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| '''[[Strong Bad Email]] #36'''
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''"And the dragon comes in the nniiiiightt!!"''

''This article is about the [[Strong Bad Email]].'' ''For the [[Skills of an Artist]] episode, see [[Guitar]].'' ''For other uses of the word "guitar", see [[Guitar (disambiguation)]].''

Derek asks Strong Bad if he can play the guitar.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Strong Bad]]

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]]

'''Computer:''' [[Tandy 400]]

'''Date:''' Sunday, July 14, 2002

'''Running Time:''' 1:32

'''Page Title:''' Tandy 400: Still Broken.

'''DVD:'''[[strongbad email.exe Disc One]], [[Sbemails' 50 Greatest Hits DVD]]

'''SBEmail Menu Description:''' Strong Bad shows off his guitar skills.

== Transcript ==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Oh, tap your toes and check your email, oh a-tap your toes tonight... ''{stops singing}''

<blockquote>
>Hey Strong Bad whats up? 
> 
>Can you play the Guitar? 
> 
>Derek Highet 
>Northern California
</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad has some trouble pronouncing the surname "Highet," saying, "Hig-het. Uh, hey, hi, hi-het {with the second "h" said with a [[Spanish]] accent}, hiyet—hi-yet."}''

{''Throughout the email, Strong Bad types every syllable he sings.''}

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, Derek. Not much, man. Yeah I can play the guitar. I know all about virtuosos ''{pause}'' and trembalos ''{pause}'' and arpeggios. ''{pause}'' I can do it all. {clears screen} I can play your basic rhythm guitar, like... ''{singing}'' jug jigga jug jigga jug jigga jug jigga jug jigga JAH JAH, jiggidy jug jigga jug jigga jug jigga jug jigga jug jigga JAH JAAH! ''{stops singing}'' You know, something like that. I can also play some pretty hott lixx, too. You know the kind that are just way up high on the tiny strings and you mash your fingers on 'em. ''{screen clears. Strong Bad starts singing}'' meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. ''{stops singing, starts typing faster}'' Yeah, yeah and then Strong Mad comes in on his bass and he's like, ''{singing}'' dou dow da dou da da DOU da dou da dou dou dou ''{screen clears. Strong Bad stops singing}'' and The Cheat comes in on his keyboards and he's like boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boo and then I'm like "And the dragon comes in the ''{loud voice}'' NIIIiiiiIIIiiiiIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIiiiIIGGHH—

''{Strong Bad falls out of his chair.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Augh... Oh yeah!

''{Strong Bad sticks up his arm up from the bottom of the screen and lights the BMW lighter as people do at rock concerts. [[The Paper]] comes down. After a short time, the lighter singes The Paper.}''

== Fun Facts ==

=== Explanations ===

* A "[[virtuoso]]" is a person who is exceptionally skilled at playing a musical instrument.
* "Trembalo" is a distortion of ''[[tremolo]]'', a "trembling" effect created by rapidly repeating the same or two similar musical notes.
* An "[[arpeggio]]" is a [[Chord (music)|chord]] broken into its notes, played quickly in sequence.
* A "[[Lick (music)|lick]]" (referred to as "[[Hot Lixx|hott lixx]]") is a short series of notes used in a solo or riff, commonly for guitar in a rock setting.

=== Trivia ===

* This is the first appearance of the [[BMW Lighter|BMW lighter]].
* This is the first toon to be uploaded to Homestar Runner's [[YouTube]] channel.
* The YouTube description for this email is "Strong Bad shows off his guitar skills."

=== Goofs ===

* The number of "jug jigga"s and "meedley"s typed does not match up to the number of "jug jigga"s and "meedley"s Strong Bad sings.
* Between "bass" and "and", there are two spaces.
* Before Strong Bad starts typing the meedlies and the juggas, there is no sound when he switches the screen.
* Strong Bad starts typing "NIIIiiiiIIIiiiiIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIiiiIIGGHH" about a second before he starts singing it.
* When Strong Bad types "virtuosos", there is a period in the cursor. When Strong Bad hits enter, the period is gone.

