technology
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Strong Bad makes an introduction to technology for middle school students.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat, Pom Pom, Bubs (Easter Egg), Homestar Runner (Easter Egg), Strong Sad (Easter Egg).
Places: Computer Room, The Field
Computer: Lappy 486
Date: January 30, 2006
Running Time: 3:39
Page Title: Lappy 486
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Transcript
{Strong Bad types "strongbad_email.exe" and presses enter.}
STRONG BAD: {singing} Don't you wanna email, don't you need a email, don't you turn your life around!
subject: little help, pleaseDear Strong Bad;
I'm a middle school technology teacher. I would really
appreciate it if you could come up with an introduction I
could use for my new classes. Thanks.
Jay
Oswego NY
{Strong Bad pronounces "Oswego NY" as "Oswego to New York" with "Oswego" in a sing-song voice}
STRONG BAD: {typing} You would really appreciate it? That's it? Man, back in the olden days, I could get upwards of 3 chickens, a sack of barley and a half-dead goat all for doing one of my technology intromercials. {clears screen} Well, I sure hope JCPenney's accepts really appreciate it's, 'cause I know for a fact they stopped taking {extrapolates voice} I'll be your best friend's {returns to normal} a while ago. Either way, middle school kids are all idiots and they need as much of my help and guidance as they can get.
{Strong Bad gets up from his chair. Cut to a classroom with Strong Bad in a coat reminiscent of scientists', the words "I'M USING TECHNOLOGY" written on the blackboard and a poster with a drawing of a computer captioned "computers don't BYTE"}
STRONG BAD: One, zero zero, one one, zero, one, one zero, one one zero, zero one. You may not have understood me, but I was speaking technology. {cut to close-up of Strong Bad's face in the lab} The word technology... means... magic. It's basically anything that's really cool that you don't know how it works. And if it breaks, you have to buy a new one.
Easter Eggs
- Click on half-dead goat for a picture of a goat with the caption: "Do you see this goat as half-dead or half-alive?"
- Click the left side of the screen during the screensaver for an easter egg of Strong Sad and Strong Bad arguing over floppy/hard disks.
- STRONG SAD: I keep telling you they're both floppy disks!
- STRONG BAD: You think this is a floppy disk?
- STRONG SAD: Yes, it is!
- STRONG BAD: It's not a hard disk? {he hits his desk with the disk three times}
- STRONG SAD: No.
- STRONG BAD: Are you sure about this?
- STRONG SAD: Absolu- {Strong Bad throws the disk in his face} Ow!
- Click the right side of the screen during the screensaver to see Bubs selling Wireless Extension Cords.
- BUBS: Get your wireless extension cords. Three for $300! Lightweight, existant, and shockproof!
- {Homestar peeks out from the left edge of the screen}
- HOMESTAR RUNNER: Umm... I'll take fooour! {he flies up the left screen edge and disappears}
Fun Facts
Remarks
- When Strong Bad speaks technology, he says "10011011011001," which is binary code for 9945. This is calculated by adding:
- 213 + 210 + 29 + 27 + 26 + 24 + 23 + 20 = 9945
- Pom Pom's cell phone says "Incoming Call: Bob Redford".
Inside References
- Pom Pom's ring tone is the indytronic remix of the geddup noise.
Real World References
- Kindergarten Cop is a movie staring Arnold Schwarzenegger as an undercover cop posing as a teacher.
- When Strong Bad said he was speaking technology, he was really speaking Binary.
- The "catacombs" screensaver on Strong Bad's Lappy is actually "3D-Maze" from pre-Windows XP Windows computers.
- Sundance is an annual independent film festival in Park City, Utah, founded by actor Robert Redford and also a US pay cable television channel showing similar films.
