unnatural
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| Strong Bad Email #166 |
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Bubs has grown to 100 feet tall! What are we to do?!
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat, Bubs (King Bubsgonzola Supreme), Homestar Runner, The King of Town, Marzipan, Strong Sad, Coach Z, Pom Pom
Places: Computer Room, Strong Badia, The King of Town's Castle, The Field, The Classroom
Computer: Lappy 486
Date: February 5, 2007
Running Time: 4:10
Page Title: Lappy 486
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Transcript
STRONG BAD: I am Strong Bad, and I am not making an "I approve this email" joke.
subject: stormsHey Strongbad,
'Sup, man? So I was just wonderin', does Strong Badia ever have natural disasters, like hurricanes 'n stuff?
{Strong Bad enunciates "'Sup, man", "wonderin'", and "'n stuff" and reads the lack of a name as "From, Nobody".}
STRONG BAD: {dodges around} Hey! Whoa! Heh! Watch where you're flinging those apostrophes nobody. You could hurt somebody. You could hurt... yourself.
{Strong Bad turns away from his Lappy as quiet music begins to play.}
STRONG BAD: {speaking as if in a public service announcement} Hi. I'm regular Strong Bad. If you or someone you love is an anonymous apostrophe flinger, please call our hot, free number. {waves his hand as 1-800-APOSTROHOLIC appears in yellow lettering} Or give them a charlie horse right away.
{Strong Bad turns back to his computer.}
STRONG BAD: As for H.R. Hurricanesnstuf, we've dealt with disasters, but mainly those of a decidedly UNnatural s-s-s-sort.
{Cut to Strong Bad and The Cheat having a tea party in Strong Badia.}
STRONG BAD: So then I tampered the DNA evidence.
THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}
{The ground shakes as the table bounces and the dishes clatter.}
STRONG BAD: Whoa. {a second shake} What the—
{Cut to a long shot as the ground bounces a third time.}
STRONG BAD: Uh-oh. The King of Town must be getting a mega-physical.
{An enormous gray foot crashes down from the sky, destroying a section of the fence and sending everything flying.}
STRONG BAD: WHA!
THE CHEAT: {simultaneously} {very startled The Cheat noises}
{Oriental music plays as a pan upwards reveals the giant to be Bubs, dubbed "King Bubsgonzola Supreme".}
BUBS: {roars}
STRONG BAD: {terrified} It's a giant Bubs from outer space! Or... mutated by radiation! Or... from the depths of the ocean! Or... flushed down the toilet!
{Homestar appears a few feet from Bubs' giant foot.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh my crap! Bubs turned us all into ants! That fortune cookie knew what he was talking about! C'mon, everyone. Let's go steal a slice of chocolate cake from that picnic table over there.
{Wipe to a silhouette of Bubs as the background flashes orange with every crushing step as he stomps to The King of Towns castle.}
{Cut to The King of Town sitting at a table with a few bites taken out of it as the ceiling of the castle begins to fall.}
THE KING OF TOWN: Ooh! Whoo! What am I, getting my mega-physical?
{Transition to Marzipan and Strong Sad at a "Free Art Classes for Losers" seminar. Oriental music and Bubs' footsteps can be heard in the background.}
MARZIPAN: See? The apple's not giant. It's just in the foreground.
{Bubs' giant foot crashes away the sign as Strong Sad runs away screaming.}
BUBS: {roars}
MARZIPAN: {unfazed} See? Bubs' foot isn't giant. It's just in the foreground.
{Cut back to Strong Bad at his computer.}
STRONG BAD: Things were looking grim, so we called an emergency town meeting. We needed an organized form for people to shout out their ideas all at the same time!
{Cut to a slow pan of characters at a Town Meeting.}
STRONG BAD: I think we should kill it! I think we should kill it!
STRONG SAD: {overlapping} We must try and understand these creatures! We must try and understand these creatures!
THE CHEAT: {overlapping} {angry The Cheat noises}
COACH Z: {overlapping} I say we try to run the picket fence, at him. A box in one!
MARZIPAN: {overlapping} It's just in the foreground! People, it's just in the foreground!
THE CHEAT: {inexplicably passing by again} {angry The Cheat noises}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {overlapping} We must protect the queen! I have six legs!
{Cut back to the Lappy.}
STRONG BAD: So of course, the nerdy scientist-type had it all figured out.
{Cut to Strong Sad standing next to a chalkboard and a Boombox.}
STRONG SAD: I knew we had to try and understand this poor creature. So I recorded his roars and played them back at high-speed. Listen to my extremely scientific findings! {presses play}
BUBS: {from the tape, very slowly, almost incoherently} Don't eat my chicken wa!
{Strong Sad presses fast-forward.}
BUBS: {slightly faster} Chicken wa!
{Strong Sad presses fast-forward.}
BUBS: {slightly faster} Chicken wa!
{Strong Sad presses fast-forward}
BUBS: {in normal tone} Don't eat my chicken wings!
{Strong Sad presses stop.}
STRONG SAD: Something in Bubs' chicken wings must have caused him to mutate and he's been trying to warn us all alon—
STRONG BAD: Cut to the chase. How do we kill it?
STRONG SAD: We don't. I was able to mix-up an anti-chicken-wing... which is really just a bowl of Kashi. It's the culinary opposite of chicken wings.
