Airdate: Monday, September 1, 2003
Sender: Chrispy
"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.
Strong 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...
Turns out everyone else in Free Country, USA is at a barbecue.
Marzipan: I wonder why?
Homestar: Has anyone seen Strong Bad? I sent him an invitation.
Strong Sad: Maybe it got "da-leet-ed"!
(Everyone laughs, Strong Sad smiles faintly)
Homestar: That's a good one, Strong Sad.
Coach Z: Oh gee, life of the pratty!
Bubs: Three cheers for Strong Sad!
Meanwhile, poor Strong Bad, all alone, is starting to realize his plans for a "Labor Dabor" aren't turning out so hot.
(The Paper comes down)
Tropes
- Borrowed Catchphrase: Strong Sad jokes that Strong Bad's invitation to the barbecue was "da-leet-ed".
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Strong Bad misses the party because he blows off checking his emails and never sees the invitation (or possibly even deleted it).
- Incredibly Lame Fun: 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.
- Parody Commercial: An Easter egg at the end has Strong Bad plugging "Schenectady Crispies" cereal.Strong Bad: 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!"
- 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.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Everyone laughs at Strong Sad's joke, and Strong Sad smiles ever-so-slightly.
- The Unreveal: 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."
- Word Salad Lyrics: An Easter Egg features Homestar singing a song on the radio. (Which would soon after be expanded into the puppet short "Everbody Knows It".)Homestar: You gotta do the best you can.
And work out twice a day.
Don't ask me why I said it,
Because I already forgot. - You Are Fat: 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."
Everybody knows it
Everybody knows it's true
Oh yeah, you gotta do the best you can
And work out twice a day
Don't ask me why I said it
Because I already forgot
