Airdate: Monday, February 6, 2006
Sender: Grant Gossman from Minnesota
Strong Bad: (singing) I met this email on a north-bound train. We had some dinner, then we danced in the rain.
Grant "Grossman" wants to know if Strong Bad has ever done narration for movie trailers. Strong Bad has not, but he finds it more amusing "narrating peoples' pathetic, everyday lives like they're movie trailers. Ready? Let's try it!"
- In "Whined and Dined", Strong Sad is enjoying a "rogan josh pot pie", only for life to throw him a curve ball... or rather, an octopus in the face.
- "In a post apocalyptic world where weird old men survive on boring conversations", an argument between Coach Z and Bubs over a used napkin ("Your napkin?! Well, it's got my snot-balls on it!" "Man, you don't even have a nose!") leads to an epic showdown in "Factor Z".
- Homestar and Marzipan are "a couple in love, until a dorky chef's hat threatened to tear them apart".
- Homsar is also the subject of some narration, but seeing him levitating causes Strong Bad to cut said narration after "This holiday season..."
- The Poopsmith is the subject of "Whatsit All About?", "a four-hour film with no plot and no dialogue" from "some smelly French studio".
- Strong Mad and The Cheat are "Lugnut and Squeak", "two unlikely partners" with "one brain between them".
- "For hundreds of years it has haunted mankind"... "it" being the dead goose that pops out of the dryer and smacks Strong Sad in the face in "Things That Go Dump in the Night".
Strong Bad: The critics agree! "A triumph!" "A cinematic breakfast snack of some kind!" "It... sure was a movie." Now playing in select cities. This Strong Bad Email has been rated P for The Poopsmith and a graphic scene of The Paper.
(The Paper comes down.)
(The Paper comes down.)
Tropes:
- Audience? What Audience?: Strong Sad wants to know who Strong Bad is talking to during his first parody trailer.
- Brick Joke: Homestar calls Marzipan "some type of enormous alien cow" during their segment. In an Easter egg at the end of the cartoon, a Powered-By-The-Cheat segment depicts Marzipan as an alien cow.
- Butt-Monkey: Strong Sad is "fortunate" enough to suffer through two trailers: one in which a dead octopus hits him in the face, and one in which a dead Canada goose hits him in the face.
- Continuity Nod:
- Strong Bad calls Strong Sad the "SBEmail Police" for popping up to deliver criticisms and nitpicks "three weeks in a row": first in secret identity when he corrected Homestar's mispronunciation of "pseudonym", then again in technology when he corrected Strong Bad on "floppy" disks.
- An Easter egg has Powered-By-the-Cheat Marzipan claiming that she does admire Nebulon's style.
- Extreme Omnivore: Strong Mad apparently ate one of the boats from a copy of Battleship. "I ATE MY BATTLESHIP!"
- Hypocritical Humor: Bubs calls out Coach Z's lack of a nose...though he also doesn't have a nose.
- In a World…: This e-mail is all about Strong Bad narrating the lives of his friends and neighbors like they were movie trailers.
- Lampshade Hanging: Strong Sad assumes that the second trailer narration is a set-up for Strong Bad to "throw a dead goose at me or something." He turns out to be right.
- Le Film Artistique: The way Strong Bad describes "Whatsit All About?" makes it sound like a snooty art film.
- Letters 2 Numbers: The graffiti on the shutter to Bubs' Concession Stand spells "Factor Z" as "4actor Z".
- Malicious Misnaming: Strong Bad calls the sender "Grossman" instead of "Gossman".
- Mundane Made Awesome: To name a few examples, an argument over a novelty chef's hat threatens to tear apart Homestar and Marzipan's relationship, and a debate about napkins between Bubs and Coach Z becomes some sort of post-apocalyptic action movie battle.
- Real Trailer, Fake Movie: The e-mail is a whole string of mock movie trailers made up by Strong Bad.
- Sidetracked by the Analogy: Strong Sad, in response to Strong Bad's line about fate throwing him "a curveball", complains in an Easter egg "It felt more like a change-up
than a curveball."
Strong Sad: (still with the octopus stuck to his face) Look, all I'm saying is it felt more like a change-up than a curveball.
Strong Bad: What are you, the Sbemail police now? This is like three weeks in a row!
Strong Bad: What are you, the Sbemail police now? This is like three weeks in a row!
PBTC!Marzipan: (resembling an alien cow) You know, Nebulon, I've always admired your styles.
Nebulon: (becomes depressed and floats away as his noise plays)
