Airdate: Monday, September 23, 2002
Sender: Viklas, Sweden
Strong Bad: (singing) All the ladies want to know: Who's checkin' that email? Was it Strong Bad?
Viklas from Sweden has some "little questions" for Strong Bad:
- "Has you some time play football?"
- "How did you seen out when you was a baby?"
- "How did you think you came's to seen out when you are wery old?"
Despite Viklas' dubious grasp of the English language, Strong Bad proceeds to answer their questions. And because of Viklas' dubious grasp of English, Strong Bad answers them in the same fractured English, with subtitles for the audience. According to the translation, Strong Bad likes football (but only the American kind), was a really hot baby, and has no idea what the third question was about, so he instead asks Viklas for some Swedish fish and/or meatballs.
Strong Bad: Okay, Viklas, I hope that answers your questions. I think we're on the same page. Unfortunately, yours has a big F on it. —Stark Dålig
(Viklas' email, in the form of a heavily corrected essay, appears onscreen)
(Viklas' email, in the form of a heavily corrected essay, appears onscreen)
Tropes:
- "Blind Idiot" Translation: Viklas' questions make sense if recursively translated to Swedishnote , but his Swedish-English translation is word-for-word and very literal, without regard for English grammar and tenses. And he misspelled 'very'.
- Continuity Nod:
- Strong Bad answers one of Viklas's questions with "I think I has the solution."
- An Easter egg has an anthropomorphic Swedish flag shaking hands with an anthropomorphic Strong Badian flag.
- Fun with Subtitles: Oddly enough, while Strong Bad's subtitles in the third answer trail off into "I don't know what you were talking about here...", his written text is actually a legible answer to the question.
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: "Stark Dålig" means "Strong Bad" in Swedish, but amusingly enough Strong Bad used the word for "bad" as in "of poor quality".
- Intentional Engrish for Funny: Strong Bad answers Viklas's questions in broken English.Strong Bad: Prehaps! I'm've was to make football often times. Play? Know. Best football results twice again.
- Metaphorgotten: "I think we're on the same page. Unfortunately, yours has a big F on it."
- Separated by a Common Language: Strong Bad has to ask if by "football", Viklas means "soccer".
- Soccer-Hating Americans: Strong Bad says he loves football, but hates soccer.
Teacher's(?) Note: Viklas, you can do better than this. See me after class.
(The Paper comes down)
