Recap / Strong Bad Email E 123 Origins

Airdate: Monday, January 31, 2005

Sender: Luke, Eau Claire WI

Strong Bad: (monotone, a la an automated message) This email is leaving the station. Please move to the center of the email, and away from the doors.

Luke from "Ew, Claire! Why?!" wants to know the origins of The Stick, and if it's always been a great hang-out. Strong Bad is apparently sick of people demanding to know the origins of stuff, like the origins of Strong Sad's belly button (it apparently involves a young Strong Bad and a power drill) and the origins Bubs' Concession Stand (it fell from the sky and squashed the long-unseen characters Mr. Bland and Señor Havin' a Little Trouble), but he does feel free to comment on The Stick's "hanging-out-itude".

Strong Bad: It currently rates a 10, but such was not always the case. Like when Homestar used to hold his weekly, ugh, (typing in wobbling, sickly-green text) bread sing-alongs, (typing normally) we avoided that place like the plegg! Er, plague!

Homestar was eventually convinced to move his sing-alongs elsewhere by The Cheat's rhythmic chain-dancing practice, and The Stick once again became a popular place for Strong Bad and friends to spray-paint Marzipan, then glue her to Homsar and leave them for dead.

Of course, this meant finding a new hang-out spot so they wouldn't be "hanging-around them for dead", so Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and The Cheat settled on hanging out behind Bubs' Concession Stand and calling themselves the "On-Point Kings", who refuse to take guff from the likes of Strong Sad and the King of Town (who thinks being an actual "pointy king" will get him into the gang).

Strong Bad: So ya see Claire, if it weren't for The stick, and Marzipan's considerable resistance to death, the On Point Kings may never have stolen the King of Town's dunce cap and renamed it Lotionman. D-don't ask, it was Strong Mad's idea. Well, I hope that makes you not email me anymore.
(The Paper comes down.)

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Tropes:

• Chain Pain: Strong Bad and The Cheat "persuade" Homestar to quit his bread sing-alongs by holding The Cheat's "rhythmic chain dancing" practice at the same time and place. Homestar, while being attacked, didn't seem to be phased by it.
• Discontinuity Nod: Señor and Mr. Bland from The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest were apparently "crushed by a falling Bubs' Concession Stand".
• Dreadful Musician: Homestar's "bread sing-alongs":
  Homestar: ...And bread is a good time for me
  Woo-doodle-oodle, singing
  Bread is a good time for everybody!
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Parodied with Mr. Bland and Señor, who were crushed by Bubs' Concession Stand.
• Extreme Omnivore: After the Brothers Strong put a stop to Homestar's bread sing-alongs, "Strong Mad ate The Cheat's chain-whip."
• Faux Horrific: Strong Bad recalls Homestar's "bread sing-alongs" with dread and disgust.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Strong Sad's belly-button apparently came after Li'l Strong Bad got a power drill for his birthday.
• Left for Dead: Parodied when Strong Bad glues Marzipan to Homsar and leaves them to the wolves.
  Marzipan: Ooh, I think I hear wolves coming.
  Homsar: Aaah'm the human wedgie!
• Noodle Incident: Strong Bad brags "If it weren't for The Stick, and Marzipan's considerable resistance to death, the On Point Kings may never have stolen the King of Town's dunce cap and renamed it Lotionman."
• Orphaned Punchline: During the transition to the On Point Kings, Strong Bad is heard telling The Cheat "Hey man, I know what it means. I was just seeing if you knew."
• Perfectly Cromulent Word: Strong Bad goes on about The Stick's "Hangingoutitude".
• Rebel Relaxation: Strong Bad lounges against the side of Bubs' Concession Stand while hanging out with the On-Point Kings.
• The Unreveal: Invoked, Strong Bad makes a point of refusing to reveal the origins of The Stick.

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Homestar: (singing from his album of bread sing-alongs) And bread is a good time for me, woo-doo-doo-loot-doo, singing, bread is a good time for everybody!... I cut the crusts off in the morning light... Don't ask me whyyyyyy. Pumpernickel and ryeeeee.