Editing 50 emails

{{sbenav|50}}

[[Image:sbemail50.PNG|thumb|"Hey, Strong Bad, I brought back your fondue pot."]]

In honor of his 50th email, Strong Bad tries to answer 50 emails, only to have Homestar unwittingly screw it up.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Old-Timey Strong Bad}} (Easter egg), {{Film|The Sneak}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Telegraph Room]] (Easter egg)

'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]

'''Date:''' Monday, November 11, 2002

'''Running Time:''' 2:45

'''Page Title:''' Lordy, Lordy! Look who's over there!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc One}}

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Oh, girl, I want to email you so nice. ''{stops singing}'' All right, everybody. In honor of this, my 50th email, I've decided to answer 50 of your emails! Ready? Go! ''{hits enter}'' Number one:

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Email #1<br />
Dear strong bad,<br />
Can you please write a book about<br />
come-back jokes!<br />
Mike<br />
Canada</blockquote>

''{read as a question despite the exclamation mark}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' More like, ''you'' write a book about come-back jokes, ''NERD!'' ''{hits enter}'' Number two:

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Email #2<br />
Dear Stong Bad,<br />
what are some cool ways to spell<br />
different words? example, fat = phat<br />
<br />
matt</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, you mean like ''{types}'' strong = stong? ''{stops}'' You seem to like that one. Or how about this? matt = MATT!! ''{He types matt = DELETED!, and the following appears on the screen as the email is deleted:}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background:#003893; text-align:center">MATT!!</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' Number three:

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Email #3<br />
Strong Bad,<br />
What is your favorite leg?<br />
<br />
Jess and Tiff<br />
Los Angeles, CA</blockquote>
''{He stops at "Jess and Tiff"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Well, I like all kinds of legs. You know, like the Great Leg... the Leg of Hope... Tape-Leg? ''{the phone rings}'' Oh, man! I was on a roll! Don't nobody go nowheres, I'll be right back. 

''{He walks offscreen and answers the phone}'' 

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{offscreen)'' Hello? Yeah, this is me.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{offscreen}'' Strong Bad!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{on the phone}'' I dunno, what kind of savings?

''{Homestar Runner walks in carrying a fondue pot}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey Strong Bad, I brought back your fondue pot. Strong Bad? ''{He looks around, and then sees the computer}'' Whoa. That TV has words on it. 

''{Homestar sits down at the computer and re-reads the email}'' 

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Strong Bad, what is your favorite leg? Jess and Tiff. ''{Stops reading}'' Um, ''{typing}'' Hey Crapface! Why dontcha blow it out your ear. Your buddy, Strong Bad. ''{enter}'' Oh, another one!

''{reading}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none">Email #4<br />
Dear Strong Bad<br />
How do you type with gloves on<br />
your hands?<br />
<br />
Scott<br />
Surrey BC Canada</blockquote>

''{Homestar does not read the signature.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, even ''I'' know what to do with this one. ''{types}'' BALEETED! ''{hits enter, nothing happens}'' Wha&mdash;? Oh. Umm... ''{types}'' DELTEATED! ''{enter, nothing happens}'' No? Uhh...

''{Cut to Strong Bad talking on the phone}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{offscreen}'' Del Taco?

'''STRONG BAD:''' No, they're more like elephant feet. Yeah. So what do you think, like, 50 bucks? Sounds good. ''{Whispers}'' I'll leave the key under the at-may.

''{Back to the Compy 386. Homestar has typed in many, many words that he believes to be "deleted", but none of them do anything.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' What is that stupid word? 

''{He types in "da cheated" and hits enter. The Compy plays its start up noise and the blue "Flagrant System Error" screen comes up. It reads:}''

<blockquote class="email" style="background:#455fd8; text-align:center">FLAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR<br />
<br />
The system is down. I dunno what <br />
you did, moron, but you sure <br />
screwed everything up good.</blockquote>

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Uh-oh. This does not look good for Homestar Runner.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad on the phone}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Okay. Bye!

''{He hangs up and walks off. Cut back to the computer}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Okay. Back to the 50 emails. 

