Line #59 Recap/StrongBadEmailE151SeniorProm


1	'''Airdate:''' Wednesday, May 3, 2006
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3	'''Sender:''' Matt M. WA
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5	->'''Singers:''' The King of Town's Very Own\
6	Quite Popular Cartoon Show!\
7	The King of Town's Very Own\
8	Quite Popular Cartoon Show!\
9	'''King of Town:''' Let the King have some!
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11	It's time for the King of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show! Or not.
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13	->'''Announcer:''' The King of Town's Very Own Popular Cartoon Show will not be seen this week. Instead we bring you Strong Bad's Very Popular Cartoon Show, already in progress.
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15	After that fake out, we join "--rong Bad" answering an email from Matt M. of "the Walrus Association" ("I will pay my dues when you send me my tusks!") asking if he had a senior prom in high school. Strong Bad announces he hasn't, but he has ''crashed'' his fair share of "senior proms, Senor proms, homecoming dances, shortcoming prances, and off-site team-building pottery classes". He then regales the viewers with his personal favorite, the time he crashed the "Entrapment All Up On the Moon" Dance when his date had to cancel at the last minute, even leaving a message on his "answering machine".
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17	->'''Strong Bad:''' (''in a high-pitched voice, with one hand over his mouth'') Hey... Bunmuffin, it's Deli... lelia. They need me to go back up to Mars to help out that robot that got stuck in the sand. So I won't be able to go to the dance with you. I left you some cold meatloaf under the fridge.
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19	Strong Bad decides his only other course of action is to simply crash the party with "you two losers" (Strong Mad and The Cheat).
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21	That night at the dance, all the cute couples are dancing to the tunes of "All the King's Men" (the Poopsmith, the Blacksmith, the Hornblower, and the Knight)... and by "all the cute couples", we mean Homestar and Marzipan.
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23	->'''Homestar:''' Oh... Don't look now Marzipan, but I think we're the hottest couple at the prom.\
24	'''Marzipan:''' Homestar, as always, we're the ''only'' couple at the prom.\
25	'''Homestar:''' But what about Strong Sad and Deborah?\
26	'''Marzipan:''' That is unmistakably Coach Z.
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28	Strong Sad catches Coach Z trying to spike the punch with Listerine, which the Coach claims is out of concern for the kids' hygiene ("Have ya ever talked to one of these kids up close!? Their breaths is ''terbirle''!") Suddenly, the lights go out.
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30	->'''Marzipan:''' Hey, watch those hands, David Coppafeel!\
31	'''Homestar:''' Yeah, David!
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33	The lights come back up, and Strong Bad announces his "mastardly plan" to ruin the dance -- he's got a device that will make everyone's pants "poof away". Unfortunately, after pushing the button, The Cheat points out a significant flaw in Strong Bad's plan: he's the only character at the prom ''actually'' wearing pants, leaving him in a pair of boxers covered in lipstick marks.
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35	With that out of the way, it's time to announce the Prom King and Queen. Homestar is accepting the title of Prom King... for Pom Pom, who's "at a much cooler private school prom", while the title of Prom Queen goes to... Strong Bad with No Pants On!
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37	->'''Strong Bad:''' Oh, thank you so much! You people are a sweet delight! Just one, big, almond-paste-filled sweet delight!\
38	'''Marzipan:''' Every freakin' year...
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40	After an "Oh yeah!" from a mysterious voice that may or may not be the Poopsmith, we cut back to the Lappy.
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42	->'''Strong Bad:''' And the best part, was that I also got a twenty-dollar gift certificate to the All-You-Can-Eat Old Folks' Cafeteria. Man, I ate my weight in creamed fish and okratinis! Alright, I gotta get outta here. I'm taking Delilelia to see David Coppafeel perform.\
43	(''Strong Bad gets up and leaves. Cut to a full shot of the desk, with Strong Bad standing on the right side of the screen.'')\
44	'''Strong Bad:''' (''jumps offscreen'') Hurk!\
45	(''Cut back to a close up of the Lappy. The Paper comes down.'')
