myths & legends
From Homestar Runner Wiki
| Strong Bad Email #145 |
|
Strong Bad recounts the legendary myth of the Bear-Shark.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, A Mighty Warrior (Easter egg), Trogdor (Easter egg), Bear-Shark, The Cheat, Bubs, Strong Sad, Homestar Runner, Coach Z (Easter egg)
Places: Computer Room, Strong Badia, Bubs' Concession Stand, The Forest
Computer: Lappy 486
Date: February 13, 2006
Running Time: 2:54
Page Title: Lappy 486
Contents |
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 mere 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 British distance runner, combined forces to defeat the others.
{The two constellations in question fight, and in the end, the runner holds the fish over his head.}
STRONG BAD: In paintball... 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 a 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 started 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
- After Strong Bad says "Corn Army", click on CA in the email to see a Teen Girl Squad frame of the Mighty Warrior taking on the corn army.
- Click on "CG Dinosaur Channel" to see Trogdor walk on the screen, advertising "Walking with Trogdor".
- By viewing the Flash file, when the "ancient fence drawings" are going by, you can see the following text written in sloppy, child handwriting outside of the typical viewing area.
by strong
bab
ag9 5
- Click on "startling" at the end to see a scene with Strong Bad and Bubs.
- {Cut to Bubs' Concession Stand}
- STRONG BAD: {holding one of the Bear-Shark ice cream bars} So this is supposed 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.
- {Cut to Coach Z, standing in silhouette in front of a dark background. A caption appears reading "This guy's voice has been digitally altered again"}
- COACH Z: {with voice digitally altered} So there I was, minding my own creepy business, when I found this severed hand in the lacker room! {He holds up a biscuit with a bite taken out.}
Fun Facts
Explanations
- "CG" is short for "Computer generated".
- "Telephone Game" is a game for children where a message is whispered from one participant to another, along a group, causing the message to be distorted more and more.
Trivia
- This is another appearance of pie.
- Homestar often refers to Pom Pom as his dog.
Remarks
- If you look at the Bear Holding a Shark's feet during the blurry footage, you can see that they are white with blue soles, indicating Homestar's footage is not quite authentic.
- On the Frequently asked questions page, where it shows the eyes of all the characters and allows you to fill in the names, Biscuit Dough Hands Man is multiple words. This is contradictory to the end of this email in which it is spelled "Biscuitdoughhandsman", which in turn is probably a nod to "Strongbad" at the beginning, although in an easter egg in rock opera, the name is also spelled as all one word in one of the reviews given about Strong Bad's rock opera.
Inside References
- The Mighty Warrior discussing corn is a reference to Teen Girl Squad Issue 10.
- The constellation scene features the Strong Badian flag's snake, the big knife guy and his knife, and General Tso's Chicken, which all had connections to Strong Badia in the past.
- 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.
- One of the girls seen on a bicycle in the "ancient fence drawings" bears a resemblance to What's Her Face.
- The "Bear Holding A Shark" ice cream bar is similar in style to the actual ice cream bars of Homestar Runner, Pom Pom and Strong Bad, as seen in the Museum.
- Biscuitdoughhandsman is a reference to "Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon." Bubs drew him from the King of Town's description of the criminal who stole his crown, who was actually Strong Bad.
- "Strong Bab" is a reference to The Secrets That I Keep, in which Strong Sad's birthday card was signed the same way by Lil' Strong Bad.
Real-World References
- "Walking With Trogdor" is a reference to the TV special Walking With Dinosaurs, which was shown in CG.
- The "Walking with Trogdor" easter egg is a reference to the recent trend of television networks to advertise for their shows by displaying short video clips along the bottom during the broadcast of another show.
- The British Long Distance Runner is likely a reference to Roger Bannister, the man who first ran the mile in four minutes or less.
- "Bear Holding a Shark Week" is a reference to The Discovery Channel's Shark Week.
- One of the fence drawings is a 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 In Search Of... and similar shows and documentaries that investigate paranormal phenomena such as monster sightings and alien abductions, and often include interviews with people who claim to have encountered such things.
- 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.
- Strong Sad dismissing the existence of the Bear holding a Shark, claiming what people actually see is a weather balloon is a reference to skeptics' common reactions to, or governments' explanations for, UFO sightings or other supernatural events.
- The "Homes with Rollercoasters in Them Network" is likely a reference to the many home improvement shows that exist on channels like TLC and The Discovery Channel, in which rooms are redecorated to fit a specific theme. Such shows include Trading Spaces and Monster House.
- The show Strong Bad mentions at the begining of the email is a reference to the The Discovery Channel's popular show, Mythbusters.
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"
