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**this has been a [[Cheap as Free|cheap as free]] production | **this has been a [[Cheap as Free|cheap as free]] production | ||
*The credits at the end of the email read: | *The credits at the end of the email read: | ||
Revision as of 20:52, 7 August 2006
- This article is about the Strong Bad Email. For the short, see Theme Song Video.
| Strong Bad Email #155 |
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Strong Bad explains why his email show doesn't have an official theme song.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Strong Mad, Strong Sad, The Cheat, Homestar Runner, Trogdor, Senor Cardgage, Balding Man, Fightgar, Reynold
Places: Computer Room, Club Technochocolate, Strong Bad's Basement, Outer Space, Alleyway, Bubs' Concession Stand, The Desert.
Computer: Lappy 486
Date: August 7, 2006
Running Time: 3:57
Page Title: Lappy 486
Contents |
Transcript
STRONG BAD: {singing} When email comes to town, you know, you know it's like a rainstorm ... in your browser. {brings up the email}
subject: theme songDear Super Bad,
It bugs me how your email show doesn't have a theme song.
If it did have a theme song, your show would be a whole
lot cooler.
Jonathan Shaheen
Ontario, Canada
{He pronouces "Shaheen" as "Shaheeeeen", and lens flares and a sound effect appear over the name. He pronounces the location as "on-ta-REE-oh, cah-nah-DAH" (as though with a Mexican accent)}
STRONG BAD: Oooh, a little south of the border flavor. {typing} Dear Supper Bag, It bugs me how your face doesn't have a not tons of acne. If it did have a not tons of acne, you would be a whole lot cooler.
{Strong Bad clears the screen.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Look, you don't know what you're talking about, Shaheen {Strong Bad pronounces "Shaheen" as "Shaheeeen", and the Shaheen special effect appears over the word} Theme songs are just an excuse for showmakers to make less show. I'm sure viewership would triple if I had one of those crappy cartoon theme songs that bludgeons you over the head with the blunt end of the show's premise.
{Theme song music fades in over his last words. Cut to a smiling Strong Bad prancing in the basement.}
CRAPPY CARTOON THEME SONG: {singing}
Strong Bad is a wrestle man,
He's the email-checkinest guy in the land.
He checks real emails from the net,
He's got two brothers and The Cheat, his pet. The Cheat, his Pet!
{"STRONG BAD" appears on the screen as the name is sung. Strong Bad types with boxing gloves on. Lappy flies into the screen, showing an email from punkkid87.}
Dear Strong Bad,
I love your Tragdor!
Draw him AGAIN!!!
-punkkid87
{Strong Mad and Strong Sad dance in the disco as they are announced. The Cheat slides into the screen and gets a close-up.}
There's nobody dumber than Homestar Runner,
On the Strong Bad Email Show!
{Homestar Runner breaks through the computer desk and bites into a sandwich of light bulbs. He has large cartoon teeth. The title of the Strong Bad show appears with Strong Bad's smiling face in front of a pink heart design.}
{The music ends. Cut back to Strong Bad sitting in front of the lappy}
STRONG BAD: {typing} And the ratings have gone through the roof. And let's not forget the life-affirming pop-ballad type theme song. Probably sung by some variety of Neville.
{Fade to a scene with an empty computer desk. The title "the Strong Bad Email Show" flies into the screen. There are flowers on the desk and pictures of The Cheat, Strong Mad and Strong Bad on the wall. The characters are introduced with their pictures flying through the screen and their names appearing on the screen. Strong Bad shows a shadow Trogdor to The Cheat.}
POP BALLAD-TYPE THEME SONG {singing}
You and me babe, livin' for dreams.
Life is for love, dreamin' for free.
Sitting on top of an old robot, sharing and caring it out.
Memory struggling ...
{The music fades out and a clip show starts, as Strong Bad's voiceover begins. Strong Bad is shown drinking a mix of coffee and a "COLD ON", he floats through space, he looks up from typing on his laptop, and then throws a stack of paper in the air.}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} And of course the best clips they show are from the un-aired pilot that you'll never see.
POP BALLAD-TYPE THEME SONG {singing}
Memory struggling you down! {fade out}
{The final shot shows Strong Bad in a tank before the clip show fades out to "created by Lem Sportsinterviews".}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} And just when you think you finally get to start watching some of the actual show, now you get to watch a commercial!
