Airdate: Monday, September 24, 2007
Sender: Hopeful in Pennsylvania, Daphne
"Typical college girl" Daphne is writing to ask if Strong Badia has some type of pizza joint where she and "my girls" can hang out. At the prospect of meeting hot college girls, Strong Bad is all-too happy (and erratic) to claim that he has a pizza joint.
In Strong Badia, Strong Bad and The Cheat are putting the finishing touches on a phony pizza joint, and just have to decide on a name. Strong Bad thinks "Strong Bad's Strong Badian Pizza" is too much of a mouthful.
(Cut to a TGS-style scene with Daphne and the Teen Girl Squad. Daphne and Cheerleader are wearing towels, So-and-So is wearing a bathrobe and shower cap, What's-Her-Face is wearing her regular clothes, and The Ugly One is dressed like a sarcophagus.)
Daphne: Hey gals! Let's towel off and meet up at... Strong Bad's Strong Badian Pi—
Cheerleader: This is taking too long!
What's Her Face: I'm already bored!
So-And-So: I'm going home!
The Ugly One: I belong in a museum!
(Cut back to Strong Bad and The Cheat)
Strong Bad: College girls don't have that kind of time, man. We gotta strike while the girl is still hot!
With some annoyance, The Cheat shortens the name of their pizza joint to "The Pizz". A mere second later, Homestar shows up and tries to order "a slice of p-roni, with some t-sauce and m-rooms".
Homestar: Ohhhhh. Lemme get a calzone, then. With, uh, p-loaf and m-cheese.
Strong Bad suddenly gets a call from the King of Town, who's trying to order "fifty Thanksgiving Lover's pizzas delivered to the only castle around here!" When asked how he found out about their phony pizza joint, the King admits he spends most of his free time dialing random numbers in the hopes of discovering new take-out food joints. On top of that, The Cheat ends up hiring Homestar to deal with the "lunch rush".
(Cut to Strong Sad's "Review Revue")
Strong Sad: Rustic and filled with old-world cardboard charm, the Pizz serves up Strong Badian-style pizza at a price that won't leave a dent in your wallet!
Strong Bad decides to go online ("Girls don't want to meet people in person anymore!") with a Habbo Hotel parody called Virtualpizz.biz. Unfortunately, the only people he can attract are "pizza trolls" like Homestar and the King of Town. He also gets a bad review from Strong Sad.
Strong Bad is about to give up on attracting Daphne and his friends to his pizza joint, when it turns out they're at The Cheat's pizza joint ("The Pizz has competition?") Much to the surprise of Strong Bad, there's an actual full-size pizza joint over at The Cheat's place (in the King of Town's Grill), and there are apparently hot girls in there.
The Cheat: (affirmative The Cheat noises)
Strong Bad: Count me in! (jumps into the barbecue)
The Cheat: (jumps into the grill with Strong Bad, briefly emerges covered in lipstick marks)
The King of Town: (coming in with a lighter, a can of gasoline, a container of lighter fluid that reads "Lite em up Dan", and a bag of charcoal) Doo doo doot doo doo...
(Cut back to the Lappy. New Paper comes down.)
Tropes:
- Bigger on the Inside: Much to Strong Bad's surprise, The Cheat has an entire pizza joint in the King of Town's grill.
- …But He Sounds Handsome: Strong Sad describes himself as "fan favorite Strong Sad" during his review of the email.
- Comically Missing the Point: Strong Bad tells Homestar "The Pizz" isn't a real pizza place. Homestar decides to order a calzone instead.
- Continuity Nod:
- Strong Bad briefly has his old thick Hispanic accent when he says "The Pizz has competition?"
- It turns out that The Cheat's pizza joint is at The Cheat's place, in the King of Town's grill.
- 3 emails ago, Strong Bad complained about wanting college girls to email him instead of fifth grade boys. In this email, he finally gets his wish.
- Covered in Kisses: The Cheat is covered in lipstick marks as he re-emerges from Cheatsa Pizza.
- Fake–Real Turn: Strong Bad's fake pizza joint quickly gets a ton of business and becomes highly successful in a matter of minutes.Strong Bad: The Cheat, in our effort to make a pretend pizza place in order to score some chicks, we somehow created a successful and well-reviewed actual pizza place!
- Hired on the Spot: Exaggerated. Homestar arrives at "The Pizz" to order a pizza, but he gets hired off screen in the 20 seconds it took for Strong Bad to answer the King of Town's phone call.
- Literal Metaphor: Strong Bad calls down a "flame war" on "pizza trolls" Homestar Runner and King of Town, which involves setting their Virtualpizz.biz avatars on fire.
- Logging onto the Fourth Wall: The URL virtualpizz.biz
redirects to this email. - Machine Monotone: The avatars in Virtualpizz.biz speak in a somewhat electronic monotone.
- Malicious Misnaming: In his review of Virtualpizz.biz, Strong Sad complains "Every time I tried to add Strong Bad to my Pizz list, he'd call me Thelonious Dump!"
- Modesty Towel: In Strong Bad's Teen Girl Squad-style Imagine Spot, Daphne and Cheerleader are wearing towels while So-and-So is wearing a bathrobe.
- Motor Mouth: Strong Bad responds to Daphne's e-mail by eagerly babbling "Yes, we have a pizza joint! I gots me a pizza joint! Always been at the pizza joint!"
- Overly Long Name: Strong Bad accuses The Cheat's initial name for their pizza joint, "Strong Bad's Strong Badian Pizza", of being too long.
- People Fall Off Chairs: After he reads Daphne's email, Strong Bad is so excited by the prospect of meeting potentially-hot college girls he falls off his stool.
- Self-Deprecation: An Easter egg has Strong Sad criticizing the e-mail itself in his "Review Revue".
- Shout-Out:
- During a brief Teen Girl Squad segment, The Ugly One says "I belong in a museum!"
- The "Virtualpizz.biz" sequence is a parody of Coke Studios, a licensed version of Habbo Hotel and similar online socialization tools that came out around the time this was released.
- The ending, with The Cheat having a pizza joint in his house (a grill), may be a reference to the Looney Tunes short "Rabbit Every Monday", where Bugs Bunny finds a party going on in a pot-belly stove.
- In an Easter egg, Homestar sings, "Party! Cheatsa Party!", a reference to the jingle for the old board game Pizza Party.
- There Are No Girls on the Internet: Mercilessly parodied when Strong Bad finds out that his first two customers on Virtualpizz.biz are Homestar and the King of Town rather than college girls.
Homestar: (singing and dancing) Party! Cheatsa Party!
Strong Sad: Strong Bad phones this one in with Strong Bad Email 179. Despite a strong showing from fan favorite Strong Sad, the email ultimately fizzles due to a heavy reliance on what can only be called "internet pizza jokes".
