Airdate: Monday, August 9, 2004
Sender: Allison, NJ
Instead of an email related song or statement, we open on Strong Bad playing Peasant's Quest, trying (unsuccessfully) to deal with the Kerrek. He's somehow gotten a score of -38/150.
"All-Is-On" from New Jersey wants to know if Strong Bad has ever thought about making his own TV show for kids.
We cut to Strong Bad on a yellow paper background, telling an unseen audience of children it's time to play "Where's The Cheat".
Kids: The Cheat!
One Kid: Christopher Columbus...
Strong Bad: Not good enough, F-minus-minus.
Strong Bad's frustration quickly builds to the breaking point when the kids are unable to give answers to "Where's The Cheat" better than "He's over there!"
(cut to Strong Bad at the Compy)
Strong Bad: So you can see how that might be less than pleasant, what with all the letter writing and the angry mothers and the subsequent stringing me up in town square for all to see.
While Strong Bad isn't cut out for hosting a kids' show, he thinks that "America's favorite blue midget Homestar" Homsar would be a natural, as demonstrated with a clip from a surreal educational show called "Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man?". It seems to involve Homsar literally farting around a purple void and teaching kids about letters with a disembodied lowercase "g" ("I'm not gonna lie to ya, that's a healthy piece of real estate!") and counting with a short but catchy song ("Stave it off, 1 2 3, and now you can count to three!") that the kids want to hear "fifty times more". Strong Bad finds Homsar's show so bizarre that this is his reaction:
(The Paper comes down.)
Tropes:
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Played for Laughs. Strong Bad screams "I'LL KILL ALL YOUR DOGS!" on his show.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: After his meltdown in the hypothetical show, Strong Bad points out potential reactions to it, ranging from the letter writing, the angry mothers, and his subsequent lynching in town square.
- Depraved Kids' Show Host: Strong Bad belittles the kids and flips out when they can't give a decent answer when playing "Where's The Cheat?"
- Epic Fail:
- Strong Bad is so bad at Peasant's Quest that he somehow gets a Game Over with a score of -45. Keep in mind, a negative score is impossible in the actual game.
- Strong Bad asks a group of kids to say The Cheat's name. One of them says "Christopher Columbus".
- Expository Theme Tune: The theme song to Whaddaya Know, Haddi-man?We'll have an adventure, and several long trips
We'll make some new friends, maybe get a bite to eat
All 'cause we say...
"Whaddaya Know, Haddi-man?"
Homsar: I'm a trendy tote-bag! - F--: The Trope Namer. Strong Bad gives a grade of Fââ to the "dumb children" when they don't say "A-Da Cheat" well enough (one of them even says "Christopher Columbus").
- I'll Kill You!: Strong Bad gets fed up with the "dumb children" and snaps "I'LL KILL YA! I'LL KILL ALL YOUR DOGS!!"
- Noodle Incident: When we first see Strong Bad playing Peasant's Quest, he already has -38 points. He loses two for trying to be friendly to the Kerrek and another five for offering him a cold one, which contributed to Rather Dashing's death. How did Strong Bad lose the other 38?
- Overly Long Gag:
- The "Stave it Off" song on "Whaddaya Know, Haddi-man?" Fortunately, we only see two more renditions before it cuts back to Strong Bad.Homsar: That's a real popular song! Who wants to hear of it fifty times more?
Kids: I do! I do! - Strong Bad's reaction to Homsar's kids' show is a Two Words: I Can't Count gag that lasts nearly twenty seconds.
- The "Stave it Off" song on "Whaddaya Know, Haddi-man?" Fortunately, we only see two more renditions before it cuts back to Strong Bad.
- Overly Narrow Superlative: Strong Bad describes Homsar as "America's favorite blue midget Homestar."
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Strong Bad's initial reaction to Homsar's show is "Good. Gravy..."
- The Problem with Pen Island: Strong Bad pronounces "Allison" as "all is on". This in turn inspires the "All Is On" song from the Easter egg.
- Snarky Inanimate Object: When Strong Bad quits Peasant's Quest, the game does so with the message "You quitter."
- Take That!: Clicking on "crap" at the end brings up an Easter egg with a Generic Dance album called "Songs We Found on the Street".
- The Teetotaler: The Kerrek is apparently one, and gets so offended by Strong Bad's offer to buy him a Cold One that he kills him.
- Two Words: I Can't Count: Strong Bad's reaction to "Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man?"Strong Bad: I've got two words for the children that are raised on that crap: HELD BACK. REPEATING THE THIRD GRADE. LOW STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES. I GUESS THIS WAS MORE THAN TWO WORDS.
- Voice Clip Song: The "Songs We Found on the Street" Easter egg features a song based on Strong Bad's pronunciation of "Allison"."All Is On, feel it feel it feel it feel it!"
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Strong Bad's drawn out "Good gravy." in reaction to Homsar's show.
