DNA Evidence

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This article is about the toon. For the running gag, see DNA Evidence (running gag).

Strong Sad attempts to solve the mystery of the DNA Evidence.

Cast (in order of appearance): Marzipan, Homsar, Strong Bad, The Cheat, Strong Sad, Pom Pom, Homestar Runner, Bubs, Coach Z

Places: The Field, Strong Badia, The Movie Theater, Marzipan's House, The Office, Strong Sad's Room, The Garage, Bubs' Concession Stand, Smoky Office, Computer Room, Coach Z's Locker Room

Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Running Time: 5:35

Page Title: All your questions....sort of answered!!

Contents 1 Transcript 2 Easter Eggs 3 Fun Facts 3.1 Explanations 3.2 Trivia 3.3 Remarks 4 Goofs 4.1 Inside References 4.2 Real-World References 5 External Links

Transcript

{Yellow letters reading "Previously on HomestarRunner.com" on a black background zoom out slowly.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {voiceover} Previously on HomestarRunner.com... {Pronounces" previously with a short e}

{Fade to the field. Marzipan and Homsar are sitting around a wooden table with a pink and white tea set on it. Faint music and snapping noises can be heard in the background.}

MARZIPAN: And that's when I believed the DNA evidence had been tampered with.

{The music continues. Cut to Strong Badia. Strong Bad and The Cheat are seen sitting around a yellow table with a red and black tea set on it.}

STRONG BAD: And that's when I tampered with the DNA evidence!

{The music continues. Cut to inside the movie theater. Strong Sad is sitting in a seat next to Pom Pom.}

MOVIE: {voiceover} The DNA evidence was gone!

{The music continues. Cut to inside Marzipan's house. Strong Bad's statue of him wrestling a mountain lion is sitting by a couch with Homesar's trench coat and bowler hat hung on it. Homestar is standing in the middle of the room. Marzipan leans her head into the scene}

MARZIPAN: Did you find the DNA evidence?

{The music continues. Cut to the office. Strong Bad is sitting at his computer. Pom Pom is halfway off the screen. He leaves followed by Homestar.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: I'll have that DNA evidence on your desk by five.

{The music continues. Cut to inside Marzipan's house. Homestar is sitting on the couch. The lights are off.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: DNA evidence.

{The music continues. A guitar comes in to the music and begins playing a jazzy tune. Cut to a purple background with "The DNA Evidence" written in block letters. The camera pans down to Strong Sad. Mumbling is heard in the background. Strong Sad has a Easel on his right with "DNA Evidence" written across the top and a diagram of different characters and links between them.}

STRONG SAD: Attention! Your attention please!

{cut to Homsar with his mouth open on the other side of the room. Homsar gulps and closes his mouth. The mumbling stops. Cut back to Strong Sad.}

STRONG SAD: After extensive investigation, {Raises his right hand and turns his head toward the chart.} I'm ready to release my findings. I first spoke with...

{Cut to Marzipan in her kitchen}

STRONG SAD: Marzipan. {Pronounces it "Marcy-pon"}

MARZIPAN: Well, it all started several weeks ago.

{Cut to Marzipan's living room. Marzipan is walking in wearing a toga. There are muddy footprints on the carpet.}

MARZIPAN: {voiceover} I came home from my toga-yoga class to find that my house had been broken into and that the culprit had left behind some DNA evidence.

{As she walks, the couch moves onto the screen. The cushions are disarranged and the "Thank You" picture on the wall is crooked. The muddy prints stop at the couch. Cut to Strong Sad holding a pen and his notebook in Marzipan's kitchen.}

STRONG SAD: What was it? Hair particles? Skin flakes? Blood crispies?

{Cut back to toga Marzipan in front of ransacked couch.}

MARZIPAN: {voiceover} No, it was a little test tube just full of green DNA evidence.

{As she says this, toga Marzipan pulls out a test tube filled with green liquid from the couch. Cut back to Strong Sad}

STRONG SAD: Oh. Just like in the movies.

{Cut to front of Marzipan's house, toga marzipan is walking out holding the test tube.}

MARZIPAN: {voiceover} So I immediately took it to Bubs to be analyzed...

{Cut back to Marzipan in her kitchen]

MARZIPAN: ...and THIS {Holds up a tube filled with purple liquid and stamped "TAMPERED WITH".} is all I got back.

{Right scroll to Bubs in the garage.}

BUBS: Well, it all started a few weeks ago. I just got finished teaching my...

