Other Character Email Tampo/marbles/Commentary

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Commentary Transcript

(Commentary by: Joshua, Lunar Jesters)

JOSHUA: Hello viewers, it's me and my fellow admin friend Lunar Jesters here doing the commentary for "marbles."

LUNAR JESTERS: Heh. This is one of my favorite Tampo emails... it almost resembles Nebulon emails.

JOSHUA: Like a Nebulon email? How so?

LUNAR JESTERS: Well, it has way too many plot dumps. And it's needlessly complicated. I love it.

JOSHUA: Oh... Hmmm... Well, I was worried that I made the "Inside of Trevor's House" scene too long, since I had to explain a lot in it. But it seemed to turn out okay, even if it is a freakin' long email.

LUNAR JESTERS: Yeah, it's not like Nebylony emails in the beginning. A Nebulon email would have lots of self referencing humor. You actually had Trevor include a half-reason for kicking the trio out.

JOSHUA: What? Not being able to support them indefinitely? I really liked this pre-email scene a lot. I thought it was very realistic and brought out a different aspect of Trevor's personality. I thought it turned out really well.

LUNAR JESTERS: I agree. Sorry, I was just, erm, hearing "you guys can't stay here forever" instead of what you mentioned. And now the email is up... did you intend to ever actually answer that email until this idea got into your head?

JOSHUA: Well, I was juggling ideas around in my head, and one of them for this email is that the boss trio would time travel back to get revenge on Homsar. Never anything concrete though, and it probably would've just rotted away in Tampo's inbox if it hadn't been for this situation, where it fit in just fine.

LUNAR JESTERS: Whoever sent that email... who did send that email, anyway? Mr. Cradgage?

JOSHUA: I originally thought it was Super Sam, because he runs Homsar's Blog, and I was worried that this would get some people mad as this would be Super Sam's third email in a row to get answered, simply because I got inspiration for it. After finishing and updating the "By Name" section, I was relieved to find that this was actually Color Printer's email.

LUNAR JESTERS: Trevor is kind of stupid here... I mean, man-egg?

JOSHUA: Hey, you're back! I thought you... died... right here in the recording booth. And Trevor didn't really believe it was a man-egg. Right, Trevor?

TREVOR: {from email} Of course I didn't believe him.

JOSHUA: See? He's perfectly intelligent... heh, heh... Hey, it's Homestar Runner. He owns a pet Atari Dragon, for goodness' sake. Who knows what sort of eggs male chickens can lay here.

LUNAR JESTERS: Heh, until I read your emails, I always thought Brody was female. I figured there was at least ONE female boss. And now we go to possibly the most widespread thought of Tampo emails besides the premice.

JOSHUA: Yeah... I though Brody was female as well. So I was planning on that, but I doublechecked right before making the email show. I was relieved when the Stinkomanual revealed him to be a male, as I'm not too good with female characters. And, uh... premice?

LUNAR JESTERS: Stinkoman 20X6 bosses answering emails.

JOSHUA: Ah yes, that. You said it couldn't be done! And now it's kinda ironic... that you own one... heh.