secret recipes
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Strong Bad Email #124
Strong Bad reveals some secret family recipes.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat, Coach Z, The King of Town, Marzipan, Homestar Runner
Date: February 14, 2005
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Transcript
STRONG BAD: {singing} Email, na na, na na, na na, nanaNA...
Dear Strong Bad, When we grow up we want to be chefs. We wanted to know if you had any secret family recipes that you would want to share with us so...we can make them! -Melissa and Hillary (from NJ)
{Strong Bad reads "Dear Strong Bad" as "The usual" and "NJ" as "Nigeria"}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Well Mellie, Hillarious, being from Africa I'm sure you guys are used to eating, like, exotic fruits and nectars and, um, lions {clears screen, continues typing} so our recipes may seem a bit uncouth. {stops typing} Uncouth. {typing} Can something be just plain couth? I bet freakin' Strong Sad is plain couth. Anyways, Couthy, all our family recipes tend to center around the grossing out of or the making puke of friends and well-wishers.
{The camera cuts back, and we see The Cheat laying on the computer desk flinging floppy disks all over}
STRONG BAD: The Cheat! Let's go try out Great Uncle Pawdabber's Pre-tend Ice Cream Showdown!
THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises, possibly an enthusiastic "Okay!"}
{The Cheat stands up. The screen fades to grey and the following text appears}
NARRATOR: Strong Bad may or may not have an actual Great Uncle Pawdabber.
{Cut to the field. Coach Z is standing around holding a basketball}
COACH Z: Man, what is this thing? {bounces it once} A bounce thing?
{Strong Bad and The Cheat enter from the right. Strong Bad is holding what appears to be a bowl of ice cream with yellowish sprinkles, and The Cheat is wearing a towel around his waist}
STRONG BAD: Oh man, The Cheat! Wow! Look at this! It's our best friend, Coach Z. Say there, Coach, would you like to try some of our free ic�d c-cream? It's got toasted coconut!
COACH Z: How could I refuse? {throws the basketball over his shoulder} I can't afford the money-cost variety! {the basketball is falling to behind the trees.}
{Coach Z takes the ice cream and starts pigging out on it}
COACH Z: Oooh! Sweet mercy! {eats some more} This is orful! {eats more}
STRONG BAD: Aww, it's OK, Coach. You're the proud new eater of a healthy bowl of sour cream and The Cheat fur.
{Coach Z drops the bowl in shock. Strong Bad pulls away The Cheat's towel to reveal that he's been shaved from the waist down}
THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises, sounds like "ta-da!"}
COACH Z: {starts making disgusted noises and coughing up fur} Oof! I think I'm going to puke my pants!
STRONG BAD: Ugh! Please don't elaborate on THAT.
COACH Z: {talking normally} Naw, it's easy. I do it all the time! Here, let me show ya's!
STRONG BAD AND THE CHEAT: AUGH!
{Strong Bad and the Cheat run away as Coach Z continues talking}
COACH Z: You take your pants...
{A recipe card appears on screen reading as follows}
Recipe: Great Uncle Pawdabber's Pre-tend Ice Cream Showdown Ingredients: 3 scoops (really) sour cream 1/2 of shaved The Cheat 1 bowl 1 languagely challenged vaguely coach type person Instructions: Mix ingredients until golden brown
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} For best results, dip The Cheat in egg wash before shaving or else he'll get those red shaving bumpies all over him. Ugh.
{Cut to the side of the King of Town's castle}
STRONG BAD: {sotto voce} Alright, we're mixing this next one up on them, The Cheat. I filled this old Speed Stick {pulls out some underarm deodorant reading X-treme Glacier} with white chocolate and we'll totally gross out or make puke The King of Town when I start eatin' it in front of him!
THE CHEAT: {affirmative The Cheat noises}
{Cut to inside the castle. The King of Town is watching TV and eating the same type of Speed Stick we saw Strong Bad with. He also has some more underarm deodorants and spray cans in a bowl next to him.}
TV ACTOR: You can't marry your guitar, Caleb!
