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#71 - 2 Emails
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"Better than Good" (3.41 w/412 votes score:168)
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Vote: Awesome-Great-Good-Ok-Crap |
Strong Bad gets asked to do 2 emails! Then he travels in time to when all the ladies are suppose to show up for his Ladies Choice Awards!
Lots of crazy stuff happens during the "Fast Forward" I'll list some of the more interesting bits here.
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In the beginning when Strong Bad mentions "gum" you can click on the words, ""double the fun" to see Strong Bad's new gum!
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Before the "Fast Forward" you can click on "2003 Ladies' Choice Awards" to bring up the goofy event logo.
Thanks Jonathan B. for waiting until I posted and then emailing me that I forgot this one.
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Strong Bad writes a basic program, he can code!
10 print"STRONG BAD IS COOL!"
20 goto 10
30 end
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In the middle of the Fast Forward Strong Bad gets a letter from Danny asking what he thinks about Delaware.. 3 emails then!? (FYI: It get DELETED!)
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Homestar Runner sits down and writes: "Hey Strong Bad, I built a time machine by putting a Gameboy in a blender. I used your blender and also your Gameboy. I will go into the future and buy you new ones."
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Strong Bad plays a game called "PIGS ON HEAD" (Hope the Brothers make this a game too!)
Katie D. wrote in to say that this game closely resembles a game called "These Little Pigs" from www.orsinal.com. Thanks Katie! Wow, what a weird game!
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At the end you can click on the word "Backwards" to see a goofy "backwards "Backwards" logo..
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Also at the end you can click on the word "back" (The "back" in the email! not the back to go back to the menu!)to see how awesome Strong Bad was a long time ago! (Well, Uncle Strong Bad)
Thanks Strong Jason for noticing the misnomer!
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Here is a closer look at those hot girls on the table!
Hot lips! Whoo hoo!
A LOT of people wrote in about "Hot Lips" being Major Margaret Houlihan's nickname from the show M*A*S*H.. thanks everyone
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At the end you can click on the "Eh! Steve!" guy on The Cheat's screen to see the "Eh! Steve!" guy again!
Spitt over at Planetquake made this "Eh! Steve!" picture. (yes I told him it's "Eh!" and not "Hey!", so don't email me about it! :P )
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Also at the end you can click on The Cheat's CD-ROM drive to get some animated gifs from the "Cuppin' Cakes" cartoon
Tim wrote in to let us know that the animated GIFs are AIM buddy icons. Thanks Tim!
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Special Update!
I got a bunch of emails on this one.. the best way to list all the details I got is to list the emails! So here they are in chronological order:
First, Jen wrote in and said, "...Thought you might like to know the song that Strong Bads head plays during The Cheats cartoon is called 'Unterlanders Heimweh' - I only know this because I have the same keyboard from the 80's - it's a Casio PT-80" Thanks Jen!
And then Connie wrote in, "It is entirely possible that the song is used on the aforementioned keyboard, but the keyboard being referred to is actually the Casio VL - Tone. The PT did not have the LCD read out shown in the cartoon but the VL - Tone did. "
And then Patrick emailed with the MP3 link and, "Yes, I do believe it actually comes from the Casio VL-Tone VL-1 made in 1978, but that is not to say that this song is not also on the PT-80. For a pretty neat article about the VL-1, go to http://archive.keyboardonline.com/features/vintagegear/vgear0104.shtml."
And then Julie A. told me, "Someone sent in something claiming that the keyboard that Strong Bad's head turns into is a PT-80. Well, it's quite obviously not - it's a Casio VL-Tone VL-1. Attatched is a photograph of mine if you want further proof. She did, however, get the demo song right. :)"
And then Deo imformed me, "Hi- For email 72, someone wrote in and said strongbad's head is a casio pt-80. Its actually a Casio VL-1. http://www.unhacker.com/maximumcheesecore.html"
And then, to 'seal the deal', my good friend Bohus wrote me, "In the last SB (#72), someone named Jen claims that the keyboard that SB's head turns into is a PT-80. I hate to say that I know way too much about Casio keyboards, and therefore have to tell you that it's actually a VL-Tone.
