environment

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"Are you guys picketing my computer?"

Strong Bad explains how he is helping the environment.

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Strong Sad, Marzipan, Homestar Runner, Coach Z, The Cheat

Places: Computer Room, Marzipan's House, The Field, Homestar's House, Coach Z's Locker Room

Computer: Lappy 486

Date: Monday, January 7, 2008

Running Time: 3:28

Page Title: Lappy 486

Transcript

STRONG BAD: {singing} Checkin' checkin' emails in 2008! Checkin' checkin' Strong Bad fit to regulate! {brings up the email}

subject: high time

Dear Strong Bad,
We realize that you are a busy fellow, but my friend and
I cannot help but think that you could be doing more to
help the environment. This is your planet too, you know.
Lyd and Jules,
ID and MO, respectively

{reads ID as "idiot" and MO as "moron"}

STRONG BAD: {typing} Well...ladies? I do plenty to help the environment. Nobody ever gives me credit for my most significant contribution. {clears the screen} Every day I wake up and the first thing I do is NOT drop a piano on Marzipan's head. Who knows how many greenhouse gases I've rescued as a result of not mortally wounding ol' Marzipole. And don't forget my New Year's resolution to stop watering her plants with bleach. Now I water them strictly with {cut to Marzipan's house and a close up on her flowers} recycled cigarette butts.

{Cigarette butts are dumped on one of the flowers.}

FLOWER: {coughing} Oh, that's good stuff.

{cut back to the Lappy}

STRONG BAD: {typing} So, there ya go possibly ladies. My boat take—
STRONG SAD and MARZIPAN: {faintly, chanting} Scrappy the Lappy! We think it's really crappy! Scrappy the Lappy!

{cut to The Computer Room's window where the silhouette of two pickets signs are seen. Strong Sad and Marzipan continue underneath}

STRONG BAD: What the—?

{cut to The Field. Strong Sad holds up a sign that says "Scrappy the Lappy". Marzipan holds a sign saying "Lappy, Take the Dirt Nappy!". Strong Bad enters from the right.}

STRONG SAD and MARZIPAN: We think it's really crappy!

STRONG BAD: Are you guys picketing my computer?

{medium shot of Marzipan}

MARZIPAN: Yes we are! That Lappy is energy sappy!

{close up of Strong Bad}

STRONG BAD: That's very clever. How long did it take you to think up—

{cut back to shot of all three}

STRONG SAD: Three days.

MARZIPAN: Just look at your power bill from last month.

STRONG SAD: The bill itself uses eight trees' worth of paper

{pan over to reveal a stack of paper marked "BILLS!"}

{close up of Strong Bad}

STRONG BAD: Are you trying to tell me that 70,000 dollar power bills aren't the norm?

{medium shot of Marzipan}

MARZIPAN: Strong Bad, every time you press enter on the Lappy, the rest of us lose power.

STRONG BAD: {offscreen} For real?

{Push wipe back to the Lappy. There is a list labeled "Okay for Mom" on the screen with various euphemisms for buttocks within it.}

STRONG BAD: {typing in the list} tuckus {presses enter} hinders {presses enter} bwathom {presses enter} boontockle {presses enter}

{Push wipe to Homestar Runner with an Atari 2600 joystick.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I'm about to win! {room darkens} Awww... {lights come on} I'm about to win! {room darkens} Awww.... {reverse shot of the TV that reads "PLEASE INSERT GAME PAK, KID!"} I'm really about to win! {room darkens} Again with the awww....

{cut to close up of Strong Bad}

STRONG BAD: Fine! I'll just start using the Lappy's battery instead.

{cut back to The Field}

STRONG SAD: Uh, sorry. {medium shot of Strong Sad} Every time you use that battery, 45 acres of rain forest are burned to the ground!

{close up of Strong Bad}

STRONG BAD: Whoa! I knew the Lappy was awesome, but I had no idea of her destructive power! {cut to shot of all three} I gotta get Bubs to help me to overclock it and see if we can't get that up to an even 50 acres.

{medium shot of Marzipan}

MARZIPAN: You really have to do something, Strong Bad. Even Coach Z does all of his cooking with hydroelectric.

{cut to a close up of Coach Z's hand in the shower, holding a soggy hot dog.}

COACH Z: Ah, the world famous Coach Z Sog Dog. {words appear on the screen as he says it} Mmmm... Drink In That Bun!

{cut back to The Field, close up of Strong Bad}

STRONG BAD: Wait. So, alls I got to do is take something I already do and word it differently so it sounds eco-friendly?

{cut back to all three}

MARZIPAN: Yeah, that's what we do mostly.

{medium shot of Strong Sad}

STRONG SAD: Check out my sustainable MP3 player.

