modeling
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| Strong Bad Email #132 |
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Strong Bad is encouraged to become a model.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The King of Town, Pom Pom, Strong Sad, Homestar Runner
Places: Computer Room, King of Town's Castle, The Field
Computer: Lappy 486
Date: Monday, June 27, 2005
Running time: 3:10
Page Title: Lappy 486
DVD: strongbad_email.exe Disc Five
Contents |
Transcript
STRONG BAD: {singing} Can you handle my style? No, you can't handle my styyyyyle. Email! {pulls up the email, begins reading}
subject: modelingdear STRONG BAD!!!!!!
i think you're a pretty good looking guy. Have you ever
considered doing some modeling?
Yours truuly,
Meghan, Albuquerque
{Strong Bad yells his name at the top of his lungs, and says "truuly" as "troo-OO-ly", "Meghan" as "Meg-han", and "Albuquerque" as "Al-bu-quay-quay"}
STRONG BAD: {typing} dear MEGHAN!!!!!! {yelled and pronounced as before} Of course I've considered modeling. Someone as pretty good looking as me gets approached on the street all the-wait. Modeling?! Hmmmm. That's a truuly {pronounced as before} great idea! {clears screen} Why did I never think of that before? Maybe I should go get me some new threads at Styles Upon Styles and get some headshots taken. Pom Pom has a camera. Maybe I'll get him to take some pictures of me. Or better yet, maybe I'll go karate chop the King of Town and THEN get Pom Pom to take some pictures of me.
{Music starts as Strong Bad approaches the King of Town, in front of his castle. Strong Bad karate chops the King.}
THE KING OF TOWN: Ow!
{Cut to Strong Bad in a makeshift modeling studio in the Field. He is sitting on a box, and wearing a blue shirt with a yellow shirt tied around his neck, like a cape. The backdrop is a white sheet with paint in various colors randomly splattered on it, taped to two wooden posts. Photography lights are seen on the left and right, and a silhouette of Pom Pom is seen in the foreground with a camera. The screen flashes as Pom Pom takes the picture, and as it fades back in, we see a closeup of Strong Bad in the same outfit, now holding a tennis racket.}
STRONG BAD: Ha haa!
{The screen flashes, and now Strong Bad is lying on the ground.}
STRONG BAD: Who, me?
{Another flash, and now he's standing on the box, with his right hand held out in front of him, as though he's pointing at the camera}
STRONG BAD: I'm charming! {points with his left hand}
{Another flash, and he's now standing with the tennis racket.}
STRONG BAD: {off-handed tone} I'm charming.
{Yet another flash, and the camera is panned back so that Pom Pom is visible again. Strong Bad is standing.}
STRONG BAD: Oh, what's the time? {looks at his right wrist as though looking at a watch}
{Another flash, and we see another close up, as Strong Bad starts out turned away from the camera, and he turns toward it, waves, and holds his chin, with afterimages following him. Another flash, and now Strong Bad is wearing a black suit with a purple shirt and glasses, holding a briefcase.}
STRONG BAD: I'm casually late!
{Another flash, but the screen doesn't change. Strong Bad walks toward stage right, and pauses posing. The camera flashes again, and Strong Bad is now seen in front of what seems to be a paneled wood wall, holding a telephone with only a frayed wire coming out of it.}
STRONG BAD: Let's-a do lunch. Ha-haaa! {puts down the phone and picks up the tennis racket again}
{Another flash, and Strong Bad is lying on his stomach on the ground, holding a pencil and leaning toward the camera. We can see that the wall in the last image was actually just another screen, leaning on the posts.}
STRONG BAD: I'll pencil you in. {pretends to write something on the ground}
{One more flash, and now Strong Bad is in a frozen walking pose in front of a blue screen.}
STRONG BAD: Oh, look at the time! {kneels and looks at his "watch" again}
{Another flash, and now Strong Bad is wearing a white turtleneck and a sailor's cap, while holding a corn-cob pipe and a golf club. A map is seen in the background, in front of the false wood wall.}
STRONG BAD: I say, lads, is that Cape Cod? {uses the golf club to point at the map, and shrugs}
{Another flash, and the camera cuts back again. This time, Strong Bad is sitting on the box.}
STRONG BAD: Oh, look, off the portboard stow.
