narrator
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| Strong Bad Email #144 |
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Strong Bad dramatically narrates other people's lives.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Strong Sad, Bubs, Coach Z, Homestar Runner, Marzipan, Homsar, The Poopsmith, The Cheat, Strong Mad, Nebulon (Easter egg), Marzipan Alien (Easter egg)
Places: Computer Room, Strong Sad's Room, Bubs' Concession Stand, Strong Mad's Room, Marzipan's House, Strong Bad's Basement
Computer: Lappy 486
Date: February 6, 2006
Running Time: 2:59
Page Title: Lappy 486
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Transcript
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{Strong Bad types "strongbad_email.exe" and presses enter.}
STRONG BAD: {singing} I met this email on a north-bound train. We had some dinner, then we danced in the rain.
subject: narrationHave you ever been the narrator for a movie?
Grant Gossman from Minnesota.
{Strong Bad says "Minnesota" slightly slower than the rest.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} No Grossman, I have not. But you know what's way better than narrating movies? Narrating peoples' pathetic everyday lives like they're movie trailers. Ready? Let's try it!
{Cut to Strong Sad's room. Strong Sad is sitting at his table eating a small pie. Strong Bad leans in through the doorway.}
STRONG BAD: {dramatically} Meet Strong Sad.
STRONG SAD: What? Who are you talking to?
STRONG BAD: All he ever wanted was to eat his grody ethnic food in peace.
STRONG SAD: Hey man, this a rogan josh pot pie!
STRONG BAD: Until one day, fate threw him a curveball.
{A small blue octopus flies across the screen, hits Strong Sad in the face with a slap and sticks to him.}
STRONG SAD: OW!
STRONG BAD: Lump of Dump Pictures proudly presents: {Cut to logo splash. Words appear as Strong Bad says them.} "Whined & Dined". In the game of life, may the best man {slight pause} whine.
{Cut to Bubs' Concession Stand. Coach Z is talking to Bubs. Strong Bad quickly peers out around the corner of the stand.}
STRONG BAD: In a post-apocalyptic world where weird old men survive on boring conversations
BUBS: I suppose we could talk about my napkin friend for another couple hours. {Holds up a napkin}
STRONG BAD: A line will be drawn.
COACH Z: YOUR napkin?! Well, it's got my snot balls on it!
STRONG BAD: A hero will rise.
BUBS: Man, you don't even have a nose!
STRONG BAD: And an empire will fall.
{Bubs slams the metal gate to his concession stand shut, revealing "4actor Z" graffiti}
STRONG BAD: Factor Z!
{Cut to Marzipan's House. Marzipan and Homestar are inside; Homestar is wearing an apron and a strange chef's hat}
STRONG BAD: They were a couple in love.
MARZIPAN: Homestar, you look like a dork with that on.
STRONG BAD: Until a dorky chef's hat threatened to tear them apart.
{close-up of Homestar's head; Homestar shakes his hat around}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, yeah? Well maybe you look like some type of enormous... alien...COW!
MARZIPAN: {gasp}
STRONG BAD: {as music begins to play} This summer, {Cut to the field, where Homsar is on his stomach levitating while his hat rises} this holiday season, {Cut to the side of The King of Town's castle. The Poopsmith is shoveling whatsit in the background. Slow zoom in on him} this Arbor Day some smelly French studio invites YOU {points at camera} to sit through a four hour film with no dialogue and no plot. "Whatsit {slight pause} All About" {Title appears on the screen with the subtitle "(Whatzeet All Aboot)"}
{Cut to Strong Mad's room. Strong Mad and The Cheat are playing Battleship.}
STRONG BAD: Two unlikely partners
Easter Eggs
- Click on "critics" at the end of the email to see a scene with the two youngest of the Brothers Strong.
- STRONG SAD: (still with the blue octopus on his face) Look, all I'm saying is it felt more like a change-up than a curveball.
- STRONG BAD: What are you, the SBEmail police now? This is like three weeks in a row!
- Also click on "rated P" at the end to see a scene with a Powered by the Cheat-style Marzipan Alien and Nebulon.
- MARZIPAN ALIEN: (in a Powered by the Cheat-style voice) You know, Nebulon, I've always admired your styles.
- {Nebulon makes a sad face and slides away.}
Fun Facts
Remarks
- "4actor Z" is another example of Leetspeak.
- It seems strange that Bubs would complain about Coach Z not having a nose when he doesn't have one either.
Goofs
- During the Lugnut and Squeak scene, the battleship images on the playing boards are slightly disproportionate when the camera zooms in on Strong Bad.
Inside References
- When Strong Bad says "three weeks in a row", he is referring to the previous 2 emails technology, in which Strong Sad correcting Strong Bad calling a floppy disk a "hard disk", and secret identity, when Hyperactive Strong Sad correcting Homestar's mispronounciation of "pseudonym".
- This is the second time Bubs has been seen closing his Concession Stand, (the first time being in lackey), and both times it had been previously graffitied.
- Unlike Strong Bad (New Boots) and 1-Up (Stinkoman 20X6), Marzipan Alien likes Nebulon's style.
- We first found out that Strong Sad shaves in Experimental Film.
Real-World References
- The Entire Email is a spoof of various Stereotype Movie Trailers.
- The Game Strong Mad and The Cheat are playing is Battleship.
- The title "Things that go Dump in the Night" is a reference to the more known "[[Things that go Bump in the Night]]."
- Lugnut & Squeak is similar to The Odd Couple, about two mismatched roomates, which is similar to what Strong Bad said about Strong Mad and The Cheat being "two unlikely partners".
- The "plot" of Lugnut & Squeak resembles the plot of The mighty About two children, one being smart, small and weak, while the other is large and slower.
- 4actor Z may be a reference to the enzyme Factor X.
External Links
- watch "narrator"
- watch "narrator" on the old Flash site
- view the Flash file for "narrator"
- forum thread re: "narrator"
