Sbemail 150?!?

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"I don't wanna turn a hundred and fifty! It's too much pressure!"

Strong Bad doesn't want to check his 150th email.

Cast (in order of appearance): Female Lappy 486, Strong Bad, Strong Sad, Coach Z (Drawing), Homestar Runner (Drawing), Strong Mad (voice-only)

Places: Computer Room, Strong Bad's Basement

Date: March 27, 2006

Running Time: 1:46

Page title: Not Just Yet!!

Transcript

{Strong Bad's desk. Strong Bad is nowhere to be seen. The wind howls. After a few seconds, Female Lappy 486 appears on screen with the first note of the Lappy start-up noise.}

FEMALE LAPPY 486: {The words appear on the screen as she says them.} Oh. Golly-gosh. Strong Bad is understairs. Tell whim I love.

{Quick drop to the Basement. Strong Bad is lying on the couch; Strong Sad is standing behind it.}

STRONG SAD: You get your shiny, round butt up in there and check that email!

STRONG BAD: No! Now, get out of my couch... -area!

STRONG SAD: But it's your sesquicentenn-email!

STRONG BAD: I don't wanna turn a hundred and fifty! It's too much pressure! Strong Mad ate it!

STRONG SAD: It's okay, I can help! Check out these storyboards I drew up!

{Cut to a storyboard showing Strong Bad's boxing gloves on the Lappy 486's keyboard. Slow piano music starts. Above, it says "Scene 1" and "Int. Lappy-Day"; below, "Close on tip-tapping boxing gloves".

STRONG SAD: We begin with a claustrophobic close-up of typing with boxing gloves on.

{Cut to a storyboard showing Strong Bad sitting at his desk in the middle of the desert. Above, it says "Scene 1a" and "Ext. Desert-Day"; below, "zoom out to reveal wide shot of desk in desert".}

STRONG SAD: A quick zoom out reveals you're really in the middle of a barren desert landscape, symbolizing the vast scope of your achievement.

{Cut to a storyboard showing Coach Z holding a pear covered with eyeballs and with coffee dripping out of his hat and down his face. Above, it says, "Scene 2" and "Int. Creepytown-Night"; below, "dolly in on cz. holds up eyeball-pear"}

STRONG SAD: Next, we dolly in on Coach Z holding a pear covered with eyeballs while black coffee continually streams down his mouthless face.

{Piano music stops. Cut to a close up of Strong Sad}

STRONG SAD: This part doesn't represent anything. I just... always wanted to pour coffee on Coach Z.

{Cut to a storyboard showing Strong Bad at his desk in the Computer Room, with the No Loafing Sign partially obscured. Homestar Runner is wearing a mask, and the star on his shirt is now cloud-shaped. Piano music starts again. Above, it says, "Scene 3" and "Int. Computer Room-Day"; below, "2 shot of SB and Desire Man.}

STRONG SAD: Cut to a two-shot of you hashing it out with your innermost desires.

{Cut to a storyboard showing a donut with a bite taken out of it. It is leaking jelly, in which Strong Bad's face appears. Above, it says, "Scene 4" and "Int. Donut Place-Night"; below, "ECU of jellyfish reflector. tear. fade out."

STRONG SAD: And we end on an extreme close-up of your reflection in the gooey filling of a jelly donut as you shed a single tear.

{Cut back to Strong Sad}

STRONG SAD: It's equal parts Lynchian, Fellinian and Steve Buscemian, don't you think?

{Cut back to a view of Strong Bad lying on the couch.}

STRONG BAD: {incomprehensible mumbles} Pilotwings... {more incomprehensible mumbles}

STRONG SAD: Oh, nevermind. I'll go see what Strong Mad thinks of my Doug the Dino -treatment.

STRONG MAD: {offscreen} DON'T BOTHER!

{Cut to a storyboard showing Strong Bad yelling. Above, it says "Scene 12" and "Int. Day-Up in your grill"; below, "Med. close on SB. 'Leemee alone. I do it next week!'"}

Fun Facts

Explanations

• "Sesquicentennial" is the term for a 150th anniversary.
• Claustrophobia is an anxiety disorder which involves a fear of confined spaces.
• The filename, "sbemail149pernt5", is a Coach Z pronunciation of "sbemail149.5".

Remarks

• The ripples do not appear when you click on Lappy's screen.

Inside References

• The sound of wind at the opening of the toon is the same sound played at the beginning of animal and The System is Down.
• This is another instance of Strong Bad's Couch Mumbling.
• This is another mention of Strong Bad typing with boxing gloves on.
• Doug the Dino originally appeared in the facts.
• This is another appearance of Googly-eyed Objects.
• "Tip-tapping" is an allusion to Strong Bad's secret identity Tip Tappers.

Real-World References

• Homestar's mask is the same style as the masks worn by Snifits in the Super Mario Brothers games.
• David Lynch and Federico Fellini, as referenced by Strong Sad, are filmmakers known for bizarre imagery.
• Steve Buscemi, also referenced by Strong Sad, is primarily known as a character actor who has appeared in such films as Reservoir Dogs, The Big Lebowski, and Ghost World but has also directed quirky, independent films such as Trees Lounge and Lonesome Jim.
• The music playing during Strong Sad's storyboard seems to be taken from the intro to U2's song "So Cruel".
• Pilotwings is a flight simulation game and one of the first SNES games ever made.
• Jellyfish Reflector is the name of Guided by Voices' 1996 live album.

See Also

• Not the 100th Email!!!

External Links

• watch "Sbemail 150?!?"
• view the Flash file for "Sbemail 150?!?"
• forum thread re: "Sbemail 150?!?"