Recap / Strong Bad Email E 111 Other Days

Airdate: Monday, August 16, 2004

Sender: brian holmes CA

Strong Bad: (singing) I got an email in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt. Again with the "Dear Strong Bad"!

"B. Ryan Holmes, Certified Arborist" wants to know what Strong Bad does on the other days of the week, when he's not checking emails. After a brief attempt to answer the email while talking like a robot, Strong Bad goes over his weekly schedule:

• On Tuesdays, Strong Bad checks his snail-mail ("I got a snail-mail in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt."), where he thumbs his nose at Bubs' threatening collection letters... and then wonders why his mailbox is apparently in the middle of the Field ("Where's my house?")
• On Wednesdays, Strong Bad gives free motivational lectures "to better help folks over the hump"
  Strong Bad: You've gots to look inside yourself! Positate the negative! When life throws pies atcha, you make yourself a tall, cool glass of piemonade.
  Coach Z: I'm a new man!
  Strong Mad: I'M THE HUMP!!
• On Thursdays, Strong Bad does community service "due to a prior arrest", and with The Cheat's help he gives Strong Badia and the Tire a thorough cleaning ("You know what I always say, The Cheat. Stay smart, vacuum... dirt.")
• Fridays are Business Casual Days (AKA "Biz Cas Fri, you know, because we have to 'abbreve' everything") down at "the office", where Strong Bad and Homestar go to work in the polo shirts they got from various software companies.
• On Saturdays, Strong Bad does not "wake up at 6 AM, put on a Speedo, and go to swim practice. No, no, definitely not Speedo." Instead Strong Bad attends "battle axe lessons" with Dolph "The Instruc-TOR" Hauldhagen.
• And finally, on Sundays, Strong Bad checks the e-mails he gets from "our Eastern European viewers across the pond" ("I got a Polish email in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt.") The computer he uses for such a task, a gray model known only as the "BLOCK", brings one up from Janus of Poland, who wants Strong Bad to "be untieing that shoelace on the back of your head".
  Strong Bad: (overdubbed by a translator) Untie my shoeleace, eh Janus? Your mother is the speed limit! Your aspirin, Strong Bad

Strong Bad: That's pretty much my week. Now time for a refreshing glass of piemonade, or as we say around the office, p-nade.
(Strong Bad gets up and leaves, The Paper comes down.)

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Tropes

• 555: The flyer advertising battle axe lessons has 555-4AXE as its contact number.
• Blatant Lies: After giving some Suspiciously Specific Denial about not going to swim class on Saturdays, Strong Bad claims he goes to battle axe lessons.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Strong Bad doing community service because of a "prior arrest" is likely a reference to Strong Bad Is In Jail Cartoon.
  • Homestar reprises his role as the office dullard during the "Biz Cas Fri" segment.
  • The "Polish e-mail" segment seems to be a nod to "little questions", where Strong Bad also got an email in fractured English from a viewer in Europe (Sweden, in that case).
• Disproportionate Retribution: Bubs sends a letter to Strong Bad threatening to turn him over to a "'cut off your toes'-style collection agency" if Strong Bad doesn't pay the $3.62 he owes.
• Loan Shark: Bubs seems to be one if his threatening letter to Strong Bad is to be believed. See Disproportionate Retribution above.
• Mixed Metaphor: During his motivational speech, Strong Bad says "When life throws pies at you, you make yourself a tall, cool glass of pie-monade!"
• Oh God, with the Verbing!: Strong Bad says "Again with the Dear Strong Bad..." as he opens the email.
• Robo Speak: Strong Bad briefly tries speaking in a stilted monotone, like a sterotypical sci-fi robot, when answering Brian's email.
  Strong Bad: Good-question-Brian. I-am-going-to-answer-this-email-like-a-robot. Don't-you-think-this-is-a-great-idea? (speaking normally) Yeah, sorry, me neither.
• Running Gag: Strong Bad's "I got an email in my pocket, and I think it's starting to melt" song is repeated with "I got a snail-mail in my pocket" and "I got a Polish email in my pocket".
• Sarcasm Mode: In response to the Disproportionate Retribution written in Bubs' letter, Strong Bad pretends to worry about his predicament in a voice dripping with sarcasm.
  Strong Bad: Oh, no, final warning! Is there nothing I can do to dissuade you? Like maybe give you a ride in my...
  (He takes out a cigarette lighter with the BMW logo on it and uses it to burn the letter to an ash.)
  Strong Bad: (no longer worried) ...BMW?! (laughs at what he just did)
• Shout-Out: In an Easter Egg available at the end, Strong Bad mumbles about the game Chrono Trigger while asleep on the couch and talks about killing Magus.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Strong Bad would like to let you know that he definitely does not put on a Speedo and go to swim class on Saturdays. He totally attends battle axe lessons.
• Talking in Your Sleep: An Easter egg has Strong Sad trying to wake Strong Bad, who is muttering about Chrono Trigger in his sleep.
• [Trope Name]: On Biz Cas Fri, Homestar brags about his frag count in "Online Gaming".
• Your Mom: Strong Bad insults Janus's mother by calling her the speed limit.

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Strong Sad: Strong Bad...
Strong Bad: (asleep on the couch) Dangit... chrona trigga...
Strong Sad: Strong Bad, wake up!
Strong Bad: Chrona trigga!
Strong Sad: We're going to be late for swim practice!
Strong Bad: Chrnh- Chrono Trigger!
Strong Sad: (holds up a pair of swimming briefs with a stick) I've got your... swim trunks.
Strong Bad: Magus, I'm gonna... I'll kill ya.