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love poems

DarthKorbo — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:10:48 GMT

DarthKorbo:

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[[Image:sbemail195.PNG|thumb|"What are you talking about, Mary Ann?"]]

Strong Bad writes love poems for the <s>hopeless</s> ''homeless'' romantic.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Cheerleader}}, {{Film|So and So}}, [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Meredith|Meredith]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Kimberly|Kimberly]], {{Film|Arrow'd Guy}}, [[Tenerence Love]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Classroom]], [[Strong Sad's Room]] (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' Monday, May 26, 2008

'''Running Time:''' 4:26

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Six}}

==Transcript==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Girl, where's my money that you owe me from all those emails that you wrote me?

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: love poem</div>
Dear Mr. Strong [Bad], 
I am in love. Unfortunately, I am absotively blunderous with 
my words which I speak. Will you help me write a love poem? 
Sincerely, 
Just Another Hopeless Romantic 
</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pauses just before reading "[Bad]". He reads "Hopeless" as "homeless".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well, put on your patchy-stained jacket and gather 'round the fire in the trashcan, Homeless Romantic, 'cause the Rub [Doctor] is here to help!

''{Cut to the classroom, where Strong Bad is standing in front of the blackboard, wearing a charcoal gray turtleneck and balding brown hair. The word "Rub" is written on the blackboard next to an arrow pointing downwards.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hi. I'm Doctor Marvin Rubdown. Did you know that writing love poems is as easy as telling a girl she's hot with the fance-pantsiest words you can think of? ''{cut to a view from Strong Bad's front-left}'' For poetic inspiration, I like to swipe the names of scented candle fragrances!

''{Fade out. Fade in to Strong Bad, still with the sweater and hair, in front of a gray background. Strong Bad's voice slightly echoes.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Your eyes, ''{holds up a lit orange and green candle with a label saying "Sandalwood Sage Sunset" in his left hand}'' they flicker like a Sandalwood Sage Sunset.

''{He puts his hand back down.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Your hair flows like Fresh Cotton Linens ''{holds up a lit white candle with a label saying "Fresh Cotton Linens" in his right hand}'' hung to dry on the deck.

''{He puts his hand down, holds up a lit brown candle with a label saying "Grandma's Apple Cinnamon Spice" in his left hand.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Grandma's Apple Cinnamon Spice is the scented candle I would use to describe your mouth.

''{He puts his hand back down}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And your nose: like an unscented emergency candle ''{holds up a white, unlabeled candle in his left hand}'' for when the power goes out.

''{Cut back to the classroom. Echoes stop}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Another way of fancying up a love poem is to replace random letters in the middle of words with apostrophes.

''{Cut to a closeup of the blackboard; the "Rub" and the arrow have been erased but remain faintly visible.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{as he speaks, the words in quotes appear on the blackboard in chalk. Strong Bad's voice slightly echoes again}'' "It is never ever over, my lover of clover" becomes "'Tis ne'er e'er o'er m'lo'er o' clo'er".

''{Cut to a closeup of Strong Bad; Coach Z is leaning in from the right. Echoes stop}''

'''COACH Z:''' Now you're sporkin' my language!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Get out! ''{Coach Z leaves quickly}'' Women love it when you talk all Elizabethan. ''{"-Elizabethan" appears to the right of Strong Bad.}'' But you shouldn't be afraid to get Kimberlian ''{"-Kimberlian" appears under "-Elizabethan"}'' or Meredithian ''{"-Meredithian" appears under "-Kimberlian"}'' if the need arises.

''{Cut to a Teen Girl Squad scene with Cheerleader and So and So; Cheerleader has an annoyed look and is wearing a shirt that reads "poi fect".}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' I can't stand the way Meredith talks!

''{Cut to a wider shot with Cheerleader, still looking annoyed, So and So, frowning, and Meredith, bending backward with a pleased look on her face and her tongue hanging out}''

'''MEREDITH:''' I'th hath a cruth on ethry boy'th!

''{Cut to a yet wider shot; Cheerleader and So and So still look irritated; Meredith now has a quizzical look; Kimberly runs in with her mouth wide open and her hair flying behind her}''

'''KIMBERLY:''' I herly berly on gerly werly!

''{Arrowed Guy appears dressed as [[William Shakespeare]] and spears Meredith and Kimberly; Cheerleader and So and So appear pleased.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' Shakespeared!

''{Cut back to the classroom}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' But if that frilly collar stuff is too olde schoole ''{pronounces the E's in both words as "eh"}'' for you, then why not try a more contemporary approach with an overweight R&B make-out jam? ''{music begins to play}'' As long as your tone is well-dressed and sweaty enough, it doesn't matter what you say!

''{Cut to a black [[Powered by The Cheat]] background with yellow lights shining out of it. Tenerence Love, holding a microphone and visibly perspiring, is in the lower right, slowly drifting to the upper left.}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' ''{sings}'' This is Tenerence Love with a sweaty overweight jam!

''{Tenerence Love disappears and reappears in the lower left, drifting to the upper right}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' My name is Tenerence Love with a sweaty overweight ham!

''{Tenerence Love disappears and reappears in the upper center, drifting down}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' It may be five pounds...

''{The symbol for the [[Wikipedia:Pound sign|Pound sterling]] appears in Tenerence Love's right sunglasses lens, the number 5 in his left lens}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' ...ten pounds, ''{the 5 changes to a 10}'' twenty pounds,

''{The 10 changes to a 20. Tenerence Love disappears and two Tenerence Loves appear on both sides and drift toward the center}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' Just a little bit overweight, now welcome, girl, to sweaty town!

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' And when that gets you slapped and escorted from her building by security, you can always buy a fourteen-pound bag of extra-long—

''{Homestar Runner enters from the left wearing a charcoal gray turtleneck similar to Strong Bad's, but with a black star on it.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{interrupting}'' Ah, ha ha, ha ha! Oh, Strong Bad. It's funny to me when you try to play grown-up!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{raising his fist}'' What are you talking about, Mary Ann?

''{Cut to a close-up of Homestar}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Everybody knows I'm the only one around here with any real no-arms-on experience with the lady-makes! ''{cut back to wider view of the classroom}'' Just listen to this little make-out inducing number I threw together this mo'nin'! ''{starts dancing and speaking in rhythm}'' This mo'nin'! ''{Strong Bad begins to dance along}'' This mo, re-mo, re-mo-mo'nin'!

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right, but only 'cause that little song was kind of cool!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ahem!

''{Fade out. Fade in on Homestar Runner, still wearing his turtleneck and now with brown hair similar to Strong Bad's in front of a gray background. He is on the left; to the right of him a paper comes down with the word "MARZiPAN" written vertically. Homestar's voice slightly echoes.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' M is for milk. ''{"Milk" appears next to the "M" on the paper}'' The real stuff! ''{looking annoyed}'' Not soy. ''{no longer annoyed}'' 
A is for not-organic apples. ''{"APPLES" appears next to the "A" on the paper}'' Pesticides ahoy! 
R is for raisins, ''{"RAISINS" appears next to the "R" on the paper}'' they give me bad gas! 
Z is too hard, so at this one, I'll pass. ''{"(PASS)" appears next to the "Z" on the paper}'' 
I is for inchiladas! ''{"inchiladas" appears next to the "i" on the paper}'' And—

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{angry voiceover}'' Homestar!

''{Cut back to the classroom, Homestar no longer has brown hair and his hat is back on. Echoes stop}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah, what's up?

''{Cut to a closeup of Strong Bad}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's not a love poem! That is a lavishly produced grocery list!

''{Cut to a closeup of Homestar}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' No, ''{holds up a small piece of lined paper; writing on the other side saying "amazing thing" four times is faintly visible}'' ''here'' is my grocery list! Amazing thing, amazing thing, amazing thing, amazing thing.

''{Cut back to the wider view of the classroom}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoa, where you been shopping?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' SkyMall.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Homestar, are you and Marzipan even dating right now?

''{Cut to a closeup of Homestar Runner}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Are we even dating ''{chuckles and grins}'' right now? Are we even d— Are we even da—

''{Cut back to wider view of the classroom}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{quieter and lower, with a sad look}'' No, she broke up with me again this morning.

'''STRONG BAD:''' This morning?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, I mean-a ''{singing and dancing as before}'' This mo'nin'!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER AND STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing together}'' This mo'nin'! This mo, re-mo, re-mo—

''{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So there you ha' it 
My Homeless Roma'ic. 
Love Poems 101 
Oh the hearts you will win. ''{holds up a plug-in air freshener}'' 
Like this lavender scented plug-in ''{puts the air freshener back down}'' 
New paper, come on and get some!

''{[[New Paper]] comes down}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:HomelessRomantic.PNG|thumb|Verses from the weird shrub and more!]]
*Click on "Homeless Romantic" at the beginning to view a book written by [[Senor Cardgage]] entitled "The Homeless Romantic".
<blockquote>the 
HOMELESS
 ROMANTIC 
 
verses from the [[weird shrub]] 
and alarming recipes for 
brunswick stew 
 
by 
Senor Cardgage</blockquote>
*Click on the words "Love poems" at the end of the email to see a small clip with Strong Sad.
*:''{A very eager Strong Sad is jiggling up and down and holding a book of poems titled "Poem Tome by Strong Sad". A red phone with green marks that resemble Strong Bad's eyes is in the foreground, and the audio of the email can be heard faintly in the distance, along with the music from [[caffeine]]}''
*:'''STRONG SAD:''' Why isn't he calling me in on the Strong Badphone? This email was practically tailor-made for me!
*:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''(simultaneously, muffled in background)'' ...Well, put on your patchy-stained jacket and gather 'round the fire in the trashcan, Homeless Romantic, 'cause the Rub...

==Fun Facts==
===Explanations===
*[[Wikipedia:Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] is late 16th century England, coinciding with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It is considered the first great era of English poetry and literature, producing authors like [[Shakespeare]].
*The "removing of random letters" Strong Bad refers to is done in poems in order to maintain a strict [[Wikipedia:Meter (poetry)|poetic meter]].
*Homestar's "lavishly produced grocery list" actually resembles an [[Wikipedia:Acrostic|acrostic]] poem.

===Trivia===
*The song info for Tenerence Love's song reads:
<blockquote>Tenerence Love 
A Sweaty, Overweight Jam 
Simma Down Girl 
Director: The Cheat</blockquote>
*The summary of the [[Podstar Runner]] RSS feed reads, "Dr. Marvin Rubdown gives some advice on writing love poems."

===Remarks===
*In Strong Bad's suggestion of replacing letters with apostrophes, he uses eight. Yet, ironically, he rebuked overusing apostrophes in [[unnatural]].
*The shadows' offset on "-Elizabethan" and "-Kimberlian" slightly change when "-Meredithian" comes on screen.
**"-Elizabethan" also slightly moves as "-Kimberlian" is added.
*The title and subtext of ''Homeless Romantic'' reiterates a point made in [[kind of cool]], alongside many of the other [[Senor Cardgage]] appearances, that implied he was homeless.
*The sweat drops on Tenerence Love's head are smaller versions of the condensation drops shown in the [[Homestar Runner and Strong Bad Screensaver|Strong Bad Screensaver]].

===Goofs===
[[Image:StrongSad_lovepoems.png|thumb|right|Nevermind the email, Strong Sad, what's up with your arm (circled)?]]
*The back button appears at the bottom left of the viewing screen (making it nearly illegible), rather than the bottom left of the Lappy's screen, as is usual for emails ending on a computer closeup.
*In Strong Sad's Easter egg, Strong Sad's left arm doesn't go around his body, but is instead wrapped around the book he's holding.

===Inside References===
*Strong Bad's song about a girl that owes him money references [[bottom 10]] where he charges "Simone" the "girl" $7.50 for the email.
*The music during Homestar and Strong Bad's poems is the music in [[do over]], when Strong Bad placed a candle on the desk.
*Homestar mentions his [[lack of visible arms]].
*Homestar's poem has each letter of Marzipan's name capitalized, except for one [[Lowercase i's|lowercase i]].
** Following suit, the word "inchiladas" is written in all lowercase letters, while all the others on Homestar's list are written in all caps.
*Homestar describes [[Not X|not]]-organic apples.
*Meredith's line echoes [[The Ugly One]]'s line, "I have a crush on every boy!", from [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 1]].
*Cheerleader's shirt reads "poifect", another instance of [["Er" pronounced as "Oi"]].
*The Easter egg references Brunswick [[Stew]], first mentioned in [[New Boots]].
*Strong Bad mentions [[Parents|grandparents]].
*Homestar admits that [[Homestar Runner and Marzipan's Relationship#Homestar and Marzipan Breaking Up|Marzipan broke up with him]].
*Homestar's grocery list is made entirely up of [[nondescript nouns]].
*Tenerence Love's [[Green tongues|tongue is green]] and his song mentions [[ham]].
*Homestar previously tried to use a grocery list for an unrelated reason in [[The Interview]].

=== Real-World References ===
*"I herly berly on gerly werly" is a reference to a line spoken by the second witch in [[Shakespeare]]'s [[Wikipedia:Macbeth|Macbeth]]. The line is "When the hurlyburly's done, when the battle's lost and won."
**This reference could also be a combined reference to the song [[Wikipedia:Blinded By The Light|"Blinded By The Light"]] by [[Wikipedia:Bruce Springsteen|Bruce Springsteen]] which the lyric goes "And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride."
*Tenerence Love's overweight "R&B make-out jam" is a reference to soul singers such as [[Wikipedia:Barry White|Barry White]] and [[Wikipedia:Luther Vandross|Luther Vandross]], who were overweight singers but still attractive to female audiences.
*Homestar's "This Mo'nin" jam (specifically the way he says "Mo'nin") sounds like [[Wikipedia:Newcleus|Newcleus]]' hip-hop classic, "Jam On It", and sounds nearly identical to the chorus of "Got" by [[Wikipedia:Mos Def|Mos Def]].
**"Jam On It" was previously referenced in "[[Happy Hallow-day]]"
*[[Wikipedia:Sky Mall|Sky Mall]] is an airline catalog from which passengers can order various items after leaving the plane, or by use of airplane telephones. Most of the items in the catalog are gadgets and things that would appeal to those with higher incomes.
*The Strong Bad Phone is similar in concept to the Bat phone, a device [[Wikipedia:James Gordon (comics)|Commissioner Gordon]] used to contact [[Batman]] in time of need in the live-action [[Wikipedia:Batman (TV series)|'60s television series]].
*The Rub Doctor is also a reference to Super Ninja Boy, an adventure/rpg game on the [[Nintendo#Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)|SNES]] in which Rub-A-Doc brings peace to the universe.

