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[[Image:funny.png|thumb|"Aunt Ruthie! Aunt Ruthie! There's ketchup on the computer!"]]
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'''Strong Bad Email #75'''
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Strong Bad answers an email in the Funniest. Way. Ever. So funny that ketchup falls from the sky.
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Strong Bad answers an e-mail in the funniest. Way. Ever.
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'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}} (Easter egg), {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}
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'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Strong Bad]], [[Strong Sad]], [[Bubs]], [[The Cheat]], [[Homestar Runner]] (easter egg)
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'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Sad's Room]]
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'''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]
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'''Date:''' Monday, June 2, 2003
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'''Running Time:''' 2:20
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'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!
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{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Two}}
== Transcript ==
== Transcript ==
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'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Watch me do a little bit o' e-mail, and I'll watch you do a little bit o' ''{screen reads "File Not Found," as Strong Bad accidentally typed "stongbad_email.exe"}'' Whoa--that's never happened before. ''{singing}'' Watch me do a little bit o' e-mail, and I'll watch you do a little bit o' ''{email loads properly this time}'' Whoa--that's never happened befo--oh wait, it's an e-mail. That ''has'' happened before. And quite a few times if I remember correctly. Alright, so...
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'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Watch me do a little bit o' email, ''{accidentally types "stongbad_email.exe"}'' and I'll watch you do a little bit o'—
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''{The screen reads "File Not Found."}''  
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'''STRONG BAD:''' —uh—that's never happened before. ''{singing}'' Watch me do a little bit o' email, ''{correctly types "strongbad_email.exe"}'' and I'll watch you do a little bit o'—
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''{Email loads properly this time}''  
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'''STRONG BAD:''' —uh—that's never happened befo—oh wait, it's an email. That ''has'' happened before. And quite a few times if I remember correctly. All right, so...
''{reading}''
''{reading}''
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<pre>Dear Strong Bad,
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<blockquote class="compy email">Dear Strong Bad,<br />
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<br />
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Respond to this E-Mail in the<br />
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funniest way ever.<br />
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<br />
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From Sam</blockquote>
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Respond to this E-Mail in the
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''{he enunciates "funniest way ever" and reads "From Sam" as if the whole phrase was the emailer's name}''
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funniest way ever.
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From Sam</pre>
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'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Let's see here... I can tape this blank floppy disk to my head ''{he doesn't actually type "blank", he tapes the disk to his forehead}'' and start talking gibberish and acting like the crazy squeaky guy. ''{clears screen}'' LEEKO! LEEKO! LEEKO! I'm a squeaky guy!
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'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Let's see here...I can tape this blank floppy disk to my head ''{he doesn't actually type blank}'' and start talking gibberish and acting like the crazy squeaky guy. LEEKO! LEEKO! LEEKO! I'm a squeaky guy! ''{jumps up on the table and starts dancing around}'' I got squeaky pants! Come check out my squeaky pants dance! Squee squaw squee squaw squee squaw ''{a bottle of ketchup falls from the ceiling into his hands and he starts pouring it over everything and hitting the keyboard with his foot, producing "WHOA!! I CAN TYPE WITH ONE FOOT!"}'' punkity punkity punkity punkity punkity punkity punkity punkity punkity punkity punkity punkity! Aunt Ruthie! Aunt Ruthie! There's ketchup on the computer! Halzee-WHOOP!
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''{He jumps up on the table and starts dancing around}''  
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''{He leaps from the table backwards and starts bouncing around the floor on his head}''
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'''STRONG BAD:''' I got squeaky pants! Come check out my squeaky pants dance! Squee squaw squee squaw squee squaw&mdash;
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Punk-REER! Punk-REER! Punk-REER! Punk-REER! Punk-REER! Punk-REER!
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''{A bottle of ketchup falls from the ceiling into his hand and he starts flinging it over everything, while hitting the keyboard with his foot, producing "WOAH!! I CAN TYPE WITH ONE FOOT"}''
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''{He runs up to Strong Sad and starts yelling rhyming gibberish at him.}''
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'''STRONG BAD:''' &mdash;pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity! Aunt Ruthie! Aunt Ruthie! There's ketchup on the computer! Halzee-WHOOP!
