redesign

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"I don't know how we're gonna print it out, seeing as somebody sliced off the back of your monitor!"

Strong Bad considers redesigning the No Loafing sign and painting his room.

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat, Coach Z

Places: Computer Room, The Cheat's Computer Room, Strong Bad's Laundry Room

Computer: Lappy 486

Date: July 10, 2006

Running Time: 3:47

Page Title: Lappy 486

Transcript

{Scene Opens in darkened room with yellow tape (reading "LELLOWTAPE") all over the Lappy. The Lights come on. Strong Bad enters.}

STRONG BAD: {from offcscreen} Email is nice, dadadadadadada! {rips the tape away} Email is twice, habilahoobilasong! {pulls up the email}

subject: keeping life exciting

dear strong bad,
dude i am getting bored of the "no loafing" sign and blue
paint.

jamie ericson canada

{The "dear strong bad" echoes, causing Strong Bad to look around a bit. Strong Bad pronounces "jamie ericson" as "hamiay eric-SON".}

STRONG BAD: {typing} That's so funny that you should say that Jamie, {says as an unintelligible mumble} because I was just thinking how bored I am with your butt, and your face, and your snotty nose.

{"nose" echoes, and Strong Bad looks around some more. Strong Bad clears the screen.}

STRONG BAD: {typing} I guess the No Loafing sign could take a cue from the fast-food, soft drink, and bad sports team industries and combat bad sales and decades of losing with a slick logo redesign.

{The screen cuts back and then pans over to the No Loafing sign. The blue wall vanishes.}

STRONG BAD: {rapping to a beat} First you squish it, skew it, and turn it all around. Squish it, skew it, and turn it all around.

{As he says this, the border disappears and the words are squished, skewed, and turned around. At the end, the words are at a slant.}

STRONG BAD: Then we need to make it all fast and slick and shiny like Flo Jo in a tuxedo.

{The words curve, the tops of the letters become spikes pointint to the left, and they become all shiny.}

STRONG BAD: {rapping again} Uh! Flo Jo in a tuxedo!

{The words react to the beat of his rap, various decorations litter the screen, and a circle with a slash through it appears behind the words.}

STRONG BAD: Now it's time to play Color Wheel Roulette. No Whammies, no Whammies.

{The colors of the sign cycle through various schemes, finally ending up on the words being a dull yellow and the circle in the background turning a greenish tan, with the blank space in the middle turning brown.}

STRONG BAD: Awww... Ouch, man. Now, just when you think you're done, you gotta dip it in molten Plexiglass...

{The entire sign becomes glossy}

STRONG BAD: ...to give it that "children under 3 are sure to choke on it" goodness.

{With a "ding", sparkles appear on the logo.}

STRONG BAD: Oh, wait. Almost forgot the fangs.

{With a roar, bloody fangs sprout from the logo.}

{Cut to The Cheat and Strong Bad, with a new-style iMac in front of The Cheat. The logo Strong Bad described is on the monitor.}

THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}

STRONG BAD: Well, I don't know how we're going to print it out, seeing as how someone sliced off the back of your monitor. And quit rubbing that plastic bar of soap {indicating The Cheat's mouse} on the desk. You clearly don't have what it takes to bring NO LOAFING into the digital age.

{The Cheat closes the window, and Strong Bad turns toward the camera.}

STRONG BAD: But I does!

{Cut back to the No Loafing sign}

STRONG BAD: Fresh from elementary school cafetoriums and lotto machines...

{The No Loafing sign transforms into a cafeteria-style LED display.}

STRONG BAD: comes one of those actually pretty hard to read message board signs.

{"NO LOAFING" scrolls past, followed by a crawling worm.}

STRONG BAD: Capable of advanced animation, scrollabatonies...

{The words "GRUEL IS COOL!" come in, with the individual pixels coming from opposite sides before meeting.}

STRONG BAD: ...and twelve levels of blinkiness.

{"NO LOAFING" returns and the letters blink. Then the screen blinks and fireworks appear on the display.}

STRONG BAD: Now we can celebrate the lack of loafing with some fireworks! And a man doing cartwheels!

{The fireworks disappear and a man doing cartwheels moves across the display. Cut to Strong Bad.}

STRONG BAD: No mortal would dare loaf under the four-colored dotted digital stare of this bad boy! Y'know, unless they looked up too late, and the "No" had already scrolled off...

{Scrolls up to the display just as the "N" in "NO LOAFING" scrolls off.}

STRONG BAD: ...so they thought that it said, "Do Loafing."

{The words "DO LOAFING" scroll on.}

STRONG BAD: Or maybe, like, Franklin Delano Loafing, our nations laziest president.

{The man doing cartwheels appears after "DO LOAFING", followed by "FRANKL" before the screen cuts back to Strong Bad's Lappy.}

STRONG BAD: {typing} That's enough loaf.

Easter Eggs

• Click on the "No Loafing" sign when Strong Bad is playing color wheel roulette with it to see the box design for color wheel roulette - stupid home edition.
• When "Do Loafing" starts to scroll by on the sign, click it to see a bumper sticker for Sucky Mountain, Colorado.
• At the end, click on "Jerk" which gives a "conversation" between the Cheat's version of the No Loafing sign and a Coach Z sign:

THE CHEAT'S NO LOAFING SIGN: (Purrs, Growls and then finally Roars)

COACH Z SIGN: (After roar) (runs away) Yorp, yorp, yorp, yorp, (exits) yorp

Fun Facts

Explanations

The "New" No Loafing sign.

• Greenscreens are used in filming in order to have an alternate background behind the live action. If an actor or piece of scenery is green, it will be replaced by the background. This technique is called Chroma-Key, and can actually be done with any color, though blue and green are the most popular. The green glow along the bottom edge of Strong Bad's wall is a reference to early 80s TV, when chroma-keying technology was not as good as it is now, and a green or blue "tearing" would often be seen on the edges of the green region, especially in the hair of on-screen talent during sports events or weather reports.
• The No Loafing Scrolling Sign is actually a scrolling LED marquee (Pictured).

Trivia

• The Cheat's computer was updated to an iMac Core Duo (but with a Tandy logo on the front) in this email.

Real World References

• "Flo-Jo" was a nickname for Florence Griffith Joyner, an American athlete.
• "Big Bucks, no Whammies" was commonly chanted by players on the game show Press Your Luck.
• "Redesinging SBemails" at the end is a reference to the many house redesign shows on channels such as HGTV.
• "High & Dry" could be a reference to Radiohead's song by the same name, or Def Leppard's album High 'n' Dry.

External Links

• watch "redesign"
• watch "redesign" on the old Flash site
• view the Flash file for "redesign"
• forum thread re: "redesign"