Recap / Strong Bad Email E 122 Dreamail

Airdate: Monday, January 10, 2005

Sender: Danny Gedgafov from Glenview, IL

Strong Bad: (singing) Oh, oh, email's in the backyard, makin' some stew...

Danny from "Gliggityvoo, Illinois" wants to know what Strong Bad looks for in an email, or in "another words" ("And look, there's some another words!"), what his "dream email" would look like.

Strong Bad: My dream email, my "dreamail". Well, plain ol' Danny, there are a lot of email-fish out there in the Email Sea. And while most of them are those nasty bottom-feeders with a suckhole mouth, there are a few that break the glimmering surface of the water, to glisten in the sunset for a few fleeting moments, like some kind of glorious e-marlin. Another words, please allow me to ditch the fishing metaphor and hit you with the pink border.

Strong Bad's "dreamail", framed by a fuzzy pink border, opens with an epic orchestra-backed email intro song.

Strong Bad: OK, orchestra, hit it! (singing with orchestral backing in an operatic style) Email me toniiiiiight!

Strong Bad brings up the email on his Lappy... which has been pimped-out with a gold-chain license-plate cover ("MY LAPPY ATE YOUR DOG") and has a crude female AI who tells him "You're looking prooty hot." The email itself is from "128 Hot Katies", writing to Strong Bad's rich playboy alter-ego "Chester Eleganté" that he left his pocket watch in their hot tub.

Strong Bad: My Katies 1-128, good to hear from all y'all (especially you, Katie 80). When my raucous schedule permits, I will triumphantly/abundantly return to the chateau for my ruby-encrusted pocketwatch. I have plans tonight, however, but I will, furthermore, heretofore, be back on the morrow next. Please tell Adelaide that the poached eggs were tremendous. Forever Young, Chester Eleganté.
Lappy 486: Well, played, Strong Bad. Those ladies are sure to be all up ons.

Strong Bad brags that an email that awesome he would have bronzed and dipped in guacamole, and he would have The Cheat read it to him every night at dinner time... which, in the "dreamail" world, would be Cadbury Creme Egg omelets, served at a fancy dining table made from an autographed version of the front door from 227. Unfortunately, the dreamail is ruined by the appearance of Homestar Runner, who has spoiled Strong Bad's excuse to visit the Hot Katies again by returning his pocketwatch for him ("Katie 80 says 'what's up?'!")

Strong Bad: Crap the what?! This pink border is not holding up its end of the bargain! C'mon, pink border, get your head in the game!
Homestar: Pink border? (cut back to the real world, where Homestar is standing next to the computer desk) Strong Bad, what are you talking aboot?
Strong Bad: Oh, we're back here.
Homestar: Yeah, I found your pocket lint. And Marzipan says you're an ogre.

Strong Bad decides to try again, with a puffy white cloud border ("Homestar never woulda shown up in a Puffy White Cloud Dreamail!" "I do hate white clowns!"). This time, Strong Bad is checking an email deep beneath the ocean waves, aboard the U.S.S. Soccermom submarine.

Strong Bad: ...And if you ignore all the facts and scientific evidence, then those weird little kids were right. Thanks for your question, Leonard Nimoy! I'll be back next week to solve another Celebrity Murder Mystery! But right now, I gotta fly.
(Strong Bad stands up and strikes a pose, visible strings attached to his arms and legs lifting him a few feet into the air, before he stops next to the computer desk. The Paper comes down, now resembling a page of the U.S. Constitution.)

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Tropes

• Cordon Bleugh Chef: Strong Bad's idea of high class cuisine, as seen in his dream email, is "Cadbury creme-egg omelettes".
• Delusions of Eloquence: Strong Bad misuses five-dollar words in order to sound sophisticated when responding to his dreamail.
• Fantasy Twist: Homestar barges into Strong Bad's first attempt at a dreamail.
  Strong Bad: Crap the what?! This pink border is not holding up its end of the bargain!
• Flashback Effect: Strong Bad's first "dreamail" is surrounded by a pink border, the second by a puffy white cloud border.
• Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": Strong Bad isn't content to imagine just an idealized e-mail, but an idealized life for himself, with a fancy dining room and Cadbury creme-egg omelets for dinner.
• Imagine Spot: Most of the email takes place in Strong Bad's fantasy, until Homestar walks in.
• Malaproper: After Strong Bad decides to try a dreamail with a puffy white cloud border, Homestar chimes in with "I do hate white clowns."
• Metaphorgotten: Strong Bad delivers an overly-elaborate monologue about "e-mail fish in the e-mail sea". Lampshaded when Strong Bad follows it up with "please allow me to ditch the fishing metaphor and hit you with the pink border".
• Orphaned Punchline: Strong Bad's second dreamail opens with the tail-end of The Summation to a "Celebrity Murder Mystery".
  Strong Bad: ...And if you ignore all the facts and scientific evidence, then those weird little kids were right.
• Shout-Out:
  • The pink border used for Strong Bad's first attempt at a dreamail is lifted directly from the fantasy sequences in Saved by the Bell.
  • In Strong Bad's first dreamail, his kitchen table is made from the front door from 227, autographed by Jackeé Harry.
• Stylistic Suck: In Strong Bad's second attempt at a "dreamail", he flies off in a fashion where it's plainly obvious he's being held up by strings, as the Lappy points out.
• Suddenly Voiced: The Lappy is able to talk in Strong Bad's dream e-mail sequences. Oddly enough, this would latter be seen as an actual ability of the Lappy.
• Table Space: In the first dreamail, Strong Bad and The Cheat sit on opposite ends of a long dining table.

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Lappy: Don't fly, Strong Bad. Please come down. I worry about you. (beat) I can see the strings.