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* LeFilmArtistique: Strong Sad's independent film is full of shots of dead and depressing stuff, and features dialogue like "I just don't think I can handle eating all this asparagus..."

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* LeFilmArtistique: Strong Sad's independent film is full of shots of dead and depressing stuff, and features dialogue like "I just don't think I can handle eating all this asparagus..."
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* TakeThatAudience: The original flash version of the email ends with Strong Bad poking fun at anyone who expected the cartoon to show an actual independent film festival with the characters submitting their own films, as he refuses to do so due to his dislike of such films.

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* TakeThatAudience: The original flash version of the email ends with Strong Bad poking fun taking a potshot at anyone who expected "Evil Gif" for expecting the cartoon to show an actual independent film festival with the characters submitting their own films, as he refuses to do so due to his dislike of such films.
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* TakeThatAudience: The original flash version of the email ends with Strong Bad poking fun at anyone who expected the cartoon to show an actual independent film festival with the characters submitting their own films, as he refuses to do so due to his dislike of such films.
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Strong Sad's "independent" film is a "boring, very personal" lower-than-no-budget "filmic thought excursion" starring a washed-up TV actor who hasn't had work in 10 years (or in this case, Homestar Runner) that features black-and-white shots of dead houseplants, a soundtrack composed of Strong Sad weeping into the wrong end of a saxophone, and a title ("Because, As It Were") cribbed from random words in a random sentence in a random book. When finished, Strong Sad's film then enjoys, not an art house opening, but an "Art's House" opening. ("He's got like, three couches!")

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Strong Sad's "independent" film is a "boring, very personal" lower-than-no-budget "filmic thought excursion" starring a washed-up TV actor who hasn't had work in 10 years (or in this case, Homestar Runner) that features black-and-white shots of dead houseplants, a soundtrack composed of Strong Sad weeping into the wrong end of a saxophone, and a title ("Because, As It Were") cribbed from random words in a random sentence in a random book. When finished, Strong Sad's film then enjoys, not an art house opening, but an "Art's House" opening. ("He's got got, like, three couches!")
couches. Outta sight!")
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->'''Strong Bad:''' (''from the YouTube version'') Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta go raid Pom Pom's craft soivice table. Can't get enough of those artisanal cheeses and that extra healthy water! (''gets up and leaves. The Compé-per pops up'')

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->'''Strong Bad:''' (''from the YouTube [=YouTube=] version'') Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta go raid Pom Pom's craft soivice table. Can't get enough of those artisanal cheeses and that extra healthy water! (''gets up and leaves. The Compé-per pops up'')

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The Compé makes its sbemail debut, though Strong Bad is briefly distracted by the desktop wallpaper of a low-res photo of some grass.

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The Compé makes its sbemail debut, though debut!... but not before Strong Bad is briefly distracted by the his new desktop wallpaper wallpaper, consisting of a low-res photo of some grass.



Strong Bad gets a question from "Evil Gif"[[note]]'''Strong Bad:''' Evil Moms choose Evil Gif![[/note]] asking if Strong Badia has its own independent film festival (or as Strong Bad calls it, a "hideous growth on my butt festival").

->'''Strong Bad:''' Independent films are called that for a reason: they are ''independent'' of anything good. And these days, they seemed to be locked in a civil war that will hopefully end in the extermination of both sides. I am, of course talking about independent films vs. indie films.

Strong Bad goes on to use the film stylings of Strong Sad ("the lifer artist-type who went to film school") and Pom Pom ("a tech-savvy hipster whose dad owns his own studio, and [who] relies on using middle names and/or initials to somehow solidify his indie cred") as representatives of independent and "indie" films respectively.

