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'''[[Wikipedia:George Washington|George Washington]]''' (1789—1797)
'''[[Wikipedia:George Washington|George Washington]]''' (1789—1797)
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 5]] — [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Henry Rollins, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington|George Washington]] is among the "cool or famous" people who look at [[The Ugly One]] with her head in the sand, then go tandem parasailing  with [[So and So]].
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 5]] — [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Henry Rollins, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington|George Washington]] is among the "cool or famous" people who look at [[The Ugly One]] with her head in the sand, then go tandem parasailing  with [[So and So]].
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*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10]] — Washington reappears with these characters.
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**[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10]] — Washington reappears with these characters.
'''[[Wikipedia:Martin Van Buren|Martin Van Buren]]''' (1837—1841)
'''[[Wikipedia:Martin Van Buren|Martin Van Buren]]''' (1837—1841)
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**In [[Everybody to the Limit]], this same silhouette is used.
**In [[Everybody to the Limit]], this same silhouette is used.
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 5]] — [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Henry Rollins, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington|Abraham Lincoln]] is among the "cool or famous" people who look at [[The Ugly One]] with her head in the sand, then go tandem parasailing  with [[So and So]].
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 5]] — [[Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters#Henry Rollins, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington|Abraham Lincoln]] is among the "cool or famous" people who look at [[The Ugly One]] with her head in the sand, then go tandem parasailing  with [[So and So]].
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*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10]] — Lincoln reappears with these characters.
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**[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10]] — Lincoln reappears with these characters.
*[[An Open Forum]] — The background is made up of  Lincoln heads.
*[[An Open Forum]] — The background is made up of  Lincoln heads.
*Email [[your funeral]] — When reading from the phone book, Homestar mentions a pizza place called "Abraham Lincoln's Pizza Cabin".
*Email [[your funeral]] — When reading from the phone book, Homestar mentions a pizza place called "Abraham Lincoln's Pizza Cabin".
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'''[[Wikipedia:Ronald Reagan|Ronald Reagan]]''' (1981—1989)
'''[[Wikipedia:Ronald Reagan|Ronald Reagan]]''' (1981—1989)
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*[[Peasant's Quest]] — Looking at the rocking chair after the [[Baby Lady]] leaves yields a [[Peasant's Quest Responses|response]] referring to Reagan's "[[Wikipedia:Trickle-down economics|trickle-down economics]]".
*[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]] — Homestar does a bad Reagan impression.
*[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]] — Homestar does a bad Reagan impression.

Revision as of 01:56, 11 June 2008

"Look, look at that girl."

Presidents of the United States are mentioned and seen various times in Free Country, in particular presidents Martin Van Buren and Abraham Lincoln. This is perhaps a nod to They Might Be Giants, who frequently use presidents as a theme in their music. In was revealed in an interview that The Brothers Chaps have an oval portrait of Lincoln hanging in their office.

Appearances

George Washington (1789—1797)

Martin Van Buren (1837—1841)

William Henry Harrison (1841)

James K. Polk (1845—1849)

James Buchanan (1857—1861)

  • Email diorama — Strong Bad has a robot in his diorama assassinate destroy James Buchanan with a laser called the "Byoo-Cannon".

Abraham Lincoln (1861—1865)

James A. Garfield (1881)

William Howard Taft (1909—1913)

  • Fortune Cookies — One of the "fortunes" reads "Hey, it worked for Taft."

Herbert Hoover (1929—1933)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933—1945)

  • Email redesign — Strong Bad suggests that the scrolling No Loafing Sign might be misread as "Franklin Delano Loafing".

Harry S. Truman (1945—1953)

John F. Kennedy (1961—1963)

Jimmy Carter (1977—1981)

  • Email diorama — Strong Bad has a robot assassinate Carter in his diorama.

Ronald Reagan (1981—1989)

Miscellaneous presidential references

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