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Strong Bad Email #18
joe p. asks Strong Bad if he has ever done any stand-up comedy.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Strong Sad, Coach Z, Little Strong Bad
Date: March 18, 2002
Duration: 1:26
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Transcript
STRONG BAD: Something has compelled me to check my email.
dear strong bad, ur a real, funy guy. have you ever done any stand up comidic stuff? crapfully crappy, joe p.
{He pronouces it as it is spelled: "Err a real fewney guy."}
STRONG BAD: What? No. No. No. I mean, no. Never. No. What? No.
{He walks away from the computer in a huff. Strong Sad walks in}
STRONG SAD: Psst. Come with me.
{Strong Sad takes us to his room. He puts a video tape marked "S.B. Talent Show" in his VCR. The video shows a younger-looking Coach Z with a huge afro and mustache on-stage talking into a microphone.}
COACH Z: Once again, thank you to Little Marzipan and her wonderful clogging. Okay, so up next we got the comedy styling of Little Strong Bad.
{Coach Z steps away from the front stage and Little Strong Bad walks on stage to general applause and lowers the microphone.}
LITTLE STRONG BAD: Thank you Coach Z,{pause} for not patting my butt. {audience laughs} Good evening, ladies and germs. Um... How about this cafeteria food? Is it cardboard or is it pizza? {more audience laughs, though less pronounced; Little Strong Bad looks uneasy} You know, 'cause it... tastes bad. Um... what about that one... that joke... Coach Z's hair is funny looking. Don't you guys think? 'Cause it's big... he has really big hair...
{Little Strong Bad's pants fall down with a whistle sound. The audience laughs.}
LITTLE STRONG BAD: Oh no!
{Little Strong Bad tries to run offstage out of embarassment, and falls down because of his pants. The screen goes blank. The Paper comes down.}
Fun Facts
Trivia
- This is the first email in which Strong Bad is seen with a shirt on. The only other times you see him with a shirt on is when he is hunting ghosts in the email ghosts, and then later for a short scene in different town. The absolute first instance in which Strong Bad is wearing a shirt is in the film in Strong Sad's shoebox from depressio.
Remarks
- The VCR is made by Totaltronics.
- Little Strong Bad doesn't have the highlights in his eyes that the older Strong Bad does.
- When the Tandy blurs out, the green lines on its screen stop moving.
Inside References
- The TV is the same as in an old Toons menu.
Fast Forward
- The VCR's time is 12:00, which is the subject of 12:00.
DVD Version
- The DVD version features a hidden creator commentary. Just switch your DVD player's language selection while watching the email.
Commentary Transcript
(Commentary by: Mike Chapman, Matt Chapman)
MIKE: So... here's another email that we made.
MATT: On our wed- {trips over his own tongue} wedthighs. It's, uh... I remember thinking how ambitious it was at the time.
MIKE: It is ambitious for-
MATT: Not only do we cut away... um... ahhh... yeah... what?
MIKE: We've got a rack focus right here. Oooh, blurry monitor.
MATT: That's the old Strong Bad mouth, though. That's not very good. I remember this, that VCR was pretty complicated-
MIKE: That's Strong Sad.
MATT: S- what'd I say?
MIKE: Strong Bad. Strong Bad's the one with the RED face.
MATT: {laughs} The tracking is amazing. Mike did that tracking and that little rainbow effect.
MIKE: Yeah, we used that a lot of times.
MATT: Yeah, 'cause it's so good. Nobody ever-
MIKE: Hold up!
MATT: -why are people not as concerned with Coach Z with the fro and moustache?
MIKE: Yeah, no one cared.
MATT: I think it's great! And Little Strong Bad, he's wearing a- that's not a tuxedo, Mike, it's one of those tuxedo t-shirts.
MIKE: Like... the kind that Mark Cohen used to have.
MATT: Yeah. And if you, uh, look, he's wearing- he's got elastic waistband pants, khaki pants.
MIKE: {laughing} Garanimals.
MATT: {laughing} Garanimals. Yep, that's the stage from our elementary school, from Vanderlyn Elementary School, which we later make even more obvious in a Christmas cartoon.
MIKE: Yes.
MATT: Oooh! So this is also the only other time we reveal that Strong Bad actually has, like, legs, like flesh- flesh legs.
MIKE: Oh yeah.
