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- | [[Image:Shotgunned menu.png|thumb|250px|"What kinda shady Bubs business you running here anyways | + | [[Image:Shotgunned menu.png|thumb|250px|"What kinda shady Bubs business you running here anyways?"]] |
- | + | <blockquote>'''''Strong Bad:''' You're a shady, shady character Bubs.''<br> | |
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[[Bubs]] has been known to engage in all forms of '''shady, crooked, and sometimes downright illegal business practices''', from simple overpricing to trading in stolen organs. | [[Bubs]] has been known to engage in all forms of '''shady, crooked, and sometimes downright illegal business practices''', from simple overpricing to trading in stolen organs. | ||
==Bait and Switch== | ==Bait and Switch== | ||
- | *Email [[different town]] | + | *Email [[different town]] — [[Strong Bad]] imagines that Bubs would use ''imitation'' [[chocolate]] for his [[Bubs's Flamethrowers|flamethrowers]] that shoot chocolate hundred-dollar bills. |
- | *Email [[theme park]] | + | *Email [[theme park]] — Bubs tells [[Pom Pom]] that he can only win prizes if he gets the rings '''inside''' the [[Xtra Cold Ones]] bottle after Pom Pom flawlessly threw three rings over it. |
- | *[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]] | + | *[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]] — When [[Homestar Runner|Homestar]] asks how much Bubs' stirring utensils cost, Bubs says that "they're free, but you gotta ''earn'' 'em!" Homestar says, "That doesn't sound free at all," which Bubs replies with, "Well you just gotta ''earn '' 'em." |
- | *Email [[looking old]] | + | *Email [[looking old]] — A sign at the stand says "<s>1</s>0% OFF ALL iTems!" |
- | *[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 15.2]] | + | *[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 15.2]] — Bubs offers 10% off at [[Bubs' Concession Stand|the concession stand]] and immediately follows it with the disclaimer "discount will not be honored". |
- | *[[Most in the Graveyard]] | + | *[[Most in the Graveyard]] — Bubs admires his great-great-grandpappy's cousin Harold who "discovered the bait and switch". |
- | *[[Donut Unto Others]] | + | *[[Donut Unto Others]] — Bubs claims his [[doughnuts]] fight cavities and clean teeth before quickly adding "The American Dental Association does not approve the preceding statement." |
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+ | ==Copyright Infringement== | ||
+ | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] — Bubs hints that his [[black market]] sells pirated DVDs. | ||
==Counterfeiting== | ==Counterfeiting== | ||
- | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] | + | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] — Bubs implies that his black market sells fake IDs. |
==Debt Evasion== | ==Debt Evasion== | ||
- | *Email [[lackey]] | + | *Email [[lackey]] — Bubs slams the shutters when Strong Bad with [[Doreauxgard]] pretends to be from the collection agency. |
==Defective and Substandard Goods== | ==Defective and Substandard Goods== | ||
- | *Email [[12:00]] | + | *Email [[12:00]] — Bubs, hired to make the clock on Strong Bad's [[VCR]] work, instead [[duct tape]]s an [[Clock Radio|alarm clock]] to the top (after first attempting to duct tape [[The Cheat]] to it). |
- | *[[King of | + | *[[King of Town Email]] — According to the page title, Bubs sold the broken [[Tandy 400]] to [[The King of Town]] for $900 and that it's "slightly not-working". |
- | + | *Email [[virus]] — Bubs puts the "slightly shotgunned" and "like used" [[Compy 386]] up for sale. | |
- | *Email [[virus]] | + | *[[Homestar Presents: Presents]] — Bubs has a rusty steak knife in his box of 'aught four [[crap]]. |
- | *[[Homestar Presents: Presents]] | + | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] — Bubs sells Strong Bad a defective Strong Bad miniature. |
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==Embezzlement== | ==Embezzlement== | ||
