myths & legends
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Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, A Mighty Warrior (Easter egg), Trogdor (Easter egg), The Cheat, Bubs, Strong Sad, Homestar Runner, Coach Z (Easter egg)
Places: Computer Room, Strong Badia, The Forest
Computer: Lappy 486
Date: February 13, 2006
Running Time: 2:54
Page Title: Lappy 486
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Transcript
STRONG BAD: {singing} I'm livin' the Strong Bad life, I take an email for my wife. I take an email for my wife. {brings up and reads the email}
subject: Hey Strongbad!Hey Strongbad,
Does Strong Badia have any Mysterious Myths or
Legendary Legends?
Cephas
Cornwall, CA
{Strong Bad says "Strongbad" as "Two words. Two different words. That are not one word. That are 'Strong' and 'Bad'." and the name and location as "Cephas Cornwall of the Corn Army".}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Mysterious Myths or Legendary Legends? Isn't that a show on one of those channels up in the high hundreds? Ya know, like between the CG Dinosaur Channel and the Homes with Rollercoasters in Them Network? Well, if not, it should be! {makes a static-like sound} Come on! {makes it again, but this time the screen cuts to static} There we go.
{Cut to Strongbadia. Strong Bad carries a stick.}
STRONG BAD: Strongbadia. An idyllic fruit-opia. Rich in madeupstories and nottrueities. The nottrue-est of which...
{He prods The Tire with his stick. The Bear-Shark pops up. The Cheat runs by, panicked.}
THE CHEAT: {screams in The Cheat}
STRONG BAD: ...is the mighty bear holding a shark. {spooky music starts} More than a security counter-measure, its origins lie in the skies of old.
{Cut to a starry sky. Constellations of the Strongbadia flag's snake, the guy with the big knife, a hand giving the "OK" symbol, a board with nails in it, General Tso's chicken, a fish with an afro, and a marathon runner.}
STRONG BAD: The stars tell us that two of the seven elemental spirits of Strongbadia, the fish wearing a 'fro wig and the marathon distance runner, combine forces to ???
{The two constellations in question fight, and in the end, the runner holds the fish over his head.}
STRONG BAD: In ???... or maybe Red Rover.
{Cut back to Strong Bad}
STRONG BAD: Then, through years of bad story-telling and the telephone game,
{Over the following, images of a satyr holding a fish, labeled "Wildernessman withst Sea-Beast", an elk with a fish in its antlers, and a bad drawing of the bear-shark on the fence appear.}
STRONG BAD: The mythic beast transformed into the bear holding the shark we know today. These ancient fence drawings show evidence of destroyed crops, stolen babies, and family bike-rides. {The screen pans over to show bad drawings of the same.} Or family pie-sitting contests. Bear-holding-a-shark fever gripped the nation.
{Cut to Bubs' Concession Stand, with various Bear-Shark paraphernelia.}
BUBS: {holding up an ice cream bar} We got Bear-holding-a-shark frozen delights, {looking at a pile of glasses near him} and these shot glasses are always popular with the kids. Oh, and my favorite: {reaches down and produces a necklace} these Bear-tooth-holding-a-shark-tooth necklaces!
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Of course, not everyone caught the fever.
{Music starts and Bubs dances. Then, cut to Strong Sad. The screen reads "Bear Holding a Shark Skeptic".}
STRONG SAD: I'm sure it's just a weather balloon or a foreign exchange student. These strange beasts just aren't real!
{Cut back to Strong Bad}
STRONG BAD: ...said the elephant-footed ghost man. And then, one day, the Bear-holding-a-shark got the break all made-up creatures dream of. {The screen becomes more and more blurry, and zooms further and further into Strong Bad, on each word in:} Blurry photographic evidence.
{Cut to Homestar Runner}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Now, I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but I was in the woods, walking my dog Pom Pom. All of a sudden, he was growlin' and poopin' all over the place. And that's when I saw him.
{Static, then cut to a very fuzzy video reel of the Bear-Shark walking through the woods.}
HOMESTAR RUNNER: {voiceover} A very. Scary. Monsterman.
{More spooky music}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Now that we've seen all the evidence, it's up to you to decide: {the following words appear on the screen} Mysterious Myth? Or Legendary Legend?
{Cut back to the Lappy}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Join us next week when we examine startling new evidence in the Biscuitdoughhandsman conspiracy.
{More spooky music. The Paper comes down.}
Easter Eggs
- Click on CA in the email to see a Teen Girl Squad frame of the Mighty Warrior taking on a corn army.
- Click on "CG Dinosaur Channel" to see Trogdor walk on the screen, advertising "Walking with Trogdor".
- Click on "startling" at the end to see a scene with Strong Bad and Bubs.
- STRONG BAD: So this is s'posed to be the bear holding a shark? Looks more like...Morgan Freeman.
- BUBS: Oh, right! That's what it is! Now gimme twenty extra bucks for that Shawshank style.
- Click on "Biscuitdoughhandsman" to see Coach Z reporting an incident.
- COACH Z: {with voice digitally altered} So there I was, minding my own creepy business, when I found this severed hand in the locker room!
Fun Facts
Explanations
- "CG" is short for "Computer graphics".
Trivia
- The TV show sound effect incorporates the same musical notes as The Geddup Noise.
Inside References
- The Mighty Warrior discussing corn is a reference to Teen Girl Squad Issue 10.
- Coach Z's voice was digitally altered before in couch patch.
- The Cheat was revealed to be scared of the Bear-Shark in date.
- Strong Sad's Soolnds are mentioned again.
Real-World References
- "Walking With Trogdor" is a reference to the TV special Walking With Dinosaurs, which was shown in CG.
- "Bear Holding a Shark Week" is a reference to The Discovery Channel's Shark Week.
- One of the scribbles is an attacking TIE fighter.
- "Shawshank style" is in reference to the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption in which Morgan Freeman plays a convict.
- The Strongbadia Myth Show is a reference to the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters, in which tons of myths are busted or confirmed.
- The blurry video footage of the bear holding a shark is a reference to the famous Patterson-Gimlin home-movie footage of an alleged Bigfoot (Sasquatch) moving through a forest.
- Fruitopia is a fruit drink manufactured by Coca-Cola.
External Links
- watch "myths & legends"
- watch "myths & legends" on the old Flash site
- view the Flash file for "myths & legends"
- forum thread re: "myths & legends"
