bedtime story
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Strong Bad Email #137
Strong Bad explains how he helps The Cheat go to bed at night.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat, The Denzel, Moses Malone, Maggot Man, Strong Mad
Places: Computer Room, Strong Bad's Basement, The King of Town's Grill, Moses MaloneLand
Computer: Lappy 486
Date: October 24, 2005
Running Time: 3:43
Contents |
Easter Eggs
- Click on "rigamarole" to see the Certificate of Rigamarolarity.
CERTIFICATE OF RIGAMAROLARITY
This paper right here seriously signifies that
getting the Cheat to freaking go to sleep
has hereby achieved RIGAMAROLE STATUS
Let it be known from the valleys
to the hills.
Or maybe the dells.
G.L. Rigamarole
Good Lord Rigamarole
- Click on "Suudsu" at the end to see a "real-life" Glass of Suudsu.
- Click on "bedtime story" to see more of The Cheat and Moses Malone playing video games.
- MOSES MALONE: Bayou Billy? I hope you saved the receipt!
Fun Facts
Explanations
- Gingivitis is the inflammation of the gums due to improper cleaning of the teeth.
- Rigamarole (a variant of rigmarole) is "a complex and ritualistic procedure which may be perceived as petty."
- "Grodalated" is a made-up word that presumably means "has become or been made grody".
Remarks
- When the suudsu is being made, the gummy bears do not cause any liquid displacement to the milk (the milk level does not rise).
- Moses Malone's body does not appear above the "HALL OF FAME" banner or the "ALL OF GAME" banner.
- The first time Moses Malone appears, his socks have one blue and red stripe each. Every time later, his left sock has a red stripe and his right sock has a blue stripe. They're also longer.
Goofs
- The word consciousness on the screen before the fadeout is misspelled as "conciousness."
Inside References
- The Cheat is also referred to as "The Ch8t" during the email mile.
- The whole "MosesMaloneLand" part (including the voices) is all done in Powered by The Cheat style.
Real-World References
- The controllers that The Cheat and Moses Malone were playing with are similar to the original and most recognizable controllers that were available for Nintendo's Nintendo Entertainment System.
- Adventures of Lolo was a puzzle game for the NES in which the player had to make their way through ten floors to save the country of Eden.
- The Adventures of Bayou Billy was a multi-genre action adventure game for the NES featuring a beat-'em-up style of gameplay and first person shooter sections. It was notorious for poor controls and extreme difficulty.
- Moses Malone is a former basketball player who played in both the NBA and the ABA. He was named one of the NBA's 50 greatest players in 1997, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2001.
- "Sleep tight, sweet prince" is a reference to Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2, where Horatio says "Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest" to the dying Hamlet.
- Gummi bears (also known as Gold-Bears in some parts of Europe) are small, chewy, bear-shaped confections originally developed by Haribo.
- The lullaby played on the chainsaw by Strong Mad is similar to the Jackyl song "The Lumberjack", which features a chainsaw solo played by the band's lead singer Jesse Dupree.