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'''STRONG BAD:''' Jor Jee Jibbera Jaw! Huppidda Roopja Oop Jup Jaw! Ooka Oog
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''{He leaps from the table backwards and starts spinning while bouncing around the floor on his head.}''
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'''STRONG BAD:''' Pont-REER! Pont-REER! Pont-REER! Pont-REER! Pont-REER! Pont-REER!
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''{He runs up to Strong Sad and starts yelling rhyming gibberish at him while doing a strange dance.}''
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'''STRONG BAD:''' Jor jee jibbera jaw! Huppidda roopja oop jup jaw! Ooka oog&mdash;
''{Strong Sad begins talking over him.}''
''{Strong Sad begins talking over him.}''
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'''STRONG SAD:''' Quit that!  
'''STRONG SAD:''' Quit that!  
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'''STRONG BAD:''' Ooka Reetoo Taw!
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'''STRONG BAD:''' &mdash;ooka reetoo taw!
'''STRONG SAD:''' You're freakin' me out.  
'''STRONG SAD:''' You're freakin' me out.  
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'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{pauses shortly, then continues}'' Eeckoo Ickoo Ickoo Slaw! Hooka Hoo Ha!
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'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{pauses shortly, then continues}'' Eeckoo ickoo ickoo slaw! Hooka hoo ha!
'''STRONG SAD:''' Did you take some of my pills again?
'''STRONG SAD:''' Did you take some of my pills again?
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''{Cut to Compy. Bubs and The Cheat are dipping fries in the ketchup poured over the computer.}''
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''{Cut to the Compy. Bubs and The Cheat are dipping fries in the ketchup poured over the computer.}''
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'''BUBS:''' You know what? You're right, The Cheat! This computer catsup is better than the regular kind! Or that purple kind.
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'''BUBS:''' You know what? You're right, The Cheat! This computer catsup ''{pronounced kăt' səp}'' is better than the regular kind. Or that purple kind!
''{Strong Bad walks back in}''
''{Strong Bad walks back in}''
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'''STRONG BAD:''' Alright alright. Clear outta here, you two! 'Cept for you, The Cheat. ''{The Cheat grumbles}'' You better start cleaning this mess up!
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'''STRONG BAD:''' All right, all right! Clear outta here, you two. 'Cept for you, The Cheat.  
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'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{grumbles}''
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'''STRONG BAD:''' You better start cleaning this mess up!
'''BUBS:''' What happened in here? Some type of ketchup bomb go off?
'''BUBS:''' What happened in here? Some type of ketchup bomb go off?
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'''STRONG BAD:''' Nah, not really. I was answering an e-mail and dancing and acting like a squeaky guy and I started throwing ketchup everywhere.
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'''STRONG BAD:''' Nah, not really. I was answering an email and dancing and acting like a squeaky guy and I started throwing ketchup everywhere.
'''BUBS:''' Oh. That's pretty cool.
'''BUBS:''' Oh. That's pretty cool.
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''{Strong Bad does a double-take behind him to make sure nobody's around.}''
''{Strong Bad does a double-take behind him to make sure nobody's around.}''
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'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{sotto voce to Bubs}'' Hey man, are ketchup bombs real?
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'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{sotto voce to Bubs}'' Hey, man, are ketchup bombs real?
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'''BUBS:''' Not yet! ''{walks off}''
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'''BUBS:''' Not yet! ''{raises French fry and runs off}''
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'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{to the Cheat}'' Well? Aren't you gonna go get your 409 or Awesome Sauce or whatever you're gonna clean this up with? ''{The Cheat squeaks at him and starts heading off}'' Maybe a moist chamois? ''{tries a fry with the computer ketchup}'' Ooh! This computer ketchup ''is'' pretty good! Needs more RAM, though. Maybe a couple of megachips.
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'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{to The Cheat}'' Well, aren't you gonna go get your 409 or Awesome Sauce or whatever you're gonna clean this up with?  
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'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises}'' ''{heads off}''
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'''STRONG BAD:''' Maybe a moist chamois? ''{pronounces "chamois" as "sham-oyce"}'' ''{tries a fry with the computer ketchup}'' Ooh! This computer ketchup ''is'' pretty good. Needs more RAM, though. Maybe a couple of megachips.
''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''
''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''
== Easter Eggs ==
== Easter Eggs ==
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*If you click on Strong Bad's head while he is spinning upside down (the floppy disk itself does not work), Homestar will come out to say something funny. It may take a few tries to get it, you have to be quite quick.
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*If you click on Strong Bad's face (not head) while he is spinning upside down (the floppy disk itself does not work), Homestar will come out to say something funny. It may take a few tries to get it; you have to be quite quick. It's easier to get it with the Tab key and Enter.