{Drums play during a pan to the chalkboard, then the chalkboard fades into reality as silhouettes of Coach Z with a catapult, The Cheat, Marzipan, Strong Bad, Strong Sad, and giant Bubs stand at the ready. Coach Z lets fly the catapult of Kashi. Bubs can be heard swallowing it.}
BUBS: {roars as he suddenly shrinks back to normal size} ...don't eat my chicken wings!
STRONG SAD: We know! The chicken wings will make us grow a hundred feet tall!
BUBS: No they won't!
STRONG BAD: Then why didn't you want us to eat your chicken wings?
BUBS: 'Cause they mine! And they good!
MARZIPAN: Then how did you grow a hundred feet tall?
BUBS: Oh, yeah. Well, it's kind of embarrassing, but I accidentally flushed myself down the toilet while I was shaving.
STRONG BAD: You have to shave?
COACH Z: You have a terlet?!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {running up with a leaf above his head} C'mon, you guys! Let's all go jump in somebody's pants! Everybody, single file! {drops leaf and marches away} Hup-two-three-four!...
BUBS: Well, I'm gonna mosey on.
{Oriental music plays as Bubs walks out to sea. A Japanese symbol in gold appears as the screen fades to black. Cut to Strong Bad.}
STRONG BAD: {heartily} But Strong Badinians are a strong people. We will recover. We will rebuild. We will reduce, reuse, recycle!
{The Paper comes down. After a while, Strong Bad says the following.}
STRONG BAD: We will be kind. We will rewind.
Easter Eggs
- Click on H.R. Hurricanesnstuff (prior to the cutaway to The Field) to see a variant of the Homestar Puppet.
- Click on Homestar's star after he mentions the fortune cookie to see what it said.
- At the end, click on reduce to see Strong Bad trying to flush himself down the toilet.
- {Strong Bad spins around in the toilet, grinning, while The Cheat watches. It stops}
- STRONG BAD: Try it again. I think I'm starting to mutate.
- THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}
- {The Cheat flushes the toilet}
- STRONG BAD: Wheeeeee!
- At the end, click on reuse to see a poster of King Bubsgonzola Supreme.
- At the end, click on recycle to see Marzipan making Strong Bad recycle.
- MARZIPAN: No, I heard you say it!
- STRONG BAD: Marzipan, I was just saying other things that start with R E.
- MARZIPAN: I don't care. You said it. Now let me see your cans.
- STRONG BAD: What?
Fun Facts
Trivia
- The floppy disk container reads "dune 2".
- The Japanese symbol when Bubs walks into the water resembles "
", which can mean "end" (however, this character means the end of a physical object like a street, or an edge; end in the sense intended here should be "
").
- The Japanese on the King Bubsgonzola Supreme poster reads "
", roughly meaning "person of concession" (though the meaning of "concession" is not that of "Concession Stand", rather a synonym for "compromise").
- The line "We will be kind. We will rewind." was added shortly after the email was released.
Remarks
- In the scene with everyone talking in the meeting, as the camera pans to the right, two The Cheats are seen.
- When Strong Bad is doing the public service announcement he is breaking the Fourth Wall.
- The King of Town appears to be eating his table.
- This is the first Lappy Era email to include extra dialouge at the end of the email after the paper comes down.
- Even though Bubs was not mutated by chicken wings, the "anti-chicken wings" causes him to shrink to normal size. This is never explained.
- When the email was first released, Marzipan's recycle bucket was empty. Cold Ones and Coldson Lite cans were later put inside it.
Inside References
- Marzipan also said something about the DNA evidence being tampered with in the previous email, strong badathlon.
- Homestar mentioning chocolate cake is also a reference to strong badathlon in which Homsar mistakes the Cheat covered in Whatsit for a chocolate cake when he lands on the picnic table.
- The fortune cookie easter egg refers to the old game of the same name.
- Strong Sad's patting his belly makes the same dodgeball noise it made in modeling and Cool Things
- The music during the apostrophe public service announcement is from CGNU.
- Strong Bad saying "Wheeeee" as he spins in one of the Easter eggs is a reference to Teen Girl Squad Issue 10, when What's Her Face said the same thing while spinning.
Real World Refrences
- King Bubsgonzolla Supreme is an obvious reference to kaiju monsters such as Godzilla, King Ghidorah, and Mothra.
- The title and growl observed during King Bubsgonzola Supreme's appearance is reminiscent of the beginning of boss fights from the Nintendo game Ocarina of Time and later games in the The Legend of Zelda series.
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is a slogan used by conservationists to promote consumers to save resources.
- H.R. Hurricanesnstuff is a reference to H.R. PufnStuf, a kid show with a brightly colored dragon as the star which began running in 1969.
- Kashi is a natural foods producer owned By Kellogg's, Inc.
- Kasha, on the other hand, is a grey/brown grain, which is probably what was actually in the bowl.
- "Bubsgonzola" is a portmanteau of "Bubs" and gorgonzola.
- "We will be kind. We will rewind." is a reference to "Be kind, rewind.", a slogan formerly used by video rental stores to inform the customer to rewind the VHS tapes they rented prior to returning them.
- The idea of mutating after being flushed down a toilet is a reference to things mutating in sewers, a notion popularized by Futurama, Teenage mutant ninja turtles|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Alligator films, and other creative works.
External Links
- watch "unnatural"
- watch "unnatural" on the old Flash site
- view the Flash file for "unnatural"
- forum thread re: "unnatural"
