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Revision as of 09:27, 3 February 2006
| Strong Bad Email #45 |
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Strong Bad gets an e-mail asking if he likes techno. He proceeds to make up and sing a techno song of his own.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat
Places: Computer Room
Computer: Compy 386
Date: October 7, 2002
Running Time: 1:13
Page Title: COMPY 386
Contents |
Transcript
STRONG BAD: It's the e-mail, the e-mail, what what, the e-mail.
{reading}
Hey Strong Bad, do you like techno at
all? If you do, what kind.
Silent J
STRONG BAD: Huh...very clever. {typing} Well, its not really my style, but I heard a techno song one time that went like... {stops typing and mimicks a techno beat} doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom {resumes typing} And then this other part came in, and it was like... (stops typing again, the original beat is heard along with this new part} doodle-a-doom doodle-a-doom doodle-a-doom doodle-a-doom {resumes typing} And then there's always some kinda high pitched noise, y'know? Or like a siren that's like... {stops typing again and another part is added to the song} DOO-DA-DOO-DA-DIDDLE DOO-DA-DOO-DA-DIDDLE DOO-DA-DOO-DA-DIDDLE DOO-DA-DOO-DA-DIDDLE {resumes typing} And of course they have to put in the obligatory old movie quote from some sci-fi movie. It's like... {stops typing again, all the parts are there} The system is down! The system is down! The system is down! The system is down!
{The screen starts going dark and light again. We zoom out to see The Cheat standing beside a lightswitch, turning it on and off while twirling a glowstick, raving to the techno piece. Strong Bad walks up to him.}
STRONG BAD: The Cheat is grounded! {zoom in on the lightswitch. There is a label above it saying 'The Cheat's Lightswitch'. The back of the Cheat's head is visible at the right of the screen} We had that lightswitch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off {cut back to Strong Bad and The Cheat}, not so you could throw lightswitch raves! Now let's go break open that glow-stick and pour it into Homestar Runner's Mountain Dew. {They both start walking off.} I heard they have to pump your stomach when you drink that stuff.
{The Paper comes down.}
Easter Eggs
- Click on The Cheat's lightswitch to listen to the music some more and see a flyer for a special event featuring that music. It features a rainbow-colored fractal and reads:
The Cheat's
Lightswitch Rave
featuring:
DJ The Stick
and DJ from Full House
Doors Open at 3 am
- At the end, you're given the option to download the song for either Windows or Mac OS.
Fun Facts
Trivia
- A contestant on the television show Survivor referenced this email by singing "Tree mail, tree mail, what what the tree mail" as he picked up the mail on the island.
Goofs
- Strong Bad makes a mistake while typing here. He types 'its', which is possessive. He should have typed 'it's', for 'it is' (an error he points out when Dan D. misuses it in local news).
- When The Cheat is throwing his lightswitch rave, his lightswitch says just "The Cheat". When the camera zooms in on his switch, it says "The Cheat's Lightswitch".
Real-World References
- "DJ from Full House" is a reference to the television show "Full House" and the character D.J. Tanner played by Candace Cameron Bure.
- The name "Silent J" refers to Jay and Silent Bob, a pair of recurring characters from the movies of director Kevin Smith.
Fast Forward
- This song appears on the Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits CD.
DVD Version
- The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
Commentary Transcript
(Commentary by: Matt Chapman, Mike Chapman)
MATT: I always think, in my brain, that Techno's on the old computer.
MIKE: No, I know, it's much later. I think I always get Guitar and Techno mixed up.
MATT: I think they're like—
MIKE: They seem to be similar.
MATT: Yeah. Quite similar. "Its"... that's a error there, Strong Bad. Punctuation error, should be an apostrophe in that "its."
MIKE: I probably did that. I have a hard time with that. Until you made up that song in that later email.
MATT: Uh, so this was the way... lightswitch rave came from—I had this, um... my apartment, uh first year I lived alone in college, uh, my kitchen, the overhead light in the kitchen was always flickering. And so any time we'd turn that light on, uh, we would make that—do that song, do that {singing} DOO-DA-DOO-DA-DIDDLE DOO-DA-DOO-DA-DIDDLE. {stops} "The System Is Down" Mike made up, uh, but basically the background of music for this was some dumb joke we did in college. Mike, what room is that supposed to be in?
MIKE: I always thought that was the other side of his desk, even though there's not the carpet there.
MATT: The carpet just ends.
MIKE: The carpet ends right there halfway—
MATT: At half of his desk. It's like the Simpsons house.
MIKE: The Strong house has problems.
Fun Facts
- The song Mike mentions in passing is the "Its/It's" Grammar Song from local news.
External Links
- watch "techno"
- view the Flash file for "techno"
- Download SBTechno: Windows / Macintosh
