unnatural
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| Strong Bad Email #166 |
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Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat, Bubs, Homestar Runner, The King of Town, Marzipan, Strong Sad, Coach Z, Pom Pom
Places: Computer Room, Strong Badia, The King of Town's Castle, The Field, The Classroom
Computer: Lappy 486
Date: February 5, 2007
Running Time:
Page Title: Lappy 486
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Transcript
STRONG BAD: I am Strong Bad, and I am not making an "I approve this email" joke.
stormsHey Strongbad,
'Sup, man? So I was just wonderin', does Strong Badia ever have natural disasters, like hurricanes 'n stuff?
{Strong Bad annunciates "'Sup, man", "wonderin'", and "'n stuff" and reads the lack of a name as "From, Nobody".}
STRONG BAD: {dodges around} Hey! Whoa! Heh! Watch where you're flinging those apostrophes nobody. You could hurt somebody. You could hurt... yourself.
{Strong Bad turns away from his Lappy as quiet music begins to play.}
STRONG BAD: {speaking as if in a public service announcement} Hi. I'm regular Strong Bad. If you or someone you love is an anonymous apostrophe flinger, please call our hot, free number. {waves his hand as 1-800-APOSTROHOLIC appears in yellow lettering} Or give them a charlie horse right away.
{Strong Bad turns back to his computer.}
STRONG BAD: As for H.R. Hurricanesnstuf, we've dealt with disasters, but mainly those of a decidedly UNnatural s-s-s-sort.
{Cut to Strong Bad and The Cheat having a tea party in Strong Badia.}
STRONG BAD: So then I tampered the DNA evidence.
THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}
{The ground shakes as the table bounces and the dishes clatter.}
STRONG BAD: Whoa. {a second shake} What the—
{Cut to a long shot as the ground bounces a third time.}
STRONG BAD: Uh-oh. The King of Town must be getting a mega-physical.
{An enormous gray foot crashes down from the sky, destroying a section of the fence and sending everything flying.}
STRONG BAD: WHA!
THE CHEAT: {simultaneously} {very startled The Cheat noises}
{Oriental music plays as a pan upwards reveals the giant to be Bubs, dubbed "King Bubsgonzola Supreme".}
BUBS: {roars}
STRONG BAD: {terrified} It's a giant Bubs from outer space! Or... mutated by radiation! Or... from the depths of the ocean! Or... flushed down the toilet!
{Homestar appears a few feet from Bubs' giant foot.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh my crap! Bubs turned us all into ants! That fortune cookie knew what he was talking about! C'mon, everyone. Let's go steal a slice from the chocolate cake from that picnic table over there.
{Wipe to a silhouette of Bubs as the background flashes orange with every crushing step as he stomps to The King of Towns castle.}
{Cut to The King of Town sitting at a table with a few bites taken out of it as the ceiling of the castle begins to fall.}
THE KING OF TOWN: Ooh! Whoa! What am I, getting my mega-physical?
{Transition to Marzipan and Strong Sad at a "Free Art Classes for Losers" seminar. Oriental music and Bubs' footsteps can be heard in the background.}
MARZIPAN: See? The apple's not giant. It's just in the foreground.
{Bubs' giant foot crashes away the sign as Strong Sad runs away screaming.}
BUBS: {roars}
MARZIPAN: {unfazed} See? Bubs' foot isn't giant. It's just in the foreground.
{Cut back to Strong Bad at his computer.}
STRONG BAD: Things were looking grim, so we called an emergency town meeting. We needed an organized form for people to shout out their ideas all at the same time!
{Cut to a slow pan of characters at a Town Meeting.}
STRONG BAD: I think we should kill it! I think we should kill it!
STRONG SAD: {overlapping} Try and understand these creatures! Try and understand these creatures!
THE CHEAT: {overlapping} {angry The Cheat noises}
COACH Z: {overlapping} ...try to ruin the picket fence, there. A box in one!
MARZIPAN: {overlapping} Just ignore him! His foot is just in the foreground!
THE CHEAT: {inexplicably passing by again} {angry The Cheat noises}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {overlapping} We must protect the queen! I have six legs!
{Cut back to the Lappy.}
STRONG BAD: So of course, the nerdy scientist-type had it all figured out.