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*At the very end you can click on blob of ketchup near the left fries to see the ketchup bottle.
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:''{Homestar Runner walks in from the left. Strong Bad re-enters from the right, still bouncing on his head and spouting his gibberish.}''
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:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ohhh... Hi, Strong Bad. I was just stopping by to do something funny, but, um... I can see you don't need my help this week.
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:''{Strong Bad bounces off to the left while Homestar looks on.}''
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*At the very end you can click on a blob of ketchup near the left fries to see the bottle of [[Quite Fancy 'Chup]]. The labels read:
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<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000;width:90px">very<br>
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many<br>
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ounces</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:2px solid black;background:#ffffff;color:#000;width:90px">Quite<br>
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Fancy<br>
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'Chup</blockquote>
== Fun Facts ==
== Fun Facts ==
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*If you watch carefully you'll see that he types, "WOAH!! I CAN TYPE WITH ONE FOOT" when he is jumping around 
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===Explanations===
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*Wondering why it said "file not found" the first time? Look closely and you'll see that he types "stongbad_email.exe" (the r is missing). This may be a reference to [[50 emails]].
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*A [[Wikipedia:chamois leather|chamois]] (pronounced "sham-WAH" or "shammy") is a piece of leather used as a polishing cloth or in shirts. Its name derives from the animal originally used to make them.
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*When he says "I could put this blank floppy disk on my head" he does not type the word blank.
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*The ketchup bottle falls from the sky into his hand.
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=== Trivia ===
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*[http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=chamois Chamois] is actually pronounced "Shammy." Strong Bad pronounces it "Sham-oyce," like it's spelled.
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*The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#odell lake|odell lake]]".
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*When Strong Bad tapes the floppy disk to his head, the contrast dial does not affect it. Try it if you like.
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*The [[YouTube]] description for this email is "SB transforms into some type of squeaky guy. Floppy disk and ketchup co-star."
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*The [http://www.junkfoodnews.com/purpleketchup.htm Purple Ketchup] Bubs mentions does exist, although it is unknown whether computer catsup tastes any better.
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*When Strong Bad says "Awesome Sauce" he is most likely referring to the game that The Cheat stars in, Awexome Cross 98.
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=== Remarks ===
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*If you adjust the contrast buttons when he tapes his floppy disk to his head, the disk is the only object unaffected by the contrast buttons.
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*This is the first time Strong Bad is shown eating.
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*Odell Lake (the game in the [[Floppy Disk Container]]) was an "educational" arcade game for the Apple II, released in 1986.
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*Strong Sad is depressed by nature as part of his character, but here it is actually implied that he may be ''clinically'' depressed — thereby explaining the reference to his "[[Strong Sad's Pills|pills]]."
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*The ketchup splatters in the last scene are shifted slightly downward in comparison to the previous computer room scene, and are more appropriately placed.
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*Bubs first says "catsup" when referring to the ketchup spilled on Strong Bad's computer, but then says "ketchup" when talking about "ketchup bombs". "Ketchup" and "catsup" both mean the same thing.
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*The Cheat's arms appear slightly out of scale.
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*The catsup bottle falls from [[hammerspace]].
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*When Strong Bad "types" with his feet, he misspells "WHOA" as "WOAH".
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*Strong Bad correctly identifies the 3.5" floppy disk as a "floppy disk", despite the fact that he later misidentifies them as "hard disks" in [[technology]].
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=== Goofs ===
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[[Image:SB No Mouth.png|thumb|No mouth]]
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*When Strong Bad takes the floppy, only one should remain to the left of the computer.  Instead, two remain.
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**At the end of the email, the floppies to the left of the Compy are gone.
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*The Quite Fancy 'Chup image is cut off near the top, if you look closely it ends in a straight horizontal line near the topmost green shade of The Paper.
