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Strong Bad Email #210

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"Time for you to go... DEEP UNDERCOVER!"

This article is about the Strong Bad Email. For the general concept, see Robots. For other uses, see Robots (disambiguation).

Strong Bad sends The Cheat undercover to infiltrate a secret robot council.

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat, The Robot, Visor Robot, Homestar Runner, Larry Palaroncini (voice only), Grape-Nuts Robot, Humidibot, Coach Z, The King of Town, Strong Sad, Strong Mad, Taranchula (voice only)

Places (in order of appearance): Computer Room, The Field

Computer: Lappier

Date: Monday, November 24, 2025

Running Time: 6:05 (Flash), 6:54 (YouTube)

Page Title: Lappier Than Thou

Transcript

STRONG BAD: {singing} I'm making this email up! 'Cause I hate everybody! Hate everybody-body! On the Internet! The Internet!

DearSB,
You got all these robots round your town, but
you never DO anything with them. What giveth?

Carrie
Larry, IA

{Strong Bad pronounces SB as "sbu" and "IA" as "Internet asker"}

STRONG BAD: {typing} Hmmm. Good point, Care-lare, good point. It does seem like a bit of an oversight. {stops typing} Say, The Cheat!

{The Cheat rushes in from the left. Strong Bad turns to greet him.}

THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}

STRONG BAD: Bring up our files on thems of the robotic persuasion.

{The Cheat produces a file folder. Hi-hats start.}

THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}

{Cut to the folder. The first page displays a dossier for The Robot from the Original Book.}

STRONG BAD: First up, we've got the walking metal robot—

{Cut to The Robot standing in the field, plugged into a detached wall outlet.}

STRONG BAD: The Robot!

{The Robot raises its arm.}

STRONG BAD: One very specific size of nut—

{Zoom in. A dotted line shows where a nut would fit inside The Robot's wrench hand.}

STRONG BAD: —doesn't stand a chance against this guy!

{Cut back to the folder. A page featuring the dossier for the Visor Robot appears.}

STRONG BAD: And this guy was last seen doing a brief stint as one o' them personal assistants.

{Cut to Homestar Runner in the kitchen. A Visor Robot-shaped AI assistant sits on the table.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Say, fhqwh-bot, add "amazing thing" to my shopping list.

VISOR ROBOT: {visor flashes: subtitled} Okay. I added a lazy bean to your shopping list Homestar.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {frustrated} That is not what I asked for. {pulls up a bundle of Large Bean plushes} And I already own all the lazy beans!

VISOR ROBOT: {visor flashes: subtitled} Now playing "Hazy Jeans" from Larry Palaroncini's solo album.

{Song begins to play}

LARRY PALARONCINI: {singing} Well, I can't see a thing through these hazy jeans...

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {frustrated groaning} Fhqwh-bot set a timer for a thousand million years!

{Homestar walks out.}

VISOR ROBOT: {visor flashes: subtitled} Okay. Setting a timer for aAAraRrrRRaarRaA—

{The Visor Robot malfunctions and explodes, knocking all the lazy beans off the table and exposing its lightbulb.}

{Cut back to the file.}

STRONG BAD: And we can't forget my robotic— {a dossier for the Grape-Nuts Robot appears} doppelgänger! Who, in an unexpected twist, became the spokesperson for competing cereal companies.

{Cut to the kitchen. The Grape-Nuts Robot is standing next to a box of Cheat Commandos...O's. The Cheat Commandos music plays.}

GRAPE-NUTS ROBOT: {subtitled} Now spell. Come back, Flavor. Come back, Nutrition.

{Cut back to the computer.}

STRONG BAD: {typing} And finally, the leader of them all... that technological terror... the pinnacle of mechanical panic!

{Cut to the file showing a dossier for Humidibot. The picture shows an imposing silhouette with a "?" sign on it. The name is unknown.}

STRONG BAD: You know him. You fear him.

{Cut to the field. Humidibot rolls up.}

HUMIDIBOT: {spitting water, singing} It's a great day for Humidibot! This is not my theme song!

{Humidibot rolls off.}

{Strong Bad and The Cheat peek from behind the buses as Humidibot rolls past.}

STRONG BAD: There he goes, The Cheat. On his way to a secret robot council meeting! Time for you to go...

{Behind the bushes, Strong Bad and The Cheat have an empty The Cheatbot shell.}

STRONG BAD: DEEP UNDERCOVER!

{Strong Bad shoves the The Cheatbot shell on The Cheat.}

THE CHEAT: {scuttling around} {beeping The Cheat noises}

STRONG BAD: Poifect! Now follow him and learn what their robot world domination plans are so we can copy 'em!

THE CHEAT: {doubtful The Cheat noises}

STRONG BAD: Of course they want to take over the world! Why else would robots be having a secret council meeting?

THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}

STRONG BAD: {stroking his chin} Oh. I suppose a firmware upgrade is a possibility. If it is, {takes out a 5.25" floppy disk} then take this floppy and download it.

{Strong Bad shoves the floppy into The Cheatbot's eyehole.}

THE CHEAT: {painful The Cheat noises} {blood drips}

STRONG BAD: Oops. Sorry. The higher the tech, the sharper the corners. That's what Compy Corp. says, anyways.

{Cut to a commercial for a very pointy computer monitor called the Slicey 86, paired with a keyboard with very spiky keys.}

STRONG BAD: {narrating} Yes, the Compy Slicey 86. {schwing noise} Our sharpest PC yet!

{A suture kit appears}

STRONG BAD: {narrating} Suture kit included!

{Cut back to the field.}

STRONG BAD: Now get moving, Cheatbot!

THE CHEATBOT: {scuttles away} {beeping The Cheat noises}

{A group of robots is assembled in the Field behind a sign reading Council of Grayish ROBOTS. Present are an ATM, Humidibot, The Robot, the Grape-Nuts Robot, and the full-sized Visor Robot.}

VISOR ROBOT: {subtitled} I think spicy chili crisp is too played out.

{The Cheatbot joins the group.}

VISOR ROBOT: {subtitled} I'm switching back to sriracha.

GRAPE-NUTS ROBOT: {subtitled} I mixed up marsala and masala at my in-laws' house. Soooo embarrassing.

HUMIDIBOT: {spitting water} On that note, should we start back up our Béchamel versus Hollandaise debate? Cause I'm Humidibot?

{Cut back to Strong Bad and The Cheat, without The Cheatbot shell.}

STRONG BAD: {frustrated} They were just talking about friggin' sauce?

THE CHEAT: {shrugging} {The Cheat noises}

STRONG BAD: You sure it wasn't like... mind control sauce? Or melt the human stomach so we can take over the world sauce!

THE CHEAT: {shakes head} {The Cheat noises}

STRONG BAD: I refuse to accept that! There's just no way robots would secretly congregate only to discuss various types of sauce! {hovering in mid-air} You must have missed something. {lands on the ground} You gotta go back.

THE CHEAT: {shrugging} {The Cheat noises}

STRONG BAD: What do you mean you don't know any sauces? Just make something up! Find out how sauce equals world domination. Solve for sauce.

THE CHEAT: {frustrated The Cheat noises}

STRONG BAD: Back in the bucket!

{Strong Bad shoves the bucket shell back on The Cheat.}

{Cut to Humidibot discussing sauces.}

HUMIDIBOT: {spitting water, singing} Coodeman's Burrelli sauce.

{The Cheatbot joins the group.}

{Cut to an ad for sauce.}

HUMIDIBOT: {singing} "It's gonna fill up your belly, hoss!"

{The belly on the chef guy on the ad inflates. A button