- | *[[Strong Sad's Lament]] | + | *[[Strong Sad's Lament]] — Bubs's new year resolution is to stop embezzling money from himself. |
- | *[[Ever and More]] | + | *[[Ever and More!]] — [[Homestar]] asks Bubs to talk about "shiny new ways to misappropriate funds". Bubs then proceeds to describe buying a [[WetSki|Jet Ski]] with the [[Broternal Order of Different Helmets]]'s money, crashed and broke his shin, and began spending $50 a tube on [[BUBRUB!|rubbing ointment]]. |
- | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] | + | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] — Bubs says that [[Blatant lies|he is definitely not embezzling thousands of dollars]] from [[Club Technochocolate]]. |
- | *[[Baddest of the Bands]] | + | *[[Baddest of the Bands]] — Bubs casually mutters that he's skimming 10% of the profits of the battle of the bands behind Strong Bad's back. |
==Evidence Tampering== | ==Evidence Tampering== | ||
- | *[[Bug In Mouth Disease]] | + | *[[Bug In Mouth Disease]] — When Homestar approaches, Bubs is burning an envelope labeled "Exhibit A" and later tries to sell him a pancreas contained in a box labeled "Exhibit B". |
- | *[[DNA Evidence]] | + | *[[DNA Evidence]] — Bubs sells [[Marzipan]]'s DNA evidence to Strong Bad in a [[snow cone]], and returns to her a test tube labeled "tampered with". |
- | *Email [[buried]] | + | *Email [[buried]] — Bubs buries "in'''toxic'''atingly good" waste in [[Strong Badia]] and has apparently buried "a fella named Rich" in the past. |
- | *[[I Killed Pom Pom]] | + | *[[I Killed Pom Pom]] — Bubs sells Homestar a 50 gallon drum of bleach, a 50 gallon drum of sawblades, and a 50 gallon drum of bodybags, in order to destroy the evidence of him "killing Pom Pom". |
==False Advertising== | ==False Advertising== | ||
- | *Email [[unused emails]] | + | *Email [[unused emails]] — The Free Weekly Spamvertisement promotes Scotch Tape, ketchup, and three bean salad as herbal supplements. |
- | *[[Broken Compy Menu]] | + | *[[Broken Compy Menu]] — Bubs sells the shotgunned [[Compy 386]] to Homestar saying it's a low-priced automobile. |
- | *Email [[technology]] | + | *Email [[technology]] — Bubs sells "wireless extension cords" and stresses that they're "[[Allegedly Real Things|existent]]". |
- | *[[Happy Hallow-day]] | + | *[[Happy Hallow-day]] — Bubs advertises black spray-paint as spray-on Halloween night, sunglasses as Halloween night-vision goggles and "Hollerin' Jimmy's Hovercraft Kit" as a "Halloween Night hovercraft kit". |
- | *Email [[the chair]] | + | *Email [[the chair]] — Bubs tries to sell a box of chicken beaks and a Winger album as chairs. |
- | *[[Ever and More]] | + | *[[Ever and More!]] — Bubs sells the minutes of The [[Broternal Order of Different Helmets]]'s last meeting to [[Homsar|third world countries]] as rollover minutes. |
- | *[[Quality Time | + | *[[Quality Time]] — Bubs sells Marzipan [[eggs]] as "[[organic]] [[batteries]]". |
- | *[[Donut Unto Others]] | + | *[[Donut Unto Others]] — Bubs lies about the teeth-cleaning and cavity-fighting abilities of his donuts. He also says that he has them made in a third world country named "Homemáde" so he can legally print "from homemade" on the package. |
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==Fraud== | ==Fraud== | ||
- | *[[Donut Unto Others]] | + | *[[Donut Unto Others]] — Bubs has apparently sold Homestar "[[Questionable Services|questionable medical coverage]]". |
==Hacking== | ==Hacking== | ||
- | *[[8-Bit is Enough]] | + | *[[8-Bit is Enough]] — Bubs bypasses the region locking on Strong Bad's [[TROGDOR!]] arcade machine. |
==Harmful Goods== | ==Harmful Goods== | ||
- | *[[The Best Decemberween Ever]] | + | *[[The Best Decemberween Ever]] — Bubs has a [[Strong Sad]] voodoo doll on sale, which even Homestar questions. |
- | *[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 7.0]] | + | *[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 7.0]] — Bubs has a tainted candy sellback day on Friday. |
