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*When you adjust the contrast, you can see the spots where Strong Bad wiped the dust off his screen. | *When you adjust the contrast, you can see the spots where Strong Bad wiped the dust off his screen. | ||
*It looks like Strong Bad has finished the [[Painting of a guy with a big knife]]. (In [[i love you]] he didn't paint the bottom few inches.) | *It looks like Strong Bad has finished the [[Painting of a guy with a big knife]]. (In [[i love you]] he didn't paint the bottom few inches.) | ||
| - | *Except for the popcorn popper (Bennedetto), everyone in the Homestarmy is wearing a cereal bowl as a helmet. | + | *Except for the popcorn popper (Frank Bennedetto), everyone in the Homestarmy is wearing a cereal bowl as a helmet. |
*The painting walks into Strongbadia by itself. Homsar carries Bennedetto. | *The painting walks into Strongbadia by itself. Homsar carries Bennedetto. | ||
*Homsar keeps walking off of the screen when the Homestarmy arrives to invade Strongbadia, most likely because the cereal bowl is covering his eyes. | *Homsar keeps walking off of the screen when the Homestarmy arrives to invade Strongbadia, most likely because the cereal bowl is covering his eyes. | ||
Revision as of 23:37, 19 February 2005
Strong Bad Email #93
Hank Toler asks about Strongbadia's army.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, The Cheat/Firebert, Strong Sad, Homsar, Frank Bennedetto, Strong Mad, Mrs. Bennedetto (Easter Egg)
Date: January 5, 2004
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Transcript
{The Compy appears to be dusty with a little cobweb on the top left corner}
STRONG BAD: {runs in and sits} Whoa. Guess it's been a while. Sorry about that, compy. Need to get some... {starts typing "strongbad_email.exe} Endust.
{Strong Bad reads}
Dear Strong Bad, I was curious as to whether or not Strong Badia had an official army. Your Homeboy, Hank Toler
STRONG BAD: {typing} Does Strongbadia have an army? Strongbadia needs no army, Hankatola. Me and that one big guy and that one little guy... we're a one man army. Er, a three man one-y. Three-to-one-marny? What I mean to say is, what do we need an army for when the three of us pretty much do as we please? I mean, it's not like there's anyone around to oppose us.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {suddenly appears wearing a bowl on his head and carrying a large spoon} All right, maggot! Fall it out. Colonel {he pronounces it phonetically, i.e. "col-o-nel"} Homestar Runner is recruiting the most elite team of crack commandos to invade Strongbadia. Do you has what it takes to join the Homestarmy? Will you bring a sack lunch and some orange slices for me and serve your country? Will you, stupid?!
STRONG BAD: Um... no. I don't really have any interest in invading my own--
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Ten-hut! Draft dodger, eh? We'll see if those trees you're always hugging save you when Gordon Lightfoot's creeping round your back stair. Company... Halt! Backwards... March!
{Homestar marches backwards off screen}
STRONG BAD: What in the-
{Homestar sticks his head back in}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, and if you change your mind, and you wanna trade in that skirt you're wearing for a nice pair of camos, we're having a pep rally up at the stick in oh-fifteen minutes.
STRONG BAD: Wow. I thought I knew what ridiculous was, until this day. This definitely merits some further reconnaissance. The Cheat!
THE CHEAT: Emeh! {sounds like "I'm here"}
STRONG BAD: The Cheat, I need you to find out--
THE CHEAT: {sounding a little upset} Omee mah meh. {sounds like "I'm not listening.."}
STRONG BAD: Ohhh. Don't make me call you that. It's not a good commando name.
THE CHEAT: {forcefully} Memamo meh! {sounds like "Commando name!"}
STRONG BAD: Ugh, all riiight. {reluctantly} Firebert. I need you to find out what the crap Homestar Runner is up to at the stick in 0-15 minutes.
THE CHEAT: Meh, meer! {sounds like "Yes, Sir!"}
{scene changes to The Stick}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Are you sick and tired of playing second-fiddle to a two bit wrestle man and his yellow dog?
CROWD: YEAH!
{faint rewind noise}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Are you ready to fight alongside your Colonel {again pronounced phonetically} and give your five bucks to the Homestarmy if it comes to that?
CROWD: YEAH!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Do you wanna paint that fence some other cool color and put a fake beard on that tire?
{silence}
{Switches to view of Homestar's audience, showing it consists of the Painting of a guy with a big knife, Strong Sad holding a tapedeck, Homsar, and a popcorn popper.}
STRONG SAD: Oh, sorry. Forgot to rewind.
{Strong Sad rewinds tape deck and presses play}
CROWD: YEAH!
HOMSAR: DaAaAaAa! You gotta get yours. I gotta get mine.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: All right then, maggots! Lets get out there and invade us some serious Strongbadia! Company... GO!
