japanese cartoon
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Strong Bad Email #57
Strong Bad describes what he would look like as a japanese cartoon, and 20X6 is born.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Stinkoman, Pan Pan, 20X6 Homestar, Homestar Runner {Easter Egg}
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Transcript
STRONG BAD: So cool an email. I thought you would enjoy it. Ding dong, {reading}
Dear Strong Bad, what would you look like as a japanese cartoon and what would it be about? -james f.
{Strong Bad pronounces "f." "fffffffffff"}
STRONG BAD: {typing} A Japanese cartoon, eh, James? I saw one o' thems once. Let's see what I can remember.
{cut to a white screen with Strong Bad standing there. As he describes how he would look different, the changes are applied}
STRONG BAD: Okay, so first of all, my head would have to be a little bean. With real-real big eyes. Get rid of my thumbs, make me all shiny...my boots would be a whole lot cooler. Like robot boots. And for some reason, I got blue hair. You gotta have blue hair. Then there's my mouth. Real tiny when it's closed; ridiculously huge when it's open. And then you basically just put me in space and let me fly around in cool poses!
{we see Stinko Man, the anime Strong Bad, flying around in all sorts of cool poses. He then lands down in a futuristic anime-rendition of the field. Music from the NES game Rad Racer plays in background (Stinko Man's theme song)}
STRONG BAD: And they'd probably have somebody else do the voices.
{20X6 Homestar walks on}
20X6 HOMESTAR: Hey Stinko Man! Everybody says you're the guy but, I wanna be the guy too!
STINKO MAN: No way, you're just a kid! Maybe when you're older.
{Pan Pan, the anime version of PomPom designed to look like a panda, bounces in and squashes 20X6 Homestar}
STINKO MAN: Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Pan Pan is fat! Ha ha ha ha ha! He fell on you! Ha ha ha ha! He's a good bear!
{Suddenly, the cartoon transitions into an ink-drawing of the scene. The Stinkoman K theme song starts playing. The background then changes to a similar sketch of Stinkoman powering up, upon which the credits appear:}
Executive Producer
H. Yamauchi
Producer
S. Miyahon
{The backdrop changes to Stinkoman in a different pose.}
Director
S. Miyahon
Ten Ten
Designer
Ten Ten
{The backdrop becomes a head with huge spikes for hair and Strong Bad's eyes.}
Programmer
T. Nakazoo
MaruMaru
Sound Composer
Konchan
{Then we're back to Compy with Strong Bad typing.}
STRONG BAD: {in Stinko Man's voice} Japanese cartoons are w-- {clears his throat} Oh, ahem, excuse me. {goes back to typing and uses his regular voice} Japanese cartoons are weird, man. Though I may be on to something with that blue hair. {stops typing} Look pretty nice, it look-a pretty nice!
{The scene does an ink-transition and more credits apppear as Strong Bad sings the 20X6 theme tune:}
Director
Mike Rock
Designer
MattMatt
Combolations
Oolong Singy
Click Here To Email Strong Bad
{You can click on the final "credit" to e-mail Strong Bad.}
Easter Eggs
- At the very end you can click on the words, "Japanese Cartoons" and see "Stinkoman" in action.
- At the end of "Stinkoman K 20X6" you can click on "Japanese Cartoons" again to see Homestar Runner watching it and singing along to the theme song.
- If you watch it long enough, Stinko Man eventually stops running on the TV, meaning the animation is not actually looped like most of the other animations on the site.
- While or after Homestar is watching the intro to Stinkoman, you can click on the "NES Endings" video tape to see various ending to NES games.
- Once the NES Endings window opens, you can click on it to show more.
Fun Facts
- The endings for the Nintendo games are as follows:
- Rad Racer (Rad Racer is also the source of the Stinkoman theme song)
- Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest (Normal Ending)
- Megaman 2
- Super Mario Bros. 2 (Super Mario USA in Japan)
- Hoops
- Ghosts N' Goblins (Good Ending)
- Blaster Master (This has "Blue Hair" and an arrow pointing to the character's hair written on it)
- The Legend of Zelda (First Quest)
- Metroid (1-3 Hours Finishing Time)
- Jackal
- Rygar
- In the third slide of the "credits", you can see a parody of Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z), all Strong Bad'd up.
- This is one of two Strong Bad Emails in which the paper doesn't come down. The other is superhero name.
- The name Stinkoman is a reference to island. Homestar suddenly calls Strong Bad "Stinkoman."
- 20x6 is actually a reference to the first Metroid game, which is set in the year 20x5.
- The spaceship looks a lot like this spaceship from the videogame Galaxy 5000.
- The credits for Stinkoman K are lifted from The Legend of Zelda for NES. One of the credits is S. Miyahon. This was a translation error in the original game, as it was meant to be the Legendary Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Mario. The Kanji for Hon (Book), and Moto (Base) are the same Kanji.