==DVD Version==
{{commentary|email=true}}
=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]], [[Ryan Sterritt]])

'''MATT:''' You guys, I think we should all write love poems for our wives.

'''MIKE:''' Right now, during this commentary?

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Okay, I'll start.

'''MATT:''' Alright.

'''MIKE:''' You like to ride horses... and... make pasta, but not stir it up so it's always very clumpy.

'''MATT:''' Wait, no, you're already going the wrong way with this.

'''MIKE:''' But, wait, clumpy, I— I was going to be able to rhyme it with dumpy.

'''MATT:''' "And you look really dumpy"... That's great, Mike.

'''RYAN:''' Two out of the three... are not good.

'''MIKE:''' Um...

'''RYAN:''' When was the last love poem you actually wrote?

'''MIKE:''' Uh...

'''MATT:''' Have you ever written one?

'''MIKE:''' Not... maybe outside of, like, second or third grade, not seriously.

'''MATT:''' In high school, I'd write songs, but they weren't like— Y'know, they weren't overtly, like, romantic.

'''MIKE:''' Right, I would write songs about girls.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' I wrote an instrumental song about a girl once called "Mold".

'''MIKE:''' Oh yeah, that was you? That was about a girl?

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Good job.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''RYAN:''' Did she like it?

'''MATT:''' She did.

'''RYAN:''' Did she hear it?

'''MATT:''' She did hear it.

'''MIKE:''' We should hear from Ryan about this. Ryan is a bi— is way into scented candles. Ryan, you should talk about them.

'''RYAN:''' I enjoy scented candles.

'''MIKE:''' What's your latest favorite flavor?

'''RYAN:''' My still— I still think "Grass" is my favorite one.

'''MIKE:''' Do they still make that? Does ''{unintelligible because Ryan interrupts}'' candles still make it?

'''RYAN:''' ''{simultaneously}'' They don't. They have something else that's not as good, but it just made your house smell like you just cut the grass, which is a good thing.

'''MIKE:''' Could you— did it have a little hint of gasoline?

''{unintelligible}''

'''RYAN:''' That I would splash on my face a little... get the smell. ''{pause}'' Dr. Rub? Is that his name?

'''MATT:''' The Rub Doctor. Dr. Marvin Rubdown.

'''MIKE:''' He's on the cover of this DVD. The back cover.

'''MATT:''' ''{pause until Teen Girl Squad segment}'' I like it when Strong Bad Emails cut away to Teen Girl Squad.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' It feels like it should happen more.

'''MIKE:''' Not quite as Teen Girl Squad.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' Is that what it would be categorized as?

'''MIKE:''' The wiki's, probably.

'''MATT:''' ''{pause until Strong Bad says "olde schoole"}'' How do you spell that, Mike, y'think?

'''MIKE:''' Uh...

'''MATT:''' O-L-D-E S-K-U Umlaut-L-E?

'''MIKE:''' Probably. ''{pause}'' So, is he— is he supposed to be dressed up as Art Garfunkel?

'''RYAN:''' I was just gonna ask that.

''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' Oh, it's a Tenerence Love jam.

'''MIKE:''' I like how—

'''RYAN:''' The sweat.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, his sweat, like, contours to his brow and stuff.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I spent way too much time on that sweat.

'''MIKE:''' Everyone watch that sweat, it's ''{stressing the words}'' ''real good''. Lookit, that one curled around another bead of sweat.

'''MIKE:''' ''{pause}'' The Cheat's animations are really good now.

'''MATT:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Welcome to sweaty town.

'''MIKE:''' He kinda reminds me of Babycakes, that Tenerence Love.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' Oh! I'm gonna have [[Jackie]] knit me a sweater like that with a, like, cable-knit star in the middle of it.

'''RYAN:''' You guys have any turtleneck sweaters?

'''MIKE:''' I've got my Teeg Dougland turtleneck, my blue turtleneck for Teeg Dougland appearances, that's the only one I've got these days.

'''MATT:''' You got one, Ry?

'''RYAN:''' No.

''{unintelligible as Ryan and Matt talk at the same time}''

'''MATT:''' I made a— I made a squished body and a new bent body for that, I forgot.

''{all laugh as Homestar comes in with his acrostic poem}''

'''MIKE:''' And now he's Art Garfunkel.

'''MATT:''' He looks even more like Art Garfunkel, I think, than Strong Bad.

'''MIKE:''' Look, the little bottom of his hair is tucked into the turtleneck.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' That is a goof, man! That is a goof, and a glitch, and a reference, and a real-world reference, and an inside reference.

'''MIKE:''' And a fun fact.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Don't forget about a fun fact.

'''MATT:''' Whadda ya call those poems?

'''MIKE:''' Uh... an... an...

'''MATT:''' Antacrostic? Antanacrostic?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, I think it's an acrostic.

'''MATT:''' Agnostic?

'''MIKE:''' Acro—

'''RYAN:''' An acronym.

'''MATT:''' Ohh, the SkyMall! What, uh, what Lord of the Rings authentic creation—

'''MIKE:''' I was just gonna say, the weird Lord of the Rings—

'''RYAN:''' ''{interrupting}'' —Those see-through bathing suits that you can get tan while you wear it, towards the back of SkyMall. Maybe when you're flying to Florida they want you to buy a real expensive bathing suit.

'''MATT:''' ''{pause}'' Um... Oh, look at that, we had— we had—

'''MIKE:''' Glade Plugins.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' We should put in the old Scent Stories, the CD player disguised as a— er—

=== Fun Facts ===
*[[Wikipedia:Art Garfunkel|Art Garfunkel]] was the second half of the [[Wikipedia:Grammy Awards|Grammy]]-winning [[Wikipedia:Folk music|folk]] duo, [[Wikipedia:Simon & Garfunkel|Simon and Garfunkel]].
*[[Wikipedia:Glade (brand)|Glade]] is a brand of household air fresheners.

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|195|14217|youtube=rfqjWvF2lhg}}

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love poems

DarthKorbo — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:09:33 GMT

DarthKorbo:

{{sbenav|195}}
[[Image:sbemail195.PNG|thumb|"What're you talkin' about, Mary-Ann?"]]

Strong Bad writes love poems for the <s>hopeless</s> ''homeless'' romantic.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Cheerleader}}, {{Film|So and So}}, [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Meredith|Meredith]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Kimberly|Kimberly]], {{Film|Arrow'd Guy}}, [[Tenerence Love]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Classroom]], [[Strong Sad's Room]] (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' Monday, May 26, 2008

'''Running Time:''' 4:26

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Six}}

==Transcript==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Girl, where's my money that you owe me from all those emails that you wrote me?

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: love poem</div>
Dear Mr. Strong [Bad], 
I am in love. Unfortunately, I am absotively blunderous with 
my words which I speak. Will you help me write a love poem? 
Sincerely, 
Just Another Hopeless Romantic 
</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pauses just before reading "[Bad]". He reads "Hopeless" as "homeless".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well, put on your patchy-stained jacket and gather 'round the fire in the trashcan, Homeless Romantic, 'cause the Rub [Doctor] is here to help!

''{Cut to the classroom, where Strong Bad is standing in front of the blackboard, wearing a charcoal gray turtleneck and balding brown hair. The word "Rub" is written on the blackboard next to an arrow pointing downwards.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hi. I'm Doctor Marvin Rubdown. Did you know that writing love poems is as easy as telling a girl she's hot with the fance-pantsiest words you can think of? ''{cut to a view from Strong Bad's front-left}'' For poetic inspiration, I like to swipe the names of scented candle fragrances!

''{Fade out. Fade in to Strong Bad, still with the sweater and hair, in front of a gray background. Strong Bad's voice slightly echoes.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Your eyes, ''{holds up a lit orange and green candle with a label saying "Sandalwood Sage Sunset" in his left hand}'' they flicker like a Sandalwood Sage Sunset.

''{He puts his hand back down.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Your hair flows like Fresh Cotton Linens ''{holds up a lit white candle with a label saying "Fresh Cotton Linens" in his right hand}'' hung to dry on the deck.

''{He puts his hand down, holds up a lit brown candle with a label saying "Grandma's Apple Cinnamon Spice" in his left hand.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Grandma's Apple Cinnamon Spice is the scented candle I would use to describe your mouth.

''{He puts his hand back down}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And your nose: like an unscented emergency candle ''{holds up a white, unlabeled candle in his left hand}'' for when the power goes out.

''{Cut back to the classroom. Echoes stop}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Another way of fancying up a love poem is to replace random letters in the middle of words with apostrophes.

''{Cut to a closeup of the blackboard; the "Rub" and the arrow have been erased but remain faintly visible.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{as he speaks, the words in quotes appear on the blackboard in chalk. Strong Bad's voice slightly echoes again}'' "It is never ever over, my lover of clover" becomes "'Tis ne'er e'er o'er m'lo'er o' clo'er".

''{Cut to a closeup of Strong Bad; Coach Z is leaning in from the right. Echoes stop}''

'''COACH Z:''' Now you're sporkin' my language!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Get out! ''{Coach Z leaves quickly}'' Women love it when you talk all Elizabethan. ''{"-Elizabethan" appears to the right of Strong Bad.}'' But you shouldn't be afraid to get Kimberlian ''{"-Kimberlian" appears under "-Elizabethan"}'' or Meredithian ''{"-Meredithian" appears under "-Kimberlian"}'' if the need arises.

''{Cut to a Teen Girl Squad scene with Cheerleader and So and So; Cheerleader has an annoyed look and is wearing a shirt that reads "poi fect".}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' I can't stand the way Meredith talks!

''{Cut to a wider shot with Cheerleader, still looking annoyed, So and So, frowning, and Meredith, bending backward with a pleased look on her face and her tongue hanging out}''

'''MEREDITH:''' I'th hath a cruth on ethry boy'th!

''{Cut to a yet wider shot; Cheerleader and So and So still look irritated; Meredith now has a quizzical look; Kimberly runs in with her mouth wide open and her hair flying behind her}''

'''KIMBERLY:''' I herly berly on gerly werly!

''{Arrowed Guy appears dressed as [[William Shakespeare]] and spears Meredith and Kimberly; Cheerleader and So and So appear pleased.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' Shakespeared!

''{Cut back to the classroom}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' But if that frilly collar stuff is too olde schoole ''{pronounces the E's in both words as "eh"}'' for you, then why not try a more contemporary approach with an overweight R&B make-out jam? ''{music begins to play}'' As long as your tone is well-dressed and sweaty enough, it doesn't matter what you say!

''{Cut to a black [[Powered by The Cheat]] background with yellow lights shining out of it. Tenerence Love, holding a microphone and visibly perspiring, is in the lower right, slowly drifting to the upper left.}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' ''{sings}'' This is Tenerence Love with a sweaty overweight jam!

''{Tenerence Love disappears and reappears in the lower left, drifting to the upper right}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' My name is Tenerence Love with a sweaty overweight ham!

''{Tenerence Love disappears and reappears in the upper center, drifting down}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' It may be five pounds...

''{The symbol for the [[Wikipedia:Pound sign|Pound sterling]] appears in Tenerence Love's right sunglasses lens, the number 5 in his left lens}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' ...ten pounds, ''{the 5 changes to a 10}'' twenty pounds,

''{The 10 changes to a 20. Tenerence Love disappears and two Tenerence Loves appear on both sides and drift toward the center}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' Just a little bit overweight, now welcome, girl, to sweaty town!

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' And when that gets you slapped and escorted from her building by security, you can always buy a fourteen-pound bag of extra-long—

''{Homestar Runner enters from the left wearing a charcoal gray turtleneck similar to Strong Bad's, but with a black star on it.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{interrupting}'' Ah, ha ha, ha ha! Oh, Strong Bad. It's funny to me when you try to play grown-up!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{raising his fist}'' What are you talking about, Mary Ann?

''{Cut to a close-up of Homestar}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Everybody knows I'm the only one around here with any real no-arms-on experience with the lady-makes! ''{cut back to wider view of the classroom}'' Just listen to this little make-out inducing number I threw together this mo'nin'! ''{starts dancing and speaking in rhythm}'' This mo'nin'! ''{Strong Bad begins to dance along}'' This mo, re-mo, re-mo-mo'nin'!

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right, but only 'cause that little song was kind of cool!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ahem!

''{Fade out. Fade in on Homestar Runner, still wearing his turtleneck and now with brown hair similar to Strong Bad's in front of a gray background. He is on the left; to the right of him a paper comes down with the word "MARZiPAN" written vertically. Homestar's voice slightly echoes.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' M is for milk. ''{"Milk" appears next to the "M" on the paper}'' The real stuff! ''{looking annoyed}'' Not soy. ''{no longer annoyed}'' 
A is for not-organic apples. ''{"APPLES" appears next to the "A" on the paper}'' Pesticides ahoy! 
R is for raisins, ''{"RAISINS" appears next to the "R" on the paper}'' they give me bad gas! 
Z is too hard, so at this one, I'll pass. ''{"(PASS)" appears next to the "Z" on the paper}'' 
I is for inchiladas! ''{"inchiladas" appears next to the "i" on the paper}'' And—

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{angry voiceover}'' Homestar!

''{Cut back to the classroom, Homestar no longer has brown hair and his hat is back on. Echoes stop}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah, what's up?

