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Jacoby — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:30:33 GMT

Jacoby: Added reference to Barracuda by Heart

[[Image:sbemail36.PNG|thumb|Rock on]]

'''Strong Bad Email #36'''

Derek asks Strong Bad if he could play the guitar. Strong Bad really over-reacts and... well, it's a little hard to explain.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Strong Bad]]

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Oh, tap your toes and check your email, oh a-tap your toes tonight... ''{stops singing}''

<pre>Hey Strong Bad whats up?

Can you play the Guitar?

Derek Highet
Northern California</pre>

''{Strong Bad has some trouble pronouncing the surname "Highet".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, Derek. Not much, man. Yeah I can play the guitar. I know all about virtuosos ''{pause}'' and trembalos ''{pause}'' and arpeggios. ''{pause}'' I can do it all. I can play your basic rhythm guitar, like... ''{singing}'' jug jigga jug jigga jug jigga jug jigga jug jigga JAH JAH, jiggidy jug jigga jug jigga jug jigga jug jigga JAH JAAH! ''{stops singing}'' You know, something like that. I can also play some pretty hott lixx, too. You know the kind that are just way up high on the tiny strings and you mash your fingers on 'em. ''{singing}'' meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. ''{stops singing}'' Yeah, yeah and then Strong Mad comes in on his bass and he's like, ''{singing}'' dou dow da dou da da DOU da dou da dou dou ''{stops singing}'' and The Cheat comes in on his keyboards and he's like boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boo and then I'm like "And the dragon comes in the NIIIiiiiIIIiiiiIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIiiiIIGGHH..."

''{Strong Bad falls out of his chair.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Augh... oh yeah!

''{Strong Bad sticks up his arm up from the bottom of the screen and lights the BMW lighter like they do at rock concerts. [[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*Be sure to wait at the end to see the funny effect of the [[BMW Lighter]] on the email print-out.

== DVD Version ==
*The DVD Version adds a hidden creator's commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching this email.

=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]])

'''MIKE:''' This email is titled Guitar. It's near and dear to our hearts. We grew up reading Guitar for the Practicing Musician and Guitar World and Metal Edge, and um...

'''MATT:''' Rather, our brother Donny read all of them.

'''MIKE:''' Hit Parade, Circus Magazine

'''MATT:''' Kerrang. Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' Rip. Remember The Rip?

'''MIKE:''' I think that's, that's all of them. That's so, yeah, we um... ''{short pause}'' we knew all about virtuosos and arpeggios.

''{Matt laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' And trembolos. I took guitar in 8th grade. I didn't, I was never very good, though.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. This one goes out to all those dudes that lurk around the guitar shop and won't go away, and all I want to do is buy some strings and maybe a pick and they make

'''MIKE:''' They make-

'''MATT:''' -me feel really intimidated and want to leave. And it seems like this actually appealed to a lot of, it seemed to get circulated among tab sites and sites that like guitar.

'''MIKE:''' Tab and, like, Diet Coke and-

'''MATT:''' Tablatures, Mike!

'''MIKE:''' Oh, oh, oh!

'''MATT:''' It's a tyerm!

'''MIKE:''' I thought you were talking about die- diet sodas.

'''MATT:''' It's a guitar tyerm. ''{pause}'' There you go, and of course, that later becomes a part of Trogdor, the song called Trogdor from website homestartotcom.

'''MIKE:''' There's the first appearance of the BMW lighter.

'''MATT:''' Watch as it burns the paper! So burnes.

== Fun Facts ==
*The "way up high on the tiny strings and you mash your fingers on 'em" part played by Strong Bad is actually the end of the solo in Creeping Death perform by Metallica.
*The "basic rhythm guitar" part played by Strong Bad is likely the opening to Barracuda by Heart.

== External Links ==
*[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail36.html watch "guitar"]
*[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail36.swf view the flash file for "guitar"]

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video games

Jacoby — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:34:35 GMT

Jacoby: Added Fun Fact regarding reference to bad translation and AYB

[[Image:videogames.png|thumb|Action! Adventure! Excitement! None of these are present.]]

'''Strong Bad Email #94'''

Taylor R. wants to know what Strong Bad would be like in a video game. Strong Bad explains that it would depend on what system he was on.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Strong Bad]], [[Vector Strong Bad]]

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' Email is like a prison. A prison with no walls. And no toilet.

''{reading}''

<pre>Hey Strong Bad,

I was just wondering what you would
be like in a video game and what it
would be like.

From,
Taylor R.
Queen Creek, AZ</pre>

''{Strong Bad reads "AZ" as "Alcatraz"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoa... it's somebody on the inside. ''{shakes head}'' Get out soon, Taylor. ''{typing}'' What would I be like in a video game? Well, that all depends on what system we're talking about. Like, if it was on one of those really old machines -

''{Cut to Atari 2600-style game, with an empty green rectangle imposed on a black screen.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ...the graphics would probably only look ''kinda'' like me. ''{a red square appears representing Strong Bad}'' And I'd run all around a futuristic maze ''{the square starts moving around the screen and some green blocks and blue futuristic barriers appear}'' collecting things that look nothing like me!

