Line #27 Recap/StrongBadEmailE138SpaceProgram


1	'''Airdate:''' Monday, November 14, 2005
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3	'''Sender:''' Ryan, Raleigh NC
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5	->'''Strong Bad:''' (''singing'') Email is the sound that we make when a young girl cries...
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7	Ryan from North Carolina wants to know if Strong Badia has a space program. Strong Bad boasts that since even the Italians have a space program these days, ''of course'' Strong Badia has one: SBASAF, the Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil.
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9	->'''Strong Bad:''' The only problem is, we blew our whole budget on this kick-awesome logo and on our orientation film-strip.
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11	We are then treated to the cheesy retro-style film-strip for the Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil, "a definitely-for-profit organization, dedicated to the manned taping of aluminum foil to cardboard." Their latest mission involves sending fifteen "Earth dollars" into space, where "according to our vague understanding of the theory of relativity", it will age into a million dollars. Only one man is good enough at video games for a mission of this caliber: "First Lieuteneral (and beef bouillon-aire joyboy) Space Captainface" (AKA Strong Bad). With the help of onboard mechanic Harold "Strap" Coopmore (AKA The Cheat) and Flight Engineer T'Daveral (AKA The Tire), Space Captainface will pilot the ''Proud Anselmo'', flagship of SBASAF's 30-vessel fleet, and impress lots of Sixties-looking hot girls.
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13	In reality, this amounts to Strong Bad and The Cheat riding around in a bunch of cardboard boxes taped together to resemble a spaceship, with "escape velocity" effects provided by Strong Mad and a CD of goofy sound effects (that cost them the fifteen bucks intended for the mission). At least the CD provides a humorous "body falling down the stairs" sound, and some appropriate laser sound effects when fighting off a "space myoo-tant from Satriani 5" (AKA Homestar Runner with a sweater stuck over his head).
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15	->'''Strong Bad:''' Nice work, the Strap! Another successful mission for (''starts singing'') Space Captainface! (''The Cheat lowers a piece of cardboard labeled "SPACE CAPTAINFACE" on a fishing pole above Strong Bad'') Pretender of the galaxies! He's all-the-ways having space cocktails with hot Sixties-looking girls! (''beat'') Where are all the hot Sixties-looking girls?!\
16	'''King of Town:''' ''I'm'' in my sixties...\
17	(''The Paper comes down.'')
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19	!!Tropes:
20	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: PlayedForLaughs; according to SBASAF's "vague understanding of the theory of relativity", taking fifteen bucks into space will cause it to "age" into a million dollars in gold bullion.
21	* BraggingThemeTune: Strong Bad sings a song about his alter ego at the end of the episode: "Space Captainface! Pretender of the Galaxies! He's all-the-ways having space cocktails with hot Sixties-looking girls!"
22	* BrickJoke:
23	** Strong Bad remarks that even "the Italians" have a space program near the beginning of the cartoon. At the end, after Homestar is attacked by Strong Bad and The Cheat, he runs off shouting that he should have asked "the Italian space program" for help.
24	** An Easter egg has Space Captainface writing his CaptainsLog, when his FauxlosophicNarration is interrupted by the grilled cheese sandwich from the filmstrip.
25	* CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth: First Lieuteneral Space Captainface, "beef-boullion-aire joyboy" and hero of SBASAF.
26	* CoolSpaceship: The ''Proud Anselmo'' is supposedly the flagship of SBASAF's fleet. In reality, it's some cardboard boxes stuck together with aluminum foil and other junk taped to it.
27	* FunWithAcronyms: SBASAF (Pronounced "sbase-aff"), the Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil.
28	* LiteralMetaphor: Space Captainface orders Strap to hit "space myoo-tant" Homestar with everything they've got; after playing a variety of sci-fi ray gun sounds, Strap literally throws the jewel case for their sound effects CD at Homestar.
29	* ManChild: Strong Badia's "space program" boils down to Strong Bad and The Cheat playing in a cardboard box space-ship like little kids.
30	* OverlyLongGag: There's a slightly-too-long shot of a grilled cheese sandwich during the filmstrip.
31	* OverusedRunningGag: Strong Bad once again makes fun of senders using variants of "crapfully yours" by reading Ryan's signature "Doodoo crap" as "Good jokes".
32	* {{Retraux}}: The [[StylisticSuck cheesy]] orientation filmstrip features "hot Sixties-looking girls" and DeliberateValuesDissonance in Ted Averill being ordered to smoke "a smooth relaxing cigarette".
33	* TakeThatAudience: Strong Bad reads the sender's name as "Ryan Raleigh, Not Cool".
34	* ToiletHumor: An Easter egg shows that space cadet Coach Z was looking forward to the part where he gets to pee in a cup.
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36	->'''Space Captainface:''' Captainface Log: The vinegar-baking soda drive on the Proud Anselmo has run out of fuel, stranding us in the Impellitteri Sector. There is shrapnel everywhere. It makes one wonder, does man truly-- (''beep, the slide of item 3b: "Grilled Cheese" comes on screen.'')
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38	->'''Announcer:''' -will ''you'' be among the hot sixties-looking girls to wish Strap and Space Captainface a safe voyage? And if not, how come?
39	->'''Coach Z:''' (''wearing a similar costume to Strong Bad's, watching the slideshow and raising his hand'') I was told I was gonna get to pee in a cup!
40	->'''Strong Bad:''' In due time, Cadet Z. In due time.

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