Recap / Strong Bad Email E 132 Modeling

Airdate: Monday, June 27, 2005

Sender: Meghan, Albuquerque

Strong Bad: (singing) Can you handle my style? No, you can't handle my styyyyyle. Email!

"Meg-han" from "Al-bu-quay-quay" thinks Strong Bad is a pretty good-looking guy, and wonders if he's ever considered doing some modelling.

Strong Bad: Of course I've considered modeling. Someone as pretty good looking as me gets approached on the street all the—wait, modeling?! Hmmmm. That's a truuly great idea! Why did I never think of that before?

Strong Bad decides to get some headshots done with Pom Pom (after stopping to karate chop the King of Town), and in a brief montage strikes an impressive repertoire of male-model poses. Back at the Lappy, Strong Bad imagines doing ads for glossy fashion magazines (read: "Homely Boy Brand HUGE Tube Socks"), fancy men's "cologn...ac" (read: "Doctor Stankfoot's Watery Athlete's Foot Cream"), and steamy romance novels (read "Unattractive Detective Stories").

Just then, Strong Sad comes in with a Husky Headed Boys Back 2 School Catalog featuring Strong Bad, as well as a royalty check for same.

Strong Bad: Whoa-ho! My husky head commands a pretty penny! This'll bring home a few month's worth of bacon. I bet your husky body's not worth a hundred and eight dollars.

Strong Sad: No, but poachers have offered several thousand for my feet.

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Tropes:

• Comically Missing the Point: After Strong Sad interrupts Strong Bad's Imagine Spot about what magazines his pictures will be used for:
  Strong Sad: Hey, Strong Bad, I was just looking through today's mail, and guess who made the cover of "Husky-Headed Boys' Back 2 School Catalog"?
  Strong Bad: What?! Back to school already? It's not even July!
• Continuity Nod:
  • Strong Bad's hat for his nautical outfit comes from "pizzaz".
  • During the photo shoot, Strong Bad poses in front of a map that has a land mass marked "Place".
  • Strong Sad's remark about poachers offering him thousands of dollars for his feet could be a nod to "50 emails", where a Newhart Phone Call implies Strong Bad is plotting to sell his brother's legs on the black market.
• Contrived Coincidence: Parodied; As Strong Bad is boasting about making the cover of the Husky Headed Boys' Back 2 School Catalog, Homestar announces he's made the cover of Stupid Coincidence Magazine.
• Costume-Test Montage: Strong Bad does something like this while doing a fashion shoot with Pom Pom, dressing like a tennis player, a businessman, and a sea captain.
• Our Slogan Is Terrible: A print ad for "SB Finest Colognac" appears in an Easter egg, with the slogan "Drink it. Or wear it. We don't really give a care."
• Portmanteau: One of the products Strong Bad imagines advertising for is "men's colog..nac", a mash-up of "cognac" (a type of brandy) and "cologne".
• Romance Novel: Strong Bad imagines himself modelling for the cover of "some steamy romance novel".
  Strong Bad: And my ripped self would be on top of some cliff or lighthouse clutching a milkmaid in a flowy dress. And she's be like "No, Parson Jim, it can never be!" But I'm all like "Look into your heart, Chezmerelda."
• Suddenly Shouting: Strong Bad reads Meghan's intro like this ("Dear Strong Bad!!!!!"), and answers in kind ("Dear Meg-han!!!!!!")
• Unreliable Narrator: Strong Bad boasts about the kind of modeling jobs he could get, while the examples that pop up are... rather less flashy and glamorous, and more gross and mundane.

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Homestar: (walking in) Hey guys! Guess who made this week's cover of Stupid Coincidence Magazine? (pulls out a magazine with himself on the cover, and dances briefly to a snippet of Strong Bad's modelling music. A flashbulb goes off, cutting to close-ups of Strong Bad and Homestar's magazine covers. The Paper comes down.)