{Another flash, and he's standing with his hands on his hips.}
STRONG BAD: We're on a collision course with sultriness! {shakes hips}
{One final flash and we cut back to the Lappy.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} I can't wait to get those pictures back from the lab. I can totally see some of them being used in one of those glossy fashion magazines. Y'know, the kind that cost nine bucks and are 97% ads. Like maybe in an ad for those fancy leather shoes that you're supposed to wear without...
{An ad for "Homely Boy Brand HUGE Tube Socks" featuring Strong Bad is displayed.}
STRONG BAD: ...socks. WITHOUT SOCKS!
{The image vanishes.}
STRONG BAD: Man! Can you imagine the luxury! Ooh! Or some kinda fancy men's cologn...ac.
{An ad for "Doctor Stankfoot's Watery Athlete's Foot Cream" featuring Strong Bad appears.}
STRONG BAD: And I can be laying next to some skinny blonde girl looking totally disinterested. You know like, "Whatever, baby.
{The ad disappears.}
STRONG BAD: You can't even approach the flava... of my colognac." {clears screen} No wait! The cover of some steamy romance novel! And my ripped...
{A book titled "Unattractive Detective Stories!! The Case of the Dame with the Hard-to-Look-at-Teeth" appears.}
STRONG BAD: ...self would be on top of some cliff or lighthouse clutching a milkmaid in a flowy dress.
{It vanishes.}
STRONG BAD: And she'd be like, "No, Parson Jim, it can never be!" But I'm all like, "Look in your heart, Chezmerelda."
{The camera cuts back to show Strong Sad standing next to the desk, holding a pile of mail.}
STRONG SAD: Hey, Strong Bad, I was just looking through today's mail, and guess who made the cover of Husky Headed Boys Back 2 School Catalog.
STRONG BAD: WHAT?!? Back-to-school already?! It's not even July! So, who's on the cover?
STRONG SAD: Uh, you are.
STRONG BAD: What?! I ain't got no husky head!
STRONG SAD: Well, it's about the same size as my husky body... {hits his stomach twice, resulting in a dodgeball-like sound effect} Oh, and this check {holds out a check} from Husky Headed Boys Catalog came—
STRONG BAD: {swiping the check} Whoa-ho! My husky head commands a pretty penny! This'll bring home a few months' worth of bacon! I bet your husky body's not worth a hundred and eight dollars.
STRONG SAD: No, but poachers have offered several thousand for my feet.
{Homestar Runner walks up.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hey guys! Guess who made this week's cover of Stupid Coincidence Magazine!
{He holds up the magazine, which features Homestar himself. He then throws it over his shoulder and starts dancing to the same music Strong Bad posed to earlier. The camera flashes, and we see the "Husky Headed Boys" and "Stupid Coincidence Magazine" issues up close. The Paper comes down.}
Easter Eggs
- At the end, click on Strong Bad's diamond to see an ad for "SB Finest Colognac."
Fun Facts
Explanations
- "Colognac" is a portmanteau word formed by combining "cognac", a distilled liquor, and "cologne", a fragrance.
- "Portboard Stow" is double portmanteau. "Portboard" combines "Port", the left side, and "Starboard", the right side of a ship. "Stow" combines both "Stern", the rear end, and "Bow", the front end of a ship. The portboard stow could be the dead center of the boat, based of this.
- Cape Cod is a peninsula forming the south-easternmost part of Massachusetts.
Trivia
- The ads and magazines read, in order:
HOMELY BOY BRAND HUGE TUBE SOCKS "YOU MIGHT COULD SLEEP IN ONE!"
