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Strong Bad Email #118
Strong Bad experiences some "technical difficulties" with Compy 386...and the rest of the Homestar Runner universe.
Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Virus, Strong Sad, Coach Z (Easter egg) Homestar Runner, Strong Mad, Marzipan, The Poopsmith, The King of Town, The Ugly One, Bubs, The Cheat, Rather Dashing, Fightgar (Easter egg)
Date: November 15, 2004
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Fun Facts
Trivia
- This is the only email in which the navigation bar and the email are combined into one flash file (so that Homestar can grab the words).
- The broken JPEG is from Mozilla Firefox.
Remarks
- Edgar the Virus Hunter is said to have been written in 1982, a year before the first documented experimental virus was created. Although there are conflicting accounts as to when the first virus was made, it would pretty much be impossible for a virus scanner to have existed in 1982.
- The letters that make up ASCII Marzipan refer to parts of her body: "E" for eyes, "f" for face, "h" for hair, and "d" for dress.
- Strong Bad says that Edgar from the Edgarware program is his "main man." However, he claims in "2 years" that his main man "is, and has been since 1987, Van Mundegaarde."
- The reason the "making out with Marzipan" pop-up doesn't come up in the .swf, or Flash, version is because the information for the pop-up is stored in the HTML source code. All that the Flash file does is to send a JavaScript command to the browser, opening the pop-up window.
- In the Fake QOD, the words "Quote of the Day (Or So)" are displayed reversed, as though in a mirror, and, instead of "Hear It!" and "Get It!", the buttons are "Hear It!" and "Don't TAPE It", although the latter is hidden by the top of the screen.
Goofs
- While the liquid is leaking out of the screen, the contrast buttons are still clickable and make the back of the screen turn blue.
- After Homestar grabs Downloads, Characters, and Games, Toons is no longer clickable.
Glitches
- If you click "main" on the navigation bar, it takes you to a 404 error. The address is http://www.homestarrunner.com/mainNaN.html. NaN is the computer term for Not a Number, which is obtained in some environments by dividing zero by zero, and/or other mathematical errors.
Inside References
- "FLAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR" comes from "50 emails" (where, in turn, it was similar to the Windows Blue Screen of Death). His response that it's not a "good prize" comes from "Pumpkin Carve-nival".
- The "good prize" comment might also be in response to his setting a new record for the number of viruses, and he was "rewarded" with Flagrant System Error.
- "Stave it off, 1, 2, 3..." is the counting song from the Strong Bad E-mail "for kids".
- The card that Strong Sad transforms into is from the original deck of Character Cards that has since been removed from the site.
- The pixelated broom induced by the glitched Quote of the Day is the same graphic used in Peasant's Quest for the broom the baby knocks over to let you into Naked Ned's cottage.
- "Making out with Marzipan is totally awesome" was once the phrase necessary to trigger the Strong Bad Talker from the Homestar Talker. (It has since been changed.) The sound clips for the words were also taken from the Homestar Talker. The first four words of the phrase are also heard in "The Cheat Theme Song".
- Strong Bad screaming and pounding on the edge of the screen while the popups are appearing could be a reference to Where the Crap Are We?.
- Strong Mad's description, which appears when he glitches, comes from the Yearbook Character Page, as does the picture of him inside a giant M.
- When Bubs' mouth is a broken JPEG, it has the letters "TH." This might be referencing his other identity, The Thnikkaman.
- The scene with The Ugly One and the King of Town has sounds from Rhinofeeder. (Also, 3.14159265 and the rest is a reference to the value of pi.)
- The Ugly One's line and the sound effects played after it come from The Cheat's cartoon in "crazy cartoon". (However, she slightly misquotes it: she should say "I will do it nine times", not "I can do it nine times".)
- As Bubs is walking across the screen the first time, his left and right arms are moving as if stuck in positons #4 and #5 (respectively) in the Dancin' Bubs game.
- During the big glitch scene right before Bubs "fixes" the computer, we can hear the song from the intro of "Parsnips-A-Plenty" and "That a Ghost".
- "With Marzipan's radish, we gonna win the competition!" is a sound clip from The Reddest Radish.
- The powering-down sound clip that plays when the "It's now safe to turn your computer off" message appears (just before the Compy 386 is destroyed) is the same sound that plays just before the Tandy 400 explodes in gimmicks
- The fan and cog in the Compy 386 are the same fan and cog that were visible when the Tandy 400 exploded.
- Bubs sells the broken Compy 386 as he does with the broken Tandy 400.
- The cloud background during the scene where Strong Bad says "With Marzipan's raddish, we gonna win the competition!" is the same cloud background in a Powered By The Cheat flash: "New Boots".
- During the final distorted scene, The Cheat is on a rotation of six different versions of himself:
- 1. The Awexome Cross version.
- 2: One that looks like one of The Cheat's styles from "The Cheat Theme Song".
- 3: A drawn version, from "The Reddest Radish".
- 4: Another drawn version from Strong Bad's site.
- 5: A far more pixellated version of him, with a thin black outline around it.
- 6: And a Cheat x-ing sign, much like the similar signs seen in the "fan stuff" part of the Museum.
Real-World References
- "Linux" is a Free Unix-like kernel originally written in 1991, or part of an entire operating system which uses this kernel ("GNU/Linux").
- Edgarware is a spoof of Norton Anti-Virus, which also uses a generic-looking bespectacled computer nerd as a front man.
- The Floppy Disk Container on Strong Bad's desk is labeled "Spy vs. Spy" before it melts into the desk. Spy vs. Spy, based on the feature comic of MAD Magazine, was a game for old computers and the NES that featured innovative split screen gameplay.
- The part where Homestar is followed by "ghost" images of himself is a Flash in-joke, referring to the onion-skinning feature of the program that will display translucent images of previous frames as an animation guide.
- "Click on the monkey" refers to various popups where if you click said object (ranging from targets to robbers, iPods, etc.), your computer will usually get bombarded with spyware, viruses, etc.
- When Strong Bad says, "Let's do a dance for the computer genius man," it looks like The Cheat starts doing Dana Carvey's "Church Lady" dance from the classic SNL sketch.
- "Bourgeoise," one of the emoticons acting as Strong Sad's head is the term used in Marxism to describe the upper or middle class that opposed the proletariat in the class struggle.
Fast-Forward
- Near the end of the cartoon, when it says "It's now safe to turn your computer off," the font is the same as the Lappy 486, which Strong Bad buys in the next e-mail, animal.
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See Also
External Links
- watch "virus"
- view the flash file for "virus"
- view the "click the monkey" popup
- view the flash file for the "click the monkey" popup
- view the flash file for the "fake QOD"
- view the flash file for the "fake fanstuff"
- view the flash file for the "fake sketchbook"
- forum thread re: "virus"
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