Airdate: Monday, December 4, 2006
Sender: Keith, PA
"Keith and Pa" ("Ooh! It's a father-son email picnic!") wants to know why Strong Bad hasn't replaced his old stool with something a bit more impressive. Strong Bad insists that "Ol' Stooly" is a great sitting place, but then he takes a good look at it and sees the state of disrepair and filth it's in:
(A weird face appears on the seat of the stool and coughs)
Strong Bad: Euw! Maybe it is time for a re-imagining of my email-checkin' chair.
Stooly: (coughs) I just need a lozenge...
Strong Bad checks in at the concession stand to see if Bubs has anything in the way of "things I can sit on while I check e-mails".
Strong Bad: Okay. Okay. Okay... But, you got anything less anthrax-y?
Bubs: I just got this old Winger album.
Strong Bad: Well, yeah... that is less Anthrax-y. But I was kinda hoping for a chair of some kind.
Bubs escorts Strong Bad into the "showroom" via a conveyor belt built into the side of the Concession Stand.
Strong Bad: You make less sense every day, Bubsy.
Bubs: Crabadonk!
First up on the market is a red, white, and blue-striped bicycle seat, which Strong Bad recognizes as "Red, White, and Banana, my old bicycle seat!" While he has fond memories of his "paper route" (which involved sitting on the seat while pretending to ride a bike and throwing flaming newspapers at the neighbors' doors), he declines, also having some bad memories of "a few too many wipe-outs" on it.
Next up is a chair inexplicably shaped like Homestar Runner... or possibly the actual Homestar Runner, as it doesn't seem too comfortable with Strong Bad sitting on it.
Strong Bad: (jumps out of the chair) Waugh!
Bubs: Whoops! Seen enough of that one!
The next chair on display is "the Styleron Ecochair", which Strong Bad briefly mistakes for a melted snowman. According to Bubs, this chair is "a Danoob Largo original" and "always a hit at parties", but Strong Bad isn't impressed.
After a failed attempt to sell Strong Bad the box of chicken beaks again, Bubs wheels out the big guns with "Le Restige", a fancy high-backed leather chair.
Bubs: Crabadonk!
Between the leather seat and the built-in "sweat-pants button", Strong Bad is sold, and takes Le Restige for an e-mail checking test drive.
Unfortunately, Strong Bad's new high-backed chair completely obscures the view of the Lappy's screen. Fortunately, it also obscures the unpleasant-sounding result of Strong Bad indulging a fan and taking off his "mask".
Strong Bad is given further cause to reconsider Le Restige when the sweatpants button malfunctions, leaving him disoriented and wearing way too many sweat-pants at once.
(The Paper comes down.)
Tropes
- And I Must Scream: The second chair is implied to not be Homestar Runner-shaped, but actually Homestar turned into a chair, though his only sign of discomfort is a muttered "ow" when Strong Bad sits on him.
- Brick Joke: After Strong Bad rejects the Styleron Ecochair, Bubs tries to sell him the box of chicken beaks again.
- Cool Chair: Parodied with the fancy but ridiculous "Styleron Ecochair", and played straight with Le Restige, a high-backed leather chair that Strong Bad is immediately drawn to.
- *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": In an Easter egg, Strong Sad injures his back trying to sit on the Styleron Ecochair.
- Facial Horror: Strong Bad groans in agony after pulling his "mask" off, though the results are concealed by the high back of Le Restige. He promptly puts it back on and declares "I am never gonna do that again!"
- I Can't Feel My Legs!: Strong Bad moans "I can't feel my parts..." after the sweat-pants button on Le Restige goes haywire. An Easter egg has Strong Sad saying the same thing after throwing out his back struggling to sit on the Ecochair.
- Imagined Innuendo: Bubs takes it the wrong way when Strong Bad says he's had a few too many "wipe-outs" on Red, White, and Banana.Bubs: Ugh, you nasty!
Strong Bad: What?! - I'm Not Doing That Again: After managing to remove his face and put it back on, Strong Bad says "I am never gonna do that again!"
- Info Drop: Strong Bad taunts the audience by randomly pulling out a supposed picture of his parents, which is almost completely obscured by the screen-filling back of his new chair. However, decompiling the Flash reveals nothing on the photo but the message "nice try dodongo!"
- Perfectly Cromulent Word: Bubs throws around words like "Tup" and "Crabadonk".
- Pun: Strong Bad asks for something less Anthrax-y to sit on, so Bubs offers him an album by Winger.
- Shout-Out: When Bubs shows Strong Bad his "showroom", he says "We'll start at the tip, and work our way to the tup!", a possible reference to Tiptup the Turtle from Banjo-Kazooie.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Both Strong Bad and Strong Sad (in an Easter egg) moan "I can't feel my parts..." when their new chairs injure them.
- The Unreveal: Strong Bad rips off his mask, gurgles in pain, says he'll never do it again, then offhandedly shows a picture of his parents. The catch? A new, high-backed chair means the audience can't see any of it. Even using a flash decompiler on the cartoon is of no help, as Strong Bad's head is missing and the photo is blank, with the words "Nice try, dodongo!"
written on it. Naturally, the two Unrevealed things are two of the biggest mysteries of Homestar Runner. - Unsound Effect: Strong Bad's old stool has a Visible Odor in the shape of the word "Stank" coming off of it.
Strong Sad: Whoa... whoa... whoa... whoa... (falls backwards, throwing his back out of alignment) Ooh! I can't feel my parts...
