@StrongBadActual Tweets 2015

This Tweet is a reply to @NerdbotMk2, who messaged Strong Bad his disappointment that he did not realize the costume Strong Bad has previously seen as a badly-made-rendition of himself was actually a costume of Sir Hotbod Handsomeface.

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• This Tweet links to Fan Costumes 2015, released the same day.

This Tweet is a reply to @frankenstylin, who sent Strong Bad a picture of him dressed as Strong Bad, with his head in the Strong Bad costume's mouth.

Fun Facts

• The picture was sent roughly around the time Fan Costumes 2015 was uploaded, alluded to in Strong Bad's reply.

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• This Tweet refers to the Videlectrix Fhone Machine iPhone Case, sold in the Store.
• N-Gage and Gizmondo are both handheld video game devices.

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{close-up of Homestar Runner, wearing a Crack Stuntman paper mask and wearing a white shirt}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Blaaaaah! I'm Crap Costume! {begins coughing and wheezing} This shirt is choking me. {begins choking, eventually falling over}

Fun Facts

• Homestar's costume references the Crack Stuntman mask he wore at the end of specially marked.
• Fan costumes were later compiled and ridiculed in Fan Costumes 2015.

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• This Tweet links to The House That Gave Sucky Tricks, released the same day.

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• This Tweet links to The House That Gave Sucky Tricks Teaser, released the same day. The text refers to Homestar's song in the teaser.

This Tweet links to an Instagram post, revealing Strong Bad's Instagram account. The post contains the same text, as well as a looping video.

Fun Facts

• This is the first time the Instagram account was publicly linked to.

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{the same image from Strong Bad Classics! appears, but without Strong Bad's vandalism. The scene quickly zooms in on Strong Sad's soolnds. A drawing appears on top of them, consisting of a dog's face (left) and a duck's face (right), both in the same color as the soolnds. Strong Sad's toes form the basis for each pair of eyes. Meanwhile, a border of concentric gray rings surrounds the drawing. The following text appears.}

Silly Soolnds
"TRAMPLO"       "STAMPLO"

Fun Facts

• The soolnds' faces come from the previous Tweet's image.
• The title, especially the rings, are reminiscent of the classic Looney Tunes title cards.

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• This Tweet links to Strong Bad Classics!, released on the site the same day, after being titled "Strong Bad reads The Ocelot and the Porridge Maiden" and only being available on Worldbuilders' YouTube channel.

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{close-up of the Strong Bad board, with both the plush Strong Bad and the Strong Bad figurine in front of it. They move simultaneously in opposite directions, one on top of the other.}

BOTH STRONG BADS: {in one voice} That's right, that was from #97, "monument". The first appearance of...

{both Strong Bads move to the bottom of the screen.}

UNSEEN CHORUS: {singing} Here comes the Shark-Tooth Thnikkaman!!

{These words float across the screen. Shark-Tooth Thnikkaman, a Shark-Tooth Bubs plush doll with paper cutouts of The Thnikkaman's sunglasses and "tH" sign appears from the bottom of the screen.}

SHARK-TOOTH THNIKKAMAN: Yeah! Shout e— shout 'em around, kid... I... {turns to his right and begins walking offscreen} I used to sell TVs.

Fun Facts

• "Shout 'em around, kid" may be a variation of The Thnikkaman's apparent catch phrase, "Yeah, shut up, kid".
• This is the final Sbemailsong Mystery-related video.

This Tweet is a reply to @jimmyjone, who criticized Strong Bad's Twitter account for appearing to become "just another brand posting content-free tweets".

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I'M IN BETWEEXT

YOUR HEMISPHERES

JIMMY JONE!!

your
content-
free
pal,
StroNG
BAD

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{close-up of the Strong Bad board, with both the plush Strong Bad and the Strong Bad figurine in front of it. They move simultaneously in opposite directions, one on top of the other.}

BOTH STRONG BADS: {in one voice; excitedly} Oh man, is this blowing your mind? Here's the song! Traipsin' along, traipsin'- traipsin' along, and an email got stuck in my eye!

Fun Facts

• The song in question is from monument.
• The Tweet exclaims "Oh crapst!"
• This is the final Sbemailsong Mystery.

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{Wide view of a large Strong Bad board in front of the Videlectrix Office}

STRONG BAD POSTER: Oh, this week, it's a live sbemail song mystery monday! Here we go! Oh, tap your toes and check your email, oh a-tap your toes tonight... {The Strong Bad poster falls down} Oof!

Fun Facts

• The song in question is from guitar.
• The video takes place in the Videlectrix Office.

This Tweet is a reply to @NerdbotMk2, who presented a fan drawing of several Homestars, each in a different costume or variation. The Tweet is currently unavailable, but can be seen here (or the full image here).

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad chucks a discount brick at Homestar in the process.

This Tweet is a reply to @devilcrosswords, who commented on the previous tweet with "Stack 'em to the heavens! Stack 'em to the heavens. I COULD WRITE A SONG CALLED 'STACK 'EM TO THE HEAVENS!'"

Fun Facts

• This is the same stack of Casio keyboards as the previous Tweet, which also features a puppet appearing in various places around the stack.

This Tweet is a reply to @myrnehr, who demonstrated Keyboard Strong Bad's demo on an actual Casio VL-Tone keyboard.

