Hagurumon Emails/oddities
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Noxigar wonders what's up with Nick vanishing and un-vanishing in odd ways all the time. Nick sets out on a quest to get Super Sam to watch Bonus Stage.
Cast: Nick, two hippies, Thom, Waylon
Places: Nick's Bedroom, Macen's Living Room, Nick's Hostage Room
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[edit] Transcript
NICK: Today on Hagurumon Emails, I fix the time machine, allowing me to travel into other webtoons! And then I go shopping again, I guess.
subject: oddities Oh, Hello! I seem to notice you of all people have some odd way of leaving then coming back. What do you do? Also, I dare you to get Super Sam to watch all 89 episodes of Bonus Stage in a row. Crapfully yours, Noxigar, No. 0 in Organization XIII
NICK: My odd ways of leaving are indeed odd. I have vanished and un-vanished many, many times. I mostly blame it on my evil alter-ego, Akagi, whose name I recently learned how to pronounce correctly. Like this one time...
{Cut to Nick standing between two random unnamed hippies.}
HIPPIE #1: So are you a vegetarian or a vegan?
HIPPIE #2: I try to avoid all animal products. Stop killing minks to make fur coats! ...and, uh, cars.
{Nick raises his finger to speak, but is interrupted.}
HIPPIE #1: I'd have to disagree with you. While we don't want to kill innocent animals, it's okay to like, drink milk and things like that.
HIPPIE #2: But they hook those poor cows up to machines.
HIPPIE #1: Really? I wasn't aware of such travesty!
{Nick, very confused, slides down slowly to the bottom of the screen until he is completely off-camera. Then we pan down to see him doing a split down on the ground.}
NICK: ...I can't get up...
{Cut back to Nick/Hagurumon/Akagi/whatev at his laptop.}
NICK: And even though I tend to vanish a lot, I know I still do drop in sometimes, maybe doing a little wiki editing, lurking in the shadows and stuff. But, um, what's this aboot a dare? I'm not too familiar with this Super Sam guy, but I have heard of him and seen his name aroond the wiki. Let me guess... he hates Bonus Stage or something? Hmm, I'm used to such things. My friends Thom and Waylon are also Bonus Stage-haters. I definitely do not approve of it, but what can I do? It's not like I can hit them over the head and make their brain hit the inside of their skull, knocking them out and causing a contrecoup, then tie them to a chair and force them to watch the big screen in front of them that shows Bonus Stage episodes non-stop. No, because I'm usually the non-violent type. I have more subliminal ways to advertise Bonus Stage. Stare into my ways for as long as you can.
{Cut to Thom and Waylon sitting on the couch, watching TV.}
THOM: If you ask me, Heroes would be a lot better if the cheerleader was Asian.
WAYLON: What's wrong with you? The show already has an Asian guy.
THOM: Yeah, one.
WAYLON: Well, what about the other dude that hangs out with him?
THOM: He doesn't have any powers, so it doesn't count.
{Nick pops up from behind the couch and hits them both over the head.}
THOM: Ow, that didn't hurt at all!
WAYLON: No, it didn't. Seriously, Nick. Lift weights or something.
NICK: Aw, come on! I wanna knock you out so I can tie you to a chair and force you to watch Bonus Stage!
WAYLON: Why don't you just... like... tie us to a chair without knocking us out?
NICK: Oh, whatever.
{Cut to Thom and Waylon tied to chairs in a mostly-empty room.}
THOM: ...and then I found a broken calculator lying on the road.
WAYLON: Uh-huh.
THOM: So I picked it up and then I somehow found myself next to Joel from Bonus Stage.
WAYLON: Wow.
THOM: And he was trying to shoot me with some laser pistol.
{Cut to Nick standing in front of a huge television screen and holding a remote.}
NICK: Well, have fun watching High Score and Bonus Stage for over nine hours!
{Nick presses a button on the remote, then leaves. The opening credits to High Score play on the screen.}
THOM: {when Joel appears} AGH! IT'S HIM! THE HORROR!
{Cut to Nick at the laptop.}
NICK: Well, I managed to get Thom and Waylon to watch. Now, as for that Super Sam guy, perhaps we could round up a bunch of Bonus Stage fans and flood his wiki talk page with subliminal messages. Except...we'd probably all get banned. Eh, someday I think of a way... someday...
{The Paper comes down.}
NICK: What the crap? What're you doing here? This is not Strong Bad Email! This is Hagurumon Email! Exclamation point!
{The Paper goes back up.}
NICK: Geez... what in the blue blazes, man.
[edit] Fun Facts
[edit] Trivia
- I recently learned quite a bit aboot the pronunciation of Japanese words, thanks to my best friend forever in the universe ever, the awesome Mandy.
- In the previous email, return, at the very end, Nick mentions that he wants to use the word "contrecoup" in a sentence. He succeeds in his goal in this email.
[edit] Explanations
- A contrecoup is a bruising of the brain caused when a blow to the head knocks the brain into the skull. This is one of the many things TMBG has taught me.
[edit] Inside References
- Going shopping "again" refers to shirt.
- The "broken calculator" that Thom finds is the time machine from telegram. It is going to be re-introduced very soon.
[edit] Real-World References
- The plot that Nick mentioned in the intro is a combination of the three storylines from Bonus Stage episodes 85 and 86, in which Joel travels to other webtoons to stop Evil, Phil uses the time machine to mess with stuff, and Craig goes to the stores.
- They Might Be Giants' eighth album is called Mink Car, thus the comment from the second hippie concerning minks being killed to make cars.
- The camera panning down to see Nick doing a split is similar to Bonus Stage episode 25, in which Joel vanishes, but is seen squatting low to the ground when the camera pans down.
- "I have more subliminal ways to advertise Bonus Stage. Stare into my ways for as long as you can." is a reference to the They Might Be Giants song Subliminal, in which the line "Stare into the subliminal for as long as you can" is repeated near the end.
- Heroes is a TV show aboot some people with superpowers trying to save some cheerleader or something. Which doesn't really make any sense, because the cheerleader can heal herself. Also, there's an Asian guy, whom Thom and Waylon mention, that can freeze time.
