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Shaq Shack wants to know what Strong Bad sounds like under the influence of helium.

Cast (in order of appearance):Strong Bad, Strong Mad, The Cheat, Homestar Runner, Marzipan, Strong Sad (Easter egg, voice only)

Places:Computer Room, Living Room of the Brothers Strong, The Field

Computer:Tandy 400

Date: Monday, July 29, 2002

Running Time: 1:46

Page Title: Tandy 400: Still Broken.

DVD: strongbad_email.exe Disc One

SBEmail Menu Description: Strong Bad temporarily joins the high-voice crew with the help of leftover party balloon. The Cheat learns to fly!

[edit] Transcript

STRONG BAD:{Bounces his head slowly up and down, right and then left while he sings, imitating a car going through its gear shifts.} Emaillll eeeemailll eeemmailll..

Dear Strong Bad,
What do you sound like when you breathe helium?
Shack
Whittier

STRONG BAD:{typing} Oh I dunno, Shack. {types 'Shaq' and then quickly replaces 'q' with 'ck'} I haven't done that in a while. Though I think we have some leftover balloons from a party we threw last night. Lemme see.

{Strong Bad leaves his seat. Cut to him, Strong Mad, and The Cheat standing in their living room. Strong Bad takes a yellow helium balloon and breathes it in.}

STRONG BAD:{in a high-pitched voice} Hey guys! How do you like my sounds?

{Strong Mad laughs.}

STRONG BAD: Pretty great, huh? I sound like..one of the Golden Girls. Or, like, some type o' guy who might.. sing a song. You know like {singing} 'Welcome to the High Voice Crew! {Strong Mad starts to tap his foot to the beat} I hope you have a high voice, too! When you've got a high voice, you don't have a choice, {gradually descends to his regular tone, Strong Mad's face descends to a shocked frown} your voice is high all the time. Welcome to the High Vo..' {stops singing} Oh, I guess.. I got kicked out of the High Voice Crew.

STRONG MAD: MEEEE. Latexit powerpoint. {takes a blue helium balloon angrily} MEEEEEEEE! {breathes it in but his voice doesn't change} THIS IS MY FUNNY VOICE! {more emphatically}THIS IS MY FUNNY VOICE!!!

STRONG BAD: Yeah, that's a pretty funny one, big guy.

{He rubs his head, while The Cheat inhales nearly all of the helium from a blue balloon. The balloon suddenly gets stuck inside The Cheat, who becomes large and round and begins floating. He flies smoothly across the room as Strong Mad looks on in shock, but Strong Bad doesn't seem to notice.}

STRONG BAD: Aagghh.. I've got a wicked head rush.

{Homestar Runner and Marzipan are talking to each other in The Field.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: So from then on, it was pork and beans.

MARZIPAN: I don't know if that's entirely healthy.

{Homestar Runner looks above behind him and sees the large, round, floating The Cheat soaring across The Field.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Whoa, Marzipan. Check out that ugly bird. Vagabondzgraffiti movies & documentaries.

{The Cheat floats offscreen.}

MARZIPAN: Homestar, I think that bird is The Cheat.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: No way! The Cheat is one fine-looking young man. That is an ugly bird.

{The Paper comes down. The Cheat reappears, floating through the sky further in the background and in the opposite direction.}

[edit] Easter Eggs

• After The Paper comes down, click on The Cheat as he floats by to hear Strong Sad say, 'I'm sad that he's flying.'

[edit] Fun Facts

[edit]Explanations

• The reason Strong Bad got a head rush (or neurological vertigo in scientific terms) was that the helium in the balloon momentarily replaced the oxygen normally carried to his brain.

[edit]Trivia

• This email marks the first appearance of Marzipan's new mouth movement style.
• This is also Marzipan's first appearance in a Strong Bad Email.
• The Cheat's appearance when he's inflated would seem to imply that he doesn't have any legs.
• This is the first email to have a clickable Easter egg at the end with a limited amount of time to activate it.
• When The Cheat is scrolled over to activate the Easter egg, he becomes slightly lighter as long as the cursor is over him.
• The YouTube description for this email is 'Strong Bad temporarily joins the high-voice crew with the help of leftover party balloon. The Cheat learns to fly!'

[edit]Goofs

• When Marzipan is talking to Homestar, her mouth uses a 'smiling' speech animation (corners are slanted upwards) while her static expression is a frown.
• A very thin line on the Tandy's shadow on the bottom left corner can be seen jutting out to the edge of the black border.

