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| Strong Bad Email #51 |
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Strong Bad gives an emailer advice on building a website, and shows off his own.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad
Places: Computer Room
Computer: Compy 386
Date: Monday, November 18, 2002
Running Time: 1:53
Page Title: Compy 386!
DVD: strongbad_email.exe Disc Two
Contents |
Transcript
STRONG BAD: Oh-you-thought-there-was-no-more-emails-but-guess-what-there's-an-EMAIL!
{reading email}
Dear Strong Bad.
I want to start a new website but I
don't have any ideas of what to do for
my website. I was wondering if you
could give me some ideas for my new
website. This website will be cool and
I'll e-mail you when I'm done.
Sincerely Yours:
James
{Strong Bad says "Website. I mean, James" instead of just "James"}
STRONG BAD: {typing} You know, James, I've been around this great, big internet of ours a few times, so I know what I'm talking about, and I can safely say, that whatever idea you have is completely unimportant as long as you adhere to these fundamentals: {clears screen} First of all, you want to start out with a long flash intro. {stops typing} Like this one The Cheat made for me.
{"The Cheat presents" on a black background appears on the screen, followed by two green, bean-shaped eyes.}
STRONG BAD: Check it out, those are supposed to be my eyes, I think.
{The eyes fade and the letters "SB" appear. "Strong" and "Bad" are inside each letter}
STRONG BAD: That stands for my name.
{The "S" and "B" turn into "The Web" in cursive}
STRONG BAD: "The Web".
{"The Web" turns into "Welcomes 'u' '2'", the letters made of only horizontal and vertical lines. The words "strong bad's cybersite" appear in red below "Welcomes 'u' '2'". A rainbow circle about 3/4 the size of the "2" comes and rolls in, stopping at the quotation mark before the "2"}
STRONG BAD: That little rainbow thing's kinda cool.
{The word "cybersite" turns into rainbow colors. The words exit and a blackhole-like thing appears.}
STRONG BAD: Oh, go through the tunnel, oh look out!
{As he says "Oh, look out!", a hand appears to punch you, and after it does, the word "OUCH!" appears above it. The words "Get on in!" appear in a long button.}
STRONG BAD: Oh, you got punched! Aw, man, right in the face. {typing} Okay, next on the checklist: lots of animated GIFs! {pronounces it /gifs/; stops typing} or... GIFs... {pronounces it /jifs/} or however you say it. I don't know. I heard a couple of nerds arguing about it one time. {clears screen} But you want as many of those as possible.
{An animated GIF appears that cycles between a flame, the word "Fire!" and another flame.}
STRONG BAD: Especially the {Another GIF appears, featuring a mouse that looks side to side before revealing a letter labeled "INTERNET?" in its mouth.} rotate-y kind. {Two rotating GIFs appear, one of a guitar, the other of a diamond that flashes, showing the words "hi rez" which then disappear.} Those are awesome, man. Nobody gets tired of looking at those. {clears screen}
STRONG BAD: {typing} So, then you can pretty much just pick whatever for your subject. It doesn't really matter as long as you got the rest of that stuff on there. {stops typing} I mean, {resumes typing} James, the Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens. You need to take advantage of that. {stops typing} I mean, you can make a webpage of your cat...
{A picture of a cat lying on a football with red eye thinking "It's 4th and 10. Now WHERE'S MY SUPPER?!?" appears}
STRONG BAD: ...or your The Cheat.
{A picture of The Cheat sleeping on his back on a couch thinking "It's 4th and 10. I hate cats."}
STRONG BAD: And, {typing} Who knows? Maybe tomorrow you'll be really big in Pakistan. Or at least, with some guy named Stan. {Stops typing} Anyways, I gotta go work on my webpage.
{Strong Bad leaves. The Paper comes down}
Easter Eggs
- Click on "strong bad's web page" to go to the Flash intro. Then click on "get on in!" to go to Strong Bad's Website.
- Click on the F10 button at the bottom of the Strong Bad's website to read Strong Sad's Lament, Strong Sad's LiveJournal-esque weblog.
- At the bottom of Strong Bad's website, click on the envelope in the mouse GIF. You get to the room where the emails are received.
- Also at the bottom of Strong Bad's website, click on the Email GIF to send an email to Strong bad.
- Clicking on the Enter GIF reloads the website, adding an extra STRONG BAD at the top each time.
Fun Facts
Explanations
- The reason Strong Bad says, "Oh-you-thought-there-was-no-more-emails-but-guess-what-there's-an-EMAIL!" might be because fans thought the emails would stop because the previous email ended with the Compy 386 in a "flagrant system error."
Trivia
- The cat featured in the email is Mabel, owned by Matt Chapman and his wife Jackie. The cat appears to be sporting Soft Claws, which are an alternative to declawing.
- Strong Bad's intro might be a reference to the Intro because they both have tunnels.
Remarks
- The "get on in" Flash link during the email itself is clickable, but doesn't do anything.
- At the end of the email Strong Bad says he has to go work on his website, but then he leaves his computer.
- The music on the intro sounds very close to his description of Strong Bad playing rhythm guitar on the email "guitar".
- The "long haired freaky cheat" picture on Strong Bad's page never loads.
- The counter is a static link to a .gif so it doesn't update.
Fast Forward
- According to "flashback," this is about where Strong Bad lost count of the emails.
- In email 152, "isp," Strong Bad refers to the breakdancing rodent GIF as a gif/jif.
- The photograph of Matt and Jackie's pet cat Mabel is later used in an epitaph to the now-deceased cat in hygiene.
DVD Version
- You cannot browse Strong Bad's website on the DVD. However, the intro to his website is still accessible (via a hidden Strong Bad icon in the lower right corner of the Compy 386 screen).
- Note that the DVD version of the intro is out of sync—Strong Bad begins talking long before the animation ends.
External Links
- watch "website"
- view the Flash file for "website"
- watch the Flash intro
- Strong Bad's website, skipping the intro
