Airdate: Monday, April 14, 2003
Sender: HockeymanJ05
Strong Bad: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH EMAIL!!! (heavy metal music begins blaring. Strong Bad jams out to it before it ends) Whoa. That ruled. What function key do I gotta press to get that to happen again?
After that literally rocking intro, Strong Bad opens an email from HockeymanJ05, who writes in to ask Strong Bad which one of the many emails he's done is his favorite.
Strong Bad: Well, Hockeyfriend, my emails are like my childrens. I love them all! But if I had to play favorites... Let's see...
Strong Bad's trip down memory lane starts off with him recalling "that one where they asked what I'd do if I was invis-able, and I got to punch Homestar in the gut", and "that one where my computer exploded", but then veers down some strange roads, including never-before seen antics such as:
- Bubs building a robot version of Strong Bad out of a Speak-and-Spell and an empty cereal box.Grape-Nuts Robot: Now spell "Come back Ali, come back Ali's sister".
Strong Bad: No way! That sounds just like me! - Strong Bad trying to fly Bub's concession stand after drinking a glass of soy sauce.Strong Bad: Whoo-hoo! Clear the launch-way, man. We're takin' this baby to the mooooooon!
- "TAPE-LEG TWO!"
- Strong Bad leaving an epic prank-call that causes Marzipan's answering machine to explode.
- A "really old [e-mail]" where "trixie" asked Strong Bad about his favorite phrase.Strong Bad: I like-a to say "Holy crap!"
Homestar: Oh no! It's-a-Strong Baaad! - Coach Z and Pom Pom getting into a knife fight at the stone bridge.
- The Cheat trying to eat Bubs Concession Stand after drinking a glass of soy sauce.
Strong Bad: So that's it, Soccerdude. That's pretty much the cream of the crop. There might be a few other good ones but uh, if you ask me it doesn't get any better than that Grape Nuts robot. Okay, so... OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THAT'S THE END! Duh-nuh-nuh, duh-nuh-Oh man! Which button was it? (begins searching his keyboard for the right button. The Paper comes down)
Tropes:
- Bowdlerize: During the knife-fight scene, Coach Z originally said "I'm a white guy with a knife!" This was changed to "I'm a blade-man, man!" within a week of the e-mail being posted.
- Brick Joke: One of the first made-up emails is about Strong Bad trying to fly Bubs' Concession Stand after drinking a glass of soy sauce. The last one is about The Cheat trying to eat the concession stand after drinking a glass of soy sauce. Also, if that isn't enough, Strong Bad is still trying to fly the concession stand while The Cheat is trying to eat it... still drunk off soy sauce.Strong Bad: Hold on tight, The Cheat! We're blastin' offa TO THE MOOOOOOOON!
- Continuity Nod: The first two emails Strong Bad lists as his favorites are "that one where they asked what I'd do if I was invis-able, and I got to punch Homestar in the gut" and "that one where my computer exploded."
- Drunk on Milk: Strong Bad tried to fly Bubs' Concession Stand (and The Cheat tried to eat it) after drinking a glass of soy sauce.
- Easter Egg: In the original Flash version, pressing the "Q" key on your keyboard after the email ended would make the guitar riffs from the intro play again.
- Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell: An Easter egg has the Grape-Nuts Robot cycling through three phrases, one of which was "Now spell: dooouble deuce."
- Knife Fight: Strong Bad's favorite emails include "the one where Pom Pom and Coach Z got in that knife fight on the stone bridge."Coach Z: I'm a blade-man, man!
- Malicious Misnaming: Strong Bad doesn't bother trying to read HockeymanJ05's name properly, first calling him "Hockey-jockey-man-oh-whatever", then "Hockeyfriend", and finally "Soccerdude".
- Noodle Incident: All but the first two emails are scenes from e-mails that don't actually exist.
- Pluralses: Strong Bad starts his answer to the email with "my emails are like my childrens".
- The Power of Rock: Strong Bad's email intro is accompanied by some intense rock guitar riffs.Strong Bad: Whoa, that ruled. What function key do I gotta press to get that to happen again?
- Robot Me: The Grape-Nuts Robot, a robot version of Strong Bad made from a Speak 'n Spell, an empty box of Grape-Nuts, and some other junk.Grape-Nuts Robot: Now spell "Carp for brains."
- Self-Deprecation: "That really old one that asked what my favorite phrase was" is done in the crappily-drawn style of Marshmallow's Last Stand.
- Shout-Out: Coach Z's line "I'm a blade-man, man!" may be a reference to a riff from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians ("Santa's gonna cut you, man! Santa's a blade-man, man!").
- Signs of Disrepair: Strong Bad falls off Bubs' Concession Stand, and so does the "D" from the building's sign when he lands. Bubs decides to put it up for sale.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Strong Bad yells "PRANK CALL!" and somehow gets Marzipan's answering machine to explode.
- [Trope Name]: "That one where I left such a good prank call on Marzipan's answering machine that it exploded" seemed to involve Strong Bad just yelling "PRANK CALL!"
Grape-Nuts Robot: (in three separate possible scenes) Now spell 'Carp for brains'.
Things were just about to start getting crazy-go-nuts.
Now spell 'Douuuuuuuuble Deuce'.
Things were just about to start getting crazy-go-nuts.
Now spell 'Douuuuuuuuble Deuce'.
Strong Bad: (at the Tandy 400, reading an email. voiceover) And how about that time when Gavin wouldn't leave me alone?
(Gavin the cockroach crawls across the screen, Strong Bad swats at him)
Strong Bad: Get outta here, man, I'm checking my email!
(Gavin the cockroach crawls across the screen, Strong Bad swats at him)
Strong Bad: Get outta here, man, I'm checking my email!
Strong Bad: (at the Compy, reading an email. voiceover) There was that one where the G and U keys were the only ones that weren't broken. (typing and speaking) guUU gu guu uuUUUuu gugug ug ug UG gu gu Gu gu.
