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Strong Bad Email #180
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"Whoa! Jackpot!"

Strong Bad gives slumber party advice.

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, Bubs, Coach Z, The King of Town, Strong Sad

Places: Computer Room, Homestar Runner's House, Coach Z's Locker Room

Computer: Lappy 486

Date: Monday, October 1, 2007

Running Time: 4:11

Page Title: Lappy 486

Contents

Transcript

STRONG BAD: {singing} Gary... I hope this email's from Gary... {The email comes up} Hah! Aw...

{Strong Bad reads NY as en-why}

STRONG BAD: {typing} So it was just you and Uno? Like, no other people or sleeping bags or R-rated movies? Uh, you probably shoulda skipped that one. Family card games are notorious for hosting the worst slumber parties.

{Cut to Strong Bad sitting at a table with his eyes half closed. There is a deck of cards sitting across from him on the table.}

STRONG BAD: {flatly} Thanks for inviting me, Skip-Bo.

{Cut back to the computer}

STRONG BAD: {clears screen} But let's say you get invited to a slumber party by a carbon based lifeform. The first thing you wanna look at is the popularity of the host.

{Cut to a blackboard with "COOLGUY's LAW:" and a face wearing a mortar board drawn on it}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} According to Coolguy's Law, the popularity of the host is inversely proportional to the amount of fun you can have at their house.

{As he speaks, the formula appears on the blackboard. Cut back to the computer.}

STRONG BAD: {typing} You got nothing to lose! You can tear that place apart and dislocate all the younger siblings' shoulders you want. It's not like you're ever going back there again.

{Cut to Homestar Runner's bedroom. Homestar and Strong Bad are there, and there are sledgehammers embedded in the walls. Strong Bad is holding a sledgehammer.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: What did you say the name of this family card game was again, Strong Bad?

STRONG BAD: This is called Find The Load-Bearer. You never played this before?

HOMESTAR RUNNER: No. Find The Load-Bearer, Bed Axe, {Cut to Homestar's bed, which has two axes embedded in it} I never heard of any of these games we played.

{Strong Bad throws another axe into the bed. Cut back to the computer.}

STRONG BAD: {typing} Unpopular kids' dads definitely still play video games, so try and locate—

{Cut to Strong Bad reaching into Homestar's dresser and pulling out some games}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} —his stash of Rated M for Mature titles.

STRONG BAD: Whoa! Jackpot! {Holds up a game with a skull in a bloodstain on the cover} Blood Bleeder, {Holds up a game with the disembodied heads of two men and a dog on the cover} Head Chopper 2, {Holds up a game with a laser shooting at some disembodied scabs on the cover} Scab Wars, {Holds up a game with a blistered hand and a ghost holding a chainsaw on the cover} Blistergeist? Most of these things have been taken off the market!

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh. Those are off-limits. We're only allowed to play Clapping Party.

{Homestar plays Clapping Party, which consists of two hands against a blue background. They clap three times, and the words "ROUND CLEAR" appear against a red background with confetti. Several hands rapidly appear at the bottom of the screen. Cut back to the Lappy.}

STRONG BAD: The next thing to consider when going to a slumber party is the menu.

{Cut to a blue screen with the words "TYPICAL SLUMBER PARTY FARE" at the top and a boy's head at the bottom. As Strong Bad talks, the things he describes appear, and the boy gets fatter}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Typical party food includes things like, six-foot party sub, an exorbitant amount of pizza, and at least enough Skittles and red cream soda to make your spit hurt.

{The boy sticks out his tongue, which is bumpy and rainbow colored. A rainbow drool-drop forms. Cut to a table.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} But if you get over there, {Strong Bad falls from the sky} and they're, like, having a meal at a table, and they're serving, like...

{A chicken leg in a pan moves towards Strong Bad}

STRONG BAD: {uncertain voice} Chicken... in a pan? {A plate moves towards Strong Bad and salad appears on it} With some... salad... {A glass of milk pours from the top of the screen} and a... glass of milk? To drink?

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} You better start running! {Strong Bad runs} Because that family must have some serious health problems.

