Editing April Fools' 2006

[[Image:Intro decision page flipped.png|thumb|Which way is up again?]]
On '''[[Wikipedia:April Fool's Day|April Fool's Day]] 2006''', [[The Brothers Chaps]] flipped the site upside down.
==Fun Facts==
===Remarks===
*The following pages/sites were exempt from the flipping because they are hosted separately from the main H*R content or are not Flash files:
**[[Strong Bad's Website]]
**[[Store]] and [[Store Thank You Messages]]
**[[Legal]]
**[[Strong Sad's Lament]]
**[[Stinkoman 20X6]]
***Note that if you try to [http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipper.swf?contentURL=stinkogame/v7/stinkogame.swf flip Stinkoman 20X6], the "[[Stinkoman 20X6 Trivia#General|no Flash 7]]" warning appears.
**[[Podstar Runner]]
**All the stuff in [[Museum]].
*Seek bars did not work with the flipped toons.
*Amusingly, this made [[Homsar]]'s character page [http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipper.swf?contentURL=vcr_homsar.swf right-side up].
:*A [http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipper.swf?contentURL=main8.swf similar occurance occured with Main Page 8]
*This was the first April Fool's Day Prank that is not archived in the [[Holidays|Holiday]] section of the toons menu.
*Unlike the [[:Category:April Fools|pranks]] before it, this affected the entire Homestar Runner website. In previous pranks the main page was replaced, but if you went to an email or 'toon, it would be unaffected.

===Glitches===
*Several toons that are not the usual 550x400 resolution were not centered properly:
**[[virus]]
***This email also suffered from its custom navbar missing, so Homestar pulled his words from nowhere.
**[[Not the 100th Email!!!]]
**[[Handheld Games Menu]]
**[[flashback]] and [[Main Page 22]] were both correct, as they used their own flipper swf files, which handled the different size.
*Some pages had invisible or missing text:
**[[Under Construction]]
**[[Main Page 18]] (No HTML text in the "Store" effect.)
*In [[highschool]], the "m." on Young Strong Mad's shirt was missing.
*[[TROGDOR!]] didn't load up properly - the game itself took up only the bottom right quarter of the usual frame, and the rest was filled in with gray.
*Many buttons and other scripts on some of the site did not work, as they use the <code>_root</code> property in ActionScript to access the main scene of the Flash file. However, with the flipper file loading the main scene, <code>_root</code> actually referred to the ''flipper'', not the scene itself. The Brothers Chaps could have gotten around this by using the <code>[http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=00001522.html _lockroot]</code> property in the flipper, but it seems they didn't know about it (probably because they still use Flash 5, in which the _lockroot property doesn't exist).
**The Eject button on the [[Character Videos | Characters page]] (which normally makes Homsar's video come out of the VCR) did nothing.
**[[Edgar#Edgar's Baby's Daddy|Edgar's Baby's Daddy]] on [[candy product]] did not appear. Neither did the [[Old-Timey]] Easter egg in [[little animal]].
**In [[interview]], you could not change the pictures on the [[Sticky Notes]] or play with [[The Cheat's Lightswitch]]
**In [[Duck Pond]], the hand never moved when it threw bread, and the ducks never ate what was thrown.
**The video clips in [[HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!]] repeated themselves automatically.
**The [[Random Toon|rando]] link on the navbar did not work.
**[[The King of Town DVD]], [[King of Town Main Page]] and anything linked from there looped at the end instead of stopping.   
***Additionally, [[Revenge of the King]] seems to have had a similar fate to TROGDOR! (with the broken screen), except you could not hurt The King of Town, nor did he shoot at you. The timer also didn't work.
**On the [[Decemberween Email Menu]], none of the Easter eggs worked.
**The buttons on [[Downloads]] didn't work.
**The [[Telebision Toons Menu]] didn't work.
**On any [[Strong Bad Email]]s featuring the [[Tandy 400]] or the [[Compy 386]], the contrast buttons didn't work. This includes the Easter eggs in [[gimmicks]]. The ripples on the [[Lappy 486]] appeared and disappeared much faster than normal, and did not stay if the mouse button was held down.
**In any of the [[Strong Bad's Message Bored]] Games, none of them worked right. There was no possible way to score on any of them.
**In [[First Time Here?]], the number of takes never changed; the clapperboard always read "Roll 1, Scene 1, Take 1".
**The [[Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer]]s never loaded.
**The number of messages on [[Marzipan's Answering Machine]] never changed.
*In [[Peasant's Quest]], Trogdor's voice didn't work.
**When the [[Kerrek]] is encountered, his tune did not play.
**Trying to kill [[Poor Gary]] proved unsuccessful.
*It seems that the text in the Quote of the Week wasn't bold, like before the 'flip'.
*Nothing in the [[Handheld Games Menu]] (except for [[Homestar Quiz]]), including itself, was fully playable.
**None of the buttons in the actual menu worked (except for "new games").
**None of the buttons in [[Dancin' Bubs]] worked.
**[[Homestar Talker]] did not lay out stars for each correct word, and never progressed to the Strong Bad Talker.
**Nothing but the bongos in [[Audition With Marzipan]] were playable.
**[[Bronco Trolleys]] was broken; you could click the "Play" button, but the timer didn't work and the ingredients were missing.
**Neither the text boxes nor the finished libs worked in [[Strong Libs]].
**[[Hairstyle Runner]] was playable, but many things were not visible because the top frame was off-center.
**The fortune cookies in [[Fortune Cookies]] did not work.
**The [[Spin and Say]] did not spin.
**The buttons on the [[Astro Lite]] didn't work.
*Although the [[Main Pages]] rollover effects were mostly fixed, some issues remained:
**[[Main Page 3]]: Homestar wasn't knocked back by the coconut for "Email".
**[[Main Page 8]]: The screen kept moving on "Characters".
**[[Main Page 10]]: [[The Homestar Runner]]'s body didn't expand when the bomb explodes after "Downloads".
**[[Main Page 16]]: The entire menu still didn't work properly. In fact, two versions of the copyright notice appeared at the "top" of the screen, and the trees in the background were light blue. This issue remained briefly after the revert, but was fixed soon afterwards.
**[[Main Page 18]]: On "Games", [[Sherlock]] did not mumble to himself. On "Store", the background "opened" and "closed" faster than usual, with no sound effects and no HTML behind it. These issues also remained after the prank ended, and have not yet been fixed.
**[[Main Page 22]]: The "What's New", "Weeklies", and "Main Pages" buttons appeared in their normal positions and orientations (though it's possible that it was left that way on purpose, given the theme of the page), and the partial scene from [[Peasant's Quest]] did not come in from the side.
**[[Main Page 23]]: Homestar didn't move his lips for "Toons" and didn't reply with "'Sup" for "Store". Also, the "What's New" and "Weeklies" were missing.
**[[Homsar Main Page]]: None of the effects worked, except a few bubbles appearing on "Toons".
<!-- DO NOT ADD Strong Bad's Room Main Page, as it cannot be accessed without using the unflipped swf file, and this is already noted -->
*[[Awexome Cross 98]]: When you lost all your lives, the game froze and you saw [[The Cheat]] spinning in the tire, but the background stayed still.
*The Storyboards and Deleted Scenes in "In Search of The Yellow Dello" did not work.
*When the pages were fixed early on the morning of April 2nd, the Main Page Navigation Bar fix was not initially repaired, leaving the main page right-side up, but the News button and Main Page numbers flipped.
*The musical t-shirts from the [[Store]] were put in a upside down box at the bottom of the page with its light blue background as a border.