Fun Facts

• The Brothers Chaps admitting having "a stack of five old Casios" in the Club Aquatica interview; one more than the keyboards shown in this Tweet.

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{wide view of Figurine Strong Bad standing in a cardboard box in front of a Strong Badia background.}

STRONG BAD FIGURINE: {Strong Bad makes a microphone click noise and speaks in an emotionless theme park tour guide-styled voice. In each sentence, the pitch rises, reaches a high in the middle, and then falls} Of course that was from sbemail #104, theme park. That's the cartoon where the Easter egg is better than the rest of the email. And now for your reward, prepare to experience the fury of...

HOMESTAR FIGURINE: My buzzer!

{Homestar mimics fan noises and begins spinning out of the box, exposing his puppet stick. Strong Bad does similar, exclaiming monotone excitement. Eventually, there are drums heard in the background and Homestar and Strong Bad go back into the box, followed shortly by Strong Bad's microphone click.}

Fun Facts

• The manner in which Strong Bad speaks, as well as the cardboard box he's in, references the Riverquest Safariventure ride from theme park, the email the previous Sbemailsong Mystery was from.
• Homestar once again calls his propeller a buzzer.

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{Medium shot of a Strong Bad figurine in front of the Stop Sign}

STRONG BAD FIGURINE: Last week was sbemail 79, the process, and doesn't deserve a reward. Here go this weeks!

{Cut to medium shot of a Strong Bad figurine in front of The Field}

STRONG BAD FIGURINE: Everybody loves this, everybody needs this, {Strong Bad figurine now upside-down} it's time for funny stuff.

Fun Facts

• The song in question is from theme park.
• Strong Bad's comment about getting smaller on Sbemailsong Mystery Monday refers to the fact that the first video included a large puppet version, the second featured a small plushie, and this one features an even smaller figurine.

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{medium shot of a plush Strong Bad}

PLUSH STRONG BAD: {speaking quickly} Last week was #59 Marzipan, now here's your reward.

PLUSH HOMESTAR: Oh, I have a plush duck mouth. Quack quack.

PLUSH STRONG BAD: {speaking quickly} Now here's this week's! {abruptly singing at normal speed, with a previous accent} My name is not Email Sam. Ooh ahh. So please don't call me Email Sam. Ooh ahh.

Fun Facts

• The song in question is from the process.
• Like the Strong Bad plushie, the Homestar plushie was seen in Dangeresque: Puppet Squad.

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• This Tweet links to Flash is Dead!, released the same day.

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{close-up of a plush Strong Bad with golden eyes}

PLUSH STRONG BAD: {singing} There once was a man named email, and he did his best for a while.

Fun Facts

• The song in question is from marzipan.
• The plushie previously appeared in Dangeresque: Puppet Squad.

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{medium shot of Puppet Strong Bad}

PUPPET STRONG BAD: Hey, great job, all—

PUPPET HOMESTAR: {flung up in the air from offscreen, crying} Whoa!

PUPPET STRONG BAD: —my Twitterm'ns and Twitterladies! The answer was of course—

PUPPET HOMESTAR: {flung again} Bla-ha-haaa!

PUPPET STRONG BAD: —sbemail 109, "crying": —

PUPPET HOMESTAR: {flung again} Waaah!

PUPPET STRONG BAD: —the first appearance of—

PUPPET HOMESTAR: {flung again, now spinning} Whoa-oh-oh-ohhh!

PUPPET STRONG BAD: —Li'l Brudder. And now, for your sweet reward—

PUPPET HOMESTAR: {flung again, now diving} Heart of a champion!

{extreme fisheye close-up shot of Puppet Strong Bad's mouth}

PUPPET STRONG BAD: {menacing} ...A horrifying close-up of my ungodly puppet mouth.

Fun Facts

• Homestar crying, as well as "heart of a champion", is a reference to the Strong Bad Email crying, the email the previous Sbemailsong Mystery came from.
• Puppet Strong Bad calls people "Twitterm'ns".
• Puppet Strong Bad refers to his puppet mouth as "ungodly". It is also filmed with a fisheye lens, used for his profile picture.

Video Transcript

PUPPET STRONG BAD: {rapping} I'm not gonna sing an email song this week e—{realizes mistake, talking} Oh. Never mind.

Fun Facts

• This is the first video posted, as well as the first Sbemailsong Mystery.
• The song in question is from crying.
• This is the only time the "Sbemailsong" in "Sbemailsong Mystery" is spelled as two words.

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genius!

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• The image is an edited version of Goatface, one of Strong Bad's prank call aliases in Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 12.2.

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Once there was a PHorridge Maiden who
lived in a meadow.

Fun Facts

• This Tweet links to "Strong Bad reads The Ocelot and the Porridge Maiden" (released the same day as this Tweet), an earlier version of Strong Bad Classics!

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HAPPY REKKID STORE DAY!

Fun Facts

• This Tweet links to Record Store Day, released the same day.

This Tweet is a reply to @Eatonfl and @florenjust, who each asked where they could get the iPhone case from the previous Tweet.

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• This Tweet refers to the Compy phone case sold in the Store.

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• This Tweet links to sbemail206, the first Strong Bad Email released in five years, released the same day as this Tweet.