Other Character Email Tampo/experiment/Commentary

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Commentary Transcript

(Commentary by: Joshua, Super Sam)

JOSHUA: Okay, I'm here in the sound booth with my worst friend Sickly Sam. {coughs} Oops, I, uh, mean... uh...

SUPER SAM: {ignoring} Yes, hello. That's great. I'm Super Sam, and I'll be doing the commentary for the Tampo Email "experiment" with Joshua.

JOSHUA: Now, this is the pre-email scene with the Boss Trio Reloaded. Right before they launch their master plan.

SUPER SAM: Yes, in their lair type thing... the... uh...

JOSHUA: ...lunar cave that the Trickster was lucky enough to find and built into a secret underground lair. And notice how there are only robots here... apparently you have to reach it by crossing some un-atmosphere-ized terrain.

SUPER SAM: Yes, it would appear so. I guess it would stop people like Tampo. Wait, would it? Tampo doesn't have lungs, right?

JOSHUA: No, he doesn't. But... he doesn't have any outer protection either. I'm pretty sure other factors like freezing, burning or lack of air pressure would kill him.

SUPER SAM: Yeah, don't you hate how that always happens. Like, all at once. You know... um... freezing... and burning... at the same time... anyway, back on topic. So, here, Chorch Commander is... heh. He stuffed up his line there. You know, saying "order than", instead of "order them". But you already knew that, right?

JOSHUA: Heh heh... {nervous laugh} Yeah... of course I knew that... just a mistake by Chorch Commander. {normal} The pre-email section is over and the boss trio has apparently just recovered from the events of the last email.

SUPER SAM: You know, the Boss Trio seem sort of dumb here, because they don't really put two and two together very well.

JOSHUA: You mean with two "SUPER-ULTRA-MEGA IMPORTANT" emails? Yeah. But how could Tampo distrust an email? Heh... well, they both seem like two random, zany requests from fans. How should they know the Experiment Room's been tampered with?

SUPER SAM: Tampo does seem pretty loyal to his fan base. And with an apparently fake character e-mailing them, they didn't really have any suspicion.

JOSHUA: I guess. Now right here with these telekinetic powers... I was very undecisive with what I'd do with these.

SUPER SAM: I guess he could've either kept them for the e-mail and have them worked into the plot, or what happens here.

JOSHUA: Yeah. I could've made him have them forever, but I wasn't ready for that quite yet. My next idea was to make them temporary, but last longer, but when I decided the boss trio wouldn't actually fight Strongbadia in this email, that was worthless. So I just decided to make it a short gag.

SUPER SAM: It turned out alright anyway. Maybe in the future it will come back. Maybe. Here's where they're pressing two other buttons - to shrink and apparently grow.

JOSHUA: Yeah... they're really lucky, because they probably couldn't have survived very easily in that universe if they were huge. And now comes Stlunko's big explanation... I just made this up right here. Now recently I had a little déjà vu... you know how Mitchell likes to have all fanstuff relate to each other?

SUPER SAM: Ah, yes. {imitating Shim-Sham-Sam imitating Mitchell} Does this affect any of my numerous fanstuff?

JOSHUA: Yeah. Well, I was going through some old talk on the Bob and George forum, and this one user asked whether stuff that happened in one comic effected stuff in the other fancomics... and then another user said "No" because different comics exist in different universes. So... that was cool there, seeing someone use the same solution I did here.

SUPER SAM: It's an extremely handy way to differentiate between the official Homestar Runner site and the various fanstuffs here at the wiki. Ooh - here's the first real appearance of Trevor. Sorta. Excluding the virus thing.

JOSHUA: Well, this is the first time we see him for real in his natural enviroment. Originally he was going to actually go to the Homestarmy's fight instead of just imagining it... and the boss trio would've helped him... but then I decided it was getting long so I just did this.

SUPER SAM: Heh. I wouldn't imagine you worrying about email length, of all people.

JOSHUA: Well, I try to keep all non-email specials under 300 lines... and still, when your email reaches a length such as I had, you want it to end as soon as possible so you can get it out there and rest. Now... I'm not sure why the Homestarmy theme is so dominant in this universe.

SUPER SAM: Yes, it seems every time we see the "IMI-tation Universe", the Homestarmy is doing something. In a case of irony, the next Imitation Strong Bad E-mail, which also takes part in this universe, also has Homestarmy themes. But that's completely unrelated. Definitely.