''{Cut to a closeup of Strong Bad}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's not a love poem! That is a lavishly produced grocery list!

''{Cut to a closeup of Homestar}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' No, ''{holds up a small piece of lined paper; writing on the other side saying "amazing thing" four times is faintly visible}'' ''here'' is my grocery list! Amazing thing, amazing thing, amazing thing, amazing thing.

''{Cut back to the wider view of the classroom}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoa, where you been shopping?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' SkyMall.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Homestar, are you and Marzipan even dating right now?

''{Cut to a closeup of Homestar Runner}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Are we even dating ''{chuckles and grins}'' right now? Are we even d— Are we even da—

''{Cut back to wider view of the classroom}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{quieter and lower, with a sad look}'' No, she broke up with me again this morning.

'''STRONG BAD:''' This morning?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, I mean-a ''{singing and dancing as before}'' This mo'nin'!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER AND STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing together}'' This mo'nin'! This mo, re-mo, re-mo—

''{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So there you ha' it 
My Homeless Roma'ic. 
Love Poems 101 
Oh the hearts you will win. ''{holds up a plug-in air freshener}'' 
Like this lavender scented plug-in ''{puts the air freshener back down}'' 
New paper, come on and get some!

''{[[New Paper]] comes down}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:HomelessRomantic.PNG|thumb|Verses from the weird shrub and more!]]
*Click on "Homeless Romantic" at the beginning to view a book written by [[Senor Cardgage]] entitled "The Homeless Romantic".
<blockquote>the 
HOMELESS
 ROMANTIC 
 
verses from the [[weird shrub]] 
and alarming recipes for 
brunswick stew 
 
by 
Senor Cardgage</blockquote>
*Click on the words "Love poems" at the end of the email to see a small clip with Strong Sad.
*:''{A very eager Strong Sad is jiggling up and down and holding a book of poems titled "Poem Tome by Strong Sad". A red phone with green marks that resemble Strong Bad's eyes is in the foreground, and the audio of the email can be heard faintly in the distance, along with the music from [[caffeine]]}''
*:'''STRONG SAD:''' Why isn't he calling me in on the Strong Badphone? This email was practically tailor-made for me!
*:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''(simultaneously, muffled in background)'' ...Well, put on your patchy-stained jacket and gather 'round the fire in the trashcan, Homeless Romantic, 'cause the Rub...

==Fun Facts==
===Explanations===
*[[Wikipedia:Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] is late 16th century England, coinciding with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It is considered the first great era of English poetry and literature, producing authors like [[Shakespeare]].
*The "removing of random letters" Strong Bad refers to is done in poems in order to maintain a strict [[Wikipedia:Meter (poetry)|poetic meter]].
*Homestar's "lavishly produced grocery list" actually resembles an [[Wikipedia:Acrostic|acrostic]] poem.

===Trivia===
*The song info for Tenerence Love's song reads:
<blockquote>Tenerence Love 
A Sweaty, Overweight Jam 
Simma Down Girl 
Director: The Cheat</blockquote>
*The summary of the [[Podstar Runner]] RSS feed reads, "Dr. Marvin Rubdown gives some advice on writing love poems."

===Remarks===
*In Strong Bad's suggestion of replacing letters with apostrophes, he uses eight. Yet, ironically, he rebuked overusing apostrophes in [[unnatural]].
*The shadows' offset on "-Elizabethan" and "-Kimberlian" slightly change when "-Meredithian" comes on screen.
**"-Elizabethan" also slightly moves as "-Kimberlian" is added.
*The title and subtext of ''Homeless Romantic'' reiterates a point made in [[kind of cool]], alongside many of the other [[Senor Cardgage]] appearances, that implied he was homeless.
*The sweat drops on Tenerence Love's head are smaller versions of the condensation drops shown in the [[Homestar Runner and Strong Bad Screensaver|Strong Bad Screensaver]].

===Goofs===
[[Image:StrongSad_lovepoems.png|thumb|right|Nevermind the email, Strong Sad, what's up with your arm (circled)?]]
*The back button appears at the bottom left of the viewing screen (making it nearly illegible), rather than the bottom left of the Lappy's screen, as is usual for emails ending on a computer closeup.
*In Strong Sad's Easter egg, Strong Sad's left arm doesn't go around his body, but is instead wrapped around the book he's holding.

===Inside References===
*Strong Bad's song about a girl that owes him money references [[bottom 10]] where he charges "Simone" the "girl" $7.50 for the email.
*The music during Homestar and Strong Bad's poems is the music in [[do over]], when Strong Bad placed a candle on the desk.
*Homestar mentions his [[lack of visible arms]].
*Homestar's poem has each letter of Marzipan's name capitalized, except for one [[Lowercase i's|lowercase i]].
** Following suit, the word "inchiladas" is written in all lowercase letters, while all the others on Homestar's list are written in all caps.
*Homestar describes [[Not X|not]]-organic apples.
*Meredith's line echoes [[The Ugly One]]'s line, "I have a crush on every boy!", from [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 1]].
*Cheerleader's shirt reads "poifect", another instance of [["Er" pronounced as "Oi"]].
*The Easter egg references Brunswick [[Stew]], first mentioned in [[New Boots]].
*Strong Bad mentions [[Parents|grandparents]].
*Homestar admits that [[Homestar Runner and Marzipan's Relationship#Homestar and Marzipan Breaking Up|Marzipan broke up with him]].
*Homestar's grocery list is made entirely up of [[nondescript nouns]].
*Tenerence Love's [[Green tongues|tongue is green]] and his song mentions [[ham]].
*Homestar previously tried to use a grocery list for an unrelated reason in [[The Interview]].

=== Real-World References ===
*"I herly berly on gerly werly" is a reference to a line spoken by the second witch in [[Shakespeare]]'s [[Wikipedia:Macbeth|Macbeth]]. The line is "When the hurlyburly's done, when the battle's lost and won."
**This reference could also be a combined reference to the song [[Wikipedia:Blinded By The Light|"Blinded By The Light"]] by [[Wikipedia:Bruce Springsteen|Bruce Springsteen]] which the lyric goes "And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride."
*Tenerence Love's overweight "R&B make-out jam" is a reference to soul singers such as [[Wikipedia:Barry White|Barry White]] and [[Wikipedia:Luther Vandross|Luther Vandross]], who were overweight singers but still attractive to female audiences.
*Homestar's "This Mo'nin" jam (specifically the way he says "Mo'nin") sounds like [[Wikipedia:Newcleus|Newcleus]]' hip-hop classic, "Jam On It", and sounds nearly identical to the chorus of "Got" by [[Wikipedia:Mos Def|Mos Def]].
**"Jam On It" was previously referenced in "[[Happy Hallow-day]]"
*[[Wikipedia:Sky Mall|Sky Mall]] is an airline catalog from which passengers can order various items after leaving the plane, or by use of airplane telephones. Most of the items in the catalog are gadgets and things that would appeal to those with higher incomes.
*The Strong Bad Phone is similar in concept to the Bat phone, a device [[Wikipedia:James Gordon (comics)|Commissioner Gordon]] used to contact [[Batman]] in time of need in the live-action [[Wikipedia:Batman (TV series)|'60s television series]].
*The Rub Doctor is also a reference to Super Ninja Boy, an adventure/rpg game on the [[Nintendo#Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)|SNES]] in which Rub-A-Doc brings peace to the universe.

==DVD Version==
{{commentary|email=true}}
=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]], [[Ryan Sterritt]])

'''MATT:''' You guys, I think we should all write love poems for our wives.

'''MIKE:''' Right now, during this commentary?

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Okay, I'll start.

'''MATT:''' Alright.

'''MIKE:''' You like to ride horses... and... make pasta, but not stir it up so it's always very clumpy.

'''MATT:''' Wait, no, you're already going the wrong way with this.

'''MIKE:''' But, wait, clumpy, I— I was going to be able to rhyme it with dumpy.

'''MATT:''' "And you look really dumpy"... That's great, Mike.

'''RYAN:''' Two out of the three... are not good.

'''MIKE:''' Um...

'''RYAN:''' When was the last love poem you actually wrote?

'''MIKE:''' Uh...

'''MATT:''' Have you ever written one?

'''MIKE:''' Not... maybe outside of, like, second or third grade, not seriously.

'''MATT:''' In high school, I'd write songs, but they weren't like— Y'know, they weren't overtly, like, romantic.

'''MIKE:''' Right, I would write songs about girls.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' I wrote an instrumental song about a girl once called "Mold".

'''MIKE:''' Oh yeah, that was you? That was about a girl?

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Good job.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''RYAN:''' Did she like it?

'''MATT:''' She did.

'''RYAN:''' Did she hear it?

'''MATT:''' She did hear it.

'''MIKE:''' We should hear from Ryan about this. Ryan is a bi— is way into scented candles. Ryan, you should talk about them.

'''RYAN:''' I enjoy scented candles.

'''MIKE:''' What's your latest favorite flavor?

'''RYAN:''' My still— I still think "Grass" is my favorite one.

'''MIKE:''' Do they still make that? Does ''{unintelligible because Ryan interrupts}'' candles still make it?

'''RYAN:''' ''{simultaneously}'' They don't. They have something else that's not as good, but it just made your house smell like you just cut the grass, which is a good thing.

'''MIKE:''' Could you— did it have a little hint of gasoline?

''{unintelligible}''

'''RYAN:''' That I would splash on my face a little... get the smell. ''{pause}'' Dr. Rub? Is that his name?

'''MATT:''' The Rub Doctor. Dr. Marvin Rubdown.

'''MIKE:''' He's on the cover of this DVD. The back cover.

'''MATT:''' ''{pause until Teen Girl Squad segment}'' I like it when Strong Bad Emails cut away to Teen Girl Squad.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' It feels like it should happen more.

'''MIKE:''' Not quite as Teen Girl Squad.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' Is that what it would be categorized as?

'''MIKE:''' The wiki's, probably.

'''MATT:''' ''{pause until Strong Bad says "olde schoole"}'' How do you spell that, Mike, y'think?

'''MIKE:''' Uh...

'''MATT:''' O-L-D-E S-K-U Umlaut-L-E?

'''MIKE:''' Probably. ''{pause}'' So, is he— is he supposed to be dressed up as Art Garfunkel?

'''RYAN:''' I was just gonna ask that.

''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' Oh, it's a Tenerence Love jam.

'''MIKE:''' I like how—

'''RYAN:''' The sweat.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, his sweat, like, contours to his brow and stuff.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I spent way too much time on that sweat.

'''MIKE:''' Everyone watch that sweat, it's ''{stressing the words}'' ''real good''. Lookit, that one curled around another bead of sweat.

'''MIKE:''' ''{pause}'' The Cheat's animations are really good now.

'''MATT:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Welcome to sweaty town.

'''MIKE:''' He kinda reminds me of Babycakes, that Tenerence Love.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' Oh! I'm gonna have [[Jackie]] knit me a sweater like that with a, like, cable-knit star in the middle of it.

'''RYAN:''' You guys have any turtleneck sweaters?

'''MIKE:''' I've got my Teeg Dougland turtleneck, my blue turtleneck for Teeg Dougland appearances, that's the only one I've got these days.

'''MATT:''' You got one, Ry?

'''RYAN:''' No.

''{unintelligible as Ryan and Matt talk at the same time}''

'''MATT:''' I made a— I made a squished body and a new bent body for that, I forgot.

''{all laugh as Homestar comes in with his acrostic poem}''

'''MIKE:''' And now he's Art Garfunkel.

'''MATT:''' He looks even more like Art Garfunkel, I think, than Strong Bad.

'''MIKE:''' Look, the little bottom of his hair is tucked into the turtleneck.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' That is a goof, man! That is a goof, and a glitch, and a reference, and a real-world reference, and an inside reference.

'''MIKE:''' And a fun fact.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Don't forget about a fun fact.

'''MATT:''' Whadda ya call those poems?

'''MIKE:''' Uh... an... an...

'''MATT:''' Antacrostic? Antanacrostic?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, I think it's an acrostic.

'''MATT:''' Agnostic?

'''MIKE:''' Acro—

'''RYAN:''' An acronym.

'''MATT:''' Ohh, the SkyMall! What, uh, what Lord of the Rings authentic creation—

'''MIKE:''' I was just gonna say, the weird Lord of the Rings—

'''RYAN:''' ''{interrupting}'' —Those see-through bathing suits that you can get tan while you wear it, towards the back of SkyMall. Maybe when you're flying to Florida they want you to buy a real expensive bathing suit.

'''MATT:''' ''{pause}'' Um... Oh, look at that, we had— we had—

'''MIKE:''' Glade Plugins.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' We should put in the old Scent Stories, the CD player disguised as a— er—

=== Fun Facts ===
*[[Wikipedia:Art Garfunkel|Art Garfunkel]] was the second half of the [[Wikipedia:Grammy Awards|Grammy]]-winning [[Wikipedia:Folk music|folk]] duo, [[Wikipedia:Simon & Garfunkel|Simon and Garfunkel]].
*[[Wikipedia:Glade (brand)|Glade]] is a brand of household air fresheners.

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|195|14217|youtube=rfqjWvF2lhg}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Powered by The Cheat]]
[[Category:Podstar Runner]]

love poems

DarthKorbo — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:50:08 GMT

DarthKorbo:

{{sbenav|195}}
[[Image:sbemail195.PNG|thumb|"What are you talking about, Mary Ann?"]]

Strong Bad writes love poems for the <s>hopeless</s> ''homeless'' romantic.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Cheerleader}}, {{Film|So and So}}, [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Meredith|Meredith]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Kimberly|Kimberly]], {{Film|Arrow'd Guy}}, [[Tenerence Love]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Classroom]], [[Strong Sad's Room]] (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' Monday, May 26, 2008

'''Running Time:''' 4:26

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Six}}

==Transcript==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Girl, where's my money that you owe me from all those emails that you wrote me?

