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1'''Airdate''': Monday, September 1, 2003
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3'''Sender''': Chrispy
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5->'''Strong Bad:''' Which email is your favorite? Mine is [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE15TheBasics "the basics."]]
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7"Chrispy" from Schenectady, NY asks Strong Bad what he's doing for Labor Day. Shocked and unaware that today is Labor Day, Strong Bad decides that he's certainly not going to answer an email, and decides to take the day off.
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9->'''Strong Bad:''' Wow. All of the sudden it's like the world is my... place where I don't have to answer an email. Think I'll go sit on my cooler next to the Stick and say stuff to people as they walk by. Now ''that's'' what I call the ol' Labor-Dabor.
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11Strong Bad proceeds to spend his "Labor Dabor" hanging by the Stick, talking smack at various passers-by, including Pom Pom (who apparently needs to get a life), The Poopsmith (who doesn't smell so good), Coach Z (who leaves Strong Bad wondering if his skin is actually green, or if he's wearing a body suit with footies), the King of Town (who wants to know if Strong Bad has "anything relatively edible" in his cooler), and Strong Mad and The Cheat ("The guys in which one of them is really big and the other is really small. Nice contrast, there, guys!"). All of them seem to be going in the same direction with party supplies, but Strong Bad is too busy making up put-downs and high-fiving the Stick a little too hard to wonder why...
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13Turns out everyone else in Free Country, USA is at a barbecue.
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15->'''Bubs:''' This here's the best Labor Day BBQ I ever been BB-to.\
16'''Marzipan:''' I wonder why?\
17'''Homestar:''' Has anyone seen Strong Bad? I sent him an invitation.\
18'''Strong Sad:''' Maybe it got "da-leet-ed"!\
19(''Everyone laughs, Strong Sad smiles faintly'')\
20'''Homestar:''' That's a good one, Strong Sad.\
21'''Coach Z:''' Oh gee, life of the pratty!\
22'''Bubs:''' Three cheers for Strong Sad!
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24Meanwhile, poor Strong Bad, all alone, is starting to realize his plans for a "Labor Dabor" aren't turning out so hot.
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26->'''Strong Bad:''' (''half-heartedly'') So, The Stick, how's your burger? Sorry about that high-five thing. (''mumbles'') I'm gonna go check my email.\
27(''The Paper comes down'')
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29!!Tropes
30* BorrowedCatchphrase: Strong Sad jokes that Strong Bad's invitation to the barbecue was "da-leet-ed".
31* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Strong Bad misses the party because he blows off checking his emails and never sees the invitation (or possibly even deleted it).
32* IncrediblyLameFun: Strong Bad's idea of an ideal "Labor Dabor" is spending the day sitting by the Stick, making fun of passers by. In the end, even he's grown bored of it.
33* ParodyCommercial: An Easter egg at the end has Strong Bad plugging "Schenectady Crispies" cereal.
34-->'''Strong Bad:''' Schenectady Crispies are so freaking good, they taste twice! Once in your mouth, and once in your... esophagus! [[OurSloganIsTerrible "I Hope I Don't Get Caught!"]]
35* RevengeSVP: Strong Bad spends the day bored and insulting everyone who passes by. Turns out everyone is passing by because they're going to a cookout that he doesn't know about.
36* ThrowTheDogABone: Everyone laughs at Strong Sad's joke, and Strong Sad smiles ever-so-slightly.
37* TheUnreveal: Strong Bad asks Coach Z if his skin is green or if he just runs around wearing footy pajamas all the time. Coach Z responds with "Oh, I've got footies all right. ''Athlete's'' footies."
38* WordSaladLyrics: An EasterEgg features Homestar singing a song on the radio. (Which would soon after be expanded into the puppet short "Everbody Knows It".)
39-->'''Homestar:''' You gotta do the best you can.\
40And work out twice a day.\
41Don't ask me why I said it,\
42Because I already forgot.
43* YouAreFat: After boasting about his witty jabs and clever put-downs, all Strong Bad can come up with as an insult to the King of Town is "you're fat."
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45->'''Strong Bad:''' (''filming a commercial'') Schenectady Crispies are so freaking good, they taste twice! Once in your mouth, and once in your... esophagus! "I Hope I Don't Get Caught!" (''the phrase appears below him'')
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47->'''Homestar:''' (''singing'') Everybody knows it\
48Everybody knows it\
49Everybody knows it's true\
50Oh yeah, you gotta do the best you can\
51And work out twice a day\
52Don't ask me why I said it\

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