Other Character Email Tampo/death/Commentary

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Commentary Transcript

(Commentary by: Joshua, Dennis Dunjinman)

JOSHUA: Me and Dennis Dunjinman here, commentaing on Tampo Email #20-something: "death." Now, I predicted you'd choose this one, DD.

DENNIS: Well, this is my personal favorite Tampo E-mail. "Marbles" was the best, but this one is classic.

JOSHUA: Lucky for you not too many people like this one compared to the ones around it, so it was still open.

DENNIS: Luckily. We can see that The Trickster was succesful in bringing a small army in, and it's kind of a "well planned coincidence" as you say, that Tampo got an e-mail regarding his best friends' deaths.

JOSHUA: Well, actually, me and my little 9-year-old brother were walking along the road one day, and I got to talking about Tampo Emails to him. You know, because his email was featured in "construction" and he used to read a few... so we got to talking and I asked him about sending another email. And then he thought of an email asking what if Brody and Stlunko died. And after some brief brainstorming, I quickly went back up to him and ordered him to send that email. He did, and a few weeks later... this!

DENNIS: That chorch claims to have hidden the detonaters, and calculates a good chance of not-dying, but, what if Stlunko found them with his personal radio? He can hone in on the frequency and find it beforehand.

JOSHUA: That was a chance I had to take, and fortunately for the Trickster, a scenario I didn't think of. You know, this is where the Trickster got serious. No more yelling stuff out to the Master and sending prank emails to Tampo and nearly destroying the universe, this time he does something really mean to the floating pink blob.

DENNIS: I wonder if hacking technology really gets that advanced in the future. It's an endless battle, writing code, then writing protection, then writing new code, it's like flu shots. New flus adapt and mutate every year.

JOSHUA: Now here- I hacked Nebulon's inbox for this one. I just thought it was funny how Super Sam sent two totally opposite emails like this... I just had to pull this gag on him. Even if it delayed the email a little, I managed to fit in a little plot in it, with the commander getting a celebration set up.

DENNIS: Stupor Sam? Hehehe. That's such a good thing about writing, you can make fun of your friends, and enemies. Still, the monument is such a good idea, in space. It'll never wear down.

JOSHUA: Kind of too late for them to make one now. Here I brought in a random commander. I figured I'd follow the format with Chorch Commander #20 here... and make Greggo Commander #4. Oh, and the Chorch Commander #20 isn't the twentienth Chorch commander, he's simply the twentieth commander altogether. Like, they could get rid of the titles "Chorch" and "Greggo" and still be able to tell each other apart by their numbers.

DENNIS: The best thing is how well-timed this was. Just now, after he mentions how his friends won't die, they "die". But deaths can portray several genres, depending on who died and how they died. This one is more sad, being his best friends died when the roof fell in, but someone annoying like... Joel Dawson... getting squashed by a Big Fat Guy is funny.

JOSHUA: Well, if the guy who dies is bad, like Ganondorf or something, or if you know they'll come back alive like What's Her Face or Joel, death isn't so bad. But here... it was very bad for Tampo. And here Brody and Stlunko are arguing about being able to die. Brody actually won this arguement. They don't know it, but he's right. They can't die.

DENNIS: They can, in the real world, but like that old comic I did, Stinkoman didn't die. However, Stlunko...loses...powweeeer... but comes back later. Is the anntena self-growing?

JOSHUA: No... he has backup power. It just takes a while to charge up after a blackout. After he reawakens, he usually has enough time to repair himself manually. He's a self-repairing machine!

DENNIS: Awesome. Self-repairing, what will the robot technicians think of next? After Tampo realizes Brody and Stlunko are "dead", two Bobs come in completely out of the blu-ack. Black. Seriously, for robots, how uncreative are these names?

JOSHUA: Yeah... it's a running gag with the Trickster. Sidekick Bob, Doctor Bob, Mechanic Bob... anyway, the idea for this scene was to make Doctor and Mechanic Bob as fake as possible.

