Airdate: Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Sender: Somone thats not homestarrunner
"Somone thats not homestarunner" ("Well, of course you're not, Somone. Or else you would've fallen prey to Edgar's Baby's Daddy: my Homestar junkmail filter.") wants to know if Strong Bad's "so famous, popular, and a chick-magnet", why doesn't he have his "candy product... or food thing... to sell..."
Strong Bad's design for a "candy product" starts with "a name that's 50% Strong Bad, 50% tooth rot, and 50% 'ta-dah!!!'": "SBLOUNSKCHED!" ("Cuz that's how you're gonna feel when you eat one... like you got SBLOUNSKCHED!")
"SBLOUNSKCHED!" would naturally have "as many of the different states of candy matter as possible", including:
- A gaseous cloud of marshmallow vapor...
- ...encased in globules of semi-solid licorice colloid...
- ...floating in a channel of nougat ("which I recently found out is the candy equivalent of veal")...
- ...wrapped up in a crispy cookie log...
- ...covered with "rich, creamy... pepperoni"...
- ...sprinkled with miniature bowls of crispy puffed rice cereal...
- ...and finally covered in "the ol' BBC: Boring Brown Chocolate"
Strong Bad decides to think of "a better shape than the standard piece-of-crap shape for his candy bar (I'm talkin' to you, Baby Ruth)", and settles on a reproduction of his pants ("Everybody knows my pants!") The bar would also come with a false bite built into it "for security, 'cause who's gonna steal a pair of half-eaten choco-pants?" As Strong Bad remarks "you could get away with anything!" with a candy bar that cool, the cartoon closes out with a commercial for SBLOUNSKCHED!
Livin' in the gutter with grandma
When coach puts you in, you gotta go for the win
Y2K turned out alright!
SBLOUNSKCHED! You can do it!
SBLOUNSKCHED! Crunchy-chew it!
Who's got the money?
You got SBLOUNSKCHED!!
Announcer: Buy one and you can get one free root canal or cavity search.
(The Paper comes down, Strong Bad peeks out from behind it.)
Tropes:
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: "Covered in rich... creamy... pepperoni."
- Blatant Burglar: An Easter egg shows Homestar dressed in a mask and striped sweater as he finds an unattended SBLOUNSKCHED! bar.
- Bottled Cool: Parodied with the SBLOUNSKCHED! commercial, which shows Strong Bad perpetrating his usual mischief while carrying around a packaged SBLOUNSKCHED! bar, causing his victims to react positively when he presents it.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The ingredients of SBLOUNSKCHED! include marshmallow, licorice, nougat, and rich creamy... pepperoni.
- Continuity Nod:
- The shapes Strong Bad considers for his candy product include a bust of Martin van Buren from The Cheat's character video.
- Senor Cardgage makes a cameo, sleeping in the alley like he did in "Senorial Day".
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: Strong Bad imagines a candy bar combining such disparate ingredients as licorice, nougat, pepperoni, and miniature cereal bowls.
- Overly Long Gag: Strong Bad waiting to continue reading the e-mail on seeing the sender's overuse of ellipses.
- Parody Commercial: Strong Bad imagines one for his SBLOUNSKCHED! bar.
- Perfectly Cromulent Word: Strong Bad settles on calling his candy product "SBLOUNSKCHED!", which is apparently some form of onomatopoeia that describes the sensation of eating one.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Strong Bad makes his candy bar into a replica of his pants with a fake bite taken out, because "Who's gonna steal a pair of half-eaten choco-pants?" An Easter egg at the end of the cartoon shows Homestar dressed as a burglar about to steal a SBLOUNSKCHED! bar and being excited at finding "a pair of half-eaten choco-pants".
- Surprisingly Creepy Moment: An Easter egg has an unsettling moment when Marshie's face appears in a cloud of marshmallow vapor and says in an oddly-cheery, distorted voice "You can't destroy me..."
- Too Many Halves: Strong Bad says his candy product needs a name that's "50% Strong Bad, 50% tooth rot, and 50% ta-dah!"
- Word Salad Lyrics: As shown above, the lyrics on the song for the SBLOUNSKCHED! commercial are completely nonsensical.
Homestar: Ooh, paydirt! A pair of half-eaten choco-pants!
