Strong Bad Email/cursing
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Summary
A viewer asks why Strong Bad doesn't use strong language.
Transcript
Strong Bad: And today's extra special email rap is...ummm...{mumbling} I forget.
dear Strong Bad, If u so bad, why don't you ever say anything stonger than "holy crap" or "freaking"? My grandma can curse better than you! Love, Fakey McFakey
Strong Bad: {reads email, after grandma line:} Well, my grandma can outcurse your grandma! {finishes reading email, starts typing} Fakey, I can't curse as much as I'd like to, because I'm governed by a higher power. {church music starts playing} Basically, those guys. {Points up at blue portrait of the Mike and Matt Chapman, with the caption "Big Brothers Are Watching". Church music stops abruptly.} They keep us family friendly...or else.
{clears page, goes on typing}
Strong Bad: But things weren't always like this. There was a time when this cartoon was less Felix the Cat and more Fritz the Cat, if you know what I mean...and you probably don't.
{Flashback: "Marshmallow's Last Stand" style Strong Bad, with his Mexican voice, in front of the computer from "personal favorites". The email asks "R U baad?"}
Old-school Strong Bad: Am I bad? You {bleeped out} better {bleep} believe it, {long bleep}.
{Old-school Homestar pops up}
Old-school Homestar: Aw, {bleep}.
{Cut to a photo of the Brothers Chap frowning at a graph with a falling red line}
Strong Bad: {voice-over} But the big guys found this in-your-face style was unpopular. Mostly, people were turned off by the incessant high-pitched bleeping. So they changed this...
{quick one second shot of cast in disreputable situations, covered by a thumb}
Strong Bad: {voice-over} To this.
{normal shot of the cast. Cut to Strong Bad at the Lappy.}
Strong Bad: {typing} And that's why I can't use stong...I mean, strong language. I think that is total crap, but...
{Homestar comes in with a clip board}
Homestar: Bad news, big guy. You can't use the word "crap" anymore. Or "semprini", for some reason.
Strong Bad: What! They can't take that word from me! {falls on the floor, hysterical} They just take and take, not caring about artistic vision or free speech? Do they want my soul as well? Wait til the union hears about this! We will bury you! Bury you!
Homestar: Are you done?
Strong Bad: {normal} Yeah man. {gets back up}
Homestar: Also, the reports from the focus groups say they want to see you wear this dirty wig {holds up wig} and sing showtunes.
Strong Bad: {Points at audience} I'm doing this for you, my loyal fans. {thumps chest twice with one hand}
{Music starts. Strong Bad puts on the wig}
Strong Bad: {singing, falsetto} I feel pretty, oh so pretty!
{the paper comes down}
Easter Eggs
- Wait ten seconds for this scene.
- {The Cheat comes in while Strong Bad sings}
- The Cheat: Murmurmahh!
- Homestar: {laughing} Oh, that is so dirty.
- Click on "stong" this message.
- To see the earlier cast photo, send your filthy lucre to:
Tax Shelter Island
P.O. Box 666
- Click on "strong" to see a cursing contest between your grandma and the Strongs' grandma.
- Strong Bad's Grandma: Beep Beep Beeeeeeeep!!!
- Your Grandma: Is that censorship or are you a... oh man, what was I going to say?? I am so senile!!
Fun Facts
- I made up the above email.
- The portrait of the Brothers Chap is a reference to "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell, which is a great book I haven't read. In the novel, the people are ruled by a dictator called "Big Brother". Numerous posters with his face say "Big Brother is Watching" to remind people not to mess up.
- Fritz the Cat is a character created by underground comic artist R. Crumb. He is not anything like Felix the Cat.
- Strong Bad's musical number is a reference to a WillDrawForPocky comic. See it here: [1]
- The word "semprini" was also inexplicably banned from Monty Python's Flying Circus. The word is used to refer to a part of the body, but is also the name of an aftershave.
