youse to go on home!</line>
<line start="1881" end="1951" speaker="homsar">AaAaAaAa... I'm cryin' on the inside!</line>
<line start="1965" end="1996" speaker="coachz">Okay, The Chort, lay it on me!</line>
<line start="1996" end="2043" speaker="thecheat">depressing The Cheat noises</line>
<line start="2043" end="2102" speaker="coachz">Holy crap! It's as if Strong Sad was still alive and with us today!</line>
<line start="2102" end="2120" speaker="coachz">First Prize!</line>
<line start="2120" end="2133" speaker="thecheat">The Cheat noise</line>
<line start="2137" end="2160" speaker="strongbad">Stupid friggin' Cheat-in-a-Bag.</line>
<line start="2165" end="2228" speaker="strongbad">I can't believe The Cheat won sectionals for the 4th year in a row dressed up as Strong Sad's left leg.</line>
<line start="2236" end="2266" speaker="strongbad">I knew I should have gone for the bigger butt.</line>
<line start="2266" end="2279" speaker="strongbad">Oh well.</line>
<line start="2279" end="2310" speaker="strongbad">At least I won the penmanship award.</line>
<line start="2310" end="2363" speaker="strongbad">But I should get going if I'm still going to be fashionably late to the afterparty.</line>
<line start="2363" end="2400" speaker="strongbad">So, until next time, all the ladies and dudes say:</line>
<line start="2400" end="2456" speaker="strongbad">"Strong Bad is a cool guy! And we're not cool in the least!"</line>
</transcript>
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2021-06-24T02:28:47Z

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{{sbenav}}
[[Image:sbemail82.png|thumb|"Nice use of light and shadow. And picnic supplies."]]

"Your friend" asks Strong Bad to do his best impression of Strong Sad. Strong Bad goes to the [[Strong Sad Lookalike Contest]] instead.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, [[Jhonka]] (Easter egg), {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The King of Town}} (voice only), {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Homsar}} (in Strong Sad costume), {{Film|The Cheat}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Telephone Pole]], [[The Field]], [[Living Room of the Brothers Strong]] (Easter egg)

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, August 25, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 3:13

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Three}}

==Transcript==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Email: It's like the sugar on the candy for my stuff.

''{reading email}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Dear Strong Bad, 
 
Could you please do your impression 
of Strong Sad? 
 
Thanks, 
Your friend</blockquote>

''{pauses between "Dear" and "Strong"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...and there's no name. Um... Thanks, Your friend... Jhonka.

''{He types "Jhonka" under "Your friend", then starts typing his reply.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' No way, Jhonka! What a coincidence! I was just on my way out the door to go to the annual Strong Sad Lookalike Contest where contestants are judged on appearance, impression and penmanship. I'm a shoo-in this year, man. Wait'll you see my costume.

''{He runs offscreen, but runs back a few seconds later to say:}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Not beatin' around the bush this week.

''{Strong Bad runs off again. Cut to The Field. Coach Z is standing under a sign that reads: "2003 Sectional Finals — STRONG SAD LOOKALIKE CONTEST".}''

'''COACH Z:''' Okay, I'd like to welcome everybody back! Hope you enjoyed your intermission there. Bubs, the hot cold cuts was great!

'''BUBS:''' ''{off screen}'' Those were moist towelettes!

'''COACH Z:''' So without further ado ''{pronounces "ado" as "adieu"}'', I'd like to introduce the man of the hour, the deathly pallor: Strong Sad!

''{Strong Sad joins Coach Z under the sign}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' ''{off screen}'' Booo!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Thank you! Thank you! I'm simultaneously honored and insulted to be involved in this contest for the fourth year in a row.

'''COACH Z:''' That's enough there, Strong Sad! ''{He shoves Strong Sad out of the way.}'' Your work is done here. Let's get this pratty started!!

''{Cut to a view of Strong Bad in a Strong Sad costume, which consists of a grey "Phys Ed" sweatshirt, a white beret, and a paper plate with Strong Sad's face drawn on it. There's a suspicious looking lump under the sweatshirt.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Lookin' good there, Strong Bad.

'''STRONG BAD:''' I know.

'''COACH Z:''' Nice use of light and shadow.

'''STRONG BAD:''' I know.

'''COACH Z:''' ...and picnic supplies.

'''STRONG BAD:''' I know. Shut up.

'''COACH Z:''' Let's hear what you got.

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right. Let me just push play on my "sweatshirt" here.

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{on a tape}'' Why do you want me to say "Hello, my name is Strong Sad"? ''{He fast-forwards the tape}'' Get that tape-recorder out of my face! ''{more fast-forwarding}'' Stop flickin' my ear!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{also on tape}'' More like ''you'' stop flickin' ''my ear''!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{He stops the tape.}'' Ha ha. Oops.

'''COACH Z:''' Okay, then. Very unsuspicious.

'''STRONG BAD:''' I know.

''{Coach Z moves on to Homestar Runner. Homestar is wearing hippo slippers and a grey shirt with a star on it, and he has a sock taped to his head instead of his signature hat.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Hey, there, Homestar. Nice hippo slippers.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Thanks. They're elephants.

'''COACH Z:''' Sure they are! Now let's hear your impression.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Um... Remind me again what type stuff that guy says.

'''COACH Z:''' You know. Depressing-type stuff!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Right, right! Here goes! Ahem. ''{in a depressing voice}'' Oh... Some animal died. ''{In his normal voice}'' That's something he's always saying, right?

'''COACH Z:''' Yeah, I think I heard him say that a few times. Next contestant!

''{The next contestant appears to be Strong Sad.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Strong Sad, you're not eligible for this contest! I thought I told youse to go on home!

''{A familiar-looking hat pops up from behind the Strong Sad lookalike's head revealing that he is, in fact, Homsar. His Strong Sad costume is flawless, except the mouth becomes bigger when Homsar talks. Coach Z (already walking away) doesn't realize who it is.}''

'''HOMSAR:''' ''{sadly}'' AaAaAaAa... I'm cryin' on the inside!

''{The Cheat hops up in a paper bag, painted to look like Strong Sad's left leg.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Okay, The Chort, lay it on me!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{depressed The Cheat noises}''

'''COACH Z:''' Holy crap! It's as if Strong Sad was still alive and with us today! First Prize!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noise}'' ''{Jumps up out of the bag, then lands back inside bag}''

''{Cut to Strong Bad's computer. Strong Bad walks up muttering. He's still in costume.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Stupid friggin' Cheat-in-a-Bag. ''{typing}'' I can't believe The Cheat won sectionals for the 4th year in a row dressed up as Strong Sad's left leg. I knew I should have gone for the bigger butt. ''{stops typing}'' Oh well. ''{resumes typing}'' At least I won the penmanship award. But I should get going if I'm still going to be fashionably late to the afterparty. ''{stops typing}'' So, until next time, all the ladies and dudes say: ''{singing}'' "Strong Bad is a cool guy! And we're not cool in the least!"

''{Strong Bad leaves and [[The Paper]] descends.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click on "Jhonka" to see just what a Jhonka is.
<blockquote>JHONKA 
 
The Jhonka are one of many 
tribes of primitive, troll-like 
creatures found in the lowlands 
and throughout lesser dungeons. 
 
Their low intelligence makes 
them quite susceptible to toilet 
humor and cheap gags such as 
"Gimme five. Up high. Down 
low. Too slow." 
 
FREQUENCY: Common 
INTELLIGENCE: Low 
ARMOR CLASS: +2</blockquote>
*Click on "Bigger Butt" to see Strong Bad's alternative plans for his costume.
*Click on "Penmanship Award" to see Strong Bad's entry for the Strong Sad penmanship contest.
*Click on "afterparty" at the end to see what happened at the afterparty.
:''{Homestar and Coach Z are standing in a room filled with balloons. Homestar is dressed in his Strong Sad costume, "[[Poot-Slap]]" is playing in the background, and Coach Z is holding a [[Cold One|Not So Cold One]].}''
:'''COACH Z:''' I meant to tell you the sock on the head was a nice touch.
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I have a sock on my head? ''{shaking back and forth}'' Getitoff getitoff getitoff getitoff getitoff getitoff ''{stops shaking}'' getitoff getitoff.

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*The "not beating around the bush" comment may refer to Strong Bad's normal way of [[Emails Taken in a Different Direction|not really answering an email's question]]. Alternatively, it may mean that there is no delay between his remark and his answer.
*Pallor means paleness.
*The "cheap gag" mentioned in the Jhonka Easter egg involves the perpetrator giving the receiver a [[Wikipedia:high five|high five]] ("Up high"), then pretending to offer a low-five ("down low"), but pulling their hand away before the other person can slap it ("too slow").

===Trivia===
*This toon has the ending Easter egg embedded in the beginning of the Flash file, instead of it being at the end as usual.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad tries to dethrone The Cheat in the annual Strong Sad Lookalike Contest!"

===Remarks===
*Strong Sad on the tape tells Strong Bad to stop flicking his ear, but Strong Sad doesn't have [[Lack of Visible Body Parts#Ears|visible ears]].
*The Cheat's costume has three toenails, whereas Strong Sad's [[soolnds]] only have two toenails each.
*In this email, Strong Bad shows excellent touch-typing skills as he finishes the email with a paper plate mask taped to his face. However, he seems to later lose this ability. In [[pom pom]], Strong Bad is unable to type while blindfolded.
*Strong Sad actually saying "Oh...some animal died" was made the [[Quote of the Week#QW-2003-08-25|Quote of the Week]] the same day this email appeared on the site.
*Both wooden columns supporting the banner have the staples and torn pieces of paper in the exact same spots.
*Coach Z says "adieu" instead of "ado"; this is a rather common mistake, and seemingly all the more probable with Coach Z being the speaker.
*Strong Bad's line "Stupid friggin' Cheat-in-a-Bag..." is a rare instance of using The Cheat's name without the [[integral article]].

===Goofs===
*When Strong Bad comes back to the computer after the contest, still wearing his costume, his hat is incorrectly mirrored in the screen's reflection.
*The form for the penmanship contest says 2004 Sectional Finals; however, the year on the sign for the contest (and the year of the toon's release) is 2003.
*Homestar's eyes reverse direction quickly before he slouches to do his Strong Sad impression.
*Strong Sad doesn't move his mouth to his "whoa!" when he is pushed. Instead, his mouth switches direction.

===Fixed Goofs===
*The initial YouTube upload cut the audio as Strong Bad returned to his computer room. It was re-uploaded with fixed audio a day later.

===Glitches===
*If the "Bigger Butt" Easter egg is clicked while [[The Paper]] is coming down, it will disappear as it is zooming in.