{Cut to real-life hands holding coins and peanuts. "$BUTT" is stamped on the screen, and then a Cakkalate brand calculator displays "BUTT X 2". Cut to the CGNU online e-niversity: "website Coming Soon(ish)". A set of college flags is shown, and then a hand clicking a mouse button demonstrates how easy it is to get degrees.}
COMMERCIAL GUY 1: {voiceover} Do you make butt at your current job? Do you want to make twice butt? A shady online degree is just four clicks away at CGNU online e-niversity. Most colleges take four years to complete. At CGNU, one year equals one click.
{Cut to Senor Cardgage in front of some boxes. His degrees are displayed on the screen as he moves his hand down.}
SENOR CARDGAGE: I got fourteen degrees while on my lunch take. Now I can legally prescribe marriages in the state of Kansattica.
COMMERCIAL GUY 1: {voiceover} Enroll now, and join the e-niversity e-volution e-day. Uh, well, today. That last one didn't quite work out.
{The slogan is displayed over an "(On)line CGNU e-NIVERSITY" medal, as the commercial guy #1 says it.}
{Cut to a Powered By The Cheat-style intertitle showing Strong Bad chasing his laptop.}
ANNOUNCER 1: {voiceover} We'll be right back with more Strong Bad emails.
{Cut to balding man standing in front of a newspaper background.}
COMMERCIAL GUY 2: {voiceover} Do you wanna cut your own arm off?
BALDING MAN: Huuuuaaaahuuuh...
{Cut back to Strong Bad typing on his computer.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Now, don't worry. Just in case you were hoping to get gipped out of another minute of actual show, you get to hear the jazzy instrumental version over the end credits!
{Cut to Strong Bad talking into a microphone in front of Bub's concession stand at night. End credits are shown over the scene.}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} And on the off-chance that you actually wanted to hear the theme song... we've taken care of that, too.
{A program preview moves into the screen and squeezes the Strong Bad Email Show end credits into the left third of the screen. As the announcer announces "Three is 4 Tonite" the logo and the faces of the four main characters are shown. The graphics for the Cheat Commandos show Reynold being taped to a rocket and Fightgar checking the tape.}
ANNOUNCER 2: {voiceover} Coming up later on "Three is 4 Tonite": join Mandy, Brandy, Andy, and Scurge, as they learn how to give a care. But first: they're tiny, they're toony, they're all a little looney. It's the Cheat Commandos.
STRONG BAD: {typing} You see, Shaheen? {The Shaheen special effect appears} You're basically asking me to dedicate 2 minutes of my 3 to 5 minute email show, to what is essentially a commercial for something you're already watching! And besides, I give you people a new sbemail song every freakin' week. Allow me to leave you with the old standard 'When Email Comes to Town, You Know, You Know, It's Like a Rainstorm... In Your Browser.' {stops typing and starts singing} When email comes to town, you know, you know, it's like a rainstorm... in your browser.
{The Paper comes down.}
{Funky theme song music is played, while the Power By The Cheat show preview squeezes into the screen.}
ANNOUNCER 3: {voiceover} {chuckles} Next up on Powered By The Cheat: Strong Mad gets his own talk show. And his first guest is hilarity!
{Powered by The Cheat Strong Mad sits behind a late night talk show host desk in fron of a skyline, and the guest with a The Cheat face with glasses jumps up from his seat and bounces in front of the camera.}
Easter Egg
- Click on the talk show guest's gold tooth at the end of the email to see the Shaheen special effect.
Fun Facts
Explanations
- "Ad valorem" is a latin phrase meaning "according to an object's value."
- In the final credits, the credits for "Best Grip" and "Key Boy" are reversed versions of standard film credits best boy and key grip.
Trivia
- This is the first time we see Homestar's teeth.
- This is another email where you can see Strong Mad Smiling in the background of the second theme song in the picture.
- The floppy disk container reads "california games".
- The degrees available from CGNU online e-niversity (or at least the ones Senor Cardgage earned on his "lunch take") are:
- Business Administraton
- Business Abomination
- Mousepad Engineer
- Infotainment Technology
- e-Cutting Ones
- The Lighter Side of Sports
- Matt's Communications
- Business Wheeling
- Insider Trading
- Computer Graphs
- Bidness Dealing
- Caps Lock Technician
- Escrow Understandment
- Marriage Apothecary
- The credits in the middle of the email read:
- co-created by strong bad and cherry greg
- based upon the comedy stylings of little strong bad
- teleplay by Sir Dolph Hauldhagen
- theme song by a Neville of some sort
- closing theme song by a Marsalis or two
- this has been a cheap as free production
- The credits at the end of the email read:
- Written by Geoff Rondleman
- Directed by Hot Tub T
- Produced by A. Chimendez
- Key Boy Tim "Timmers" Ballthrow
- Best Grip Not Lem Sportsinterviews
- Playa Hata Stu Scott
- Script Supervisor Sid Hoffrenchman
- This show was filmed in front of a live studio audience.
