Recap / Strong Bad Email E 125 Rock Opera

Airdate: Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Sender: Anonymous Contributor, Gambier OH

Strong Bad: Checkin' email, now take it to the flip side! (reversed) !edis pilf eht ot ti ekat won ,liame 'nikcehC

An Anonymous Contributor ("Hey, Mr. and Mrs. Contributor! Way to name your kid!") thinks that it's high time Strong Bad composed a rock opera. According to Strong Bad, he's been hard at work on "SBEMAIL!", a rock opera composed of "one word from each of my 125 emails". The results are impressive, if... nonsensical.

Join me on my single hundred toilet dreams picture
Everybody wanna scam some sweet bucks, or... potential pizza
Oh! Oh! Um, nevermind
Umm... double pants

Awesome, awesome fancy danish
Professional funky totally diggity -underdrawers

Oh, tonight, cool, healthy ones, eh?
Whatever action baby actually went jibblie

Ooh! Oh! Party like completely great, good
Down town ladies get consummate, yeah!

Awkward, sweet peaches, crackin' action
Wha-ho! Problematic (matic...matic...matic)

Solid Jumble!
Crazy beans double the real gold!
Computer, internet, bulging out, yeah! Oh!
Dynomite afterparty!
Like, fangoriously, world-class and grand
Oooh! Oh! Ew! Oh-ho-ho-ho! Definitely, definitely, baby
Yep, I totally always look awesome singing backwards metal

Experience dance tonight! Uhn!
Ooh! I'm pleasant!
Positate without pizzaz and jam! Woah!
Tonight equals dancing, yeah!
Famous ladies always like... SBEMAIL!

Strong Bad boasts that "rave reviews are already pouring in" for "SBEMAIL!", but his celebration is cut short when The Cheat gets carried away throwing roses around.

Strong Bad: The Cheat! Ix-nay on the cut-it-out-throwing-roses-at-me! ...may.

The Cheat: (The Cheat noise, throws a rose into Strong Bad's face)

Strong Bad: Augh! Rose face! ROSE FACE!!! (falls off his stool, making the Geddup Noise. Cut to the Lappy, where the Paper comes down.)

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Tropes:

• Art Shift: A few scenes during the music video are animated in "Powered by the Cheat" style.
• Catch Phrase Interruptus: A scene from "Dangeresque: Put 'Em On Ice!" has Dangeresque falling through a patch of thin ice as he's in the middle of saying his catch phrase.
• Confusing Multiple Negatives: After getting the Lappy's keyboard covered in roses, Strong Bad tells The Cheat to "Ixnay on the cut-it-out-throwing-roses-at-me! ...May." The Cheat responds to this by throwing another rose at him, which is technically doing what Strong Bad asked him to do.
• Continuity Cavalcade: The music video for "SBEMAIL!" is just loaded with references to older cartoons.
• Damned by Faint Praise: An Easter egg showing the "rave reviews" for "SBEMAIL!" includes such vague praise as "SBEMAIL! is a triumph of some sort!!!" and "SBEMAIL! is better than a goat!"
• Drunken Montage: One segment involves Strong Bad strolling along on a black background while neon signs float past.
• A Glass of Chianti: In one scene in the music video, Strong Bad is seen swirling a glass of wine.
• Kids Are Cruel: Strong Bad thinks that the other kids must have made fun of Anonymous Contributor's name a lot.
• On Ice: The poster for "SBEMAIL!" makes a reference to "Dangeresque: Put 'Em On Ice!"
• Title Drop: The last line of the rock opera is "Famous ladies always like SBEMAIL!"
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Strong Bad assumes that "Anonymous Contributor" is the sender's real name, and calls out "Mr. and Mrs. Contributor" for giving their kid an Embarrassing First Name.
  Strong Bad: I can only imagine the taunts and jabs the kids on the playground musta come up with: "Hey, Anonymous! Why don't you, um, write a poem or something and not attribute it to yourself!" Or, like, "Yo, Anony! Maybe trying calling the cops and giving them some valuable information to help solve a crime without revealing your own identity!" Oh, kids can be so cruel.
• Word Salad Lyrics: The lyrics to Strong Bad's rock opera consist of one word from each of his 125 emails, which results in lines like "Professional, funky, totally diggity-underdrawers" and "Yup, I totally always look awesome singing backwards metal".

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Dangeresque: (skating on a frozen pond) So I'm gonna have to j— (falls through the ice)
The Cheat: Meh! (throws a rose onto the ice as a vibraslap plays)