JOSHUA: Well, I don't think "marbles" references the Homestarmy. And it's the biggest IMI-tation Tampo Email. Anyway, I don't get to use Homestar Runner in my Tampo Emails a lot... but when I get to, I enjoy it.

SUPER SAM: I guess the only times you can really use him is when the Boss Trio go back in time, and then most of the time the Boss Trio just tries to kill Strong Bad.

JOSHUA: Yeppers. Also, I'm not sure if you've noticed this, but in this universe Strong Mad likes to eat things. He eats Booty in "conquest", in "marbles" he eats the fire marble, and right here he's eating an apple. It's a little running gag-slash-personality trait for Alternate Strong Mad.

SUPER SAM: What will he eat next? A toastpaint?

JOSHUA: Trevor shouldn't have been too weirded out by the boss trio. I mean, he lives near a no armed whitey, has a pet Atari Dragon, and dates a "bwoom".

SUPER SAM: With all the crazy crap in the Homestar universe, it'd be hard to get weirded out at anything.

TAMPO: Now, almost as soon as I first made him, I knew I'd use Trevor again. But I wasn't sure when, or how big of a deal he would be.

SUPER SAM: And now, he's one of the most popular fake characters on the Fanstuff.

JOSHUA: Well, possibly tied with Contestro Sevornsky. Who has a glossary section. Trevor wishes he had a glossary section.

SUPER SAM: He would have a glossary section if I wasn't so lazy.

JOSHUA: Stop being lazy or I'll sic Booty on you!

SUPER SAM: Don't make me turn into Homsar. {a splat noise is heard} What the... it's some kind of toastpaint!

JOSHUA: Wah! We've been toastpainted! Not fun! {pause} ...alright, Stlunko explanation kind!

SUPER SAM: Stlunko needs to stop explaining things. It hurts the mind.

JOSHUA: Would you rather be left stupid?

SUPER SAM: No, but Stlunko needs to say things in a simpler form. He also needs to say contractions.

JOSHUA: Then he wouldn't be Stlunko. If he did either.

SUPER SAM: Gasp! It's true!

JOSHUA: Yes. It is. ...poke, poke; prod, prod. Personally I'd think it would be hard to really fall asleep during an explanation, no matter how boring. Unless the explanation occured in your bed... at night.

SUPER SAM: Maybe the explanation was so long, it went through the night and to the exact same time the next day!

JOSHUA: ...I doubt it. And Trevor apparently has a guest room. But my house doesn't really have a guest room. Guests have to sleep in the study or living room. Does your house have a guest room?

SUPER SAM: With six in the family, we don't have room for a guest room. But you already know that, because you have cameras.

JOSHUA: Indeed. Now we're back in the Lunar Warehouse, showing the Boss Trio Reloaded's plan taking full effect. This is a very simple and diabolical trick that I've seen before... where someone uses false authority to order the unknowing crowds into his trap.

SUPER SAM: How could somebody fall for such a simple trick? Speaking of which, this suspiciously placed Heavy Lourde is starting to give me the creeps.

JOSHUA: That's an old used prop. Ignore it, mister! Now about no one falling for it, if your mother wanted to kill you for no raisin, she'd call you downstairs and you'd walk right into the gun. BAM! Tricky trick tricked. {awkward silence} My disturbing explanations explain everything.

SUPER SAM: It's true! And apart from that, I- hey, here's the hypnosis thing. You make it seem so simple, but it's not, I say! Believe me. I've tried. On you.

JOSHUA: Of course you have. Oh noes! Tampo's minions! You know, even after like almost twenty more emails and many more weeks, those minions are still under their control. Long-lasting hypnotism.

SUPER SAM: That's just nonsense. Are you trying to make some sense? I'm sure it's not the first, or second, or three hundred and seventy-fourth time Tampo Emails has disregarded all laws of physics and thermodynamics and all that stuff. (>'-')>U (That's Kirby holding the laws of the universe.)

JOSHUA: It's okay as long as they're broken logically. (>'-')>n

SUPER SAM: Well, that's the email. It seemed to go for a surprisingly long time!

JOSHUA: It is the longest non-special email. Bye bye guys.

SUPER SAM: Preow!