- Soundtrack available as Cheap as Free Records
Remarks
- "BUTT X 2" is the display on the calculator held upside down. It is not possible for most calculators to display "U" and "T" upside down (the typed numbers would have to be similar to a lowercase "N" and two "L"s back to back).
Goofs
- There is no punctuation mark after Strong Bad types "Shaheen!" for the first time.
Glitches
- Strong Bad's head pokes into the Powered By The Cheat preview when the preview squeezes into the screen.
Inside References
- Strong Bad walks next to a wall with a pattern similar to his basement.
- Once again, Strong Bad is called a Wrestleman.
- In the theme song we see a close-up on how Strong Bad types with boxing gloves.
- The email shown in the first theme song asks Strong Bad to draw Trogdor again – one of the commonly sent emails that will not be answered.
- The name of the email author who wants Strong Bad to draw Trogdor refers to the year 1987.
- Homestar Runner was first obsessed with light bulbs in long pants.
- The flowers in the pot in the second theme song are from Summer Short Shorts.
- Strong Bad is drinking Coldson Lite from his hat.
- The email show is produced by Levert Burtmore.
- The tank has the Strong Badia emblem on it.
- The second theme song says the show is created by Lem Sportsinterviews, and the final credits say that the "Best Grip" is Not Lem Sportsinterviews.
- "BUTT X 2" is shown on a Cakkalate-brand calculator, which was introduced in technology.
- Crazy Go Nuts University is offering online degrees.
- "Homestar's Knees Tech" is mentioned in mascot.
- One of the courses Senor Cardgage took was "e-Cutting Ones" – "Cutting Ones" was offered in CGNU.
- "Escrow" is one of the services offered by Senor Cardgage Mort-gage.
- The Balding Man is in the same scene as he was in Senor Mortgage.
- According to the end credits, the email show is co-created by Cherry Greg.
- It is also based on the comedy stylings of Little Strong Bad, a reference to stand-up.
- The teleplay was written by Sir Dolph Hauldhagen, from other days.
- The email show is a Cheap As Free production.
- According to the final end credits, the show was written by Geoff Rondleman, previously mentioned in Biz Cas Fri 1.
- It was directed by "Hot Tub T", a character in Dangeresque 1: Dangeresque, Too?.
- It was produced by A. Chimendez.
- The script supervisor was "Sid Hoffrenchman", a reference to Homestar's "Sid" Game in date.
- Strong Mad's having his own show was previously suggested in the facts.
- Also referenced in this email from the facts is the "We'll Be Right Back..." card, but with Strong Bad instead of Homestar.
- The "Number Five Action Cool" logo, in the lower right hand coner at the end of the email, and the "Incredibly Local News", are references to local news.
Real-World References
- A "Neville of some sort" refers to the Neville Brothers, most likely Aaron Neville.
- "They're tiny, they're toony, they're all a little loony" is a paraphrase of the first line of the theme tune to Tiny Toon Adventures.
- In the theme song, there are several successive references to late-'80s television shows:
- The succession of picture frames and accompanying music are a reference to Growing Pains. The lyrics closely resemble the second verse from the theme song from Growing Pains.
- "The Cheat Baxter-Birney" is a reference to Meredith Baxter (formerly Meredith Baxter Birney, from Family Ties).
- Strong Bad's flinging the papers into the air as he types is a reference to Stephen J. Cannell's closing logo.
- The font and style of "created by Lem Sportsinterviews" (yellow Cooper Black letters on a completely black background) is a reference to the closing credits of Cheers.
- Strong Bad in front of the brick wall in the closing credits, as well as the credit "based on the comedy stylings of Little Strong Bad", refers to Jerry Seinfeld's ending stand-up comedy segment of episodes of Seinfeld.
- "Closing theme song by a Marsalis or two" refers to the Marsalis family of jazz musicians.
- One of Senior Cardage's degrees was "The lighter side of sports" refering to a MAD comic theme.
External Links
- watch "theme song"
- watch "theme song" on the old Flash site
- view the Flash file for "theme song"
- forum thread re: "theme song"