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: love poem</div>
Dear Mr. Strong [Bad], 
I am in love. Unfortunately, I am absotively blunderous with 
my words which I speak. Will you help me write a love poem? 
Sincerely, 
Just Another Hopeless Romantic 
</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pauses just before reading "[Bad]". He reads "Hopeless" as "homeless".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well, put on your patchy-stained jacket and gather 'round the fire in the trashcan, Homeless Romantic, 'cause the Rub [Doctor] is here to help!

''{Cut to the classroom, where Strong Bad is standing in front of the blackboard, wearing a charcoal gray turtleneck and balding brown hair. The word "Rub" is written on the blackboard next to an arrow pointing downwards.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hi. I'm Doctor Marvin Rubdown. Did you know that writing love poems is as easy as telling a girl she's hot with the fance-pantsiest words you can think of? ''{cut to a view from Strong Bad's front-left}'' For poetic inspiration, I like to swipe the names of scented candle fragrances!

''{Fade out. Fade in to Strong Bad, still with the sweater and hair, in front of a gray background. Strong Bad's voice slightly echoes.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Your eyes, ''{holds up a lit orange and green candle with a label saying "Sandalwood Sage Sunset" in his left hand}'' they flicker like a Sandalwood Sage Sunset.

''{He puts his hand back down.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Your hair flows like Fresh Cotton Linens ''{holds up a lit white candle with a label saying "Fresh Cotton Linens" in his right hand}'' hung to dry on the deck.

''{He puts his hand down, holds up a lit brown candle with a label saying "Grandma's Apple Cinnamon Spice" in his left hand.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Grandma's Apple Cinnamon Spice is the scented candle I would use to describe your mouth.

''{He puts his hand back down}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And your nose: like an unscented emergency candle ''{holds up a white, unlabeled candle in his left hand}'' for when the power goes out.

''{Cut back to the classroom. Echoes stop}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Another way of fancying up a love poem is to replace random letters in the middle of words with apostrophes.

''{Cut to a closeup of the blackboard; the "Rub" and the arrow have been erased but remain faintly visible.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{as he speaks, the words in quotes appear on the blackboard in chalk. Strong Bad's voice slightly echoes again}'' "It is never ever over, my lover of clover" becomes "'Tis ne'er e'er o'er m'lo'er o' clo'er".

''{Cut to a closeup of Strong Bad; Coach Z is leaning in from the right. Echoes stop}''

'''COACH Z:''' Now you're sporkin' my language!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Get out! ''{Coach Z leaves quickly}'' Women love it when you talk all Elizabethan. ''{"-Elizabethan" appears to the right of Strong Bad.}'' But you shouldn't be afraid to get Kimberlian ''{"-Kimberlian" appears under "-Elizabethan"}'' or Meredithian ''{"-Meredithian" appears under "-Kimberlian"}'' if the need arises.

''{Cut to a Teen Girl Squad scene with Cheerleader and So and So; Cheerleader has an annoyed look and is wearing a shirt that reads "poi fect".}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' I can't stand the way Meredith talks!

''{Cut to a wider shot with Cheerleader, still looking annoyed, So and So, frowning, and Meredith, bending backward with a pleased look on her face and her tongue hanging out}''

'''MEREDITH:''' I'th hath a cruth on ethry boy'th!

''{Cut to a yet wider shot; Cheerleader and So and So still look irritated; Meredith now has a quizzical look; Kimberly runs in with her mouth wide open and her hair flying behind her}''

'''KIMBERLY:''' I herly berly on gerly werly!

''{Arrowed Guy appears dressed as [[William Shakespeare]] and spears Meredith and Kimberly; Cheerleader and So and So appear pleased.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' Shakespeared!

''{Cut back to the classroom}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' But if that frilly collar stuff is too olde schoole ''{pronounces the E's in both words as "eh"}'' for you, then why not try a more contemporary approach with an overweight R&B make-out jam? ''{music begins to play}'' As long as your tone is well-dressed and sweaty enough, it doesn't matter what you say!

''{Cut to a black [[Powered by The Cheat]] background with yellow lights shining out of it. Tenerence Love, holding a microphone and visibly perspiring, is in the lower right, slowly drifting to the upper left.}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' ''{sings}'' This is Tenerence Love with a sweaty overweight jam!

''{Tenerence Love disappears and reappears in the lower left, drifting to the upper right}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' My name is Tenerence Love with a sweaty overweight ham!

''{Tenerence Love disappears and reappears in the upper center, drifting down}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' It may be five pounds...

''{The symbol for the [[Wikipedia:Pound sign|Pound sterling]] appears in Tenerence Love's right sunglasses lens, the number 5 in his left lens}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' ...ten pounds, ''{the 5 changes to a 10}'' twenty pounds,

''{The 10 changes to a 20. Tenerence Love disappears and two Tenerence Loves appear on both sides and drift toward the center}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' Just a little bit overweight, now welcome, girl, to sweaty town!

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' And when that gets you slapped and escorted from her building by security, you can always buy a fourteen-pound bag of extra-long—

''{Homestar Runner enters from the left wearing a charcoal gray turtleneck similar to Strong Bad's, but with a black star on it.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{interrupting}'' Ah, ha ha, ha ha! Oh, Strong Bad. It's funny to me when you try to play grown-up!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{raising his fist}'' What are you talking about, Mary Ann?

''{Cut to a close-up of Homestar}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Everybody knows I'm the only one around here with any real no-arms-on experience with the lady-makes! ''{cut back to wider view of the classroom}'' Just listen to this little make-out inducing number I threw together this mo'nin'! ''{starts dancing and speaking in rhythm}'' This mo'nin'! ''{Strong Bad begins to dance along}'' This mo, re-mo, re-mo-mo'nin'!

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right, but only 'cause that little song was kind of cool!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ahem!

''{Fade out. Fade in on Homestar Runner, still wearing his turtleneck and now with brown hair similar to Strong Bad's in front of a gray background. He is on the left; to the right of him a paper comes down with the word "MARZiPAN" written vertically. Homestar's voice slightly echoes.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' M is for milk. ''{"Milk" appears next to the "M" on the paper}'' The real stuff! ''{looking annoyed}'' Not soy. ''{no longer annoyed}'' 
A is for not-organic apples. ''{"APPLES" appears next to the "A" on the paper}'' Pesticides ahoy! 
R is for raisins, ''{"RAISINS" appears next to the "R" on the paper}'' they give me bad gas! 
Z is too hard, so at this one, I'll pass. ''{"(PASS)" appears next to the "Z" on the paper}'' 
I is for inchiladas! ''{"inchiladas" appears next to the "i" on the paper}'' And—

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{angry voiceover}'' Homestar!

''{Cut back to the classroom, Homestar no longer has brown hair and his hat is back on. Echoes stop}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah, what's up?

''{Cut to a closeup of Strong Bad}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's not a love poem! That is a lavishly produced grocery list!

''{Cut to a closeup of Homestar}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' No, ''{holds up a small piece of lined paper; writing on the other side saying "amazing thing" four times is faintly visible}'' ''here'' is my grocery list! Amazing thing, amazing thing, amazing thing, amazing thing.

''{Cut back to the wider view of the classroom}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoa, where you been shopping?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' SkyMall.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Homestar, are you and Marzipan even dating right now?

''{Cut to a closeup of Homestar Runner}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Are we even dating ''{chuckles and grins}'' right now? Are we even d— Are we even da—

''{Cut back to wider view of the classroom}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{quieter and lower, with a sad look}'' No, she broke up with me again this morning.

'''STRONG BAD:''' This morning?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, I mean-a ''{singing and dancing as before}'' This mo'nin'!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER AND STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing together}'' This mo'nin'! This mo, re-mo, re-mo—

''{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So there you ha' it 
My Homeless Roma'ic. 
Love Poems 101 
Oh the hearts you will win. ''{holds up a plug-in air freshener}'' 
Like this lavender scented plug-in ''{puts the air freshener back down}'' 
New paper, come on and get some!

''{[[New Paper]] comes down}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:HomelessRomantic.PNG|thumb|Verses from the weird shrub and more!]]
*Click on "Homeless Romantic" at the beginning to view a book written by [[Senor Cardgage]] entitled "The Homeless Romantic".
<blockquote>the 
HOMELESS
 ROMANTIC 
 
verses from the [[weird shrub]] 
and alarming recipes for 
brunswick stew 
 
by 
Senor Cardgage</blockquote>
*Click on the words "Love poems" at the end of the email to see a small clip with Strong Sad.
*:''{A very eager Strong Sad is jiggling up and down and holding a book of poems titled "Poem Tome by Strong Sad". A red phone with green marks that resemble Strong Bad's eyes is in the foreground, and the audio of the email can be heard faintly in the distance, along with the music from [[caffeine]]}''
*:'''STRONG SAD:''' Why isn't he calling me in on the Strong Badphone? This email was practically tailor-made for me!
*:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''(simultaneously, muffled in background)'' ...Well, put on your patchy-stained jacket and gather 'round the fire in the trashcan, Homeless Romantic, 'cause the Rub...

==Fun Facts==
===Explanations===
*[[Wikipedia:Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] is late 16th century England, coinciding with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It is considered the first great era of English poetry and literature, producing authors like [[Shakespeare]].
*The "removing of random letters" Strong Bad refers to is done in poems in order to maintain a strict [[Wikipedia:Meter (poetry)|poetic meter]].
*Homestar's "lavishly produced grocery list" actually resembles an [[Wikipedia:Acrostic|acrostic]] poem.

===Trivia===
*The song info for Tenerence Love's song reads:
<blockquote>Tenerence Love 
A Sweaty, Overweight Jam 
Simma Down Girl 
Director: The Cheat</blockquote>
*The summary of the [[Podstar Runner]] RSS feed reads, "Dr. Marvin Rubdown gives some advice on writing love poems."

===Remarks===
*In Strong Bad's suggestion of replacing letters with apostrophes, he uses eight. Yet, ironically, he rebuked OD-ing on apostrophes in [[unnatural]].
*The shadows' offset on "-Elizabethan" and "-Kimberlian" slightly change when "-Meredithian" comes on screen.
**"-Elizabethan" also slightly moves as "-Kimberlian" is added.
*The title and subtext of ''Homeless Romantic'' reiterates a point made in [[kind of cool]], alongside many of the other [[Senor Cardgage]] appearances, that implied he was homeless.
*The sweat The Cheat uses in the Tenerence Love Video is the same style as what is used in the old [[Homestar Runner and Strong Bad Screensaver]], though it is smaller in this incarnation. The sweat itself is from the Strong Brew Screensaver.

===Goofs===
[[Image:StrongSad_lovepoems.png|thumb|right|Nevermind the email, Strong Sad, what's up with your arm (circled)?]]
*The back button appears at the bottom left of the viewing screen (making it nearly illegible), rather than the bottom left of the Lappy's screen, as is usual for emails ending on a computer closeup.
*In Strong Sad's Easter egg, Strong Sad's left arm doesn't go around his body, but is instead wrapped around the book he's holding.

===Inside References===
*Strong Bad's song about a girl that owes him money references [[bottom 10]] where he charges "Simone" the "girl" $7.50 for the email.
*The music during Homestar and Strong Bad's poems is the music in [[do over]], when Strong Bad placed a candle on the desk.
*Homestar mentions his [[lack of visible arms]].
*Homestar's poem has each letter of Marzipan's name capitalized, except for one [[Lowercase i's|lowercase i]].
** Following suit, the word "inchiladas" is written in all lowercase letters, while all the others on Homestar's list are written in all caps.
*Homestar describes [[Not X|not]]-organic apples.
*Meredith's line echoes [[The Ugly One]]'s line, "I have a crush on every boy!", from [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 1]].
*Cheerleader's shirt reads "poifect", another instance of [["Er" pronounced as "Oi"]].
*The Easter egg references Brunswick [[Stew]], first mentioned in [[New Boots]].
*Strong Bad mentions [[Parents|grandparents]].
*Homestar admits that [[Homestar Runner and Marzipan's Relationship#Homestar and Marzipan Breaking Up|Marzipan broke up with him]].
*Homestar's grocery list is made entirely up of [[nondescript nouns]].
*Tenerence Love's [[Green tongues|tongue is green]] and his song mentions [[ham]].
*Homestar previously tried to use a grocery list for an unrelated reason in [[The Interview]].

=== Real-World References ===
*"I herly berly on gerly werly" is a reference to a line spoken by the second witch in [[Shakespeare]]'s [[Wikipedia:Macbeth|Macbeth]]. The line is "When the hurlyburly's done, when the battle's lost and won."
**This reference could also be a combined reference to the song [[Wikipedia:Blinded By The Light|"Blinded By The Light"]] by [[Wikipedia:Bruce Springsteen|Bruce Springsteen]] which the lyric goes "And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride."
*Tenerence Love's overweight "R&B make-out jam" is a reference to soul singers such as [[Wikipedia:Barry White|Barry White]] and [[Wikipedia:Luther Vandross|Luther Vandross]], who were overweight singers but still attractive to female audiences.
*Homestar's "This Mo'nin" jam (specifically the way he says "Mo'nin") sounds like [[Wikipedia:Newcleus|Newcleus]]' hip-hop classic, "Jam On It", and sounds nearly identical to the chorus of "Got" by [[Wikipedia:Mos Def|Mos Def]].
**"Jam On It" was previously referenced in "[[Happy Hallow-day]]"
*[[Wikipedia:Sky Mall|Sky Mall]] is an airline catalog from which passengers can order various items after leaving the plane, or by use of airplane telephones. Most of the items in the catalog are gadgets and things that would appeal to those with higher incomes.
*The Strong Bad Phone is similar in concept to the Bat phone, a device [[Wikipedia:James Gordon (comics)|Commissioner Gordon]] used to contact [[Batman]] in time of need in the live-action [[Wikipedia:Batman (TV series)|'60s television series]].
*The Rub Doctor is also a reference to Super Ninja Boy, an adventure/rpg game on the SNES in which Rub-A-Doc brings peace to the universe.

