Sick Day
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The citizens of Free Country, USA are very unwell.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, Strong Mad, The Cheat, Strong Sad (Easter egg)
Places: Computer Room, Strong Mad's Room (entrance only), Strong Sad's Room (Easter egg)
Date: October 3, 2005
Computer: Lappy 486
Running Time: 1:43
Page Title: Here Comes Sickness!
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Transcript
{We are presented with a silent view of the Lappy, Strong Bad apparently absent, and the following email is on the screen.}
subject: sickDear Strong Bad,I've noticed you never seem to get sick. How do you
stay so dang healthy all the time?Sincerely Crap,
Grant, BC
{Cut to a view of Strong Bad's desk. Strong Bad is severely ill and curled up into a ball under the table, coughing and shivering. An empty box of tissues that reads "Tish, You!", lies next to him along with a mess of used up tissues. }
STRONG BAD: {coughing} The Cheat! Get in here with my puke pail. {coughing} And bring me some tissues. Lots more tissues!
{Homestar walks in from the right of the screen with a thermometer in his mouth and an obvious look of sickness}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Strong Bad, my burps smell really bad. Check this out. {making breathing noises} Hang on.
STRONG BAD: Ugh. Go away. I can't smell anything anyways.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, I'm betting you can smell these!
STRONG BAD: Yeah, well you're lucky it's your burps that smell. DO NOT go into Strong Mad's room. Or, as I've taken to calling it, Rotten Egglünd.
{Cut to outside Strong Mad's room. The door is covered with police tape that reads "Quarantine!". There is a green haze coming out from the bottom of the door.}
STRONG MAD: {from inside} SOMEBODY HEEEEELP!
{Cut back to Strong Bad and Homestar in the Computer Room.}
STRONG BAD: Ugh. The Cheat! What's taking so long with my tissues?
THE CHEAT: {in a green bucket that reads "Puke Pail for Him!"} (crying noises)
STRONG BAD: {coughing} Oh well. I guess I'll just re-use some of these already re-reused ones. {grabs a tissue} Ow! They're pointy now!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Strong Bad, I don't think you're going to be able to answer your word problem this week. So I'll take one for the team. Two trains enter a tunnel going four miles per hour. {As he talks, pictures of two trains, a tunnel, and the number 4 appear to his left.} At what time do they reach Poughkeepsie?
STRONG BAD: {groans and coughs while speaking} The Paapeeeer!
{The Paper comes down, with a distorted noise. It appears crinkled and says "Strong Bad, I can't come in today."}
STRONG BAD: Oh no, not you too! Can I blow my nose on you?
{The Paper goes back up.}
Easter Eggs
- Click on the word "healthy" at the end of the toon to see a short scene with Strong Sad.
- {Strong Sad is laying in his bed. His face is green with spots and he has pink around his eyes. The rest of his body is normal.}
- STRONG SAD: {groans} This is the greatest day of my life. I feel like a few dollars.
- Click on the word "Crap" at the end to see a map of "Rotten Egglünd".
Fun Facts
Remarks
- Homestar has the wrong end of the thermometer in his mouth. The bulb is what should go in his mouth.
- The quarantine tape over Strong Mad's door goes across the doorknob as if the doorknob were two-dimensional, or completely flat.
- The bags under Strong Bad's eyes disappear when he lifts his head. They reappear later when he squints again.
Goofs
- Initially, clicking on the Lappy's screen did not cause the screen to ripple. This was corrected within ten hours of the toon's release, but was still only a very faint effect.
- However, during the Lappy scenes, you can click anywhere on the screen and it causes a ripple, as opposed to just the monitor.
- The bags under Strong Bad's eyes disappear after he asks The Cheat for his tissues for the second time, therefore making him look healthy.
- When Strong Bad's eye bags disappear, the tint of his face changes.
- After Strong Bad throws away the tissue, his hands stop twitching for the rest of the scene.
- When Strong Bad reaches out for a tissue, he has no arm connecting to his glove.
- This happens again when he hurts himself on the pointy tissue.
- His arm usually wouldn't be able to stretch far enough to reach the tissue.
- When we zoom in to Homestar answering the "word problem," the desk behind him disappears and the shading changes. When we zoom out, the designs on the wall move.
Real-World References
- "Here Comes Sickness" is a song by Mudhoney.
- Poughkeepsie is a city in New York located in the Hudson River Valley between New York City and Albany.