Airdate: Monday, April 7, 2008
Sender: L. Eftformat
Strong Bad gets a right-aligned email from "L. Eftformat" ("Oh, think you're preTTy clever, eh? -e.email cummings") asking what his favorite movie is, "and why? And where, if applicable." Strong Bad admits that he doesn't have a particular favorite movie, but he's a major fan of anything in the "genre" of R-rated movies.
Strong Sad: (standing just off-screen with a sign and t-shirt reading "Restricted!") A-restricte—
Strong Bad: Not from you!
Strong Sad: Aww, I've been waitin' three days to do that.
Even better, in Strong Bad's book, are the rare double-R- and triple-R-rated movies. While the hero of an R-rated movie "only blows people up in self-defense", double-R-rated movies "blur the line" by having good guys who do things like trample rabbits and wish death upon them. Triple-R-rated movies are even more messed-up, being able to show bullets "go all the way through people, in the front, through the guts and organs and breakfast, and right out the back!"
Despite being a hardcore fan, Strong Bad admits that there are three RRR-rated movies out there that even he can't stomach: Women's Penitentiary Bakesale Nightmare, The Fists of Knuckles (not counting its twenty-three sequels), and Axe-Gun: Legends of the Brain-Outener. All of these films have even been banned in Transylvania, "where you're required by law to eat puppies for breakfast", and require you to be in your sixties to buy tickets. It seems Free Country USA's local theater is showing these movies, and we see Strong Bad's unsuccessful attempt to sneak into one.
Strong Bad: Ow, my pension. Oh, hello my good man. Just taking my two sons, here, who are home from college, to see their first triple R-rated movie.
(Cut to Coach Z and Bubs, dressed as stereotypical college slackers.)
Coach Z: Hey, Pop, can I borrow the Vorlvo?
Bubs: Dad, Trina and I are moving in together.
(Cut back to Strong Bad.)
Strong Bad: I'll deal with you two later! Heh heh. Kids that are old enough for me to be in my sixties. What're you gonna do?
Senor Cardgage isn't fooled, and after Strong Bad fails to produce any "identificaption", he tells "Junior" to "Come back when you're all grold up."
Strong Bad: What? I'm way too good looking for anyone to believe that I'm you guys' kid. And Coach Z only kinda looks like my mom.
Coach Z: Hey, thanks! You want I should shave my legs?
Strong Bad: Ignoring that...
Out of options, Strong Bad, Bubs, and Coach Z have to make do with going back to the House of the Brothers Strong and watching lowercase-r-rated movies on scrambled cable, which at least has enough barely-visible violence and mature content to be entertaining.
Man's Voice: Stop eating glass!
Coach Z: I think I just saw a puppy get eaten!
Girl's Voice: Creepy blood!
Bubs: That is one lurid bake-sale.
Man's Voice: Real gross wound!
Strong Bad: Ewww. Look at all that breakfast.
Man's Voice: Broken skull puncture!
(New Paper comes down.)
Girl's Voice: Two underwears!
Tropes:
- Banned in China: In-Universe. Strong Bad claims that his favorite RRR-rated movies are banned in Transylvania.
- Brick Joke: Strong Bad says that in Transylvania, you're apparently required by law to eat puppies for breakfast. The Easter Egg for this e-mail shows the King of Town hearing Strong Bad say this on TV, and immediately orders the Poopsmith to pack his bags.
- Continuity Nod:
- An Easter egg has the sad basset hound from the SBASAF film strip in "space program" on a box of "Crispy Puppy Crunch".
- Senor Cardgage serves as the usher at the movie theater, like he did in "the movies".
- Everyone Has Standards: Strong Bad is no saint, but even he considers it "messed up" when a good guy wishes death upon a rabbit he stepped on. He also admits that there's some RRR-rated stuff out there that even he can't stomach.
- If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: According to Strong Bad, in Transylvania "you're required by law to eat puppies for breakfast."
- Girls Behind Bars: One of the triple-R-rated movies Strong Bad mentions is Women's Penitentiary Bakesale Nightmare.
- Gory Deadly Overkill Title of Fatal Death: Strong Bad's favorite movies have titles like Axe-Gun: Legends of the Brain-Outener.
- Overly Preprepared Gag: When Strong Bad shuts down Strong Sad's call-and-response gag, the latter laments that he's been waiting for three days to pull it off. An Easter Egg has Strong Sad camping out with Homsar in anticipation of Strong Bad saying "Holy crap!"Strong Sad: Just a couple more days, I swear. He's way overdue.
- Ow, My Body Part!: Strong Bad mutters "Ow, my pension," while posing as an old man.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Strong Bad tries to pass himself off as old enough to get into a RRR-rated movie by wearing a felt hat, carrying a briefcase, and having Bubs and Coach Z pose as his grown sons home from college.
- Sociopathic Hero: Strong Bad, on how RR-rated movies "blur the line" between hero and villain.Strong Bad: I saw this one double R-rated movie, where the good guy stepped on this rabbit, and he didn't kill it, but then later on in the movie, he wished he did! The good guy! That's messed up, man!
- Stating the Simple Solution: After their attempt to pose as a senior citizen and his two college age sons fails Bubs points out that he and Coach Z, who have been established to be older than Strong Bad, should have posed as Strong Bad's parents instead of the other way around.
- Unabashed B-Movie Fan: Strong Bad's favorite "genre" of movie seems to be gritty, R-to-RRR rated grindhouse movies.
Strong Bad: (on the television) They even banned those movies in Transylvania, where you're required by law to eat puppies for breakfast!
(The King of Town's crown pops up in surprise.)
King of Town: Poopsmith, pack-a my bags! And don't forget my plastic fangs!
Strong Sad: Just a couple more days, I swear! He's waaaaaay overdue!
