Career Day

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"But what is a Space Captain Face? And what does it do?"

Space Captainface visits L.U.R.N. for Career Day and shows the class an edumacational film.

Cast (in order of appearance): Marzipan, Homestar Runner, Strong Mad, Homsar, Strong Bad/Space Captainface, The Cheat/Strap Coopmore, Ted Averill

Places: The Classroom, Space

Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Running Time: 4:25

Page Title: SBASAF Mind Control Films Presents

Transcript

{Marzipan is standing in her classroom, in front of a chalkboard that reads "NECROTIZING FASCITIS", with all of the I's dotted with hearts.}

MARZIPAN: Listen out, Life Blossoms! Today, for Career Day, we have a very special visitor.

{Scene cuts to the 'Life Blossoms': Homestar, Strong Mad and Homsar.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Is it that social worker again?

MARZIPAN: No, no! That's all taken care of! The charges were dropped! Anyway, please welcome the Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil's own Space Captainface!

{Strong Bad, dressed as Space Captainface, approaches a screen and cheers for himself.}

STRONG BAD: Great Planets, kids! Your frumpy schoolmarm, here, has asked me to talk to you today about&mdash

MARZIPAN: I didn't ask you! You paid me to let you talk.

STRONG BAD: Shutup. —talk to you today about an exciting career in... {dramatically, zooms out to reveal a floor-mounted fan, which is blowing his cape back} SPACE TRAVEL!

STRONG MAD: BOOR-ING!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Did you bring us any candy, police-fire-man?

HOMSAR: You bring the dip, I'll mow the side yard!

STRONG BAD: And now, without further you talking, some moving images to distract you long enough for your teacher to take a nap, drink, or smoke-break.

{Movie Projector begins rolling, partially overlapping Strong Bad, who moves out of the way. Closeup onto film. It shows a title frame reading "SBASAF Propaganda Presents"}

ANNOUNCER: SBASAF Propaganda presents—

{The film jump-cuts to a similar title screen, only with "Indoctrination Films" in place of "Propaganda".}

ANNOUNCER: —ASAF Indoctrination Films prou—

{The film jump-cuts again. "Indoctrination" has been replaced with "Mind-Control".}

ANNOUNCER: —Mind Control Films—

{Another jump-cut, and now "Mind-Control" has been replaced by "Edumacational". For the rest of the toon, the announcer's voice sounds a little different.}

ANNOUNCER: —Edumacational Films presents: What's your Captainface?

{Title appears, cartoon of Strong Bad's head as Space Captainface flops onto it}

{Line drawing a a large headed child}

Announcer: Kids, have you ever wondered who that mysterious man whose picture you mother hides under her pillow is?

{Child smiles}

Announcer: Ohhohoho, it's not your real father! It's Space Captainface! But what IS a Space Captainface? And what does it do, anyway?

Easter eggs

Fun Facts

Explanations

• Necrotizing fasciitis, is a rare infection of the deeper layers of skin and subcutaneous tissues
• Flight Engineer Cadaveral is a play on Cape Canaveral which is home to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and the Kennedy Space Center where many spacecraft in the United States are launched.
• Cosmic rays are energetic particles originating from space that impinge on Earth's atmosphere.

Trivia

• Necrotizing Fascitis is misspelled on the chalkboard.

Goofs

• In the close-up of Flight Engineer Cadaveral speaking at mission control, it appears you can see a small bit of the control panel through his face on one of his mouth movement animations.

Inside References

• Marzipan's L.U.R.N. class first appeared in coloring.
• The Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil first appeared in space program.
• Strong Bad's remark that the teacher can get a nap, drink, or smoke break echoes a line from Commandos in the Classroom, which encourages the teacher to take a nap or smoke during the video.

External Links

• Watch "Career Day"
• View the Flash file for "Career Day"