{Cut to Bubs' Concession Stand. Bubs iwalking inside wearing a toga.}

BUBS: {voiceover} ...toga-yoga class {Bubs takes off toga.} when old-maid Marzipan showed up.

{Togafied Marzipan walks on to the screen.}

MARZIPAN: Hey, Bubs. Can you analyze this DNA evidence for me?

{Cut to inside of stand. Bubs is silhouetted on the left.}

BUBS: Sure thing! But it's gonna cost you an arm and a leg.

MARZIPAN: Not a problem.

{Marzipan hands over the test tube to Bubs. Cut to Strong Sad in the garage.}

STRONG SAD: So, what did you find out when you analyzed it?

{Cut back to Bubs}

BUBS: Oh, THAT. Well, next thing I know...

{Cut to inside of stand with silhouette}

BUBS: {voiceover} ...Strong Bad shows up.

{Strong Bad pops up from under the counter.}

STRONG BAD: Hey, Bubs. One green apple snow cone please.

BUBS: Coming right up!

{Bubs moves out of view. Cut to shelf with four push-spout jars labeled "Red", "Purple", "Green Apple", and "Blue". All contain various levels of said color liquid, except for the "Green Apple", which has a hole in the bottom. Some soft music begins to play. Scene zooms out slowly.}

BUBS: Ooh. Er.

{Cut to bubs holding a plain snow cone in one hand and the evidence in the other.}

BUBS: Uh. {Looks at snow cone.} Blaaaah. {Looks at evidence.}

{Bubs pours the evidence over the snow cone. Music stops. Cut to outside of stand}

BUBS: Here ya go. One... {turns head to the side} Cough, cough... Green apple snow cone.

{Bubs hands the cone over to Strong bad. Cut to Strong Sad}

STRONG SAD: You served the DNA in a snow cone?!

BUBS: And it sold like hotcake.

{Bottom scroll to the smokey office. Strong Bad is sitting at the desk leaning back in his chair. He has the cool shades on, and there is a lit cigarette in the ash tray on the desk.}

STRONG BAD: Yeah, I bought the DNA snow cone.

{Cut to Strong Sad in the smokey office, still holding pad and pen.}

STRONG SAD: You KNEW it had the DNA evidence in it?!

{Cut back to Strong Bad}

STRONG BAD: Well, yeah.

{Cut to side of Bubs' Concession Stand. Strong Bad is standing there wearing his shades. Marzipan walks up wearing a toga.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} I overheard that Marzipan had some DNA evidence, and I figured I could use it to continue my genetic experiments on The Cheat.

{Strong Bad jumps off toward the back of the stand. Cut to shelf with snow cone flavoring. Green Apple is relatively full.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} So I sprung into action.

{Strong Bad punctures the bottom of the Green Apple container with a pencil. The liquid pours out. cut to inside view. Soft music starts again.}

STRONG BAD: Bubs-keep, one green-app snoke, on the rocks. And keep it rustic.

{Cut back to Strong Bad in office.}

STRONG BAD: By the time I got home, it was all melted.

{Cut to computer room. Strong Bad walks in from the right, still wearing the shades and carrying a glass of green liquid.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} So I put it in a glass on my desk and went downstairs to do one of my high-impact toga-yoga videos.

{Cut back to office}

STRONG BAD: And that's the last I saw of it.

{Cut to Strong Sad}

STRONG SAD: You left it on your desk, eh?

{Right scroll to Homestar in his living room.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Yeah, I swung by Strong Bad's during the day. {Frowns} The old lady had me out looking for some kind of {Brightens up} Dan evidence.

{Cut to computer room. Glass is still on the desk. Homestar walks on from the right, wearing a hat and trenchcoat.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Strong Bad! I'm wearing a hat and trenchcoat! {Notices the glass] Ooh! A tall, cool glass of Mountain Doi {Pronounces it "Dwah".}

{Cut to close-up}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Don't mind if I doi. {Same Pronounciation. He drinks the evidence.} Glug, glug, glug.

{After a short pause, Homestar spits it out. Cut to dripping The Cheat.}

'THE CHEAT: {Angry The Cheat noises.}

{Cut back to Homestar}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, sorry, The Cheat. That stuff tasted like doi doi.

{Cut back to The Cheat wiping himself off with a white towel.}

'THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises.}

{Cut to Strong Sad}

STRONG SAD: So he wiped his face off with a gross towel, eh?

