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| - | [[Image:sbemail117.png|thumb|A girl. Or maybe a wagon. Filled up with pancakes.]]
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| - | '''Strong Bad Email #117'''
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| - | Strong Bad "creats" a few montages about a wagon full of pancakes.
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| - | '''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Strong Bad]], [[Wagon Fulla Pancakes]], [[The Cheat]], [[Homestar Runner]], [[Coach Z]]
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| - | '''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Field]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]], [[The Pond]], [[The Movie Theatre]], [[Race Track]]
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| - | '''Computer:''' [[Compy 386]]
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| - | '''Date:''' November 8, 2004
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| - | '''Running Time:''' 3:16
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| - | == Transcript ==
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| - | '''STRONG BAD:''' ''{announcing}'' Tonight on Strong Bad Email: Comedian Coach Z, actress Marzipan, and some guy from a zoo.
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| - | ''{reading}''
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| - | <blockquote class="compy email">Dear Strong Bad,<br />
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| - | Why don't you creat a montage?<br />
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| - | Steve<br />
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| - | Surf City, NJ</blockquote>
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| - | ''{Strong Bad pronounces "creat" as "cree-at" and reads NJ as "No Job"}''
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| - | '''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' ''{in a high-pitched, mocking voice}'' Oooohhh! Why don't you creat an alternate reality where you don't have to spell correctly and I talk like this. And your name is Watered Down. ''{Strong Bad clears the screen and continues typing in normal voice.}'' A montage, eh Watered Down? Like, about whatever? Okay. I'll make a montage about...
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| - | ''{cut to an empty field}''
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| - | Me. ''{Strong Bad appears}''
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| - | And a wagon. ''{a wagon appears}''
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| - | Full of pancakes. ''{pancakes appear in the wagon}''
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| - | ''{Diamond wipe to Strong Bad and the wagon walking past Bubs's Concession Stand.}''
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| - | ''{Wipe to a field where Strong Bad kicks the wagon calmly.}''
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| - | ''{Cut to Strong Bad pulling the wagon uphill.}''
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| - | '''STRONG BAD:''' Oooh, or maybe a montage of me falling in love with the wagon full of pancakes.
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| - | ''{Heart wipe to Strong Bad in a boat with the wagon. They are both holding glasses of wine (or some sort of juice).}''
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| - | ''{singing}''
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| - | Let's make this moment be the symbol of our lives<br>
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| - | ''{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon listening to a Taranchula LP on headphones.}''<br>
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| - | We'll pawn your dad's computer <br>
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| - | ''{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon, under the stars. Strong Bad points to some shooting stars in the distance.}''<br>
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| - | and we'll sail to paradise<br>
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| - | ''{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon spinning around, holding "hands".}''<br>
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| - | ''{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon at the movies. Strong Bad drops some popcorn.}''<br>
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| - | You're a girl... or maybe a wagon... <br>
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| - | ''{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon at a fast food place. Strong Bad puts ketchup on some fries while laughing and smiling.}<br>
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| - | filled up with pancakes<br>
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| - | {Cut to Strong Bad frolicking across a field as the wagon follows.}''<br>
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| - | '''STRONG BAD:''' Or maybe a montage of the wagon full of pancakes
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| - | ''{Cut to a front door view of The Cheat and the wagon.}''
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| - | and The Cheat being down on their luck door to door salesmen.
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| - | ''{Cut to The Cheat lying in the wagon as the wagon rolls past.}''
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| - | ''{Several doors slam on The Cheat at different angles.}''
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| - | ''{singing}''
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| - | You can't do it so give up now<br>
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| - | Whatcha gonna do when your dough runs out?<br>
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| - | Ain't that a drag?<br>
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| - | ''{Cut to the wagon sitting in an arm chair while the Cheat lies on the floor in front, smoking.}''
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| - | '''STRONG BAD:''' ''{He stops singing.}'' No, I got it. A montage of the wagon full of pancakes training ''{Cut to Homestar in a black shirt that says "The #1" looking at the wagon in a field.}'' for the championship.