Strong Sad's "independent" film is a "boring, very personal" lower-than-no-budget "filmic thought excursion" starring a washed-up TV actor (or in this case, Homestar Runner) and full of black-and-white shots of dead houseplants, with a soundtrack composed of Strong Sad weeping into the wrong end of a saxophone and a title ("Because, As It Were") cribbed from random words in a random sentence in a random book. Strong Sad's film then enjoys, not an art house opening, but an "Art's House" opening. ("He's got like, three couches!")

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Strong Bad gets a question from "Evil Gif"[[note]]'''Strong Bad:''' Evil Gif"("Evil Moms choose Evil Gif![[/note]] Gif!") asking if Strong Badia has its own independent film festival (or as Strong Bad calls it, a "hideous growth on my butt festival").

->'''Strong Bad:''' Well Gif, the short answer is no. The long answer is NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Independent films are called that for a reason: they are ''independent'' "independent" of anything good. ''anything good.'' And these days, they seemed to be locked in a civil war that will hopefully end in the extermination of both sides. I am, of course talking about independent films vs. indie films.

Strong Bad goes on to use the film stylings of Strong Sad ("the lifer artist-type who went to film school") and Pom Pom ("a tech-savvy hipster whose dad owns his own studio, and [who] relies on using middle names and/or initials to somehow solidify his indie cred") as representatives of independent and "indie" films respectively.

Strong Sad's "independent" film is a "boring, very personal" lower-than-no-budget "filmic thought excursion" starring a washed-up TV actor who hasn't had work in 10 years (or in this case, Homestar Runner) and full of that features black-and-white shots of dead houseplants, with a soundtrack composed of Strong Sad weeping into the wrong end of a saxophone saxophone, and a title ("Because, As It Were") cribbed from random words in a random sentence in a random book. When finished, Strong Sad's film then enjoys, not an art house opening, but an "Art's House" opening. ("He's got like, three couches!")



(''An "a-ha!" sound plays from the Compé as a pop-up bubble appears in the bottom left of the screen'')\\

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(''An "a-ha!" sound plays from the Compé as Compé. a pop-up bubble appears in the bottom left of the screen'')\\



(''The bubble retracts, and re-appears with the sound of the Paper's trademark "Preeeow!"'')\\

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(''The bubble retracts, and re-appears with the sound a digitized version of the The Paper's trademark "Preeeow!"'')\\



* TakeThat: This e-mail pokes fun at both pretentious art-house movies and trendy "indie" movies, with Pom Pom's film seemingly aiming at the like of ''Film/{{Juno}}''.

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* TakeThat: This e-mail pokes fun at both pretentious art-house movies and trendy "indie" movies, with Pom Pom's film seemingly aiming at the like of ''Film/{{Juno}}''.''Film/{{Juno}}''.
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->'''Strong Bad:''' (''from the YouTube version'') Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta go raid Pom Pom's craft soivice table. Can't get enough of those artisanal cheeses and that extra healthy water! (''gets up and leaves. The Compé-per pops up'')
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->'''Narrator:''' In the dead of space... dealing with aliens is the ''easiest'' part of the voyage.
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->'''Homestar:''' (''slowly'') I just... don't think I can handle... eating this... asparagus. (''holds up a wilted piece of asparagus'')\\
'''Strong Sad:''' Cut, cut! (''turns off his camera'')\\
'''Homestar:''' What was wrong with ''that'' take?! I mean, whaddya expect for two pinks and a green? I'm not... Bernardo Ralshonde, you know. Sounds like ''he'd'' be some type of famous actor.

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The Compé makes its sbemail debut! Once Strong Bad is done gushing over the "actual graphics", he gets a question from "Evil Gif"[[note]]'''Strong Bad:''' Evil Moms choose Evil Gif![[/note]] asking if Strong Badia has its own independent film festival (or as Strong Bad calls it, a "hideous growth on my butt festival").

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The Compé makes its sbemail debut! Once debut, though Strong Bad is done gushing over briefly distracted by the "actual graphics", he desktop wallpaper of a low-res photo of some grass.

