colonization

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Strongbadia's first Thanksgiving

Strong Bad Email #90

Strong Bad is asked if he celebrates Thanksgiving like everyone else, or if he celebrates some weird holiday. We are then shown a history book about the colonization of Strongbadia.

Cast (in order of appearance)): Strong Bad, Strong Sad, The Cheat, Bubs, Homestar Runner (easter egg)

Transcript

STRONG BAD: {singing} Email me -doot- email me, email me -doot- email me. {He pulls up the e-mail and reads it aloud.}

Hi Strong Bad!
Do you celebrate thanksgiving
normally? Or do you have special
traditions for when Strong Badia was
first colonized? What's the story
about?

From your Buddy,
Shana Ma.
Los Angeles, CA

{He pronounces "Los Angeles" with a hard "g".}

{typing} Oh, Shanama, the story of the colonization of Strong Badia is a tale as old as, say, the wireless web... or energy drinks, maybe. It began in a period of strife...

{Cut to a shot of an old book on a wooden table. It is open and pictures Strong Bad, in a pilgrim hat, squirting ketchup onto a plate of eggs, next to Strong Sad in a wig and typical 17th-century clothing.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} ...when I was being persecuted for my beliefs.

STRONG SAD: {voiceover} Ewwww! Ketchup on Eggs?!?

{A caption reading "Ewwww! Ketchup on Eggs?!?" appears beneath the picture. The page turns to show Strong Bad reading the newspaper and seeing an ad saying "LOT FOR SALE!"}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} I learned of a place where a man can be free. Free to do what he wants to do. Free to ketchup his eggs without being hassled by the man.

{The page turns to show Strong Bad and The Cheat, also wearing a pilgrim hat, travelling across Free Country, USA, Strong Bad carrying a musket and eating a sandwich and The Cheat dragging a bag along behind him. A caption along the bottom reads "The Three Stout Sub Sandwiches: The Ham 'n' Swiss, The Dijon Chicken and the Veggie Delux".}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} So I started out with three stout sub sandwiches, and my best, The Cheat, to find this mystical land.

{The page turns to show the two of them meeting Bubs, who is waving at them, wearing a Sioux-style father headband and wearing a loincloth.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} I met a strange man with strange ways and strange odors.

{The page turns to show Strong Badia in front of a glorious sunrise, above a caption reading "The Neu Wirlde".}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} And he led me to the new world, out beyond the dumpsters.

{The page turns to show the Tire falling onto The Cheat, whose hat is sent flying from his head}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} There was a brief struggle with the indigenous peoples.

{The page turns to show Strong Bad and Bubs, holding a scroll between them.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} At last, we reached an agreement to peacefully co-exist in this land, after I gave him my first and last months' rent deposit.

{The page turns to show a ploughed field where Bubs is planting a fish. Strong Bad is looking at him, holding a fish and a corn cob in his hand.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Then the strange man showed me how to plant fish in the ground with corn, for some reason.

BUBS: {voiceover} This'll grow ya some nice fishcorn bushes!

{A caption reading "This'll grow ya some nice fishcorn bushes" appears at the bottom of the page. The page turns to show Bubs, The Cheat and Strong Bad sitting at a picnic table in Strongbadia, feasting on fast food.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Then we celebrated with a feast of some cold Hardee's he had laying around.

{Cut back to the Compy.}

STRONG BAD: {typing} So there you have it, Shana... Shanamana... {singing} Shanamanamanamanamana tonight! That shoulda been in your history books at school. I gotta get on those people over at Hoofton Mifflin. Those guys are slackin off. {stops typing} Okay, so until next week, leave me alone!

{The Paper comes down.}

Easter Eggs

• After the email is over, click the first part of the word Shanamanamanamanana and Strong Bad will 'Shanama' into some songs.
• Click on the the words 'history books' to hear Homestar Runner address the imaginary masses.

Fun Facts

• The 'Shanama, Shanama ho ho ho ho ho!' is sung to the tune of 'Panama' by Van Halen. And the 'Oh Shanama' is to the tune of 'O Canada,' the Canadian national anthem.
• The crowd cheers in the second easter egg listed above are from A Decemberween Pageant.
• When Strong Bad is reading the newspaper about the land for sale, to the right it has Homestar Runner declaring eggs not a fruit. This may be a reference to the famous 1893 Supreme Court decision (Nix v. Hedden) that tomatoes were not fruits.
• Strong Bad is upside down when he says the fourth "ho"
• When you see the newspaper, you can see Homestar in a British form of his head and clothes.
• The intentional spelling error of 'new' in "The Neu Wirlde" may be a reference to 'Neusconsin' in Mr. Shmallow.
• Strong Bad refers to "Hoofton Mifflin." Presumably, this is a reference to the scholastic publishers Houghton Mifflin.

External Links

• watch "colonization"
• view the flash file for "colonization"