environment
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Strong Bad Email #186 |
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Strong Bad explains how he is helping the environment.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Strong Sad, Marzipan, Homestar Runner, Coach Z, The Cheat
Places: Computer Room, Marzipan's House, The Field, Homestar's House, Coach Z's Locker Room
Computer: Lappy 486
Date: Monday, January 7, 2008
Running Time: 3:28
Page Title: Lappy 486
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Transcript
STRONG BAD: {singing} I-i-i-'m ch-ch-checkin' emails in 2008! Str-str-Strong Bad du-great du-great! {brings up the email}
subject: high timeDear Strong Bad,
We realize that you are a busy fellow, but my friend and
I cannot help but think that you could be doing more to
help the environment. This is your planet too, you know.
Lyd and Jules,
ID and MO, respectively
{reads ID as "idiot" and MO as "moron"}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Well...ladies? I do plenty to help the environment. Nobody ever gives me credit for my most significant contribution. {clears the screen} Every day I wake up and the first thing I do is NOT drop a piano on Marzipan's head. Who knows how many greenhouse gases I've rescued as a result of not mortally wounding ol' Marzipole. And don't forget my New Year's resolution to stop watering her plants with bleach. Now I water them strictly with {cut to Marzipan's house and a close up on her flowers} recycled cigarette butts.
FLOWER: {coughing} Oh, that's good stuff.
{cut back to the Lappy}
STRONG BAD: {typing} So, there ya go possibly ladies. My boat take—
STRONG SAD and MARZIPAN: {faintly, chanting} Scappy the Lappy! Scrappy the Lappy! Scrappy the Lappy!
{cut to The Computer Room's window where the silhouette of two pickets signs are seen. Strong Sad and Marzipan continue underneath}
STRONG BAD: What that?
{cut to The Field. Strong Sad holds up a sign that says "Scrappy the Lappy". Marzipan holds a sign saying "Lappy, Take the Dirt Nappy!". Strong Bad enters from the right.}
STRONG SAD and MARZIPAN: We think it's really crappy!
STRONG BAD: Are you guys picketing my computer?
{medium shot of Marzipan}
MARZIPAN: Yes we are! That Lappy is energy sappy!
{close up of Strong Bad}
STRONG BAD: That's very clever. How long did it take you to think up—
{cut back to shot of all three}
STRONG SAD: Three days.
MARZIPAN: Just look at your power bill from last month.
STRONG SAD: The bill itself uses eight trees worth of paper
{pan over to reveal a stack of paper marked "BILLS!"}
{close up of Strong Bad}
STRONG BAD: Are you trying to tell me that 70,000 dollar power bills are not the norm?
{medium shot of Marzipan}
MARZIPAN: Strong Bad, every time you press enter on the Lappy, the rest of us lose power.
STRONG BAD: {offscreen} For real? {push wipe back to the Lappy; typing} Tuckus, hinders, bwathom, boontockle.
{push wipe to Homestar Runner with an Atari 2600 joystick}
HOMESTAR: I'm about to win! {room darkens} Awww... {lights come on} I'm about to win! {room darkens} Awww.... {reverse shot of the TV that reads "PLEASE INSERT GAME PAK, KID!"} I'm really about to win! {room darkens} Again with the awww....
{cut to close up of Strong Bad}
STRONG BAD: Fine! I'll start using the Lappy's battery instead.
{cut back to The Field}
STRONG SAD: Um, sorry. {medium shot of Strong Sad} Every time you use that battery, 45 acres of rain forest are burned to the ground!
{close up of Strong Bad}
STRONG BAD: Oh! I knew the Lappy was awesome, but I had no idea of her destructive power! {cut to shot of all three} I'll have to get Bubs help me to overclock it. See if we can't get to an even 50 acres.
{medium shot of Marzipan}
MARZIPAN: You really have to do something Strong Bad. Even Coach Z does all of his cooking with hydroelectric.
{cut to a close up of Coach Z's hand in the shower, holding a soggy hot dog.}
COACH Z: Ah, the world famous Coach Z Sog Dog. {words appear on the screen as he says it} Mmmm... Drink In That Bun!
{cut back to The Field, close up of Strong Bad}
STRONG BAD: Wait. So, alls I got to do is take something I already do and word it differently so it sounds eco-friendly?
{cut back to all three}
MARZIPAN: Yeah, that's what we do mostly.
{medium shot of Strong Sad}
STRONG SAD: Check out my sustainable MP3 player.
{medium shot of Marzipan}
MARZIPAN: And my organic Thelma and Louise DVD.
{close up of Strong Bad}
STRONG BAD: Yeah, yeah, okay. And say hello to my 65 mile per gallon hybrid piano!
{long shot in silhouette of The Field. A piano is seen dropping and Strong Sad and Marzipan scatter}
STRONG SAD and MARZIPAN: Al Gore's beard!
{the piano is seen smashed in the field next to Strong Bad. Cut back to the Lappy.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} So there, there, THERE we go, maybe ladies. Strong Bad and the environment are now making out in the parent's basement of a solar-powered house. Take a look at the Lappy's new environmentally compliant sticker {close up of the sticker next to the Lappy 486 logo} And it's got a picture of a little leaf on it, so you know it's good for the environment. {zoom out to the Lappy; resumes typing} So until next week, my boat take—
{The Cheat noises are heard and the Lappy's screen goes dark. Zoom out to see a pant The Cheat in a hamster wheel hooked up the Lappy}
STRONG BAD: Come on green The Cheat! {The Cheat resumes running in the wheel} That's good, that's good! Only 17 more hours and I can press send.
{New Paper comes down reading:
"Click gently to eco-mail Strong Bad.
printed on 100% post-consumer brown paper with green ink"}
{pause for a little while, as the hamster wheel sound effect fades out}
STRONG BAD: Wow. That's one whisper quiet hamster wheel.
Easter Eggs
- When Strong Bad says "Idiot and Moron, respectively," click on "ID and MO" to see an image of the states Idaho and Montana dancing with goofy faces.
- At the end, click on The Cheat to see a button extolling the virtues of GreenCheat.
- At the end, after Strong Bad comments on the hamster wheel, click on the wall outlet.
Fun Facts
Remarks
- Though the email senders say they are from Idaho and Missouri (ID and MO), the Easter egg shows the states Idaho and Montana (ID and MT).
Goofs
- At the end of the email, Lappy's "Environmentally Compliant Sticker" sticker has inexplicably disappeared.
Inside References
- Strong Bad claims he begins each day by "not dropping a piano on Marzipan".
- The window above the computer desk was last seen in cheat talk and the CGI portion of Disc 1 of the Strong Bad Email DVD.
Real-World References
- Thelma & Louise is a 1991 film starring Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise.
External Links
- watch "environment"
- watch "environment" on the old Flash site
- view the Flash file for "environment"
- forum thread re: "environment"