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| Strong Bad Email #210 |
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Strong Bad sends The Cheat undercover to infiltrate a secret council!
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Robot, Visor Robot, Homestar Runner, Larry Palaroncini (voice only), Grape Nuts Robot, Humidibot, The Cheat, Coach Z, The King of Town, Strong Sad, Strong Mad
Places (in order of appearance): Computer Room, The Field
Computer: Lappier
Date: Monday, November 24, 2025
Running Time: 6:05 (Flash), 6:54 (YouTube)
Page Title: Lappier Than Thou
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Transcript
{Strong Bad is checking his email.}
STRONG BAD: {singing} I'm making this email up! 'Cause I hate everybody! Hate everybody-body! On the Internet! The Internet!
DearSB,
You got all these robots round your town, but
you never DO anything with them. What giveth?
Carrie
Larry, IA
{Strong Bad pronounces SB as "sbu" and "IA" as "Internet asker"}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Hmmm. Good point, Care-lare, good point. It does seem like a bit of an oversight. {stops typing} Say, The Cheat!
{The Cheat rushes in from the left. Strong Bad turns to greet him.}
THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}
STRONG BAD: Bring up our files on thems of the robotic persuasion.
{The Cheat produces a file folder.}
THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}
{Cut to the folder. The first page displays a dossier for The Robot from the Original Book.}
STRONG BAD: First up, we've got the walking metal robot—
{Cut to The Robot standing in the field, plugged into a detached wall outlet.}
STRONG BAD: The Robot!
{The Robot raises its arm.}
STRONG BAD: One very specific size of nut—
{Zoom in. A dotted line shows where a nut would fit inside The Robot's wrench hand.}
STRONG BAD: —doesn't stand a chance against this guy!
{Cut back to the folder. A page featuring the dossier for the Visor Robot appears.}
STRONG BAD: And this guy was last seen doing a brief stint as one o' them personal assistants.
{Cut to Homestar Runner in the kitchen. A Visor Robot-shaped AI assistant sits on the table.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Say, fhqwh-bot, add "amazing thing" to my shopping list.
VISOR ROBOT: {visor flashes: subtitled} Okay. I added a lazy bean to your shopping list Homestar.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {frustrated} That is not what I asked for. {pulls up a bundle of Large Bean plushes} And I already own all the lazy beans!
VISOR ROBOT: {visor flashes: subtitled} Now playing "Hazy Jeans" from Larry Palaroncini's solo album.
{Song begins to play}
LARRY PALARONCINI: {singing} Well, I can't see a thing through these hazy jeans...
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {frustrated groaning} Fhqwh-bot set a timer for a thousand million years!
{Homestar walks out.}
VISOR ROBOT: {visor flashes: subtitled} Okay. Setting a timer for aAAraRrrRRaarRaA—
{The Visor Robot malfunctions and explodes, knocking all the lazy beans off the table and exposing its lightbulb.}
{Cut back to the file.}
STRONG BAD: And we can't forget my robotic— {a dossier for the Grape Nuts Robot appears} doppelgänger! Who, in an unexpected twist, became the spokesperson for competing cereal companies.
{Cut to the kitchen. The Grape Nuts Robot is standing next to a box of Cheat Commandos...O's. The Cheat Commandos music plays.}
GRAPE NUTS ROBOT: {subtitled} Now spell. Come back, Flavor. Come back, Nutrition.
{Cut back to the computer.}
STRONG BAD: {typing} And finally, the leader of them all... that technological terror... the pinnacle of mechanical panic!
{Cut to the file showing a dossier for Humidibot. The picture shows an imposing silhouette with a "?" sign on it. The name is unknown.}
STRONG BAD: You know him. You fear him.
{Cut to the field. Humidibot rolls up.}
HUMIDIBOT: {spitting water, singing} It's a great day for Humidibot! This is not my theme song!
{Humidibot rolls off.}
{Strong Bad and The Cheat peek from behind the buses as Humidibot rolls past.}
STRONG BAD: There he goes, The Cheat. On his way to a secret robot council meeting! Time for you to go...
{Behind the bushes, Strong Bad and The Cheat have an empty The Cheatbot shell.}
STRONG BAD: DEEP UNDERCOVER!
{Strong Bad shoves the The Cheatbot shell on The Cheat.}
THE CHEAT: {scuttling around} {beeping The Cheat noises}
STRONG BAD: Poifect! Now follow him and learn what their robot world domination plans are so we can copy 'em!