''{He sits down. There's a piece of paper over the monitor with a Windows error window titled "This is real." It reads:}''
<div style="background:#E1E1E1; border:3px solid black; width:505px; margin-left: 2em; padding: 8px; font-weight: bolder">
<div style="background:#03C; color:white; border:3px solid black; padding:6px; font-size:125%">This is real.</div>
{| style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; background: none"
| style="padding-bottom:10px; width:17%" | [[Image:Warning-gray.png]]
| style="width:80%; font-size:140%; text-align:center; padding:10px; line-height:120%" | System report:
|}
<div style="font-size:140%; text-align:center; border-top:2px solid black; padding-left:18px; padding-top:18px; padding-right:18px; padding-bottom:6px; line-height:120%">Everything is fine. Nothing<br>is ruined.</div>
<div style="border:3px solid black; margin: 0 auto; width: 135px; padding: 4px">
<div style="border:2px dashed black; text-align:center; font-size:135%; padding: 0px; width: 130px" class="noul blocklink"><div style="margin: -9px"><span style="color:black; display:block; padding: 13px">ok</span></div></div>
</div>
</div>

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{reading}'' Everything is fine. Nothing is ruined. Oh, that's good to hear. Let's just&mdash; Wait a minute! ''{he tears off the paper and sees the blue screen}'' Wha... Flagrant Error? What the... Where did all my emails go?

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' WHAT?!? The paper?! This isn't over yet! Go back up, go back up! 

''{Strong Bad swats at The Paper and then tries to hold it up off the screen}'' 

'''STRONG BAD:''' Wait, wait! I think I can remember some of those emails! Uh, "Dear Strong Bad, why are you so awesome? Yours truly, Dumpface." Well, Dumpface, it's a long story. It all started with The Cheat one day when he was going down to the...

''{The screen, and Strong Bad's voice, slowly fade out. A paper plate with a Swiss Cake Roll with a "50" candle on it fades in. The Paper comes down again.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
[[Image:Comeback.PNG|thumb|More like, ''YOU'' write a book about comeback jokes, ''NERD!!'']]
*When Strong Bad types the word "book," you can click on it and bring up a picture of [[More Like You Write A Book About Come-back Jokes, NERD!!|Strong Bad's idea]] of this book.
*At the end, click on the "50th email [[Swiss Cake Roll]]" to see an [[Old-Timey]] Strong Bad cartoon.
:''{A title screen reading "Strong Bad and The Electronic Message" appears. Cut to Old-Timey Strong Bad reading a telegram. A "[[No Loafing Sign|Loafing Not Permitted]]" sign can be seen in the background.}''
<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#cccccc;color:#000">Dear Sir Strong Bad stop<br />
How do you manage the telegramophone whilst<br />
wearing gentleman's sport gloves? stop<br />

signed, Lord Elsington Hallstingdingdingworth<br /></blockquote>
:'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' Curses! This is all anyone ever asks me. ''{manning the telegraph}'' You buffoon! Stop. You...carpetbagger. Stop. I'll give you what for!
:''{The Sneak walks onscreen}''
:'''OLD-TIMEY STRONG BAD:''' The Sneak! How was that? I told that poor sap I'd give him what for! Yes... now go and steal me fresh jam!
:''{The Sneak scurries off}''

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*When Old-Timey Strong Bad responds to Lord Elsington Hallstingdingdingworth in the Easter egg, he calls him a "carpetbagger." A [[Wikipedia:carpetbagger|carpetbagger]] is actually a post-Civil War term for a Northerner moving to the South after the war to get rich or gain power.
*When Strong Bad says, "I'll leave the key under the at-may," he is speaking [[Wikipedia:Pig Latin|Pig Latin]]. "At-may" would mean "mat."