==DVD Version==
{{commentary|email=true}}
=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]], [[Ryan Sterritt]])

'''MATT:''' You guys, I think we should all write love poems for our wives.

'''MIKE:''' Right now, during this commentary?

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Okay, I'll start.

'''MATT:''' Alright.

'''MIKE:''' You like to ride horses... and... make pasta, but not stir it up so it's always very clumpy.

'''MATT:''' Wait, no, you're already going the wrong way with this.

'''MIKE:''' But, wait, clumpy, I— I was going to be able to rhyme it with dumpy.

'''MATT:''' "And you look really dumpy"... That's great, Mike.

'''RYAN:''' Two out of the three... are not good.

'''MIKE:''' Um...

'''RYAN:''' When was the last love poem you actually wrote?

'''MIKE:''' Uh...

'''MATT:''' Have you ever written one?

'''MIKE:''' Not... maybe outside of, like, second or third grade, not seriously.

'''MATT:''' In high school, I'd write songs, but they weren't like— Y'know, they weren't overtly, like, romantic.

'''MIKE:''' Right, I would write songs about girls.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' I wrote an instrumental song about a girl once called "Mold".

'''MIKE:''' Oh yeah, that was you? That was about a girl?

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Good job.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''RYAN:''' Did she like it?

'''MATT:''' She did.

'''RYAN:''' Did she hear it?

'''MATT:''' She did hear it.

'''MIKE:''' We should hear from Ryan about this. Ryan is a bi— is way into scented candles. Ryan, you should talk about them.

'''RYAN:''' I enjoy scented candles.

'''MIKE:''' What's your latest favorite flavor?

'''RYAN:''' My still— I still think "Grass" is my favorite one.

'''MIKE:''' Do they still make that? Does ''{unintelligible because Ryan interrupts}'' candles still make it?

'''RYAN:''' ''{simultaneously}'' They don't. They have something else that's not as good, but it just made your house smell like you just cut the grass, which is a good thing.

'''MIKE:''' Could you— did it have a little hint of gasoline?

''{unintelligible}''

'''RYAN:''' That I would splash on my face a little... get the smell. ''{pause}'' Dr. Rub? Is that his name?

'''MATT:''' The Rub Doctor. Dr. Marvin Rubdown.

'''MIKE:''' He's on the cover of this DVD. The back cover.

'''MATT:''' ''{pause until Teen Girl Squad segment}'' I like it when Strong Bad Emails cut away to Teen Girl Squad.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' It feels like it should happen more.

'''MIKE:''' Not quite as Teen Girl Squad.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' Is that what it would be categorized as?

'''MIKE:''' The wiki's, probably.

'''MATT:''' ''{pause until Strong Bad says "olde schoole"}'' How do you spell that, Mike, y'think?

'''MIKE:''' Uh...

'''MATT:''' O-L-D-E S-K-U Umlaut-L-E?

'''MIKE:''' Probably. ''{pause}'' So, is he— is he supposed to be dressed up as Art Garfunkel?

'''RYAN:''' I was just gonna ask that.

''{unintelligible}''

'''MATT:''' Oh, it's a Tenerence Love jam.

'''MIKE:''' I like how—

'''RYAN:''' The sweat.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, his sweat, like, contours to his brow and stuff.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, I spent way too much time on that sweat.

'''MIKE:''' Everyone watch that sweat, it's ''{stressing the words}'' ''real good''. Lookit, that one curled around another bead of sweat.

'''MIKE:''' ''{pause}'' The Cheat's animations are really good now.

'''MATT:''' ''{simultaneously}'' Welcome to sweaty town.

'''MIKE:''' He kinda reminds me of Babycakes, that Tenerence Love.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' Oh! I'm gonna have [[Jackie]] knit me a sweater like that with a, like, cable-knit star in the middle of it.

'''RYAN:''' You guys have any turtleneck sweaters?

'''MIKE:''' I've got my Teeg Dougland turtleneck, my blue turtleneck for Teeg Dougland appearances, that's the only one I've got these days.

'''MATT:''' You got one, Ry?

'''RYAN:''' No.

''{unintelligible as Ryan and Matt talk at the same time}''

'''MATT:''' I made a— I made a squished body and a new bent body for that, I forgot.

''{all laugh as Homestar comes in with his acrostic poem}''

'''MIKE:''' And now he's Art Garfunkel.

'''MATT:''' He looks even more like Art Garfunkel, I think, than Strong Bad.

'''MIKE:''' Look, the little bottom of his hair is tucked into the turtleneck.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' That is a goof, man! That is a goof, and a glitch, and a reference, and a real-world reference, and an inside reference.

'''MIKE:''' And a fun fact.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Don't forget about a fun fact.

'''MATT:''' Whadda ya call those poems?

'''MIKE:''' Uh... an... an...

'''MATT:''' Antacrostic? Antanacrostic?

'''RYAN:''' Yeah, I think it's an acrostic.

'''MATT:''' Agnostic?

'''MIKE:''' Acro—

'''RYAN:''' An acronym.

'''MATT:''' Ohh, the SkyMall! What, uh, what Lord of the Rings authentic creation—

'''MIKE:''' I was just gonna say, the weird Lord of the Rings—

'''RYAN:''' ''{interrupting}'' —Those see-through bathing suits that you can get tan while you wear it, towards the back of SkyMall. Maybe when you're flying to Florida they want you to buy a real expensive bathing suit.

'''MATT:''' ''{pause}'' Um... Oh, look at that, we had— we had—

'''MIKE:''' Glade Plugins.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' We should put in the old Scent Stories, the CD player disguised as a— er—

=== Fun Facts ===
*[[Wikipedia:Art Garfunkel|Art Garfunkel]] was the second half of the [[Wikipedia:Grammy Awards|Grammy]]-winning [[Wikipedia:Folk music|folk]] duo, [[Wikipedia:Simon & Garfunkel|Simon and Garfunkel]].
*[[Wikipedia:Glade (brand)|Glade]] is a brand of household air fresheners.

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|195|14217|youtube=rfqjWvF2lhg}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Powered by The Cheat]]
[[Category:Podstar Runner]]

Where U Goin' 2?

DarthKorbo — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:23:11 GMT

DarthKorbo:

{{toonnav|Shorts|whereugoin2|Donut Unto Others|Strong Bad Sings}}
[[Image:Where U Goin' 2.png|thumb|"It's like, what is he doing, you know? I mean, where's he goin' to?"]]
A song about The Cheat's typical day.

'''Cast:''' {{film|Strong Bad}}, {{film|Strong Mad}}, {{film|The Cheat}}, {{film|Strong Sad}}, {{film|Marzipan}}, [[Cardboard Homestar]], {{film|Homestar Runner}}, {{film|Coach Z}}, {{film|Bubs}}

'''Places:''' [[Basement of the Brothers Strong]], [[The Brick Wall]], [[The Field]], [[The Cheat's Computer Room]], [[Gymnasium]], [[The King of Town's Grill]]

'''Date:''' Sunday, April 19, 2009

'''Running Time:''' 2:40

'''Page Title:''' [[Tomatocycle]] Season 1 on DVD!

== Transcript ==
''{Open on Strong Mad and Strong Bad sitting on the couch in the basement.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' He said ''he'' thought paunchberry sounded like a ''disgusting'' ice cream flavor. But ''I'' beg to differ.

'''STRONG MAD:''' I THOUGHT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT MOTORCYCLES!

''{Strong Mad pulls out a bike made of wieners and tomato slices; cut to a close-up of the bike and then back to the two on the couch. The Cheat enters screen right.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah, we probably were. Hey, The Cheat!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{upbeat The Cheat noises, then hums a tune}''

''{The Cheat exits screen left}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Man, that The Cheat. ''{bass line starts in the background}'' It's like, what is he doing, you know? I mean, where's he goin' to?

''{Cut to The Cheat going down the stairs outside the house.}''

'''SINGER:''' The Cheat, where you goin' to? 
:: And once you get there, whatchu think you gonna do? 
:: Checking up on a mattress fire 
:: That you started couple days ago. 
:: Singin' baritone in Marzipan's choir 
:: (But please don't let Strong Bad know) 
:: Nobody knows...

''{Zoom out on a slate that reads "Marzipan's not-dumb choir" to reveal Marzipan entering from screen right, wearing a robe and a book marked "HIMS". The Cheat and Cardboard Homestar are similarly dressed on screen left.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' This part's in D.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{tries to sing, but sounds more like a growl; Cardboard Homestar's head moves}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Ooh, that's not D.

''{close-up of The Cheat}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{sings again, higher pitch}''

''{Cut back to two-shot.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' How about C?

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{even higher, angry The Cheat noises}''

''{The Cheat throws the book, knocking down Cardboard Homestar. Marzipan looks scared. The Cheat removes his robe.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Ehh, close enough.

''{Marzipan starts singing along with the singer.}''

'''SINGER and MARZIPAN:''' The Cheat, where you goin' to?

''{The Cheat exits behind Marzipan screen right. Cut to a shot of Homestar walking in the field.}''

'''SINGER and HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' And once you get there, whatchu think you gonna do?

'''SINGER:''' Hitchin' a ride on Homestar's leg 
::Stealin' all his melonade

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey!

'''SINGER:''' Get a freelance animation job—

''{Powered By The Cheat, on [[Monosodium Dreams]]:}''

'''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD:''' —and make the best cartoon that's ever been made!

''{Full-screen scene of a Powered by The Cheat Bubs' Concession Stand, marked "dub's C"; The Cheat starts singing backup.}''

'''POWERED BY THE CHEAT COACH Z:''' Hey there, Bubs in the store. Paunchberry's was a new ice cream!

'''POWERED BY THE CHEAT BUBS:''' I can't even reach the top.

''{Bubs waves towards a stack of ice cream containers that reaches into the sky. Cut to The Cheat, wearing a shirt that reads "Paunch", Strong Mad, smiling and the word "Berry" on his singlet, and Strong Bad, "icéd cream" written on him, dancing in front of a wall of ice cream containers}''

'''POWERED BY THE CHEAT COACH Z:''' Hey, it's the paunchberry ice cream dancing team.

''{The Cheat stops singing.}''

'''SINGER:''' The Cheat—

'''POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD:''' ''{overlapping}'' Viral.

''{Cut back to regular action; The Cheat walks along the top of the brick wall and then flies off the end with a dashed path trailing him.}''

'''SINGER:''' —where you goin' to? 
::And once you get there, whatchu think you gonna do? 
::Headin' down to the gymnasium 
::Gonna do some lay-up drills 
::I'm not sure if that's something you would normally do 
::But you should brush up on your basketball skills
::With some lay-up drills
::Lay-up drills

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{angry The Cheat noise}''

'''SINGER:''' ''{softly}'' No lay-up drills?

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{angry The Cheat noise}''

''{The Cheat moves his arm, the scoreboard falls, and the room gets darker.}''

'''SINGER:''' Flaming lay-up drills?

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{excited The Cheat noise}''

'''SINGER:''' The Cheat likes flaming lay-up drills 
::I'm glad we compromised with flaming lay-up drills 
::Ah, f'rllz, oh tell me what's the dealz 
::You got the wills, the skills, the flaming lay-up drills 
::The Cheat, where you goin' to? 
::And once you get there, whatchu think you gonna do? 
::The Cheat, whatchu gonna did 
::The day is done so won'tchu close that barbecue... lid

''{The Cheat hops onto the King of Town's barbecue grill and closes the lid. Cut back to Strong Bad and Strong Mad in the basement.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I dunno. Maybe he's just going to the ATM machine.

'''STRONG MAD:''' THAT'S REDUNDANT!

''{A card comes down that reads "end" with "ATM machine = automatic teller machine machine" written underneath.}''

== Fun Facts ==
=== Explanations ===
* The phrase "ATM machine" is an example of [[Wikipedia:RAS syndrome|RAS syndrome]]. The "M" already stands for "machine".
* The word "VIRAL" flashing on the screen at the end of The Cheat's cartoon refers to [[Wikipedia:Viral video|viral video]], an online video that gets quick widespread popularity.

=== Trivia ===
* When Marzipan says "This part's in D", the song is in the key of E major (while most of the song is in E minor). Likewise, the first two notes The Cheat sings for her are E's.

=== Remarks ===
*Although it is suggested that The Cheat is exiting the [[House of the Brothers Strong]] at the beginning of the song, the house he is actually seen walking out of is usually depicted as being [[Homestar Runner's House]].
*The Cheat has been given a new walking animation in this toon.

=== Inside References ===
*The Cheat is seen [[flying]] and [[The Cheat Smiling|smiling]] at the same time.
*The Ice cream containers read icéd cream, which is similar to [[-èd]].
*Marzipan's choir books read "HIMS", a [[homophone]] for the more appropriate "Hymns". This spelling also appeared in [[Happy Dethemberween]].
*The Cheat steals Homestar's [[Melonade]].
*The Cheat lights the rim of the [[basketball]] hoop with the [[BMW lighter]].
*This short begins with an [[interrupted conversation]].
*A [[Limozeen]] flyer can be seen on the telephone pole.
*Marzipan's board says "Marzipan's [[Not X|Not]]-Dumb Choir".
*The bulging stomach seen on the ice cream containers in The Cheat's cartoon resembles one partially seen in [[your funeral]].
*The phrase "whatchu gonna did?" was used in Homestar's speech as the Jack 'Em Up Kid in [[yes, wrestling]]. The term "[[portmanteau|gymatorium]]" was also used in that email.
*The "i" in "LOADiNG" is [[Lowercase i's|lowercase]].

===Real-World References===
*Strong Mad's confusion about motorcycles in a conversation about Paunchberry ice cream is a reference to the '70s TV series [[Wikipedia:CHiPs|CHiPs]]. Francis 'Ponch' Poncherello played by [[Wikipedia:Erik Estrada|Erik Estrada]] was a main character on the series about the adventures of two California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers.
*The song is similar in style and content to "Little Birdie" from the [[Peanuts]] special ''[[Wikipedia:A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving|A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving]]''. The erratic path and trailing dotted line when The Cheat flies off of the brick wall is reminiscent of the subject of that song, [[Wikipedia:Woodstock (Peanuts)|Woodstock]].