- The theme music is lifted directly from Rad Racer, an old NES game. Rad Racer 's music was composed by Nobuo Uematsu, who, of course, would later go on to become famous for his Final Fantasy soundtracks.
- At the begining of the email, Strong Bad recites a Haiku, which is very fitting:
- So cool an email
- I thought you would enjoy it
- Ding dong dear Strong Bad
- The first line of Strong Bad's haiku is a reference to Strong Bad E-mail #34, weird dream, in which the Cheat's computer, Tangerine Dreams, has an icon labelled 'So Cool A Flash'. This, in turn, refers to the Klez virus, an e-mail virus with the subject line 'So Cool A Flash'. The text inside the e-mail was 'I thought you would enjoy it', so the opening line of this e-mail is a reference to both weird dream and the Klez virus.
- The credit for H. Yamauchi is presumably a reference to Hiroshi Yamauchi, former president of Nintendo.
- The credits for Mike Rock and MattMatt are references to Mike and Matt Chapman.
- The two videos next to the NES Endings are "Joy of Painting" from the Toons menu.
- Strong Bad recites a haiku at the start of the e-mail, but in Halloween Fairstival, he claims that he doesn't "know or care what a haiku is".
DVD Version
- The 20X6 and Homestar watching Easter Eggs are now opened by different icons. The Strong Bad's head icon on the right side of the Compy 386 screen opens the former, and the one in the lower left corner of the Compy 386 opens the latter.
- Be warned that if you open the Homestar Easter Egg, you have to restart the toon in order to see the other one
- The NES Endings are, surprisingly, still accessable, though you have to wait for the Homestar video clip to be finished before you can access them.
- This email also features hidden creator's commentary. You can access it by switching your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
Commentary Transcript
(Commentary by: Mike Chapman, Matt Chapman)
MATT: This is CD number one
MIKE: Number two
MATT: Number three
MIKE: And number four.
MATT: That's from that Flaming Lips four disc thing.
MIKE: Alright.
MATT: So this is when we started this email at, like, 10 PM on Sunday night, didn't we?
MIKE: I think so.
MATT: And we didn't finish until, like, early or LATE Monday?
MIKE: I dunno
MATT: Or early Tuesday.
MIKE: No, I think it was up on Monday.
MATT: OK.
MIKE: But it was definitely later in the day.
MATT: I remember Matt and Jenna, our friends Matt and Jenna came over and we had just drawn some of these preliminary drawings of Strong Bad as Stinkoman and we showed it to them.
MIKE: I don't remember that.
MATT: They did! They came over-
MIKE: I believe you! I'm just saying I don't remember it.
MATT: Well I don't-
MIKE: I don't have anything to add to that, uh, line of-
MATT: I don't know why we did, we probably had a good time for a little while
MIKE: Maybe
MATT: and then they left.
MIKE: Yeah?
{pause}
MATT: This is another scene, nobody likes this scene, everybody hates this scene, though.
{Mike laughs a little.}
MATT: You know. There's that ship! Originally we were going to say that ship was The Cheat.
MIKE: Oh yeah, that's right! {laughs}
MATT: That was going to be, the 20x6 version of The Cheat was that ship.
MIKE: We should still do that.
MATT: Yeah, maybe- maybe so.
MIKE: Uhm... I like Homestar's boots there.
MATT: Yeah. I mean, I think we didn't- until we recorded this line, we weren't going to, like, call him Stinkoman, were we? And it was, we were just making that reference, to the old, to Island, the email.
MIKE: {at the same time, overlapping} You've got to remember... you're right.
MATT: I love those mushroom things. I love those- the mushroom things-
MIKE: There's the tear over your head.
MATT: The tear
MIKE: And the snot bubble
MATT: There's some other stuff.
MIKE: So many weird things that happen in-
MATT: Those mushroom things happen in, uh, Animal Crossing, when they get mad there.
MIKE: Oh yeah, that's right!
MATT: Of course, these are all the credits from, uh, the original Legend of Zelda.
MIKE: Konchan, sound composer. Does good work.
{Matt starts singing the Legend of Zelda theme song, then Mike continues it.}
MIKE: Sorry. Uhm... so yeah.
MATT: So the one-two punch of Trogdor and Stinkoman are probably-
MIKE: Yeah, back to back weeks
MATT: -are probably THE most popular emails. Combolations. {laughs a little}
MIKE: Later, Senor Cardgage gives combolations to Strong Bad in the 100th email.
Fun Facts
- The album in particular Matt and Mike reference at the beginning is Zaireeka by The Flaming Lips. Zaireeka was a highly experimental album designed to be heard on 4 separate discs played simultaneously. The part of the album they reference happens at the beginning of each track and serves as a way to let you know you synced the discs properly.
- The talk about The Cheat 20X6 being a spaceship is most likely a reference to the anime Tenchi Muyo, where the cabbit (cat-rabbit) Ryo-Ohki could transform into a spaceship several hundred times her size.