{medium shot of Marzipan}

MARZIPAN: And my organic Thelma and Louise DVD.

{close up of Strong Bad}

STRONG BAD: Yeah, yeah, okay. And say hello to my 65 mile per gallon hybrid piano!

{long shot in silhouette of The Field. A piano is seen dropping and Strong Sad and Marzipan scatter}

STRONG SAD and MARZIPAN: Al Gore's beard!

{the piano is seen smashed in the field next to Strong Bad. Cut back to the Lappy.}

STRONG BAD: {typing} So there, there, THERE we go, maybe ladies. Strong Bad and the environment are now making out in the parent's basement of a solar-powered house. Take a look at the Lappy's new environmentally compliant sticker compliance sticker! {close up of the sticker next to the Lappy 486 logo} And it's got a picture of a little leaf on it, so you know it's good for the environment. {zoom out to the Lappy; resumes typing} So until next week, my boat take—

{The Cheat noises are heard and the Lappy's screen goes dark. Zoom out to see a panting The Cheat (painted green) in a hamster wheel hooked up the Lappy}

STRONG BAD: Come on green The Cheat! {The Cheat resumes running in the wheel} That's good, that's good! Only 17 more hours and I can press send.

{New Paper comes down reading:
"Click gently to eco-mail Strong Bad.
printed on 100% post-consumer brown paper with green ink"}

{pause for a little while, as the hamster wheel sound effect fades out}

STRONG BAD: Wow. That is one whisper quiet hamster wheel.

Easter Eggs

"Idiot and Moron"

• When Strong Bad says "Idiot and Moron, respectively," click on "ID and MO" to see an image of the states Idaho and Montana dancing with goofy faces.
• At the end, click on The Cheat to see a button extolling the virtues of GreenCheat.
• At the end, after Strong Bad comments on the hamster wheel, click on the wall outlet.

STRONG BAD: {still typing his "Okay for Mom" list on the Lappy} Boat take... {hits Enter}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {still trying to play his Atari 2600 game} This is the easiest video game I've ever played.

Fun Facts

Explanations

• Game Pak is the official name for a cartridge for any of Nintendo's video game consoles.

Trivia

• Strong Bad's list reads:

Okay for Mom
1. rear-end
2. back parts
3. fanny
4. tush
5. tushie
6. buns
7. booty
8. can
9. tuckus
10. hinders
11. bwathom
12. boontockle

107. hiney
108. patootie
109. bum
110. rump
111. trunk
112. sit-part
113. boat take

• Strong Bad claims that his monthly power bill is $70,000. Assuming that he pays the US national average price of 9.86¢/kWh, that would mean that he uses approximately 709,939.14 kWh/month. This would be roughly 799 times more than the average usage of 888 kWh/month per US household.
• The Floppy Disk Container reads "gamma force".

Remarks

• Though the email senders say they are from Idaho and Missouri (ID and MO), the Easter egg shows the states Idaho and Montana (ID and MT).
• The only hybrid car to achieve 65 miles per gallon was the Honda Insight (61/70 mpg). It is no longer produced. Currently, the most efficient hybrid car is the Toyota Prius (45/48 mpg)
• Just like Strong Sad in concert, Homestar is either playing with a left handed Atari 2600 joystick or is playing with the joystick sideways. The standard joystick has its button in the upper left hand corner.

Goofs

• After the close-up on it, Lappy's "Environmentally Compliant Sticker" sticker disappears, and does not reappear.

Inside References

• Strong Bad claims he begins each day by "NOT dropping a piano on Marzipan".
• The window above the computer desk was last seen in cheat talk and the CGI portion of Disc 1 of the Strong Bad Email DVD.
• Marzipan and Strong Sad previously behaved as a team of environmental activists, as related on Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 14.2. The phrase "100% post-consumer" also appeared there.
• Strong Bad smiles when he announces for his eco-friendly piano.
• "Whisper quiet" was previously mentioned in extra plug.
• The email references smoking.
• Homestar mentions the game he's playing is "the easiest he's ever played".

Real-World References

• Strong Sad's MP3 player strongly resembles either an iPhone or iPod Touch.
• Thelma & Louise is a 1991 film starring Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise.
• GreenCheat's logo resembles that of Greenpeace.
• The "Environmentally Compliant" sticker is a play on Energy Star and similar certifications used on electronics devices to rate their electricity consumption.
• The exclamation "Al Gore's beard!" is reference to 45th Vice President of the United States and noted environmental activist Al Gore, who after losing the 2000 presidential campaign famously grew a beard and went into seclusion for a short period of time before refocusing on the environment.

External Links

• watch "environment"
• watch "environment" on the old Flash site
• view the Flash file for "environment"
• forum thread re: "environment"