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Commentary Transcript

(Commentary by: Dennis, Amy, Michelle)

DENNIS: Hey guys. Weclome to the first disc of your special Tampo E-mail DVD! Just for now, I decided right off the bat to be the first to start recording. Here with me are my friends, Amy Whifflepoof, and universe headmistress herself, Michelle.

AMY: Thanks, Dennis. So, you started this fan-mail in M1CH-elly?

DENNIS: Yeah, this was released right after "revolution" ended. So I wrote this to fill in the down-time that Josh would've had because he most likely wouldn't have an update.

MICHELLE: Uh-huh. And here you are, sending this letter. Isn't that stamp a Disasteroid?

DENNIS: I was playing "Treasure Galaxy" that day I started. I ran out of ideas, so I thought things like that wouldn't be mainstream enough for the public to recognize.

MICHELLE: Yeah. I remember that time Amy gave me that letter. You really wanted VIP access without voting, did you?

DENNIS: Nah. In reality, I just did it as a joke. Eventually after someone else followed, Josh put up a notice saying, "This is ajoke." And for the record, my favorite Tampo E-mails are: Death, Betrayal, and Marbles. The one I like the least is biggest fan.

AMY: Here we go. Meanwhile, in J05H-ooa, Tampo, Brody and Stlunko are doing chores.

MICHELLE: Man, that Frotzer is annoying.

DENNIS: Inspiration came from a whole lot of teammembers I worked with. This si why I work alone, or on individual tasks.

MICHELLE: I see you made fun of Tampo's lack of visible arms, and lack of telekinesis, even though he's a brain.

AMY: How hard would it be to get lava debris out of a gutter with a laserball?

MICHELLE: Tampo just insulted Saargtsson. I guess he relishes small revenges, too.

AMY: For some reason, Saargtsson ran out of chores. They must've been working all day, huh?

DENNIS:Yeah. But they should take every chance they get in these harder times.

MICHELLE: A 1 hour break is still short.

AMY: Meanwhile, in M1CH-elly, I tell Dennis his letter didn't make it to 20X6.

DENNIS: I've been wondering, theoretically, if the item was undisturbed, could it reach Tampo later? Then you wouldn't have to wait. Like a time capsule.

AMY: Improbable, but not impossible.

MICHELLE: And there he goes. This proves that we universe headpeople are omnicient, in our own time.

DENNIS: Okay, back to J05H-ooa. Some people in the Homestar team are planting the future Challenge City forest.

MICHELLE: Why does Strong Bad keep losing bets?

DENNIS: I thought you were omnicient.

MICHELLE: In M1CH-elly.

DENNIS: He's bad at tiddlywinks. And Homsar has a lamppost, like Jadis in Narnia.

AMY: Oddly, his statment about the game makes sense.

DENNIS: His second statement I got from a comic book called Ziggy Faces Life.

MICHELLE: Why'd you name him Wok Sushi?

DENNIS: I had a hard time finding a name, until I looked and saw that the character's names were based on funny words, put together.

MICHELLE: And it's a wonder that Homestar didn't steal it.

DENNIS: At Wok's house, we see it looks like the Lunar Warehouse, being the designer.

AMY: Yeah... but the original purpose of putting research facilities on the moon is to study and help terraform it to support life. I know, I'm a genetic shaper myself.

MICHELLE: Well, if you say so, they didn't make a lot of progress. It's still a desolate wasteland.

AMY: No, there's a few plants. And an atmosphere is a HUGE step.

DENNIS: Ladies, quit squabbling. Now, he's showing me the plans for the robots, an oddment, because he's known me for a few minutes, and trusts me.

MICHELLE: That chorch design reminds me of that Knowbot in Carmen Sandiego... I belive his mane was Dimbot.