->'''Strong Bad:''' Hey! Who taped a full-color photo to my computer screen? (''rubs the screen'') It won't come off!\\
'''The Cheat:''' (''The Cheat noises'')\\
'''Strong Bad:''' ''What''? Those are actual graphics? ''And'' I can change it to be whatever I want? (''sing-song'') Oh, best thing ever! Best thing ever! (''mumbling quickly'') This is the best thing ever!\\
(''Strong Bad quickly goes into the options and changes the desktop background to a picture of himself dancing, with a lens flare applied to a close-up of his butt.'')\\
'''Strong Bad:''' (''rapping'') To check my email, all I gotta do is click. All that old typin' made my boxing gloves sick.

Strong Bad
gets a question from "Evil Gif"[[note]]'''Strong Bad:''' Evil Moms choose Evil Gif![[/note]] asking if Strong Badia has its own independent film festival (or as Strong Bad calls it, a "hideous growth on my butt festival").



Strong Bad goes on to use the film stylings of Strong Sad ("the lifer artist-type who went to film school") and Pom Pom ("a tech-savvy hipster whose dad owns his own studio, and relies on using middle names and/or initials to somehow solidify his indie cred") as representatives of independent and "indie" films respectively.

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Strong Bad goes on to use the film stylings of Strong Sad ("the lifer artist-type who went to film school") and Pom Pom ("a tech-savvy hipster whose dad owns his own studio, and [who] relies on using middle names and/or initials to somehow solidify his indie cred") as representatives of independent and "indie" films respectively.



->'''Strong Bad:''' There you have it, Evil Jeff. The difference between a hideous growth on my butt, and a profitable hideous growth on my butt. I know you wanted us to have some film festival with all the characters, and you'd get to see little bits of everybody's movies, but I didn't do that. (''beat'') [[TakeThatAudience Because I hate you.]]

Strong Bad celebrates his sick burn ("Forget evil .gifs, I'm an evil .tif!") by checking out the Compé's The Paper-less "Click Here to Email Strong Bad" pop-up, which Strong Bad customizes to produce an old-fashioned "preeeeow" sound.

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->'''Strong Bad:''' There you have it, Evil Jeff. The difference between a hideous growth on my butt, and a profitable hideous growth on my butt. I know you wanted us to have some film festival with all the characters, and you'd get to see little bits of everybody's movies, but I didn't do that. (''beat'') [[TakeThatAudience Because I hate you.]]

Strong Bad celebrates his sick burn ("Forget evil .
]] Oooh! Now who's evil? Forget .gifs, man, I'm an evil .tif!") by checking out tif! Or maybe an evil 24-bit .png with alpha channel. Or maybe an evil... targa... file? Whatever those are.\\
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the Compé's Compé as a pop-up bubble appears in the bottom left of the screen'')\\
'''Strong Bad:''' Whoa! Looks like I've gone
The Paper-less "Click Here to Email Strong Bad" pop-up, which Strong Bad customizes to produce an old-fashioned "preeeeow" sound.with this new computer. Can I at least customize that sound it makes?\\
(''The bubble retracts, and re-appears with the sound of the Paper's trademark "Preeeow!"'')\\
'''Strong Bad:''' ''That's'' what I'm talking about!
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Synecdoche is too depressing to be akin to what Pom Pom is making. Given the hand-drawn title sequence, Juno feels a more appropriate comparison


* TakeThat: This e-mail pokes fun at both pretentious art-house movies and trendy "indie" movies, with Pom Pom's film seemingly aiming at the like of ''Film/SynecdocheNewYork''.

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* TakeThat: This e-mail pokes fun at both pretentious art-house movies and trendy "indie" movies, with Pom Pom's film seemingly aiming at the like of ''Film/SynecdocheNewYork''.''Film/{{Juno}}''.
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* ShowWithinAShow: In this case, Strong Sad and Pom Pom are creating their own films. Not quite DuelingShows, since the two aren't even attempting to compete with each other.