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*The ketchup blob on the edge of the table with the Quite Fancy 'Chup Easter egg is translucent.
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*Strong Bad's legs actually go through his body for one frame when he's walking at the scene where he tells Bubs and The Cheat to leave. This is best seen if you view the Flash file and stop the movie when Strong Bad walks up. Then watch the movie frame by frame from that point.
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*The "reflected" disk we see in the monitor is not a mirror image of the ones we see after Strong Bad jumps on the desk.
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*When Strong Bad tells Bubs to leave, one of The Cheat's arms is shaded a bit in black.
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*When Strong Bad jumps up and down with the ketchup bottle, his foot types "WOAH!! I CAN TYPE WITH ONE FOOT!", yet due to the ketchup you can't see the 'e' in one, the 'y' in type and the 'fo' in foot. When he comes back to the computer later, you can see the 'e' in one, but most of the previously visible 'o' in foot is covered.
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<!-- Please do not add the fact about the floppy's curved corner changing sides between scenes. It is a Flash artifact, and therefore not notable -->
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*Strong Bad's arm would not normally be long enough to reach for a french fry on the desk.
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*The ketchup bottle falls with the top up, but somehow turns upside down when Strong Bad catches it.
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*When Strong Bad is bouncing on his head, his mouth disappears from a side view.
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*Strong Bad says the word "blank" when referring to the floppy disk, but does not type it when he tapes it to his head.
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===  Glitches  ===
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[[Image:funny floppy-contrast-goof.PNG|thumb|Magical floppy disk?]]
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*When Strong Bad tapes the floppy disk to his head, the contrast dial does not affect its reflection, nor does it affect the reflection of his hand.
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===Inside References===
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*The sounds Strong Bad makes when he is next to Strong Sad are very similar to the ones from his email song in [[big white face]].
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*Strong Bad typing in "stongbad_email.exe" is a reference to [[50 emails]], where one sender called Strong Bad "[[Stong Bad]]."
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*Strong Bad typing with his foot is similar to how he types with his head in [[sisters]].
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*Strong Sad accuses Strong Bad of taking some of his [[Strong Sad's Pills|pills]] again.
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===Real-World References===
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[[File:purple-ketchup.jpg|70px|thumb|That purple kind]]
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*The purple ketchup Bubs mentions is [[Wikipedia:H. J. Heinz Company|Heinz's]] [http://www.junkfoodnews.net/purpleketchup.htm Funky Purple Ketchup].
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*409 is a reference to [http://www.formula409.com/ Formula 409], a household cleaner/degreaser manufactured by [[Wikipedia:Clorox|Clorox]].
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===Fast Forward===
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*In [[technology]], it's clear that Strong Bad has forgotten that the 3.5" inch diskette is a floppy disk, and he refers to it as a "hard" disk.
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* Awesome Sauce would later be seen in [[keep cool]].
== DVD Version ==
== DVD Version ==
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*The Homestar Easter Egg is automatically enabled, so you don't have to do any clicking to access it.
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*The Homestar Easter egg is automatically enabled; no selecting is necessary to access it.
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*The DVD version features hidden creator's commentary. To acccess it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
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*To view the ketchup bottle Easter egg at the end of the video, click on the hidden Strong Bad logo on the computer screen.
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*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
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*The pause between Strong Bad bouncing off the screen and bouncing back just before Homestar shows up is shorter.
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=== Commentary Transcript ===
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('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]])
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'''MIKE:''' So here's the commentary track...
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'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}'' Are we gonna do that kind of intro to all of them?
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'''MIKE:''' I don't know.
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'''MATT:''' As if they've just found this ''one'' one.
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'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}'' Well, maybe.
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'''MATT:''' So welcome to commentary if you accidentally&mdash;
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'''MIKE:''' Can you turn on the commentary throughout? And it'll automatically&mdash;
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'''MATT:''' ''{overlapping}'' I think so, you just hit the "audio" button.
