Line #32 Recap/StrongBadEmailE155ThemeSong


1	'''Airdate:''' Monday, August 7, 2006
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3	'''Sender:''' Jonathan Shaheen\
4	Ontario, Canada
5
6	->'''Strong Bad:''' (''singing'') When email comes to town, you know, you know, it's like a rainstorm... in your browser!
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8	Jonathan [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud Shaheen]] of "On-ta-Rio, Can-a-Dah" ("Ooh, a little 'south of the border' flavor...") thinks Strong Bad's email show would be "a whole lot cooler" with a theme song. Strong Bad retorts that Jonathan would be "a whole lot cooler" if [[TakeThatAudience his face had not-tons of acne]], and proceeds to dismiss theme songs as "an excuse for show-makers to make less show".
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10	Strong Bad demonstrates with a series of mock opening sequences: the first shows a goofy ExpositoryThemeTune featuring the Brothers Strong, The Cheat, and Homestar.
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12	->''Strong Bad is a wrestle-man\
13	He's the email-checkin'-est guy in the land!\
14	He checks real emails from the 'Net\
15	He's got two brothers, and The Cheat, his pet!\
16	(The Cheat, his pet!)\
17	There's nobody dumber\
18	Than Homestar Runner\
19	On "The Strong Bad Email Show"!''\
20	'''Strong Bad:''' ...and the ratings have gone through the roof.
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22	The second is a string of cliches from 80s sitcoms set to a "life-affirming pop-ballad type theme song, probably sung by some variety of Neville", accompanied by clips from "the unaired pilot that you'll never see":
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24	-> ''You and me, babe, livin' for dreams,\
25	Lifin' for love, drinkin' for free.\
26	Sittin' on top of an old robot\
27	Sharin' and carin' it out\
28	The memory's scrubbin' you down!\
29	Memory scrubbin' you down!''
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31	The rest of the e-mail is mostly spent ragging on the trend of cutting to commercials right after the opening sequence of the show (including an advertisement for CGNU's Online E-niversity) and making fun of CreditsPushback.
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33	->'''Strong Bad:''' You see, ''[[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud Sha-heen]]''? You're basically asking me to dedicate two minutes of my 3-to-5-minute email show, to what is essentially a commercial for ''something you're'' '''''already watching'''''! And besides, I give you people a new [=SBemail=] song every freakin' week. Allow me to leave you with the old standard "When Email Comes to Town, You Know, You Know, It's Like a Rainstorm... In Your Browser": When e-mail comes to town, you know, you know, it's like a rainstorm... in your browser!\
34	(''The Paper comes down.'')
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36	The cartoon ends with a series of parody credits... that are pushed back to make way for a preview of ''Powered By The Cheat''.
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39	!!Tropes:
40	* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: Strong Bad pronounces "Ontario, Canada" in a Latin way ("Onta-''ri''-o, Cana-''da''"), prompting him to comment that it has "a bit of 'south of the border' flavor".
41	* AudibleGleam: There's a flash and an audible gleam [[RunningGag every time]] Strong Bad says the e-mailer's last name. "Sha-''heen''!"
42	* BaitAndSwitchCredits: One mock-credits sequence plays a "life-affirming pop-ballad type theme song" that clashes with the tone of the usual Strong Bad Email, and also shows scenes not shown in any of the cartoons from the site. Lampshaded by Strong Bad claiming "The best clips they show are from the un-aired pilot that you'll never see."
43	* BookEnds: The email opens and closes with Strong Bad singing an e-mail song.
44	* ContinuityNod:
45	** One of the colleges mentioned in the CGNU E-niversity ad is [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE73Mascot Homestar's Knees Tech]].
46	** The credits at the end name [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE81Date Sid Hoffrenchman]] as the "Script Supervisor" for the Strong Bad Email Show.
47	* CreditsGag: The e-mail features at least two mock-credits sequences, with positions such as "Key Boy", "Best Grip", and "Playa Hata".
48	* CreditsPushback: Parodied; a mock end-credits sequence featuring a "jazzy instrumental version" of the "life-affirming pop-ballad theme song" is interrupted by a commercial for a sitcom and a bumper for Cheat Commandos.
49	-->'''Strong Bad:''' And on the off-chance that you actually wanted to hear the theme song... we've taken care of that, too.
50	* ExpositoryThemeSong: Parodied. "I'm sure viewership would triple if I had one of those crappy cartoon theme songs that bludgeons you over the head with the blunt end of the show's premise."
51	* ExtremeOmnivore: During the first sequence for "The Strong Bad Email Show", Homestar Runner is shown eating a light-bulb sandwich.
52	* HilarityEnsues: From the mock credits at the end of the e-mail.
53	-->'''Announcer:''' Next up on ''Powered By the Cheat'', Strong Mad gets his own talk show, and his first guest is ''hilarity!''"
54	* ImpossibleShadowPuppets: The "Some Variety of Neville" theme song features Strong Bad using his boxing-glove hands to make a Trogdor shadow puppet that appears to breathe fire and smoke.
55	* OddNameOut: The main characters of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Three is 4 Tonite]]'' are Mandy, Brandy, Andy, and Scurge.
56	* ParodyCommercial: The second credits sequence features an ad for CGNU's Online E-Niversity, as well as a bit of another commercial featuring the sighing bald man from "Senor Mortgage" and "[[Recap/HomestarRunnerSenorialDay Senorial Day]]".
57	* ShoehornedFirstLetter: From the commercial for CGNU E-niversity.
58	-->'''Announcer''': Enroll now, and join the e-niversity e-volution e-day... Uh, well, today. That last one didn't quite work out.
59	* ShoutOut:
60	** The "life-affirming pop-ballad" credits list the Cheat as "The Cheat Baxter-Birney", which is how Creator/MeredithBaxter was credited in the opening credits of ''Series/FamilyTies''. The font used during said song is also similar to that show's opening. Strong Bad notes that said life-affirming ballad will usually be sung by "some variety of Neville", in reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neville_Brothers The Neville Brothers]].
61	** Also during said credits Strong Bad at one point flings paper while he’s typing on the Lappy, a reference to the Creator/StephenJCannell VanityPlate.
62	** The Cheat Commandos are described as "They're tiny, they're toony, they're all a little loony!" -- a line several continuity announcers would use to introduce ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''
63	** The closing credits feature Strong Bad doing a stand-up routine, much like ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.
64	** One of the degrees offered at CGNU e-Niversity is "Escrow Understandment" -- one of the powers of recurring ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' character Middle-Aged Man.
65	* TakeThat: Strong Bad takes the chance to poke fun at a number of ThemeTune cliches in this email.
66	* ThemeTuneRollCall: During the first theme song for "The Strong Bad Email Show":
67	-->He checks real e-mails from the 'net\
68	He's got two brothers, and The Cheat, his pet!
69	* WordSaladLyrics: The "life-affirming pop-ballad type theme song" has rather silly lyrics like "Sittin' on top of an old robot / Sharing and caring it out".
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