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* ShowWithinAShow: In this case, Strong Sad and Pom Pom are creating their own films. Not quite DuelingShows, since the two aren't even attempting to compete with each other.other (though Strong Bad considers their production principles to be).

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* RevisedEnding: The Youtube version of the email, instead of Strong Bad's TakeThatAudience moment, ends with Strong Bad talking about raiding Pom Pom's craft services table for snacks.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Can't get enough of those artisinal cheeses and that extra healthy water!
* RunningGag: Strong Bad telling Strong Sad "And best of luck to you."
* ShoutOut: Strong Bad makes fun of "-=Evil Gif=-"'s name with the remark "Evil Moms choose Evil [=JIF=]".

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* PreppyName: Strong Bad says that Pom Pom "relies on middle names and/or initials to somehow solidify his indie cred", and Pom Pom's name is embellished to "J. William Pom Thomas C. Pom".
* RevisedEnding: The Youtube version of the email, instead of Strong Bad's TakeThatAudience moment, ends with Strong Bad talking about raiding Pom Pom's craft services table for free snacks.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Can't get enough of those artisinal artisanal cheeses and that extra healthy water!
* RunningGag: Strong Bad telling keeps responding to Strong Sad Sad's remarks with "And best of luck to you."
* ShoutOut: Strong Bad makes fun of "-=Evil Gif=-"'s name with the remark "Evil Moms choose Evil [=JIF=]".[=JIF=]", a play on an old tagline for Jif peanut butter ("Choosy moms choose Jif").



* TakeThat: This e-mail pokes fun at both pretentious art-house movies and trendy "indie" movies, with Pom Pom's film seemingly aiming at ''Film/SynecdocheNewYork''.

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* TakeThat: This e-mail pokes fun at both pretentious art-house movies and trendy "indie" movies, with Pom Pom's film seemingly aiming at the like of ''Film/SynecdocheNewYork''.
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Strong Bad was talking about Strong Sad's movie, not Pom Pom's, in this scene.


-->'''Strong Bad:''' [Pom Pom's] film will star a washed-up TV actor that hasn't worked in ten years, in a desperate attempt to reinvent himself.\\

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-->'''Strong Bad:''' [Pom Pom's] [Strong Sad's] film will star a washed-up TV actor that hasn't worked in ten years, in a desperate attempt to reinvent himself.\\
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* LiteralMinded: Strong Bad assumes that "working for scale" means being paid in a solid-gold scale with gold bars for weights.
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* BlandNameProduct: Quite literally, as Pom Pom's film ends up being called "City Comma State".

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* BlandNameProduct: Quite literally, as Pom Pom's film ends up being called "City Comma (Comma) State".

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* BlandNameProduct: Quite literally, as Pom Pom's film ends up being called "City Comma State".



* TakeThat: This e-mail pokes fun at both pretentious art-house movies and trendy "indie" movies.

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* TakeThat: This e-mail pokes fun at both pretentious art-house movies and trendy "indie" movies.movies, with Pom Pom's film seemingly aiming at ''Film/SynecdocheNewYork''.
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* IResembleThatRemark:
-->'''Strong Bad:''' [Pom Pom's] film will star a washed-up TV actor that hasn't worked in ten years, in a desperate attempt to reinvent himself.\\
'''Homestar:''' ''(annoyed)'' Hey, whadaya lookin' at ''me'' for?
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The Compé makes its sbemail debut! Once Strong Bad is done gushing over the "actual graphics", he gets a question from "Evil Gif" asking if Strong Badia has its own independent film festival (or as Strong Bad calls it, a "hideous growth on my butt festival").