- | *Email [[myths & legends]] | + | *Email [[myths & legends]] — Bubs states that the Bear-holding-a-shark shot glasses are popular with kids. |
- | *Email [[the chair]] | + | *Email [[the chair]] — The chairs that Bubs sells Strong Bad and Strong Sad end up leaving them unable to "feel [their] parts". |
- | *[[DNA Evidence]] | + | *[[DNA Evidence]] — Bubs sells the [[DNA Evidence (running gag)|DNA evidence]] to Strong Bad in a snow cone. |
- | *Email [[licensed]] | + | *Email [[licensed]] — Homestar discovers that the piñatas that Bubs sells are full of broken glass after getting a face-full of it, and the Strong Bad ferret [[ointment]] causes [[The Cheat]] to inflate like a balloon. |
- | *[[The Baloneyman]] | + | *[[The Baloneyman]] — Bubs implies that the [[Baloney Sammich Truck|baloney sandwiches]] that he has been selling had expired mayonnaise. |
- | *[[Homestar Ruiner]] | + | *[[Homestar Ruiner]] — Bubs lists tainted candy as a variety of candy he sells and gives chocolate-covered packing peanuts in exchange for coupons. |
==Health Code Violations== | ==Health Code Violations== | ||
- | *Email [[no loafing]] | + | *Email [[no loafing]] — The lunch specials that Bubs sells are already eaten. |
- | + | *[[One Two, One Two]] — Bubs makes sausages with a tennis ball and a box of [[General Tso's Chicken]] (including the box). | |
- | *[[One Two, One Two]] | + | *[[The Baloneyman]] — Bubs sells a sandwich with a bite taken out of it to an oblivious Homestar. |
- | *[[The Baloneyman]] | + | *[[Donut Unto Others]] — Bubs hides and pretends to be closed when the health inspector arrives. |
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==Human Trafficking== | ==Human Trafficking== | ||
- | *[[Baddest of the Bands]] | + | *[[Baddest of the Bands]] — Bubs says that he accepts first-born children as payment. |
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==Information Mining and Spamming== | ==Information Mining and Spamming== | ||
- | *Email [[unused emails]] | + | *Email [[unused emails]] — Bubs buys, as claimed, roughly 5000 email addresses at $0.25 apiece from Strong Bad (roughly $1250 total) to use in his weekly [[spam]]vertisments. |
==Intentionally Poor Crowd Control== | ==Intentionally Poor Crowd Control== | ||
- | *Email [[local news]] | + | * Email [[local news]] — Bubs tricks Homestar, Marzipan and the King of Town into queuing outside the Concession Stand (and paying for it) for no reason. |
- | *[[Toikey TV]] | + | * [[Toikey TV]] — The sale advertised by Bubs, "Bubs Friday", has a designated time for "Shovin' and Tramplin'". He also encourages mothers to fight each other and even draw blood. |
- | *[[A Decemberween Mackerel]] | + | * [[A Decemberween Mackerel]] — Bubs intentionally has a queue last for 3 miles or 18 days, whichever comes first. |
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==Invasion of Privacy== | ==Invasion of Privacy== | ||
- | *[[Homestar Ruiner]] | + | *[[Homestar Ruiner]] — Bubs casually tells Strong Bad that he reads all [[Strong Bad Email|his emails]]. |
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+ | ==Ivory Trade== | ||
+ | *[[Homestar Ruiner]] — Strong Bad says that the last time he tried to navigate Bubs' Tele-stand, he ended up with a crate of rhino horns (though according to Strong Bad they were from a species not considered endangered). | ||
==Legal Malpractice== | ==Legal Malpractice== | ||
- | *[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2]] | + | *[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2]] — Bubs represents Coach Z in court; however, he bases his defense on dinosaurs after confusing works by author Michael Crichton with those by author John Grisham. |
==Loan Sharking== | ==Loan Sharking== | ||
- | *Email [[other days]] | + | *Email [[other days]] — Bubs threatens to turn Strong Bad over to a "cut off your toes"-style collections agency if he doesn't pay up. |
==Mistreatment of Employees== | ==Mistreatment of Employees== | ||
- | *Email [[part-time job]] | + | *Email [[part-time job]] — Strong Bad mentions that Bubs made him pay for his [[mascot costume]]. |
