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Do You Has?

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat, [[Strong Mad|]], Strong Sad, Coach Z, The King of Town, The Poopsmith, Homestar Runner

Places: Computer Room, Strong Bad's Basement, Gymnasium

Computer: Lappy 486

Date: Monday, May 21, 2007

Running Time: 3:40

Page Title: Lappy 486

Transcript

STRONG BAD: Bring to me a suitable email, that I may check it down.

Mr Strong Bad
I have 3 sons that wish to join the Strongbadia army. Do you have any pamphlets, brochures, video information that could assist.
Yours,
Paul Perth, Western Australia

{He says "Mr" as "Mere" and says "Hey, I am no mere Strong Bad, okay?!" after reading "Mr Strong Bad".}

STRONG BAD: {typing} Look Perthy Paul, I've been over this already: Strong Badia doesn't have/need an army. When we need muscle, we farm it out to our favorite band of shady missionaries, er I mean mercenaries, MERCENARIES! In fact, if your sons are so bonzer to enlist, they can {doesn't type} just {typing} swing by their booth at our Vaguely Military Career Fair, which just happens to be starting right now!

{Cut to a wide shot of The Cheat next to Strong Bad.}

THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}

STRONG BAD: Oh, it's not for three weeks. Okay.

{Cut to a black screen reading "2 weeks later...". Cut to Strong Bad in his basement.}

STRONG BAD: Introducing...

{Cut to The Cheat on the couch, with a cane, a bowtie, and a top hat reading "Tito". He turns left and right and waves.}

STRONG BAD: ...Tito the Tophaticent! And his beautiful assistant,

{Cut to a wide shot of the basement, revealing Strong Mad standing behind the couch with two basketballs in his singlet. He waves. Silhouettes of Strong Bad and Strong Sad are visible.}

STRONG BAD: Strong Mad with two basketballs shoved down his singlet!

STRONG SAD: Yaaaay!! {claps}

{Cut to a black screen reading "1 week later...". Cut to Strong Bad sitting at a booth in the gymnasium, wearing an eyepatch and a taped-on mustache. On the booth is a muffler, a stack of brochures, and a pipe. Coach Z walks by.}

STRONG BAD: Excuse me, Ganglo-Saxon. You look like the type of kid that gets his lunch handed to him daily. Well, if you'd like to be the lunch-handerer {raises his glove, revealing a robotic claw taped to it} for a change, then boy, do the On Point Kings have a brochure for you!

{Strong Bad puts the brochure on the table. It has the On Point Kings logo on top of a camoflauge-style background.}

STRONG BAD: It's a Roman trifold {opens brochure} printed on 65-pound cardstock.

{The camera zooms in on the various features of the brochure.}

STRONG BAD: 14-point Helvetica, laid out using Quark XPress! A pirated version of Quark XPress!

{Flips open to another side of the brochure, which shows various photos.}

STRONG BAD: We specialize in black ops, brown ops, and the occuasional beige op.

{Cut to footage of Strong Badia, where a hopscotch grid has been drawn on the dirt. Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and The Cheat are there, all wearing fake mustaches. "CLASSIFIED" has been stamped on the screen. The Cheat starts hopping along the squares.}

STRONG BAD: Come on, The Cheat! Go for sixies! Sixies!

{Cut back to Strong Bad at the booth.}

STRONG BAD: How do you ever expect to get an {shows off his features as he says them} eye patch, mustache, or robotic arm like this— clank, clank— unless you join up with a shady band of missionaries? Oh, crap, I did it again! {camera moves away} Mercenaries, I meant mercenaries! {screen blacks out} We do bad stuff!

{Cut to The King of Town at his booth. He is asleep and snoring while he is fed Giblet Gravy through a tube. There is a TV on his table, as well as a sign reading, "Out to lunch Watch video". Two posters are on the wall. Cut to the video, which shows The Poopsmith slowly climbing up the King's castle.}

THE KING OF TOWN: {voiceover} The drive... the power... the skills... the motivation... the power again...

{The Poopsmith has reached the top of the castle. He grabs his shovel.}

THE KING OF TOWN: {voiceover} The fortitude...

{The Poopsmith holds the shovel by his side.}

THE KING OF TOWN: {voiceover} The strive...

{The Poopsmith holds the shovel up to the dark, cloudy sky as lightning flashes.}

THE KING OF TOWN: {voiceover} The ideals...

{Lightning strikes the shovel, which gives The Poopsmith dark gloves, a gas mask, and a shield.}

THE KING OF TOWN: {voiceover} The list of attributes...

{Zoom out on The Poopsmith, revealing a black and white poster with five Poopsmiths with the same gear. A King of Town logo is in the center and the words "The Municipality" are at the top.}

THE KING OF TOWN: {voiceover} The municipality. {words appear as the King says them} Honor. Valor. Buttor.

Easter Eggs

Fairly Religious Overtones!

• Click on "Shady Missionaries" to see a Taranchula album of the same name.
• When Homestar says "The last time I fired up one of my old Sega tapes it made me a waffle", click anywhere on the screen to bring up a picture of a waffle iron with a Genesis-like controller and cartridge attached to it.
• At the end, click on "Tito the Tophatician's" to see a video clip:

{The Cheat is standing in front of a sign that bears the Cheat Commandos logo and reads "Meet TV's Firebert!" After a long pause with cricket sounds, he takes out a fine tip permanent marker and replaces "Firebert" with "Trogdor." A large crowd of people gathers around.}

Fun Facts

Inside References

• Strong Bad's claim he already said Strong Badia needs no army references army.
• The memorial to Frank Bennedetto is also a reference to army.
  • Frank Bennedetto was the only casualty of The Battle of Strongbadia.
• The Cheat changing "Firebert" to "Trogdor" is another reference to army, when Strong Bad told him that Firebert wasn't a good commando name.
• The Cheat's Tito costume is from part-time job.
• The music during the Tito scene is from Strongest Man in the World.
• The Municipality was previously used in disconnected.
• The Paper's poor condition is a reference to montage, where it's stated that "the paper stuck around until email 173, at which time Strong Bad upgraded to an inkjet printer". Being that this is email #172, this could very well be foreshadowing for the next one.
  • The sound it makes is similar to the one from Sick Day.
• The On Point Kings were first referenced in origins.
• The smashed muffler and a pipe are sitting on Strong Bad's recruiting stand.
• In his "Homestarmy" monologue, Homestar mentions Sega tapes.
• The time displayed on the scoreboard is 3:14.

Real-World References

• The Municipality video closely resembles a commercial for the US Marines.
  • The Poopsmith's shield has "Pooper Fi" written on it, a parody of "Semper Fi" a motto of the US Marines.
• Joe Piscopo is an American comedian known for his work in Saturday Night Live.
• QuarkXPress is a page layout application for Mac and Windows.
  • The brochure for the On Point Kings states that the version of QuarkXPress is registered to "B4KDØR H4XXØR" on the third inside page. This is a reference to computer hackers who use "backdoors" to crack software copy-protection.
• The pamphlet for the Homestarmy features the cover art for the Atari 2600 version of Space Invaders.
• Strong Bad uses stereotypical examples of Australian English in his reply, "bonzer" (meaning excellent) and "fair dinkum" (meaning true or genuine).

External Links

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