rock opera
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Strong Bad Email #125
Strong Bad sings his rock opera 'sbemail'.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Little Strong Bad, Anonymous, Tompkins, Strong Sad, The Cheat, Coach Z, Homestar Runner, Marzipan, Grape Nuts Robot, The Poopsmith, Bubs, Strong Mad, Homsar, King of Town, Pom Pom, Dangeresque (easter egg)
Date: February 22, 2005
Strong Bad Email #125 - Rock Opera
Easter Eggs
- Click rave reviews to see some reviews of Sbemail:
- "SBEMAIL! Is a Triumph of Some Sort!!!"
"It will leave you you wanting MORE, MORE, MORE!"
-(Perhaps)The Deke
- "A million stars!!!"
-Age 7
- "SBEMAIL! is better than a goat!!"
- The biscuitdoughhandsman Review
- Click Pouring in to see a poster for SBEMAIL!
- "an off13 broadway rock opera from the man who brought you 'dangeresque: put em on ice!'"
- While on the poster, click 'Dangereresque: put em on ice' to see a clip of Dangeresque: Put 'Em On Ice!
- {Cut to somewhere in The Field in winter, with a
small ice pond in the foreground. Strong Bad (as Dangeresque) skates in
from the right}
- DANGERESQUE: So I'm gonna have to jum-
- {Dangeresque falls through the ice.}
- THE CHEAT: {offscreen} Meh! {throws a rose onto the ice}
- Click the invisible Encore on the bottom-right of the Lappy screen to see the rock opera again.
Fun Facts
Trivia
- This is the first time where we see Strong Bad's whole body walking towards the viewer.
- This is the first email where all twelve main characters
appear in person. (The Poopsmith and Pom-Pom were only on playing cards
in your friends and different town, respectively.)
Goofs
- You can still click the contrast buttons on the Tandy while the opera is playing.
- When roses are being thrown with the Lappy in the background, you can't see the reflection of the roses on the Lappy screen.
- The Poopsmith, Bubs and Pom Pom all remain motionless when the cast yells "SBEMAIL!".
- When the cast yells "SBEMAIL!" Strong Mad's mouth appears on Homsar's torso for a few seconds.
Inside References
- The shoes that walk across the screen are the back button of the old main page.
- On the second making-fun-of-Anonymous piece-of-paper,
Anonymous has his hands glued to his butt, which also happened to
Strong Sad in the e-mail 1 step ahead.
- The Teen Girl Squad character Tompkins can be found on the second making-fun-of-Anonymous piece-of-paper, in his miniaturized form from Teen Girl Squad Issue 7.
- When Strong Bad's typing starts going awry as The Cheat is
throwing roses at him, he types "the chicks" as "teh chekts", a
reference to the immediately preceding Strong Bad E-mail secret recipes.
- When Strong Bad appears to have two electric guitars sticking out of his head, it's a reference to the cover art for the CD Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits.
- Strong Bad sitting in the chair swirling the wine in the cup
is modeled after a similar scene from the Powered-by-the-Cheat music
video Everybody to the Limit.
- Strong Bad also swirls his wine in montage.
- The action figures of Strong Sad and Strong Bad are from the Strong Bad Email action figure.
- The pants Coach Z temporarily dons seem to be modeled after Rather Dashing's short pants.
- The background of the area with the pyramid of gold bars (pre-explosion) is taken directly from RhinoFeeder.
- The "Goodtime Palace" is modeled after similar scenes from animal and even features Baby Styles.
- The picture of the "Hardest Guitar Chord Ever" comes from privileges.
- The jogging pixellated Strong Bad is originally from montage.
- Club Technochocolate is originally from extra plug.
- The rock music which starts at Club Technochocolate is based on The Cheat Is Not Dead from caper.
- The stage the entire cast is grouped on at the end is the same stage from A Decemberween Pageant, among other holiday toons.
- The "biscuitdoughhandsman review" in the Easter Egg is yet another reference to everyone's favorite unapprehended villain, Biscuit Dough Hands Man.
- "The Deke" is originally from autobiography.
- Strong Bad's dance move with Baby Styles is a reference to virus when he compliments Bubs for being a computer genius man.
- Vector Strong Bad makes an appearance, this time with rock and roll hair and a headband.
- "Sbemail" is a reference to the filename of every Strong Bad e-mail. Strong Bad also refers to this in unused emails
Real-World References
- Strong Bad's "Ándale! Ándale! Arriba! Arriba!" at the end is
quoting the famous Warner Bros. cartoon mouse Speedy Gonzales, except
backwards as Speedy usually says Arriba! Arriba! Ándale! Ándale!
- The electric guitars in the opera are (or are modeled after) Gibson Flying Vs.
- The amps are modeled after Marshall stacks, but instead of "Marshall," the logo reads "An Amp". These were also used in different town, but labelled "Marzipan".
- Sbemail, in containing multiple sections of different styles,
is remiscent of such songs as the Who's "A Quick One, While He's Away"
and (more famously) Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."
See Also
- The context for all of the words from rock opera
External Links
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