DENNIS: You've got no pancreas. Duh! Tampo's just a brain with no organs. He still wishes he still had lungs!

JOSHUA: Well, apparently it's slang for "Both your friends are dead." {pause} The second Trickster and Sidekick Bob scene here. Sidekick Bob... is more loyal to Tampo than the Trickster.

DENNIS: The Trickster is quite clever at making things not seem as they are. No wonder Yun-Harla smiles on him.

JOSHUA: I've never seen whatever thing you're referencing. Anyway, I wonder if the Trickster would have killed them if it weren't for Sidekick Bob.

DENNIS: *{coughStarWarscough}* Aww. {sniff sniff} Tampo's so caring. He honors his friend, and forgets the rest. What are those lazy minions sitting around? That was clear as crystal! Get a move on!

JOSHUA: It took him an hour to even be able to give the announcement... that's how horrible the ordeal was to him.

DENNIS: Wow. I've just realized the early Boss Trio Reloaded has a more dominant role in this one. And Sidekick Bob, being more careful, checks the coffins.

JOSHUA: Technically, Sidekick Bob isn't a negativist. Now comes the creepy silhouette from the shadows, who's been spying on the Trickster.

DENNIS: How did Chorch Commander #20 get to the moon? And why the pants is there a forcefield going off? Don't tell me for air, they're all wearing bubble helmets.

JOSHUA: Chorch Commander probably teleported to the moon, either by public teleporter or one he built himself, if he's able to accomplish that. And the forcefield is creating atmospheric conditions so Tampo and the chicken minions can survive on the moon's surface. No bubble helmets here.

DENNIS: Awesometacular. Also, exactly how smart are Chorches? They usually are depicted as programmers, builders, calculators, scientists. And exactly how does the HypnoSphere work? Robots need training, this isn't "Dexter's Laboratory", where you can slap cool metal pieces together and call it a machine.

JOSHUA: Chorches, along with the rest of Tampo's minions, are all rather smart, although they can be trained to become smarter and more powerful, as Chorch Commander #20 had been. And the HypnoSphere works by... sending out some sort of hypno-radio signals that control robots and creatures. It's sort of one of those things that don't need to be explained in detail.

DENNIS: Now I understand. Here comes the corpses. How long did it take them to build coffins and dig holes for Brody and Stlunko? I mean, Brody's huge, but you shrunk him when you adapted to my original design. What happens to Stlunko's fists, by the way? Does he keep them in storage?

JOSHUA: It's a big project, building the coffins, but there are a lot of workers. Or rather, Chorches. As they're the only guys with arms. In fact, no arms is sort of a design flaw with Jaros and Greggos. ...and Stlunko's fists were buried with him, at least the two he was using at the time.

DENNIS: {singing} Here they come back from the dead... {resumes} Some questions about zombies, One, can robots be zombies? Two, although Tampo is afraid to be eaten, being a brain and all, aren't supernatural creatures nothing like their stereotypes? Three, how could Brody breathe after surfacing?

JOSHUA: {PBTS Gunhaver voice} O-M-G, I'm being attacked by questions. {normal voice} One: no, I don't think robots can be zombies, but it was Brody who they thought was a zombie, not Stlunko. Two: possibly, but Tampo's thinking stereotypically right now. Three: the atmospheric forcefield is still operating overhead. And here comes Stlunko... this email's almost over.

DENNIS: Somehow, I think the ending is funny, where Brody and Stlunko scream "TAMPO!" Yeah. I can easily see that.

JOSHUA: Yeah. And the Easter egg that's about to come up... 1-Up email reference right there. 1-Up Emails were going through a zombie storyline... so I decided not to pass up the oppurtunity.

DENNIS: Zombie skeletons are everywhere. You can't hide from them. I saw a few on Fist World, maybe Hydrox.

JOSHUA: And that's the end of our show- DONK!