''{A yellow square the same size as Strong Bad's square appears in the centre of the maze.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover} ''Man, that'd be pretty awesome! ''{The red square approaches the yellow square and toucjhes it, thereby "collecting" it. The words "secret collect!" appear on the screen. Cut back to the Compy 386}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Ooh! Ooh! I could also be in one of those 3-D vector games

''{Cut to screen of said game. A corridor ending with a wall is outlined in red. Some moving arrows appear on the walls on either side.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And there'd be this awesome, huge, 3-D version of my head floatin' around.

''{A vectorized version of Strong Bad's head appears on the screen}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Like, it looks so awesome, girls would probably try to make out with the screen

''{Lipstick lips appear on the screen}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' and we'd have to program it to be like:

'''3-D STRONG BAD''': BACK OFF BABY! ''{as it speaks the words appear on the screen, then fall down and disappear}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And in this one, the player wouldn't control me...

''{Cut to Strong Bad at the Compy, shaking the camera}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' 'CUZ YOU CAN'T CONTROL ''ME!!!''

''{Cut back to the vector game}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Instead, you'd be some kinda 3-D shield guy with a shield...

''{A generic-looking guy with a shield appears on the bottom of the screen}'''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Some kind of spikey-headed 3-D cyber-shield guy... with a cyber-shield.

''{The appropriate changes are made so the shield guy is now spikey-headed and holding a striped "cyber-shield"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And you'd have to block my perplexing geometric attacks, or face certain 3-D doom!

''{3-D Strong Bad spits out a rhombus, which hits the cyber-shield carrier in the face, causing it to explode}''

'''3-D STRONG BAD''': YOUR HEAD A SPLODE ''{again, the words appear on the screen}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Naturally, there'd be some problems with bad translation.

''{Cut back to Compy 386}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' On the other hand, it might be cool to be in one of those text-based adventures. You know, for those intellectual people with better imaginations.

''{Cut to a black screen with a green arrow at the top.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' It'd be like...

<pre>Ye find yeself in yon dungeon. Ye see a FLASK
Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH, and DENNIS.

What wouldst thou deau?</pre>

''{Strong Bad doesn't say the last sentence.}''

And you'd be all like...

<pre>Get ye flask.</pre>

And it'd say,

<pre>You can't get ye flask!</pre>

And you'd just have to sit there and imagine ''why on Earth'' you can't get ye flask! Because the game's certainly not going to tell you.

''{At this the screen reads "I'm certainly not gonna tell thou."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And there's no precious graphics to help you out, either.

''{At this the screen reads "Graphics, shmaphics..." and a few seconds later, "...for sooth!" Cut back to the computer.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' But oh, man. The best thing ever would be if I was in one of those brand new super-photorealistic games that take like tons of migs and megs of memories just to play it.

''{Cut to a blue screen. A 16-bit version of Strong Bad appears.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' I'd look super-cool, runnin' around on some grass, maybe. ''{the background changes to a 16-bit field against a blue sky}'' Or there'd be like, um.. a rhino there too.

''{A rhino falls down from the sky and some music starts playing}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' A ''hungry'' rhino!

''{A food bowl appears in front of the rhino and it starts whining, jumping and turning red. Strong Bad runs around.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And I'd have to, I guess... feed him.

''{A box labelled "FOOD" appears. Strong Bad brings it to the rhino's bowl and it calms down, eating it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And, umm... snakes?

''{Snakes pop up, wriggling up and down the screen. The rhino charges. Cut back to Compy 386}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So hopefully one day technology will catch up with my advanced thinking, so all the ladies can start making out with their TV screens. ''{stops typing}'' Until next time, Taylor, this one's for you, and all my peoples got sent up the river. ''{Pours his [[Cold One]] on the floor}''

''{[[The Paper]] comes down. After about 5 seconds, the four games appear in their boxes.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*At the end you can play the games. They are: [[StrongBadZone]], [[Rhinofeeder]], [[Thy Dungeonman]] and [[Secret Collect]].

== Fun Facts ==
*When Strong Bad says "YOU CAN'T CONTROL ME!" and the computer bounces around, you can still change the contrast.
*When Strong Bad pours the drink out for Taylor, you can see all the dust left over from the [[army|last email]], though it was not visible in the rest of the e-mail.
*Strong Bad's song is a reference to where he thinks Taylor is from.
*Strong Bad's statement about bad translation of StrongBadZone is likely a reference to the ubiquitous bad translation of Japanese-made NES-era games, and more specifically the bad translation of [[Wikipedia:Zero Wing|Zero Wing]], the well-known source of the [[Wikipedia:All Your Base|All Your Base]] phenomenon.

== DVD Version ==
*You obviously can't play any of the four games. As well, the game boxes don't automatically come up. Instead, you must access them via the hidden Strong Bad Icon on the Compy 386 screen.
**For the DVD, the Easter Egg consists of samples of music from each game in turn.
*The DVD version features hidden creator's commentary. To acccess it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

== External Links ==
*[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail94.html watch "video games"]
*[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail94.swf view the flash file for "video games"]

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