THE CHEAT: {doubtful The Cheat noises}
STRONG BAD: Of course they want to take over the world! Why else would robots be having a secret council meeting?
THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}
STRONG BAD: {stroking his chin} Oh. I suppose a firmware upgrade is a possibility. If it is, {takes out a 5.25" floppy disk} then take this floppy and download it.
{Strong Bad shoves the floppy into The Cheatbot's eyehole.}
THE CHEAT: {painful The Cheat noises} {blood drips}
STRONG BAD: Oops. Sorry. The higher the tech, the sharper the corners. That's what Compy Corp. says, anyways.
{Cut to a commercial for a very pointy computer monitor called the Slicey 86, paired with a keyboard with very spiky keys.}
STRONG BAD: {narrating} Yes, the Compy Slicey 86. {schwing noise} Our sharpest PC yet!
{A suture kit appears}
STRONG BAD: {narrating} Suture kit included!
{Cut back to the field.}
STRONG BAD: Now get moving, Cheatbot!
THE CHEATBOT: {scuttles away} {beeping The Cheat noises}
{A group of robots is assembled in the Field behind a sign reading Council of Grayish ROBOTS. Present are an ATM machine, Humidibot, The Robot, the Grape-Nuts Robot, and the full-sized Visor Robot.}
VISOR ROBOT: {subtitled} I think spicy chili crisp is too played out.
{The Cheatbot joins the group.}
VISOR ROBOT: {subtitled} I'm switching back to sriracha.
GRAPE NUTS ROBOT: {subtitled} I mixed up marsala and masala at my in-laws' house. Soooo embarassing.
HUMIDIBOT: {spitting water} On that note, should we start back up our Béchamel versus Hollandaise debate? Cause I'm Humidibot?
{Cut back to Strong Bad and The Cheat, without The Cheatbot shell.}
STRONG BAD: {frustrated} They were just talking about friggin' sauce?
THE CHEAT: {shrugging} {The Cheat noises}
STRONG BAD: You sure it wasn't like... mind control sauce? Or melt the human stomach so we can take over the world sauce!
THE CHEAT: {shakes head} {The Cheat noises}
STRONG BAD: I refuse to accept that! There's just no way robots would secretly congregate only to discuss various types of sauce! {hovering in mid-air} You must have missed something. {lands on the ground} You gotta go back.
THE CHEAT: {shrugging} {The Cheat noises}
STRONG BAD: What do you mean you don't know any sauces? Just make something up! Find out how sauce equals world domination. Solve for sauce.
THE CHEAT: {frustrated The Cheat noises}
STRONG BAD: Back in the bucket!
{Strong Bad shoves the bucket shell back on The Cheat.}
{Cut to Humidibot discussing sauces.}
HUMIDIBOT: {spitting water, singing} Coodeman's Burrelli sauce.
{The Cheatbot joins the group.}
{Cut to an ad for sauce.}
HUMIDIBOT: {singing} "It's gonna fill up your belly, hoss!"
{The belly on the chef guy on the ad inflates. A button pops off.}
{Cut back to the robot assembly.}
HUMIDIBOT: {spitting water} Remember that?
VISOR ROBOT: {subtitled} Classic. Just classic.
GRAPE NUTS ROBOT: {subtitled} Hahaha Ha ha ha ha.
VISOR ROBOT: {subtitled} Your turn, CashMatic.
{The ATM's screen displays "Dispensing Cash" as a tone plays. A thought cloud shows the ATM spitting out dollar bills, but no such thing happens outside the thought cloud. With some more tones, the screen changes to read "???".}
HUMIDIBOT: {spitting water} Oops, sorry. You lose.
{The Robot gives a floppy switching noise and angrily lifts his wrench arm. He shoves it into the screen of the ATM machine and pulls out a hexagonal nut filled with wires. The ATM machine falls over. The Cheatbot looks terrified.}
THE CHEATBOT: {terrified screaming}
HUMIDIBOT: {spitting water} Oh! Hi, new-timer! We were just playing a round of "Recite your favorite sauce commercial perfectly, or we rip out your insides!" {ominously} And now it's your turn!
{The Cheatbot gulps.}
STRONG BAD: {flashback} Just make something up! Up! Up!
{A second Strong Bad head appears.}
STRONG BAD: {flashback} Solve for sauce! Sauce! Sauce!
{The first Strong Bad head peeks in.}
STRONG BAD: Why do I have a southern accent now? Now? Now?
{The Strong Bad heads leave.}
THE CHEATBOT: {nervous The Cheat noises}
{A thought bubble appears showing Coach Z's hand holding a bun with nothing on it. A cloud of dust appears on top of it.}
COACH Z: {holding two buns in the locker room} Dry bun.
