Main Page 21

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Main Page featuring green lined 3D Homestar, speaking with a computerized speech engine voice.

Cast (in order of appearance): Vector Homestar Runner, Vector Strong Bad

Date: June 16, 2004

Icon: Vector Homestar's head

Page title: "Many Green Lines!"

Button Effects

• Toons — Colored lines move through the background and computer beeping noises can be heard.
• Games — The ground begins to move, little pyramids appear on the ground, A kind of drummer tune can be heard.
• Characters — The background outline changes. Four possible outlines.

• Low mountain range.
• Higher mountain range.
• Slightly different mountain range.
• Silhouette of futuristic city (or Seattle).

• Downloads — Homestar Runner loses one of his polygons. Scroll again and he loses another. Scroll for a third time and he regrows them.
• Store — The green lines in the background wave insanely and a staticky noise can be heard.
• E-mail — Vector Strong Bad appears, says "WELL, MY HEAD A SPLODE" (with subtitles) and explodes.

Fun Facts

Inside References

• This Main Page is based on the Strong Bad Email "video games," specifically the part making fun of '80s vector-graphics arcade games.
• Vector Strong Bad's line "WELL, MY HEAD A SPLODE" is another reference to video games.
• The music played on the Games mouseover is a clip from the StrongBadZone Music, which can be found on the Videlectrix site.

Real-World References

• The Colored lines from the Toons scroll effect are similar to the classic arcade game Qix—or the Beziers screensaver in Windows.
• The little pyramids from the Games scroll effect and the outline backgrounds are similar to the ones in the arcade game "Battlezone" and the game "Turok Two: Seeds of evil".
• The futuristic skyline is similar to the one of Seattle used on the beginning of the TV show Frasier.
• The drum loop during the Games section also appeared about 4 years earlier in the beginning of Seattle rock band Death Cab For Cutie's song "Photobooth." The version that appears here, however, is slower than the Death Cab For Cutie version (and goes down in pitch and speed over the course of the loop), and lacks reverb that the other version has. Although it might be a sample, it's more likely that The Brothers Chaps and Death Cab for Cutie both took the loop from the same source.

External Links

• go to Main Page 21
• view the Flash file for Main Page 21