== See Also ==
*The [[Where U Goin' 2? Visuals|visuals]] for the toon.

== External Links ==
{{extlinks|whereugoin2|15263}}

[[Category:Shorts]][[Category:Songs]][[Category:Powered by The Cheat]]

hiding

DarthKorbo — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:09:48 GMT

DarthKorbo:

{{sbenav|196}}
[[Image:Sbemail196.png|thumb|"Shut your mouth, wimp-cake!"]]

Strong Bad expounds on his Hide n' Seek experiences.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{film|Strong Bad}}, {{film|The Cheat}}, {{film|Homestar Runner}}, {{film|Strong Sad}}, {{film|Strong Mad}}, {{film|Marzipan}}, {{film|Coach Z}}, [[Animatronic Strong Bad]], {{film|Pom Pom}}, [[Grape-Nuts Robot]] (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]], [[Bathroom of the Brothers Strong]], [[Homestar Runner's House]], [[The Bar]]

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' Monday, July 14, 2008

'''Running Time:''' 3:48

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Six}}

==Transcript==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Junk it, and check it, send me an email and I'll wreck it!

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: hide n seek</div>
Dear Dude, 
What is your awesome hiding place whenever you play 
hide n' seek. I'm sure you can just stand somewhere and 
noone can find you right. 
Awesomely Yours, 
Dude 1 
Scarlet, MO 
</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads the second sentence after "I'm sure you" with a monotonous rhythm. He also reads "noone" phonetically as "new-nee". After "right", he comments, "Hey man, Noone can find me ''wrong'' if she's good-looking enough." He then reads "Scarlet, MO" as "Scar, Let Moe".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well, as anyone that has a little brother or a Homestar Runner knows, hide n' seek can be oh so much more useful than ''just'' playing it.

''{Cut to The Field, where Strong Bad is talking to The Cheat.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...prestigious monk, but I—

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{walking in from the right, interrupting}'' Hey, Strong Bad; hey, The Squeak. ''{both turn, and The Cheat scowls}'' I'm here to make all your dreams come true!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{annoyed}'' The Cheat and I are in the middle of a sentence here!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' What about fifteen cents? I'm here to make fifteen cents come true!

''{Homestar Runner throws three coins on the ground next to Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey Homestar, I've got an idea. Wanna play hide n' seek?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ooh, that's way better! I'll hide, and you seek! ''{runs off to the right}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ugh. ''{turns back to The Cheat}'' Anyways, back to our sentence.

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Pretty effective, huh? Of course there are some unpleasant side effects from playing these pleasant games of Hide n' Seek. Er, more like just Hide n'.

''{Cut to the bathroom, which is quite dark. Strong Bad walks in from the right, appearing tired.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Sleepy... sleepy pee—

''{The lights come on, and Homestar Runner puts his head up from inside the bathtub; he has cinnamon on his face, and his shirt is torn, with the star hanging off.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{shouting}'' Ah, you found me!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{jumping in surprise and shouting}'' Aah! Homestar, what are you doing in here?!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Remember last spring when you asked if I wanted to play hide n' seek?

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{confusedly scratching his head}'' But I've taken at least three baths since then...

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{appearing tired}'' Oh, I've been in here.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{jumping again}'' Aah!

''{The scene fades out, with Strong Bad still in the air and Homestar Runner sinking into the bathtub.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' It works the other way, too.

''{Cut to outside Homestar Runner's house, where Strong Bad and The Cheat are holding a rope next to a cage, beneath which are Fluffy Puff marshmallows and a glass of melonade.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{strained, as the cage creaks}'' I don't understand! Where is he? He usually falls for this one by now.

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, man! Stupid clever hide n' seek ploy. This thing's gettin' heavy! Switch to the Strong Sad bait.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises, as he throws a barrister's wig on top of the other items}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{offscreen}'' Oh, parliament!

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' There was a time when I used to try to play actual games of Hide n' Seek. But it ain't easy with all the brain geniuses around here.

''{Cut to The Field, where Strong Mad appears to be attempting to hide by turning his back to The Stick. Strong Bad stands in front.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh... Strong Mad? Buddy? That's the same spot you hide in every time we play.

''{Strong Mad leans out from behind "himself".}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' ''{disappointed}'' DAWWW!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoa! Did you make a hiding spot out of you hiding in your usual hiding spot? To hide behind?

'''STRONG MAD:''' I STAYED UP ALL NIGHT!

'''STRONG BAD:''' And it was well worth your time.

''{Cut to The Field at night, with a close-up of Strong Bad walking along, hands raised.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{frustrated}'' All right, I give up! ''{calls out}'' Olly olly oxen free!

''{Cut to a wider shot, showing Marzipan with a sign with a picture of an ox, reading "OXEN FREE!"}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{annoyed}'' Yeah, Ollie, set those oxen free. ''{chanting}'' Oxen free! Oxen free!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{overlapping}'' Oh, put your sign away, we're just playing a game.

''{Marzipan turns her sign around to show the other side, with the ox playing baseball and reading "PLAYING A GAME!". Strong Bad shakes his head.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{chanting, still annoyed}'' Playing a game! Playing a game!

''{Cut to the computer room. Strong Bad is balancing motionless on one leg on a podium reading "STRONG BAD", with Coach Z standing to the left.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, check out this extremely attractive statue of Strong Bad!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{turning to Coach Z}'' No, stupid, you found me. I'm "it" now.

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, a back-sassin' animatronic Strong Bad!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoa, great idea! Coach Z, I think your depressing creepiness may have finally paid off! ''{runs off to the right}''

'''COACH Z:''' ''{raising his arms triumphantly}'' It's all been worth it!

''{Cut to The Field, with a close-up of Homestar Runner walking in from the left.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, there you are. I found you definitely found you Strong Bad.

''{Cut to a wider shot, showing that he is talking to a crude animatronic Strong Bad, with a balloon head and rods moving the limbs. It stands on a soapbox with a speaker. The soapbox has the words "SIXTEEN FOR YOU" printed on it}''

'''ANIMATRONIC STRONG BAD:''' Shut your mouth, wimp-cake!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, don't sass back at me! ''{angrily}'' I found you fair, then square.

'''ANIMATRONIC STRONG BAD:''' Sit on a biscuit!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{still talking to the animatronic, as Strong Bad walks past in the background}'' Look, Strong Bad, I haven't been playing this game of hide n' seek for six weeks just to have you poor-sportsmanship all over the place now! Why, I've got half a mind.

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I rest my case. Rest nothing. My case is in a coma! As for my awesome hiding place, these days I mainly use it to hide from Hide n' Seek. And Kick the Can, Capture the Flag, and don't forget the nebulous TV Tag. Yeah sorry. I'm taking ''this'' hiding place to the grave.

''{Cut to The Bar, zooming out from a suit of armor. Pom Pom appears in the foreground, with an 'old one and a bowl of peanuts. While he looks away at the suit of armor, Strong Bad's arm pops out of Pom Pom and steals the 'old one; Pom Pom turns his head and shrugs.}''

''{Pom Pom looks up at [[New Paper]] as it comes down.}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:Scarletmoe.png|thumb|A real stretch by Bev Sportsinterviews]]
*Click on Scarlet, MO at the beginning of the email to see the [[Beverly Sportsinterviews]] book titled ''Scar, Let Moe!''
*At the end, click on the napkin to activate a conversation between Animatronic Strong Bad and Grape Nuts Robot.
:'''ANIMATRONIC STRONG BAD''': Dad loves me more!
:'''GRAPE NUTS ROBOT''': You're adopted.

==Fun Facts==
===Explanations===
*An [[wikipedia:Animatronics|animatronic]] is a puppet-like figure with robotics and/or electronics used to create the illusion that the figure is alive.
*[[Wikipedia:Kick the can|Kick the can]], [[Wikipedia:Capture the flag|Capture the flag]] and [http://www.centerofweb.com/kids/games/tag_tv.htm TV Tag] are actual games.
*"[[Wikipedia:Olly olly oxen free|Olly olly oxen free]]" is a phrase used in children's games, which is generally used to indicate that people who are hiding (in a game of hide and seek, for example) can safely come out into the open.

===Trivia===
*The summary for the [[Podstar Runner]] RSS feed reads, "Strong Bad discusses the fun and usefulness of playing Hide n' Seek."
*As of this email, Strong Bad has checked as many emails on the Lappy as he did on the [[Compy 386]].

===Remarks===
*Although the three coins Homestar throws are supposedly all nickels, they are not all the same size.
*The bathtub where Homestar hides has no visible faucet.
*The toilet in the Bathroom of the Brothers Strong is smaller than it was in [[unnatural]].

===Goofs===
*In the Easter Egg, Animatronic Strong Bad's head snaps suddenly back into place, even though it is a balloon.
**Also in the very start of the Easter egg, the Grape-Nuts Robot briefly has audio bolts coming out of its speaker, even though it's not saying anything.
*When Strong Mad comes out of his hiding spot, part of the outline of his left shoulder is misaligned.

===Fixed Goofs===
[[Image:Threestar_Legger.png|thumb|We must protect the queen! I have three legs!]]
*Several times during the toon, all of Strong Bad's arm [[:Image:Strongbad armgoof.PNG|except one outline used to disappear]].
**This happened while he was talking to The Cheat in The Field, once while he was talking to Homestar in the bathtub, and twice while talking to Strong Mad at The Stick. In the first two instances, Strong Bad's right arm disappeared. His left arm disappeared in the last two.
*During the bathroom scene, Strong Bad's ''entire'' right arm was gone when he walked in and only appeared after the lights came on.
*When Homestar walked in and interrupted Strong Bad and The Cheat's "sentence", he appeared to have an extra leg sticking out of his shirt for two frames, in two different poses.
*New Paper used to come down outside of the toon's frame, overlapping the outer black border.


===Inside References===
*Homestar walking in on Strong Bad and The Cheat "in the middle of a sentence" is another instance of [[interrupted conversations]].
*Strong Bad mentions [[Kicking a can|Kick the Can]] as a game.
*When Homestar rises from the bathtub, he appears similar to how he did in [[hygiene]], except he also has a [[Cinnamon|cinnamon beard]].
*The [[soapbox]] reads "sixteen for you".
*In the Easter egg, Animatronic Strong Bad makes a reference to his [[parents|dad]].
*The Cheat was previously referred to as "Squeak" in [[narrator]], as one of the title characters in the film ''[[Films from narrator#Lugnut & Squeak|Lugnut & Squeak]]''.
*Scar is wearing an [[Eyepatches|eyepatch]].

===Real-World References===
*The hairstyle of Moe on the cover of ''Scar, Let Moe!'' is patterned after the hairstyle of [[Wikipedia:Moe Howard|Moe]] from [[Wikipedia:Three Stooges|The Three Stooges]].
*Strong Sad shouts "Parliament" upon seeing the barrister's wig, which is commonly worn by members of the [[Wikipedia:House of Lords|House of Lords]] in the British Parliament.

==DVD Version==
*{{commentary|email=true}}
{{sectionstub}}

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|196|14578}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Podstar Runner]]

hiding

DarthKorbo — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:09:16 GMT

DarthKorbo:

{{sbenav|196}}
[[Image:Sbemail196.png|thumb|"Shut your mouth, wimpcake!"]]

Strong Bad expounds on his Hide n' Seek experiences.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{film|Strong Bad}}, {{film|The Cheat}}, {{film|Homestar Runner}}, {{film|Strong Sad}}, {{film|Strong Mad}}, {{film|Marzipan}}, {{film|Coach Z}}, [[Animatronic Strong Bad]], {{film|Pom Pom}}, [[Grape-Nuts Robot]] (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]], [[Bathroom of the Brothers Strong]], [[Homestar Runner's House]], [[The Bar]]

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' Monday, July 14, 2008

'''Running Time:''' 3:48

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Six}}

==Transcript==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Junk it, and check it, send me an email and I'll wreck it!

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: hide n seek</div>
Dear Dude, 
What is your awesome hiding place whenever you play 
hide n' seek. I'm sure you can just stand somewhere and 
noone can find you right. 
Awesomely Yours, 
Dude 1 
Scarlet, MO 
</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads the second sentence after "I'm sure you" with a monotonous rhythm. He also reads "noone" phonetically as "new-nee". After "right", he comments, "Hey man, Noone can find me ''wrong'' if she's good-looking enough." He then reads "Scarlet, MO" as "Scar, Let Moe".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well, as anyone that has a little brother or a Homestar Runner knows, hide n' seek can be oh so much more useful than ''just'' playing it.

''{Cut to The Field, where Strong Bad is talking to The Cheat.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...prestigious monk, but I—

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{walking in from the right, interrupting}'' Hey, Strong Bad; hey, The Squeak. ''{both turn, and The Cheat scowls}'' I'm here to make all your dreams come true!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{annoyed}'' The Cheat and I are in the middle of a sentence here!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' What about fifteen cents? I'm here to make fifteen cents come true!

''{Homestar Runner throws three coins on the ground next to Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey Homestar, I've got an idea. Wanna play hide n' seek?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ooh, that's way better! I'll hide, and you seek! ''{runs off to the right}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Ugh. ''{turns back to The Cheat}'' Anyways, back to our sentence.

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Pretty effective, huh? Of course there are some unpleasant side effects from playing these pleasant games of Hide n' Seek. Er, more like just Hide n'.

''{Cut to the bathroom, which is quite dark. Strong Bad walks in from the right, appearing tired.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Sleepy... sleepy pee—

''{The lights come on, and Homestar Runner puts his head up from inside the bathtub; he has cinnamon on his face, and his shirt is torn, with the star hanging off.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{shouting}'' Ah, you found me!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{jumping in surprise and shouting}'' Aah! Homestar, what are you doing in here?!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Remember last spring when you asked if I wanted to play hide n' seek?