46	----
47	!!Tropes:
48	* BlatantLies:
49	** Strong Bad feels the need to contrive an excuse to crash the Entrapment All Up On The Moon dance by fabricating a message from his "girlfriend" Delilelia, saying she has to go to Mars to fix "that robot that got stuck in the sand". Strong Mad and The Cheat are not amused. Furthermore, Strong Bad's "answering machine" is a clock radio with a piece of paper reading "an answering machine (trust me)" taped to it.
50	** Also, an easter egg has Homestar claim his "long pants" got poofed away at the dance.
51	* BrickJoke: This episode opens on a fake intro for a King of Town cartoon, then cuts to "Strong Bad's very popular cartoon show, already in progress", where Strong Bad has already done his intro song and started reading the email. The audience can see the intro song they missed in an Easter egg at the end of the cartoon.
52	* CallBack: The moon from "[[http://homestarrunner.com/mrshmallow.html Mr. Shmallow]]" shows up as a decoration at the prom.
53	* ComedicUnderwearExposure: Strong Bad's pants are poofed away [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown at the senior prom]] because when he tried to make everyone else's pants disappear; he forgot that he was the only one at the prom who was technically wearing pants.
54	* CrackDefeat: Despite being "the only girl", Marzipan loses the title of Prom Queen to "Strong Bad with no pants on", and her response implies this isn't the first time.
55	-->'''Marzipan:''' [[OhNoNotAgain Every freakin' year...]]
56	* ADayInTheLimelight: Subverted, as the intro is for "The King of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show", only for the pilot episode to be cancelled in favour of more Strong Bad.
57	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Strong Bad forgets to take into account that he's the sole person in the cast that actually wears pants, leaving him as the only one affected by the pants-removing device.
58	* FakeOutOpening: The email opens with a title card for "The King of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show" (complete with the King of Town shouting "Let the King have some!"), only for an announcer to interrupt with "The King of Town's Very Own Popular Cartoon Show will not be seen this week. Instead we bring you: Strong Bad's Very Popular Cartoon Show, already in progress."
59	* GirlfriendInCanada: Strong Bad's alleged girlfriend "Delilelia" can't go to the prom with him because she's going to Mars.
60	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: As he activates his pants-removing device, Strong Bad [[DidntThinkThisThrough realizes too late]] he's the only person at the dance actually wearing pants. Sure enough, his pants vanish into thin air.
61	* HowWeGotHere: One of the EasterEggs at the end basically covers the first few seconds of the email that "The King of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show" pre-empted.
62	* ImStandingRightHere: They don't say it out loud, but Strong Mad and The Cheat's expressions clearly do the talking for them when Strong Bad refers to them as "you two losers".
63	* InMediasRes: As a result of "The King of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show" briefly pre-empting the email, we miss the first few seconds.
64	* TheNudifier: Strong Bad has a device designed to make everyone's pants "poof away". This backfires on him when he realizes that he's the only one present at the dance who actually wears pants.
65	* PromWrecker: This email centers around Strong Bad's attempt to wreck the "Entrapment All Up On The Moon" dance. Predictably for him, it backfires.
66	* ShoutOut:
67	** The business card for the "Walrus Association" has the phrase [[Music/TheBeatles "Koo koo ka-choo or summat"]] printed on it.
68	** The "Entrapment All Up On The Moon" Dance may refer to the "Enchantment Under the Sea Dance" from ''Film/BackToTheFuture1''.
69	* SomeonesTouchingMyButt: Both Marizpan and Homestar tell someone to "watch those hands" when the lights abruptly go out.
70	----
71	->'''Strong Bad:''' (''to the tune of "An Important Rap Song"'') Can you see that I've got email styles, c'mon c'mon, can you see that I've got email styles? (''speaking'') "Dear Str—"
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73	->(''Cut to Homestar and Pom Pom standing in the Field'')\
74	'''Homestar:''' Oh, man. My pants got so poofed away at the prom this year.\
75	'''Pom Pom:''' (''looks annoyed/skeptical'')\
76	'''Homestar:''' So I was wearing all these types of long pants, and they just got poofed away. So embarrassing.\
77	'''Pom Pom:''' (''bubbles'')\

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