Editing HomestarRunner.com: PAY PLUS!

[[Image:payplus_aprilfools2005.JPG|thumb|"Finally At Last!!!"]]

It's April Fool's day and&mdash;Oh no! HomestarRunner.com is now a subscription site!

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' [[Homestar Runner]], [[Senor Cardgage]], [[Strong Bad]], [[The Cheat]], [[Strong Sad]]'s head, [[Strong Mad]], [[Frank Bennedetto]], [[Sterrance]], [[Vector Strong Bad]], [[Stinkoman]], [[Rather Dashing]] ''{silhouetted}'', [[Eh! Steve]], [[The Wheelchair]], [[Prime Time]], [[Keyboard Strong Bad]], [[The Worm]], [[Sherlock]], [[Mr. Shmallow (character)|Mr. Shmallow]] ''{watermark}'', [[Cheerleader]], [[So and So]], [[What's Her Face]], [[The Ugly One]], [[The Man with the Huge Mouth]]

'''Places:''' [[The Field]], [[Strong Bad's Basement]], [[Computer Room]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]]

''' Date:''' April 1, 2005

'''Page Title:''' Finally At Last!!!
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== Transcript ==

===Page One===
<pre>HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!
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SIGN UP FOREVER!
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*The same content!
*More banner ads!
Free 7 second trial!!
Join now!
Subscriptions are the latest craze!
Loggin' (a login box)
Instant access!
Take the tour!</pre>

====Homestar's Seven Seconds====
''{Cue Homestar standing in a field. A timer counts up in the bottom left corner of the screen.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' One... two... three... four... fi-

''{The timer reaches seven; a buzzer goes off, and the words "TRIAL PERIOD OVER" pop up on the screen.}''

===Page Two===
<pre>The Email Show!
HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!
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WEBCAM CHAT WITH THE CREATORS OR SOMEONE ELSE!
Let's see a clip!
SHOW ME MORE, SIR!</pre>

====Strong Bad "Trap Door" Sample====

''{Cue Strong Bad sitting in front of his computer, flanked by the Cheat, who is holding a remote control.  Homestar is standing in front of Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right, the Cheat, let 'er rip!

''{The Cheat presses the button on the remote.  A square hole opens under Homestar's feet.  He falls about two feet and stops.''}

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Woo! That was fun!

'''STRONG BAD:''' The Cheat, I thought we were opting for the bottomless pit. ''{Homestar starts a little dance with his feet, stepping back and forth gracefully.}'' ... Not a two-foot pit!

'''THE CHEAT:''' [Says something in The Cheat, probably along the lines of "It's not ''my'' fault."]

''{Cut to the basement, where Strong Mad sits on the couch with Homestar's feet dancing on top of him.''}

'''STRONG MAD:''' I HAVE A FUNNY HAT!!!!

===Page Three===
<pre>There's more?? Why, yes. 
HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!
GEE-AMES!
Pay for play!!
Just pennies/pixel!
Members plus, fool!
Actual screenshots!
Fake boxes
HOURS OF STREAMING VIDEO GAME FEEDS
FREE SAMPLE GAME
"Sign Up Today Man"
1 player simultaneous
CHECK MARK!
Continue Free Tour!</pre>

The free sample game resembles Space Invaders with Stong Bad against an army of Homestars coming out of the sky.  The Cheat periodically falls from top to bottom but doesn't do much.  Trying to play the game is difficult because the screen continually flashes the message "TRIAL VERSION", locking the game controls.

===Page Four===
<pre>HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!
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A New Episode Each Week!
Meet Eh! Steve!'s Lawyer!
Win a chance to have lunch with the Worm-type character!

teenage girl show!
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More humor! Finer dining!
See the unaired pilot, the holiday special, and the 'everybody dies' episodes!

And also, too:
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Powered by The Cheat-athons!
Senor Cardgage Wednesdays
Mr. Shmallow's Webcam

Extra free sample here!
On the Tour?</pre>

====Teen Girl Squad Sample====

''{Cheerleader, So and So, and The Ugly One are standing around. Cheerleader's shirt reads "sperld rott'n".}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' That stupid wheelchair kid asked me to the Friday Night Dance! But I'm going with Steven!

''{Enter Eh! Steve!, wearing a football uniform with the number nine}''

'''CHEERLEADER:''' ''{speech bubble fills with hearts}'' Hey, Steven!

'''EH! STEVE:''' Eh! Steve!

''{Cut to Wheelchair}''

'''WHEELCHAIR:''' I'll teach you to steal my date, Eh! Steve! I'm gonna come outta my shell at the Friday Night Dance and show everybody who's whooooooooooo!

''{The Man with the Huge Mouth, with fairy wings, a tutu and a wand, enters and changes the Wheelchair into a realistic drawing of a wheelchair.}''

'''MAN WITH THE HUGE MOUTH:''' GOOD DRAWINGED!

'''WHEELCHAIR:''' I'm a real boy!

''{Cut to the "It's Over!" splash screen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{narrating}'' It's over!

===Page Five===
<pre>View Shopping Cart
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===Page Six===
<pre>Thank you for your order.
You will receive your package
in 6-8 weeks.</pre>

== Fun Facts == 
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=== Explanations ===
*The entire April Fool's site is a parody of the preview pages on many pay-sites on the Internet: the trial videos, the free tour that ends with a sign-up page, the tacky design and layout, and the "streaming video game feeds" all mimic said pages.
*The content of the preview pages is terribly misleading, which is an issue with actual pay sites.
*A recent trend for Internet entertainment sites, especially game sites, is to be free for a few years, and then the owners initiate a pay-to-play policy.  Perhaps this April Fool's joke was done so the HomestarRunner site would fit the trend.