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{confusedly scratching his head}'' But I've taken at least three baths since then...

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{appearing tired}'' Oh, I've been in here.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{jumping again}'' Aah!

''{The scene fades out, with Strong Bad still in the air and Homestar Runner sinking into the bathtub.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' It works the other way, too.

''{Cut to outside Homestar Runner's house, where Strong Bad and The Cheat are holding a rope next to a cage, beneath which are Fluffy Puff marshmallows and a glass of melonade.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{strained, as the cage creaks}'' I don't understand! Where is he? He usually falls for this one by now.

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, man! Stupid clever hide n' seek ploy. This thing's gettin' heavy! Switch to the Strong Sad bait.

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises, as he throws a barrister's wig on top of the other items}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{offscreen}'' Oh, parliament!

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' There was a time when I used to try to play actual games of Hide n' Seek. But it ain't easy with all the brain geniuses around here.

''{Cut to The Field, where Strong Mad appears to be attempting to hide by turning his back to The Stick. Strong Bad stands in front.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh... Strong Mad? Buddy? That's the same spot you hide in every time we play.

''{Strong Mad leans out from behind "himself".}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' ''{disappointed}'' DAWWW!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoa! Did you make a hiding spot out of you hiding in your usual hiding spot? To hide behind?

'''STRONG MAD:''' I STAYED UP ALL NIGHT!

'''STRONG BAD:''' And it was well worth your time.

''{Cut to The Field at night, with a close-up of Strong Bad walking along, hands raised.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{frustrated}'' All right, I give up! ''{calls out}'' Olly olly oxen free!

''{Cut to a wider shot, showing Marzipan with a sign with a picture of an ox, reading "OXEN FREE!"}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{annoyed}'' Yeah, Ollie, set those oxen free. ''{chanting}'' Oxen free! Oxen free!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{overlapping}'' Oh, put your sign away, we're just playing a game.

''{Marzipan turns her sign around to show the other side, with the ox playing baseball and reading "PLAYING A GAME!". Strong Bad shakes his head.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{chanting, still annoyed}'' Playing a game! Playing a game!

''{Cut to the computer room. Strong Bad is balancing motionless on one leg on a podium reading "STRONG BAD", with Coach Z standing to the left.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, check out this extremely attractive statue of Strong Bad!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{turning to Coach Z}'' No, stupid, you found me. I'm "it" now.

'''COACH Z:''' Oh, a back-sassin' animatronic Strong Bad!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoa, great idea! Coach Z, I think your depressing creepiness may have finally paid off! ''{runs off to the right}''

'''COACH Z:''' ''{raising his arms triumphantly}'' It's all been worth it!

''{Cut to The Field, with a close-up of Homestar Runner walking in from the left.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, there you are. I found you definitely found you Strong Bad.

''{Cut to a wider shot, showing that he is talking to a crude animatronic Strong Bad, with a balloon head and rods moving the limbs. It stands on a soapbox with a speaker. The soapbox has the words "SIXTEEN FOR YOU" printed on it}''

'''ANIMATRONIC STRONG BAD:''' Shut your mouth, wimp-cake!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, don't sass back at me! ''{angrily}'' I found you fair, then square.

'''ANIMATRONIC STRONG BAD:''' Sit on a biscuit!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{still talking to the animatronic, as Strong Bad walks past in the background}'' Look, Strong Bad, I haven't been playing this game of hide n' seek for six weeks just to have you poor-sportsmanship all over the place now! Why, I've got half a mind.

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I rest my case. Rest nothing. My case is in a coma! As for my awesome hiding place, these days I mainly use it to hide from Hide n' Seek. And Kick the Can, Capture the Flag, and don't forget the nebulous TV Tag. Yeah sorry. I'm taking ''this'' hiding place to the grave.

''{Cut to The Bar, zooming out from a suit of armor. Pom Pom appears in the foreground, with an 'old one and a bowl of peanuts. While he looks away at the suit of armor, Strong Bad's arm pops out of Pom Pom and steals the 'old one; Pom Pom turns his head and shrugs.}''

''{Pom Pom looks up at [[New Paper]] as it comes down.}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:Scarletmoe.png|thumb|A real stretch by Bev Sportsinterviews]]
*Click on Scarlet, MO at the beginning of the email to see the [[Beverly Sportsinterviews]] book titled ''Scar, Let Moe!''
*At the end, click on the napkin to activate a conversation between Animatronic Strong Bad and Grape Nuts Robot.
:'''ANIMATRONIC STRONG BAD''': Dad loves me more!
:'''GRAPE NUTS ROBOT''': You're adopted.

==Fun Facts==
===Explanations===
*An [[wikipedia:Animatronics|animatronic]] is a puppet-like figure with robotics and/or electronics used to create the illusion that the figure is alive.
*[[Wikipedia:Kick the can|Kick the can]], [[Wikipedia:Capture the flag|Capture the flag]] and [http://www.centerofweb.com/kids/games/tag_tv.htm TV Tag] are actual games.
*"[[Wikipedia:Olly olly oxen free|Olly olly oxen free]]" is a phrase used in children's games, which is generally used to indicate that people who are hiding (in a game of hide and seek, for example) can safely come out into the open.

===Trivia===
*The summary for the [[Podstar Runner]] RSS feed reads, "Strong Bad discusses the fun and usefulness of playing Hide n' Seek."
*As of this email, Strong Bad has checked as many emails on the Lappy as he did on the [[Compy 386]].

===Remarks===
*Although the three coins Homestar throws are supposedly all nickels, they are not all the same size.
*The bathtub where Homestar hides has no visible faucet.
*The toilet in the Bathroom of the Brothers Strong is smaller than it was in [[unnatural]].

===Goofs===
*In the Easter Egg, Animatronic Strong Bad's head snaps suddenly back into place, even though it is a balloon.
**Also in the very start of the Easter egg, the Grape-Nuts Robot briefly has audio bolts coming out of its speaker, even though it's not saying anything.
*When Strong Mad comes out of his hiding spot, part of the outline of his left shoulder is misaligned.

===Fixed Goofs===
[[Image:Threestar_Legger.png|thumb|We must protect the queen! I have three legs!]]
*Several times during the toon, all of Strong Bad's arm [[:Image:Strongbad armgoof.PNG|except one outline used to disappear]].
**This happened while he was talking to The Cheat in The Field, once while he was talking to Homestar in the bathtub, and twice while talking to Strong Mad at The Stick. In the first two instances, Strong Bad's right arm disappeared. His left arm disappeared in the last two.
*During the bathroom scene, Strong Bad's ''entire'' right arm was gone when he walked in and only appeared after the lights came on.
*When Homestar walked in and interrupted Strong Bad and The Cheat's "sentence", he appeared to have an extra leg sticking out of his shirt for two frames, in two different poses.
*New Paper used to come down outside of the toon's frame, overlapping the outer black border.


===Inside References===
*Homestar walking in on Strong Bad and The Cheat "in the middle of a sentence" is another instance of [[interrupted conversations]].
*Strong Bad mentions [[Kicking a can|Kick the Can]] as a game.
*When Homestar rises from the bathtub, he appears similar to how he did in [[hygiene]], except he also has a [[Cinnamon|cinnamon beard]].
*The [[soapbox]] reads "sixteen for you".
*In the Easter egg, Animatronic Strong Bad makes a reference to his [[parents|dad]].
*The Cheat was previously referred to as "Squeak" in [[narrator]], as one of the title characters in the film ''[[Films from narrator#Lugnut & Squeak|Lugnut & Squeak]]''.
*Scar is wearing an [[Eyepatches|eyepatch]].

===Real-World References===
*The hairstyle of Moe on the cover of ''Scar, Let Moe!'' is patterned after the hairstyle of [[Wikipedia:Moe Howard|Moe]] from [[Wikipedia:Three Stooges|The Three Stooges]].
*Strong Sad shouts "Parliament" upon seeing the barrister's wig, which is commonly worn by members of the [[Wikipedia:House of Lords|House of Lords]] in the British Parliament.

==DVD Version==
*{{commentary|email=true}}
{{sectionstub}}

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|196|14578}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category:Podstar Runner]]

Handle My Style

DarthKorbo — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:09:50 GMT

DarthKorbo:

[[Image:StrongBad 3D variation.PNG|thumb|"No, you can't, uh, handle my style."]]
"'''Please Stop Trying to Handle My [[Style]]'''" is the theme song of [[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]], as well as the song [[Strong Bad]] sings at the beginning and end of [[Homestar Ruiner]].

==Lyrics==
===Opening===
Rhino… Rhino Feeder... 
Huh? Aaaaayyyayay. 
I was dreaming about… muffins. 
I wake up every morning 
feeling awesome, 
even though I slept on the remote again last night. 
Ouch! 
 
Time to tear up another day. 
The Strong Bad freaking way! 
Like an imploding star, 
like a burning car, 
my style shines so bright! 
 
Please, stop trying, 
To handle my style. 
'Cause you can’t, 
No you can’t! 
''{grunt}'' 
Handle my style. 
 
Seriously, 
quit trying, 
to handle my style. 
 
Unless you’re a lady. 
then you’re cordially invited 
To have a giant slice of my style!!!
===Closing===
So you see people, 
that's why you can't, 
no you can't, uhn, 
handle my style, 
because it's hot, 
so please allow 10 to 15 minutes for it to properly cool before you try to handle my style!!!

[[Category: Songs from SBCG4AP]]

love poems

DarthKorbo — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:22:50 GMT

DarthKorbo:

{{sbenav|195}}
[[Image:sbemail195.PNG|thumb|"That's not a love poem!"]]

Strong Bad makes love poems for the homeless romantic.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Cheerleader}}, {{Film|So and So}}, [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Meredith|Meredith]], [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Kim|Kim]], {{Film|Arrow'd Guy}}, [[Tenerence Love]], {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Classroom]], [[Strong Sad's Room]] (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' Monday, May 26, 2008

'''Running Time:''' 4:26

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

==Transcript==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Girl, where's my money that you owe me from all those emails that you wrote me?

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: love poem</div>
Dear Mr. Strong [Bad], 
I am in love. Unfortunately, I am absotively blunderous with 
my words which I speak. Will you help me write a love poem? 
Sincerely, 
Just Another Hopeless Romantic 
</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad pauses just before reading "[Bad]". He reads "Hopeless" as "homeless".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Well, put on your patchy-stained jacket and gather 'round the fire in the trashcan, Homeless Romantic, 'cause the Rub [Doctor] is here to help!

''{Cut to the classroom, where Strong Bad is standing in front of the blackboard, wearing a charcoal gray sweater and balding brown hair. The word "Rub" is written on the blackboard next to an arrow pointing downwards.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hi. I'm Doctor Marvin Rubdown. Did you know that writing love poems is as easy as telling a girl she's hot with the fance-pantsiest words you can think of? ''{cut to a view from Strong Bad's front-left}'' For poetic inspiration, I like to swipe the names of scented candle fragrances!

''{Fade out. Fade in to Strong Bad, still with the sweater and hair, in front of a grey background.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Your eyes, ''{holds up a lit orange and green candle with a label saying "Sandalwood Sage Sunset" in his left hand}'' they flicker like a Sandalwood Sage Sunset. ''{puts his hand back down.}'' Your hair flows like Fresh Cotton Linens ''{holds up a lit white candle with a label saying "Fresh Cotton Linens" in his right hand}'' hung to dry on the deck. ''{puts his hand down, holds up a lit brown candle with a label saying "Grandma's Apple Cinnamon Spice" in his left hand}'' Grandma's Apple Cinnamon Spice is the scented candle I would use to describe your mouth. ''{puts his hand back down}'' And your nose: like an unscented emergency candle ''{holds up a white, unlabeled candle in his left hand}'' for when the power goes out.

''{Cut back to the classroom}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Another way of fancying up a love poem is to replace random letters in the middle of words with apostrophes.

''{Cut to a closeup of the blackboard; the "Rub" and the arrow have been erased but remain faintly visible.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{as he speaks, the words in quotes appear on the blackboard in chalk}'' "It is never ever over, my lover of clover" becomes "'Tis ne'er e'er o'er, m'lo'er o' clo'er".

''{Cut to a closeup of Strong Bad; Coach Z is leaning in from the right}''

'''COACH Z:''' Now you're sporkin' my language!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Get out! ''{Coach Z leaves quickly}'' Women love it when you talk all Elizabethan. ''{"-Elizabethan" appears to the right of Strong Bad.}'' But you shouldn't be afraid to get Kimberlian ''{"-Kimberlian" appears under "-Elizabethan"}'' or Meredithian ''{"-Meredithian" appears under "-Kimberlian"}'' if the need arises.

''{Cut to a Teen Girl Squad scene with Cheerleader and So and So; Cheerleader has an annoyed look and is wearing a shirt that reads "poi fect".}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' I can't stand the way Meredith talks!

''{Cut to a wider shot with Cheerleader, still looking annoyed, So and So, frowning, and Meredith, bending backward with a pleased look on her face and her tongue hanging out}''

'''MEREDITH:''' I'th hath a cruth on ethry boyth!

''{Cut to a yet wider shot; Cheerleader and So and So still look irritated; Meredith now has a quizzical look; Kim runs in with her mouth wide open and her hair flying behind her}''

'''KIM:''' I herly berly on gerly werly!

''{Arrowed Guy appears dressed as [[Wikipedia:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare]] and spears Meredith and Kim; Cheerleader and So and So appear pleased.}''

'''NARRATOR STRONG BAD:''' Shakespeared!

''{Cut back to the classroom}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' But if that frilly collar stuff is too olde schoole ''{pronounces the E's in both words as "eh"}'' for you, then why not try a more contemporary approach with an overweight R&B make-out jam? ''{music begins to play}'' As long as your tone is well-dressed and sweaty enough, it doesn't matter what you say!

