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Strong Bad Email #61
Strong Bad hosts a monster truck event this SUNDAY SUNDAY SOMEDAY!
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat, The King of Town, Strong Mad, Homestar Runner, The Poopsmith, The Sad Kids, Limozeen
Places: Computer Room, Strongbadia
Computer: Compy 386
Date: February 3, 2003
Running Time: 1:41
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Transcript
STRONG BAD: {like Homestar on the main page} Toons! Games! I'm gonna check my eeeemail....
{reading}
Hey Strong Bad,
Do you ever do TV commercials for
Monster Truck Shows? I think you
would be great for the voiceovers.
Your devoted fans,
Stan and Loretta
STRONG BAD: Aww...that's very sweet. {typing} Look Dan and Linda, Strong Bad doesn't sell out to anybody, man. No matter how monstrous their truck show may or may not be. Though I have done the occasional promo for the events we hold in Strong Badia. In fact, I think there's one coming up this...
{Cut to a monster-truck show promo-style segment. The words Strong Bad says appear on the screen}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SOMEDAY!
{Two tires cross the screen diagonally, with Strong Bad providing the "vroom" noises for them}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} IT'S AWEXOME CROSS 98!
{Awexome Cross logo appears. Another tire appears and screeches away to cut to the Strong Badia national flag}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} LIVE IN STRONGBADIA!
{Cut to The Cheat wearing a jumpsuit and waving. What Strong Bad describes shows up on screen as he describes it.}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} THRILL! AS THE CHEAT ATTEMPTS TO JUMP THE TIRE OVER THE KOT EATING A CARDBOARD BOX COVERED IN SYRUP!
THE KING OF TOWN: This is some good cake!
{Cut to Strong Mad holding Marzipan's guitar over Homestar, who is wearing a helmet and knee pads.}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} CHILL! AS STRONG MAD SMASHES MARZIPAN'S GUITAR OVER HOMESTAR'S HEAD!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Let's do this like Brutus.
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} RECOIL IN HORROR!
{Cut to the Poopsmith tossing out multicolored smoke bombs}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} AS THE POOPSMITH LIGHTS SOME SMOKE BOMBS! AND THEN? YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO BE THERE TO FIND OUT!
{The Poopsmith winks at the camera.}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} ADULT ADMISSION IS STILL JUST FIVE DOLLARS! KIDS AND OLD PEOPLE {The Sad Kids and the King of Town appear on screen respectively crossed out} NOT ALLOWED WITHOUT A BUCKET OF FRIED CHICKEN {A bucket of KnF'nC chicken appears onscreen.} FOR MEEEEE! {An image of Strong Bad appears.} STICK AROUND AFTER THE SHOW FOR A FREE PERFORMANCE BY LIMOZEEN!
{Cut to a photo of Limozeen}
LIMOZEEN: {singing} I've got the heart of a lion and the wings of a bat, because it's midnite!
{Cut back to the Compy 386 and Strong Bad}
STRONG BAD: {singing} Heart of a lion, wings of some stuff, because it's something! {stops singing} Oh-ho man, I love that song! {typing} I can't wait for this sunday sunday someday.
{The Paper comes down.}
Easter Eggs
- At the end you can click on the first "Sunday" to bring up a flyer advertisement for the show. The Awexome Cross 98 theme song plays in the background.
SUNDAY AWEXOME CROSS 98 LIVE IN STRONGBADIA Thrills! Chills! Syrup! Also, too: A live performance by LIMOZEEN
- Click on the second "Sunday" to play Awexome Cross.
- Click on the "Someday" to see an autographed Limozeen picture. "Because It's Midnite" is sung in the background.
Fun Facts
Explanations
- A loud voice booming "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" is the classic style of advertising used for monster truck rallies.
Trivia
- This is one of the few times we get to see The Poopsmith's face from the front. The only other times are different town and Fall Float Parade.
Remarks
- For some reason, in the picture of Limozeen, there are at least two, maybe three extra hands floating around the guys.
Inside References
- "Toons! Games! I'm gonna check my eeeemail...." is a reference to all the Main Pages.
Real-World References
- The jumpsuit The Cheat is wearing is the same as the jumpsuit worn by the famous daredevil Evel Knievel during his famous motorcycle jumps.
- The bottles of maple syrup around the cardboard box are designed similarly to those of Mrs. Butterworth's, a famous syrup brand.
- The line "Let's do this like Brutus" comes from a skit on the De La Soul album "De La Soul Is Dead".
- The chicken bucket that says "KnF'nC" is a reference to Guns N' Roses, who used the acronym "GnF'nR" during the Use Your Illusion era. The latest incarnation of the band contains guitarist Buckethead, who wears a KFC bucket on his head like a hat.
Fast Forward
- The Limozeen song "Because It's Midnite" would eventually appear on the Strong Bad Sings CD.
- Also the King of Town would later hold the chicken bucket in Halloween Potion-ma-jig.
DVD Version
- The Awexome Cross '98 Easter egg is disabled for obvious reasons.
- The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
Commentary Transcript
(Commentary by: Matt Chapman, Mike Chapman)
MATT: We were just discussing, uh, how there are some Strong Bad Emails that really tip their hand with the name of them—
MIKE: The title, yeah.
MATT: Yeah, like this one.
MIKE: You kind of know what it's going to be about.
MATT: {almost simultaneously} Know what it's going to be about.
MIKE: Yeah.
MATT: This is—was this the first instan—nah, I guess he's always getting people's names wrong. That's a common theme.
MIKE: I don't know if that's—I don't know if he's—this... Maybe it's the first time.
MATT: Who knows?
MIKE: Somebody, uh, let us know. One of you callers. One of our callers will probably let us know.
MATT: Mike, we don't have callers.
MIKE: We should, uh, have a radio show.
MATT: Mike, no.
MIKE: Like, this is a radio show.
MATT: It's not.
MIKE: {adopts gravelly voice} All right, all right.
{Matt laughs}
MIKE: Uhm...
MATT: So here we go. That's The Cheat in his Evel Knievel outfit, obviously, which our mom made us for—or made our oldest brother first for Halloween—
MIKE: Yep.
MATT: —and then I think it got passed down to all of us. I think in, like, 1987 I was wearing an Evel Knievel {Mike laughs} and I, like, didn't know that he wasn't very popular anymore. And he says "Let's do this like Brutus" there, not "Buddhists." A lot of people think he says that, but that's just a, uh...comment. It's in a De La Soul song or it's on the De La Soul album "De La Soul is Dead." Doesn't Flavor Flav say it at some point?
MIKE: I think so, yeah.
MATT: KnF'nC. That's a reference to GnF'nR, Drivin' N' Cryin'.
MIKE: That's—
MATT: That's—all four of those are our big brother Donnie, very seriously in the year 1987 dressed as Vince Neil for Halloween. There you have it. And then a bunch of extra limbs.
{Mike laughs}
MATT: And of course, there you go. Limozeen given...wings...wings of steel {Mike laughs} you know, with which to fly.
Fun Facts
- Drivin' N' Cryin' was a Southern rock band famous in the Georgia region that never really achieved national fame.
- Vince Neil was lead singer for the band Mötley Crüe.
- "Wings of steel" combined with the lyric "wings of a bat" refer to the 1960s cartoon Batfink, whose eponymous hero is a crime-fighting bat with steel wings.