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'''MIKE:''' ''{imitating newscaster}'' In case you've accidentally hit your "audio" button, you've just joined already in progress commentary track number AB...
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'''MATT:''' All right, sorry, I didn't know, let's start over.
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'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' I'm just kidding. No, no, this is great, this is great. We have nothing cool that has happened yet.
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''{pause}''
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'''MATT:''' So "Leeko! Leeko! Leeko!" is something Mike used to say when we'd, uh, like, get, when he'd get excited. And, um, what game is in the thing there, right there? Oh, "Odell Lake". ''{Mike laughs}'' That was a great game for the old Apple IIe that we played in school.
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'''MIKE:''' Our cousin Jim used to say, "Fonkity fonkity."
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'''MATT:''' Yeah, he'd hit himself in the head with a&mdash;
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'''MIKE AND MATT:''' &mdash;wiffle-ball bat.
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'''MIKE:''' And, uh, yeah. And he used to do that, too. ''{Matt laughs}'' He used to jump around on his head saying "pont-reer".
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'''MATT:''' ''{overlapping}'' That's not true. That's not true.
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'''MIKE:''' He's a very talented guy.
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'''MATT:''' "Pont-reer" is just, uh, my generic, like, uh, cartoon sound effect. It just seems like cartoons are just like, "Pont-REER!" and then they'd do something. Oh, this is the best dance ever. Mike did this dance. I love it. And actually, this is sort of like, I think we've mentioned it before, but it's sort of like, uh&mdash;What he's saying, the weird chanting he's doing is kind of like this, uh, in that very stru&mdash;uh, Bugs Bunny episode we were talking about, where he's on the desert island. He does, like, a weird native dance and just kinda sounds like that.
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'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' Ohhhh. Matt always throws in this stuff from old Looney Tunes that I don't know.
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'''MATT:''' Well, I mean, it's sub&mdash; subconscious.
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'''MIKE:''' Yeah. Sure.
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'''MATT:''' Don't sue me ''{Mike snickers}'', don't&mdash;I'm not, er, not plagiarizing.
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'''MIKE:''' I love those little, uh, French fry trays.
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'''MATT:''' Yeah.
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'''MIKE:''' The red and white checkerboarded ones...? I remember one time I made, uh, some Long John&mdash;I made, uh, the Long John Silver's trays, cardboard trays that the fries and stuff came in, were&mdash;looked like boats, and I played with them and they're all greasy and... ''{Matt chuckles}'' But I loved them.
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'''MATT:''' Uh, there's really a cleaner called, uh, "Awesome!"
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'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' "Awesome!", yeah
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'''MATT:''' ''{continues}'' right? Yeah, our friend Tobin got us, that he keep&mdash;we keep mentioning.
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'''MIKE:''' Look, this is one of the few times that Strong Bad eats ever.
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'''MATT:''' ''{chuckles}'' It just disappears into his mouth.
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'''MIKE:''' ''{overlapping}'' It&mdash; into his flesh-mouth.
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'''MATT:''' Couple of megachips. ''{Strong Bad in background says, "Maybe a couple of megachips"}'' That's what he said.
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===Fun Facts===
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*The [[Wikipedia:Bugs Bunny|Bugs Bunny]] cartoon is [[IMDb:0036508|''Wackiki Wabbit'']], which was also referenced in [[island]].
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*[[Wikipedia:Long John Silver's|Long John Silver's]] is a fast food restaurant specializing in seafood.
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==YouTube Version==
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*Unlike the DVD version, the Easter egg with Homestar does not play.
== External Links ==
== External Links ==
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*[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail75.html watch "funny"]
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{{sbemailextlinks|75|youtube=n7qFedO4sWk}}
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*[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail75.swf view the flash file for "funny"]
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{{Strong Bad Email}}
{{Strong Bad Email}}
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[[Category:Strong Bad Email]]
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[[Category:Compy 386 Emails]][[Category: Emails With DVD Commentary]]
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[[Category:Strong Bad Filmography]]
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[[Category:Strong Sad Filmography]]
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[[Category:Bubs Filmography]]
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[[Category:The Cheat Filmography]]
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[[Category:Homestar Runner Filmography]]
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Revision as of 16:07, 28 February 2019

