Butt IQ
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"Look at his stupid head! Look how stupid his head is."
Tyler asks Strong Bad how you can tell if someone has a stupid butt. Strong Bad explains the concept of the Transitive Butt Property.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad
Places: Computer Room
Computer: Tandy 400
Date: Sunday, September 23, 2001
Running Time: 0:59
Page Title: Tandy 400!!!
DVD:strongbad email.exe Disc One
SBEmail Menu Description: Strong bad makes up his first bogus mathematical theorem to explain stupid butts.
Transcript
STRONG BAD: {singing, types "run Strongbad's__email"} Checkin' my email, checkin' my email, checkin'-checkin'-checkin'-checkin' my email.
>Dear Mr Bad,
>How do you know if someone's butt is stupid?
>I mean, is there like some kind of IQ test?
>Crapfully yours,
>Tyler
STRONG BAD: Oh, come on Tyler! Don't you remember your algebra, man? It's called the {typing} Transitive Butt Property. {stops typing} And it clearly states that the stupidity of somebody's butt is greater than or equal to the stupidity of that person's head.
{He types "stupid (butt) ≥ stupid (head)," then clears the screen to bring up Bad Graphics Homestar.}
STRONG BAD: So, take our friend Homestar Runner for instance. {laughing} Look at his stupid head! {labels Homestar's head "stupid (head)"} Look at how stupid his head is. {stops laughing} Okay, so you can easily infer from this that because he has such a stupid head, that easily his butt is going to be at least as stupid {labels Homestar's butt as "stupid (butt)"} if not stupider. {relabels butt as "stupid/stupider (butt)"} So there you have it. Okay, so until next time, on a scale from one to awesome, I'm super great.
{The Paper comes down}
Fun Facts
Trivia
- This is the first Strong Bad Email to have capital letters in the title.
- This is the first Strong Bad Email to mention Homestar.
- This is the first instance of Strong Bad receiving an email signed "Crapfully Yours".
- The paper at the end is shorter in length than in the first two Strong Bad Emails (likely to prevent covering up the image of Homestar Runner).
- This is the first email to show something on Strong Bad's computer other than text.
- This email marks the first appearance of Strong Bad's bogus mathematical theorems.
Remarks
- Normally, transitivity principles are used to infer a relation between two variables based on their relations to a third variable. For example, transitivity of "is greater than or equal to" implies that if
and 
, then 
.
Goofs
- For a split second when Strong Bad's text is cleared and Bad Graphics Homestar Runner appears, the text appears outside of the computer screen.
Inside References
- The email appears to have been inspired by the song "You've got an Ugly & Stupid Butt" from Strong Bad Sings (which later made its way to the Strong Bad Sings CD).
External Links
- watch "butt IQ"
- watch "butt IQ" on YouTube
- watch "butt IQ" on the old Flash site
- view the Flash file for "butt IQ"
