alternate universe

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"Save the last email for Strong Bad..."

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Strong Sad, The Cheat, Strong Badman, Old-Timey Strong Bad, Vector Strong Bad, Stinkoman, Da Huuuuuudge, Homestar Runner, Senor Cardgage, Sterrance, Coach Z (Easter Egg)

Places:

Computer: Lappy 486

Date: April 4, 2006

Running Time: 5:53

Page Title: Lappy 486

Easter Eggs

• At the end, click on Teenage Strong Bad's hat to see a creation of Strong Sad's ideas:

{Piano music, fade in on Coach Z holding a pear covered with eyeballs while black coffee continually streams down his mouthless face. Cut to closeups of the pear from two angles, its eyes google, then a closeup of Coach Z's head. Fade via black to the medium shot, Homestar appears next to Coach Z.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {subtitled, in a fake backwards-sounding voice} Coach Z, if you're not going to eat that eyeball pear... {clears his throat, starts talking normally with no subtitles} I suggest you give it to someone who will.

COACH Z: I don't know what's going on, Homestar, but I'm not at liberty to discuss what I just did in my pants...

• At the end, click on Senor Cardgage's head to see Strong Bad's meeting with him:

{Senor Cardgage is sitting in a boat on a lake, holding a stick with fishing line tied to the end, hanging over the side. Strong Bad appears in the boat.}

STRONG BAD: Wow, a fishing trip with Senor Cardgage! My life is complete.

SENOR CARDGAGE: Alonzo Mourning to you, Myrtlebeth. Say hello to my tacklebox. {holds up said tacklebox}

STRONG BAD: Hello there, tacklebox. {smiles} I'm such a big fan.

SENOR CARDGAGE: Well, if you could just sign right here on the dotty line, the adaption will be complete.

STRONG BAD: You're gonna adopt me?

{Strong Bad disappears}

STRONG BAD: {echoy voice-over} Oh, man...

Fun Facts

Fixed Goofs

• When the email was released, "girl" was misspelled as "gir" in Jody's email. This was fixed shortly thereafter.

Inside References

• Putting a gameboy in a blender to access an alternate reality was discovered by Homestar in 2 emails, when he made a time machine in this way.
• Strong Bad also confused the value of money and lengths of time in space program.
• Strong Bad's "Mash go on that blender" is based on a similar line from flashback: "The Cheat mashed play on an extremely expensive jambox".
• The "In a building" line, including its accent and pronounciation, is straight from the DVD Sketchbook.
• The music in the Strong Badman comic is from action figure.
• Strong Bad visits many previous emails in his travels:
  • Strong Badman originated in superhero name.
  • Vector Strong Bad is from video games.
  • Stinkoman originated in japanese cartoon.
  • "Tiny-handed Strong Bad" is from flashback.
  • Strong Badwith a keybaoard for a head originated in crazy cartoon
  • Da Huuuuuudge and Sterrance are both from animal
  • Teenage Strong Bad is from highschool
  • Senor Cardgage originated in kind of cool
• Strong Bad mentioned real fruit smoothies earlier in mascot
• Coach Z with coffee pouring down his face in the Easter egg was suggested by Strong Sad in Sbemail 150?!?
• The fishing boat, lake and background sounds are all from lures & jigs

Real World References

• Cacodemons are evil spirits or demons, the opposite being an angel or "agathodemon". However, the name cacodemon is more well know as an enemy from the computer games Doom and Doom 2. The plot for these games involved demons coming out of portals to hell.
• Photoshop is a widely used image editor from Adobe Systems Incorporated. The term "photoshopped" has come to mean any digital edit done to an image, even if it wasn't done in Photoshop itself – the term is often used pejoratively, to say that something is rather obviously edited.
• "Oba Kaybe" is a reference to The Cosby Show, a popular sitcom from the 80s.
• The alternate universe that Homestar got zapped to in the easter egg that made him talk strangely is a parody of Agent Dale Cooper's dreaming conciousness from the television show Twin Peaks, which was co-created by director David Lynch. (Strong Sad had cited Lynch as an influence in Sbemail 150?!?)
• Alonzo Mourning is an NBA basketball player.
• VOIP, the sound effect blurb when Strong Bad teleports into the comic strip, is the acronym for voice over internet protocol.

External Links

• watch "alternate universe"
• watch "alternate universe" on the old Flash site
• view the Flash file for "alternate universe"
• forum thread re: "alternate universe"