It's an odd little beasty, and sort of predicts Casio's entry into the cheap keyboard market.
What makes the VL-Tone especially remarkable is that it has editable synthesis, a little sequencer, and dorkiest of all - it's actually a calculator! You can see a picture here: http://www.vintagesynth.org/casio/vl1.shtml
I have the Radio Shack rebadged version. Lots of people think that this was used in the Kraftwerk song "pocket calculator". It's not... but this is the synth/calc/gadget that the song is actually about. For the distinctive cheesy solo, Kraftwerk actually use a Mattel Bee Gees keyboard (they repainted it to look a little less cheesy)... and I'll scare you again by admitting that I have that keyboard as well.
Jen remembers the demo being on her childhood keyboard, but Casio often used the same demo tune on several models that were produced vaguely around the same time."
And then, I got too busy to keep up with everything, sorry folks! Anyway I might make a separate page for all of this as it's so long. If I missed any emails, I'm sorry they probably got spam-filtered. :)
Thanks to everyone that wrote in about this! Wow!
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Patrick wrote in with a link to the entire Unterlander's Heimweh demo tune Thanks Patrick!
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You can click on "really hungry and tired" to see a "LEM" styled cartoon of, well, them being really hungry and tired.
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You can also click on "application" to see their mascot application, GO DUMPLES!!!
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At the very end after the fightsong plays, you can mouse-over the notes to play them!
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Mike wrote in with this, it was so funny I had to post it. Maybe the Brothers will do some "Strong Bad Keyboard Emulator!" That would be totally awesome!
"...if you hit the following keys in order, you can play the 'easy-and-fun-way-to-draw-dragons theme music' from the original Trogdor e-mail:
C D E F A A A
C D E F A A A F E D
Thanks Mike, that is really wacky!
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You can no longer click on the word "abused" when Strong Bad says it, but it used to just sends you back to the beginning. Maybe this was a placeholder for something else, who knows.
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At the end you can click on the pizza box to see the top of it.
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You can click on the magazines to see the "Hardest Chord Ever" (be sure to do this BEFORE torching them, see below.)
Matt M. wrote in to let us know that Shrapnel Records is a small label dedicated to signing virtuoso guitarists, particularly heavy metal ones. Thanks Matt!
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After doing the above, you can also click on The Cheat's hand to get him to torch the lame magazines.
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Andrew wrote in with an interesting tid-bit, "The movie that The Cheat is watching at the end is undoubtly a reference to the cheesy 1997 Chris Thomson film "Trucks" " Thanks Andrew!
Evil Dave wrote in and said that the movie could just as easily be from the 1971 Steven Spielberg classic “Duel”, although it sounds like the Brothers re-did their own version of the dialog. Thanks Dave!
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A bunch of people wrote in to point out that he types "stong_bad.exe" and gets that "file not found" This is of course a reference to 50 Emails in which the one person emailing him calls him Stong Bad.
Thanks to Tim and Doug; Who were the first to write in, but I'd also like to thank: Gary D., Rockerboy, SPGLink, Brian S., and Brad.
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If you watch carefully you'll see that he types, "WOAH!! I CAN TYPE WITH ONE FOOT" when he is jumping around
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If you click on his head while he is bouncing and spinning on his head, homestar will come out to say something funny.
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At the very end you can click on blob of ketchup near the left fries to see the ketchup bottle.
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#76 - Sibbie
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"Great" (4.19 w/749 votes score:893)
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Vote: Awesome-Great-Good-Ok-Crap |
Strong Bad doesn't write a song about Sibbie, or so he thinks.
"And I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever make a song about the sibbie"
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This time Strong Bad types "stongbad_email.exe" and it works.. Now what!
