Airdate: Monday, September 16, 2002
Sender: Kyle Rechsteiner, San Mateo CA
Strong Bad: (singing) Doo doo do doo, doo duh doo doo!
Kyle from "Camateos, Scamateos" wants to know what sort of cool features a Strong Bad action figure would have. Strong Bad boasts that his action figure would have all the best toy features:
- A muscular physique that "looks just like me".
- A Chinese throwing croissant
- A button to make sparks fly from its mouth
- "Double-deuce action"
- A secret compartment in the neck "where you could pour, like, motor oil or grapefruit juice or whatever kinda junk you wanna put in there".
- Glow-in-the-dark abs
- "Severe knife-fight damage" that appears when immersed in water
- Removable legs for "Battle damage"
- A "dispenser fist to ooze radioactive goo!"
Sadly, Strong Bad's attempt at making his own action figure "didn't turn out as good as my imagination", resulting in "Peanut Strong Bad": a peanut with pipe-cleaner limbs, a painted-on face, and googly eyes.
Strong Bad: Basically all it has is...smells-like-peanut action. I'm lookin' for some licensees.
Tropes:
- Baguette Beatdown: The Strong Bad action figure includes a "Chinese throwing croissant".
- Cool Toy: Naturally, Strong Bad would want his action figure to be the coolest possible. Subverted with Peanut Strong Bad, who only has "smells like peanut" action.
- Continuity Nod: The Strong Bad action figure looks a lot like Strong Badman.
- Flipping the Bird: The Strong Bad action figure comes with "Double-deuce action!"
- Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": As with most self-described renditions of Strong Bad, the Strong Bad action figure is a lot more impressive-looking than the "real" thing.
- Literal-Minded: Strong Bad remarks that Strong Bad action figures "would sell like hotcakes. Ooh, especially if they smelled like hotcakes!"
- Palette Swap: In an Easter Egg, we see action figures of various other characters. Referencing the tendency for real-life toylines to do this, they're all largely identical, with only their heads, their colors, and a few altered parts (Homestar's has no arms, for instance) to distinguish them.
- Stylistic Suck: Peanut Strong Bad is a crude facsimile of Strong Bad with pipe cleaner arms and googly eyes. To say it "didn't turn out as good as [Strong Bad's] imagination" is an understatement.
Strong Bad: (playing with Peanut Strong Bad) Doo doo doooo! Hey Homestar, get away from here! Holy crap!
(The Paper comes down)