''{Cut to a black background with yellow lights shining out of it. Tenerence Love, holding a microphone and visibly perspiring, is in the lower right, slowly drifting to the upper left.}''

'''TENERENCE LOVE:''' ''{sings}'' This is Tenerence Love with a sweaty overweight jam! ''{Tenerence Love disappears and reappears in the lower left, drifting to the upper right}'' My name is Tenerence Love with a sweaty overweight jam! ''{Tenerence Love disappears and reappears in the upper center, drifting down}'' It may be five pounds, ''{the symbol for the [[Wikipedia:Pound sterling|Pound sterling]] appears in Tenerence Love's right sunglasses lens, the number 5 in his left lens}'' ten pounds, ''{the 5 changes to a 10}'' twenty pounds, ''{the 10 changes to a 20; Tenerence Love disappears and two Tenerence Loves appear on both sides and drift toward the center}'' just a little bit overweight, now welcome girl to sweaty town!

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

'''STRONG BAD:''' And when that gets you slapped and escorted from her building by security, you can always buy a fourteen-pound bag of extra-long—

''{Homestar Runner enters from the left wearing a charcoal grey sweatshirt similar to Strong Bad's, but with a black star on it.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{interrupting}'' Ah, ha ha, ha ha! Oh, Strong Bad. It's funny to me when you try to play grown-up!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{raising his fist}'' What are you talking about, Mary Ann?

''{Cut to a close-up of Homestar}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Everybody knows I'm the only one around here with any real no-arms-on experience with the lady-makes! ''{cut back to wider view of the classroom}'' Just listen to this little make-out inducing number I threw together this mo'nin'! ''{starts dancing and speaking in rhythm}'' This mo'nin'! ''{Strong Bad begins to dance along}'' This mo, re-mo, re-mo-mo'nin'!

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right, but only 'cause that little song was kind of cool!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ahem!

''{Fade out. Fade in on Homestar Runner, still wearing his grey sweater and now with brown hair similar to Strong Bad's in front of a grey background. He is on the left; to the right of him a paper comes down with the word "MARZiPAN" written vertically}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' M is for milk. ''{"Milk" appears next to the "M" on the paper}'' The real stuff! ''{looking annoyed}'' Not soy. ''{no longer annoyed}'' A is for not-organic apples. ''{"APPLES" appears next to the "A" on the paper}'' Pesticides ahoy!
R is for raisins, ''{"RAISINS" appears next to the "R" on the paper}'' they give me bad gas! Z is too hard, so at this one, I'll pass. ''{"(PASS)" appears next to the "Z" on the paper}'' I is for inchiladas! ''{"inchiladas" appears next to the "i" on the paper}'' And—

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Homestar!

''{Cut back to the classroom}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah, what's up?

''{Cut to a closeup of Strong Bad}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That's not a love poem! That is a lavishly produced grocery list!

''{Cut to a closeup of Homestar}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' No, ''{holds up a small piece of lined paper; writing on the other side saying "amazing thing" four times is faintly visible}'' ''here'' is my grocery list! Amazing thing, amazing thing, amazing thing, amazing thing.

''{Cut back to the wider view of the classroom}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoa, where you been shopping?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' SkyMall.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Homestar, are you and Marzipan even dating right now?

''{Cut to a closeup of Homestar Runner}''

'''HOMESTAR:''' Are we even dating ''{chuckles and grins}'' right now? Are we even d— Are we even da—

''{Cut back to wider view of the classroom}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{quieter and lower, with a sad look}'' No, she broke up with me again this morning.

'''STRONG BAD:''' This morning?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, I mean ''{singing and dancing as before}'' this mo'nin'!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER AND STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing together}'' This mo'nin'! This mo, re-mo, re-mo—

''{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So there you ha' it 
My Homeless Roma'ic. 
Love Poems 101 
Oh the hearts you will win. ''{holds up a plug-in air freshener}'' 
Like this lavender scented plug-in ''{puts the air freshener back down}'' 
New paper, come on and get some!

''{[[New Paper]] comes down}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:HomelessRomantic.PNG|thumb|Verses from the weird shrub and more!]]
*Click on "Homeless Romantic" at the beginning to view a book written by [[Senor Cardgage]] entitled "The Homeless Romantic".

*Click on the words "Love poems" at the end of the email to see a small clip with Strong Sad.

:''{A very eager Strong Sad is jiggling up and down in a chair with a book of poems titled "Poem Tome by Strong Sad" on his lap. A red phone with green marks that resemble Strong Bad's eyes is in the foreground, and the audio of the email can be heard faintly in the distance.}''

:'''STRONG SAD:''' Why isn't he calling me yet on the Strong Badphone? This email was practically tailor made for me!

==Fun Facts==

===Explanations===
*[[Wikipedia:Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] is late 16th century England, coinciding with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It is considered the first great era of English poetry and literature, producing authors like [[Wikipedia:William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]. The language of the time is now considered archaic.
*The "removing of random letters" Strong Bad refers to is done in poems in order to maintain a strict [[Wikipedia:Meter (poetry)|poetic meter]].
*Tenerence Love's overweight "R&B make-out jam" is a reference to soul singers such as [[Wikipedia:Barry White|Barry White]] and [[Wikipedia:Luther Vandross|Luther Vandross]], who were overweight but still attractive to female audiences.

===Trivia===
*Homestar's "lavishly produced grocery list" actually resembles an [[Wikipedia:Acrostic|acrostic]] poem.

===Remarks===
*The shadows offset on "-Elizabethan" and "-Kimberlian" slightly change when "-Meredithian" comes on screen.
**"-Elizabethan" also slightly moves as "-Kimberlian" is added.

===Inside References===
*Homestar mentions his [[lack of visible arms]], and Strong Bad's poem describes noses.
*Homestar's poem has each letter of Marzipan's name capitalized, except for one [[Lowercase i's|lowercase i]].
*Homestar describes [[Not X|not]]-organic apples.
*Meredith's line echoes [[The Ugly One]]'s line, "I have a crush on every boy!", from [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 1]].
*The background music from [[caffeine]] is used during the Easter Egg while Strong Sad is sitting restlessly.
*The background music during Strong Bad and Homestar's love poem examples was previously heard in [[do over]] and [[Date Nite]].
*Cheerleader's shirt reads "poifect", another instance of [["Er" pronounced as "Oi"]].
*The Easter egg references Brunswick [[Stew]], first mentioned in [[New Boots]].
*Strong Bad mentions [[Parents|grandparents]].
*Homestar admits that [[Homestar Runner and Marzipan's Relationship#Homestar and Marzipan Breaking Up|Marzipan broke up with him]].
*Homestar's grocery list is made entirely up of [[nondescript nouns]].

=== Real-World References ===
*[[Wikipedia:Sky Mall|Sky Mall]] is an airline catalog from which passengers can order various items after leaving the plane, or by use of airplane telephones. Most of the items in the catalog are gadgets and things that would appeal to those with higher incomes.
*"I herly perly on gerly wurly" is a reference to a lyric in the [[Wikipedia: Manfred Mann's Earth Band|Manfred Mann's Earth Band]] rendition of [[Wikipedia: Blinded by the Light|"Blinded By the Light"]] that was orginally performed by [[Wikipedia: Bruce Springsteen|Bruce Springsteen]]. The lyric is "And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly."
*The Strong Bad Phone is similar in concept to the [[Wikipedia:Bat phone|Bat phone]], a device Commissioner Gordon used to contact [[Batman]] in time of need.

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

mascot

DarthKorbo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:36:43 GMT

DarthKorbo:

{{sbenav|73}}
[[Image:sbemail73.PNG|thumb|The Jolly Dumple himself]]

The [[Crazy Go Nuts University]] Dumples face off against Pile of Electronics State. Real fruit smoothies are at stake.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, [[Mrs. Bennedetto]], {{Film|The Announcer}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}} as [[The Jolly Dumple]]

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

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, May 19, 2003

'''Running Time:''' 2:00

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

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Two}}

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' Ooh! A little email never hurt nobody. 'Cept for maybe The Cheat. So what do we got here...

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="compy email">Dear Strong Bad, 
 
I was wondering what CGNU's mascot 
is, and if they have any sports teams. 
Thanks for the info. 
 
Ike</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Yeah, we got a mascot, Ike. Unfortunately, The Cheat, Strong Mad, and I were ''really'' hungry when we decided on a name. So, uh, all we came up with was the Crazy Go Nuts University Dumples. I think maybe we meant dumplings? But we were really hungry and tired and sorta confused and ended up putting Dumples on the application. We do have a sports team, though. The Golf Club Team. We have a game every day at 6pm!

''{cut to a shot of the scoreboard on the athletic field, reading:}

<blockquote>
<div style="float:left; text-align:center; background:black; color:yellow; padding:1em; font-family:monospace">
HOME 
 
Crazy 
Go Nuts 
University 
 
<big>0</big>
</div>
<div style="float:left; text-align:center; background:black; color:yellow; padding:1em; font-family:monospace">
VISITOR 
 
Pile Of 
Electronics 
State 
 
<big>0</big>
</div>
</blockquote>
{{clear}}

''{Cut to The Cheat holding a golf club in a ring facing a pile of old electronics, with Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and Coach Z cheering him on.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Let's go, Dumples!

'''STRONG MAD:''' DE-FENSE!

'''COACH Z:''' Get yer head in the game, The Chort! The Cheat is wide open!

''{The Cheat starts bashing all the electronics.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah!

'''COACH Z:''' Atta boy!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Go for the 8-track!

''{The Cheat smashes the 8-track and the scoreboard gives CGNU one point with a buzzing noise}''

'''THE ANNOUNCER:''' Dumples win!

''{everyone cheers}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Look everybody! It's The Jolly Dumple come to celebrate our victory!

''{Cut to Homestar in the Dumple costume. It looks like a ravioli with a tri-corner hat, a mouth, a big tongue with a drop of drool on a spring, and two huge hands giving thumbs-ups. As the Dumple dances, the fight song starts playing.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' 
Fighting and sometimes striving 
Wondering what the Dumple is 
Excellence and what is valor? 
And The Cheat will hit stuff with a golf club ''{The Cheat shows up holding cue cards that read "see", "gee", "in", and then "you", as Strong Bad chants:}'' 
C G N... U! 
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Me?

''{Cut back to the Compy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So, we're still undefeated. But next week's going to be a tough game against Homestar's Knees Tech. Well, I gots to go. I promised the team I'd get them real fruit smoothies if they won the game. And they won the game. So I'm getting them real fruit smoothies.

''{He types in 'run "fightsong"' and walks off. Compy starts playing the song, showing the letter name of each note. Once it's done, it says "GO DUMPLES!!!" and [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:Really hungry and tired.PNG|thumb|Really hungry and tired.]]
*You can click on "really hungry and tired" to see a "LEM" ([[Leomard Sportsinterviews|Lem Sportsinterviews]]) styled cartoon of Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and The Cheat being really hungry and tired.
*You can also click on "application" to see their mascot application:
<blockquote>College Mascot Application 
 
College Name: crazy go nuts university 
 
Mascot Name: DUMPLES!!! 
 
Dean of Students: myself 
 
Essay on why you think this is a good mascot: 
i want some food. 
 
Drawing of Mascot: 
you know, a dumple. like for dinner 
(There is a picture of a fork with a "dumple" on it)</blockquote>
*At the very end after the fight song plays, rolling over the notes plays them.

== Fun Facts ==
===Trivia===
*The Pile of Electronics State team has a TV (later seen in [[Halloween Potion-ma-jig#Inside References|Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]), [[Mrs. Bennedetto]] ([[Marzipan]]'s microwave), a [[Wikipedia:Panasonic|Panasonic]] RQ-830S [[Wikipedia:8-track cartridge|8-Track]] player (also referred to as "The Plunger" or "TNT" style), and a [[Wikipedia:Nintendo Entertainment System|Nintendo Entertainment System]].
*References to [[wikipedia:valor|valor]] are common in the lyrics of college [[wikipedia:fight song|fight songs]] and [[Wikipedia:Alma mater|alma maters]]. Valor is [http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=valor defined] as the strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness.
*A high school band performed the CGNU Fight Song as a [[Quote of the Week]] on February 9, 2006.

===Remarks===
*Although The Cheat never hits the NES, it still breaks as though it were hit. The way he broke the glass on Mrs. Bennedetto wouldn't crush an NES.
*This is the first time we hear Coach Z say ''The Cheat'' correctly. However, he may not be referring to The Cheat himself.
*The notes for the fight song are:
*:C A F G F D A# G G G F E F G C A F G F D A# G G G F E F
**The note names listed are according to Concert (C) pitch.
**Proper musical notation practice would dictate, however, that "A#" (A-sharp) be written as "Bb" (B-flat), since the song is in the [[Wikipedia:Major scale|key signature]] of F Major, which has one flat and no sharps.
**In both phrases of the digital fight song, the "A#" is rushed, being held for a third of its duration in the sung version. This violates the 4/4 [[Wikipedia:Time signature|time signature]] implied in the earlier version.
*The notes for the fight song do not work correctly if you try to simply press Tab through them, because the tab order is not pre-set.

===Glitches===
*The "application" Easter egg is accessible when the "really hungry and tired" Easter egg is (before Strong Bad actually types "application").

===Inside References===
*The "really hungry and tired" Easter egg looks very similar to Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and The Cheat's position at the beginning of [[Lookin at a Thing in a Bag]].

===Fast Forward===
* Homestar later tried to make himself a real fruit smoothie using Strong Bad's [[Blender#Game Boy in a Blender|alternate universe portal]] in [[alternate universe]], with chaotic results.
* "Homestar's Knees Tech" is a pennant on the wall during the "CGNU Online E-niversity" commercial, in the Strong Bad Email [[theme song]].
* Homestar later builds a fire inside the Dumples costume in [[4 branches]].

== DVD Version ==
*All of the Easter eggs in this email are viewable using the angle button on your DVD remote.

== External Links ==
*[[HR:sbemail73.html|watch "mascot"]]
*[[HR:sbemail73.swf|view the Flash file for "mascot"]]

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