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"Strong Bad, how do you keep getting in here?"

Strong Bad learns Homestar has his own email show and attempts to thwart it.

Cast (in order of appearance): The Cheat, Strong Bad, The Poopsmith, Marzipan, Coach Z, Bubs, The King of Town, Strong Sad, The New Paper, Homestar Runner, The Paper, Homsar (Easter Egg), Limozeen (Easter Egg), Strong Badman (Easter Egg), Stinkoman (Easter Egg), Teen Girl Squad (Easter Egg), Trogdor (Easter Egg), Sterrence (Easter Egg), Eh! Steve! (Easter Egg), Wagon Fulla Pancakes (Easter Egg), Senor Cardgage (Easter Egg)

Places: Strong Bad's computer room

Computer: Lappy 486

Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Running Time: 5:10

Page Title: Lappy 486

Transcript

{The email begins with a red curtain with "sbemail 200" on it. Then, cut to the Lappy with a pixelated bugle on it. Trumpets begin to play. Pan out to the Computer Room with roses on its floor. The Cheat does a small flute solo, then the Poopsmith begins to sing.}

THE POOPSMITH: {singing} Two hundred sbemails, exhausting just to think about. How can we face two hundred sbemails? The thought of all those sbemails makes me weeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!

{During the song, Strong Bad enters the computer room on the red carpet. Coach Z and Marzipan throw roses. Strong Bad continues to approach the computer, showing that the King of Town and Bubs are also in the room. Cut to the singer, who is revealed to be the Poopsmith, as he finishes his song.}

STRONG BAD: PUKE! Please be seated. How about that Poopsmith, huh? Breaking his vow of silence to perform my two hundredth sbemail intro song! I'm almost sniff {voice wavers} not totally disgusted!

{Cut to the Poopsmith, surrounded by flies. He gives Strong Bad the thumbs up, and whatsit drips from his glove.}

STRONG BAD: Yeah, I take that back. (typing) Okay, Here we go! (reading) Duh-duh-duh Dear Homestar! W-T-C? New paper, Print me out a hard copy. I'll teach Homestar to steal my 200th email thunder. B'oyah!

{Cut to Homestar at a table, typing on his Happy 8600}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: (typing) A protected landmark with suprisingly clean restrooms.

STRONG BAD: Hey, Homejob! Some stupid girls that are probably really guys accidentally emailed me-

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Ugh. Strong Bad, how do you keep gettin' in here?

STRONG BAD: What? What are you talking about? I just-

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I'm in the middle of checking my email.

STRONG BAD: Whaddaya mean your email? I'm in the middle of checking my email!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: You're not the only one around here who answers emails from fans with humorous results.

STRONG BAD: Since the crap when?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I dunno. Since forever. Don't you remember? You're in a bunch of 'em." Like that old classic when they asked about burglers breaking into my house.

{Cut to Homestar in his darkened living room, in a Homestar Runner shirt, white robe and sleeping cap}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: If I act all sleepy and throw a bunch of cinnamon on my face, it's usually enough to throw 'em off. Poo, Poo. Poo, Poo.

{walks into living room to find Strong Bad and The Cheat having broken the moose lamp}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: yawn. Hey Strong Sad. Batman. What are you guys doing in my house?

STRONG BAD: What?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: And who can forget when I accidentally took some of Strong Sad's Pills?

{Cut to Strong Bad's Computer Room}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Long pants, Strong Bad! The longest pants! Everybody everybody! Longest pants!

{He starts teleporting around the room to a different place after each word he utters. He first appears in front of Strong Bad, then leaning in behind him, then hanging upside down from the ceiling, then pixellated on the Lappy's screen as Atari Homestar, then blurred in the scene's foreground, then upside down under the desk, then back to his original position, looking exhausted and out of breath, all while chanting the following.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Long long long long long long pants!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: And that one where I dressed up real good like Coach Z.

{Cut to Strong Bad's Basement, Strong Bad is sitting on the couch, Coach Z is standing, wearing the fondue pot on his head and a Tigger tail}

COACH Z: Hey Strong Bad, I think I ruined your fondue Pot!

STRONG BAD: My fondue part?

{Cut back to Homestar's Computer}

STRONG BAD: HANG ON! SHUT FACE! Those were MY emails and you squeazeled your way into them.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I'm glad you believe that, Strong Bad. Anyways, Let me see that email. Oh, come on! Another pillow fight? Haven't they seen hremail #49?

'STRONG BAD: hr-what mail?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: a hremail.

{As he says "sbemails" and "hremails," they appear over his head as text, as if someone typed them}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: You've got sbemails, I've got hremails.

STRONG BAD: Do you even have an email address?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Of course I do. Everybody knows it's djmankiewicz@homestarrunner.com.

STRONG BAD: There's a good chance my brain is about to explode right now.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Aww, come on old timer. It's not so bad, you want to help me check this email?

STRONG BAD: No I don't want to help you check your email. I want to help myself ruin your email. whooyaa! And help myself to your ice cream sammies. whooyaa.

Easter Eggs

• Rolling over somes of the email names at the end brings up a photo of a character that debuted from that email.
  • homsar: Homsar
  • band names: Limozeen
  • superhero name: Strong Badman
  • japanese cartoon: Stinkoman
  • comic: Teen Girl Squad
  • dragon: Trogdor
  • ghosts: Sterrence
  • crazy cartoon: Eh! Steve!
  • montage: Wagon Fulla Pancakes
  • kind of cool: Senor Cardgage
  • animal: Sterrence (appears twice)
• At the end, click on "legends" to see a scene about The Poopsmith's singing abilities.

