candy product
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| Strong Bad Email #149 |
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Strong Bad gets his own candy product.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Senor Cardgage, Coach Z, Marzipan, Strong Sad, Homestar Runner (Easter egg), Marshie (Easter egg)
Places: Computer Room, Brothers' Strong Bathroom, The Field, Marzipan's House, Strong Bad's Basement
Computer: Lappy 486
Date: March 21, 2006
Running Time: 2:58
Page Title: Lappy 486
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Transcript
STRONG BAD: Check one, check two. Sibilants. Sibilants. SBEmail.
subject: CandyDear Strongbad
I was wondering, if you are so famous, popular, and a
chick-magnet how come you dont have any candy product...
or food thing... to sell..............
From somone thats not homestarrunner
(While reading, Strong Bad says "Dear Strongbad I was wondering" as one clause, pronounces "dont" as it appears [not as the contraction "don't"], and inserts exaggerated pauses where the ellipses are in the e-mail.)
STRONG BAD: {typing} Well, of course you're not, Somone. Or else you would've fallen prey to Edgar's Baby's Daddy: my Homestar junkmail filter. {clears screen} So what I don't have a candy product. I betcha I will by the end of this email. I'm famous, popular, and chick-magnet enough to have a candy product. Why is it athletes are the only ones with their own candy bars? Shouldn't they have their own brand of, like, jock-strap or divorce lawyer, instead? {clears screen} For my candy bar, we’re gonna need a name that’s 50% Strong Bad, 50% tooth rot, and 50% ta-dah!! How ‘bou… SBLOUNSKCHED! ‘Cuz that’s how you’re gonna feel when you eat one..like you got SBLOUNSKCHED! Now we gotta be sure and represent as many of the different states—
{A candy-based periodic table covers the screen.}
STRONG BAD: —of candy matter as possible.
STRONG BAD: We’ll start with a gaseous cloud of marshmallow vapor, encased in a globule of semi-solid licorice colloid. A bunch of those will be floating in a channel of liquid nougat, which I recently found out is the candy equivalent of veal. And we roll all that up inside a solid crispidy cookidy log and cover it in rich, creamy... pepperoni. And sprinkle that with, not just crispy puffed rice, but whole tiny bowls of crispy puffed rice cereal. And finally, smother that with the ol’ BBC. Boring Brown Chocolate.
ENGLISH VOICE: I say...
STRONG BAD: Now that is a confectionate worthy of the SBLOUNCHED name. But I need to think of a better shape than the standard piece-of-crap shape.
{Cut to Strong Bad in the bathroom, reading a newspaper.}
STRONG BAD: I’m talking to you, Baby Ruth.
{Cut back to the Periodic Table.
STRONG BAD: Lets see, Shape, shape, shape, shape, shape..
Chainsaw, Dollar sign, Thumbs up, Syringe, Campfire, Indiana, Moustache, Van Buren Statue
STRONG BAD:Ooh, what about my pants? Everybody knows my pants! And they come with a built in bite out of them for security, ‘cuz who’s gonna steal a half eaten pair of choco-pants?
{Cut back to computer}
STRONG BAD: {Typing} Man, with a candy bar like that, you could get away with anything!
STRONG BAD: {Singing} You’ve got the munch, the crisp handed crunch, livin’ in the gutter with grandma. When coach puts you in, you gotta go for the win. Y2K turned out alright! SBLOUNSKCHED you can do it! SBLOUNSKCHED Crunchy chew it! Who’s got the money!?! You got SBLOUNSKCHED!
TV ANNOUNCER: {speaking very rapidly} Buy one of these and get free root canal or cavity search.
Easter Eggs
- Click "Edgar's Baby's Daddy" to see Strong Bad's Homestar junkmail filter.
Edgar´s Baby´s Daddy H*R Junkmail Filta Subject | Time | Sender ----------------------+-------+---------------- Re: Besing Friends | 10:22 | Homestar Runner Draw Trogdor again ;) | 10:22 | Homestar Runner Re: re: re: resending | 10:23 | Homestar Runner Re: PharmBlacy news | 10:23 | Homestar Runner Possible caper | 10:23 | Homestar Runner Rrrrates so low!!!! | 10:24 | Homestar Runner Shemp vs. Curly Joe | 10:24 | Homestar Runner It's almost 10:25!! | 10:24 | Homestar Runner
- At the end of the e-mail, click the front SBLOUNSKCHED! bar to see a short scene of Homestar (dressed as a robber) preparing to steal a discarded candy product.
- HOMESTAR RUNNER: Ooh, paydirt! A pair of half eaten choco-pants!
- Also click the SBLOUNSKHED! logo below the candy bars to see a short scene of Marshie's face appearing in the gaseous marshmallow vapor.
- MARSHIE: {creepy voice} You can't destroy me!
Fun Facts
The Periodic Table of Candy Elements
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1
Ch
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2
Dk
Darkium |
3
Pb
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4
Co
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5
Pz
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6
Cr
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7
Ch
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8
Go
Gooey |
9
Ca
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10
Pf
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11
Ma
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12
Fg
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13
Ha
Hard |
14
Cc
Candy |
15
Ng
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16
Tf
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103
Mt
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104
Al
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105
Bg
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316
Wa
Those | ||
Trivia
- Strong Bad's candy bar comes packaged in two different rectangular shapes — the first resembling the old Choco-Lite bar or a Nestlé Crunch with Caramel, and the second resembling a Kit Kat — in spite of the fact that the bar itself is supposed to be shaped like a pair of pants.
Remarks
- The chemical symbol Ch is used for both the Chocolatium and Chewy elements.
- Other than i she be, this is quite possibly the one email with the most spelling/grammar mistakes.
Explanations
- "Sibilants" (or "Sibilance") is a word commonly used when testing microphones to make sure that sibilant sounds ("s", "sh", "z", and "zh") are picked up properly.
Goofs
- There is no back button at the end of the e-mail.
Inside References
- "Re: re: re: resending" is a possible reference to bottom 10, where Strong Bad explains that he hates emails that have more than one Fwd:, or Re: in the subject line.
- This is another example of characters peeking from behind objects in the foreground.
- One of the rejected forms for the candy bar is the bust of Van Buren.
- At the beginning of the commercial, small print at the bottom reveals that it is a production of Cheap As Free Foodstuffs.
- Marshie's creepy voice in the Easter egg is similar to an Easter egg in Pumpkin Carve-nival.
- Strong Bad's candy being brown is not also a reason because it's chocolate, but possibly because Strong Bad went in it.
Real-World References
- The "SBLOUNSKCHED!" commercial refers to ads for candies like Mentos where it is suggested that consumers of the product can do anything at all.
- Baby Ruth is a popular candy bar 2 oz. in size in a log-shaped form. Strong Bad's allusion to its scatological appearance is most likely a reference to a like-minded gag in the film Caddyshack.
- The Periodic Table of Candy Elements is a parody of the actual Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements.
- BBC actually stands for British Broadcasting Corporation, which may explain why the English voice is offended by Strong Bad's interpretation.
- "Sibilance," a word describing the "s" sound, was used by Tom Hanks in a Wayne's World sketch on Saturday Night Live in a soundcheck for Aerosmith.
External Links
- watch "candy product"
- watch "candy product" on the old Flash site
- view the Flash file for "candy product"
- forum thread re: "candy product"