- | *[[On Break]] | + | *[[On Break]] — Bubs only gives one smoking, pee, coffee, and maternity leave break each per day. He also doesn't allow Pom Pom to take breaks as he is not in the union. |
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==Operating Without a Valid License== | ==Operating Without a Valid License== | ||
- | *[[Bug In Mouth Disease]] | + | *[[Bug In Mouth Disease]] — Bubs claims to be a doctor despite his "doctor" card clearly being only for VCR repairs and fashion consultation. |
- | *[[Senorial Day]] | + | *[[Senorial Day]] — Bubs's entrepreneur license has "SUSPENDED" stamped across it. |
- | *Email [[licensed]] | + | *Email [[licensed]] — Bubs sells ''unlicensed'' unlicensed Strong Bad merchandise. |
- | *[[The Baloneyman]] | + | *[[The Baloneyman]] — Bubs mentions that the tag and license he has been operating under are both expired. |
- | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] | + | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] — Bubs hints that his black market sells unlicensed merchandise. |
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==Organ Trafficking== | ==Organ Trafficking== | ||
- | *[[Bug In Mouth Disease]] | + | *[[Bug In Mouth Disease]] — Bubs offers to sell [[Homestar]] a spare pancreas. |
- | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] | + | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] — Bubs operates a black market out behind [[Concessionstantinople]] dealing in organs along with other illegal items. |
- | *[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2]] | + | *[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2]] — Bubs sells materials for the purpose of illegal organ trafficking as part of updating his store to be "organic". |
==Overpricing== | ==Overpricing== | ||
- | *[[King of | + | *[[King of Town Email]] — According to the page title, Bubs sold the broken [[Tandy 400]] to [[The King of Town]] for $900. |
- | *Email [[local news]] | + | *Email [[local news]] — A sign at the stand says "Wait in Line: $5". |
- | *Email [[pom pom]] | + | *Email [[pom pom]] — Bubs charges Strong Bad $5 for a "face mashing" and $10 for a "severe pummeling" from Pom Pom. |
- | *Email [[part-time job]] | + | *Email [[part-time job]] — Bubs attempts to charge Coach Z and Pom Pom $50 then $60 for a picture with the [[Tragic Clown Dog]]. |
- | + | *Email [[secret identity]] — Bubs charges Strong Bad (as [[Secret Identities#Tip Tappers|Mr. Tip Tappers]]) $900 for a room. Also, Bubs's guestbook notes that he accepted double payment from [[Secret Identities#Other Characters|Mr. Dee Williams]] (Homestar). | |
- | *Email [[secret identity]] | + | *Email [[myths & legends]] — Bubs demands an extra $20 from [[Strong Bad]] after he comments that the [[Bear Holding a Shark]] [[ice cream]] he bought looks more like Morgan Freeman. |
- | *Email [[myths & legends]] | + | *Email [[nightlife]] — Bubs sells Strong Bad an eyedropper-full amount of "Pink Elephant Pants" for $17.50, which is apparently less than he usually charges. |
- | *Email [[nightlife]] | + | *[[The Baloneyman]] — Bubs attempt to sell [[Coach Z]] a [[Bubs's Napkins|napkin]] for $32. |
- | *[[The Baloneyman]] | + | *[[Baddest of the Bands]] — Bubs charges Strong Bad "one big sack of cash" for repairs to the [[FunMachine]] and after the repair job, Strong Bad complains that "Bubs totally ripped [him] off, man! Like, more than usual." |
- | *[[Baddest of the Bands]] | + | *[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 16.2]] — Bubs claims that the late fee for a [[IMDb:tt0103184|V.I. Warshawski]] DVD is $3 a day because it still counts as a new release, despite its early 90's theatrical release and 2002 DVD release (7 years before the toon). |
- | *[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 16.2]] | + | *[[Record Store Day]] — Bubs sells [[Strong Sad]] a [[sloshy]] vinyl record for $400, which according to Strong Sad, was "on sale". |