===Inside References===
*At the afterparty, Coach Z is drinking a "[[Cold One|Not So Cold One]]", from [[property of ones]].
*Strong Bad's comeback "[[More like]], YOU stop flicking MY ear," is very similar to his comeback in [[50 emails]].
*The hat Strong Bad wears is similar to the hat Strong Sad originally wore in his original sketches seen in the [[Sketchbook (museum)|Museum Sketchbook]].
*Coach Z's praise of The Cheat's costume ("It's as if Strong Sad was still alive and with us today!") is another instance of [[Strong Sad's Death|Strong Sad's imagined death]].
*The blue ribbon in the penmanship Easter egg is the same as the ribbons from [[Pumpkin Carve-nival]].
*The King of Town [[The King of Town Booing|boos]] Strong Sad.
*The Cheat dresses as Strong Sad's [[Severed Body Parts|leg]].

===Real-World References===
*The picture of Jhonka is reminiscent of the various humanoid creatures in [[Wikipedia:Dungeons & Dragons|Dungeons and Dragons]].
**In previous versions of Dungeons and Dragons, an armor class of +2 would be a decent defense rating. However, in the current incarnation of Dungeons and Dragons it would make the creature very easy to hit in combat. The article's tone seems to indicate that it was written for 2nd edition AD&D.
*In the bigger butt Easter egg, Strong Bad drew the [[Wikipedia:Kangol|Kangol]] kangaroo above his cap. Kangol is a British clothier famous for this kind of hat.

===Fast Forward===
*The Jhonka plays a prominent role in [[Peasant's Quest]].
*Homestar also uses, "Oh... Some animal died" in [[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 9.2]].
*[[The Deathly Pallor]] is the name of Strong Sad's radio persona in [[radio]]. It is also used in the email [[trading cards]].
*The King of Town again demonstrates [[The King of Town Booing|his low, one-man "boooo"]] in [[geddup noise]] after showing "The Standing Up Noise".
*Homestar claims he is doing a Strong Sad impression in [[fan club]].

== DVD Version ==
*All of the Easter eggs in this email are viewable using the angle button on your DVD remote.

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|82|youtube=GWrLnbRDNWQ}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]

stunt double

2021-06-22T20:28:52Z

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{{sbenav}}

[[Image:sbemail80.png|thumb|"Sounds Dangeresque..."]]

{{aboutemail}} {{forcharacter|The Stunt Double}}

Louis wonders if Strong Bad has ever used a stunt double. Strong Bad responds by showing clips from his latest movie, ''Dangeresque 2: This Time, It's Not Dangeresque 1''.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):'''
*{{Film|Strong Bad}} as [[Dangeresque (character)|Dangeresque]]
*{{Film|Coach Z}} as [[Renaldo]]
*{{Film|Strong Mad}}
*{{Film|Strong Sad}} ([[The Stunt Double]])
*{{Film|Homestar Runner}} as a guy in the background
*{{Film|Bubs}} as [[Baron Darin Diamonocle]]
*{{Film|The Cheat}}
*{{Film|Marzipan}} as [[Cutesy Buttons]]

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Smoky Office]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]], [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]], [[The Field]]

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, July 21, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 2:17

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Two}}, {{dvd|Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD|notitle=true}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD''': ''{singing}'' Oh, I took the email to the market, and I bought it some kind of fish sauce.

''{reading email}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hello Strong Bad, 
I'm a long time watcher first time 
writer. I was wondering if you ever 
use a stunt double. 
 
Your whatever, 
Louis</blockquote>

{''After reading "I'm a long time watcher first time writer", Strong Bad says, "Ooh, an LTWFTW!" He then proceeds to read "I was just wondering" although the word "just" is not present in the original text of the email. Then he reads the sender's name as "Luis. Er, Lewis. Louie."''}

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' A stunt double?!? No way, Lucy! Only big wusses and lesser wimps use stunt doubles. I've always done my own stunt work. Check me out in this summer blockbuster we just finished. It's called ''Dangeresque 2: This time, it's not Dangeresque 1''.

''{Static cut. A cue card is held up with the title: ''Dangeresque II: This Time, It's Not Dangeresque 1''. Then a newspaper is shown. The headline has been covered with a piece of paper that says, "'''MiSSiNG TAPE STOLEN!!!''' Dangeresque seen on the case. For real." Cut to an office scene with Strong Bad wearing sunglasses, playing Dangeresque, and Coach Z wearing a turban and a fez precariously perched on top, playing Renaldo.}''

'''DANGERESQUE:''' It's not going to be easy finding that missing tape.

'''RENALDO:''' Well, Dangeresque, if anyone can do it, I'm sure you can.

'''DANGERESQUE:''' You're right, Renaldo. But the elevator's broken in this building. So I'm gonna have to ''jump''! ''{makes a jumping motion}''

''{Cut to Strong Sad, wearing a paper bag with Strong Bad's face drawn on it on his head and oven mitts, standing on top of a ladder on the roof of Bubs' Concession Stand. He is pushed off and falls into a wading pool marked "shark pond!". The shot then cuts to Strong Bad walking away confidently. One of Strong Sad's oven mitts can be seen behind the concession stand. Cut to Strong Bad's basement, where Strong Bad and Strong Mad are standing.}''

'''DANGERESQUE:''' Either give me that tape, or punch me in the face!

''{Strong Mad punches. Edit to Strong Sad, once again wearing the paper bag, getting punched in the face and flying out of the shot followed by a crashing sound.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{off-screen}'' Ow.

''{Cut to the field. Strong Bad is holding a ping-pong paddle. Behind him are the missing tape and Homestar.}''

'''DANGERESQUE:''' Where is that tape?

''{Homestar realizes he can be seen and moves away. Cut to Bubs as a villain, wearing a monocle and holding The Cheat.}''

'''VILLAIN:''' Welcome to oblivion, Danger-skew!

''{He pulls a lever.}''

''{Cut to Strong Bad standing in the field, then edit to Strong Sad. A Heavy Lourde falls on Strong Sad.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Ow. That's what I like to call a broken neck.

''{Cut to Strong Bad and Marzipan in the field.}''

'''CUTESY BUTTONS:''' I won't watch you die, Dangeresque.

'''DANGERESQUE:''' Don't worry, Cutesy Buttons. Tonight, dying's not on the menu. So I'm gonna have to ''jump''! ''{makes a jumping motion again}''

''{Strong Sad is once again pushed off of Bubs' Concession Stand. This time the pool is marked "Pie Factory", though for a split second after Strong Sad lands in it the sign changes back to "shark pond!". Edit to Strong Bad walking away. Cut back to the office.}''

'''RENALDO:''' Sounds pretty dangerous.

'''DANGERESQUE:''' No... ''{turns around}'' sounds ''Dangeresque''!

''{Static cut back to the Compy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Okay, you can all return from the edge of your seats. Wow, watching that gives me goosebumps every time, man. I mean, the stunts I do are so ''{pause}'' done by me. And remember to watch out in June 2004 for ''{stops typing as a logo appears for:}'' "Dangeresque 3: ''The Criminal Projective.''" In 3D! ''{"3D" is added to the logo and the screen becomes drawn in red and blue lines like a 3D movie.}''

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

==Easter Eggs==
*At the very end, click on the big "3D" part of the logo.
:'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoa, I'm in 3D! Check out all my dimensions. I have height, width... and now, for a limited time only... depth!
*After the 3D spiel, click on the words "watch out" for more 3D action.
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{turns to the camera}'' Who needs diskettes? ''{flings floppy disks at the camera}'' Brreow, brreow, krreow! ''{Holds up another floppy}'' Hey, you want this disk? ''{pulls it back}'' Well you can't have it. ''{holds it up again}'' No you j' di' take it. ''{pulls it back}'' No, you can't have it. ''{taunts the viewer by holding up and pulling back the floppy repeatedly}'' No—don't—take—have it.

== Fun Facts ==

===Explanations===
*[[Wikipedia:Fish sauce|Fish sauce]] (also called "Nuoc Mam", "Patis", or "Nam Pla") is a salty sauce made from fermented seafood, integral in Southeast Asian cooking.
*Strong Bad saying "Ooh, an LTWFTW" is taken from most call-in radio shows, when some people say LTFT or LTLFTC, meaning ''Long Time First Time'' and ''Long Time Listener, First Time Caller'', respectively.
*Bubs plays a stereotypical evil genius, later named [[Baron Darin Diamonocle]] in ''[[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]]'', with a [[Wikipedia:monocle|monocle]] and a furry pet under one arm. [[Wikipedia:Ernst Blofeld|Ernst Blofeld]] from the James Bond movies is an early example of this, with characters like [[Wikipedia:Dr. Evil|Dr. Evil]] and [[Wikipedia:Doctor Claw|Dr. Claw]] following the same formula.
:*Furthermore, Diamonocle mispronounces Dangeresque's name as "Danger-skew", as though trying to read it phonetically and failing horribly.

===Trivia===
*The title of the [[Periodicals|newspaper]] is "[[The Local Newspapes]]".
**The newspaper article reads:
<blockquote>The Lemmer was treated for polar bear 
related injuries shortly after the 4th 
inning shenanigans. Officials say the 
bear 'wandered on down' from the North 
Pole with rich, creamy nougat on its 
mind. Nay-sayers have dismissed this as 
dismissable citing, "I think it might be 
just an inflatable polar bear, actually." 
The young gun was unavailable for a 
Young Guns 2 screening that took place 
in my basement a few months ago and I 
haven't forgiven him since. Seriously, 
Mark, I don't know what's up. We used to be so close and now you're acting all</blockquote>
*This is accompanied by a picture of some players of the [[Atlanta Braves]] (one of whom is [[LEMKE|Mark Lemke]]) on a baseball field with a polar bear digitally added in the background.
[[image:strongbad_3d_crosseyed.png|400px|thumb|Monochrome 3D image for cross-eyed viewing]]
*The scene does appear three-dimensional, to a degree, if one looks through [[Wikipedia:Stereoscopy#3D glasses|3D glasses]].
**For the effect to work, the blue filter has to be over the left eye. Most glasses would have to be turned around to achieve this.
**The blue and red parts of the image are not horizontally aligned. This will make most people nauseated when they view the scene with 3D glasses.
*To promote [[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]], this video was added to the Wii [http://us.wii.com/channel_nintendo.jsp Nintendo Channel] on November 17, 2008.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad proves he does all his own stunt work by showing clips from his smash hit movie Dangeresque 2. Witness the genesis (peter gabriel, not phil collins) of the world's best private eye/crooked cop: Dangeresque!"

===Remarks===
*The paper bag on Strong Sad's head has a picture of Strong Bad without the trademark sunglasses, even though he's supposed to look like Dangeresque.
*Strong Sad's belly button is missing, possibly because he's standing in for Strong Bad, whose belly button is not visible.
*The reflection lines on Bubs's character's monocle's reflection lines look exactly like the ones on Coach Z's Z emblem.
*Baron Darin Diamonocle was not named until [[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]].

