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Strong Bad Email #53
The origin of Teen Girl Squad! A girl asks Strong Bad to make a comic about her friends.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Cheerleader, So and So, What's Her Face, The Ugly One, Visor Robot, The Man with the Huge Mouth, Dinosaur
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Transcript
STRONG BAD: In the United States alone, someone checks their email every three seconds. This is one of them.
{reading}
Can you make a comic about my friends? Tey are totally obsessed with you. Their names are Virginia, Joy, Kristen, and Jennifer. I would really appriciate it. Thank You. Brittany
{Strong Bad mumbles over the four girls' names instead of reading them. He also pronounces "Tey" as it is written and "appriciate" "a-prick-ee-ate".}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Well, I'd really appriciate {same as in the email} it if you proofread your emails before you sent them to me! So, a comic about your little friends, huh? Well, okay. I'll see what I can do!
{He gets out pencil and starts drawing something. Some music starts playing.}
NARRATOR STRONG BAD: Teen Girl Squad! Cheerleader {screen shows Cheerleader, with "cheer!" next to her} So and So {fashion sense!} What's Her Face {unpopular!} The Ugly One {hygiene?}
{The four girls are standing in a nondescript field.}
CHEERLEADER: Hey gals, let's go get ready to LOOK SO GOOD!!!
SO AND SO: Word.
THE UGLY ONE: Word.
WHAT'S HER FACE: Word.
{The girls walk to the right. Some birds and clouds appear above them. A helicopter appears and attacks the birds, and Narrator Strong Bad makes helicopter shooting noises. The girls stop walking, and the scenery reverts to its original state.}
CHEERLEADER: Okay, now let's start LOOKING GOOD!!!
SO AND SO: A'ight.
THE UGLY ONE: A'ight.
WHAT'S HER FACE: A'ight.
{The Visor Robot zaps So and So's head with a laser.}
NARRATOR STRONG BAD: VOIP!
{So and So's upper body becomes a black pile of ashes and a skull.}
CHEERLEADER: Kristen, you look burnt, or DEAD.
{The girls walk right some more.}
WHAT'S HER FACE: I miss Kristin...a.
{Screen now shows The Ugly One, with numerous arrows flying through the air behind her.}
THE UGLY ONE: I have a crush on EVERY BOY!!
{Zoom out. The Ugly One is pierced by the arrows. We see the Arrow'd Guy, with more arrows coming out of his mouth.}
NARRATOR STRONG BAD: ARROWED!!!
THE UGLY ONE: OW! My skin!
{Cut to What's Her Face getting kicked by a dinosaur.}
NARRATOR STRONG BAD: PUNT!
WHAT'S HER FACE: Dag, yo.
{Cheerleader stands next to the headstones for So and So, The Ugly One, and What's Her Face.}
CHEERLEADER: I look so good!!
STRONG BAD: {typing} Wow, Brittany! That turned out pretty good! I should maybe make some crappy xeroxes of that thing and sell it over at Bubs'. Or at least some snooty independent record store. {stops typing} Ok, so, that's it! No more Strong Bad Emails. Na, just kiddin... maybe.
{The Paper comes down}
Easter Eggs
- When Strong Bad reads, "I would really appriciate it" you can click on the names of the girls to bring up pictures of some States.
- When the "Girls' States" appear - you can click on the tippy-top of each one to show it in its underwear, just like in weird dream.
- When the headstones appear you can click on the far right one to bring up a rather funny alternate ending.
- {Strong Bad walks on from offsceen}
- STRONG BAD: Whoa, hey there Cheerleader. You looking so good. You want to go take a ride with me up to Checker's... or Rally's... or Sonic Burger? Whatever you guys got here.
- At the very end you can click on the words, "independent record store" to bring up a part showing the comic for sale in some record store. Funny banter going on in the background:
- CUSTOMER: [presumably Matt]: 'Sup, man?
- CLERK: [presumably Mike]: Hey, how ya doin'?
- CUSTOMER: Pretty good.
- CLERK: Good to see you back in.
- CUSTOMER: Yeah, did you, uh... did you listen to this yet?
- CLERK: You know, I have. Yah. I wasn't into it. I couldn't get into it.
- CUSTOMER: Huh. I thought... I was kinda hoping it'd be....
- CLERK: Yah, you know, they were---the whole thing's in 4/4, and... um... yeah. So, I just got---it wasn't for me. I liked their solo stuff better, you know?
- CUSTOMER: Yeah. Well what about, uh, what about their guitars? D'ya think they're all, like, in tune? Like the... the frets?
- CLERK: Yeah, the frets are in tune. The frets they're using are... are B-modal. But, uh, 'cuz they just have the same producer.