  {a tattered scrap of brown paper appears, with The Poopsmith drawn on it, along with the words "200 email curse", "legend tells...", "The Poopsmith", and "old parchment"}

  NARRATOR: Legend tells that every 200 sbemails The Poopsmith would break his vow of silence—

  {the drawing changes to The Poopsmith holding a microphone and wearing a bowtie. The words "Well, well, well, my Michelle..." are added.}

  NARRATOR: —and croon anew.

• At the end, click on the "O" in "Strong" to see a scene with Limozeen.

  LIMOZEEN: Congratulations Strong Bad on your {a voice interrupts, loudly saying:} 200th {voice ends} email!

  {slight pause}

  LARRY: {startling the other bandmembers} WE'RE FROM {the voice cuts in again} THE YEAR 2008!

  PERRY: Uh, I think it says that at the top of the screen, Larry.

  {the words "it is 2008!" appear over the Limozeen logo)

  LARRY: WELL, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!

  {The band members strike various poses and the frame freezes, as the ending riff from "Brain Sister" plays.}

• At the end, click on the "A" in "Bad", to see more with Strong Bad's soda.

  {Strong Bad continues to pour Mountain Dew on the Happy. Homestar walks in.}

  HOMESTAR RUNNER: Ooh, cool. How did you get it to do that? USB? Four pins? Eight pins? Firewire? {muddying the word with his speech impediment} Fouloul? I bet it was Foul Owl. {walks out again}

• At the end, click on the "A" in "Emails" to bring up a pop-up to download the "200 Sbemails" song by They Might Be Giants.
• At the end, click on the "S" in "Emails" to see a scene with Strong Sad.

  {Strong Sad is giving a review on his review show, "Review Revue"}

  STRONG SAD: In his shocking 200th episode, Strong Bad turns the entire series on its ear. Will we ever see a 201? Is the reign of HREmails at hand? For the answers to these questions, be sure and not check out my blog. I haven't updated that thing in years!

• Open hremail49.html to see an excerpt from that email.

  {Homestar Runner is standing in a room in his pajamas and covered in kiss marks}

  HOMESTAR RUNNER: {a pillow hits Homestar} Whoa! Ladies! Girls! {another pillow hits Homestar} Take it easy! {yet, another pillow hits Homestar} What do you think this is? hremail 24? {a large pillow knocks Homestar over}

• Open hremail24.html as referenced in the previous easter egg. The screen is simply red with the text Banned For Content across the center.
• If an email is sent to djmankiewicz@homestarrunner.com, you receive an auto reply message with the subject My Inbox Runneth Ova! saying;

Oh, hello everyone! For some unknown reason I'm getting this big cavalcanche of emails all of the sudden. They're filling up the basement and I'm running out of paper towels!

Just sit tight and hremails will be back to normal before you know it.

And thanks again to everyone who participated in Bacon Pretend Week! Ron Staple you are a GENIUS!

Okay bye,
Homestar Runner

Fun Facts

Trivia

• The label on the Floppy Disk Container reads "duck pond".
• John Linnell as the voice of the Poopsmith marks as the only main character not voice by the Chapman Brothers or Missy
• The Cheat is playing a left-handed flute at the beginning. Since both his hands are moving while he trills G to A, it doesn't seem that he has a C# trill key.
• The email sent to Strong Bad by mistake reads:

subject: college girls?

Dear Homestar,
Me and all of my young college friends that live in my dorm were just wondering if you wanted to come over and have a pillow fight sometime because we think you are sooooooo very cool.
All the college dorm girls at MO
Hannah, Micah, Rachel, Sally, Peggy, Vicky, Amber,
and all the rest of use

Goofs

• On the end screen, sibbie is spelled as "sibby".
• On the end screen, highlighting ghosts will bring up a picture of Sterrance, who never appeared in that email.
  • He also appears when you highlight animal, the correct email.

Inside References

• Homestar calls back to scenes from caper and long pants.
• Coach Z returning Strong Bad's fondue pot is a reference to 50 emails and Puppet Time.
• Strong Bad's message to Homestar is from Abdi, the sender of the very first email, some kinda robot.
• This is another email featuring Mountain Dew.
• The Easter egg with Limozeen is lifted directly from flashback.
• The Easter egg with Strong Sad refers to Strong Sad's Lament, which, true to Strong Sad's words, hasn't been updated since September 5, 2005.
• In this email, the cheat plays either the flute or the fife.
• The Easter egg with Strong Sad uses the same theme as in the Strong Sad Easter egg in pizza joint.
• Homestar's laptop Happy 8600 is manufactured by Tandy.
• The fonts used to write "200" in the intro are the fonts from each of Strong Bad's computers.
• Strong Sad's pills are also mentioned in funny.
• Homestar's disdain for the "repeat" pillow-fight topic seems to reflect the "topics the Brothers' Chap aren't likely to answer," most notably requests to "draw Trogdor again."
• Homestar's hremail24 is banned in similar manner to Strong Bad's sb_email_22.
• "Squeazeled" is a portmanteau.

Real-World References

• The Poopsmith Easter egg refers to the song "My Michelle", by Guns N' Roses.
• Homestar's laptop is modeled after an XO-1, an inexpensive model distributed as part of the One Laptop Per Child project. The laptop was made available to North American consumers during the 2007 holiday season in a "Give 1 Get 1" offer. Ironically, the XO-1 keyboard is designed to resist liquids.

External Links

• watch "email thunder"

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