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StrongBadEmail #109

DJ Solerous asks Strong Bad if he had ever made Homestar cry.

Features: Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, The Cheat, Strong Sad

Transcript

STRONG BAD: {Rapping} I'm not going to sing an email song this week e-{Talking} Oh. Never mind.

{Pulls up email}

{Reading}

YO yo Strong Bad,
Hey Strong Bad I was wondering if you
have ever made Homestar cry.
DJ Solerous, Australia.

{After "Hey Strong Bad" he stops mid-sentence and says:} Well, which is it? "Yo yo" or "Hey" Strong Bad? I mean, the outcome of the rest of this whole email hinges on the decision and may- {Without skipping a beat, as if it no longer metters, he finishes reading the email.}

{Typing} Whoa! THE DJ Solerous? What an honor! I saw you spin in a warehouse in Canberra a few years back! Uh, no wait. I lied. I, nor anyone else, have ever heard of DJ Smoldyface.

{Pulls up page}

So, have I ever made Homestar cry? Uh, yes. Yes I have. A lot. I can pretty much make anyone cry just by showing them this drawing I invented of a one-legged pupppy named "Li'l Brudder" {Holds up a picture of a one-legged puppy saying "I can make it on my own"} {Laughing} I mean, it cracks me up, but Homestar just falls apart when he sees him. A-like so... {Gets up}

{Cut to: field. Homestar is standing there, looking angrily offscreen right. Enter Strong Bad}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Yeah, you stay over there.

STRONG BAD: Hey, Homestar. I've got something for you.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Thanks, Strong Bad! What is it what is it what is it what is it what is it?

STRONG BAD: It's just this drawing I made...

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {Uneasy} Oh, no. Don't do it. You know the storm that will unleash!

STRONG BAD: No! I think you'll like it!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {Edge of tears} Strong Bad, no! I can't handle it!

STRONG BAD: Ta-daaah!! {Holds the Li'l Brudder drawing in front of his face}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {Breaks down crying} No-ho-hooo... Li'l Brudder! That little guy... He's got the heart of a champion! You can make it, Li'l Brudder! You just keep scrapin' along! {Falls to the ground and lies there, sobbing hysterically and kicking at the air} Li'l Brudder... I... I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING WITH MY LIFE! I-I'm thinking of getting into male modeling - o-or maybe high finance... I JUST DON'T KNOW!!

STRONG BAD: {as Li'l Brudder, shaking the drawing like a crude hand puppet} I'm gonna be all right, Homestar. I can make it on my own!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {sobs} It's like I said -- the heart of a champion!

{Enter the Cheat, from audience's left.}

THE CHEAT: {in Cheatese} Hrm, Smxrf Grabmff??

STRONG BAD: {Turns to The Cheat and does his Li'l Brudder act} Hey, The Cheat, I'm gonna be a quarterback when I grow up! I'm gonna throw for 2,000 yards! {The Cheat begins sobbing in Cheatese} Don't cry for me, The Cheatentina...

{Enter Strong Sad, his eyes red around the edges and all watery, apparently trying NOT to cry.}

STRONG SAD: Oh, Strong Bad, is Li'l Brudder named after me? Do you think of ME as a... one-legged puppy?

STRONG BAD: No. I think of you as a two-legged elephant... named "Tenderfoot." {Holds up a picture of this, with "Tendafoot" saying "I'm tops!" Speaks as Tenderfoot/Strong Sad:} I could power a small city with my whining!

STRONG SAD: {dejected} I probably COULD.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {still sobbing} Oh, Tenderfoot, can you tell me how to get the most out of life?

{Cut to Compy 386. Strong Bad enters and sits down.}

STRONG BAD: {typing} There ya go. Homestar crying. Not a problem. I bet all a y'alls are prob'ly crying all over the place. That Li'l Brudder sure knows how to tug at your heartstrings. {begins to choke up as he speaks} He's just such a trooper. Got such a strong one leg. {recovers} Um, yeah. I think I've got a {hesitates} food in the oven. I gotta go. {Gets up and hurries out}

{The Paper comes down}

Easter Eggs

• Click on "YO Yo" to see a Strong Bad yo-yo.
• Click on "The DJ Solarous" to see a flyer for a DJ event. "Don't tell the cops!!"
• Click on "Homestar" at the end to see more of him crying.

Transcript:

{Homestar is still bawling.}

HOMESTAR: Ohh, Tenderfoot! Can you tell me what to do with myself? I feel like I'm at a crossroads, and there's like, a Denny's on one corner, and an IHOP on the other!

{Homestar is kneeling over the Tenderfoot drawing.}

HOMESTAR: Can you give me some sound financial advice?

{Homestar is laying on the ground again.}

HOMESTAR: Tenderfoot, can you help advise me on my future?

• Click on "Li'l Brudder" at the end to see Li'l Brudder falling off his one leg.

Fun Facts

• The DJ flyer is a reference to an easter egg in techno for The Cheat's light-switch rave.
• On the DJ flyer, "the DJ from Roseanne" is a reference to a television show titled "Roseanne" where a character named "David Jacob 'D. J.' Conner" was played by actor Michael Fishman. This has happened before with the flyer for The Cheat's light-switch rave, where DJ from Full House was supposed to arrive.
• When Li'l Brudder falls over, his leg makes the same sound that Homsar does when he walks and Strong Bad as Lil' Brudder sounds a lot like Strong Bad doing Homsar in The Strong Bad Email "Interview".
  • It also is the sound of the jetpacks on the cartoon of Mr Shmallow's Fluffy Puff Air Puff Sugar Delights.
• "Don't cry for me the Cheatentina" is a reference to the song "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Evita".
• Little Brother is the name of the dog in Mulan.
  • I really don't think they meant to do that.
• Canberra - Australia's capital city and is situated between the country's two largest and rival cities, Melbourne and Sydney.
• Also note Strong Bad's horrible mispronunciation of Canberra.
  • How's it pronounced, then?
    • Can-bear-ahh or, like the locals pronounce it: Can-bur-ahh. I know because that's where I live, seriously.
      • Come on, can-bear-uh, can-bear-ahh, not THAT different. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.
        • Can-brra, kind of like if it was in England it'd be Canborough.
          • Strong Bad puts too much emphasis on the second syllable. It's hardly meant to be pronounced, the emphasis is meant to be on the "can". Can-brra.
• "I can make it on my own" might be a reference to the easter egg in invisibility, where the tossed-out Tandy 400 says it.
• When homestar asks tendafoot for some financial advice in an easter egg might be a reference to Decemberween Kid's book
• When Homestar is rolling around on the ground, you get to see the tread on his shoes, which no longer has a star on it like it did in Marshmallow's Last Stand.
• At the start of the e-mail, Strong Bad says "This whole e-mail hinges on the decision I make...". About a second later his tone of voice abruptly changes and his head jumps from the lower center section of the Compy screen to the middle left section of the Compy screen. What meaning this might have is currently unknown. It's easiest to notice the abrupt head movement if you view the e-mail frame by frame starting at or a bit before Strong Bad say's "I make".
  • Strong Bad is just moving his head. That's it. He's done it in the previous email and others before that.
    • This particular abrupt head move is just to represent the change of mood in his voice, which in turn occurs because Strong Bad realises that it's not worth making a fuss about.

External Links

• watch "crying"
• watch "crying" in fullscreen
• forum thread re: "crying"