@StrongBadActual Tweets 2020

This Tweet is a reply to @alyshaba, who shared a photo of a Strong Bad costume, with a Strong Bad mask on her forehead.

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad parodies the lyrics from "We Want a Rock" by They Might Be Giants.

This Tweet is a reply to @Naydog101's complaint about the length of the unboxing video intro.

This Tweet is a reply to @ArcaneCorona, who shared screenshots of a The Cheat hoodie in Animal Crossing.

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad's screenshot is from Fan Costumes 2018, in which it is revealed that The Cheat molts.

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This Tweet is a reply to the previous reply.

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad previously posted this GIF in September 2019.

This Tweet is a reply to @AlmKornKid, who posted fanart of Stinkoman.

Fun Facts

• The GIF is a shortened version of one posted in May 2019.

This Tweet is a reply to @Blahdiddy84, who expressed interest in "Disk 4 of 12" becoming a real series.

Fun Facts

• Mike and Matt Chapman generally didn't have backlogs of content when making Homestar Runner, preferring to release cartoons as soon as they were finished; hence Strong Bad's comment about "for the first time in my life".

Video Transcript

{Strong Bad is standing in the smoky office.}

STRONG BAD: Hi there. I'm Strong Bad from homestarrunner.com, an obscure corner of the early internet some folks might call:

{A mock browser appears in the upper left, showing Main Page 3, with the caption "a wedsite".}

STRONG BAD: "A wedsite".

{Close up on Strong Bad.}

STRONG BAD: This one time, I drew a dragon.

{Cut to a scene from dragon in which Strong Bad puts the finishing touches on his drawing.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} And it was awesome.

{A clip from the original Trogdor song plays as Strong Bad writes "TROGDOR the BURNiNATOR".}

STRONG BAD: He went on to be—

{Cut to the first level of TROGDOR!. The player's score is 1,525,870.}

STRONG BAD: —a video game,

TROGDOR! ARCADE MACHINE: Trogdor!

STRONG BAD: a different video game,

{Cut to a scene from the Peasant's Quest Trailer in which lightning strikes as Trogdor roars.}

STRONG BAD: And a bunch of other awesome stuff.

{Cut to a wall of Trogdor posters, a cardboard Trogdor cutout, and figures 2-a and 3-g: a Trogdor-shaped Cheeto and fish stick.}

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad refers to homestarrunner.com as a "wedsite".
• The mock browser, with its buttons "This Way", "That Way", "No way", and "A Dog", is the same one used in the email theme song.
• The URL in the browser is http://www.homestarrunner.com, but the webpage displayed is Main Page 3, which is at main3.html.

This Tweet is a reply to @Dan_Adelman, a former Nintendo employee who worked on Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, who showed off his Homestar Runner figurine collection.

This Tweet is a reply to @The_Big_Hawk, who shared a Trogdor tattoo he got on his calf. There is a red spot on his leg where Trogdor's cheek is.

This Tweet links to Trogdor!! The Board Game in the store.

This Tweet is a reply to @superveryman, who asked about the meeples that originally came with Trogdor!! The Board Game.

This Tweet is a reply to @NealSilvester, who asked if Strong Bad could do it nine times.

Image Transcript

{Same scene as before. "Clean Guybrush clock" is entered.}

STRONG BAD: {in red onscreen text} I can do it. I will do it nine times.

{Strong Bad leaps up and bashes Guybrush in the head nine times, with the following onomatopoeia:}

1. *PSHP*
2. *PEOW*
3. *POOM*
4. *PLAP*
5. *PSHP*
6. *DONK*
7. *POOM*
8. *PSHP*
9. *PEOW*

This Tweet links to @annelukeman's request for fanart of a Strong Bad/Monkey Island crossover.

Image Transcript

{Guybrush Threepwood is standing on a dock at night. Strong Bad, as Dangeresque, approaches him. The player selects the verb "Clean", Guybrush's sprite, and a clock from their inventory, forming the phrase, "Clean Guybrush clock".}

STRONG BAD: {in red onscreen text} I'm finnuh.

{Strong Bad leaps up and bashes Guybrush in the head.}

Fun Facts

• The scene is from The Secret of Monkey Island; Guybrush is standing on the docks of Mêlée Island. The verb "Clean" replaces "Close" from the original menu.
• The Dangeresque sprite is from Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque.

This Tweet is a reply to @sweaterbutts, who replied to Strong Bad's comment about 30-50 year olds, saying she was 21, not 30.

This Tweet is a reply to @annelukeman, who expressed a desire to design an escape room based on Monkey Island or Homestar Runner.

