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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.
Transcript
Strong Bad: In the united States alone, someone checks their email every three seconds. This is one of them. (Reads) Can you make a comic about my friends? Tey are totally obsessed with you. Their names are mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble (Screen actually says "Virginia, Joy, Kristen and Jennifer"). I would really appriciate it. Thankyou. Brittany.
Strong Bad: (Typing) Well, I'd really appriciate 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! (Gets out pencil and starts drawing something. Teen Girl Squad music starts playing.)
Narrator: Teen Girl Squad! Cheerleader! So and So! What's Her Face! The Ugly One! 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
(Cheerleader, So and So, What's Her Face and The Ugly One walk along. A helicopter shoots birds in the background)
Cheerleader: Okay, now lets start LOOKING GOOD!!!! So and So: A'ight The Ugly One: A'ight What's Her Face: A'ight
(A robot vapourises So and So)
Robot: VOIP!!! Cheerleader: Kristen, you look burnt or DEAD.
(Cheerleader, What's Her Face and The Ugly One walk along)
What's Her Face: I miss Kristina. The Ugly One: I have a crush on every boy!
(Hundreds of arrows hit The Ugly One)
Man's Head: Arrowed. The Ugly One: OW! my skin!
(What's Her Face is kicked by a dinosaur)
Dinosaur: Punt! What's Her Face: Dag, yo.
(Cheerleader stands in front of So and So, What's Her Face and The Ugly One's graves)
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, thats it! No more Strong Bad Emails. Na, just kiddin... maybe.
Easter Eggs
1. Right 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. 2. When the "Girls' States" appear - you can click on the tippy-top of each one to show it in it's underwear! (Remember the egg in Strong Bad #34) 3. When the Tombstones appear in Strong Bad's "Teen Girl Squad" comic you can click on the far right one to bring up a rather funny alternate ending. 4. At the very end you can click on the words, "independent record store" to bring up a weird part showing the comic for sale in some record store. Funny banter going on in the background.
I believe that Matt and Mike are speaking in the background in the record store bit. - Shenlon
The song playing in the background of the record store bit is Sonic Youth's "Teenage Riot" from the album Daydream Nation. "Al Beno" is a reference to Steve Albini, the famous producer, who was not actually associated with Daydream Nation. The talk about frets and tuning references Sonic Youth's penchant for employing unorthodox guitar tunings. This whole bit satirizes the pedantic tendencies of snobby music-store hipsters. It's funny, of course, because these guys in the skit get it all wrong. - illiterati
And here's (approximately) what they say (I omitted a few bits where one said something like "yeah" while the other was still talking):
- VOICE 1: [presumably Matt]: 'Sup, man?
- VOICE 2: [presumably Mike]: Hey, how ya doin'?
- VOICE 1: Pretty good.
- VOICE 2: Good to see you back in. Yeah, did you... um... listen to this yet?
- VOICE 1: You know, I have... yeah, I wasn't into it... I just couldn't get into it. You know, the whole thing's in 4-4, and, um, yeah, it wasn't for me. I liked their solo stuff better.
- VOICE 2: Yeah, what about their guitars... they're all, like, in tune... like the frets?
- VOICE 1: Yeah, the frets are, like, in tune, the frets are like models. They just have the same producer... Al Beno. You ever see them live?
- VOICE 2: Yeah, I mean... I saw 'em...I saw 'em like twice... last night, actually.
- VOICE 1: Yeah, I saw them earlier this morning like four times...
- VOICE 2: I've been a bigger fan than you for a while, I mean, well, a lot longer probably, too...
- VOICE 1: Well, I mean, I dunno...
I think this is the first time a "dirty word", per se, was on the site... in the independent record store, the album in "USED 45s" says "MUDHONEY" and below it, "You stupid assholes". Yeah. Weird.
If you didn't know, "Mudhoney" was a grunge band from the late 80's-early 90's.-DaChazman (who is really into grunge)
If you didn't know, the Brother's Johnson were a funk band from the 70's. Also- I think the quote is : "Yeah, the frets are, like, in tune, they're B-modal. Becuase its that same producer. Albeeno."
A reference to Modal Harmony.
Albino (Al Beno/Albeeno) is a reference to indie-rock pioneer Steve Albini, who started off as a member of Big Black and went on to produce albums like Surfer Rosa by The Pixies, In Utero by Nirvana, and Rid Of Me by PJ Harvey. - throatsprockets
