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Strong Bad Email #120
Cast (In order of appearance): Strong Bad, Strong Sad, Marzipan, Homestar Runner, The Strong Bad, The Sneak (Easter Egg)
Strong Bad gives some an advice on how to be a radio host, in various genres.
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Transcript
STRONG BAD: I got miles and miles of the e-mail style. Miles and miles of the e-mail style.
{types in "strongbad_email.exe"}
subject: radio Dear Strong Bad, My friends are radio hosts. Any chance you could give them any pointers on what they could say/do on their show? bowing to you Fraser, Scotland
STRONG BAD: {typing} Oh, no need to bow, Fraser. Get up. Rise, my son. And giveth me instead, $7.50 with which to buy some buffalo chicken tenders. {clears the screen} So, your "friends" are radio show hosts, huh? Well, the first rule of thumb for all radio personalities is to look absolutely nothing like how they sound. Take Oll Greystoke for instance.
(Cut to Strong Sad's room)
STRONG BAD: {voice-over} Now here's a whiny know-it-all who sounds just like he looks.
STRONG SAD: Why thank you, Senator.
STRONG BAD: {voice-over} Quit calling me that. Anyway, if Strong Sad was a radio host, he'd sound like this:
STRONG SAD: {In radio host voice} Hey hey hey, it's the deathly pallor, coming at you on the numbitty 902, WAD3 FM, "The Sturge." Coming up next, we have some hot new tracks from double-O ballyhoo!
{Strong Sad covers his mouth in horror while Strong Bad laughs.}
STRONG SAD: {Normal voice} Don't you ever make me do that again!
{Cut back to Lappy 486.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} So once they've got the voice/appearance mismatch working, then it all just depends on what kind of radio station they work for. Listen and loin as I run my test sentence through the various genres.
Voice-over: Strong Bad's test sentence is "The fish was delish and it made quite a dish." {The sentence appears on-screen.}
STRONG BAD: First up is public radio. Smooth and smarmy.
{Cut to Marzipan's kitchen. A radio is sitting on the counter.}
STRONG BAD: {as Public Radio host} Today on Capitol Hill, the fish was delish, and according to U.N. secretary council members, it made quite a dish. You are listening to member-supported public radio.
{Public Radio theme song plays. Marzipan walks in.}
MARZIPAN: Dang old public radio. I never got my totebag.
{Cut back to Lappy 486.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Next up is the drive time morning show. These guys are like stand up comics that you can't heckle. Or jeckle. Or throw highball glasses at.
{Cut to a clock-radio.}
STRONG BAD: {as morning talk show host, with sound effects in the background} Rise and shine, people! The fish was delish. {canned laughter} Wait for it, wait for it! And it made quite a dish.
{Cut back a bit to show Homestar, with a Public Radio totebag over his head, holding a drink.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: All right, spark box! Shut it up about the fish already.
STRONG BAD: I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Highball! {throws drink at radio}
{Cut back to Lappy 486.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Then there's the utter misery that is college radio, where they apparently just let any bewildered freshman wander in to the booth and try to run a radio station.
{Cut to a boombox.}
STRONG BAD: {as college radio host, over a song ending and some feedback} Uh, that, that was "The fish was delish" and we heard... {thumbing through papers} "it made... quite a dish". Um... cam... campus outreach is looking for... hang on...
{Cut back to Lappy 486.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} College radio can pretty much be summed up in five words:
Dead air, um, dead air.
{Cut back to the radio, next to Strong Sad writing some calligraphy.}
STRONG BAD: {as college radio host} Okay, I am out of here for today, but um, but first up is, um, okay... an hour of chanting.
{A chant plays on the radio, and Strong Sad's hand hits the Play and Record buttons.}
{Cut back to Lappy 486.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} And just in case your friends are, um, in the past, here's old-timey radio.
{cut to 1936 style and an old-timey radio, with The Strong Bad reading in front of a microphone}
THE STRONG BAD:' {as old-timey radio host} This week on the fish was delish program, brought to you by Portly Washboy laundry paste, we join the fish down at Itwas as he closes in on the Quite a Dish gang's hideout. Stay tuned for partial excitement.
{The Portly Washboy logo appears. It is of a boy and a heaping jar of paste.}
Voice-over: Portly Washboy. Don't eat it like the cartoon, man.
{Cut back to Lappy 486.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Done and done, Fraser. Your friends should be well on their way to annoying drivers and gas station attendants the world over. Ooh, and see if you can score me some free coozies, frisbees, or bottle openers from their station. Those free giveaways? Highly flammable.
{The Paper comes down.}
Click here to e-mail Strong Bad strongbad@homestarrunner.com
Easter Eggs
- Click on Strong Sad's stomach while he does the radio voice to see a t-shirt from "The Sturge" radio station.
- Click on the text in the test sentence to see the book it was based on.
- Click on "free coozies, frisbees, or bottle openers" to see them.
- Click on "annoying" after the paper comes down to see/hear more of Strong Sad's new persona.
- Click on "me" after The Paper comes down to see more of The Strong Bad.
Fun Facts
- This is the second time Strong Sad's confused Strong Mad by saying something weird. The first was in caffeine, after saying parakeet.