Fun Facts

• "That Threepwood guy" is Guybrush Threepwood from Monkey Island.

This Tweet links to Trogdor!! The Board Game in the store.

This Tweet is a reply to the Trogdor!! unboxing video.

This Tweet links to Trogdor!! The Board Game in the store.

This Tweet is a reply to @RobertP221B, who replied to the unboxing video, asking for a link to buy the game.

This Tweet is a reply to @Leah_Rez, who asked for advice on how to introduce someone to Homestar Runner.

This Tweet links to Trogdor!! The Board Game in the store.

This Tweet is a reply to @jertdpfan, who was surprised by the news that there was a Trogdor board game.

This Tweet is a reply to @ssorobo, who asked about Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, which had been pulled from Steam.

Fun Facts

• "I'm non't even gets paid" echoes "I'm don't get paid", the slogan of Temporarios from strong badathlon.

Video Transcript

{Strong Bad is standing in the smoky office.}

STRONG BAD: And now Trogdor's got his own board game. {a box of Trogdor!! The Board Game appears by his head} It, too, is awesome.

{A clip from the song Trogdor is heard as a clip from Trogdor!! The Board Game Playthrough plays in fast motion. Cut back to the office.}

STRONG BAD: And what better way to celebrate than by having some random person's hands unbox it for you?

{A gentle guitar melody plays as the title "Unboxing: Trogdor: The Board Game" appears on a white background.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Ooh. Oh wow. Uh... the music's wrong. I think you got the wrong music.

{Cut to a tabletop, where a person with hairy arms is opening a box of Trogdor!! The Board Game.}

STRONG BAD: And the wrong hands. Definitely used the wrong hands.

{The person in the video picks up the rulebook and flips through it as the word "Rulebook" appears at the top.}

STRONG BAD: All right, what do we got here? Oh man, the rulebook's so awesome, I want to show—

{The video suddenly goes fast-motion as the person flips through the rest of the book and sets it aside.}

STRONG BAD: Hey, go back! You're skippin' all the good stuff!

{The person takes out the Keeper cards and shows them off.}

STRONG BAD: Oh, these guys. The Keepers of Trogdor—

{The video goes fast-motion again; the person sets the cards aside.}

STRONG BAD: Egh—quit it, arm hair!

{The person takes out the Item cards and shows them off.}

STRONG BAD: Oh, and then these are the Items of Trogdor that the Keepers use to—

{It happens again.}

STRONG BAD: Hey! That's it! Go back for real this time!

{The video rewinds to the person displaying Strong Bad's custom Items of Trogdor.}

STRONG BAD: Pause! And enhance. {zoom in on the cards} Look at that. Who wouldn't want to play a game with an item called {zoom in further on Old Man Rub, as colors invert and ominous music plays} Old Man Rub?

{The video resumes where it had left off. The person displays the Trog-Meter, then the map tiles.}

STRONG BAD: Okay, back to it. You know, this song isn't so bad. They just used the wrong instruments. It shoulda been like, {singing along to the background music, which gradually fades into a death metal version} ju-jug, ju-jug, ju-jug, ju-jug, JUG JUG, ju-jug, ju-jug, ju-jug, ju-jug, jug jug, SQUEEDLY SQUOW, sa-squeedly squow now, squeedly squow now!

{Flames start to fill the screen as the person shows off the action cards.}

STRONG BAD: {in a death metal bellow} This person has LONG LUXURIOUS ARM HAIR! {"long luxurious armhair" appears onscreen in a jagged font} Black as the night, black as the night!

{The music and the screen abruptly revert to normal. The person shows off the Void card.}

STRONG BAD: "The Void." "Also The Void."

{The person takes out the plastic miniatures.}

STRONG BAD: Aw, now we're gettin' to the good stuff.

{Close view of the person's hands as they show off the archers.}

STRONG BAD: Check out these miniatures! The archers have, like, beards and sashes!

{The person shows off the knights.}

STRONG BAD: The knights have little tiny Trogdors on their shields! Awww.

{The person shows off the Troghammer.}

STRONG BAD: The Troghammer is covered with, like, grommets, and... Wallaces.

{The person shows off Trogdor himself.}

STRONG BAD: There's Trogdor! Look at that single beefy arm! So much majesty!

{The person shows off the seven peasants, and demonstrates crowning one with the flame helmet.}

STRONG BAD: And since Trogdor is a family game, it comes with several innocent peasants which you can burn alive.