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| - | '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' A wagon full of pamcakes? In the champeenship?! I'd like to see ya try.
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| - | ''{Zoom in on pancakes as training music starts to play.}''
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| - | ''{Cut to the wagon climbing the stairs of a stadium.}''
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| - | '''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}''
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| - | Guts, guts, and might ''{The wagon's handle slowly collapses on top of a barbell.}''<br>
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| - | ''{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon on a track.}''<br>
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| - | Lifting weights and feeling all right ''{Strong Bad clicks a stop watch.''}<br>
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| - | ''{Cut to a silhouette of Strong Bad and the wagon running past a sunset and an ocean.}''<br>
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| - | It's a showdown going downtown<br>
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| - | You're gonna mess around showdown<br>
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| - | ''{Cut to the wagon ascending the bleachers again.}''<br>
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| - | Put your nose down showdown<br>
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| - | ''{Cut to quick shot of wagon jumping up and down at the top of the bleachers.}''<br>
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| - | ''{Cut to Homestar Runner and the wagon in a gym as Coach Z looks on in a referee costume.}''
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| - | '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hiya! Hiya! ''{Homestar kicks.}''
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| - | ''{The wagon's handle falls on Homestar, just like it did while training with the barbell, and Homestar falls down.}''
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| - | '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oof!
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| - | '''COACH Z:''' The pamcakes wins!
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| - | ''{A buzzer sounds and the score changes from 6–6 to 6–7 on the scoreboard.}''
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| - | '''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Showdown.
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| - | ''{Cut to Strong Bad at the Compy 386.}''
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| - | '''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Those were some good montages, eh Watered Down? That was like, a montage of montages. The only thing we left out is the end credits photo montage. ''{Music starts up}'' Hit it!
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| - | ''{Cut to a glossy of Strong Bad and the wagon in the boat.}''
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| - | '''HOMESTAR RUNNER''': ''{singing}''
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| - | Partying... ''party party party''<br>
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| - | ''{Cut to glossy of Strong Bad and the wagon on the beach.}''
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| - | It's the weekend... ''party party party''<br>
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| - | ''{Cut to glossy of Strong Bad and the wagon in the movie theater.}''<br>
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| - | ''{Cut to a closeup of The Cheat lying on the floor.}''<br>
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| - | '''CAPTION:''' The Cheat never sold a single box of toner. He is currently unemployed.<br>
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| - | '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{still singing}'' And a wagon... ''party party party''.<br>
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| - | Full of pancakes... <br>
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| - | ''{Cut to Homestar kicking in the gym.}''<br>
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| - | '''CAPTION''': Homestar sold his "The #1" shirt for $3(US). He got a good deal.<br>
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| - | '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{still singing}'' ''party party party''<br>
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| - | ''{Cut to a glossy of Strong Bad frolicing across the field, the wagon not in the photo.}''<br>
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| - | '''CAPTION''': Strong Bad went on to host some show on Animal Planet.<br>
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| - | It was cancelled before the first commercial break.<br>
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| - | '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{still singing}'' And we're partying... ''party party party''<br>
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| - | ''{Cut to the wagon with a fedora.}''<br>
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| - | '''CAPTION''': After winning the champeenship, the Wagon Fulla Pancakes did some local TV spots for a used car dealership.<br>
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| - | '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{singing}'' It's the weekend... ''party party party''<br>
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| - | And we're partying... ''party party party''<br>
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| - | Everybody does it tonnniiight...<br>
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| - | '''CAPTION''': It currently resides in Long Beach with its spouse and 2 children.
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| - | ''{Homestar quits singing.}''
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| - | ''{[[The Paper]] comes down onto the photo.}''
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| - | == Easter Eggs ==
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| - | *Wait a bit at the end to see what becomes of [[The Paper]].
