Making of Email 100

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Making of Email 100 is a Strong Bad DVD feature of a time-lapse video. It shows the making of the the Strong Bad Email "flashback."

Cast (in order of appearance): Mike Chapman, Matt Chapman, Missy Palmer, Don and Harriet Chapman

Easter Eggs

• This video features hidden audio commentary by Matt and Mike. Just switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching

Commentary Transcript

(Commentary by: Mike Chapman, Matt Chapman)

MATT: Ok, here's us making the hundreth email. We started with the easiest part, and funnest part, which is the doing Limozeen easter egg

MIKE: You can see Ryan editing it on the far right of the screen, the easter egg in there. And I'm keying out the green

MATT: And Mike, what're you doing right now?

MIKE: I am... making sandals and socks. For Homestar. Which never appeared. And a green duck shirt.

MATT: Instead of the yellow one

MIKE: Instead of the yellow duck shirt.

MATT: Uh, now I'm recording... this might be recording the Limozeen egg sounds, I think I'm recording that. Actually, I may be recording an early email... Oh no, that's what it is. The uh, if you went to sbemail100.html that's what you're doing right now.

MIKE: Oh yeah, we did that on Sunday night. So this is Sunday night. And, this is Monday morning.

MATT: So, Day 2. We actually changed clothes

MIKE: I think we're

MATT: This is probably the only three days in a row that we actually changed clothes, and we happened to get it on film.

MIKE: Um, I think we're re-writing the e-mail here, for the most part.

MATT: Yeah.

MIKE: That's what we're doing, anyway.

MATT: Yeah.

MIKE: We pretty much started from scratch.

MATT: So now re-recording the e-mail. We're recording sounds for it. And music for it!

MIKE: And uh... perhaps the, um...

MATT: E-mail is awesome

MIKE: E-mail is weird song.

MATT: Yeah, that's a good one. So then Melissa came by to record her one line

MIKE: Ready and set and go now

MATT: Yeah. And then, her thing, her easter egg.

MIKE: Yeah, that's it.

MATT: That was all involving Melissa. So this music, Mike, how about the music?

MIKE: Oh, the music was made using a synth card, a home-brewed Atari cartridge by our friend Paul Slocum. Um, its

MATT: making

MIKE: awesome. Oh, there's our parents and Aunt Jen.

MATT: Aunt Jen and Uncle Jim

MIKE: {laughing} Uncle Jim. Sorry, Aunt Jim!

MATT: Uncle Jim and Aunt Rosy.

MIKE: Um, see here I'm working on the children's book graphics and stuff there, the egg just popped open, um, with The Cheat inside of it.

MATT: I remember I'm doing all the widescreen beginning and end, all the easter eggs and stuff. I swear I'm doing stuff over there.

{Mike laughs.}

MIKE: So this is Monday night. Tuesday Morning

MATT: Day 3!

MIKE: Um... here's some music over there... some more stuff for the children's book

MATT: Yeah. music. Um... I touch my face a lot. I drink lots of water and touch my face. So this is, this is when we're totally jamming out. Together. This might have been the e-mail is awesome song

MIKE: Yeah, I don't know what that other part was

MATT: 'Cause it had bass in it.

MIKE: Oh, maybe it was it then.

{Pause}

MIKE: And there's the old timey Strong Bad Easter Egg. Then the Homestar one wearing the duck shirt.

MATT: You just did the Strong Bad Email Menu. Looks like we're getting close, Mike, and you're waiting for me to finish. {Laughs}

MIKE: Yeah, I came up at the front of the screen, I stood there for like, three minutes. Yeah.