Strong Bad Email #75
watch privileges sibbie
"Aunt Ruthie! Aunt Ruthie! There's ketchup on the computer!"

Strong Bad answers an email in the Funniest. Way. Ever. So funny that ketchup falls from the sky.

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

Places: Computer Room, Strong Sad's Room

Computer: Compy 386

Date: Monday, June 2, 2003

Running Time: 2:20

Page Title: Compy 386!!

DVD: strongbad_email.exe Disc Two

Contents

Transcript

STRONG BAD: {singing} Watch me do a little bit o' email, {accidentally types "stongbad_email.exe"} and I'll watch you do a little bit o'—

{The screen reads "File Not Found."}

STRONG BAD: —uh—that's never happened before. {singing} Watch me do a little bit o' email, {correctly types "strongbad_email.exe"} and I'll watch you do a little bit o'—

{Email loads properly this time}

STRONG BAD: —uh—that's never happened befo—oh wait, it's an email. That has happened before. And quite a few times if I remember correctly. All right, so...

{reading}

{he enunciates "funniest way ever" and reads "From Sam" as if the whole phrase was the emailer's name}

STRONG BAD: {typing} Let's see here... I can tape this blank floppy disk to my head {he doesn't actually type "blank", he tapes the disk to his forehead} and start talking gibberish and acting like the crazy squeaky guy. {clears screen} LEEKO! LEEKO! LEEKO! I'm a squeaky guy!

{He jumps up on the table and starts dancing around}

STRONG BAD: I got squeaky pants! Come check out my squeaky pants dance! Squee squaw squee squaw squee squaw—

{A bottle of ketchup falls from the ceiling into his hand and he starts flinging it over everything, while hitting the keyboard with his foot, producing "WOAH!! I CAN TYPE WITH ONE FOOT"}

STRONG BAD: —pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity pongity! Aunt Ruthie! Aunt Ruthie! There's ketchup on the computer! Halzee-WHOOP!

{He leaps from the table backwards and starts spinning while bouncing around the floor on his head.}

STRONG BAD: Pont-REER! Pont-REER! Pont-REER! Pont-REER! Pont-REER! Pont-REER!

{He runs up to Strong Sad and starts yelling rhyming gibberish at him while doing a strange dance.}

STRONG BAD: Jor jee jibbera jaw! Huppidda roopja oop jup jaw! Ooka oog—

{Strong Sad begins talking over him.}

STRONG SAD: Quit that!

STRONG BAD: —ooka reetoo taw!

STRONG SAD: You're freakin' me out.

STRONG BAD: {pauses shortly, then continues} Eeckoo ickoo ickoo slaw! Hooka hoo ha!

STRONG SAD: Did you take some of my pills again?

{Cut to the Compy. Bubs and The Cheat are dipping fries in the ketchup poured over the computer.}

BUBS: You know what? You're right, The Cheat! This computer catsup {pronounced kăt' səp} is better than the regular kind. Or that purple kind!

{Strong Bad walks back in}

STRONG BAD: All right, all right! Clear outta here, you two. 'Cept for you, The Cheat.

THE CHEAT: {grumbles}

STRONG BAD: You better start cleaning this mess up!

BUBS: What happened in here? Some type of ketchup bomb go off?

STRONG BAD: Nah, not really. I was answering an email and dancing and acting like a squeaky guy and I started throwing ketchup everywhere.

BUBS: Oh. That's pretty cool.

{Strong Bad does a double-take behind him to make sure nobody's around.}

STRONG BAD: {sotto voce to Bubs} Hey, man, are ketchup bombs real?

BUBS: Not yet! {raises French fry and runs off}

STRONG BAD: {to The Cheat} Well, aren't you gonna go get your 409 or Awesome Sauce or whatever you're gonna clean this up with?

THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises} {heads off}

STRONG BAD: Maybe a moist chamois? {pronounces "chamois" as "sham-oyce"} {tries a fry with the computer ketchup} Ooh! This computer ketchup is pretty good. Needs more RAM, though. Maybe a couple of megachips.

{The Paper comes down.}

Easter Eggs

  • If you click on Strong Bad's face (not head) while he is spinning upside down (the floppy disk itself does not work), Homestar will come out to say something funny. It may take a few tries to get it; you have to be quite quick. It's easier to get it with the Tab key and Enter.
{Homestar Runner walks in from the left. Strong Bad re-enters from the right, still bouncing on his head and spouting his gibberish.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Ohhh... Hi, Strong Bad. I was just stopping by to do something funny, but, um... I can see you don't need my help this week.
{Strong Bad bounces off to the left while Homestar looks on.}
  • At the very end you can click on a blob of ketchup near the left fries to see the bottle of Quite Fancy 'Chup. The labels read:

Fun Facts

Explanations

  • A chamois (pronounced "sham-WAH" or "shammy") is a piece of leather used as a polishing cloth or in shirts. Its name derives from the animal originally used to make them.

Trivia

  • The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "odell lake".
  • The YouTube description for this email is "SB transforms into some type of squeaky guy. Floppy disk and ketchup co-star."

Remarks

  • This is the first time Strong Bad is shown eating.
  • Strong Sad is depressed by nature as part of his character, but here it is actually implied that he may be clinically depressed — thereby explaining the reference to his "pills."
  • The ketchup splatters in the last scene are shifted slightly downward in comparison to the previous computer room scene, and are more appropriately placed.
  • Bubs first says "catsup" when referring to the ketchup spilled on Strong Bad's computer, but then says "ketchup" when talking about "ketchup bombs". "Ketchup" and "catsup" both mean the same thing.
  • The Cheat's arms appear slightly out of scale.
  • The catsup bottle falls from hammerspace.
  • When Strong Bad "types" with his feet, he misspells "WHOA" as "WOAH".
  • Strong Bad correctly identifies the 3.5" floppy disk as a "floppy disk", despite the fact that he later misidentifies them as "hard disks" in technology.

Goofs

No mouth
  • When Strong Bad takes the floppy, only one should remain to the left of the computer. Instead, two remain.
    • At the end of the email, the floppies to the left of the Compy are gone.
  • The Quite Fancy 'Chup image is cut off near the top, if you look closely it ends in a straight horizontal line near the topmost green shade of The Paper.
  • The ketchup blob on the edge of the table with the Quite Fancy 'Chup Easter egg is translucent.
  • Strong Bad's legs actually go through his body for one frame when he's walking at the scene where he tells Bubs and The Cheat to leave. This is best seen if you view the Flash file and stop the movie when Strong Bad walks up. Then watch the movie frame by frame from that point.
  • The "reflected" disk we see in the monitor is not a mirror image of the ones we see after Strong Bad jumps on the desk.
  • When Strong Bad tells Bubs to leave, one of The Cheat's arms is shaded a bit in black.
  • When Strong Bad jumps up and down with the ketchup bottle, his foot types "WOAH!! I CAN TYPE WITH ONE FOOT!", yet due to the ketchup you can't see the 'e' in one, the 'y' in type and the 'fo' in foot. When he comes back to the computer later, you can see the 'e' in one, but most of the previously visible 'o' in foot is covered.
  • Strong Bad's arm would not normally be long enough to reach for a french fry on the desk.
  • The ketchup bottle falls with the top up, but somehow turns upside down when Strong Bad catches it.
  • When Strong Bad is bouncing on his head, his mouth disappears from a side view.
  • Strong Bad says the word "blank" when referring to the floppy disk, but does not type it when he tapes it to his head.

Glitches

Magical floppy disk?
  • When Strong Bad tapes the floppy disk to his head, the contrast dial does not affect its reflection, nor does it affect the reflection of his hand.