CALEB: I can try!
{Strong Bad and The Cheat enter from the right}
STRONG BAD: Hey Ole King Droll! Checka me out! I'm eatin'- oh. Never mind. Ugh, shoulda known...
{Strong Bad and The Cheat walk out}
THE KING OF TOWN: No wait, you guys! Come back! This stuff is strong enough for a man but TASTY enough for a king! Don't you want to try any Forest Rush? Or Tundra Mist?
{A recipe card spins onscreen reading as follows}
Recipe: Crazy Aunt Eulatherm's Deodorant Doppelganger Ingredients: 6 oz. white chocolate 1/2 of shaved The Cheat (for moral support) 1 kinda cleaned-out De-odor Cake Instructions: Mix ingredients. Preheat oven. Add hot sauce if necessary
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Yeah, how come deodorants and stuff are always named after biomes anyways?
{Cut to Marzipan's house. Marzipan is sitting on the couch reading The Latest News. Homestar walks in carrying one of Strong Bad's Pre-Tend Ice Cream Showdown bowls.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hey girlfriend, have you tried any of this free ice cream Strong Bad made?
MARZIPAN: {setting aside her paper, clearly amused} Homestar, didn't anyone tell you? That's, like, cottage cheese and The Cheat hair!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: WHAT?! {does a spit take, producing some fur} Strong Bad told me it was sour CREAM and The Cheat hair! Looks like THIS is a job for Stupid Uncle Egg's Goodtime Diaper Pie!
{Homestar walks offscreen to the left. The screen greys and the following text appears on it}
NARRATOR: Homestar Runner definitely does not have a Stupid Uncle Egg.
{Cut to Strong Bad's computer room. A pinecone and bendy straw are in a bowl with a sign next to it reading "not A pimecone, diaper pie! i mean reg-ular pie." Strong Bad and The Cheat walk in. The Cheat is now wearing yellow post-it notes, some with black dots on them, to try and cover up his shaved area}
STRONG BAD: No, it looks TOTALLY real. I swear, no one'll be able to tell! Oh, what's this? {Strong Bad picks up the sign} "Not a pimecone." Well, he's got that right!
{Homestar pokes his head in from the right}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh look, it's my best friends Cheat and The Strong Bad! Hey, I heard you guys been eatin' some serious regular pie in here!
STRONG BAD: Uh, yeah man! We've even got some left over if you want it.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Well if it's anywhere near as good as your free ice cream!
{Homestar puts the pine cone in his mouth and starts crunching it up. The Cheat and Strong Bad look at each other incredulously}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {with his mouth full} Well, so long, suckers!
STRONG BAD: {offscreen} It's like, even when we win, he wins.
{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Lappy}
STRONG BAD: {typing} There you go girls and boys. Recipes for the ages. But if you really want to be chefs when you grow up, we've got a super-secret family recipe for cooking the C-H-E-blank-T {types this as "C H E _ T"}
{The Cheat makes a very angry noise from offscreen and chucks a floppy disk reading "YOU JERK!" at Strong Bad's head}
STRONG BAD: Ow! {typing} And of course that blank is for the letter K. The Chekt. My family's got a great recipe for cooking the Chekt. Yeah, yeah. {only types one "yeah"} We're mostly from Bumdumbourge. It's near, uh, Totalslava. "Come down off that smokestack and eat your the Chekt!" my poopaw used to say. Ah, my dear poopaw, I miss you so.
{The Paper comes down}
STRONG BAD: {whispering} I think the Cheat bought it. Let me know if you want that recipe.
Easter Eggs
- At the end, click on "grow up" to hear a few seconds of the television program the King of Town was watching.
- {cut back to the King of Town's castle. The TV is still on}
- TV ACTOR: Caleb, that hamburger was mine!
- CALEB: It's mine now!