===Fixed Glitches===
[[Image:Main 16 from 2001.PNG|thumb|[[Main Page 16]]: Looking into the past?]]
* Originally, the "What's new" button on the main pages did not appear in the correct location and was right-side up. This was fixed shortly after the "feature's" release.
* The [[Strong Bad Email]] menu originally did not list any emails. This was also fixed.
* The Weeklies popups originally appeared right-side up, but were later fixed so that they would appear flipped like the rest of the site.
* Many of the rollover button effects on the Main Pages didn't work. In most cases, the speaker simply said the name of the button that is hovered over (without moving his lips) and no visual effects or other sounds would occur. This was later fixed.
* On [[Main Page 22]], the word "games" was not there. This was fixed later in the day.
* After the orientation reset on April 2, [[Main Page 16]] had a copyright date of 2001 overlaying the regular copyright notice. Homestar's scarf was missing, as were some trees in the background, suggesting that certain elements of the main page were from an older version. Homestar would still speak as normal, but no triggered animations would happen other than mouth movements and a visible wisp of Homestar's breath.

===Real-World References===
*The Flash file that causes the pages to be flipped contains the phrase "They call him Flipper", which is one of the lyrics to the [[Wikipedia:Flipper (1964 television)|Flipper]] theme song.

==External Links==
*[http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipper.swf?contentURL=welcome.swf View the Flash file for the flipped opening page]
**This is an example... everything other than the exceptions below used this style of URL. Replace the part after <code>contentURL=</code> with the flash file of the toon you want to flip.
*Several toons with different sizes have their own flash file to compensate:
**[http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperMainNav.swf?contentURL=main_nav.swf View the Flash file for the flipped navbar]
**[http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperToons.swf?contentURL=tvguide.swf View the Flash file for the flipped Toons Menu]
**[http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperGames.swf?contentURL=gamesmenu_new.swf View the Flash file for the flipped Games Menu]
**[http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperPayPlus.swf?contentURL=payplus2.swf View the Flash file for the flipped HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!]
**[http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperVirusMain.swf?contentURL=main22.swf View the Flash file for the flipped Main Page 22]
**[http://www.homestarrunner.com/theyCallHimFlipperHundred.swf?contentURL=sbemailahundred.swf View the Flash file for the flipped flashback]
*[[Forum:7608|Forum thread Re: April Fool's 2006]]
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