=== Trivia===
*When the page was first released, the navigation buttons at the bottom of the page weren't there, like [[Under Construction]].
*After the false message about 6 to 8 weeks delivery, the page always directs you to [[Main Page 19]], The Show.
*Pressing '7' on the keyboard (or the numeric keypad) during the trial game will toggle the gray 'TRIAL VERSION' message. If it's onscreen, it will vanish. If it's not onscreen, it will appear. Holding down the 7 key rapidly toggles the message on and off. The 7 key has no effect at any other time.
*The screenshots on the first page show: 
**Senor Cardgage showing a pie chart to Homestar, dressed in his pajamas and robe from [[caper]]
**Strong Bad with the [[Lappy 486]] as The Cheat serves him Strong Sad's head on a platter.
**Strong Mad on [[The Couch]] wearing Homestar's Homestarmy bowl, next to Frank Bennedetto.
*The screenshots on the second page show:
**Strong Bad at the [[Tandy 400]] with Sterrance (from [[animal]]) in the foreground.
**Strong Bad destroying a city (à la [[Wikipedia:Godzilla|Godzilla]]).
**Strong Bad in front of [[Bubs' Concession Stand]], which has gained [[Bubs]]' eyes and mouth.
*The third page has:
**A screenshot from [[StrongBadZone]] with the quote "A SPLODE IS A LOT".
**The boxes for the [[Videlectrix]] games [[Planet, Alert!]] and [[Spaceshipper]].
**The sprite of Stinkoman from [[Stinkoman 20X6]].
**A screenshot from [[RhinoFeeder]].
**A screenshot from the Videlectrix game [[Rabbit Algebra]].

=== Remarks ===
*None of the screenshots on the first two pages are from actual toons or emails. The StrongBadZone screenshot contains a quote not found in the game.
*Strong Bad is seen with the [[Tandy 400]] in one of the screenshots, with Sterrance from the email [[animal]] even though that was a [[Lappy 486]] era email.
*The answer to the math problem in the game screenshot is x = ±4.
*Saying that a new Sweet Cuppin' Cakes episode will come out every week pokes fun at the fact that Sweet Cuppin' Cakes almost never gets any new episodes.
*The 7 second trial goes past 7 seconds. It goes to 7.15 seconds.
*Except for the buttons and movie clips, all content featured on this toon are JPEGs.

===Goofs===
*Pressing the back button while watching the "Let's see a clip!" preview on page 2 will not make the Clip close, but it does close if you go back to page 2.  This does not work if you hit "Show me more, sir!" or on any other of the previews.
*In the 7 second trial (which is actually 7.15 seconds long, according to counter), the counter in the corner is counting by seconds and then 60ths of seconds. If you watch it frame by frame in the swf. file, you can see the decimal counter is going at 5 60ths of a second per frame, which means the decimal goes up by 5 every frame. At the end of any second, the counter does not go from 55 to 0, it goes from 55 to 60, and then to 65, and then to 10.
*In Strong Bad's trap door clip, the trap door leads down to the sofa/tv room, but in the Strong Bad e-mail called [[morning routine]], Strong Bad wakes up in that room and walks off the right side of the screen and is then in his e-mail room.
*On the "The Email Show" page, in the middle of the screen, [[Strong Bad]]'s eyes are a much lighter shade of green and have lost the shadow on the tops of his eyes.

=== Inside References ===
*When your ship is destroyed in the trial game, the message "YOUR HEAD A SPLODE" appears, with "head" changing to "ship" a split-second later. This is an obvious reference to [[StrongBadZone]].
*All the sprites in the trial game come from the secret games on [[Strong Bad's Message Bored]].
*The "cred" card shown on page five belongs to [[Lem Sportsinterviews]], who is a member of the [[Superfied Credit Union]]. This is a reference to the [[credit card]] email and to the [[Downloads]] page.
*Strong Sad's head may be a reference to the [[Fan Costume Commentary]].

=== Real-World References ===
*The trial game is a [[wikipedia:Space_invaders|Space Invaders]] clone.
*"I'm a real boy!" is an obvious reference to [[Wikipedia:Pinnochio|Pinocchio]], a wooden puppet who was turned "real" and made a similar remark in at least one version of the story.
*"I'll teach you to steal my date, Eh! Steve! I'm gonna come outta my shell at the Friday Night Dance and show everybody who's who!" and the #9 jersey are references to the movie [[IMDB:tt0112368|Angus]].

==External Links==
*[[HR:payplus.html|View "PAY PLUS!"]]
*[[HR:payplus2.swf|View the Flash file for "PAY PLUS!"]]
*View the component flash files for:
**[[HR:7seconds.swf|Homestar's Seven Seconds]]
**[[HR:sbsample.swf|Strong Bad "Trap Door" Sample]]
**[[HR:SevenSecondTrialGame.swf|Seven Second Trial Game "Homestar Invaders"]]
**[[HR:tgsample.swf|Teen Girl Squad Sample]]

[[Category:April Fools]][[Category:Homestar Runner Filmography]][[Category:Strong Bad Filmography]][[Category:The Cheat Filmography]][[Category:Strong Mad Filmography]][[Category:Cheerleader Filmography]][[Category:So and So Filmography]][[Category:The Ugly One Filmography]][[Category:Eh! Steve Filmography]][[Category:Teen Girl Squad]][[Category:Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]]