Sbemail 150?!?
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Strong Bad doesn't want to check his email.
Cast (in order of appearance): Female Lappy 486, Strong Bad, Strong Sad, Strong Mad (voice-only)
Places: Computer Room, Strong Bad's Basement
Date: March 27, 2006
Running Time: 1:46
Page title: Not Just Yet!!
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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 and Homestar Runner wearing a gas mask. 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.
Goofs
- No ripples appear when the screen of the Lappy is clicked.
Inside References
- The sound of wind at the opening of the toon is the same sound played at the beginning of animal
- 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 an American character actor who has starred in such films as Reservoir Dogs, The Big Lebowski, and Ghost World.
- 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. In it, you play the part of a pilot who does various test flights in various locations with various airbourne vehicles such as a light plane, hang-glider, parachute, and "rocket belt" (jetpack). There was also a Nintendo 64 incarnation called Pilotwings 64.