===Goofs===
*When the scene turns 3D, Strong Bad's reflection has the colors in the same order as his non-reflected self, which makes his reflection appear in front of the screen. But to be reflected properly (behind the screen) the red should be to the left of the blue.
*The diskette Strong Bad offers during the Easter egg is floating in midair, not being held by a hand.

===Inside References===
*Strong Bad wore the [[oven mitts]] in the cartoon [[In Search Of The Yello Dello]], the [[Homestar Quiz]], and [[halloweener]]; however, this time, Strong Sad wears them, to imitate Strong Bad's gloves.
*The monocle Bubs wears is similar to the monocles of [[The Announcer]] and [[The Barbershop Trio]].
*The [[Heavy Lourde]] that falls on Strong Sad's head originally appeared in [[homsar]].
*The [[Crack in the Wall]] is visible.

===Real-World References===
*The baseball field in the newspaper photo is [[Wikipedia:Fenway Park|Fenway Park]].
*Coach Z (Renaldo's) turban with downturned moon and star and fez hat are similar to the uniform worn by the [[Wikipedia:Shriners|Shriners of North America]].
*According to the commentary on the DVD, the "[[Pie Factory]]" is a reference to the name of the second level of the arcade game ''[[Donkey Kong]]'', which was omitted from many home versions of the game, usually due to memory constraints.
*The subtitle of the movie (This time, it's not Dangeresque 1) might be a take on "This time, it's personal", the subtitle of the movie [[Wikipedia:Jaws 4|''Jaws 4'']].
*''[[wikipedia:Young Guns II|Young Guns II]]'', mentioned in the newspaper article, is a 1990 film.

===Fast Forward===
*The theme from the summer blockbuster ''Dangeresque 2: This Time It's Not Dangeresque 1'' (instrumental bits of which can be heard in the email) is featured on [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits]].
*While ''Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective'' was not released (or even started on) by June 2004, loyal Dangeresque fans were offered the Digitally Remastered Version of ''Dangeresque 1: Dangeresque, Too?'' as a [[cop-out]] in [[dangeresque 3]].
**A movie poster for ''Dangeresque 3'' is shown in [[the movie theater]] lobby in [[the movies]]. It is worth noting that it has no fixed release date, yet the frame around the poster still displays it as "Now Playing".
*[[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]] is finally released (in 3D CGI) in November 2008 as episode 4 of [[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]].
**An [[Dangeresque: THREE in 3D|anaglyph 3D version]] appears on the [[SBCG4AP Collector's DVD]] released July 2009.

== DVD Version ==
*The way to access the Easter eggs has changed slightly. The hidden Strong Bad icon on the bottom center-right takes you to the first Easter egg where Strong Bad mentions he now has "depth" for a limited time, while the Strong Bad icon on the bottom center-left takes you to the flying diskettes.
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
**Note that the actual cartoon dialogue in the background is improperly synced to the toon during the commentary.
===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]])

'''MATT:''' Uh, do...do your impression of that guy from the Lord of the Rings commentary, Mike. That effects guy.

'''MIKE:''' ''{Laughs} {imitating "the effects guy"}'' We were going to go to New Zealand and write. ''{Himself again, laughing}'' What's that guy's name, Richard—

'''MATT:''' Richard Taylor.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. He's a good one.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Uh...

'''MIKE:''' ''{imitating Richard Taylor}'' Gollum really surpassed everything that had come before him...in effects.

'''MATT:''' ''{Laughs}'' Um, sounds kinda like Robin Leach.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' Yeah, that—

'''MATT:''' ''{Laughs again}'' Uh, so, this is how— where Dangeresque came from, eh, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' That's true. Dangeresque.

'''MATT:''' What was... uh... it was originally just Danger Man, wasn't he? And then we found out there was already some other thing called Danger Man?

'''MIKE:''' Oh yeah, there was, I think, Patrick McGoohan. Maybe...

'''MATT:''' James Doohan.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, maybe that—

'''MATT:''' Well, there's the Lemerke...Mark Lemke.

'''MIKE:''' Mark Lemke.

'''MATT:''' Mark Lemke, everyone. Mark Lemke, from the Atlanta Braves. There you go.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, so there's Renaldo wearing both a turban and a Fez.

'''MATT:''' And that was our friend Chris's tattoo of the... what was it? The symbol for the New Orleans Police—

'''MIKE:''' Police department.

'''MATT:''' —is the little emblem on his head, there, with the star and the moon.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, later, uh, that becomes— the Shark Pond becomes the Pie Factory. ''{Matt laughs}'' Which is a reference to, uh, the fourth board in Donkey Kong.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Which is clearly supposed to be cement?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. It's amazing, because—

''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' —the graphics weren't very conducive ''{Mike laughs}'' to making you think of cement.

'''MIKE:''' It didn't really look any more like pies than it did cement, though.

'''MATT:''' Eh, but it had— they were in those little, like, what looked like a pie tin that it was in.

''{Pause}''

'''MATT:''' Uh, I don't know what else to say.

'''MIKE:''' Look, it flashed.

'''MATT:''' Shark Factory. Or Shark Pit. Or—

'''MIKE:''' —pond—

'''MATT:''' —for a second there. It was poor, poor flashing.

'''MIKE:''' Yes. On our part. Um, we were going to do the whole episode— the whole episode in 3D at one point.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. It's a good thing that we decided not to, though.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, this is much better to have. ''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' We would've given everyone a headache.

'''MIKE:''' ...for a while. Yeah.

'''MATT:''' I'm leaning too close again.

'''MIKE:''' Sorry.

'''MATT:''' It's my fault.

===Fun Facts===
*Mike imitates [[Wikipedia:Richard Taylor (filmmaker)|Richard Taylor]], founder of [[Wikipedia:Weta Workshop|Weta Workshop]], the company which handled all of the props and costumes for ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' [[Wikipedia:The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy|movies]]. Taylor spoke in the commentaries for the DVD releases of these movies.
*[[Wikipedia:Gollum|Gollum]] is a character from The Lord of the Rings. In the movies, the character was portrayed with computer animation overlaid on actor [[Wikipedia:Andy Serkis|Andy Serkis]]' performance, and was considered a groundbreaking special effect, which Mike references in his fake commentary.
*[[Wikipedia:Robin Leach|Robin Leach]] was the host of [[Wikipedia:Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous|Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous]].
*''[[Wikipedia:Danger Man|Danger Man]]'' was a British television series about a secret agent played by [[Wikipedia:Patrick McGoohan|Patrick McGoohan]].
*[[Wikipedia:James Doohan|James Doohan]] was an actor most famous for playing Chief Engineer Montgomery "[[Wikipedia:Montgomery Scott|Scotty]]" Scott on [[Star Trek]].
*The Brothers Chaps incorrectly state that the fourth level of ''Donkey Kong'' is the pie factory. It is actually the second level.

==YouTube Version==
The Easter Eggs are not included.

== External Links ==
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suntan

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[[Image:sbemail77.png|thumb|The one thing the ladies love more than a regular Strong Bad is a lightly toasted Strong Bad.]]

Strong Bad discovers the awesomeness of black marker on stomach, which he markets to become a hundredaire.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|The Announcer}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Homsar}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]]

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Monday, June 16, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 3:17

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Two}}

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' I met her in the summertime. Her name was... ''{falsetto}'' email!

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Hey Strong Bad, 
 
I thought you looked cute as a 
Japanese cartoon with the blue hair 
and everything. ^_~ I was thinking 
you might look even better if you got 
out in the sun and got a nice tan. I've 
heard that a nice tan really 
helps your muscles stand out. 
 
Meg, 
KS</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad says "HEH-OH HEE! I think that's how you say that..." for the emoticon "^_~". He also reads "KS" as "K.S."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' That's a good point, KS. With the summer months all up on us, I'll probably be going shirtless more often than usual. I know one thing the ladies love more than a regular Strong Bad is a lightly toasted Strong Bad. ''{clears screen}'' And I guess it'll help to accentuate my abdominal muscles and my abs, and my cloits. They're already bulging all over the place as it is, but I guess a little more definition wouldn't kill me.

''{Cut to Strong Bad lying on a towel, sunbathing in The Field. Next to him are buckets labeled "Animal Phat — 'it's lard, yo!'" and "cocoa butter"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right, c'mon, sun, show me what you got. Don't pull no punches neither. I want the real radioactive stuff.

''{The King of Town enters, wearing round sunglasses}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' ''{sniffs}'' Gooh. ''{sniffs}'' Oh, there it is!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{rising from his towel}'' There ''what'' is?

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Ooh, nothing. Hi, Strong Bad. How are you this day?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Well, I was certainly better before you showed up. I'm still doing pretty good.

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' ''{sneakily stealing the cocoa butter while Strong Bad isn't looking}'' Oh, good. That's all I wanted to know. I guess I'll be moving on to a different smell—place. ''{shoots off to the left taking the cocoa butter}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' What the—? Hey! He took my cocoa butter!

''{The King of Town peeks back in and grabs the Animal Phat}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' What? Aw!

''{The words "6–8 hours later..." in the Compy email loading style appear on screen. Cut to Strong Bad sunbathing again. His chest is now extremely pink. Marzipan enters with a large, green oriental-style paper umbrella, and she is smiling}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Strong Bad, how long have you been laying here?

'''STRONG BAD:''' I dunno, six, maybe eight hours.

'''MARZIPAN:''' You know, you're supposed to flip over every 15 minutes or so...

'''STRONG BAD:''' What?! Who wants a tan on their back? There's no abs to accentuate. Not like up here. ''{stands, admiring his non-existent abs}'' Ooh, check it out, Ab City, USA. ''{Shaking hips. Strong Bad's back is white, contrasting his burnt chest.}'' Do-doot do.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Strong Bad, I don't see a single ab.

'''STRONG BAD:''' What are you talking about, it's like a cold one brewery over here, there's so many six-packs. ''{produces a sharpie marker}'' Check it out, ''{draws abs onto his chest}'' one, two, threefourfivesix. ''{grins at Marzipan}'' Oops, forgot the hatching. ''{adds shading}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Aren't you supposed to have pecs?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Don't need 'em! That's why they call me Double A: ''All Abs!''

'''MARZIPAN:''' That's weird.

''{Marzipan leaves}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoa, I bet I could make some serious dough off this idea. I could be like, a thousandaire, or at least a hundredaire.