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The Compé makes its sbemail debut! Once Strong Bad is done gushing over the "actual graphics", he gets a question from "Evil Gif" Gif"[[note]]'''Strong Bad:''' Evil Moms choose Evil Gif![[/note]] asking if Strong Badia has its own independent film festival (or as Strong Bad calls it, a "hideous growth on my butt festival").
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* AnimatedCreditsOpening: City (Comma) State includes "a hand-drawn title sequence that looks like it was made by some junior high kid during pre-algebra".
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-->'''Strong Bad:''' The short answer is "no". The long answer is... NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

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-->'''Strong Bad:''' The short answer is "no". The long answer is... NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!NOOOOOOOOOOOO.

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-->'''Strong Bad:''' Independent films are called that for a reason: they are ''independent'' of anything good. And these days, they seemed to be locked in a civil war that will hopefully end in the extermination of both sides. I am, of course talking about independent films vs. indie films.

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-->'''Strong ->'''Strong Bad:''' Independent films are called that for a reason: they are ''independent'' of anything good. And these days, they seemed to be locked in a civil war that will hopefully end in the extermination of both sides. I am, of course talking about independent films vs. indie films.



-->'''Strong Bad:''' There you have it, Evil Jeff. The difference between a hideous growth on my butt, and a profitable hideous growth on my butt. I know you wanted us to have some film festival with all the characters, and you'd get to see little bits of everybody's movies, but I didn't do that. (''beat'') Because I hate you.

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-->'''Strong ->'''Strong Bad:''' There you have it, Evil Jeff. The difference between a hideous growth on my butt, and a profitable hideous growth on my butt. I know you wanted us to have some film festival with all the characters, and you'd get to see little bits of everybody's movies, but I didn't do that. (''beat'') [[TakeThatAudience Because I hate you.]]

Strong Bad celebrates his sick burn ("Forget evil .gifs, I'm an evil .tif!") by checking out the Compé's The Paper-less "Click Here to Email Strong Bad" pop-up, which Strong Bad customizes to produce an old-fashioned "preeeeow" sound.



* {{Dissimile}}: Strong Bad on the plot of "City (Comma) State".
-->'''Strong Bad:''' An indie film's plot is pretty much the same as any summer blockbuster, but just switch out the word "space" with the words "small factory town", replace "aliens" with "quirky, dysfunctional family", and replace "voyage" with... [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "journey"]].



* LeFilmArtistique: Strong Sad's independent film, with shots of dead and depressing stuff and dialogue like "I just don't think I can handle eating all this asparagus..."

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* LeFilmArtistique: Strong Sad's independent film, with film is full of shots of dead and depressing stuff stuff, and features dialogue like "I just don't think I can handle eating all this asparagus...""
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: After dissing the sender in the Flash version, Strong Bad brags "Forget evil .gifs, I'm an evil .tif! Or maybe an evil 24-bit .png with alpha channel. Or maybe an evil... targa... file? Whatever those are.



* OscarBait: Pom Pom's indie film is a parody of Oscar-baiting dramadies.

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* OscarBait: Parodied, with Pom Pom's indie film is movie spending a parody good chunk of Oscar-baiting dramadies.its budget on buying "full page ads in all the local trade papers during award season".

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* OscarBait: Pom Pom's indie film.

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* OscarBait: Pom Pom's indie film.film is a parody of Oscar-baiting dramadies.


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* RevisedEnding: The Youtube version of the email, instead of Strong Bad's TakeThatAudience moment, ends with Strong Bad talking about raiding Pom Pom's craft services table for snacks.
-->'''Strong Bad:''' Can't get enough of those artisinal cheeses and that extra healthy water!
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* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Parodied; after Strong Sad brags that he minored in "holding on wide-shots for too long" in film school, the camera briefly lingers on him.
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* ShowWithinAShow: In this case, Strong Sad and Pom Pom are creating their own films. Not quite DuelingShows, since Strong Sad isn't even attempting to compete with Pom Pom.