{Cut back to the computer}

STRONG BAD: {typing} But if you're looking for a guaranteed good time, you need to get invited to an OLDER KID'S slumber party. Anything goes at those things!

{Cut to Coach Z's locker room. Pan from Bubs to Coach Z to the King of Town}

BUBS: My cousin Louis, he's dead. My cousin Harold, he's dead.

COACH Z: {Overlapping} And my back still hurts. And my knees still hurt.

KING OF TOWN: {Overlapping} Government ain't right! Government ain't right!

BUBS: So my escrow carried over into my lumbago, but then my sciatica started acting up.

STRONG BAD: Uh, can you guys start using words that were invented after the year nineteen-oh-zero?

KING OF TOWN: Come now, young whipper-snapper. My fellows and I were just about to start playing at games of chance. {Holds up some dice and shakes them}

STRONG BAD: Lemme guess. That doesn't include Bed Axe. {Holds up an axe}

{Cut back to the computer}

STRONG BAD: {typing} Uh, you might wanna put a cap on what you define as "older kids." Other than that, you can look always forward to endlessly ridiculing the kid that got picked up early 'cause he misses his mom. Strong Sad used to do that when we'd have slumber parties in our own basement!

{Cut to a wide shot. Strong Sad is standing nearby with his arm in a sling}

STRONG SAD: That only happened once!

STRONG BAD: {nodding} Uh-huh...

STRONG SAD: {reluctantly} A week...

STRONG BAD: Keep going.

STRONG SAD: {very reluctantly} For ten years...

STRONG BAD: There you go!

{He turns back to the computer}

STRONG BAD: {typing} Oh, and one more thing: If your jim-jams happen to be a, oh, I dunno, long V-neck undershirt with a pair of questionable tighty-whities underneath, maybe don't wear those to the slumber party. Don't ask me how I know this. Please, PLEASE, {hangs head} DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW THIS.

STRONG SAD: {offscreen, mocking voice} How do you know that?

STRONG BAD: Oh, that's it! Allow me to relieve you of that located shoulder! Yah!

{Strong Bad jumps off his chair and offscreen. Strong Sad yells. New Paper comes down.}

Easter Eggs

  • Click on "questionable" at the end to play Clapping Party. If you play the game twice, it unlocks "Blistergeist" mode, which involves a ghost in a hockey mask attacking the hands with a chainsaw, causing blisters to appear on them.
  • Click on "slumber party" at the end to watch Homestar's Slumber Party dance.
HOMESTAR RUNNER: Party! Slumber party! Listen to some Sade at my slumber party!

Fun Facts

Explanations

  • "Rated M for Mature" refers to the ESRB rating system, which uses letters to indicate what age group a video game is best suited for.

Trivia

Remarks

  • When Strong Bad says, "find the load bearer," he is referring to a stud, although in a typical wood-framed house, most vertical studs bear an equal load.

Goofs

  • When Homestar is dancing in the Easter egg, legs are occasionally disconnected.

Inside References

  • Strong Bad is referred to as Prof. Tor Coolguy in Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon, hence the fact that he created "Coolguy's law".
  • The pizza boxes are from The Pizz introduced in pizza joint, only now labeled "Slumber Party Style" instead of "Neighborhood Style".
    • Homestar's dance from his Easter egg is also based on an Easter egg seen in pizza joint.
  • This is a reference to Homestar's dad, as well as to Bubs having cousins.
  • When Strong Bad is looking in the closet for M-rated games, we can see some Sega tapes, reading "Throat Rip" and "Saliva Quest".
  • Some of the games have blood.
  • This email mentions underwear.

Real-World References

  • Uno and SKIP-BO are card games owned by Mattel.
  • Skittles are a small, fruit-flavored candy produced by Mars, Inc.
  • The T-shirt Homestar is wearing during the Easter egg is identical to the one Michael Jackson wears in the "Beat It" video. This shirt was also seen in Homestar Presents: Presents.
  • Blistergeist is a parody of Splatterhouse, the most notable reference being the goalie mask.
  • Clapping Party is played similarly to the Donkey Konga series of video games.
  • In the Easter egg, Homestar mentions listening to Sade.

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