{The person shows off the three thatched-roof cottages, and demonstrates flipping one's roof to the burninated side.}

STRONG BAD: And don't forget their thatched-roof cottages, with probably-patented Flip-O Thatch-O Flame...-O... Techno...logy. {these words are added to the "Burninated Cottage" header above and marked "(PP) (Prolly Patented"}

{Wide shot of the tabletop as the person puts everything back into the box in fast motion.}

STRONG BAD: {imitating a mom} "Sweetie? The McKem...endendrics are here! Put your game away and come up for dinner!" {imitating a kid} "Aw, mom! The McKendendrics again?"

{Fade to black as Strong Bad continues.}

STRONG BAD: "All Junior ever talks about is lacrosse practice."

{Heavy metal plays as a shot of the game box and its contents appears against a white background.}

VIDELECTRIX ONE: {voiceover} Trogdor!! is a cooperative game of area control and burnination for one to six players. Being awesome is not required to play but is highly recommended.

Fun Facts

• The video in this Tweet was automatically flagged by Twitter as including "potentially sensitive content".
• Strong Bad references the stop-motion series Wallace & Gromit.

This Tweet is a reply to @haley_mcbitch, who asked when Trudgemank would be on streaming services.

This Tweet is a reply to @CrewDutler, who shared his 7-year-old's drawing of Trogdor in an egg-filled nest, saying he was disappointed in its lack of beefy arms and consummate V's.

This Tweet links to @ColinMcInerror's 3D animation of a bouncy, glossy Da Huuuuuudge.

This Tweet is a reply to @David_Bohr, who replied to the "congeneral proncensus" Tweet, asking if Senor Cardgage had taken over Strong Bad's account.

This Tweet is a reply to Strong Bad's earlier Tweet about difficulty adjustments for Stinkoman 20X6.

This Tweet is a reply to @StevenSimmons, who asked if "a giant collection of homestar runner [or] strong bad" would ever be available.

Fun Facts

• "Pile" is one of Strong Bad's preferred insults.

This Tweet is a reply to @n0ahpeel, who shared their tattoos of The Worm.

Fun Facts

• "Is a miracle" was spoken by The Worm in Decemberween Sweet Cuppin' Cakes.

This Tweet links to @alienslut69's photo of an Eh! Steve! tattoo.

Fun Facts

• The Stave It Off Guy first appeared in the email for kids.

This Tweet is a reply to @deathcarpets, who shared a photo of the words "Cool Tapes" tattooed above her knees.

This Tweet links to @PolarDarko's photo of a Strong Bad tattoo.

This Tweet is a reply to @batbrain1998, who asked what the rules of "Butcher Bros." were.

Fun Facts

• "Butcher Bros." was an abandoned sequel to Pigs on Head.

This Tweet is a reply to @AustinRW98, who asked where sbemail 208 was.

Fun Facts

• The April Fools' cartoon containing sbemail 208 is The Next April Fools Thing.

This Tweet is a reply to @ColinMcInerror, who suggested a Nintendo Switch port of Stinkoman 20X6.

This Tweet is a reply to @manthevan_, who asked where one could find sbemail background music.

Fun Facts

• "Strong Bad's Rhythm N' Grammar" is an album of short songs consisting of Strong Bad berating listeners' grammar, from an Easter egg in local news.

This Tweet is a reply to @DJOshawott, who asked if the modifications to Stinkoman 20X6 would be optional.

This Tweet is a reply to @LazyDictator, who requested mid-level checkpoints, "or levelled check midpoints".

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad's response is a jumble of portmanteaus.

This Tweet is a reply to @RedneckGaijin, who requested access to "the Pizza Hut" at the bottom of the level 10 screenshot (referring to the level 2 decorations).

This Tweet is a reply to @CDRomatron, who suggested that level 3.2 be modified to make the item generation less random.

This Tweet is a reply to the previous Tweet.

This Tweet is a reply to @misshanake, who said she thought the word was "caco demon".

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad comments on a "cackledemon" in the menu for strongbad_email.exe Disc Five.

This Tweet is a reply to @IAmArique, who commented on the removal of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People from Steam.

This Tweet links to @webnick2's repost of @the_chaparrin's photo of a sad face in his coffee.

This Tweet is a reply to @alternateshade, who asked if the Kickstarter add-ons were included in the board game purchase.

This Tweet is a reply to @MADCOWofGENESIS, who posted a Norse- and Celtic-inspired drawing of Trogdor.

This Tweet is a reply to @file_id_dot_diz, who replied to the Disk 4 of 12 Tweet saying he recognized the game with the ship on the package but couldn't remember its name.

This Tweet is a reply to @lanooski, replying to the previous Tweet noting it was derivative of the Weekly Waggle but still cool.

