Other Character Email Tampo/2005/Commentary
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- The DVD version features a hidden commentary for Tampo Email #6: "2005." To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.
Commentary Transcript
(Commentary by: Joshua, Aussie Evil)
JOSHUA: Me and Aussie Evil here, ready to comment on the only email with no letters in its name: "2005."
AUSSIE EVIL: Right you are, Ken -- er, Joshua. {pause} Is the longest email the Big Three got?
JOSHUA: It was at the time... they've gotten longer emails now. In fact, you sent a really long one. About jumping a shark.
AUSSIE EVIL: 'Twas only one sentence!
JOSHUA: And the longest freakin' name in history!
AUSSIE EVIL: Oh hey, they got rid of that email up there.
JOSHUA: Yeah, I decided to lay out the email's outline so I could have Tampo answer it in an orderly fashion.
AUSSIE EVIL: Oh yeah, that's better. You totally skirted number 5.
JOSHUA: Yeah... my original intention was to have a 1936 part afterwords... but then when I finished the 2005 part, it was already so long and I still had no solid inspiration for it, so I decided to just ignore that part... it probably wouldn't have been much different from the 2005 part anyway.
AUSSIE EVIL: 2005?! Ancient History?! Ergh...
JOSHUA: Yeah, that's kind of weird. My original idea for this email's name after I dumped the Old-Timey part was "present day", but with 2005 being ancient history to them rather than present day, I decided 2005 would be a better one...
AUSSIE EVIL: For this segment, I think that humming theme from Katamari Damacy would be a good background. Naaaah na na nah na nah...,
JOSHUA: You, you do that. Anyhoo... this clothes scene... Tampo doesn't wear clothes. Neither does Brody, Stlunko, or any of their minions. They practically live in a clothes-less world. So naturally, clothes wouldn't really be high on Tampo's priority list in creating Trevor. And I'm not really sure why Brody remembered.
AUSSIE EVIL: Because Stinkoman wears pants?
JOSHUA: Perhaps. Although he's a robot, so he could just have some of his body painted black...
AUSSIE EVIL: Ok, here come da shades. Oh, hey, does Trevor swim a lot?
JOSHUA: Uh, what?
AUSSIE EVIL: The guy has been hair. You know? Chlorine?
JOSHUA: Been hair? Umm... no. I just had to make him unique in some way... so I gave him green hair. Now about the name... I just wanted some normal name that began with T. But I couldn't really think of a satisfying one, so I googled for a list of most popular boys names that began with T, and looking through the list I decided on "Trevor".
AUSSIE EVIL: Not Brainguy?
JOSHUA: Thankfully no.
AUSSIE EVIL: And here comes the h-- whoa.
JOSHUA: "CRAPPED!"
AUSSIE: The warranty's shot to (censored), isn't it?
JOSHUA: Uhh... no, I don't think so. I'm not sure why I inserted the Atari Dragon, aka Fhqwhgads, in here. I guess it was because Mitchell had decided that Fhqwhgads was present-day Booty... so naturally I had to prove him wrong.
AUSSIE: Think of the children, please! Ooh, scene change.
JOSHUA: It's going to be a battle... an Imitation Strong Bad Email is going to feature a similar battle soon. That'll be cool... with Trevor.
AUSSIE: ... We're battling now... {pause} and this set of photos could be yours if The Price Is Right!
JOSHUA: That's your company, right?
AUSSIE: {absentmindedly} Yeah...
JOSHUA: Using my email show to gain more exposure for your products? That's evil. You deserve to get punted!
{pause}
AUSSIE: Ouch! Someone call the air ambulance.
JOSHUA: And now we're ending. Originally 1936 would've been featured as well... but when 2005 turned out long enough and I still had no Old-Timey inspiration, I decided to dump it with an excuse! ...oh crap, I repeated myself. Heh...
AUSSIE: That's OK. Anything else before I do the pop-culture reference?
JOSHUA: Nopers. Well actually, before you do... Preow! {heard quicky leaving room to avoid hearing reference}
AUSSIE: Aussie Evil reminding you to help control the pet population. Have your pet spayed or neutered. Good-bye, everybody!