Haha now its back to "strongbad_email.exe" Chaps Bros. must have typo'd it! Thanks to Brett S. for noticing it was fixed!
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Click on the words "purple thing" to see Strong Bad doing his "Fruit-of-the-Loom" impression.
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At the very end you can click on the radio to see Strong Bad teaching a class how to say, "fhqwhgads"
While watching Strong Bad teach the class Strong Mad comes up and says, "Douglas" which is a reference to "Cheat Talk" - Thanks Phonenixx for sending this in (also thanks to BlueWings, Gary D., and Ian G. who found this too)
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Click on the "G" on Strong Sad's Lobster to see a Homsar Celebrity testimonial!
I posted a link to a screen-shot because so many people were having trouble figuring out what to click, sorry!
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Click on the marker at the end of the email to see the instructions for Strong Bad's Ab-Abber.
(Thanks "Sunny Jingle" for the typo fix!)
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Chris "Sein Boys" wrote in to let us know that the theme song in Ad Abber is the same as the one from "Action Figure". Thanks Chris, this was bothering my friend Jason and I!
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Click on the words "fish lake" to see a postcard from there. (Fish!)
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To see the wonderful CD collection Homestar gave Marzipan, click on "CD"
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One of the Sega coasters is "Pigs on Head" a reference to email #71 "2 emails" (thanks for the typo fix Andrew N.P.)
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Yes Homestar mis-spells sb_email.exe as sb_enail.com or something, but that is just Homestar. Also, be sure to stick around at the end to hear Homestar sing, "The Neverending Soda" hehe! (of course it's a spoof reference to the "Neverending Story" theme - thanks Daniel)
Also, be sure to stick around a little longer for the rest of what Homestar says about the Mt. Dew.. Thanks Kevin C.
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When you see Coach Z he is telling a story that refers to the sound clip in "Autobiography" when he says, "Reg had da ball at da top of da key..." Thanks Jason C., Andrzej S., Tom, Eli M., and Joey B. - Thanks Justin for the typo fix! Sorry Joey!
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A lot of people wrote in about The Cheat dressing up in George Harrison's Sgt. Pepper suit! But Matt M. sent in a great comparison picture for everyone! (Also thanks to Thomas S. who sent in the same photos, just not combined.. :))
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You can click on the words, "faint of heart" and "faint of butt" to see the international symbols for them.
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Click on "name" in "..after I make fun of your name" to see Em's name badge.
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Click on the words: "Typing", "certain words", and "dumb stuff" to see some example popups. (Hands typing, hands holding a dictionary or book, and a pie chart)
MonkE2k writes in to point out that the pie chart adds up to 114% (28+17+8+61, the 8 is hard to see!)
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Be sure to wait 10 or 15 seconds after he says, "girl named Beth".. because it's not over..
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After Homestar does his thing, click on "something else" to hear what is apparently an ad
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At the very end be sure have your 3D glasses ready and click on the big "3D" part of the logo.
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After the 3D spiel, be sure to click on the words "watch out" for some more 3D madness!
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If you do not have 3D glasses, as I didn't, take an envelope with a "window" and cut the window in half. Take a red marker and color one piece red and the other piece blue.. and hold them in front of your eyes and watch it! It will be blurry and lame, but you'll get to see the effect.
An Alternate method is to do the same thing on a CD case.. it is MUCH less blurry!
There are also a bunch of places online that you can order 3d glasses from, or you can find some red and blue cellophane and make your own!
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Ryan "Bubba" V., Steve M., and Nick R. wrote in with screen caps of the newspaper.. So I thought I'd post the newspaper text without the blocking fake headline.. It's mostly just nonsense.. :)
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Steve M writes in, "Strong Bad's action star glasses in sbemail80 remind me of Litigation Jackson's from http://homestarrunner.com/xmas2002.html"
At the very end of the skit, you can click BELOW "The End" to bring up the "Litigation Jackson" poster.
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