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Strong Bad Email #124
Strong Bad reveals some secret family recipes.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat, Coach Z, The King of Town, Marzipan, Homestar Runner
Date: February 14, 2005
Strong Bad Email #124 - Secret Recipes
Easter Eggs
- At the end, click on "grow up" to hear a few seconds of the television program the King of Town was watching.
- {cut back to the King of Town's castle. The TV is still on}
- TV ACTOR: Caleb, that hamburger was mine!
- CALEB: It's mine now!
- At the end, click on "C H E _ T" to see the Cheat reading a
book entitled "So You Want to Cook a Wrestleman?", with a picture of
The Cheat putting a lid on a pot with Strong Bad in it.
- At the end, click on "poopaw" to hear what the announcer has to say about a poopaw.
- NARRATOR: I, uh, I don't even know what a poopaw is.
- At the end, click on "the Chekt" to see another recipe.
From the Kitchen of Poopaw
Chicken-fried the CHEKT
Ingredients:
3 or 7 medium sized the Chekts
2 salt
40 pancakes
Instructions:
Get down off smokestack. Then cook that
ugly thing.
''{"Bumdumbourge '96" appears as a watermark on the recipe card.}''
Fun Facts
Trivia
- This is the first reference to any of Strong Bad's (potential) family besides Strong Sad, Strong Mad, and his parents.
- A "poopaw" may be a reference to Strong Bad's father (or
grandfather). A few similar sayings are "meemaw" (or "mamaw") for a
grandmother, and a "papaw" for a grandfather.
- When Homestar walks in on Strong Bad and The Cheat, he mixes
up their names and greets them as "Cheat and The Strong Bad",
transposing the "The". This is a new variation on Homestar's tendency
to screw up other peoples' names.
Remarks
- Strong Bad remarks about the possibility of something being
just plain 'couth'. Couth means "possessing a high degree of
sophistication" or "refined". Someone as literate as Strong Bad should
know that.
Goofs
- When Strong Bad reads the "pimecone" card, the computer screen
is almost blank... but still has "and well-wishers." written on it in
the same area where Strong Bad typed it before.
- When Coach Z bounces the basketball, it sounds like a dodgeball instead of a basketball.
- When Strong Bad is talking to The Cheat flinging the discs, if
you manage to zoom in on the Lappy's screen, you'll find out that some
different stuff are typed in (not all are shown, due to Strong Bad's
head blocking the screen while talking to The Cheat):
so our recipes may seem a bit uncouth
just plain couth? I bet freakin' Strong
I wouldn't put that past him. Not that
anything past that guy. Y'know on ac
And maybe standing in a really narr
around the grossing out
and well-wishers.
Inside References
- The newspaper Marzipan is reading is the exact same one (down to the repeating text) she was reading in Strong Bad Is In Jail Cartoon.
- The effect used before Strong Bad and Homestar Runner show off their recipes was previously used in radio.
- The book titled "So You Want to Cook a Wrestleman" is a nod to
the sketch of Strong Bad labeled "Wrestleman" that appeared in the Sketchbook.
- In the homestarmy email, SB was also referred to as a "two-bit
wrestleman". In the online auction easter egg in the english paper
email, Homestar refers to strong bad as "some type of wrestle man."
- Homestar's use of the word "pimecone" instead of "pinecone" is
reminiscent of his usage of the word "pamcakes" instead of "pancakes"
in montage.
- This is also the second time that Strong Bad's cooking has made Coach Z puke, the first time was in couch patch
Real-World References
- The King of Town's quip about the deodorants being "strong enough for a man" is a reference to "Secret" brand deodorant ads.
- Bumdumbourge and Totalslava could be loose references to the
country of Luxembourg (and possibly many European cities whose names
end in -burg or -bourg) and the city of Bratislava (the capital of
Slovakia).
- "Old King Droll" is a reference to the nursery rhyme "Old King Cole."
- The floppy disk reads "Battle Chess",
an early-90s-era chess game for the PC that featured animated chess
pieces that fought with each other when trying to occupy the same
square.
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