{The doorbell rings.}
COACH Z: Oh! Who's doing that?
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Sawman's doin' 'at!
{Homestar produces a jar of sauce and pours it onto Coach Z's dry hamburger bun.}
{Cut to the King of Town eating something purple on top of a bowl of Ice Style Cream.}
KING OF TOWN: This Salisbury sundae tastes more like a Monday.
{The doorbell rings}
KING OF TOWN: Oh! Who is doing that?
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Sawman's doin' 'at!
{Homestar produces a jar of sauce and splatters it onto the King of Town's sundae.}
{Cut to Strong Sad brushing his teeth with No Flav-O toothpaste.}
STRONG SAD: I'm all out of unflavored dentifrice!
{The doorbell rings}
STRONG SAD: Oh! Who keeps doing that?
HOMESTAR RUNNER: It's Sawman's doin' 'at!
{Homestar produces a jar of sauce and splatters it all over Strong Sad's toothbrush.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: The condiment for whatever you're doin'!
{Ad for sauce.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing} Who, you ask is doin' 'at? It's Sawman's doin' 'at! Sauce!
{Cut back to a nervous The Cheatbot.}
THE CHEATBOT: {The Cheat noises}
{Drumroll. The Visor Robot, the Grape Nuts Robot, and The Robot all stare.}
HUMIDIBOT: {spitting water} We love Sawman's Doin' 'at!
THE ROBOT: {subtitled} YAAAAAAAAY!
VISOR ROBOT: {subtitled} Hooray!
HUMIDIBOT: That means you're our new robot council leader!
THE CHEATBOT: {curious The Cheat noises}
{Cut to Strong Bad at his computer, inside a The Cheatbot shell.}
STRONG BAD: {typing, voice echoes} And that Car Lar... car alarm, is how The Cheat became our supreme robotic overlord. {angrily} Thanks for freakin' asking!
{Strong Bad is compressed in a The Cheatbot shell. He jumps off his stool and strains as he shuffles across the floor.}
STRONG BAD: {in pain} Ooh... my neck-breaky... legbendum... spinefold.
{The Cheatbot sits on a throne made from cans of Sawman's Doin' 'At sauce surrounded by the Council of Grayish Robots. Strong Bad shuffles up in his robot shell.}
STRONG BAD: {beeping noises}
{Homestar also shuffles past compressed in a robot shell.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {beeping noises}
{Coach Z is also shuffling around in a robot shell.}
COACH Z: {Coach Z-accented beeping noises}
{Strong Mad jumps in on one foot in a tiny robot shell.}
STRONG MAD: BEEP! BOOP!
{Cut to Humidibot rolling along dramatically. "Humidibot" appears in fancy bloody letters as death metal music plays.}
TARANCHULA: {singing} Dark is the day of Humidibot! This is his actual theme song!
{Humidibot rolls off.}
{Cut to Strong Bad's computer. The CGI paper comes down. It reads >CGEEOW<}
NARRATOR STRONG BAD: C-G-eeow!
Easter Eggs
- Click on the Disk Holder to see other things the Visor Robot does.
- {Cut back to the dossier showing the Visor Robot.}
- STRONG BAD: And there was that sad period where he was selling personalized greetings.
- {Cut to the Visor Robot, who faces the viewer.}
- VISOR ROBOT: {subtitled} Happy 50th Birthday, Joshua. I said Come On FhqwhJosh.
- {Everybody to the Limit begins playing.}
- VISOR ROBOT: {subtitled: pronounces each i seperately} Si-i-i-i-igh.
- Click on the Lappier's plug to see a sample of the video game Saucegebra.
- {Cut to a Videlectrix game Saucegebra.} A chef holding a pan asks "cups of cream?" SOLVE FOR SAUCE! blinks. A carton of cream flies in. The chef's belly inflates.}
- Click on the Lappier's Screen to see Homestar Runner a thousand million years from now.
- (An aged Homestar Runner sleeping on his bed under a glass cover. The broken Visor Robot assistant is on his drawer. A wake-up chime plays.}
- VISOR ROBOT: Okay. That's your timer for a thousand million years, Homestar.
- HOMESTAR RUNNER: It's all right. It's okay. There's something to live for.
- {Cut back to show that Homestar's room is only a cutout suspended in outer space.}
YouTube Version
- The YouTube description of this email is "Strong Bad sends The Cheat undercover to infiltrate the mysterious robotic denizens of Free Country USA."