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| - | <pre>The Paper stuck around until
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| - | email #173, at which time Strong Bad
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| - | upgraded to an inkjet printer.</pre>
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| - | *At the end, click on "4 Wheels" on the wagon to see Homestar, undefeated in spirit.
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| - | :'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{singing in the now dark champeenship stadium}''
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| - | :I'm the best around
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| - | :Sombadubba sombadubba, take me down!
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| - | :I'm the best around!
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| - | :Dubba dubba dubbado, take me down!
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| - | :''{His score on the score board behind him turns from 0 to -1 as the buzzing sound is heard.}''
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| - | *At the end, click on "Strong Bad" to see another scene.
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| - | :''{Highly pixelated versions of Strong Bad wearing a pink jogging suit and the Wagon Fulla Pancakes are running through a highly pixelated city, which is the NYC backdrop from Punch-Out from the NES.}''
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| - | :'''STRONG BAD:''' It's a showdown going downtown
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| - | :You're gonna mess around showdown
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| - | :Put your nose down showdown
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| - | == Fun Facts ==
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| - | ===Explanations===
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| - | *In filmic terms, scholars David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson define a montage sequence as "a segment of film which summarizes a topic or compresses a passage of time into brief symbolic or typical images." Also, montage sequences generally represent a longer passage of time than the also-typical "dissolve" or "fade" techniques between shots.
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| - | ===Trivia===
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| - | *This is an email [http://forum.hrwiki.org/viewtopic.php?p=34044#34044 that was sent in by an HRWiki member]. Congratulations [[User:porplemontage|porplemontage]]!
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| - | *In the original version of this e-mail, the background was static while Strong Bad and the wagon were spinning around. It has since been fixed to blurred trees.
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| - | *At the current email rate (about one email in a little over two weeks), The Paper will be around until late February 2007.
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| - | *This email introduces an updated, more symmetrical version of the gray "horns" on Strong Bad's mask.
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| - | *The Champeenship fight is the first time we ever see Homestar wearing pants outside of Halloween 'toons (though he almost put on a pair in [[monument]]).
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| - | *This is the last proper [[Compy 386]] email before the disaster in [[virus]].
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| - | ===Remarks===
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| - | *Homestar gets less money for a shirt than he gets for a half-eaten breakfast burrito in [[HR:auction.html|"Some Type of Online Auction"]].
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| - | *Strong Bad probably changed Steve's name to Watered Down to prevent another "[[Eh! Steve]]" crack, like he did in [[kids' book]] and [[different town]].
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| - | ===Goofs===
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| - | *Strong Bad, who makes a point of criticizing every e-mailer's spelling and grammar, makes a critical mistake here himself. "Why don't you creat an alternate reality where you don't have to spell correctly and I talk like this." This sentence should have a question mark, but it does not.
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| - | ===Inside References===
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| - | *The scene with Strong Bad and the Wagon Fulla Pancakes sitting in the canoe is reminiscent of [[lures & jigs]], where Strong Bad and Coach Z fish in the exact same spot. This is probably prompted by the [[lures & jigs]] DVD Commentary, in which The Brothers Chaps decide to reuse the lake, and which was presumably recorded before this email came out. In doing so, TBC also reused [[Marshmallow's Last Stand (place)|Marshmallow's Last Stand]], the ketchup and fries from [[funny]], the house from [[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]], and [[The Movie Theatre]].
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| - | *The song Strong Bad sings when he falls in love with the wagon is reminiscent of the style of [[The Kinda Long Haired Band]].
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| - | *The [[Taranchula]] album cover is the same one from the liner notes of [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits]], on which their song [[Moving Very Slowly]] appears. The name "Taranchula" also appears in the e-mail [[band names]].
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| - | *Besides the [[The Cheat's Smoking Challenge|smoking game]] and [[big white face]], this is the first actual cartoon in which we see The Cheat smoking. Strong Bad originally acknowledged The Cheat's nicotine habit in [[Where's The Cheat?]]