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==Smuggling== | ==Smuggling== | ||
- | *[[SBCG4AP Tutorial]] | + | *[[SBCG4AP Tutorial]] — When Strong Bad comments that Bubs has gotten fat, he replies that he hasn't and is in fact just smuggling cantaloupes past the border under his shirt. |
- | *[[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]] | + | *[[Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective]] — While Bubs was imprisoned in what would eventually become the Concession Stand he sold himself Hot Dogs with files in them. |
==Stolen Goods== | ==Stolen Goods== | ||
- | *[[Cool Things]] | + | *[[Cool Things]] — Bubs claims that he's closed and only gives Homestar the [[paint]] and [[Cool Shades|shades]] when he asks Bubs to steal them for him, asserting that he never passes up a chance to stick it to the man. |
- | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] | + | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] — Bubs's black market trades in organs of questionable origin and illegally obtained cultural artifacts. He trades Strong Sad's stolen Pretendix for an illegally excavated piece of pottery to Strong Bad. |
- | *[[Where My Hat Is At? (toon)|Where My Hat Is At?]] | + | *[[Where My Hat Is At? (toon)|Where My Hat Is At?]] — Bubs has Marzipan's hair on sale as a "[[wig]]" which he unabashedly says is stolen. |
==Weapons Dealing== | ==Weapons Dealing== | ||
- | *Email [[different town]] | + | *Email [[different town]] — Strong Bad imagines that Bubs would give away [[Bubs's Flamethrowers|flamethrowers]] that shoot (imitation) chocolate hundred-dollar bills. |
- | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] | + | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] — Bubs operates a black market out behind [[Concessionstantinople]] dealing in weapons, like bazooka flamethrowers that throw throwing stars, along with other illegal items. |
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==Generic Mentions of Shadiness== | ==Generic Mentions of Shadiness== | ||
- | *[[Broken Compy Menu]] | + | *[[Broken Compy Menu]] — Homestar asks, "What kinda shady Bubs business you running here anyways? A Bubsness?" |
- | *[[Bug In Mouth Disease]] | + | *[[Bug In Mouth Disease]] — Homestar asks if Bubs is an unethical quack, to which he responds "the most quackinest." |
- | *[[Happy Fireworks]] | + | *[[Happy Fireworks]] — Bubs complains about how long the setup for the fireworks is taking, saying "I got peoples to rip off!" |
- | *Email [[isp]] | + | *Email [[isp]] — When Strong Bad confronts him with "throttling [Strong Bad] down", Bubs responds that throttling down is not one of the 99 ways he rips Strong Bad off. |
- | *Email [[licensed]] | + | *Email [[licensed]] — Bubs says that the stuff that he sells in the Concession Stand is of worse quality than his shady bootleg operation. |
- | *Email [[buried]] (DVD commentary) | + | *Email [[buried]] (DVD commentary) — [[The Brothers Chaps]] say that they are trying to remember all the "sketchy things" that Bubs does. |
- | *[[Play Date]] | + | *[[Play Date]] — Bubs briefly spends time in federal prison for unexplained reasons. |
- | *[[The Baloneyman]] | + | *[[The Baloneyman]] — At the end, Homestar says farewell to the "[["Man" Pronounced as "M'n"|baloneym'n]]", adding "may your warbly theme song serve as a reminder that you probably have a really sketchy past." |
- | + | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] — Strong Bad says that Bubs is a "shady, shady character", to which Bubs responds that it's cool in the shade. | |
- | *[[Strong Badia the Free]] | + | *[[Doomy Tales of the Macabre]] — Bubs describes his wallet as the one that says "bad business practices". |
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==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
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[[Category:Lists]] | [[Category:Lists]] | ||
[[Category:Bubs]] | [[Category:Bubs]] | ||
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