- The CGI Paper reads:
>pretend here to email<
>>strong bad<< - A false autoplay image showing a chicken in a pan reads "Next Level Chicken in a Pan!! (Wait Until You See the Glass of Milk!)"
- The following Easter eggs play automatically:
- Visor Robot's greeting
- Saucegebra
- Aged Homestar
Fun Facts
Explanations
- Chili crisp is a type of Chinese condiment consisting of fried chilis mixed with oil and aromatics.
- Sriracha is a vinegar-based sauce of Thai origin made with chili peppers and garlic.
- Marsala is a type of wine produced in Italy commonly used for cooking.
- Masala is an Indian spice mix used in dishes such as chicken tikka masala.
- Hollandaise is a sauce made by blending butter and egg yolks.
- Béchamel sauce is a French sauce made by whisking warm milk, butter, and flour.
Trivia
- The Robot is manufactured by Zobot Inc. His powers include 2 red dials and is able to lift (press) over 50 grapes.
- The Visor Robot's manufacturer is listed as "me?" His powers include "VOIP" (not the phone kind) and "human brain?".
- The Strong Bad Robot is manufactured by BubsTech. His powers include doing-sproings and spelling quiz.
- Humidibot's name is listed as "????" His manufacturer is HumidiTek. His powers are that he can identify himself 10 times a day.
Remarks
- Strong Bad says in the email song that he made this email up. This would go against his standard practice of answering actual emails or tweets that fans had sent him.
- The silhouette on Humidibot's dossier is much more mysterious and ominous than Humidibot himself is, much like the running gag of Strong Bad's costume being more detailed than the others during the Halloween Teasers.
- The Cheat's and Strong Bad's robot shells have mouths drawn on, while Homestar's, Coach Z's, and Strong Mad's robot shells do not.
- A thousand million years is more typically expressed as a billion years.
- The term is barely used in English. The long-scale system is preferred in most of Europe, much of Latin America and most of sub-Saharan Africa.
Inside References
- "The walking metal robot, The Robot" was how The Announcer introduced the character in Strongest Man in the World.
- The Visor Robot was seen doing commercials for Senor Cardgage Mortgage in Senor Mortgage.
- One of the Visor Robot's abilities is having a human brain, something Strong Sad made up in a story featured in Homestarloween Party.
- Homestar calls the Visor Robot "fhqwh-bot" because of his appearance in Everybody to the Limit, where he said, "Come On, Fhqwhgads."
- As another reference to the story in Homestarloween Party, the King of Town refers to his ice cream as a Salisbury sundae.
- Homestar Runner's shopping list was full of the term "amazing thing" in love poems.
- Lazy bean dolls are based on Large Bean. Plushes were sold at the gift shop at Strong Bad's haunted house/science museum in The House That Gave Sucky Tricks.
- Larry Palaroncini is the lead singer of Limozeen.
- "Doing-sproings" was a word used to describe a fan's burninated peasant costume in Fan 'Stumes 2020.
- The Grape-Nuts Robot repeats lines he recited in personal favorites, based on Strong Bad's lines in sisters: "Come back, Ali. Come back, Ali's sister."
- The Cheatbot was originally seen in technology.
- The ATM from Experimental Film appears in full color.
- No Flav-o Toothpaste consists of a word ending in "-o".
- "Dentifrice" was a word used in Sickly Sam's Big Outing.
- Chicken in a pan with a glass of milk was considered an upsetting meal offering in slumber party.
- The Cheat's blood is spilt when Strong Bad accidentally stabs him. Humidibot's name also drips blood.
- Saucegebra is similar to the Videlectrix game Rabbit Algebra.
- The aged Homestar Runner uses the design from the Homestar Anniversary Merch commercial.
Real-World References
- The Visor Robot's VOIP is specified as "not the phone kind". VoIP is an abbreviation of "Voice Over Internet Protocol," which handles phone calls made over an internet connection.
- The Visor Robot's sad personalized greeting period is a reference to the app Cameo where users can commission custom video greetings from celebrities.
- Old Homestar's line in the Easter egg is quote from the independent short film Coven. The documentary American Movie showcased the troubled production of the low-budget film, including a memorable scene when the writer-director's aged uncle repeatedly struggles to recall and deliver his line "It's all right, it's okay! There's something to live for! Jesus told me so!"
- American Movie was previously referenced in a Sketchbook illustration from June 30, 2005, which featured Strong Sad as Mike Schank (another prominent figure in the documentary).
External Links
- watch "robots" as linked from the Toons menu