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| - | *The sparkling water seen while Strong Bad is running on the horizon seems to be the same from [[Main Page 3]].
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| - | *The lyric "Lifting weights and feeling all right", from the song played during the training montage, may be a reference to [[dangeresque 3]]'s "Riding in a Corvette and feeling all right" lyric.
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| - | *"The #1" T-Shirt is loosely referenced by Strong Sad in the commentary of [[In Search Of The Yello Dello DVD|In Search Of The Yello Dello]].
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| - | **Though the shirt Strong Sad refers to says "''I'm'' #1" according to him, as opposed to "''The'' #1."
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| - | ===Real-World References===
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| - | *The song Homestar is singing in the Easter egg ("You're the Best") comes from the 1984 classic ''[[Wikipedia:The_Karate_Kid|The Karate Kid]]''. Homestar's headband, bearing the design of an old Japanese flag, is also a reference to this film, and has appeared before in both [[pom pom]] and [[Theme Song Video]].
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| - | **There is actually a song called "Training Montage" from Rocky IV by Vince DiCola.
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| - | **The scene during which "You're the Best" plays in ''The Karate Kid'' is another well-known martial arts training montage.
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| - | *Much of the wagon's training sequence (especially the wagon "running" up the stairs) is a parody of the training sequence from the immortal boxing epic, ''[[Wikipedia:Rocky|Rocky]]''. It could also be seen as an homage to the Matthew Modine classic ''Vision Quest'' in which the steps of a stadium are used during the workout routine.
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| - | *The Strong Bad easter egg is a take on the popular NES game ''[[Wikipedia:Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!|Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!]]'', in which halfway through the game players saw a similar sequence.
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| - | **The ''Punch-Out!!'' sequence itself was a clear reference to the training sequence in ''[[Wikipedia:Rocky|Rocky]]''.
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| - | *There actually is a system call in the Unix operating system called <tt>creat</tt>. It creat(e)s a new file.
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| - | *The "some guy from a zoo" line by Strong Bad during the "Late-Night Talk Show"-style intro is most likely a reference to how such shows often resort to the gimmick of having zoo workers appear on the show, accompanied by their animal partners, whose mischievous antics can often get a cheap laugh from the audience.
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| - | *The Cheat not being able to sell any toner is reminiscent of the movie ''The Salesman'', where traveling salesmen have varying rates of success selling Bibles. The poorest-selling Bible seller of the group winds up losing his job.
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| - | *The line about Strong Bad's show being canceled before the commercial break may be a reference to ''[[Wikipedia:Turn-On|Turn-On]]'', which was cancelled 10 minutes into its pilot episode.
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| - | *The End Credits Photo Montage song is reminiscient of the ''[[Wikipedia:Queen (band)|Queen]]'' song "Headlong."
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| - | *''[[Wikipedia:Animal Planet|Animal Planet]]'' is a TV network featuring programs that talk about all kinds of animals.
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| - | ===Fast Forward===
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| - | *The Wagon Fulla Pancakes shows up in a commercial for [[Senor Cardgage]]'s used car dealership in [[Senorial Day]].
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| - | *Strong Bad and his pink suit from the Easter egg show up again in [[rock opera]].
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| - | *Homestar's "weekend" song plays at the [[King of Town]]'s party of [[boring (really)]].
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| - | == External Links ==
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| - | *[[HR:sbemail117.html|watch "montage"]]
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| - | *[[HR:sbemail117.swf|view the Flash file for "montage"]]
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| - | *[http://forum.hrwiki.org/viewtopic.php?t=1226 forum thread re: "montage"]
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| - | [[Category:Strong Bad Filmography]][[Category:The Cheat Filmography]][[Category:Homestar Runner Filmography]][[Category:Coach Z Filmography]] [[Category:Compy 386 Emails]]
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