1 | '''Airdate:''' Monday, March 3, 2008 |
2 | |
3 | '''Sender:''' Paul M. Pasquella |
4 | |
5 | ->'''Strong Bad:''' (''singing'') Oh, who's checkin' emails with his pants, who's checkin' emails with his pants! |
6 | |
7 | Paul M. from "Pathquaya" wants to know if there are any ancient ruins buried underneath Strong Badia. |
8 | |
9 | ->'''Strong Bad:''' Well Pauly Pasqually, I know for sure there's a lotta ''something'' buried deep under Strong Badia. Mainly cause I rent out the dirt to unsavory characters in need of a place to stash, ditch, or make disappear, the evidence of their choice. I never really thought that there might be ancient ruins down there, though. |
10 | |
11 | Equipped with a shovel and his trusty Taranchula "Black Metal Detect-or" ("[[OverlyNarrowSuperlative America's coolest]] [[CoveredInGunge children's game show]] [[ConsolationPrize consolation prize]]"), Strong Bad and The Cheat head over to Strong Badia, and get to digging for ruins, riches, and "booby-traps we can steal ideas from". Strong Bad quickly finds something, in the form of a mysterious circular object labelled "Coldonesdry" that may well be the tip of an ancient, richest-filled structure. |
12 | |
13 | ->'''Strong Sad:''' Uh, me again! I think that's just the cap of a bottle of Cold Ones Dry. You could probably just pick it up.\ |
14 | '''Strong Bad:''' What, are you crazy? I'm not touching that thing! It's booby trapped! It'll shoot a bunch of poison-tipped witch doctors at me!\ |
15 | '''Strong Sad:''' Riiiiiight. Or, it's just a bottle cap, and you're crazier than ever. |
16 | |
17 | Strong Bad ignores his nay-saying brother and continues his search for ancient riches. He quickly finds "a futuristic piece of paper", bearing a picture of some alien being resembling a smiling head with arms and legs captioned "BABBY ALIEN". |
18 | |
19 | ->'''Strong Bad:''' Oh... my... geez... I knew it! Strong Badia was originally colonized by extra-terrestrials! That explains why I'm so brilliant! And why all beings look the same except for slight differences of our foreheads. |
20 | |
21 | Strong Sad points out it's just a piece of tinfoil with a picture that a young Strong Mad drew of his weird-looking younger brother, but Strong Bad stubbornly sticks to his "ancient aliens" theory. |
22 | |
23 | ->'''Strong Bad:''' Quit ruining my ruins, Jurassic Dork! This clearly says "Babby Alien". Which is probably the name of my true mother, who left me here as a young larva hundreds of years ago, until someone, I'm guessing an elderly oatmeal enthusiast, unwittingly disturbed my cocoon. Oh, Babs! Why did you leave me stranded here?\ |
24 | (''Zoom out to show Bubs standing by the hole Strong Bad has dug.'')\ |
25 | '''Bubs:''' Oh, sorry about that, Strong Bad. Was I supposed to come earlier?\ |
26 | '''Strong Bad:''' What? No, I said "Babs". "''Babs''".\ |
27 | '''Bubs:''' Bubs, Babs, whatever. I take what I can get.\ |
28 | '''Strong Bad:''' Whaa?\ |
29 | '''Bubs:''' Anyways, I'm here for my weekly, ahem, "delivery". (''gestures to several barrels reading "inTOXICatingly good WASTE"'').\ |
30 | '''Strong Bad:''' Yeah, yeah, just bury it wherever. But if you uncover any ruins, or hot aliens, or riches, they're mine, OK?\ |
31 | '''Bubs:''' Uh, what about fellas named Rich?\ |
32 | '''Strong Bad:''' Wha-what? No, I don't know anyone named Rich.\ |
33 | '''Bubs:''' Okay, good. Then he can stay where he is!\ |
34 | '''Strong Sad:''' Uh, is there anyway I can unhear the last few sentences? Or '''years of my life?''' |
35 | |
36 | Strong Bad concludes there are no ancient, riches-filled ruins buried beneath Strong Badia, or at least about a foot beneath Strong Badia. |
37 | |
38 | ->'''Strong Bad:''' Digging is hard, man! Did you ever try to dig a hole? It's not all wipes and montages like in the movies. It takes forever! But who knows what wonders lie, say, one-and-a-half feet beneath Strong Badia? Or, dare I say it, a ''few'' feet beneath Strong Badia. Why, it staggers the bad imagination.\ |
39 | (''An illustration of elaborate hypothetical ruins beneath Strong Badia appears onscreen. New Paper comes down.'') |
40 | ---- |
41 | !!Tropes: |
42 | * AncientAstronauts: Strong Bad briefly claims that Strong Badia was colonized by aliens after finding a picture of a "BABBY ALIEN" drawn on tin-foil buried beneath Strong Badia. |
43 | * ContinuityNod: |
44 | ** The King of Town's box of peas from [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE99DifferentTown "different town"]] is visible in the FunnyTerrainCrossSection at the end. |
45 | ** An Easter egg has the King of Town telling off the "Shut Up!" Lady from [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE133Bottom10 "bottom 10"]] and [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE168YourFuneral "your funeral"]]. |
46 | * DeathByCameo: Homeschool Winner's skull can be seen in the FunnyTerrainCrossSection. |
47 | * FastTunnelling: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Strong Bad points out that it's really hard to dig a hole. |
48 | * FunnyTerrainCrossSection: The e-mail ends with one of these, provided by Strong Bad. |
49 | * NoodleIncident: We never do find out who "Rich" was, or why Bubs had to hide his body. |
50 | * ShoutOut: |
51 | ** "Why all beings look the same except for slight differences of our foreheads" is a nod to/jab at the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Chase", where the intervention of an ancient alien civilization is used to explain why there are so many RubberForeheadAliens in the ''Star Trek'' franchise. |
52 | ** Strong Bad's reference to "an elderly oatmeal enthusiast" disturbing his cocoon is a reference to Creator/WilfordBrimley, who had a starring role in ''Film/{{Cocoon}}'' and also did commercials for Quaker Oats. |
53 | ** In the ending cross-section, there's an arrow pointing down to the "[[Series/LandOfTheLost1974 dinosaurs n' Sleestak]]" layer. |
54 | * TooMuchInformation: Strong Sad's reaction to hearing of Bubs' shady business practices is to ask "Is there any way I could unhear the last few sentences, or years of my life?" |
55 | ---- |
56 | ->'''King of Town:''' (''commenting on the FunnyTerrainCrossSection'') Ooh, that thing looks delicious! I'll take two slices of that, a piece of the igneous pie, and a molten core tart.\ |
57 | '''Lady:''' Oh, that looks sinful!\ |
58 | '''King of Town:''' Shut up, lady! |
59 | ---- |
60 | ->'''Announcer:''' Cold Ones Dry, the official beverage of Taranchula.\ |
61 | '''Schenkel [=McDoo=]:''' Yah guys, Yold Ones Vry!\ |
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