''{Cut to fake ad, with Strong Bad's Ab-Abber 2000 zooming in slowly}''

'''ANNOUNCER:''' Introducing the all new Strong Bad Ab-Abber 2000! Get results like the professionals in ''{words appear on screen}'' Minutes! Nay! Seconds! Just listen to this guy over here!

''{cut to Strong Sad holding the Ab-Abber 2000}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{sounding like he is reading off of a tele-prompter}'' Since using Strong Bad's Ab-Abber Two Thousand ''{pronounces "thousand" as "Thous And"}'', the ladies have been all up ons. ''{talking to Strong Bad off camera}'' All up ons? I don't know what that means!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{off camera}'' Well, Strong Sad, it means they really like you.

'''STRONG SAD:''' But they don't! Especially now with all this Sharpie on my stomach.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Just read the lines, man. ''{Strong Bad's hand appears on camera holding a plush lobster}'' Do you want to see Gooblies again or not?

'''STRONG SAD:''' You leave Gooby out of this!

''{Cut to a close-up of the Ab-Abber 2000 box with words "Act Now!" flashing at the top of the screen}''

'''ANNOUNCER:''' Act now and receive the Cloitsterizer ''{words appear at bottom of screen, as well as a cheese wedge with a string tacked to it}'' Abs-solutely free! ''{words disappear}'' Max out your ''{"Cloits and Dloits!!?!" flashes in center screen}'' Cloits and Dloits with the ease of a thousandaire. Strong Bad's Ab-Abber 2000. ''{words appear}'' "They'll be all up ons!"

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:Testimonial.PNG|thumb|right|"I'm just in time for the murder mystery!"]]
*Click on the G tag (right side, up near Strong Bad's hand) on Strong Sad's lobster [[Gooblies]] to see a Homsar celebrity testimonial just before the "Act Now!" scene.

:''{Homsar is shown finishing drawing an adding machine displaying the word "SALAd" on his shirt. The words "Celebrity(?) Testimonial" are superimposed on the lower center of the screen.}''
:'''HOMSAR:''' AAAaaaAAAaaa-I'm just in time for the murder mystery!

*Click on the marker at the end of the email to see the instructions for Strong Bad's [[Ab-Abber 2000|Ab-Abber]].
<blockquote>Strong Bad's Ab-Abber 2000 Instruction Manual
Use fine tip black 
marker(not included) 
to define the desired 
abdominal muscles 
(abs). Repeat as 
often as necessary.
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Actual 
drawing</blockquote>

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*The use of "^_~" to represent a wink is an example of an [[Wikipedia:Emoticon|emoticon]]. Emoticons that can be understood without turning one's head to the side are often considered to be of [[Wikipedia:Emoticon#Japanese style|Japanese style]].
*The first bucket says "Animal Phat." Phat is a slang word meaning "cool," although it's intended to mean actual fat in this case. This ties in with the second phrase on the bucket: "It's lard, yo!," both a reference to the bucket's contents and the play on words.

===Trivia===
*The emailer refers to [[japanese cartoon]].
*According to the commentary on the DVD:
**Matt actually once had a stuffed lobster named Gooblies.
**The sunglasses the King of Town wears actually belong to Marzipan. They were based on an old pair Matt had, which he broke while shooting the [[Fhqwhgads (karaoke)|Fhqwhgads]] karaoke video for the DVD.
**[[The Cloitsterizer]] was actually an item that Matt and Mike saw a kid dragging in a thrift store.
*Marzipan is carrying a toothpick parasol one would normally receive with a tropical drink, only hers seems to be much larger than normal.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Bronze bods and rippling abs abound when Strong Bad gets some sun."

===Remarks===
*Strong Bad appears to be sunburned after he lies in the sun for 6-8 hours, but doesn't appear to be feeling any pain.
*Strong Bad draws hatching on his abs on the opposite side of the shading on his body, as though the lighting was coming from two different directions.

===Goofs===
*The abs drawn on Strong Sad's stomach have the bizarre side effect of making his belly button completely disappear.
*When Strong Bad draws the abs on, his legs are in front of his body.
*When Strong Bad says "Her name was Email" in the email song, parts of his mask, though they appear cut off, protrude above his head instead of being flat on his face like usual.

===Inside References===
*When showing the commercial of the Ab-Abber 2000, the music that plays is taken from [[action figure]].
*This is another instance of [[Strong Bad smiling]].
*This is another appearance of the letter [[G]].

===Real-World References===
*The facial hair on the man in the instructions is very similar to the style that was adopted by [[Wikipedia:Frank Zappa|Frank Zappa]].
*[[Wikipedia:Sharpie (marker)|Sharpies]] are a brand of permanent marker.
*The "Like on the TV!!!" sticker is a reference to the "[[Wikipedia:As seen on TV (marketing)|As Seen on TV]]" logo seen on many products that were at one point advertised via commercial or infomercial.

===Fast Forward===
*The term [[All up ons]] became a running gag on the site.
*The [[The King of Town's Food#Cocoa Butter|cocoa butter]] reappears in [[the bet]] on The King of Town's food shelf.
*The word 'Thousandaire' appears later in [[Sickly Sam's Big Outing]].

== DVD Version ==
*The Homsar celebrity testimonial is automatically enabled, so no selecting is required.
*The DVD version features hidden audio commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]], [[Marzipan]])

'''MATT:''' Welcome to "suntan".

'''MIKE:''' We're joined here by Marzipan once again.

'''MARZIPAN:''' That's right.

'''MIKE:''' What do you think of that song? That's a little more tender side of Strong— Strong Bad, Marzipan.

'''MARZIPAN:''' He has this— He, he does have a tender side.

''{pause}''

'''MIKE:''' Say something else.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Well, I'm listening right now.

'''MIKE:''' Okay.

'''MARZIPAN:''' I, I liked this email...

'''MIKE:''' I like your, um... Well, we'll talk about it when it comes on.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Okay.

'''MATT:''' I remember we did this, it was kind of— Didn't I just come back from a vacation and actually had a pretty bad, pretty bad sunburn?

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' Yeah, so, timely.

'''MARZIPAN:''' That's true. You know, and after this email for the next few months, uh, Matt and Mike both kept drawing abs on their bodies and going around shirtless in the studio. ''{Mike laughs}'' It was very distracting for most of us ladies.

'''MIKE:''' I wish I could have that towel.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I mean, that— that's a towel that, conceptually I swear I've seen before, but now I've searched ''{Mike chuckles}'' far and wide and can't find one with a Bengal tiger on it. Or a Siberian tiger on it?

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{overlapping}'' Those are— those are my sunglasses that the King of Town is wearing.

'''MATT:''' Really?

'''MIKE:''' Those are pretty sweet.

'''MATT:''' They're modeled after these, uh, glasses I have for slim Chaps, this character.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Really?

'''MATT:''' Yeah. ''{short pause}'' That I actually just broke when we were doing the, uh, the half-pipe stuff for the karaoke video for Everybody to the Limit.

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' Oh, yeah.

'''MATT:''' They're broken now.

'''MIKE:''' You can watch that. If you watch closely, you can see the glasses fall off.

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{gasps watching her character enter frame on the email}'' Oh! That is the, um, the umbrella from Mike's cocktail.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MARZIPAN:''' I just grabbed that at the last minute; I thought it really added to the scene.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, I really like that.

'''MATT:''' It's clearly— yeah, it's clearly just a cocktail umbrella though, made large. ''{short pause}'' Now here's my favorite song. ''{Strong Bad says "Do-do do" in the email}'' That's a good song.

'''MIKE:''' "Do-do do"?

'''MATT:''' Look, he's Neapolitan Strong Bad, with no chocolate.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Yeah, it was really hot out that day.

'''MATT:''' It looks pretty hot. There's some sweltering orange sky back there.

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' Yeah, I did that uh...

'''MARZIPAN:''' Fortunately, I never sweat.

'''MIKE:''' ''{amused}'' Really?

'''MARZIPAN:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, wait, see? Look, Marzipan's eyes '''were''' backwards!

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' Yeah, yeah, you're right, you're right.

'''MATT:''' I, I apologize, Marzipan, on behalf of my brother Mike.

'''MARZIPAN:''' It made working very difficult that day. ''{Mike chuckles}''

'''MATT:''' I bet. ''{pause}'' Did our friend Tobin coin that phrase? Or does he just use it?

'''MIKE:''' "Hundredaire"?

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' I don't know; it's possible.

'''MATT:''' He uses it extensively, which is good.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Who modeled for that, um, box top?

'''MIKE:''' Think it's Strong Bad.

'''MATT:''' Think it's Strong Bad himself.

'''MIKE:''' He's a character from our website. ''{Matt chuckles}''

'''MATT:''' The background is great, Mike; it's very true to the, to the infomercial—

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' Ron— ''{chuckles}''

'''MATT:''' yeah, Ron, Ron Popeil.

'''MIKE:''' And here's, uh— Matt really had a, uh, stuffed lobster named Gooblies.

'''MATT:''' It's true. I don't know what Gooblies meant.

'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' There he is.

''{pause}''

'''MATT:''' The Cloitsterizer is something we actually saw; eh, it's mentioned elsewhere on this DVD, but we saw a kid dragging that around a thrift store one day—

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' —a piece of wooden cheese on a string.

===Fun Facts===
*[[Wikipedia:Ron Popeil|Ron Popeil]] is the founder of [[Wikipedia:Ronco|Ronco]] and is the inventor of the Pocket Fisherman, Mr. Microphone, and more recently the Showtime Rotisserie. Ronco's early television sales techniques are considered the progenitors of today's infomercials.

== External Links ==
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2021-06-19T04:12:18Z

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[[Image:sbemail70.PNG|thumb|Not the first time this has happened, today.]]

Jen C. asks Strong Bad why he is so mean to the guy with the big white face and gray body.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]], [[King of Town's Castle]]

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, April 21, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 2:51

'''Page Title:''' Compy 086!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Two}}

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hoo! Cha! Cheritiza! Hooritajuzu-duh-email!

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Dear Strong Bad, 
 
Why are you so mean to the guy with 
the big white face and gray body? 
 
Jen C from Millbrae , CA</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad sings "Dear Strong Bad" in a slightly high-pitched voice}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Big, white face and gray body?!? Who is she talking about? Hang on a second.

''{types run "M4RZ1P4N"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Is she talking about Marzipan?

''{Marzipan's picture shows up on his computer}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, her head is... more like a baseball bat.

''{types run "bu-hubs"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Maybe Bubs? No. Bubs is definitely of the blue-headed persuasion.

''{types run "undabite"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Homestar's got the white head, but... his body's just kinda that red skirt. ''{laughs a little as he speaks}''

''{types run "no-neck"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Strong Mad doesn't really have a head ''or'' a body.

''{types run "dacheese"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' The Cheat's physiology just plain baffles me.