- CUSTOMER: Al Beno.
- CLERK: Al Beno.
- CUSTOMER: Right.
- CLERK: Yah.
- CUSTOMER: Yah, I really liked their last album.
- CLERK: Yah, their old stuff is great! Have you ever seen them live?
- CUSTOMER: Yah. Yah.
- CLERK: I mean... I saw, I saw 'em... I saw 'em, like, twice... actually, uhm, uh, last night, I saw them.
- CUSTOMER: Yeah, I saw them... I saw them earlier this morning. Yah.
- CLERK: Oh.
- CUSTOMER: Like, four times.
- CLERK: Oh.
- CUSTOMER: Yah. I mean I've been a big, I've been a bigger fan than you for a while, I mean...
- CLERK: Yah, well...
- CUSTOMER: For a lot longer probably, too...
- CLERK: Well, no no...
- CUSTOMER: Well, I mean, I dunno...
- CLERK: Yah.
Fun Facts
- Template:FF The song playing in the background of the record store bit is Sonic Youth's "Teenage Riot" from the album Daydream Nation.
Other things of interest
- In the Easter Egg, a number of albums are visible:
- "Mudhoney" was a grunge band from the late 80's-early 90's. A 45 for their single "You Stupid Assholes" is in the box labeled "Used 45s".
- The Brother's Johnson was a funk band from the 70's. Their album "Winners" is visible.
- The album on the far right is A Boy Named Charlie Brown by The Vince Guaraldi Trio.
- "Al Beno" is most likely a reference to Steve Albini, the famous producer, who was not actually associated with Daydream Nation.
- The talk about frets and tuning probably references Sonic Youth's penchant for employing unorthodox guitar tunings.
- "In the United States alone, someone checks their email every three seconds. This is one of them" - This is a reference to the closing lines of The Naked City.
DVD Version
- The State Easter Eggs are still viewable using the angle button on your DVD remote.
- The Strong Bad Easter Egg near the end of the TGS cartoon is automatically enabled, no clicking required.
- The 45 of Mudhoney's "You Stupid Assholes" has its cover censored.
- This email also features a hidden creator's commentary. You can access it by switching your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
- This commentary also extends into the Record Shop Easter Egg.
Commentary Transcript
(Commentary by: Mike Chapman, Matt Chapman)
MIKE: Hi
MATT: Hi there. It's Matt.
MIKE: It's Miiike. Hah-hah.
MATT: T-taste.
MIKE: Alright.
MATT: Good taste. So, uh, little-known fact, this email was actually sent to the Brothers Chaps address, NOT Strong Bad, uh, and Strong Bad, stole it from us. You kno-
MIKE: He Shanghaied it.
MATT: He Shanghaied it, that's what I said last time.
MIKE: But we were- we had to redo the commentary. The ORIGINAL take of the commentary Matt said that we Shanghaied it.
MATT: Yeah. But then Mike cussed a swear later so we had to redo it.
MIKE: Alright, that's enough, I'm OUTTA HERE.
{door opening and closing}
MATT: Mike's really just closed the door and is still sitting next to me.
MIKE: I'm GONE, in the next room!
MATT: Alright, so, let's talk about, uh, Strong Bad's voice here. It sounds much more like Strong Bad at this point.
MIKE: Yeah
MATT: When he's being the girls.
MIKE: Yeah, if you watch this then go to your computer and watch, maybe Teen Girl Squad Episode 6...
MATT: They sound a lot-
MIKE: You'll notice a difference.
MATT: Yeah. And he's like, he calls
MIKE: No mouth! No mouth!
MATT: And he calls So And So Kristen. She calls so and so Kristen.
MIKE: Yeah, they've never been- do they even call themselves their... What's Her- oh, I think they-
MATT: Yeah
MIKE: -call her What's Her Face.
MATT: What's Her Face, you have to go to a junkyard.
MIKE: Yeah.
MATT: Umm... {pause} and here comes an Easter Egg. You get to see this for FREE on the DVD
MIKE: Yeah, most people on the website have to click a gravestone over there to see this and... this is just how much we love you guys.
MATT: And this is Strong Bad referring to how we don't understand how those three fast-food chains can all exist and be so exactly alike. Especially-
MIKE: I haven't seen a Rally in a long time. I don't know, I guess there's just not many in Atlanta.
MATT: Yeah. But Checkers and Rally's-
MIKE: But there's not enough Sonics! The closest Sonic is, like, 20 miles away from us.
MATT: Yeah.
MIKE: I like their shakes.
MATT: {quickly} That caused a lot of concern