- At the end, click on "C H E _ T" to see the Cheat reading a book entitled "So You Want to Cook a Wrestleman?", with a picture of The Cheat putting a lid on a pot with Strong Bad in it.
- At the end, click on the left "poopaw" to hear what the announcer has to say about a poopaw.
- NARRATOR: I, uh, I don't even know what a poopaw is.
- At the end, click on "the Chekt" to see another recipe.
From the Kitchen of Poopaw
Chicken-fried the CHEKT
Ingredients:
3 or 7 medium sized the Chekts
2 salt
40 pancakes
Instructions:
Get down off smokestack. Then cook that
ugly thing.
''{"Bumdumbourge '96" appears as a watermark on the recipe card.}''
Fun Facts
Trivia
- This is the first reference to any of Strong Bad's (potential) family besides Strong Sad, Strong Mad, and his parents.
- A "poopaw" may be a reference to Strong Bad's father (or grandfather). A few similar sayings are "meemaw" (or "mamaw") for a grandmother, and a "papaw" for a grandfather.
- This is the first time that The Cheat is referred to directly as simply "Cheat" without the preceding "The".
- The newspaper Marzipan is reading is the exact same one (down to the repeating text) she was reading in Strong Bad Is In Jail Cartoon.
Remarks
- Strong Bad remarks about the possibility of something being just plain 'couth'. Couth means "possessing a high degree of sophistication" or "refined". Someone as literate as Strong Bad should know that.
- When Strong Bad is talking to The Cheat flinging the discs, if you manage to zoom in on the Lappy's screen, you'll find out that some different stuff are typed in (not all of it is visible due to Strong Bad's head blocking the Lappy screen):
so our recipes may seem a bit uncouth. Can something be just plain couth? I bet freakin' Strong Sad is plain couth. I wouldn't put that past him. Not that you could put anything past that guy. Y'know on account of he's so fat. And maybe standing in a really narrow alleyway of some around the grossing out of or the making puke of friends and well-wishers.
Goofs
- When Strong Bad reads the "pimecone" card, the computer screen is almost blank... but still has "and well-wishers." written on it in the same area where Strong Bad typed it before.
- When Coach Z bounces the basketball, it sounds like a dodgeball instead of a basketball.
Inside References
- The newspaper Marzipan is reading is the exact same one (down to the repeating text) she was reading in Strong Bad Is In Jail Cartoon.
- The effect used before Strong Bad and Homestar Runner show off their recipes was previously used in radio.
- The book in the easter egg is titled "So You Want to Cook a Wrestleman". This phrase has described Strong Bad previously in the 27 Jan 2005 Sketchbook, the auction easter egg in english paper, an easter egg in personal favorites, and in army. The reason for this term should be clear.
- Homestar's use of the word "pimecone" instead of "pinecone" is reminiscent of his usage of the word "pamcakes" instead of "pancakes" in montage.
- This is also the second time that Strong Bad's cooking has made Coach Z puke, the first time was in couch patch
- Maybe the "doodoo meat" Coach Z talked about in couch patch was a family recipe of Strong Bad's?
- On the first recipe card where it says "Mix ingredients until golden brown" may be reference to the Homestar Quiz after you win.
Real-World References
- The King of Town's quip about the deodorants being "strong enough for a man" is a reference to "Secret" brand deodorant ads.
- It's also a reference to Imperial Margarine adverts from the 1970's, wherein the slogan was "Imperial Margarine...with flavour fit for a King!", spoken in a "Kingly" sort of voice (The KoT imitates the pacing and voice of the commericals exactly).
- Bumdumbourge and Totalslava could be loose references to the country of Luxembourg (and possibly many European cities whose names end in -burg or -bourg) and the city of Bratislava (the capital of Slovakia).
- "Old King Droll" is a reference to the nursery rhyme "Old King Cole."
- The floppy disk reads "Battle Chess", an early-90s-era chess game for the PC that featured animated chess pieces that fought with each other when trying to occupy the same square.
