Recap / Strong Bad Email E 14 Duck Pond

Airdate: Sunday, February 17, 2002

Sender: Ron Kiwi

Strong Bad: (faking a struggle) Must... check... email...!

Ron Kiwi asks Strong Bad what his thoughts are on feeding the ducks.

Strong Bad: Unfortunatley, Mr. Kiwi, there are no ducks by my house. But I do have a pretty sweet duck pond simulator for my computer. Check it out, man.

Strong Bad brings up a game that involves throwing low-res bread crumbs to a pair of low-res ducks, which Strong Bad quickly agrees is "the greatest thing in the world". The duck pond simulator is also available to the viewer as a playable mini-game.

Strong Bad: (playing the Duck Pond simulator, as if in a trance) Wow. You're right, Ron. This is the greatest thing in the world. I mean it's like I'm right there. At the pond. Come here, ducky.
(The Paper comes down, displaying a message reading "Click here to play Duck Pond" underneath the original "Click here to email Strong Bad" message.)

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Tropes:

• Disco Dan: Strong Bad, as per usual, regards the graphics of the Atari 2600 as "state-of-the-art" simply because they're in full color and have a slightly higher resolution.
• Mundane Made Awesome: The Duck Pond Simulator gets this treatment from Strong Bad.
  Strong Bad: Wow, you're right, Ron. This is the greatest thing in the world. I mean, it's like I'm right there at the pond.
• Retcon: When the Atari 2600 version became a demo (which is also how the DVD version was changed), it became the first game developed by Videlectrix.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: The Atari 2600 version (no longer playable) added the following commands:
  • Pressing 8 reduced the brown duck to half its size.
  • Pressing A made the player-character throw an anvil which can be used to kill the ducks.
  • Pressing Y drained the pond which made the ducks stop moving.

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Strong Bad: (over gameplay footage of an Atari 2600 version of Duck Pond) Whoa, man! These graphics are state-of-the-art...graphics...