===Trivia===
*This is another instance of [[Strong Bad checking more than one email]].
*The title of the page may be a reference to the phrase "Lordy, Lordy! Look who's forty!" which is usually used on someone's 40th birthday, even though this is Strong Bad's 50th email.
*The phone ringing sound effect is "ringin.wav", from the Microsoft system sounds included in Windows 95 through Windows XP.
*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#tongue of the fatman|tongue of the fatman]]".
*The date on the telegram is "11th/x4/29..".
*This is the first email in which the "[[DELETED]]" screen is shown on the Compy (However, The deleted Screen read "MATT" instead of The Actual "DELETED"). The background is blue, whereas it was green on the [[Tandy 400]].
*This is the first instance of [[The Paper]] coming down more than once.
*This is the first appearance of [[Strong Bad's Fondue Pot]].
*when strong bad is talking on the phone it's possible that he is selling
 strong sads feet.

===Remarks===
*It is strange that Homestar calls the computer screen a "TV [that] has words on it," yet he immediately knows he can type a response to the email.
*The telegram received by Old-Timey Strong Bad has an incomplete [[Wikipedia:Boolean algebra|boolean]] [[Wikipedia:truth table|truth table]] in the upper right corner.
*In the Easter egg, Old-Timey Strong Bad fails to end his telegram with a 'stop'.
*You can't click The Paper when it first comes down.
*On most DOS versions it is impossible to have filenames on both the left and right side of the screen.
*When Strong Bad jumps off his stool and The Geddup noise is made, his stool doesn't move.

===Goofs===
*As Homestar sits down in front of the Compy, his darkened reflection appears in front of the wall.
*When Homestar is talking while reading/answering an email, his lips' movements and the movements in the reflection are not in sync.
*Telegrams are always typed in upper case. They also never use any punctuation, hence the word STOP at the end of each sentence.
*Morse Code uses anywhere from one to four strokes per letter or punctuation mark.  Therefore, Old Timey Strong Bad's response telegram, while not expected to be perfectly accurate, is indeed way off.
*Three different shades of blue were used for the system error screen (each of which were a different shade from the "MATT" screen). The color changes from a bright blue to a duller blue as Strong Bad is sitting back down.

===Glitches===
*When you adjust the contrast while Homestar is at the computer, his reflection isn't affected.
*When Strong Bad says "Matt" while typing "DELETED", his reflection appears above the Compy for a moment.
*When you adjust the contrast on the "Flagrant System Error" screen, the text changes color rather than the background.
*When Strong Bad is talking before he answers the first email you can hear a low pitched hum. For the rest of the email, the pitch is higher.

===Inside References===
*Strong Bad starts his email checking by saying, "Ready? Go!" This is a reference to [[spring cleaning]], when he said that to start his spring cleaning.
*When he responds to Email #3 ("What is your favorite leg?"), Strong Bad mentions tape-leg. This is a reference to [[tape-leg]], one of his past emails, and represents yet another [[Tape-leg|inside joke]] of the Homestar Universe.
*The phrase "The system is down" is from [[techno]].
*The "[[How do you type with boxing gloves on?]]" and "[[DELETED]]" running gags play a prominent role in this email.
*Right before Strong Bad hangs up the phone, you can see it is [[Disconnected Telephones|not connected to anything]].
*This is another instance of [[Strong Bad's computer malfunctioning]].
*This is another instance of the common misspelling "[[Stong Bad]]".<!--note that this says "Stong", not "Strong"-->

===Real-World References===
*The blue "Flagrant System Error" screen is a spoof of the [[Wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Windows 9x]] [[Wikipedia:Blue Screen of Death|blue screen of death]].
*In the Old-Timey Strong Bad Easter egg, Strong Bad ends his emails with the word "stop". Back when telegrams were used, most people used "stop" instead of a period.
*The telegram in the top left corner says "X-11ish".  [[Wikipedia: X Window System|X11]] is a windowing system for Unix-like computer systems.

===Fast Forward===
*"Diggity", one of Homestar's attempts at "DELETED" (see below), appears in Strong Bad's deletion song in [[unused emails]] and [[car]].
*"De la soul", another attempt to say "DELETED", is sung by [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Brainkrieg|Brainkrieg]] in the email [[death metal]].
*The "Flagrant System Error" screen appears again in [[virus]] and (as "Flamboyant System Error") in [[Biz Cas Fri 1]].
*The fake Windows system report appears again in [[The System is Down]], [[Not the 100th Email!!!]], and on [[Main Page 22]].
*Homestar would eventually say "DELETED" correctly in [[retirement]], when he helps Strong Bad delete an email harder than ever before. 
*When Strong Bad is on the phone, he may be talking about poachers offering money for [[Strong Sad]]'s "[[Soolnds|elephant feet]]". Strong Sad mentions this in [[modeling]].
*The Swiss Cake Roll and "50" candle appear again in [[big white face]] on top of the cake in the Easter egg at the end.

