Sick Day
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Everybody in Free Country, USA seems to have caught a rousing epidemic.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, Strong Mad, The Cheat, Strong Sad (Easter egg)
Places: Computer Room, Strong Mad's Room (entrance only), Strong Sad's Room (Easter egg)
Date: October 3, 2005
Computer: Lappy 486
Running Time: 1:43
Page Title: Here Comes Sickness!
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Transcript
{We are presented with a silent view of the Lappy, Strong Bad apparently absent, and the following email is on the screen.}
subject: sickDear Strong Bad,I've noticed you never seem to get sick. How do you
stay so dang healthy all the time?Sincerely Crap,
Grant, BC
{Cut to a view of Strong Bad's desk. Strong Bad is severely ill and curled up into a ball under the table, coughing and shivering. An empty box of tissues that reads "Tish, You!", lies next to him along with a mess of used up tissues.}
STRONG BAD: {coughing} The Cheat! Get in here with my puke pail. {coughing} And bring me some tissues. Lots more tissues!
{Homestar walks in from the right of the screen with a thermometer in his mouth and an obvious look of sickness}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Strong Bad, my burps smell really bad. Check this out. {breathes and creates green puffs of air from his mouth} Hang on.
STRONG BAD: Ugh. Go away. I can't smell anything anyways.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, I'm betting you can smell these!
STRONG BAD: Yeah, well you're lucky it's your burps that smell. DO NOT go into Strong Mad's room. Or, as I've taken to calling it, Rotten Egglünd.
{Cut to outside Strong Mad's room. The door is covered with police tape that reads "Quarantine!". There is a green haze coming out from the bottom of the door.}
STRONG MAD: {from inside} SOMEBODY HEEEEELP!
{Cut back to Strong Bad and Homestar in the Computer Room. He lifts his head and opens his eyes wider, making the bags under them disappear.}
STRONG BAD: Ugh. The Cheat! What's taking so long with my tissues?
{Cut to a close up of a green bucket labeled "Puke Pail for Him!" The top of The Cheat's head is visible poking out of the bucket.}
THE CHEAT: (crying noises)
{Cut back to Strong Bad.}
STRONG BAD: {coughing} Oh well. I guess I'll just re-use some of these already re-reused ones. {He grabs a tissue. He then winces, and the bags under his eyes are visible again.} Ow! They're pointy now!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Strong Bad, I don't think you're going to be able to answer your word problem this week. So I'll take one for the team. Two trains enter a tunnel going four miles per hour. {As he talks, pictures of two trains, a tunnel, and the number 4 appear on the left of the screen.} At what time do they reach Poughkeepsie?
STRONG BAD: {groans and coughs while speaking} The Paapeeeer!
{The Paper comes down, with a distorted noise. It appears crinkled and says "Strong Bad, I can't come in today."}
STRONG BAD: Oh no, not you too! Can I blow my nose on you?
{The Paper goes back up.}
Easter Eggs
- Click on the word "healthy" at the end of the toon to see a short scene with Strong Sad.
- {Strong Sad is laying in his bed. His face is green with spots and he has pink around his eyes. The rest of his body is normal.}
- STRONG SAD: {groans} This is the greatest day of my life. I feel like a few dollars.
- Click on the word "Crap" at the end to see a map of "Rotten Egglünd". The locations on the map are:
- Northwest — the buttwood — A forest of trees with birds flying out of them.
- North — festering hills — A bunch of hills.
- Northeast — east stinkberger — A wheel of smelly cheese with a slice taken out.
- West — pungent acres — Some mushrooms.
- East — rotten egg manor — A castle with a cracked, smelly egg on it.
- Southwest — eggmünd — A pile of rotten eggs.
- South — this part smells — More hills.
- Southeast — whatsitshire — A large pile of whatsit.
Fun Facts
Remarks
- Homestar has the wrong end of the thermometer in his mouth. The bulb is what should go in his mouth.
- The quarantine tape over Strong Mad's door goes across the doorknob as if the doorknob were two-dimensional, or completely flat.
- The images of Homestar's "word problem" are actually in front of Homestar.
Goofs
- Initially, clicking on the Lappy's screen did not cause the screen to ripple. This was corrected within ten hours of the toon's release, but was still only a very faint effect. Also during the Lappy scenes, you can click anywhere on the screen and it will cause a ripple, as opposed to just on the monitor.
- When Strong Bad's eye bags disappear, the tint of his face changes.
- After Strong Bad throws away the tissue, his hands stop twitching for the rest of the scene.
- When Strong Bad reaches out for a tissue, he has no arm connecting to his glove.
- This happens again when he hurts himself on the pointy tissue.
- His arm usually wouldn't be able to stretch far enough to reach the tissue.
- When we zoom in to Homestar answering the "word problem," the desk behind him disappears and the shading changes. When we zoom out, the designs on the wall move.
Real-World References
- "Here Comes Sickness" is a song by Mudhoney.
- Poughkeepsie is a city in New York located in the Hudson River Valley between New York City and Albany.