''{types run "mr.smith"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Um, the Poopsmith? Or the Poopsmith! But why would she think he has a gray body? Maybe her monitor isn't calibrated right. Or maybe she's like... on one of those old black and white monitors.

''{types run "[[b/w]]"; it converts his monitor to an old Macintosh layout}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's it! ''{tabs out of the Macintosh layout, starts typing}'' Yeah, maybe I am a little hard on that guy. I should do something nice for him.

''{Strong Bad gets up, Strong Sad walks past}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Just on my way to do some stuff... Oh! What's this say? ''{reads the email, mumbling}'' Finally! My comeuppance has arrived! I should go wait somewhere inconspicuous and act none the wiser.

''{Cut to a screen of the Macintosh setup with the caption "A little while later..." with the wristwatch cursor on the screen. Then cut to The Field, where Strong Sad is standing.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, nothing, nothing...

''{Strong Bad starts walking past Strong Sad with a cake behind his back}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, hey, Strong Bad!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, wiggidy-wiener.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Did you have something you wanted to tell me?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ummm... you're the wiggidy-wiener?

'''STRONG SAD:''' No, not that. What are you holding behind your back?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ummm... a single deuce? Dooj? ''{flips him the single deuce}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' No, your other back!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uhhh... cake for the Poopsmith? Dooj? ''{throws the cake in Strong Sad's face}'' Aww, look what you made me do! Now I gotta make The Cheat make me another cake. ''{walks off}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' I wish I could say this is the first time that this has happened to me. ''Today.''

''{Back to the Mac screen, now reading "Another while later..." Cut to the Poopsmith and his pile of [[whatsit]]. Strong Bad walks up to him with another cake.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, doodoo man! I just wanted to apologize for throwing that first cake at Strong Sad. I put some beans on it. You know. In case maybe you wanted beans on it. ''{The Poopsmith shrugs}'' I hope there's no hard feelings.

''{The Poopsmith takes the cake}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Anyways, it really stinks over here, so, uhh... I'm—I'm gonna go. Enjoy the cake.

''{Strong Bad walks off. The Poopsmith flinches when [[The Paper]] comes down. The Poopsmith pokes it with his shovel. The end is on a loop, so he does this about every 10 seconds}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:50cake.PNG|thumb|"Enjoy the cake."]]
*Click on the image of [[The Cheat]] to check out [[Physiology of The Cheat|his physiology]].
*At the end you can click on a bit of whatsit on The Poopsmith's shovel to [[Miscellaneous Downloads|download]] those Mac desktops as wallpaper.
*Also at the end, you can click on the cake to see what it looks like. You can keep clicking on it to add toppings to it. The toppings are added in this order: fortune cookies, Chinese food (which looks like it might be [[General Tso's Chicken]]), [[grapes]], [[Wikipedia:Golden Grahams|Golden Grahams]] [[Breakfast Cereal|cereal]], ice cubes, lemon slices, and finally, a [[Swiss Cake Roll]] and the "50" candle from [[50 emails]].
**The cake Easter egg will not work on some computers, probably because the cake is stored in a separate Flash file.
**The cake reads: ''Sorry I threw that 1st cake at Strong Sad.'' There is a ''you'' that points at a caricature of the Poopsmith. There is a ''me'' that points to a caricature of Strong Bad.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The first cake read, "Hey!! Poopsmith! Here's a cake!" However, the second cake (when zoomed in, not seen in the closeup) reads, "Sorry for screwing up the jumble caper." ''(also see Inside References)''
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#world games|world games]]".
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "After some soul-searching and looking at low-res portraits of everyone, Strong Bad realizes he needs to apologize to the Poopsmith."
*This email marks the first time "[[dooj]]" is spoken.

===Remarks===
*It's strange that Strong Bad says he's been hard on The Poopsmith, since in [[your friends]], he says he didn't harm The Poopsmith because, on account of The Poopsmith's profession, "his tolerance for pain's gotta be through the roof."
*In the part where Strong Bad says, "Big, white face and gray body?!? Who is she talking about? Hang on a second...," he's actually typing it, meaning he's sending a reply. Unless he was thinking out loud, he should have said "you", not "she".
*Even though Strong Bad has [[Lack of Visible Body Parts#Strong Bad's Nose|no visible nose]], he covers the area where his nose would be if he had one when he says "It really stinks over here..."
*Strong Bad's theory that Jen C.'s monitor displays images in black and white can be applied to make [[Homestar Runner]] a viable person to apologize to as well as the Poopsmith and Strong Sad, and, if he were to have continued, [[Homsar]], [[Coach Z]], [[the King of Town]], [[The Hornblower]], and many others.

===Goofs===
*Strong Bad's reflection is covered by the pictures.
*Strong Sad's reflection isn't affected by contrast change.
*The bottom of Strong Sad's reflection is cut off early at the Compy.
*If the contrast is changed before the Mac desktop comes up, then the Mac desktop appears blue instead of grey.
*When Strong Bad looks away from the castle before telling the Poopsmith to enjoy the cake, his right eye remains bigger than his left.

===Inside References===
*"Sorry for screwing up the jumble caper" ''(see [[#Trivia|Trivia]])'' is The Cheat's continued apology for ruining the [[caper]].
*When Strong Sad asks what Strong Bad is holding behind his back, he says the Single Deuce, which is [[Pom Pom]]'s gesture from "[[the bird]]".
*The Cheat's photo shows him smoking a pipe, as per his [[Smoking#The Cheat's smoking|nicotine habit]] seen in [[The Cheat's Smoking Challenge]] and [[Where's The Cheat?]]. His addiction is later revisited in [[montage]].
*When Strong Bad types out Marzipan's name ("M4RZ1P4N"), it is written in a form of [[Internet Slang|leet]].
*The Poopsmith's second cake is another example of a [[concoction]].
*In the Easter egg, the final addition to the cake includes the candle shaped as a 50, which was previously used on the cake in [[50 emails]].
**The whole cake at the end, and all its toppings, is a [[Real-Live Foods|live-action food]].

===Real-World References===
*The email's page title says "Compy 086" instead of "Compy 386", and there's an icon on the black and white [[Wikipedia:Apple Macintosh|Mac]] desktop that says "Compy 086". This is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Intel 8086|Intel 8086]], the first 16-bit processor introduced by [[Wikipedia:Intel|Intel]]. Macs of that vintage ran on [[Wikipedia:Motorola 68000|Motorola 68000]] processors, not Intel processors. It may be inferred that Strong Bad was using either a screen simulator or fast-loading OS emulator because the OS is at the desktop immediately after Strong Bad's keystroke and is not shown booting.
**One explanation of the "Compy 086" designation is that with the introduction of the 68020 processor, Motorola's processors were sometimes referred to by dropping the "68" and abbreviating their names to their last three digits - Macs were said to run on "020", "030" and "040" processors. It is reasoned that that is where the "0" in "086" may have come from in this email.
**However, it should be noted that Apple officially pronounced the processor lines by their full generation names and by spelling out all the numbers in the names individually, (i.e. "six-eight-oh-two-oh, six-eight-oh-three-oh, six-eight-oh-four-oh"). Many Mac users followed that or a similar full pronunciation of the processor generation names (the other popular variant being "six-eighty-twenty, six-eighty-thirty, six-eighty-forty"), although for convenience the triple digit abbreviation was sometimes used in third-party product literature. In other words, the aforementioned triple digit abbreviation was not officially used by Apple to refer to the processors, nor was it necessarily used by many users.
*The Mac desktop shown is most likely of a version of System 6 with Multi-Finder enabled, hence the application menu on the top right. It may be a release of System 5 instead, but that is unlikely since System 5 was replaced relatively quickly by System 6. However, it is clearly not a version of System 7 since, although it looked similar to its predecessors in B&W mode, the menubar lacks the Balloon Help icon found in System 7.
*The Mac desktop has a floppy disk icon that reads "[[Wikipedia:The Manhole|The Manhole]]", one of the first computer games by [[Wikipedia:Cyan Worlds|Cyan]], the company that would go on to make [[Wikipedia:Myst|Myst]].
*Visible on the Mac's menu bar are a closed pair of eyes from the old Mac shareware program MyEyes. These eyes would open to follow the cursor around and blink periodically.
*The Apple desktop has [[Wikipedia:Karateka (video game)|Karateka]] on it, a [[Wikipedia:Karate|karate]] combat game developed by [[Wikipedia:Jordan Mechner|Jordan Mechner]] in 1984. Karateka was popular in the 1980s, so it can be inferred that this Macintosh environment is very old.

===Fast Forward===
*Strong Bad will later have a similar chant in the email [[funny]].

== DVD Version ==
*All of the Easter eggs are still viewable using either the angle button on your DVD remote or pressing down to find the bad graphics Strong Bad at the end of the email.

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|70|youtube=qiTP2JDEvDo}}
*[[HR:cake.swf|view the cake]]
*[[OldHR:wallpapers/macbkgd2.gif|download the Mac desktop (800×600)]]
*[[OldHR:wallpapers/macbkgd.gif|download the Mac desktop (1024×768)]]

{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]

big white face

2021-06-19T03:19:05Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}

[[Image:sbemail70.PNG|thumb|Not the first time this has happened, today.]]

Jen C. asks Strong Bad why he is so mean to the guy with the big white face and gray body.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]], [[King of Town's Castle]]

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, April 21, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 2:51

'''Page Title:''' Compy 086!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Two}}

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hoo! Cha! Cheritiza! Hooritajuzu-duh-email!

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Dear Strong Bad, 
 
Why are you so mean to the guy with 
the big white face and gray body? 
 
Jen C from Millbrae , CA</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad sings "Dear Strong Bad" in a slightly high-pitched voice}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Big, white face and gray body?!? Who is she talking about? Hang on a second.

''{types run "M4RZ1P4N"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Is she talking about Marzipan?

''{Marzipan's picture shows up on his computer}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, her head is... more like a baseball bat.

''{types run "bu-hubs"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Maybe Bubs? No. Bubs is definitely of the blue-headed persuasion.

''{types run "undabite"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Homestar's got the white head, but... his body's just kinda that red skirt. ''{laughs a little as he speaks}''

''{types run "no-neck"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Strong Mad doesn't really have a head ''or'' a body.

''{types run "dacheese"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' The Cheat's physiology just plain baffles me.

''{types run "mr.smith"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Um, the Poopsmith? Or the Poopsmith! But why would she think he has a gray body? Maybe her monitor isn't calibrated right. Or maybe she's like... on one of those old black and white monitors.

''{types run "[[b/w]]"; it converts his monitor to an old Macintosh layout}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's it! ''{tabs out of the Macintosh layout, starts typing}'' Yeah, maybe I am a little hard on that guy. I should do something nice for him.

