island
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| Strong Bad Email #52 |
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Strong Bad imagines the lurking horrors of being stranded on an island with Homestar.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Homestar Runner
Places: Computer Room, The Island
Computer: Compy 386
Date: November 25, 2002
Running Time: 1:56
Page Title: COMPY 386
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Transcript
STRONG BAD: Strong Bad Emails are a part of this balanced breakfast.
{reading the email}
Dear Strong Bad,
What would you do if you where stuck
on an desert island with Homestar
Runner?
Yami Yugi
England
{Strong Bad says "were" instead of "where" and "a" instead of "an".}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Well Yami Yugi {says the name hesitantly}, I suspect it would be like most cartoons. You know, we'd start to go nuts after a while and I would look at Homestar and he would look like a big steak. And then Homestar would look at me and I'd look like {stops typing} you know {starts typing again} some kinda brownie sundae. {clears screen} So we'd chase each other around the island, trying to eat each other. And at some point my foot would look like a sandwich and I'd put salt on it and try to eat it and it's like, "Oh! It's my foot!!" {clears screen} But that's a best-case scenario. I'm sure in real life it would be much more annoying and painful with Dumpface involved. {he types "Dumpface" but says "Homestar"}
{cut to Homestar and Strong Bad on an island}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hey, Strong Bad.
STRONG BAD: What?
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Are we rescued yet?
STRONG BAD: You're gonna need to get rescued in a second if you don't quit asking me that. {shakes his fist at Homestar}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Ohhhhhhhh... Hey, Strong Bad.
STRONG BAD: What?
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Is there ice cream yet?
STRONG BAD: You're gonna need to get ice cream in a second if you don't quit asking me that. You know... 'cause I'm gonna hit you...and you'll need the ice cream to... stop the swelling.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hey, Stinkoman.
STRONG BAD: Um... did you just call me Stinkoman?
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Yes, sir, I did.
STRONG BAD: Geez. You don't happen to have a gun on your side of the island, do ya?
HOMESTAR RUNNER: No. Hey, Strong Bad, check this out! {turns away}
STRONG BAD: Oh, don't start with that—
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Toons! {An ocean liner passes by with a loud "toot"}
STRONG BAD: Homestar—
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Games! {An angry-looking, red-eyed, Moby Dick-style white whale, with harpoons embedded in its body, emerges from the left side of the water. It spurts water from its blowhole and then goes back into the water.}
STRONG BAD: Don't do another—
HOMESTAR RUNNER: E-mail! {A propeller plane with a "WEAR A BIKINI" banner attached to it flies by}
STRONG BAD: Ugh!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Man, I love doing that. {A bottle washes up on the island.}
STRONG BAD: Whoa, check it out. A message in a bottle. {takes a piece of paper out of the bottle and reads it} I don't like Joey Day. He thinks he is all hot and he thinks he's king
HOMESTAR RUNNER: He must be a crapface
STRONG BAD: He sure is a moron.
{The Paper comes down}
Easter Eggs
- At the end you can click on Strong Bad and Homestar to make them turn into various things.
- Strong Bad:
- Some kinda brownie sundae
- Hot dog
- "Pinner" plate of marshmallows, with a derby, eyepatch and cigar from Meet Marshie
- San Fransisco 49ers helmet
- Homestar:
- A big steak
- Stack of pancakes
- Guitar from new hands
- Miami Dolphins helmet
- Strong Bad:
- Click on the tree to show a picture of Joey Day being chased by an angry mod
Fun Facts
Remarks
- Strong Bad says "Yami Yugi" easily when he reads the email, but seems to have trouble the second time. The name of the person who wrote the email, Yami Yugi, is also the name of a character from the popular anime series and card game Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Amazingly, Strong Bad misses the obvious opportunity to make fun of Yami Yugi's spelling.
Goofs
- Homestar's Main Page joke refers to Main Page 3 (see Inside References), but on the real Main Page 3, the plane actually flies past on "Store," not "E-mail."
- The San Francisco 49ers' helmet facemask is incorrect. They wore a gray facemask in the 1984-'85 season.
Inside References
- Homestar references Main Page 3 when he yells out "Toons," "Games," and "E-mail" and various things appear. (see Goofs for more)
- Strong Bad says, "This is the worst deserted island ever," which is a reference to The Best Decemberween Ever, where he says, "This is the worst Decemberween ever."
Real-World References
- The 49ers beat the Dolphins 38–16 in Super Bowl XIX.
- The first cinematic instance of hunger-induced delirium altering the appearance of a character from their actual resemblance to an edible object actually took place in Charlie Chaplin’s 1925 movie The Gold Rush, which was filmed, not animated.
Fast Forward
- Five emails hence, Strong Bad will create a Japanese cartoon character named Stinkoman.
- Strong Bad salting his foot is used again in interview.
DVD Version
- To make Homestar and Strong Bad transform into various things, select the hidden Strong Bad head to the left of Strong Bad.
- 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: Welcome back, I'm Matt Chapman.
MIKE: I am my brother Mike.
MATT: What?
MIKE: Uh? Isn't, uh... Sorry.
MATT: Yeah? Go ahead.
MIKE: Oh, I don't remember what I was going to say. I like this email, though. I like the, um, visuals.
MATT: This is a lot, this is pretty much referencing, I mean it's done a lot in cartoons, but there's that one Bugs Bunny where he's on the desert island with those two—there's that one tall skinny guy and one fat short guy. That's where a lot of this comes from. I think they see each other as a steak and a hot dog. And I think that Bugs tricks one of them into eating his own foot at some point probably.
MIKE: This is the origin of the term Stinkoman too.
MATT: It's true. We were just screwin' around and I said the word Stinkoman.
MIKE: Yeah, I think so. But I like that scene right there.
MATT: Yeah, Mike keeps talking about wanting to revisit this little desert island scene.
MIKE: It might be revisited by the time you're listening to this commentary.
MATT: Not if I have anything to say about it.
MIKE: Matt hates me.
MATT: I'm just kidding. Look, there it was! Yeah, see?
MIKE: He did, yeah.
MATT: You haven't got a baboon in your pocket, have you? There you go, Mike.
MIKE: Yeah, thanks.
MATT: I like this. Those's actually are incorrect, aren't they? That's not exactly what he does on that menu page, I think.
MIKE: Oh, maybe, yeah, maybe not. Look at those clouds. They're a little different than usual, aren't they?
MATT: They are. Oh that—that's nice, that's—I remember Scott Edwards was over for that one. I think it snowed.
MIKE: Dave Brown, eh—
MATT: And then it snowed and we didn't have to go to school the next day.
MIKE: I think you're right.
MATT: No, it was great.Why don't you be the narrator for Batman?
MIKE: Okay Matt. (imitating narrator of Batman) Will they get out of the island ? Find out tommorrow Same Bat Time Same Bat Channel!
Fun Facts
- The Bugs Bunny cartoon in particular that Matt and Mike refer to is Wackiki Wabbit.