Inside References

  • The sounds Strong Bad makes when he is next to Strong Sad are very similar to the ones from his email song in big white face.
  • Strong Bad typing in "stongbad_email.exe" is a reference to 50 emails, where one sender called Strong Bad "Stong Bad."
  • Strong Bad typing with his foot is similar to how he types with his head in sisters.
  • Strong Sad accuses Strong Bad of taking some of his pills again.

Real-World References

That purple kind

Fast Forward

  • In technology, it's clear that Strong Bad has forgotten that the 3.5" inch diskette is a floppy disk, and he refers to it as a "hard" disk.
  • Awesome Sauce would later be seen in keep cool.

DVD Version

  • The Homestar Easter egg is automatically enabled; no selecting is necessary to access it.
  • To view the ketchup bottle Easter egg at the end of the video, click on the hidden Strong Bad logo on the computer screen.
  • The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
  • The pause between Strong Bad bouncing off the screen and bouncing back just before Homestar shows up is shorter.

Commentary Transcript

(Commentary by: Mike Chapman, Matt Chapman)

MIKE: So here's the commentary track...

MATT: {laughs} Are we gonna do that kind of intro to all of them?

MIKE: I don't know.

MATT: As if they've just found this one one.

MIKE: {laughs} Well, maybe.

MATT: So welcome to commentary if you accidentally—

MIKE: Can you turn on the commentary throughout? And it'll automatically—

MATT: {overlapping} I think so, you just hit the "audio" button.

MIKE: {imitating newscaster} In case you've accidentally hit your "audio" button, you've just joined already in progress commentary track number AB...

MATT: All right, sorry, I didn't know, let's start over.

MIKE: {overlapping} I'm just kidding. No, no, this is great, this is great. We have nothing cool that has happened yet.

{pause}

MATT: So "Leeko! Leeko! Leeko!" is something Mike used to say when we'd, uh, like, get, when he'd get excited. And, um, what game is in the thing there, right there? Oh, "Odell Lake". {Mike laughs} That was a great game for the old Apple IIe that we played in school.

MIKE: Our cousin Jim used to say, "Fonkity fonkity."

MATT: Yeah, he'd hit himself in the head with a—

MIKE AND MATT: —wiffle-ball bat.

MIKE: And, uh, yeah. And he used to do that, too. {Matt laughs} He used to jump around on his head saying "pont-reer".

MATT: {overlapping} That's not true. That's not true.

MIKE: He's a very talented guy.

MATT: "Pont-reer" is just, uh, my generic, like, uh, cartoon sound effect. It just seems like cartoons are just like, "Pont-REER!" and then they'd do something. Oh, this is the best dance ever. Mike did this dance. I love it. And actually, this is sort of like, I think we've mentioned it before, but it's sort of like, uh—What he's saying, the weird chanting he's doing is kind of like this, uh, in that very stru—uh, Bugs Bunny episode we were talking about, where he's on the desert island. He does, like, a weird native dance and just kinda sounds like that.

MIKE: {overlapping} Ohhhh. Matt always throws in this stuff from old Looney Tunes that I don't know.

MATT: Well, I mean, it's sub— subconscious.

MIKE: Yeah. Sure.

MATT: Don't sue me {Mike snickers}, don't—I'm not, er, not plagiarizing.

MIKE: I love those little, uh, French fry trays.

MATT: Yeah.

MIKE: The red and white checkerboarded ones...? I remember one time I made, uh, some Long John—I made, uh, the Long John Silver's trays, cardboard trays that the fries and stuff came in, were—looked like boats, and I played with them and they're all greasy and... {Matt chuckles} But I loved them.

MATT: Uh, there's really a cleaner called, uh, "Awesome!"

MIKE: {overlapping} "Awesome!", yeah

MATT: {continues} right? Yeah, our friend Tobin got us, that he keep—we keep mentioning.

MIKE: Look, this is one of the few times that Strong Bad eats ever.

MATT: {chuckles} It just disappears into his mouth.

MIKE: {overlapping} It— into his flesh-mouth.

MATT: Couple of megachips. {Strong Bad in background says, "Maybe a couple of megachips"} That's what he said.

Fun Facts

YouTube Version

  • Unlike the DVD version, the Easter egg with Homestar does not play.

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