''{Strong Bad gets up, Strong Sad walks past}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Just on my way to do some stuff... Oh! What's this say? ''{reads the email, mumbling}'' Finally! My comeuppance has arrived! I should go wait somewhere inconspicuous and act none the wiser.

''{Cut to a screen of the Macintosh setup with the caption "A little while later..." with the wristwatch cursor on the screen. Then cut to The Field, where Strong Sad is standing.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, nothing, nothing...

''{Strong Bad starts walking past Strong Sad with a cake behind his back}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, hey, Strong Bad!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, wiggidy-wiener.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Did you have something you wanted to tell me?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ummm... you're the wiggidy-wiener?

'''STRONG SAD:''' No, not that. What are you holding behind your back?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ummm... a single deuce? Dooj? ''{flips him the single deuce}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' No, your other back!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uhhh... cake for the Poopsmith? Dooj? ''{throws the cake in Strong Sad's face}'' Aww, look what you made me do! Now I gotta make The Cheat make me another cake. ''{walks off}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' I wish I could say that this is the first time this has happened to me. ''Today.''

''{Back to the Mac screen, now reading "Another while later..." Cut to the Poopsmith and his pile of [[whatsit]]. Strong Bad walks up to him with another cake.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, doodoo man! I just wanted to apologize for throwing that first cake at Strong Sad. I put some beans on it. You know. In case maybe you wanted beans on it. ''{The Poopsmith shrugs}'' I hope there's no hard feelings.

''{The Poopsmith takes the cake}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Anyways, it really stinks over here, so, uhh... I'm—I'm gonna go. Enjoy the cake.

''{Strong Bad walks off. The Poopsmith flinches when [[The Paper]] comes down. The Poopsmith pokes it with his shovel. The end is on a loop, so he does this about every 10 seconds}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:50cake.PNG|thumb|"Enjoy the cake."]]
*Click on the image of [[The Cheat]] to check out [[Physiology of The Cheat|his physiology]].
*At the end you can click on a bit of whatsit on The Poopsmith's shovel to [[Miscellaneous Downloads|download]] those Mac desktops as wallpaper.
*Also at the end, you can click on the cake to see what it looks like. You can keep clicking on it to add toppings to it. The toppings are added in this order: fortune cookies, Chinese food (which looks like it might be [[General Tso's Chicken]]), [[grapes]], [[Wikipedia:Golden Grahams|Golden Grahams]] [[Breakfast Cereal|cereal]], ice cubes, lemon slices, and finally, a [[Swiss Cake Roll]] and the "50" candle from [[50 emails]].
**The cake Easter egg will not work on some computers, probably because the cake is stored in a separate Flash file.
**The cake reads: ''Sorry I threw that 1st cake at Strong Sad.'' There is a ''you'' that points at a caricature of the Poopsmith. There is a ''me'' that points to a caricature of Strong Bad.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The first cake read, "Hey!! Poopsmith! Here's a cake!" However, the second cake (when zoomed in, not seen in the closeup) reads, "Sorry for screwing up the jumble caper." ''(also see Inside References)''
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#world games|world games]]".
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "After some soul-searching and looking at low-res portraits of everyone, Strong Bad realizes he needs to apologize to the Poopsmith."
*This email marks the first time "[[dooj]]" is spoken.

===Remarks===
*It's strange that Strong Bad says he's been hard on The Poopsmith, since in [[your friends]], he says he didn't harm The Poopsmith because, on account of The Poopsmith's profession, "his tolerance for pain's gotta be through the roof."
*In the part where Strong Bad says, "Big, white face and gray body?!? Who is she talking about? Hang on a second...," he's actually typing it, meaning he's sending a reply. Unless he was thinking out loud, he should have said "you", not "she".
*Even though Strong Bad has [[Lack of Visible Body Parts#Strong Bad's Nose|no visible nose]], he covers the area where his nose would be if he had one when he says "It really stinks over here..."
*Strong Bad's theory that Jen C.'s monitor displays images in black and white can be applied to make [[Homestar Runner]] a viable person to apologize to as well as the Poopsmith and Strong Sad, and, if he were to have continued, [[Homsar]], [[Coach Z]], [[the King of Town]], [[The Hornblower]], and many others.

===Goofs===
*Strong Bad's reflection is covered by the pictures.
*Strong Sad's reflection isn't affected by contrast change.
*The bottom of Strong Sad's reflection is cut off early at the Compy.
*If the contrast is changed before the Mac desktop comes up, then the Mac desktop appears blue instead of grey.
*When Strong Bad looks away from the castle before telling the Poopsmith to enjoy the cake, his right eye remains bigger than his left.

===Inside References===
*"Sorry for screwing up the jumble caper" ''(see [[#Trivia|Trivia]])'' is The Cheat's continued apology for ruining the [[caper]].
*When Strong Sad asks what Strong Bad is holding behind his back, he says the Single Deuce, which is [[Pom Pom]]'s gesture from "[[the bird]]".
*The Cheat's photo shows him smoking a pipe, as per his [[Smoking#The Cheat's smoking|nicotine habit]] seen in [[The Cheat's Smoking Challenge]] and [[Where's The Cheat?]]. His addiction is later revisited in [[montage]].
*When Strong Bad types out Marzipan's name ("M4RZ1P4N"), it is written in a form of [[Internet Slang|leet]].
*The Poopsmith's second cake is another example of a [[concoction]].
*In the Easter egg, the final addition to the cake includes the candle shaped as a 50, which was previously used on the cake in [[50 emails]].
**The whole cake at the end, and all its toppings, is a [[Real-Live Foods|live-action food]].

===Real-World References===
*The email's page title says "Compy 086" instead of "Compy 386", and there's an icon on the black and white [[Wikipedia:Apple Macintosh|Mac]] desktop that says "Compy 086". This is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Intel 8086|Intel 8086]], the first 16-bit processor introduced by [[Wikipedia:Intel|Intel]]. Macs of that vintage ran on [[Wikipedia:Motorola 68000|Motorola 68000]] processors, not Intel processors. It may be inferred that Strong Bad was using either a screen simulator or fast-loading OS emulator because the OS is at the desktop immediately after Strong Bad's keystroke and is not shown booting.
**One explanation of the "Compy 086" designation is that with the introduction of the 68020 processor, Motorola's processors were sometimes referred to by dropping the "68" and abbreviating their names to their last three digits - Macs were said to run on "020", "030" and "040" processors. It is reasoned that that is where the "0" in "086" may have come from in this email.
**However, it should be noted that Apple officially pronounced the processor lines by their full generation names and by spelling out all the numbers in the names individually, (i.e. "six-eight-oh-two-oh, six-eight-oh-three-oh, six-eight-oh-four-oh"). Many Mac users followed that or a similar full pronunciation of the processor generation names (the other popular variant being "six-eighty-twenty, six-eighty-thirty, six-eighty-forty"), although for convenience the triple digit abbreviation was sometimes used in third-party product literature. In other words, the aforementioned triple digit abbreviation was not officially used by Apple to refer to the processors, nor was it necessarily used by many users.
*The Mac desktop shown is most likely of a version of System 6 with Multi-Finder enabled, hence the application menu on the top right. It may be a release of System 5 instead, but that is unlikely since System 5 was replaced relatively quickly by System 6. However, it is clearly not a version of System 7 since, although it looked similar to its predecessors in B&W mode, the menubar lacks the Balloon Help icon found in System 7.
*The Mac desktop has a floppy disk icon that reads "[[Wikipedia:The Manhole|The Manhole]]", one of the first computer games by [[Wikipedia:Cyan Worlds|Cyan]], the company that would go on to make [[Wikipedia:Myst|Myst]].
*Visible on the Mac's menu bar are a closed pair of eyes from the old Mac shareware program MyEyes. These eyes would open to follow the cursor around and blink periodically.
*The Apple desktop has [[Wikipedia:Karateka (video game)|Karateka]] on it, a [[Wikipedia:Karate|karate]] combat game developed by [[Wikipedia:Jordan Mechner|Jordan Mechner]] in 1984. Karateka was popular in the 1980s, so it can be inferred that this Macintosh environment is very old.

===Fast Forward===
*Strong Bad will later have a similar chant in the email [[funny]].

== DVD Version ==
*All of the Easter eggs are still viewable using either the angle button on your DVD remote or pressing down to find the bad graphics Strong Bad at the end of the email.

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|70|youtube=qiTP2JDEvDo}}
*[[HR:cake.swf|view the cake]]
*[[OldHR:wallpapers/macbkgd2.gif|download the Mac desktop (800×600)]]
*[[OldHR:wallpapers/macbkgd.gif|download the Mac desktop (1024×768)]]

{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]

big white face

2021-06-19T03:06:03Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}

[[Image:sbemail70.PNG|thumb|Not the first time this has happened, today.]]

Jen C. asks Strong Bad why he is so mean to the guy with the big white face and gray body.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]], [[King of Town's Castle]]

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, April 21, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 2:51

'''Page Title:''' Compy 086!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Two}}

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hoo! Cha! Cheritiza! Hooritajuzu-duh-email!

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Dear Strong Bad, 
 
Why are you so mean to the guy with 
the big white face and gray body? 
 
Jen C from Millbrae , CA</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad sings "Dear Strong Bad" in a slightly high-pitched voice}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Big, white face and gray body?!? Who is she talking about? Hang on a second.

''{types run "M4RZ1P4N"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Is she talking about Marzipan?

''{Marzipan's picture shows up on his computer}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, her head is... more like a baseball bat.

''{types run "bu-hubs"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Maybe Bubs? No. Bubs is definitely of the blue-headed persuasion.

''{types run "undabite"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Homestar's got the white head, but... his body's just kinda that red skirt. ''{laughs a little as he speaks}''

''{types run "no-neck"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Strong Mad doesn't really have a head ''or'' a body.

''{types run "dacheese"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' The Cheat's physiology just plain baffles me.

''{types run "mr.smith"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Um, the Poopsmith? Or the Poopsmith! But why would she think he has a gray body? Maybe her monitor isn't calibrated right. Or maybe she's like... on one of those old black and white monitors.

''{types run "[[b/w]]"; it converts his monitor to an old Macintosh layout}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's it! ''{tabs out of the Macintosh layout, starts typing}'' Yeah, maybe I am a little hard on that guy. I should do something nice for him.

''{Strong Bad gets up, Strong Sad walks past}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Just on my way to do some stuff... Oh! What's this say? ''{reads the email, mumbling}'' Finally! My comeuppance has arrived! I should go wait somewhere inconspicuous and act none the wiser.

''{Cut to a screen of the Macintosh setup with the caption "A little while later..." with the wristwatch cursor on the screen. Then cut to The Field, where Strong Sad is standing.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, nothing, nothing...

