halloweener
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Strong Bad Email #7
Ben wants to know how to make a Strong Bad Halloween costume. Strong Bad gives some instructions while Homestar models.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Homestar Runner
Places: Computer Room, The Field
Computer: Tandy 400
Date: October 31, 2001
Running Time: 1:13
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Transcript
STRONG BAD: I am going to check my email.
Dear Strongbad,
I want to have the bestest halloween
costume ever this year. How can I make
a strongbad costume?
With crap,
Ben from Ohio University
STRONG BAD: {typing} Well Ben, I couldn't agree with you more. You dress up like me this year and the ladies will flock to you like the Poopsmith to an overflowing toilet. {stops typing} But I digress. Onto the costume...
{And the scene of the bushes appears at the screen.}
STRONG BAD: {off-screen voice} We'll demonstrate on stupid over here.
{Homestar drops off from outside}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hello!
STRONG BAD: {off-screen voice} First paint your head red, {Homestar's head turns red.} Then, take your shirt off... to expose your manly chest. {Homestar's shirt rolls off and a digital blur appears over his body.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh!
STRONG BAD: {off-screen voice} Next, get some boxing gloves, {Giant boxing gloves appear on Homestar's feet.} or if you don't have boxing gloves, oven mitts will do. {A huge pink oven mitt appears on Homestar's head.} Next, duct tape some aluminum foil to some twine. {Duct tape is wrapped around Homestar's legs, with two loose ends attached to a roll of tin foil and a ball of twine.} And finally, get your mom to make you a Strong Bad costume. You'll be the belle of the ball.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: I'm a belle!
{Strong Bad sits back in front of his computer.}
STRONG BAD: Okay, so until next time, who put the "ween" in "Halloween"? I don't know! Probably you! ...you freakin' weirdo!
{The Paper comes down, reading "Click here to e-mail strong bad".}
Fun Facts
- This is one of the very first times we see Homestar naked without pants.
Trivia
- This is another of the very few emails that had the "Old Emails" button on the monitor. It's since been removed by The Brothers Chaps to fit with the rest of the Strong Bad Emails.
- This is the last email where Strong Bad's head is at the right side of the screen and a bit higher, making his mouth visible. This is also the last email where his head doesn't move while talking.
- Clicking "back" used to take you to the Games menu instead of the Strong Bad Email menu if you clicked on it. This has since been fixed, although if you click on it while it is fading in, it still takes you to the Games menu.
- This is the first email in which Homestar makes a personal appearance.
- This is the first email to be over one minute long.
Goofs
- The text Strong Bad types at the beginning is no longer there when he sits back down.
Inside References
- The oven mitt that Homestar is given is the same one Strong Bad was wearing in In Search Of The Yello Dello.
DVD Version
- The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
Commentary Transcript
(Commentary by: Mike Chapman, Matt Chapman)
MIKE: This is the last one we did before we started doing them weekly.
MATT: Yep.
MIKE: ...or relatively weekly.
MATT: And then we were still doing them... I was still in New York, livin' in New York... I was in New York and living in New York.
{pause}
MIKE: Um...
MATT: Yeah, these ones, I think I just recorded them. They were so, like, simple for— this was one of the more complicated ones for early on, but I would just send you audio and you'd do the entire thing.
MIKE: Yeah. It didn't take very long back then.
MATT: There's our... there's our Homestar Runner.
MIKE: The hills slash bushes in the background are a little different than usual.
MATT: Yeah, they are.
MIKE: Oooh, the pixellated, naked Homestar.
MATT: That was a big achievement. I think you— but that had already been done for the main page.
MIKE: Yeah, the shower main page, yep.
MATT: That aluminum foil's really good, too.
MIKE: Yeah, it's...
MATT: Nice work, Mike.
MIKE: Thanks, man.
MATT: Did we see, somebody sent us, uh, I think somebody did—
MIKE: Oh yeah, someone dressed up—
MATT: —Pretty much made that con...contest...
MIKE: Costume. It's costume, Matt! Costume!
MATT: Costume palace! Hah! That's from one of our later we—episodes.
Fun Facts
- The episode Matt is referring to when he says "costume palace" is fingers.
- The main page where Homestar appears naked in the shower is Main Page 14.