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* ShowWithinAShow: In this case, Strong Sad and Pom Pom are creating their own films. Not quite DuelingShows, since Strong Sad isn't the two aren't even attempting to compete with Pom Pom.each other.
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Strong Sad's "independent" film is a "boring, very personal" lower-than-no-budget "filmic thought excursion" starring a washed-up TV actor and full of black-and-white shots of dead houseplants, with a soundtrack composed of Strong Sad weeping into the wrong end of a saxophone and a title ("Because, As It Were") cribbed from random words in a random sentence in a random book. Strong Sad's film then enjoys, not an art house opening, but an "Art's House" opening. ("He's got like, three couches!")

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Strong Sad's "independent" film is a "boring, very personal" lower-than-no-budget "filmic thought excursion" starring a washed-up TV actor (or in this case, Homestar Runner) and full of black-and-white shots of dead houseplants, with a soundtrack composed of Strong Sad weeping into the wrong end of a saxophone and a title ("Because, As It Were") cribbed from random words in a random sentence in a random book. Strong Sad's film then enjoys, not an art house opening, but an "Art's House" opening. ("He's got like, three couches!")



* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Strong Sad's film.
* LeFilmArtistique: Strong Sad's independent film.

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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Strong Sad's film.
film, like any good independent film, is in black and white.
* LeFilmArtistique: Strong Sad's independent film.film, with shots of dead and depressing stuff and dialogue like "I just don't think I can handle eating all this asparagus..."

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Pom Pom's "indie" film has a 30-million dollar budget, but is designed to look like he only spend a few hundred thousand, including "a hand-drawn title sequence that looks like it was made by some Junior High kid during Pre-Algebra", a soundtrack by an indie band whose music has primarily been used in car commercials, and a title that's either "two of the cleverly named main characters, or the city and state in which it takes place. Ooh, in fact, just call it City (Comma) State." The cast is composed of A-list actors working "for scale", and the plot revolves around life in a small factory town with a quirky, dysfunctional family.

Strong Sad's film is a "boring, very personal" lower-than-no-budget "filmic thought excursion" starring a washed-up TV actor and full of shots of dead houseplants, with a soundtrack composed of Strong Sad weeping into the wrong end of a saxophone and a title ("Because, As It Were") cribbed from random words in a random sentence in a random book.

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Strong Sad's "independent" film is a "boring, very personal" lower-than-no-budget "filmic thought excursion" starring a washed-up TV actor and full of black-and-white shots of dead houseplants, with a soundtrack composed of Strong Sad weeping into the wrong end of a saxophone and a title ("Because, As It Were") cribbed from random words in a random sentence in a random book. Strong Sad's film then enjoys, not an art house opening, but an "Art's House" opening. ("He's got like, three couches!")

Pom Pom's "indie" film has a 30-million dollar budget, but is designed to look like he only spend a few hundred thousand, including "a hand-drawn title sequence that looks like it was made by some Junior High kid during Pre-Algebra", a soundtrack by an indie band whose music has primarily been used in car commercials, and a title that's either "two of the cleverly named main characters, or the city and state in which it takes place. Ooh, in fact, just call it City (Comma) State." The cast is composed of A-list actors working "for scale", and the plot revolves around life in a small factory town with a quirky, dysfunctional family.

Strong Sad's film is a "boring, very personal" lower-than-no-budget "filmic thought excursion" starring a washed-up TV actor
family. "Pom Pom's little movie that could" opens on thousands of screens in the first two weeks, and has "money left over to take out full of shots of dead houseplants, with a soundtrack composed of Strong Sad weeping into page ads in all the wrong end of local trade papers during award season!"

-->'''Strong Bad:''' There you have it, Evil Jeff. The difference between
a saxophone hideous growth on my butt, and a title ("Because, As It Were") cribbed from random words in a random sentence in a random book.profitable hideous growth on my butt. I know you wanted us to have some film festival with all the characters, and you'd get to see little bits of everybody's movies, but I didn't do that. (''beat'') Because I hate you.


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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Strong Sad's film.

