History Recap / StrongBadEmailE164LookingOld

* MultiTakeCut: Wildly-changing cuts, {{zoom}}-ins, and camera angles are heavily abused in the Cheat's attempt at "Youth Through Editing".

* AgeInsecurity: "Looking Old", Strong Bad insists his age is "a closely guarded secret, protected by a sect of closely guarded monks high atop the Coches Mountains". The whole email is about him trying to pass off as younger.

-->'''Strong Bad:''' Oh, this'll work ''great'', Marizpan... If I was '''''a backyard!!'''''

* MultiTakeCut: Wildly-changing cuts, zooms, and camera angles are heavily abused in the Cheat's attempt at "Youth Through Editing".

'''Homestar:''' I'll take it! I'll take twelve!

Marzipan has a few ideas to spruce up Strong Bad's look "and add hundreds to your resale value", but seems to be under the impression that they're trying to redecorate a yard. Strong Mad's suggestion that Strong Bad "WEAR A DIAPER!" isn't any better, being '''''way''''' younger than Strong Bad was aiming for.

'''Strong Bad: I'm not Great Grandma! I'm a young person, like you. I eat my yogurt from a tube.\\

->'''Strong Bad:''' What's up, my fellow young parson?
'''Strong Sad:''' Oh, hey Great Grandma! When did you get here?

"Andy H-S-I-A-O and Sometimes Y" writes in to speculate on Strong Bad's age, saying "you really do look old".

Strong Bad calls in an "Emergency Marketing Meeting", calling together "the best, the brightest, the people I hate the least": The Cheat, Strong Mad, Bubs, and Marzipan (who's there for "legal reasons").

The Cheat suggests "Youth Through Editing", making Strong Bad Emails more exciting through use of "quick cuts, incessant music, and disorienting close-ups". Strong Bad is initially "on board" and "not bored", but he finds The Cheat's remixed version of Strong Bad checking Andy's email a bit overwhelming.

Bubs chimes in, saying "I've been noticing how kids love anything with a lowercase "i" in front of it," as seen with Homestar and Homsar eagerly waiting in line to pick up [=iTems=] from Bubs' Concession Stand. Strong Bad shoots that idea down, saying "We already tried that with lowercase 'e's back in the late '90s. We all know where ''that'' got us."

Marzipan has a few ideas to spruce up Strong Bad's look "and add hundreds to your resale value", but seems to be under the impression that they're trying to redecorate a yard. Strong Mad's suggestion that Strong Bad "WEAR A DIAPER!" isn't any better, being way younger than Strong Bad was aiming for.

Unimpressed with everyone else's ideas, Strong Bad decides it's time for "extreme measures, with Gene Hackman!" and opts for a "lace-lift". Unfortunately, Strong Bad has his laces pulled a little ''too'' tight, and his stretched facial features and mumbling, muted voice cause Strong Sad to mistake his brother for their great-grandmother.

->'''Strong Bad:''' I'm not Great Grandma! I'm a young person, like you. I eat my yogurt from a tube.\\
'''Strong Sad:''' That's right! You eat everything through a tube! Well, let's get you back to the home.\\

'''Strong Sad:''' Yes, I saw your new hip! It looks great! (''starts leading the feebly protesting Strong Bad away'') Why don't you tell me again about the time the Depression fought Abraham Lincoln naked in your front yard?

* YoungerAndHipper: Parodied in this e-mail, which is all about Strong Bad trying to brainstorm ways to "reconnect with the youth of today".

* CutawayGag: After Strong Bad brings up trying to use "lowercase 'e's back in the late nineties" to look cool, it cuts to a warehouse full of crates of "[=eStrong=] Vague Online Investments", which doubles as a TakeThat to the dot-com bubble.

-->'''Strong Bad: We already tried that with lowercase "e"s back in the late '90s. We all know where ''that'' got us.

* {{iProduct}}: Bubs remarks "kids love anything with a lowercase 'i' in front of it," and suggests re-branding as [=iStrong=] or [=iBad=]. Strong Bad rejects the idea, however...
-->"We already tried that with lowercase 'e's back in the late '90s. We all know where ''that'' got us."

* {{iProduct}}: Bubs remarks "kids love anything with a lowercase 'i' in front of it," and suggests re-branding as [=iStrong=] or [=iBad=].

After an e-mailer tells him "you really do look old", Strong Bad decides it's time for an image overhaul.

* CutawayGag: "We already tried that with lowercase 'e's back in the late nineties. We all know where ''that'' got us." Cue cut-away to a warehouse full of crates of "[=eStrong=] Vague Online Investments", which doubles as a TakeThat to the dot-com bubble.

* {{iProduct}}: Bubs suggests this, saying "kids love anything with a lowercase 'i' in front of it." Strong Bad shoots it down, saying "We already tried that with lowercase 'e's back in the late '90s. We all know where ''that'' got us."
* MultiTakeCut: Abused in the Cheat's attempt at "Youth Through Editing".
* TotallyRadical: "S'up my young parsons! I too am so on-the-go that I drink my yogurt from a tube."

* WereStillRelevantDammit[[invoked]][=/=]YoungerAndHipper: Parodied in this e-mail, which is all about Strong Bad trying to brainstorm ways to "reconnect with the youth of today".