===Homestar's attempts at [[DELETED]]===
<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;width:150px">
a> BALEETED!<br />
a> DELTEATED!<br />
a> Del Taco?<br />
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none">
<table class="emaillinks" style="color:#fff;background:none;width:100%">
<autocolumn cols="2" width="50%">
a> freaky D'td<br />
a> chadeated<br />
a> deedleated<br />
a> meathead?<br />
a> dltd<br />
a> duh lee ted<br />
a> teeteeted<br />
a> [[bubs]]<br />
a> diddley dee<br />
a> repeated<br />
a> 733t3d<br />
a> 3-D movie<br />
a> del monte<br />
a> ddddddd<br />
a> [[The Cheat|da cheated]]<br />
a> [[Diggity|diggity]]<br />
a> beefeated<br />
a> stupid word<br />
a> believe it<br />
a> received it<br />
a> stratego<br />
a> 3TDted<br />
a> seabed<br />
a> whitebread<br />
a> open sesame<br />
a> marie<br />
a> hello<br />
a> de la soul<br />
a> geleted<br />
a> feeted<br />
</autocolumn>
</table>
</blockquote>
[[Image:Stupid word.png|thumb|300px|"What is that stupid word?"]]
*Some of the commands Homestar tries are references. Some are more obvious than others: 
**"del monte" &mdash; An American [http://www.delmonte.com/ produce company].
**"beefeated" &mdash; The [[Wikipedia:Yeomen Warders|Yeomen Warders]] of the [[Wikipedia:Tower of London|Tower of London]] are popularly known as Beefeaters.  Beefeater is also a widely available brand of gin.
**"meathead?" &mdash; This is probably referring to a catch phrase from the 1970s sitcom ''[[Wikipedia:All in the Family|All in the Family]]'' in which [[Wikipedia:Archie Bunker|Archie Bunker]] called his son-in-law [[Wikipedia:Michael Stivic|Mike]] "Meathead."
**"stratego" &mdash; [[Wikipedia:Stratego|Stratego]] is a board game.
**"open sesame" &mdash; Famous words from the tale ''[[Wikipedia:Ali Baba|Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves]]''.
**"de la soul" &mdash; [[Wikipedia:De La Soul|De La Soul]] is a hip-hop group made of Posdnous, Trugoy, and P.A. Mase. They are best known for their groundbreaking 1989 debut album ''[[Wikipedia:3 Feet High and Rising|3 Feet High and Rising]]''. Their second album, ''[[Wikipedia:De La Soul is Dead|De La Soul is Dead]]'' is on [[Matt Chapman]]'s favorite album list.
**"733t3d" &mdash; A reference to [[Internet Slang|Leetspeak]], a variation of language used on the Internet where letters are replaced by numbers or symbols. While this is probably meant to say "leeted," it actually says "teeted."
**"Del Taco?" &mdash; [[Wikipedia:Del Taco|Del Taco]] is a fast food chain that sells American and Mexican food.
**"whitebread" &mdash; Another example of Homestar's [[Bread|bread obsession]].
**[[Bubs]] is otherwise not mentioned or referenced in the email
**"dltd" &mdash; is text message speak for "deleted".
<!--Do not add any references to Naruto here. The English dub for Naruto was first aired several years after this email. Additionally, Naruto does not use the phrase "Believe it" in the Japanese version, so don't try to get around it with that either.-->

==DVD Version==
*The "Comeback joke book" Easter egg is disabled.

== External Links ==
*[[HR:sbemail50.html|watch "50 emails"]]
*[[HR:sbemail50.swf|view the Flash file for "50 emails"]]

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