''{Strong Bad starts walking past Strong Sad with a cake behind his back}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, hey, Strong Bad!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, wiggidy-wiener.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Did you have something you wanted to tell me?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ummm... you're the wiggidy-wiener?

'''STRONG SAD:''' No, not that. What are you holding behind your back?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ummm... a single deuce? Dooj? ''{flips him the single deuce}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' No, your other back!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uhhh... cake for the Poopsmith? Dooj? ''{throws the cake in Strong Sad's face}'' Aww, look what you made me do! Now I gotta make The Cheat make me another cake. ''{walks off}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' I wish I could say that this is the first time this has happened to me. ''Today.''

''{Back to the Mac screen, now reading "Another while later..." Cut to the Poopsmith and his pile of [[whatsit]]. Strong Bad walks up to him with another cake.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, doodoo man! I just wanted to apologize for throwing that first cake at Strong Sad. I put some beans on it. You know. In case maybe you wanted beans on it. ''{The Poopsmith shrugs}'' I hope there's no hard feelings.

''{The Poopsmith takes the cake}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Anyways, it really stinks over here, so, uhh... I'm—I'm gonna go. Enjoy the cake.

''{Strong Bad walks off. The Poopsmith flinches when [[The Paper]] comes down. The Poopsmith pokes it with his shovel. The end is on a loop, so he does this about every 10 seconds}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:50cake.PNG|thumb|"Enjoy the cake."]]
*Click on the image of [[The Cheat]] to check out [[Physiology of The Cheat|his physiology]].
*At the end you can click on a bit of whatsit on The Poopsmith's shovel to [[Miscellaneous Downloads|download]] those Mac desktops as wallpaper.
*Also at the end, you can click on the cake to see what it looks like. You can keep clicking on it to add toppings to it. The toppings are added in this order: fortune cookies, Chinese food (which looks like it might be [[General Tso's Chicken]]), [[grapes]], [[Wikipedia:Golden Grahams|Golden Grahams]] [[Breakfast Cereal|cereal]], ice cubes, lemon slices, and finally, a [[Swiss Cake Roll]] and the "50" candle from [[50 emails]].
**The cake Easter egg will not work on some computers, probably because the cake is stored in a separate Flash file.
**The cake reads: ''Sorry I threw that 1st cake at Strong Sad.'' There is a ''you'' that points at a caricature of the Poopsmith. There is a ''me'' that points to a caricature of Strong Bad.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The first cake read, "Hey!! Poopsmith! Here's a cake!" However, the second cake (when zoomed in, not seen in the closeup) reads, "Sorry for screwing up the jumble caper." ''(also see Inside References)''
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#world games|world games]]".
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "After some soul-searching and looking at low-res portraits of everyone, Strong Bad realizes he needs to apologize to the Poopsmith."
*This email marks the first time "[[dooj]]" is spoken.

===Remarks===
*It's strange that Strong Bad says he's been hard on The Poopsmith, since in [[your friends]], he says he didn't harm The Poopsmith because, on account of The Poopsmith's profession, "his tolerance for pain's gotta be through the roof."
*In the part where Strong Bad says, "Big, white face and gray body?!? Who is she talking about? Hang on a second...," he's actually typing it, meaning he's sending a reply. Unless he was thinking out loud, he should have said "you", not "she".
*Even though Strong Bad has [[Lack of Visible Body Parts#Strong Bad's Nose|no visible nose]], he covers the area where his nose would be if he had one when he says "It really stinks over here..."
*Strong Bad's theory that Jen C.'s monitor displays images in black and white can be applied to make [[Homestar Runner]] a viable person to apologize to as well as the Poopsmith and Strong Sad, and, were he to have continued, [[Homsar]], [[Coach Z]], [[the King of Town]], [[The Hornblower]], and many others.

===Goofs===
*Strong Bad's reflection is covered by the pictures.
*Strong Sad's reflection isn't affected by contrast change.
*The bottom of Strong Sad's reflection is cut off early at the Compy.
*If the contrast is changed before the Mac desktop comes up, then the Mac desktop appears blue instead of grey.
*When Strong Bad looks away from the castle before telling the Poopsmith to enjoy the cake, his right eye remains bigger than his left.

===Inside References===
*"Sorry for screwing up the jumble caper" ''(see [[#Trivia|Trivia]])'' is The Cheat's continued apology for ruining the [[caper]].
*When Strong Sad asks what Strong Bad is holding behind his back, he says the Single Deuce, which is [[Pom Pom]]'s gesture from "[[the bird]]".
*The Cheat's photo shows him smoking a pipe, as per his [[Smoking#The Cheat's smoking|nicotine habit]] seen in [[The Cheat's Smoking Challenge]] and [[Where's The Cheat?]]. His addiction is later revisited in [[montage]].
*When Strong Bad types out Marzipan's name ("M4RZ1P4N"), it is written in a form of [[Internet Slang|leet]].
*The Poopsmith's second cake is another example of a [[concoction]].
*In the Easter egg, the final addition to the cake includes the candle shaped as a 50, which was previously used on the cake in [[50 emails]].
**The whole cake at the end, and all its toppings, is a [[Real-Live Foods|live-action food]].

===Real-World References===
*The email's page title says "Compy 086" instead of "Compy 386", and there's an icon on the black and white [[Wikipedia:Apple Macintosh|Mac]] desktop that says "Compy 086". This is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Intel 8086|Intel 8086]], the first 16-bit processor introduced by [[Wikipedia:Intel|Intel]]. Macs of that vintage ran on [[Wikipedia:Motorola 68000|Motorola 68000]] processors, not Intel processors. It may be inferred that Strong Bad was using either a screen simulator or fast-loading OS emulator because the OS is at the desktop immediately after Strong Bad's keystroke and is not shown booting.
**One explanation of the "Compy 086" designation is that with the introduction of the 68020 processor, Motorola's processors were sometimes referred to by dropping the "68" and abbreviating their names to their last three digits - Macs were said to run on "020", "030" and "040" processors. It is reasoned that that is where the "0" in "086" may have come from in this email.
**However, it should be noted that Apple officially pronounced the processor lines by their full generation names and by spelling out all the numbers in the names individually, (i.e. "six-eight-oh-two-oh, six-eight-oh-three-oh, six-eight-oh-four-oh"). Many Mac users followed that or a similar full pronunciation of the processor generation names (the other popular variant being "six-eighty-twenty, six-eighty-thirty, six-eighty-forty"), although for convenience the triple digit abbreviation was sometimes used in third-party product literature. In other words, the aforementioned triple digit abbreviation was not officially used by Apple to refer to the processors, nor was it necessarily used by many users.
*The Mac desktop shown is most likely of a version of System 6 with Multi-Finder enabled, hence the application menu on the top right. It may be a release of System 5 instead, but that is unlikely since System 5 was replaced relatively quickly by System 6. However, it is clearly not a version of System 7 since, although it looked similar to its predecessors in B&W mode, the menubar lacks the Balloon Help icon found in System 7.
*The Mac desktop has a floppy disk icon that reads "[[Wikipedia:The Manhole|The Manhole]]", one of the first computer games by [[Wikipedia:Cyan Worlds|Cyan]], the company that would go on to make [[Wikipedia:Myst|Myst]].
*Visible on the Mac's menu bar are a closed pair of eyes from the old Mac shareware program MyEyes. These eyes would open to follow the cursor around and blink periodically.
*The Apple desktop has [[Wikipedia:Karateka (video game)|Karateka]] on it, a [[Wikipedia:Karate|karate]] combat game developed by [[Wikipedia:Jordan Mechner|Jordan Mechner]] in 1984. Karateka was popular in the 1980s, so it can be inferred that this Macintosh environment is very old.

===Fast Forward===
*Strong Bad will later have a similar chant in the email [[funny]].

== DVD Version ==
*All of the Easter eggs are still viewable using either the angle button on your DVD remote or pressing down to find the bad graphics Strong Bad at the end of the email.

== External Links ==
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*[[HR:cake.swf|view the cake]]
*[[OldHR:wallpapers/macbkgd2.gif|download the Mac desktop (800×600)]]
*[[OldHR:wallpapers/macbkgd.gif|download the Mac desktop (1024×768)]]

{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]

the show

2021-06-17T14:17:43Z

24.253.236.202:

{{sbenav}}

[[Image:sbemail66.PNG|thumb|"Pom Pom, for the block, do you agree?"]]

{{aboutemail}} {{for|game show|The Show}}

Homestar hosts The Show for the first time after Tori wants to know why he isn't funny anymore. Strong Sad has chicken pox.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}, {{Film|Marshie}}, {{Film|The Cheat}} (Easter egg), {{Film|Strong Sad}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Show]], [[Strong Sad's Room]] (Easter egg)

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, March 10, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 2:34

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Two}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' Email, women, email, girls! Email, women, email, girls!

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Dear Strong Bad, 
 
My friends and I are at a volleyball 
tounament and we were wondering how 
come homestar never does anything 
funny anymore? 
 
your friend, 
Tori From VA, TX</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads "tounament" as spelled (Toe-OO-na-ment), and "VA, TX" as "Virginia, and Texas. Respectively."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Anymore Tori? I wasn't aware that guy did anything funny. Ever. But if you want to see Homestar so bad, why don't we check out what he's doing right now. We'll see how it measures up to say, me ''{pause}'' kicking the cheat ''{pause}'' into Strong Sad ''{pause}'' with the chicken pox.

''{The screen cuts into static, then goes to Homestar hosting his very own "The Show". With him are Pom Pom and The Poopsmith.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' But it turned out I didn't die. ''{canned laughter}'' So, once again, I'd like to welcome The Poopsmith and Pom Pom onto The Show. ''{canned applause}'' Gentlemen: hands on buzzers.

''{Pom Pom and the Poopsmith glance at each other; there are no buzzers}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' The Poopsmith, for 500 points: Would you care to share with us some of your polictical views?

''{The Poopsmith brings out a sign that says "Hey, um, I'm gonna go now." He walks off.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' And Pom Pom, for the block. Do you agree?

''{Pom Pom bubbles and bounces off. Canned applause.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' All right, that's 162 points for each of you. We'll be right back with round two after these important words from these important messages.

''{A little ditty is played and a title screen is shown saying "We'll be right back", which also shows a vaguely Homestar-like character in a fancy suit holding what appears to be a wine glass. Cut to a pink screen with faded concentric circles emanating from the center. Marshie is present.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Hey guys ''{pronounced 'juys'}''! You'd best be eating a whole mess of Fluffy Puff Marshmallows!

''{Cut to a green screen where a black-and-white man is seen reading a book called "Stuffed in Each Cheek"}''

'''MARSHIE:''' You won't think twice with a couple of them stuffed in each cheek!