{The Homestarmy marches off and The Cheat appears from behind The Stick. The view now shifts to Strongbadia where Strong Bad and Strong Mad are wondering about badminton}
STRONG BAD: Yeah, I don't know. Maybe there is a goodminton.
{The Homestarmy marches up. Homsar forgets to stop marching and walks right off the other side of the screen.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Strong Bad, so I see you decided to join the other side, eh?
STRONG BAD: What joining?? I am the other side!
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Ten-Hut! Prepare to feel the flouride sting of the Homestarmy! Strongbadia... will be ours!
STRONG BAD: No it won't. We're about to play some badminton. So.. no invasion.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh. So I see. {pause} Retreat!! Fall back men! We're in over our heads!
STRONG SAD: Hold the line! Hold the liiiine!
STRONG BAD: And take this stupid thing with you.
{Strong Bad kicks the popcorn popper. A crash is heard off screen.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Bennedetto! Don't you die on me Bennedetto! Not on my watch! Don't you give up! {Tearing up} You never gave me the five bucks...
{Cut back to Strong Bad's computer}
STRONG BAD: {Typing} And that, my dear Hankerin', is why Strongbadia will never need an army, though we are in dire need of a copy of the official rules of badminton. No idea what we're doing. None.
{The Paper comes down.}
STRONG BAD: {mumbling} Firebert. Terrible!
Easter Eggs
- Near the beginning, click "Three-to-one Marny" to see a handbook containing the rules to playing 3-person marny, as written by the guy who wrote the book (Lem Sportsinterviews) in the Strong Bad Email studying. Click the rulebook to read it.
- At the end, click on "No idea" to see a scene at Marzipan's House.
- Homestar walks up to a microwave.
- HOMESTAR RUNNER: Mrs. Benedetto, my name is Colonel {still pronounced phonetically} Homestar Runner. I served with Frank in the Homestarmy at the battle of Strongbadia. I hate to give you this news... Frank was one of the finest frigging soldiers I ever met! And he still kinda owes me five bucks. So, if you could just... fork it over...
- Also at the end, click "army" to see a Firebert action figure. It's reminiscient of the action figures in the Strong Bad Email action figure, and later appears with The Cheat Commandos.
Fun Facts
Explanations
- When Strong Bad says it's been a while he was referring to the fact that this was the first update in a few weeks.
Trivia
- This, local news, and flag day are the only times we see Free Country, USA with a gray sky.
Remarks
- When you adjust the contrast, you can see the spots where Strong Bad wiped the dust off his screen.
- It looks like Strong Bad has finished the Painting of a guy with a big knife. (In i love you he didn't paint the bottom few inches.)
- Except for the popcorn popper (Frank Bennedetto), everyone in the Homestarmy is wearing a cereal bowl as a helmet.
- The painting walks into Strongbadia by itself. Homsar carries Bennedetto.
- Homsar keeps walking off of the screen when the Homestarmy arrives to invade Strongbadia, most likely because the cereal bowl is covering his eyes.
Goofs
- Although Strong Sad says that he forgot to rewind after the second "crowd cheer" at the pep rally, the rewind sound does play after the second cheer.
- As of 2/14/05, this has been fixed. The rewind sound can be heard under the sound of the cheering crowd.
- In the second shot, when it shows Strongbad and Homestar, you can see a faint outline of the rest of strongbad's face on the blue wall behind him. Somewhat disturbing...
Inside References
- The box Homestar is standing on at the stick says "Twelve Of Them". This is a reference to fingers, in which Homestar stands on a box which bears the words "Eleven Soaps".
Real-World References
- Homestar says that the enemy is Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian singer. He says "...the trees you're always huggin' comes to save you when Gordon Lightfoot starts creepin' around your back stair". This is a lyric from one his most famous songs, "Sundown". It goes like this:
- "Sundown, you'd better take care, when I find you've been creepin' 'round my back stair"
- Bennedetto is most likely a West Bend Hot Air Popcorn Popper 01568 Popcorn Maker.
- When Homestar says "Don't you die on me, Bennedetto!" it may be in reference to Gunsmoke when Tate says "Don't you die on me son, don't you think of it!" over Dale's unconscious and paralized body. Of course, "don't die on me" is a very generic clause used by countless characters in all types of stories.
Fast Forward
- Frank Bennedetto may have been the only casualty of the Battle of Strongbadia, but he may not have died. Homestar led Mrs. Benedetto to believe that he was dead, but the appropriate term is more 'missing in action'. You see him behind the fence in the Strong Bad Is In Jail Cartoon, and actually back in the army in the Labor Dabor puppet thing.
- Firebert later becomes a character in the Cheat Commandos. Additionally, the fact that Firebert is not a good commando name is referenced again in the toon "Shopping for Danger", when Firebert is ordered to "stay here and think of a better commando name".
DVD Version
- The Three-to-One-Marny Easter Egg is viewable using the angle button on your DVD remote.
- The DVD version features hidden creator's commentary. To acccess it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