GOT STINKFOOT? GET STANKFOOT! DOCTOR STANKFOOT'S WATERY ATHLETE'S FOOT CREAM
Unattractive Detective Stories!! The Case of the Dame with the Hard-to-Look-at-Teeth
Stupid $9
Coincidence
MAGAZINE
Why Some People
Our Think Saying
Least Likely Ka-Winky-Dink
Issue Yet!! Is Funny
pg. 143
HUSKY Headed Boys
BACK 2 SCHOOL!!
Catalog
Giant Headed
SUMMER 2005 Kids Need
Clothes
Too!!SB FINEST COLOGNAC. drink it. or wear it. we don't really give a care.
- The map that Strong Bad stands in front of while posing marks "Land," "Haggleston," "Place," and "Nautical Ocean."
- The label on the disk in the floppy disk container reads "the news room".
- This email has Nondescript Nouns ("Place" and "Land").
Remarks
- We see Strong Bad's written signature in the HUGE Tube Socks ad, and it is different from his signature in the Yearbook Character Page.
- Stupid Coincidence Magazine costs $9, the same price as one of those glossy fashion magazines that Strong Bad mentions.
- Homestar was considering breaking into male modeling in crying.
Goofs
- When Strong Bad yells "dear STRONG BAD!!!!!" and, "dear MEGHAN!!!!!", the reflection of his head appears slightly above the Lappy due to a masking goof.
- When Homestar holds up the magazine, his image on the cover blinks (this does not happen at the end of the email).
- In the email screen when the "romance novel" comes up, you can no longer click the Lappy to see the "ripple" effect.
- Right after Strong Bad says "letsa do lunch," he holds up the tennis racket, and even though he is in a suit, the arm is bare.
- Strong Bad commits a common usage error, substituting "disinterested" for "uninterested." "Disinterested" means impartial or unbiased, as in a "disinterested" jury or judge. "Uninterested," by contrast, means showing no interest in something, as Strong Bad would be in the situation he describes.
- When Homestar holds the magazine before the end of the email, there is no text other than Stupid Coincidence Magazine.
- When Strong Bad says "Oh, what's the time?" the first time, Pom Pom's camera seems to be slightly obscuring his head.
Inside References
- Pom Pom's camera was also in the email part-time job.
- "Styles Upon Styles" is a retailer previously mentioned in animal.
- Strong Bad dressed up as a ship's captain in pizzaz, minus the turtleneck.
- The turtleneck was the one Strong Bad wore as Archibald in A Decemberween Pageant.
- The screen with the wooden panels is the Balding Man's room from Senorial Day.
- "Skinny blonde girls" were first mentioned in theme party.
- Place first appeared in different town.
- When Strong Sad hits his "husky body" it makes the same sound as when he was pegged by kickballs in 1 step ahead.
- Strong Bad originally tried to sell Strong Sad's feet to poachers in 50 emails.
- Strong Bad uses a yellow disconnected telephone for one of his business shots.
- In the end Easter egg, the "SB" on the red box uses the font Commodore 64.
- This is the first mention of tube socks.
Real-World References
- "Got stinkfoot" is a reference to the SNES game Parodius, in which gaining a power-up will sometimes result in the main character saying "GOT A STINKFOOT?!" out of a megaphone.
- "Stinkfoot" is also the title of a song by Frank Zappa.
- Strong Bad's "oh, look at the time/what's the time" poses during the photo shoot are a reference to the episode "The Prettiest Week of My Life" from the television show Get A Life. In the episode, "Gee, I wonder what time it is" is one of the poses Chris is taught at "Handsome Boy Modeling School".
Fast Forward
- Strong Bad is later seen writing to and apparently showing affection for tube socks in Decemberween Short Shorts.
DVD Version
- The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
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See Also
External Links
- watch "modeling"
- watch "modeling" on the old Flash site
- view the Flash file for "modeling"
- forum thread re: "modeling"
