1 | '''Airdate:''' Monday, May 5, 2003 |
2 | |
3 | '''Sender:''' monkeydude |
4 | |
5 | ->'''Strong Bad:''' I'm intrigued by these... how you say... emails. |
6 | |
7 | Strong Bad gets an email from "Your awesome friend monkeydude", who wants him to make a ''CRAZY'' cartoon. |
8 | |
9 | ->'''Strong Bad:''' Look, I'm not your friend, monkey dude. In fact, I'm not even gonna call you monkeydude again. I'm-a call you Josh. |
10 | |
11 | The first step to coming up with a truly crazy cartoon is to think up a title that has nothing to do with the cartoon itself... in this case, "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes". The setting of the cartoon is a bizarre dimension with a blue-and-white checker-board ground and jagged pink mountains in the distance, populated by a series of bizarre characters: |
12 | * The main character is "a mix between a cow and a helicopter", a ball-shaped blue critter that travels by hovering and communicates in "just these weird sounds, and no words". Every episode involves him fruitlessly trying to get a little worm out of the ground. |
13 | * "Eh! Steve" is a trapezoid-shaped fellow who pops up at least once an episode to say his catch-phrase, which is also his name: "Eh! Steve!" |
14 | * "Bubs would definitely be the voice of the Wheelchair", another character who's a crudely-drawn wheelchair that has it out for Eh! Steve for some weird reason. |
15 | ->'''Wheelchair:''' I'll get you, Eh! Steve, if it's the last thing I doooooo! |
16 | * Finally, one of the characters would be Strong Bad, except his head is an old electronic keyboard that plays the demo music and dances around when he gets angry. |
17 | |
18 | ->'''Strong Bad:''' So that's a pretty crazy cartoon huh, Josh? But I'm not much of an animator. Though I bet The Cheat makes some crazy cartoons. Let's see what he's cookin' up tonight... um, today... just right. |
19 | |
20 | In The Cheat's room, he's just finished a crude cartoon in which Strong Bad kicks Homestar in the face nine times in a row. Then the two of them and Coach Z give The Cheat trophies for no apparent reason, and Eh! Steve makes a cameo. |
21 | |
22 | ->'''PBTC Strong Bad:''' The Cheat, this is the greatest cartoon in the whole world! Have a trophy! (''gives The Cheat a trophy'') |
23 | ->'''PBTC The Cheat:''' (''grateful The Cheat noises'') |
24 | ---- |
25 | !!Tropes: |
26 | * AllThereInTheManual: The only mention of Sherlock the Cow-Copter's name ''ever'' is in the DVD commentary for this email. To this day, he has ''never'' been referred to by name in any other Homestar Runner-related material. |
27 | * AnimateInanimateObject: The Wheelchair, as the name implies, is a talking wheelchair able to move on his own. |
28 | * AstralCheckerboardDecor: The ground in wherever Sweet Cuppin' Cakes takes place is a blue-and-white checkerboard. |
29 | * AuthorAvatar: One of the characters in Sweet Cuppin' Cakes is Strong Bad, with [[NonHumanHead his head replaced by an old Casio keyboard]] that plays "Unterlanders Heimweh" when he gets mad. |
30 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Strong Bad doesn't think The Cheat's cartoon qualifies for a trophy, and barely qualifies for a pizza. "Maybe a pizza-trophy..." |
31 | * CartoonCreature: Most of the cast of Sweet Cuppin' Cakes are strange creatures of no identifiable species. Sherlock, ostensibly the main character, is described by Strong Bad as "a cross between a cow and a helicopter" despite resembling neither of those things. |
32 | * ContinuityNod: In "vacation", Strong Bad imagined receiving a particularly inane email from someone named Monkey D. That's probably why Strong Bad takes such an immediate dislike to monkeydude. |
33 | * CreatorCameo: Strong Bad doesn't resist the opportunity to put himself in his own cartoon, only he gives himself the head of a toy keyboard. |
34 | * HerCodeNameWasMarySue: The Cheat's cartoon trails off into Strong Bad, Homestar, and Coach Z giving The Cheat trophies for no reason. "Three trophies for The Cheat!" |
35 | * MaliciousMisnaming: Lampshaded, when Strong Bad addresses the sender with "I'm not your friend, monkeydude. In fact, I'm not even gonna call you monkeydude again. I'ma call you Josh." |
36 | * PokemonSpeak: "Eh! Steve!" is apparently only able to communicate by saying his name. |
37 | * RoadRunnerVsCoyote: Sherlock is always trying to catch a little worm. |
38 | * SitcomArchNemesis: The Wheelchair is out to get Eh! Steve for some reason. |
39 | * StylisticSuck: The Cheat's cartoon features crude animation and voice acting, and horribly-OffModel versions of Strong Bad, Homestar, Coach Z, and Eh! Steve. Homestar's star looks more like a lightning bolt, and The Cheat made Coach Z pink instead of green for some reason. |
40 | * TheUnintelligible: Sherlock the Cow-Copter communicates in "just these weird sounds, and no words". |
41 | * WordSaladTitle: Strong Bad names his crazy cartoon "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes", on the grounds that "Crazy cartoons usually have titles that have nothing to do with the cartoon itself." |
42 | ---- |
43 | ->'''Strong Bad:''' (''watching the PBTC version of himself giving The Cheat the trophy'') Hey, I didn't do that! Did I? I mean, it was good. I liked the way you worked in Eh! Steve, but I don't think it deserved a trophy. I don't even think it deserved a pizza! Maybe a pizza-trophy... |
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