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Overview

Videlectrix Email #1

The Graphic Designers recieve a freeze ray, which begins to damage the equipment and alter all existing Videlectrix games.

Cast (in order of appearance): Graphic Designers, CEO, Programmer, Art Man, RunningMan, Strong Bad, Strong Mad

Places: Videlectrix Apartment, Computer Room, Strong Bad's Basement

Computer: 286 CGA Enabled PC

Date: October 30, 2005

Lines: 77

Transcript

{Cut to outside a large apartment complex. The entire staff of Videlectrix (The CEO, Graphic Designers, Programmer, Art Man) is parked outside.}

CEO: Well, boys, this is our new headquarters. Hope you like it, or we'll just have to cut and paste you in a different company!

{Assorted weak snickers}

PROGRAMMER: {Strange noise} This whole apartment?

CEO: You'll see.

{Cut to inside the apartment. The CEO unlocks a door and opens it, revealing a very small room.}

PROGRAMMER: Uhh, I'm assuming that this is going to be the bathroom?

CEO: No! This is our new workspace. Ten by ten feet of bliss!

ART MAN: That's it? This is all the space we have to make our blockbuster games?

CEO: It was all I could get, considering the only game we've made recently is that Bible game.

{The screen fades to black, and Graphic Designer #1 smacks a box down on a desk, and precedes to open it.}

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #1: Now... If you break this, I'm going to have you fired!

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #2: I'll try my best.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #1: This requires great care. It's a very expensive computer... I got it for $20! TWENTY whole dollars! You got that, weasel?

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #2: Y-yes. {Whimpers}

{Graphic Designer #1 pulls out the rest of the computer and plugs it in. RunningMan, the Videlectrix Mascot, runs across and falls over. He never gets up. An email suddenly comes up.}

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #2: What? An email client?

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #1: What's a client?

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #2: Look... I know how to do this.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #2: {Reads "Coodelectrix" as typed} Hm. An attatchment? Let's see... A file attatched to an email? That's an intriguing idea, Cody. I'll have to try it sometime. But what's with this "MB" you speak of? I've only heard of KB.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #1: Stop your whining. An MB is... Uh... Yeah, I don't know. Just download it and see what happens.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #2: But this could be extremely dangerous. You said not to ruin the computer-

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #1: If we have a freeze ray, we can freeze the competition!

{Weak snickers from the Programmer and Art Man.}

ART MAN: I like that joke. Let's put it on the website!

CEO: Great idea, Art Man.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #1: ...Man, this download is taking a while. How long is it going to take?

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #2: Well, it's going at 1 byte per hour, so it'll be a couple of months before it's ready.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #1: This had better be worth it. Hey, boss! Have a game we need done?

CEO: Well, I was thinking something along the lines of... Marcus in the Kangaroo Zone. It's about this guy and some kangaroos. Really original, huh? This'll be a great blockbuster game!

ART MAN: Agreed!

PROGRAMMER: Yeah!

{Many months later, the Graphic Designers are at work on Marcus in the Kangaroo Zone.}

PROGRAMMER: You're done? Send me the graphic data. So, you got the kangaroos and Marcus? What about the Demented Cactus? No game is complete without that!

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #2: We'll get right to work.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #1: Ooh, it's complete!

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #2: So, where is the freeze ray?

{A yellow and blue freeze gun flies out of the top of the computer somehow. It lands in a weird way and fires, freezing part of the computer. The screen goes blank.}

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #2: AGH! I FORGOT TO SAVE MY WORK!

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #1: You'll pay later... HOLY CRAP! The computer's frozen!

{Snickers are heard from the Programmer and Art Man.}

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #1: No, I'm serious!

CEO: Um... I hate to break it to you, but... The reason we spent a whole $20 on that computer was because... That was the centeral computer for all of our games. Each cartridge is connected to that computer wirelessly. Now the games are going haywire.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #2: What do you mean, haywire?

CEO: Well...

{Cut to the Lappy 486, where Strong Bad is playing Thy Dungeonman 2.}

STRONG BAD: Oh, man! This is totally the best game ever!

STRONG BAD: What's a "missingo"? I'll go with ninety star E.

STRONG BAD: This is just scaring me.

{Cut back to the Videlectrix Apartment, where the Graphic Designers are attatching plutonium to the computer.}

CEO: Ah. That plutonium should somehow fix all of our troubles. Just obliterates the ice right off... Somehow.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #1: I sure love plot holes.

{Cut to the Strongs' Basement, where Strong Mad is, er, "playing" (punching) the Trogdor arcade game. The screen suddenly starts to pulse with a sickly green color.}

STRONG MAD: GREEN BOX!! GREEN BOX!! {Starts to wave arms wildly}

{Cut back to the Videlectrix Apartment.}

GRAPHIC DESIGNER #2: Uhh, I think this plutonium is having negative effects on our computer. {The computer starts to jump around wildly} ...And our programmer.

{The camera scrolls to show the programmer, unconscious on the ground.}

CEO: Wow. Well, I guess this is what happens when you try to fix anything. Nice idea, Art Man.

ART MAN: Actually, it was your idea to cram the plutonium into it.

CEO: Oh, yeah. Well, I guess this is what happens when you have me as a CEO.

{RunningMan runs across the screen, carrying a banner that reads "Click Here To Email Videlectrix".}

Easter Eggs

Fun Facts

  • Missingno. is a well-known glitch in the Pokémon series of games, with odd effects on the game.
    • "Missingo" is a common mispronunciation of it.
  • Marcus is one of Thatkidsam's friends, sometimes referred to in his fanstuffs.

Author's Comments

  • Rating: 9.0
  • This was a solid email show opening, even if it is kinda weird.

Reader Comments

Care to write a review? Format it like the above self-review.

  • Rating: 8.5
  • The crazy virus-y ending is the best part. The Thy Dungeonman part was great. - Joshua, your master.

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