island
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Strong Bad Email #52
Strong Bad imagines the lurking horrors of being stranded on an island with Homestar.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Homestar Runner
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Transcript
STRONG BAD: Strong Bad Emails are a part of this balanced breakfast.
{reading the email}
Dear Strong Bad, What would you do if you where stuck on an desert island with Homestar Runner? Yami Yugi England
{Strong Bad says "were" instead of "where" and "a" instead of "an".}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Well, Yami Yugi, {says the name hesitantly} I suspect it would be like most cartoons. You know, we'd start to go nuts after a while, and I would look at Homestar and he would look like a big steak, and then Homestar would look at me and I'd look like, you know,...some kind of brownie sundae. So we'd chase each other around the island, trying to eat each other. And at some point my foot would look like a sandwich, and I would put salt on it and try to eat it, and it'd be like, "Ahh, it's my foot!" But that's a best case scenario. I'm sure in real life it would probably be much more annoying and painful with Homestar involved. {when he says "Homestar", he types "Dumpface"}
{cut to Homestar and Strong Bad on an island}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hey, Strong Bad.
STRONG BAD: What?
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Are we rescued yet?
STRONG BAD: You're gonna need to get rescued in a second if you don't quit asking me that.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Ohhhhhhhh... Hey, Strong Bad.
STRONG BAD: What?
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Is there ice cream yet?
STRONG BAD: You're gonna need to get ice cream in a second if you don't quit asking me that. You know... 'cause I'm gonna hit you... and you'll need the ice cream... to stop the swelling.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hey, Stinkoman.
STRONG BAD: Um... did you just call me Stinkoman?
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Yes sir, I did.
STRONG BAD: Geez. You don't happen to have a gun on your side of the island, do you?
HOMESTAR RUNNER: No. Hey Strong Bad, check this out! {turns away}
STRONG BAD: Oh, don't start with that...
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Toons! {A ocean liner passes by with a loud "toot"}
STRONG BAD: Homestar...
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Games! {An angry-looking, red-eyed Moby Dick-style white whale, with harpoons embedded in its body, emerges from the left side of the water. It spurts water from its blowhole and then goes back into the water.}
STRONG BAD: Don't do another -
HOMESTAR RUNNER: E-mail! {A propeller plane with a "WEAR A BIKINI" banner attached to it flies by}
STRONG BAD: Ugh!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Man, I love doing that. {A bottle is washed up on the island.}
STRONG BAD: Whoa, check it out. A message in a bottle. {takes a piece of paper out of the bottle and reads it} What?
January 20, 1985
Super
XIX
Bowl
Stanford Stadium
Stanford, California
Miami San Francisco
VS.
Dolphins 49ers
Super Bowl Nineteen... Miami Dolphins vs. San Fransisco 49ers... {sarcastically} great.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: We're saved!
STRONG BAD: This is the worst deserted island ever.
{The Paper comes down}
Easter Eggs
- At the end of this one you can click on Strong Bad and Homestar to make them turn into various things.
- Strong Bad:
- Cake
- Hot dog
- Plate of marshmallows, with a derby, eyepatch, and cigar from Meet Marshie
- San Fransisco 49ers helmet
- Homestar:
- Steak
- Pancakes
- Guitar from new hands
- Miami Dolphins helmet
- Strong Bad:
Fun Facts
- The 49ers beat the Dolphins 38-16 in Super Bowl XIX.
- The name of the person who wrote the email, Yami Yugi, is also the name of a character from the popular anime series Yu-Gi-Oh!
- When Homestar yells out, "Toons," "Games," and "E-mail", various things pop out of the water. This is a reference to Main Page 3. However, on the Main Page 3, the plane flies past when you hover over "Store" instead of "E-mail".
- Strong Bad says "Yami Yugi" easily when he reads the e-mail, but seems to have trouble the second time. Or maybe he just doesn't like Yu-Gi-Oh.
- Amazingly, Strong Bad misses the obvious opportunity to make fun of Yami Yugi's use of "where" in place of the correct "were" and "an" in place of the correct "a".
DVD Version
- The DVD Version adds a hidden creator's commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection when watching this email.
Commentary Transcript
(Commentary by: Mike Chapman, Matt Chapman)
MATT: Welcome back, I'm Matt Chapman.
MIKE: I'm my brother Mike.
MATT: What?
MIKE: Isn't, uh, sorry.
MATT: Yeah? Go ahead.
MIKE: Oh, I don't remember what I was going to say. I like this email, though. I like the, um, visuals.
MATT: This is a lot, this is pretty much referencing, I mean it's done a lot in cartoons, but there's that one Bugs Bunny where he's on the desert island with those two -- there's that one tall skinny guy and one fat short guy. That's where a lot of this comes from. I think they see each other as a steak and a hot dog. And I think that Bugs tricks one of them into eating his own foot at some point probably.
MIKE: This is the origin of the term Stinkoman too.
MATT: It's true. We were just screwin' around and I said the word Stinkoman.
MIKE: I think so. But I like that scene right there.
MATT: Yeah, Mike keeps talking about wanting to revisit this little desert island scene.
MIKE: It might be revisited by the time you're listening to this commentary.
MATT: Not if I have anything to say about it.
MIKE: Matt hates me.
MATT: I'm just kidding. Look, there it was! Yeah, see?
MIKE: He did, yeah. You haven't got a baboon in your pocket, have ye?
MATT: There you go, Mike.
MATT: Yeah, thanks. I love this. Those's actually are incorrect, aren't they? That's not exactly what he does on that menu page.
MIKE: Oh, maybe, yeah, maybe not. Look at those clouds. They're a little different than usual, aren't they?
MATT: Maybe. Oh, that's nice, that's--I remember Scott Edwards was over for that one. I think it snowed.
MIKE: Dave Brown, eh--
MATT: And then it snowed and we didn't have to go to school the next day.
MIKE: I think you're right.
MATT: No, it was great.
Fun Facts
- The Bugs Bunny cartoon in particular that Matt and Mike refer to is called "Wackiki Wabbit"
- This island hasn't been reused yet, but judging by some of the foreshadowing on other commentaries, it probably will be