=== Fast Forward ===

* "And the dragon comes [[In The Night|in the night]]" is used again as "And the [[Trogdor]] comes in the night" in the Trogdor song in [[dragon]] and [[Trogdor (song)|Trogdor]] in Strong Bad's CD, ''[[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits]]''.
** This phrase is further referenced at the end of the [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]].
** The word "meedley" is also used to describe one of the "wicked dueling guitar solos" in Trogdor.
* There are some more "Jug Jiggas" during the long Flash intro on [[Strong Bad's Website]].
* Strong Mad plays the bass in the toon [[Cool Things]].
* Strong Bad's "Meedly Meedly..." line is downloadable in the Strong Bad Quotes Pack from the [[Downloads]] page.
* In an Easter egg in email [[death metal]], [[What's Her Face]] asks [[Cheerleader]] if she came to see [[Brainkrieg]]. Cheerleader replies, "I come for the wuggas, but stay for the jiggy juggas."
* In [[the paper]], Strong Bad ignites The Paper with his BMW Lighter and then sings, "And The Paper goeth into the niiIIiiIIiiIIght!"
* The "meedley" line is reused in [[Baddest of the Bands Teen Girl Squad Meets Limozeen]], but some other lyrics are added.
* In [[Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque]], [[Dangeresque (character)|Dangeresque]] exclaims, "And the Kung-Fu Dragon Chinese Takeout comes in the niiiight! (they're open late)".

== DVD Version ==

* The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

=== Commentary Transcript ===

('''Commentary by:''' [[Mike Chapman]], [[Matt Chapman]])

'''MIKE:''' This email is titled Guitar.

'''MATT:''' It's near and dear to our hearts.

'''MIKE:''' We grew up reading ''Guitar for the Practicing Musician'' and ''Guitar World'' and ''Metal Edge'', and um...

'''MATT:''' Or rather, our brother Donnie read all of them.

'''MIKE:''' ''{simultaneously}'' ''Hit Parade'', ''Circus Magazine''...

'''MATT:''' ''Kerrang!''.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''MATT:''' ''{simultaneously}'' ''RIP''. Remember the ''RIP''?

'''MIKE:''' I think that's, that's all of them. That's so, yeah, we um... ''{short pause}'' we knew all about virtuosos and arpeggios.

''{Matt laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' And trembolos. I took guitar in 8th grade. I didn't, I was never very good, though.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. This one goes out to all those dudes that lurk around the guitar shop and won't go away, and all I want to do is buy some strings and maybe a pick and they make

'''MIKE:''' They make—

'''MATT:''' —me feel really intimidated and want to leave. So now, it seems like this actually appealed to- we got a lot of, it seemed to get circulated over- among, like, tab sites and sites that like guitar.

'''MIKE:''' Tab and, like, Diet Coke and—

'''MATT:''' Tablatures, Mike!

'''MIKE:''' Oh, oh, oh!

'''MATT:''' It's a term!

'''MIKE:''' I thought you were talking about die—diet sodas.

'''MATT:''' It's a guitar term. ''{pause}'' There you go, and of course, that later becomes a part of Trogdor, the song called Trogdor from website homestar.com.

'''MIKE:''' There's the first appearance of the BMW lighter.

'''MATT:''' Watch as it burns the paper! So burns.

=== Fun Facts ===

* ''[[Guitar World]]'', ''Metal Edge'', ''[[Kerrang!]]'', ''RIP'' and ''Circus Magazine'' are (or were) all music magazines. ''Hit Parade'' possibly refers to ''Hit Parader''.
* [[Tab (soft drink)|Tab]] was the first diet soda produced by the [[Coca-Cola Company]].
* Guitar [[Tablature]] is a shorthand method of writing out music for the guitar, which specifies fingering but not specific pitch or length of notes.

== External Links ==

* [https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/36-guitar watch "guitar"]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bloiue3mSuA watch "guitar"] on [[YouTube]]
* [https://old.homestarrunner.com/sbemail36.html watch "guitar"] on the old [[Flash]] site
* [https://old.homestarrunner.com/sbemail36.swf view the Flash file for "guitar"]

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