{Right scroll to Coach Z in the locker room.}

COACH Z: You figured it out, Strong Sad! My cover is blown! I am actually {Pats his chest. Heroic halo appears breifly around him, accompanied by a sound effect.} Damp Towel Man! {Raises hand to his mouth} And also his mild-mannered alter-ego, Dan Towelman.

{Cut to Strong Sad}

STRONG SAD: Coach Z, no one's ever heard of those people.

{Cut to Coach Z}

COACH Z: Damp Towel Man is a super hero. He collects damp towels from across the galaxy.

{Cut to computer room, where a now green-spotted towel rests on the desk. Coach Z comes on from the left wearing a black mask and a towel tied on like a cape.}

COACH Z: Moist Molecules! A green-stained damp towel! The rarest and most powerful kind.

{Cut to the office. A janitorial cart rolls onto the screen from the left.}

COACH Z: {voiceover} So I took the towel to work the next day to see if it could clean up microwave lasagna stains.

{Coach Z walks by with a vaccum cleaner. Homestar shuffles by from the left, muttering to himself.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Stupid DNA evidence! Where am I supposed to find evidence by five o' clock?

{Cut back to Coach Z in the locker room}

COACH Z: But when I got back to my cart, it was gone! I suspect it was my nemesis, Dry Ragamuffin! Or his mild-mannered alter-ego, Dreyfuss Regamufin. {Pronounced "reh-GAH-moo-fin}

{Cut back to Strong Sad}

STRONG SAD Coach Z, you have a real sucky imagination.

Easter Eggs

• Click on the Z on Coach Z's medallion to see a Strong Badman comic.
• Click on the Z again in the scene he mentions Dry Ragamuffin to see another Strong Badman comic.

Fun Facts

Explanations

• "On the rocks" means to pour over ice, usually said when ordering an alcoholic beverage.
• Ragamuffin is a term used to describe a child wearing shabby clothing.

Trivia

• The text on the Lappy 486 reads:

Hi. Yeah, go ahead and very safely enter most of your
credit card numbers onto this Lappy. It will safen it all
out.

Thanks,
The Strong Badagement

• The Floppy Disk Container reads "3DFX drivers".

Remarks

• Strong Sad is able to write in his notebook without any problems, but in rough copy, he had trouble writing a mere sentence on a single page of the same notebook.
• Strong Sad's chart shows a picture of Homestar smiling with teeth, which were also seen in theme song, yet in underlings he seems confused as to whether or not they exist.
• Strong Sad looking up at the page title breaks the fourth wall.
• Damp Towel Man is a Strong Badman version of Coach Z, while Dry Ragamuffin looks to be Bubs' Strong Badman Universe counterpart.

Goofs

• When this toon was first released, when Marzipan was walking up to Bub's Concession Stand, she was not wearing her toga. This was fixed less than an hour after the toon was released.

Inside References

• The entire cartoon is a continuation of the DNA Evidence running gag.
• This is another mention of Mountain Dew.
• Homestar's mispronunciation of DNA, and Coach Z's "mild mannered alter-ego" are references to Dan.
  • Furthermore, Coach Z's alter-ego's last name is an example of "Man" pronounced as "m'n".
• The box Strong Sad pulls the DNA Evidence out of in the last scene is from The Secrets That I Keep.
• Strong Bad's glasses and the line "Looks like I'm gonna have to jump!" are references to the Dangeresque series of films.
• Bubs' reference to the cost of "an arm and a leg" and Marzipan's response might refer to the fact that many of the characters lack visible body parts.
• Homestars sleeves on his trenchcoat moving seem to support the possibility that he has invisible arms.
• Homsar makes a reference to pants
• This is yet another instance of Strong Bad smiling and Strong Sad Smiling.
• Coach Z's janitor cart reads "JANITATOR", a reference to Trogdor the Burninator.
• The vacuum cleaner and Coach Z's line about cleaning up lasagna are references to Sbemail 169 Deleted Scene.
• Homsar's reference to "Easter pants" might be a reference to the fact that his character usually only appears in Easter eggs

Real-World References

• "Old Maid Marzipan" is a reference to Old Maid, a card game.
• 3dfx was a maker of graphics cards, most notably the line of Voodoo cards. It filed for bankruptcy in 2000.

External Links

• watch "DNA Evidence"
• view the Flash file for "DNA Evidence"
• forum thread re: DNA Evidence