History Recap / StrongBadEmailE120Radio

* TwoWordsObviousTrope: Strong Bad remarks "College radio can pretty much be summed up in five words: Dead air, um, dead air."

-->"Uh... campus outreach is looking for... um... Hang on..."

'''Strong Mad:''' ''(confused)'' ZABBITABLAH?

Fraser has some friends who happens to be radio show hosts, and asks Strong Bad for any pointers for things they can say or do on their show, to which he agrees. According to Strong Bad, the first rule of being a radio personality is to make sure you sound nothing like how you look, as he demonstrates by making "Ol' Greystroke" act like a loud, obnoxious disc jockey known as "The Deathly Pallor".

Fraser has a friend who happens to be a radio show host, and asks Strong Bad for any pointers for things they can say or do on their show, to which he agrees. According to Strong Bad, the first rule of being a radio personality is to make sure you sound nothing like how you look, as he demonstrates by making "Ol' Greystroke" act like a loud, obnoxious disc jockey known as "The Deathly Pallor".

->'''Strong Bad:''' I got miles and miles of the email style. Miles and miles of the email style!

Fraser has some friends who want advice on being a radio show host, and Strong Bad decides to give them some pointers. His first rule is to make sure you sound nothing like how you look, as he demonstrates by making Strong Sad act like a loud, obnoxious disc jockey known as "The Deathly Pallor".

->'''Strong Sad:''' Hey hey hey, it's the Deathly Pallor, coming at you on numbitty 902, [=WA3D=] FM, "The Sturge." Coming up next, we got some hot new tracks from double-O ballyhoo! (''claps his hands over his mouth, mortified, as Strong Bad laughs'') [[ImNotDoingThatAgain Don't you ever do that again!]]

Strong Bad then demonstrates how various types of radio personality would say the test sentence "The fish was delish and it made quite a dish":

A sender's friends want advice on being a radio show host, and Strong Bad decides to give them some pointers. His first rule is to make sure you sound nothing like how you look, as he demonstrates by making Strong Sad act like a loud, obnoxious disc jockey known as "The Deathly Pallor".

->'''Strong Bad:''' Done and done, Fraser. Your friends should be well on their way to annoying drivers and gas station attendants the world over. Ooh! And see if you can score me some free coozies, frisbees, or bottle openers from their station. Those free giveaways: highly flammable.

-->'''Strong Sad:''' Oh ''yeah!'' What's the phrase that pays that plays for days? It's numbity 902, "The Sturge"! Don't you touch that ''zabbitablah!''\\
'''Strong Mad:''' ''(confused)'' ZABBITABLAH?

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* College radio, which features a stuttering, mumbling "bewildered freshman" for a DJ, and which Strong Bad believes "can be summed up in five words: [[DeadAir Dead air]], um, dead air."

* OurSloganIsTerrible: Portly Washboy Laundry Paste: "Don't Eat It Like the Cartoon Man!"

* College radio, which features a stuttering, mumbling "bewildered freshman" for a DJ, and which Strong Bad believes "can be summed up in five words: Dead air, um, dead air."

* A "smooth 'n' smarmy" public radio announcer, who reports on the doings of Capitol Hill and the United Nations, and leaves Marzipan wondering when she's supposed to get her tote bag.

* BrickJoke: During the public radio segment, Marzipan mentions that she never got her tote bag from the station. Later on in the morning show segment, Homestar is wearing a tote bag from the public radio station.

** An Easter egg features a mock-cover for "The Fish Was Delish, and it Made Quite a Dish", a Literature/DrSeuss pastiche written by "Crazy Prof. Sportsinterviews".

* College radio, which features a stuttering, mumbling "bewildered freshman" for a DJ, and which Strong Bad believes "can be summed up in 5 words: Dead air, um, dead air."
* Old-timey radio, which features Old-Timey Strong Bad as the narrator for a radio drama, the "Fish Was Delish" program. "Stay tuned for partial excitement!"

** An easter egg features a mock-cover for "The Fish Was Delish, and it Made Quite a Dish", a Literature/DrSeuss pastiche written by "Crazy Prof. Sportsinterviews".
** An easter egg has Old-Timey Strong Bad borrow [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Dick Dastardly's]] catch-phrase "Drat and double-drat!"

* VocalDissonance: According to Strong Bad, "The first rule of thumb for all radio personalities is to look absolutely nothing like how they sound."

-->'''Strong Sad:''' Hey hey hey, it's the Deathly Pallor, coming at you on numbitty 902, [=WA3D=] FM, "The Sturge." Coming up next, we got some hot new tracks from double-O ballyhoo! (''claps his hands over his mouth, mortified, as Strong Bad laughs'') [[ImNotDoingThatAgain Don't you ever do that again!]]

-->'''Strong Bad:''' Done and done, Fraser. Your friends should be well on their way to annoying drivers and gas station attendants the world over. Ooh! And see if you can score me some free coozies, frisbees, or bottle openers from their station. Those free giveaways: highly flammable.

* CallBack:
** The college radio station is apparently "the voice of [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE26CGNU CGNU]]".
* CollegeRadio: Here demonstrated by Strong Bad doing his best impression of a "bewildered freshman".
* DumbassDJ: Strong Sad as "The Deathly Pallor", and the AM Morning Crude Crew.
* LargeHamRadio: "The Deathly Pallor"

* VocalDissonance: "The first rule of thumb for all radio personalities is to look absolutely nothing like how they sound."

-->'''Strong Sad:''' Oh ''yeah!'' What's the phrase that pays that plays for days? It's numbity 902, "The Sturge"! Don't you touch that ''zabbitablah!''

-->'''Strong Sad:''' Hey hey hey, it's the Deathly Pallor, coming at you on numbitty 902, WA3D FM, "The Sturge." Coming up next, we got some hot new tracks from double-O ballyhoo! (''claps his hands over his mouth, mortified, as Strong Bad laughs'') [[ImNotDoingThatAgain Don't you ever do that again!]]

A sender's friends want advice on being a radio show host, and Strong Bad decides to give them some pointers. His first rule is to make sure you sound nothing like how you look, as he demonstrates by making Strong Sad act like a loud, obnoxious disc jockey. He then demonstrates how various types of radio personality would say the test sentence "The fish was delish and it made quite a dish":

* Stoops and Gusso, the "AM Morning Crude Crew", a pair of smart-alecky "drive time morning show" hosts: "These guys are like bad stand up comics that you can't heckle. Or jeckle. Or throw highball glasses at." Which doesn't stop an annoyed Homestar from throwing a rocks glass at his radio.
* College radio, which features a stuttering, mumbling "bewildered freshman" and which Strong Bad believes "can be summed up in 5 words: Dead air, um, dead air."

A sender's friends want advice on being a radio show host, and Strong Bad decides to give them some advice. His first rule is to make sure you sound nothing like how you look, as he demonstrates by making Strong Sad act like a loud, obnoxious disc jockey. He then demonstrates how various types of radio personality would say the test sentence "The fish was delish and it made quite a dish":

* College radio, which Strong Bad believes "can be summed up in 5 words: Dead air, um, dead air."
* Old-timey radio, which features Old-Timey Strong Bad as the narrator for a radio drama.

* OurSloganIsTerrible: Portly Washboy Laundry Paste: "Don't Eat It Like the Cartoon, Man!"