from work

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Strong Bad answers an email from work.

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Bubs, Strong Sad, Homestar Runner, Pom Pom

Places:The Office

Computer: Corpy NT6

Date: April 9, 2007

Running Time: 3:24

Page Title: Corpy NT6!

Transcript

{Close-up of the lower half of Strong Bad's face. He holds his hand over his mouth.}

STRONG BAD: {sotto voce} Shhh! Shut up, you guys! I'm checkin' email from work today, and I can't let The Man know what I'm doing!

{Cut to Strong Bad typing on a computer with a grey monitor,

STRONG BAD: {singing} Oh, tiptoe your fingers 'cross the keyboard for the quietest email you can check.

{Buzz noise. An error message with a picture of a hand blocking a basketball appears with the text "BLOCKED! Back to work, drone!"}

STRONG BAD: {typing} Oh, man. They got everything blocked now. Even those awesome pop-up insurance with the cool mini-games in 'em. I tasered that gnome like ten times! {stops typing} Good thing The Cheat hooked me up with this Cheatware!

{Strong Bad holds up a yellow 3.5" diskette with black spots; the label reads "Cheatware ver. 2.1" and has an ASCII drawing of The Cheat. He puts it in the computer. The text "Grandma Edgar's Corporate Firewall Get-Arounder" appears on the screen with a picture of an old woman and a brick wall. The screen changes to an animation of the old woman pole vaulting over the wall into an envelope.}

STRONG BAD: Oh, nice work, pixo-Granny! Undermine those corporate oppressors on witcha bad self! {brings up email}

Dear Strong Bad,
If you could have any job in the whole
world, regardless of how much it pays, what
would you have?
From The Nitwon

{Strong Bad reads "The Nitwon" as "The Nittle One"}}

STRONG BAD: {typing} You ask like I haven't told you guys a million times... {drumroll sounds; Strong Bad clears screen} I'd be a 2nd 2nd Assistant Space Whale Scrubber! {"tada" sound effect; the words "Space Whale Scrubber" flash in many colors} Cause those are the ones that get to wear that glittery pantsuit and use a lazormop to scrub all the nudules and crudules off the whale's dorsal ridge!

Easter Eggs

• Click on the Dullard to bring up a Dullard comic.
• Click on "work" at the end to play "Tazer the Gnome For Low Prices."

Fun Facts

Explanations

• A firewall is meant to protect a computer or network from viruses or spyware.
• A temp is a short-term worker.
• A blog, or "weblog" is a journal-like user generated website.
• "Insurance games" is a reference to online advertisements from companies like LowerMyBills.com that feature Flash-based games which lead to the company's website when played.

Inside References

• This is the fifth email running to mention DNA Evidence.
• Strong Sad previously said "staysh" in Missing Lappy.
• This is another program mentioning Edgar.

Real-World References

• Dictionary.com includes the meanings of various words.
• The gnome in the Easter Egg references the Travelocity gnome.
• Products advertised in the Easter Egg include a Microsoft Xbox, an iPod Video, and a Sony Playstation Portable (PSP).
• Tetris is a video game made by Nintendo

External Links

• watch "from work"
• watch "from work" on the old Flash site
• view the Flash file for "from work"
• forum thread re: "from work"