Airdate: Wednesday, September 2, 2002
Sender: Mark
Strong Bad: (singing to the tune of the Donkey Kong level one music) Do, du, dadada do, du, dadada do...
Strong Bad is asked by Mark from England what he thinks of the English. After Strong Bad makes fun of Mark for not signing his email in a more English fashion ("Whatever happened to 'Cheers' or 'Cheerio' or 'Nevermind the Bullocks'?"), he prepares to tell Mark exactly what he thinks of the English. The rest of the email is cut off by a newspaper headline announcing that the Strong Bad Email was "Banned in the UK" for whatever it was Strong Bad had to say about the English.
In this Monday's edition of U.S. based "Strong Bad Email", the title character, Strong Bad, an odd little bloke with a Mexican wrestling mask for a head and boxing gloves for hands made such comments that warranted the Queen to ban the edition from UK shores. Strong Bad has been charged with "verbal crimes against the crown" and the Strong Bad Email, now simply being called the infamous "sbemail22," has been removed from broadcast in both the UK and the States. At a press conference held on Tuesday[...]
In a follow-up Easter Egg, which comprises the actual punchline of the cartoon, we see the press conference in question, where Strong Bad addresses his claims.
Announcer: Strong Bad, how do you respond to claims that your comments brought the entire royal family to tears?
(The Cheat, sitting next to Strong Bad and wearing a suit, whispers a response to him.)
Strong Bad: (clears his throat, then speaks into the microphone) Screw all y'all. (gasps are heard, cameras flash)
Announcer: Cor blimey!
(scene transitions to a black-and-white photograph of Strong Bad and The Cheat at the conference)
Englishman: (offscreen, Scouse accent) I can't believe he said that.
(The Paper comes down.)
(The Cheat, sitting next to Strong Bad and wearing a suit, whispers a response to him.)
Strong Bad: (clears his throat, then speaks into the microphone) Screw all y'all. (gasps are heard, cameras flash)
Announcer: Cor blimey!
(scene transitions to a black-and-white photograph of Strong Bad and The Cheat at the conference)
Englishman: (offscreen, Scouse accent) I can't believe he said that.
(The Paper comes down.)
Tropes
- Banned in China: In-Universe. Strong Bad gets his e-mail show banned in the UK for whatever he said about the English.
- Easter Egg: Two of them:
- Click on the words "press conference" in the newspaper article to see the aftermath. In the YouTube version, it's part of the actual cartoon.
- Click on The Cheat's stack of papers after the press conference scene to see his notes: "Just say, 'Screw all y'all'. Trust me. It'll work."
- Later-Installment Weirdness: This is chronologically the last Tandy era email, so one element makes it stick out like a sore thumb in between "cartoon" and "little animal". The text on the Tandy is larger than normal, giving Strong Bad less room to reply.
- Noodle Incident: We never do find out what Strong Bad thinks of the English, but it apparently "brought the entire royal family to tears" and got the email banned in the United Kingdom.
- Shout-Out:
- "[Whatever happened to] Nevermind the Bullocks" references the Sex Pistols' album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.
- Strong Bad is humming the arcade Donkey Kong theme at the start of the sbemail.
- Un-Installment: Presented as a "lost episode", after the Brothers Chaps realized they'd skipped over sbemail22 in numbering the pages.
Just say "Screw all y'all". Trust me. It'll work.
