Airdate: Sunday, July 14, 2002
Sender: Derek Highet, Northern California
Strong Bad: (softly singing) Oh, tap your toes and check your email, oh a-tap a-your toes a-toniiight...
Derek from California wants to know if Strong Bad can play guitar. Strong Bad boasts "I know all about virtuosos...and trembalos... and arpeggios... I can do it all, man." He also boasts about playing rhythm guitar ("Jug jigga jug jigga jug jigga jug jigga jug jigga JAH JAH!") and hot licks ("Meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley meedley MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"), but proceeds to get a little carried away, imagining Strong Mad on bass and the Cheat on keyboard joining in.
Strong Bad: And then I'm like "And the dragon comes in the NIIIiiiiIIIiiiiIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIiiiIIGGHHT!" (falls out of his chair, holds up a lighter from offscreen) Augh... oh yeah!
Tropes:
- Feigning Intelligence: Strong Bad boasts of his alleged guitar-playing prowess by spouting a bunch of random music terms.
- Malaproper: "Trembalos" appears to be a corruption of "tremolos".
- The Power of Rock: Strong Bad gets rather caught up in his rock-and-roll fantasy.
- Raised Lighter Tribute: Strong Bad holds a lighter to himself at the end of the e-mail, slightly singeing The Paper in the process.
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: The email is a whole string of Strong Bad making rock music noises.
(The Paper comes down. Strong Bad's lighter gradually singes it.)
