alternate universe
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| Strong Bad Email #150 |
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Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Strong Sad, The Cheat, Strong Badman, Old-Timey Strong Bad, Vector Strong Bad, Stinkoman, Da Huuuuuudge, Homestar Runner, Senor Cardgage, Sterrance, Coach Z (Easter Egg)
Places:
Computer: Lappy 486
Date: April 4, 2006
Running Time: 5:53
Page Title: Lappy 486
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Fun Facts
Fixed Glitches
- When the email was released, "girl" was misspelled as "gir" in Jody's email. This was fixed shortly after.
Inside References
- Putting a gameboy in a blender to access an alternate reality was discovered by Homestar in 2 emails, when he made a time machine in this way.
- Strong Bad also confused the value of money and lengths of time in space program.
- Strong Bad's "Mash go on that blender" is based on a similar line from flashback: "The Cheat mashed play on an extremely expensive jambox".
- The "In a building" line, including its accent and pronounciation, is straight from the DVD Sketchbook.
- The music in the Strong Badman comic is from action figure.
- Strong Bad visits many previous emails in his travels:
- Strong Badman originated in superhero name.
- Vector Strong Bad is from video games.
- Stinkoman originated in japanese cartoon.
- "Tiny-handed Strong Bad" is from flashback.
- Strong Badwith a keybaoard for a head originated in crazy cartoon
- Da Huuuuuudge and Sterrance are both from animal
- Teenage Strong Bad is from highschool
- Senor Cardgage originated in kind of cool
- Strong Bad mentioned real fruit smoothies earlier in mascot
- Coach Z with coffee pouring down his face in the Easter egg was suggested by Strong Sad in Sbemail 150?!?
- The fishing boat, lake and background sounds are all from lures & jigs
Real World References
- Cacodemons are evil spirits or demons, the opposite being an angel or "agathodemon". However, the name cacodemon is more well know as an enemy from the computer games Doom and Doom 2. The plot for these games involved demons coming out of portals to hell.
- Photoshop is a widely used image editor from Adobe Systems Incorporated. The term "photoshopped" has come to mean any digital edit done to an image, even if it wasn't done in Photoshop itself – the term is often used pejoratively, to say that something is rather obviously edited.
- "Oba Kaybe" is a reference to The Cosby Show, a popular sitcom from the 80s.
- The alternate universe that Homestar got zapped to in the easter egg that made him talk strangely is a parody of Agent Dale Cooper's dreaming conciousness from the television show Twin Peaks, which was co-created by director David Lynch. (Strong Sad had cited Lynch as an influence in Sbemail 150?!?)
- Alonzo Mourning is an NBA basketball player.
External Links
- watch "alternate universe"
- watch "alternate universe" on the old Flash site
- view the Flash file for "alternate universe"
- forum thread re: "alternate universe"
Categories: Strong Bad Filmography | Strong Sad Filmography | The Cheat Filmography | Strong Badman Filmography | Old-Timey Strong Bad Filmography | Vector Strong Bad Filmography | Stinkoman Filmography | Homestar Runner Filmography | Senor Cardgage Filmography | Coach Z Filmography | Lappy 486 Emails
