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Strong Bad Email #51

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"You can make a webpage of your cat."

This article is about the Strong Bad Email. For the Homestar Runner website, see homestarrunner.com. For other websites, see Websites.

Strong Bad gives an emailer advice on building a website, and shows off his own.

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad

Places: Computer Room

Computer: Compy 386

Date: Monday, November 18, 2002

Running Time: 1:53

Page Title: Compy 386!

DVD: strongbad_email.exe Disc Two

Transcript

STRONG BAD: Oh-you-thought-there-was-no-more-emails-but-guess-what-there's-an-EMAIL!

{reading email}

Dear Strong Bad.

I want to start a new website but I
don't have any ideas of what to do for
my website. I was wondering if you
could give me some ideas for my new
website. This website will be cool and
I'll e-mail you when I'm done.

Sincerely Yours:
James

{Strong Bad says "Website. I mean, James" instead of just "James"}

STRONG BAD: {typing} You know, James, I've been around this great, big internet of ours a few times, so I know what I'm talking about, and I can safely say, that whatever idea you have is completely unimportant as long as you adhere to these fundamentals: {clears screen} First of all, you want to start out with a long flash intro. {stops typing} Like this one The Cheat made for me.

{"The Cheat presents" on a black background appears on the screen, followed by two green, bean-shaped eyes.}

STRONG BAD: Check it out, those are supposed to be my eyes, I think.

{The eyes fade and the letters "SB" appear. "Strong" and "Bad" are inside each letter}

STRONG BAD: That stands for my name.

{The "S" and "B" turn into "The Web" in cursive}

STRONG BAD: "The Web".

{"The Web" turns into "Welcomes 'u' '2'", the letters made of only horizontal and vertical lines. The words "strong bad's cybersite" appear in red below "Welcomes 'u' '2'". A rainbow circle about 3/4 the size of the "2" comes and rolls in, stopping at the quotation mark before the "2"}

STRONG BAD: That little rainbow thing's kinda cool.

{The word "strong" explodes, and the word "cybersite" turns into rainbow colors. The words exit and a tunnel-like visual appears.}

STRONG BAD: Oh, go through the tunnel, oh look out!

{As he says "Oh, look out!", a hand appears to punch you, and after it does, the word "OUCH!" appears above it. The words "Get on in!" appear in a long button.}

STRONG BAD: Oh, you got punched! Aw, man, right in the face. {typing} Okay, next on the checklist: lots of animated GIFs! {pronounces it /gifs/; stops typing} Or... GIFs... {pronounces it /jifs/} or however you say it. I don't know. I heard a couple of nerds arguing about it one time. {clears screen} But you want as many of those as possible.

{An animated GIF appears that cycles between a flame, the word "Fire!" and another flame.}

STRONG BAD: Especially the {Another GIF appears, featuring a mouse that looks side to side before revealing a letter labeled "INTERNET?" in its mouth.} rotate-y kind. {Two rotating GIFs appear, one of a guitar, the other of a diamond that flashes, showing the words "hi rez" which then disappear.} Those are awesome, man. Nobody gets tired of looking at those. {clears screen}

STRONG BAD: {typing} So, then you can pretty much just pick whatever for your subject. It doesn't really matter as long as you got the rest of that stuff on there. {stops typing} I mean, {resumes typing} James, the Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens. You need to take advantage of that. {stops typing} I mean, you can make a webpage of your cat...

{A picture of a cat lying on a football with red eye thinking "It's 4th and 10. Now WHERE'S MY SUPPER?!?" appears}

STRONG BAD: ...or your The Cheat.

{A picture of The Cheat sleeping on his back on a couch thinking "It's 4th and 10. I hate cats."}

STRONG BAD: And, {typing} Who knows? Maybe tomorrow you'll be really big in Pakistan. Or at least, with some guy named Stan. {Stops typing} Anyways, I gotta go work on my webpage.

{Strong Bad leaves. The Paper comes down}

Easter Eggs

• Click on "strong bad's web page" to go to the Flash intro. Then click on "get on in!" to go to Strong Bad's Website.
  • Click on the F10 button at the bottom of Strong Bad's website to read Strong Sad's Lament, Strong Sad's LiveJournal-esque weblog.
  • At the bottom of Strong Bad's website, click on the envelope in the mouse GIF to be directed to the room where the emails are received.
  • Also at the bottom of Strong Bad's website, click on the Email GIF to send an email to Strong Bad.
  • Clicking on the Enter GIF reloads the website, adding an extra STRONG BAD at the top each time.

Fun Facts

Explanations

• Strong Bad's email intro might be referring to the fans' belief that emails would stop, because the previous email was a milestone that ended with the Compy 386 in a "flagrant system error".

Trivia

• The cat featured in the email is Mabel, owned by Matt Chapman and his wife Jackie. The cat appears to be sporting Soft Claws, which are an alternative to declawing.
• This is the first time Flash is mentioned.
• This is chronologically the first Strong Bad Email not to have been uploaded to YouTube by the homestarrunnerdotcom channel. It and english paper are the only pre-2006 emails with this distinction; both emails end with a link to an in-universe website, which cannot be replicated in YouTube.

Remarks

• The "get on in" Flash link during the email itself is clickable, but doesn't do anything.
• At the end of the email Strong Bad says he has to go work on his website, but then he leaves his computer. It might be because he needs to use The Cheat's computer since he has no mouse or a real browser.
• The music on the intro sounds very close to his description of Strong Bad playing rhythm guitar on the email guitar.

Fast Forward

• According to flashback, this is about where Strong Bad claims to have lost count of the emails.
• In email 152, isp, Strong Bad refers to the breakdancing rodent GIF as a "gif/jif".
• The photograph of Matt and Jackie's pet cat Mabel is later used in an epitaph to the now-deceased cat in hygiene.
• Strong Bad's website, including the rainbow circle, appears as part of the visuals of Back to a Website.

DVD Version

• Strong Bad's website cannot be browsed on the DVD. However, the intro to his website is still accessible (via a hidden Strong Bad icon in the lower right corner of the Compy 386 screen).
  • Note that the DVD version of the intro is out of sync—Strong Bad begins talking long before the animation ends.
  • The entire website is stored on the disc and can be viewed through a computer.

External Links

• watch "website"
• watch "website" on the old Flash site
• view the Flash file for "website"
• watch the Flash intro
• Strong Bad's website, skipping the intro