[edit]Inside References

• During the helium scene, a keg that reads 'melonade', which is the same keg from the old A Jumping Jack Contest cartoon, sits off to the side.
• The Strong Sad Easter egg is a reference to Main Page 15 ('I'm sad that I'm flying.').
• This is another appearance of Strong Mad smiling.
• Homestar mentions pork and beans.
• The Cheat flying in while Homestar was talking to Marzipan is another instance of interrupted conversations.

[edit]Real-World References

• 'Shaq' refers to then-NBA player Shaquille O'Neal.
• The Golden Girls was a popular sitcom about four elderly women that ran from 1985 to 1992.

[edit]Fast Forward

• Strong Mad manages to get a high-pitched voice by sucking up Bandwidth in isp.
• The Cheat also becomes inflated in an Easter egg in licensed, and there Homestar sings 'ugly bird' over and over.
• Pork and beans are mentioned in Arcade Game, business trip, and Flash is Dead!.

[edit]DVD Version

• Strong Sad automatically says, 'I'm sad that he's flying.'

[edit] External Links

• watch 'helium' on YouTube
• watch 'helium' on the old Flash site

Some books are a roller-coaster ride; the novel Helium is more a flickering hall of mirrors. After decades away, the novel’s narrator makes an exile’s trip back to a shining new India to see his ailing father (who may be faking) and to revisit his much altered homeland. In the years abroad, he has travelled the globe, to Mexico, Montreal, the United States, and Iceland, but his troubled heart is fixed on India circa 1984. That year, during a pogrom against Sikhs, the narrator’s beloved engineering professor was killed at the New Delhi train station; a mob doused him with gasoline and set him alight in front of his horrified students.

The novel argues that such acts of violence were not spontaneous, not simply bloody revenge for the killing of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards; the novel states that the killers were actively encouraged and orchestrated by well-known government officials and condoned by the police and authorities who, over a course of days, allowed mobs to maim and kill (blood for blood, the murderers cried).

The narrator, now a professor himself, is critical of the old British colonial regime in India and its crumbling remnants (“architecture as crime”), but he is even more vitriolic toward the new booming India and its post-colonial denial of old sins while new money flows to a lucky few.

“Our national genius, to make the poor defecate on the roadside,” a character complains over drinks. “Six hundred million don’t have proper toilets.” The same character complains that Mahatma Gandhi is held up as a loin-clothed poster boy for India’s image of peace and spirituality, nicely masking the massive violence and class conflict in India’s past and present.

“How ugly the collective consciousness of a nation can be,” the narrator thinks to himself, but does not say to his ex-wife, a translator who finds India “romantic.”

The narrator deems Indira Gandhi a hideous monster (the plane lands at the airport named after her) and Delhi is described as a wounded city, guilty of collective amnesia. Modern university buildings themselves are complicit, designed by “an architect who had erased the past” echoing the narrator’s disconnection from family and loved ones. The city is wounded and he has been wounded; psychological and historical are tied up, parents and leaders and family and nation are all connected.

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Our narrator, retracing a path home, is also on another quest, to the mountains of Shimla, in search of Nelly, his mentor’s wife who, vanished after his brutal death (the narrator was infatuated with her decades before). Yet another search hangs on whether his father, a high-profile police officer, was involved in the murderous pogroms that have so affected the son and Nelly. There is no easy ending; it is doubtful that father and son can be truly reconciled, but as the narrator says of the tectonics and geology of the Himalayas, “What holds things together is more important than what separates them.”

Jaspreet Singh’s writing always has an astute scientific side: Our narrator’s area of study is rheology, the study of flow, whether volcanic lava or money or memory or blood. In the years after the killing of his professor, the student attempts to estimate the speed with which fire engulfs the average human body, but cannot finish the calculations.

Helium is loaded with science, but it is also a very literary book. Primo Levi’s work on the death camps haunts these pages and small black-and-white photos are interspersed à la W.G. Sebald; there are mentions of Roberto Bolano, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell and the strange Russian film Stalker. The blur of genres reminds me of Michael Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter, and Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard seems a melancholy influence on the compelling voice.

Helium is not a laugh riot, it’s an angry accomplished work, and will be a controversial book in India, which should give it legs (I believe India has slightly more readers than Canada).

Decades after the pogroms, there are no memorials and no one has been punished; indeed, as on Wall Street, the guilty seem to be rewarded. Many want to move on and forget, but for the troubled narrator, the trauma and memory won’t go away. “The past had come like bitter drops of helium, but he didn’t know how to handle it; this helium was neither inert, nor invisible, nor light, and refused to disappear.”

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Silence around killings can be complicity. This is a noisy novel about silence.

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