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The Compé makes its sbemail debut, as Strong Bad responds to a question about independent film festivals by explaining the difference between "independent" films and "indie" films.

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'''Airdate:''' Monday, August 10, 2009

'''Sender:''' -=Evil Gif=-\\
Phoenix Arizona

The Compé makes its sbemail debut, debut! Once Strong Bad is done gushing over the "actual graphics", he gets a question from "Evil Gif" asking if Strong Badia has its own independent film festival (or as Strong Bad responds calls it, a "hideous growth on my butt festival").

-->'''Strong Bad:''' Independent films are called that for a reason: they are ''independent'' of anything good. And these days, they seemed
to be locked in a question civil war that will hopefully end in the extermination of both sides. I am, of course talking about independent film festivals by explaining the difference between "independent" films vs. indie films.

Strong Bad goes on to use the film stylings of Strong Sad ("the lifer artist-type who went to film school") and Pom Pom ("a tech-savvy hipster whose dad owns his own studio, and relies on using middle names and/or initials to somehow solidify his indie cred") as representatives of independent
and "indie" films.
films respectively.

Pom Pom's "indie" film has a 30-million dollar budget, but is designed to look like he only spend a few hundred thousand, including "a hand-drawn title sequence that looks like it was made by some Junior High kid during Pre-Algebra", a soundtrack by an indie band whose music has primarily been used in car commercials, and a title that's either "two of the cleverly named main characters, or the city and state in which it takes place. Ooh, in fact, just call it City (Comma) State." The cast is composed of A-list actors working "for scale", and the plot revolves around life in a small factory town with a quirky, dysfunctional family.

Strong Sad's film is a "boring, very personal" lower-than-no-budget "filmic thought excursion" starring a washed-up TV actor and full of shots of dead houseplants, with a soundtrack composed of Strong Sad weeping into the wrong end of a saxophone and a title ("Because, As It Were") cribbed from random words in a random sentence in a random book.



* BigNo: Strong Bad's response to the idea of a Strong Badian independent film festival:
-->'''Strong Bad:''' The short answer is "no". The long answer is... NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!



* MundaneObjectAmazement: Strong Bad's response to the wallpaper on the Compé. "These are ''actual'' graphics? ''And'' I can change it to be whatever I want?"
* NoBudget: {{Invoked}}; Strong Sad's independent film is not just no-budget, but "faux-budget". "The entire thing's being financed with Monopoly money."



* ShoutOut: Strong Bad makes fun of "-=Evil Gif=-"'s name by parodying the slogan for [=JIF=] peanut butter.
* ShowWithinAShow: In this case, Strong Sad and Pom Pom are creating their own films. Not quite DuelingShows, since Strong Sad isn't even attempting to compete with Pom Pom.

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* {{Portmantitle}}: The title of Pom Pom's film goes from "Chester + Meg" to "Megchester, NY".
* RunningGag: Strong Bad telling Strong Sad "And best of luck to you."
* ShoutOut: Strong Bad makes fun of "-=Evil Gif=-"'s name by parodying with the slogan for [=JIF=] peanut butter.
remark "Evil Moms choose Evil [=JIF=]".
* ShowWithinAShow: In this case, Strong Sad and Pom Pom are creating their own films. Not quite DuelingShows, since Strong Sad isn't even attempting to compete with Pom Pom.Pom.
* TakeThat: This e-mail pokes fun at both pretentious art-house movies and trendy "indie" movies.
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* LeFilmArtistique: Strong Sad's independent film.
* OscarBait: Pom Pom's indie film.
* ShoutOut: Strong Bad makes fun of "-=Evil Gif=-"'s name by parodying the slogan for [=JIF=] peanut butter.
* ShowWithinAShow: In this case, Strong Sad and Pom Pom are creating their own films. Not quite DuelingShows, since Strong Sad isn't even attempting to compete with Pom Pom.

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