{Cut to Strong Sad standing next to a chalkboard and a Boombox.}
STRONG SAD: I knew we had to try and understand this poor creature. So I recorded his roars and played them back at high-speed. Listen to my extremely scientific findings! {presses play}
BUBS: {from the tape} {undecipherable backwards roars}
{Strong Sad presses fast-forward.}
BUBS: {undecipherable backwards roars}
{Strong Sad presses fast-forward.}
BUBS: {in normal tone} Don't eat my chicken wings!
{Strong Bad presses stop.}
STRONG SAD: His love of chicken wings must have caused him to mutate and he's been trying to warn us all alon—
STRONG BAD: Get to the chase. How do we kill it?
STRONG SAD: We don't. I was able to mix-up an anti-chicken-wing... which is really just a bowl of Kashi. It's the culinary opposite of chicken wings.
{Drums play during a pan to the chalkboard, then the chalkboard fades into reality as silhouettes of Coach Z with a catapult, The Cheat, Marzipan, Strong Bad, Strong Sad, and giant Bubs stand at the ready. Coach Z lets fly the catapult of Kashi. Bubs can be heard swallowing it.}
BUBS: {roars as he suddenly shrinks back to normal size} ...don't eat my chicken wings!
STRONG SAD: We know! The chicken wings will make us grow a hundred feet tall!
BUBS: No they won't!
STRONG BAD: Then why didn't you want us to eat your chicken wings?
BUBS: 'Cause they mine! And they good!
MARZIPAN: Then how did you grow a hundred feet tall?
BUBS: Oh, yeah. Well, it's kind of embarrassing, but I accidentally flushed myself down the toilet while I was shaving.
STRONG BAD: You have to shave?
COACH Z: You have a terlet?!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {running up with a leaf above his head} C'mon, you guys! Let's all go jump in somebody's pants! Everybody, single file! {drops leaf and marches away} Hup-two-three-four!
BUBS: Well, I'm gonna mosey on.
{Oriental music plays as Bubs walks out to sea. A Japanese symbol in gold appears as the screen fades to black. Cut to Strong Bad.}
STRONG BAD: {heartily} But Strong Badinians are a strong people. We will recover. We will rebuild. We will reduce, reuse, recycle!
{The Paper comes down. After a while, Strong Bad will say the following.}
STRONG BAD: We will be kind. We will rewind.
Easter Eggs
- Click on H.R. Hurricanesnstuff to see a variant of the Homestar Puppet.
- Click on Homestar's star after he mentions the fortune cookie to see what it said.
- At the end, click on reduce to see Strong Bad trying to flush himself down the toilet.
- {Strong Bad spins around in the toilet, grinning, while The Cheat watches. It stops}
- STRONG BAD: Try it again. I think I'm starting to mutate.
- THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}
- {The Cheat flushes the toilet}
- STRONG BAD: Wheeeeee!
- At the end, click on reuse to see a poster of King Bubsgonzola Supreme.
- At the end, click on recycle to see Marzipan making Strong Bad recycle.
- MARZIPAN: No, I heard you say it!
- STRONG BAD: Marzipan, I was just saying other things that start with R E.
- MARZIPAN: I don't care. You said it. Now let me see your cans.
- STRONG BAD: What?
Fun Facts
Remarks
- In the scene with everyone talking in the meeting, as the camera pans to the right, two The Cheats are seen.
- When Strong Bad is doing the public service announcement he is breaking the Fourth Wall.
Inside References
- Marzipan also said something about the DNA evidence being tampered with in the previous email, strong badathlon.
- The fortune cookie easter egg refers to the old game of the same name.
- Strong Sad's patting his belly makes the same dodgeball noise it made in modeling and Cool Things
- The music during the apostrophe public service announcement is from CGNU.
Real World Refrences
- King Bubsgonzolla Supreme is an obvious reference to kaiju monsters such as Godzilla, King Ghidorah, and Mothra.
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is a slogan used by conservationists to promote consumers to save resources.
- H.R. Hurricanesnstuff is a reference to H.R. PufnStuf, a kid show with a brightly colored dragon as the star which began running in 1969.
- Kashi is a natural foods producer owned By Kellogg's, Inc.
- Strong Bad's final line could be a reference to rental places that ask their customers to rewind VHSs before returning them.
External Links
- watch "unnatural"
- watch "unnatural" on the old Flash site
- view the Flash file for "unnatural"
- forum thread re: "unnatural"