''{Somebody says "boing" and the man looks shocked. Cut back to Marshie}''

'''MARSHIE:''' They make my mornings—

''{the words "SHIVER WITH FLAVOR" appear at the bottom left}''

'''MARSHIE:''' —shiver with flavor,—

''{Marshie comes close-up to the screen and the words appear in front of him}''

'''MARSHIE:''' —shiver with flavor!

''{the screen reverts to Marshie alone}''

'''MARSHIE:''' I'll say it twice!

''{cut to a mountain range, above which Marshie is seen in the sky}''

'''MARSHIE:''' This is gettin' great!

''{The word "great" echoes. Another, larger Marshie comes across horizontally from the left, leaving a trail of pink behind him. This forms the original pink background}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Fluffy Puff Marshmallows!

''{Marshie appears in the middle of the screen and the words "THE FIRST ONE TO EAT A MILLION, WINS." appear on the bottom}''

'''MARSHIE:''' "The first one to eat a million, wins."

''{Marshie winks along with a squishing noise. Cut back to The Show.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' All right. Welcome back to The Show. ''{he pronounces it to rhyme with "how"}'' And now, I choose to recite a list. ''{pulls out some cue cards}'' Ahem. ''{words appear on screen as Homestar reads them}'' "tetherball." "Olympic race." "sparkling." "Tim Duncan." "Wisconsin." "a book of matches." "next week." "a lot of money." "witch's b—"

''{Static cuts Homestar off abruptly before saying "brew"— cut back to Strong Bad at his computer.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh. ''{typing}'' Problematic. You know it's been awhile since I've kicked the Cheat, but I guarantee it'd be comedic gold compared to that mish-mash. And what's with that flying mushroom he's always advertising for. I can't understand a word that guy says. ''{stops typing}'' Anyways, Tori, lemme know how the volleyball tounament turns out. Touns out. Er, learn to spell.

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs==
*At the beginning of The Show, clicking on the cards Homestar is carrying shows the card's contents.
<blockquote>pom-pom = round yellow one 
poopsmith = smelly one 
[[Homestar Runner and Homestar Runner's Relationship|homestar = you]]</blockquote>
*At the end, clicking on "kicked the Cheat" shows what The Cheat and Strong Sad are doing.
:''{Cut to Strong Sad's room. Strong Sad is lying in bed with the chicken pox. The Cheat is in front of him.}''
:'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{looks around and then makes questioning The Cheat noises}''
:'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{raspy voice}'' I don't know where he is. I figured it was a sure thing, too.

== Fun Facts ==

===Explanations===
*The sender is most likely from Van Alstyne, a small town north of Dallas, Texas. The inhabitants there commonly abbreviate their town's name to "VA".

===Trivia===
*If one were to eat 100 [[Fluffy Puff Marshmallows]] every day, it would take them more than 27 years to "win".
**However, if one would eat like Homestar Runner, at least [[Fluffy Puff Commercial|147]] every day, at the very least it would "only" take a bit more than 18 years.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "Strong Bad gives us a glimpse of Homestar's daytime talk-show-game-show, 'The Show.'"

===Remarks===
[[Image:weirdpoopsmithblink.png|thumb|100px|The Poopsmith's odd eyes.]]
*The Poopsmith's eyes point in different directions when he blinks. They also switch sides when he turns around.
*The table has been either replaced or expertly repaired (no cracks or seams are evident, even though it was broken in half in the [[unused emails|previous email]]).
*After the cards come up, the cards Homestar is holding are still selectable. However, nothing happens.
*Homestar manages to hold a microphone and flip through a set of cards simultaneously.
*The Tim Duncan reference may have been made due to the email writer being from Texas.
*Strong Bad calls Marshie a "flying mushroom", adding this to the list of items Marshie is often confused with (including a "flying cottonball" by [[Gunhaver]] in [[Cheat Commandos...O's]]).
*Strong Bad makes five [[Strong Bad's Spelling|grammar and/or punctuation errors]] in his email:
**He doesn't put a comma in "Anymore Tori?".
**He puts an unnecessary space after "Problematic" before the period.
**He doesn't put question marks after "What's with that flying mushroom he's always advertising for." and "Why don't we check out what he's doing right now."
**He fails to capitalize The Cheat's name in his reply.
**He doesn't put a space before beginning his last sentence.
*In the Easter egg, Strong Sad's chest rises and falls as it usually does when he is lying still in bed, even while he is speaking to The Cheat. It appears to rise as though he is inhaling while he says "I thought it was a sure thing too."

===Goofs===
*In the Easter egg, Strong Sad's chicken pox move a little bit slower than his head as he raises it. For example, there is a red dot right above his left eye. When he raises his head, the chicken pox move slower and the one that was near his eye is a little farther away from it than before.

===Inside References===
*This email contains yet another reference to "[[witch's brew]]".
*Marshie pronouncing "guys" as "juys" is a reference to [[G#G as J|G pronounced as J]].
*Marshie's voice echoes over the alps from [[Main Page 2]].
*This is another reference to [[Kicking The Cheat]].

===Real-World References===
*Homestar's line "Pom Pom, for the block. Do you agree?" is a reference to the [[Game Show References|game show]] ''[[Wikipedia:Hollywood Squares|Hollywood Squares]]'', where contestants decide whether they agree with a celebrity's answer in order to get their symbol on a tic-tac-toe board.
*Homestar's microphone looks just like [[Wikipedia:Bob Barker|Bob Barker]]'s and [[Wikipedia:Gene Rayburn|Gene Rayburn]]'s microphones from ''[[Wikipedia:The Price is Right|The Price is Right]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:Match Game|Match Game]]'' respectively.
*[[Wikipedia:Tim Duncan|Tim Duncan]] is a retired [[Wikipedia:National Basketball Association|NBA]] basketball player who played for the [[Wikipedia:San Antonio Spurs|San Antonio Spurs]].
*[[The Poopsmith's sign]] is a nod to [[Wikipedia:Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner|Wile E. Coyote]], who often used a variety of small signs to indicate what he was thinking or feeling.
*The little jingle played before the commercial break is part of the theme song of the game show ''[[Wikipedia:Match Game|Match Game]]''.
*The "We'll be right back" image is similar to the one used by the television show, [[Wikipedia:The Galloping Gourmet|The Galloping Gourmet]].
*Homestar giving the contestants random points is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Whose Line is it Anyway|Whose Line is it Anyway]], in which the host would give the contestants a random amount of points at the end of each game for no visible relevance.

===Fast Forward===
*[[Puppet Character Variations|Puppet Marshie]] says "juys" in [[Main Page 25]].

== DVD Version ==
*The card Easter egg is still viewable by using a DVD player's angle button.
*The DVD version features hidden audio commentary. To access it, switch the DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Homestar Runner]])

'''MIKE:''' Here's the commentary for "the show" email.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' That's right, Mike!

'''MIKE:''' I'm joined by none other than Homestar himself, the host of The Show.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Call me Greg this time.

'''MIKE:''' Greg, uh, so tell us a little bit about yourself, Greg.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Well, I'm, uh, uh, a vitamin, I lose weight, and I'm on the plank!

'''MIKE:''' Homestar here making a little less sense than usual.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I know. It's all for the DVD.

'''MIKE:''' DVD.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' DVDs. Yeah. DVDs.

'''MIKE:''' Uh, here comes your big scene.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah, why are you so, where did this show come from?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, why don't you tell us?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I don't... Honestly, the first time I saw this, I was flabbergasted.

'''MIKE:''' You don't, you don't remember taking part in anything like this?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I mean, I kinda do... But like, so do I have a show? In the '70s?

'''MIKE:''' Well, I don't know if it was in the '70s.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Is it a chat show, or game show?

'''MIKE:''' It looks like it's kinda maybe a little of both, but a little of neither?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah! That's the way my best shows are...right?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' So why wouldn't it be that? A little bit of a chat show, maybe with a Charles Nelson Reilly...

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I love my microphone. If a microphone's not tall and skinny, it's not a microphone.

'''MIKE:''' I agree.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Look! Who's that guy with the arms? ''{referring to the character on the "We'll Be Right Back" card}''

'''MIKE:''' He has arms.'''

''{Marshie appears on the screen to begin the Fluffy Puff commercial.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh no!

'''MIKE:''' It's okay.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I love this one!

'''MIKE:''' Oh, I thought you might be scared.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Look out! Look out, stuffed in each—Oh no! He got it, Mike! ''{pause}'' Marshie's on point on this one. He's at the top of his game.

'''MIKE:''' Marshie's...never at the top of his game.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' No, he's clearly here. Listen, listen, listen!

''{Marshie's commercial finishes, and he winks producing a unique sound effect.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' How does he do that?

'''MIKE:''' He winked.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I know! If I could make my eye make that sound when I wink, I'd be like, winking all the time! They'd call me Wink Martindale.

''{Slight pause. Homestar reads the "Olympic race" card.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Speaking of Olympic race... ''{Pause}'' This is my favorite part.

'''MIKE:''' What is this list of?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' Is there a common thread—

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' It's, like, the Rosetta Stone. If you can figure out this list then you've got the secret to Homestar Runner.

''{Pause. The Strong Bad Email cuts back to Strong Bad at the Compy.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Homester.

'''MIKE:''' Okay. How much longer do we have on this commentary, Homestar?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' You don't think this is very funny, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Uhh, maybe.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Do you think we should start over?

'''MIKE:''' No, we can leave it, but...I just hope it's over soon.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I think it sounds like Strong Bad's winding down.

'''MIKE:''' All right.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' See, he's mumbling.

'''MIKE:''' Bye, Homestar.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' That's the end. You know it's the end.

''{The Paper comes down.}''

'''MIKE:''' Bye, Homestar.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Geez!

=== Fun Facts ===
*[[Wikipedia:Charles Nelson Reilly|Charles Nelson Reilly]] was an actor, director, and drama teacher, most well known for his role as a celebrity panelist for the 1970s game show [[Wikipedia:Match Game|Match Game]].
*[[Wikipedia:Wink Martindale|Wink Martindale]] was a gameshow host in the 1970s. Among the shows he hosted were ''[[Wikipedia:Tic Tac Dough|Tic Tac Dough]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:High Rollers|High Rollers]]''.
*The [[Wikipedia:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]] is a fragment of a decree from [[Wikipedia:Ptolemy V of Egypt|Ptolemy V of Egypt]] written in [[Wikipedia:Ancient Greek|Ancient Greek]], [[Wikipedia:Egyptian hieroglyph|Egyptian Hieroglyphs]], and [[Wikipedia:Demotic Egyptian|Egyptian demotic script]], which played a crucial role in deciphering the meaning of the latter two languages.

== External Links ==
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