Editing Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 10.2

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Strong Sad invites Marzipan over to watch a DVD. Meanwhile, Strong Bad attempts to teach Homestar the fine art of prank calling.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Vector Strong Bad}} (Easter egg), [[Unseen_Characters#Heard|Ron Dardman]] (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Marzipan's House]]

'''Date:''' March 8, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 2:39

'''Page Title:''' Marzipan's Answering Machine

== Transcript ==
=== Marzipan's Greeting ===
'''MARZIPAN:''' Hi guys! Leave me a message, and I'll leave you with an abstract thought. Is a penguin a bird or a duck?

=== Message 6 ===
'''STRONG SAD:''' Hey Marzipan, it's Strong Sad, um... I just rented the ''V.I. Warshawski'' DVD. Thought maybe you'd wanna come over and check it out with me, uh... says here it's got deleted scenes... director commentary... interactive menus... ''{Marzipan walks past and leaves her keys and [[Stalker Spray]] by the machine}'' scene selection... widescreen mode... uh, running time... that sounds pretty de-luxe. I know it's one of your favorites so when you get this, gimme a call and, uh, we'll do it up right!

=== Message 5 ===
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{lowered voice}'' (Okay, so what am I doing here?)

'''STRONG BAD:''' (Step one is to greet the recipient of the prank call.)

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' (Okay, okay, I got it.) Ahem. Hey Pom Pom!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{imitates buzzer noise}'' Wrong! Hang up and start over. ''{Hangs up}''

=== Message 4 ===
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, hello Marzipan! (Okay, what I'm supposed to do now?)

'''STRONG BAD:''' (Step two is where you reveal your fake identity to the prankee.)

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' (Oh, I'm Batman.)

'''STRONG BAD:''' (What, n&mdash;! Just make up a name!)

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' (Okay, okay!) Hey Marzipan, this is Homestar.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{imitates buzzer noise again}'' ''{Hangs up}''

=== Message 3 ===
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, hello, Marzipan, this is Strong Bad.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{imitates louder, slightly higher pitched buzzer noise}'' ''{Hangs up}''

=== Message 2 ===
'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, hello, Marzipan, this is... Sugar-face. (Okay, now what?)

'''STRONG BAD:''' (Well, step three is to continue the prank in a direction determined by your identity, but, uh, you're on your own with Sugar-face.)

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' (Okay.) I am a pretend guy that... comes around... and... ''{singing}'' gets run over by a lawnmower blade!

'''STRONG BAD:''' What?!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I chose to end in song!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh boy... remember how I said this is a six-week course?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah, I'm excited!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah, it turns out it's canceled.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Aw man!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah, it's a shame.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh well. It's still the second-best five hundred bucks I ever spent!

=== Message 1 ===
'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{sounding more depressed than usual}'' Hey Marzipan, it's Strong Sad again, um... I haven't been honest with you... I don't really have the ''V.I. Warshawski'' DVD. ''{Marzipan walks up to the machine.}'' I just went to the video store and copied down the features from the back of the DVD box. ''{Marzipan grabs her keys and heads out}'' I just wanted an excuse to call you, and... oh geez. Strong Bad's right. I'm a waste of space.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{In the background}'' I said you were a waste of FAT space!

== Easter Eggs ==
*After the final message, press the number display to get a familiar message.
**'''VECTOR STRONG BAD:''' YOUR PHONE A SPLODE!
*After the final message, press the tape deck for a message from Marzipan's credit card company. Mr. Ron Dardman calls about some unforeseen expenditures.
**'''RON DARDMAN:''' Hello there, Marzipan. My name is Ron...D-Dardman, from your credit card company. We're just calling to confirm a $500 charge for one of them race car beds. What made us suspicious is when it was signed for,  in lieu of an actual signature, someone drew some kind of little underbite man with a beanie cap on. So if you could just give us a call back and confirm this is a valid charge, we'll be all... fine.

== Fun Facts ==
===Remarks===
*Marzipan's keys are identical (though they are different colors).
*In Version 5.0 of the answering machine, Strong Sad hopes Marzipan will arrive and pick up the phone while he is speaking. Here, Marzipan does arrive while he is speaking, but doesn't pick up the phone.

===Inside References===
*Homestar again mentions [[Best/Worst X bucks I ever spent|best/worst bucks ever spent]].
*"YOUR PHONE A SPLODE" is a reference to [[StrongBadZone]] from the [[video games]] email, in which a 3-D vector version of Strong Bad's head proclaims, "YOUR HEAD [[A Splode|A SPLODE]]."
**It also harkens back to [[personal favorites]] when Strong Bad left Marzipan a prank call and her answering machine exploded.
*When Ron Dardman calls about the charge on Marzipan's credit card, he says, "...in lieu of an actual signature, someone drew some kind of a little underbite man with a beanie cap on..." He's probably describing Homestar, who allegedly bought the Race Car bed. 
**This also refers back to Homestar's saying that the prank phone-call course was the second best 500 dollars he ever spent. 
*Homestar does know how to sign his own name. He did it on the old [[Yearbook Character Page]].

===Real-World References===
*Strong Sad refers to [[imdb:tt0103184|''V.I. Warshawski'']], a 1991 film based on the series of detective novels by [[Wikipedia:Sara Paretsky|Sara Paretsky]] about private investigator V.I. Warshawski.
*The "interactive menus" is a clear reference to cut rate DVDs. While most DVDs offer additional features like Director Commentaries, and "Making Of" featurettes, cheap DVDs and DVDs of movies that didn't make enough money to make such featurettes have to get by with advertising Interactive Menus as a bonus feature. This was also referenced in [[HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!]] and the back cover of [[Everything Else, Volume 1]].

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