DENNIS: That's a stretch, but with a little imagination... and, as a retcon, maybe a Strong Bad clone wasn't a good idea. But a Strong Bad synflesh robot would be. Like Guri, in that Star Wars novel, Shadows of the Empire

AMY: Yeah, I remember I wrote a fan idea of a TV show in my head about me, building a cyborg copy of a character, which ended up having a better personality. I believe the plot for the rest of the season was that because the genes were copied over, the original one had an abnormality, and so the robot had the same one, just more slight.

MICHELLE: You named him after my cousin, Jonathan, just for diversity.

DENNIS: And in this chapter, the boss trio needs a plan.

AMY: How the pants did the SaargtScreen break?

DENNIS: A small glitch. Don't worry, it's nothing.

MICHELLE: So far, that's a pretty good idea Stlunko has.

AMY: Easier said than done.

MICHELLE: Lava Zone tunnels go pretty far. I know that.

AMY: I've been in one. I've used it to sneak into Holly.

DENNIS: Holly? How'd you get to J05H-ooa? Where is Holly, by the way?

AMY: Remeber, I have access to Michelle, and Holly is a city in Michigan, near Ann Arbor.

MICHELLE: Somehow, Saargtsson is right next to the door, overhearing. How long has he been there?

DENNIS: I don't know. And at the right moment, a gaspeau comes by. Deux es machina?

AMY: Saargtsson is trying to foil the plans.

DENNIS: Here I am, in the forest, which has grown and mutated grossly for about a century. And there's a lamppost.

AMY: I like the SWAT robot you added in there. I kinda have a design for them, being recurring extras. They are synflesh robots.

MICHELLE: Are they going to look like Jonathan?

AMY: Maybe. Jonathan looks like one, barely. And maybe I'll design female ones for diversity.

DENNIS: And, there it goes. Luckily, this gaspeau wants a small revenge on Saargtsson.

MICHELLE: Everyone wants small revenges on Saargtsson. Or at least, the boss trio does.

AMY: I can't believe you fit into that Poorbt synflesh disguise. I mean, you're a 12-year-old boy, and a poorbt is like a 25-year-old man.

DENNIS: I'm tall for my age, but I was still a little too short.

AMY: Sneakin' as a 'bit in the lava zone... you know, this would be something I usually do, like sneaking on airplane cargo bays.

DENNIS: So that's how you keep getting to places like New Jersey and Austrailia.

MICHELLE: Assuming that's a $5 pizza, without a %6 sales tax...

DENNIS: I'm not in Michigan. There might not even be sales tax.

MICHELLE: But that's still a generous tip. And I believe my sister Annie is a fan of olive and pineapple.

DENNIS: Yeah... so I make it back out with the letter and find Tampo, which is all confuzzled on the floor.

AMY: It took such a short while to find them.

DENNIS: They were down the hall.

MICHELLE: What we've all been waiting for, the end.

AMY: For a robot, Stlunko cares a bit too much about money. He is like Bender. I ask what he spends it on.

DENNIS: Who knows? This is a great moment in my life here. I did this from experience. I actually sent that letter, and now I get to the moon, like you guys. Finally.

MICHELLE: Oh yeah. I forgot you sent the e-mail for "Revolution"

DENNIS: Who cares? Any reader would know.

AMY: That's great and all, but what's with the cliffhanger ending?

DENNIS: This was originally part 1 of a 2-part episode. The second part was where I infiltrate the Lunar Warehouse, dismantle some robots, foil plans, and I wrote in they held you for randsom, Amy.

AMY: Har Har. They'd never catch me anyway.

MICHELLE: Usually your writing leaves much to be desised, but this story came off quite nicely.

DENNIS: You think?

MICHELLE: Yeah. It was just missing one thing.

DENNIS: What?

MICHELLE: Trevor. You know I'm proud to be the leader of the Trevor fan club.

DENNIS: {simoltaneously} ...You're proud to be the leader of the Trevor fan club.

AMY:{simoltaneously} ...Michelle's proud to be the leader of the Trevor fan club.

DENNIS: And that wraps it up. Bye!