Video Transcript

{A live-action case filled with 5 inch floppies sits on a desk next to an old computer. The disk in the front has a handwritten label reading "Disk 4 of 12". Strong Bad's gloves reach into the shot, open the case and begin rifling through the contents.}

STRONG BAD: {singing} When I check my email,

{Strong Bad holds up a disk labeled "Old Game".}

STRONG BAD: —there are some old games.

{Strong Bad inserts the disk into a disk drive and then types on a keyboard with boxing gloves on.}

STRONG BAD: Now I'm gonna play them for you.

{The monitor comes to life, showing a screen reading "Strong Bad's Disk 4 of 12". A disk reading noise plays.}

{Gameplay footage of various vintage games begin to play. The first shows a man in a giant cotton candy machine. He gets struck by a wooden beam and his head swells and explodes.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Hello there, what's—NO! Wow! That is not what I wanted to happen!

{The game switches to a wrestling game where grayscale sumo wrestlers lie on the floor of the ring sleeping.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Aw, it's baby Strong Sad taking a nap. {imitates snoring sounds}

{Game now switches to a toilet inside a shower. The showerhead is running.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Turn this on. Spaghetti noodles that are uncooked shootin' out of there.

{Game now switches to a two-color game. A man in a swimsuit is standing at the top of a purple cliff and dives off.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover, imitating Dangeresque} Looks like I'm gonna have to cliff-dive! Whoooooaaa...

{The game switches back to the first game, where the player confronts a giant bee.}

STRONG BAD: Do you want some cotton candy, bee? {The bee stings the player, causing the player's head to swell and then disappear entirely} Nope, you want to kill me still.

{The game is now a primitive dungeon crawler where the player is holding a sword. The player leaves a room into a hallway.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} This game is about collecting crosses, and turning vermin—

{The scene cuts to another room where the player strikes mice, turning them into white mushrooms.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} —into mushrooms.

{The game is now a primitive Battleship game with three levels and a grid made of letters.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Look at that battleship! That thing's amazing!

{The game switches to an athletic obstacle course game. The player is leaping over a row of barrels and takes a dive, causing one of the barrels to fly out from the row and break.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover, singing} Full-body hoodie... whoa-ho-ho! Those are some accurate physics!

{The game is now a black screen reading "What Is Your First Name Captain? (Enter Your Name And Then Strike The Enter Key)".

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Enter your name and then STRIKE the enter key! Strike it down with extreme prejudice!

{The game now shows a screen where the player is looking into a series of bright lights as the silhouettes of doctors look down. A heart rate line blips.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover, laughing} What? That is an orange slice that's shooting out some... oil... slicks.

{The screen now does a checkerboard wipe. The game now shows a face on a monitor reading "Mayor Vincenzi" and "Hunter, We've had more reports come in of kids dying..."}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} There's like a real-life old man staring right at me!

{The text momentarily changes to "...all were horribly disfigured like my... (gulp) ...my poor daughter." before the game switches back to the dungeon crawler from before. The player walking into a river and transforms into a yellow skeleton.}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Doo doo doo. Augh... wait, what?

{The screen goes black, with the text reading "Y u Drowned!"}

STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Why you drowned? I dunno!

{Cut back to the computer monitor, now inactive. The title screen for Strong Bad's Disk 4 of 12 returns with a beep and a disk reading sound.}

Fun Facts

• The games shown are, in order: Weird Dreams, World Games, Manhunter: New York, ICON: The Quest for the Ring, and Friendlyware. The names of all of these games have previously appeared in the floppy disk container.
• "Disk 4 of 12" is the URL of Peasant's Quest.

This Tweet is a reply to @AaronWrotkowski, who posted in a thread starting with the previously linked Strong Bad mask, asking for dinosaur tranquilizer-fueled ranting and raving.

This Tweet links to @IAmKateNyx's picture of a shiny Strong Bad mask.

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad mentions the Videlectrix titles Pigs on Head and Population: Tire.

This Tweet is a reply to @JAD77, who reposted @alissamarie's Tweet speculating on a connection between Pikachu and The Cheat.

Fun Facts

• Strong Bad links to the YouTube version of The Cheat Theme Song.

This Tweet is a reply to @_gabei, who thought that a neighborhood watch sign resembled Homsar.

Fun Facts

• The screenshot is from Halloween Safety, in which Homestar Runner dresses as a neighborhood watch sign.

Fun Facts

• This sketch was originally posted on 7 August 2009 with the caption "homestarzigoats".

This Tweet is a reply to @EsmeSqueaks, who shared her cartoony fan art of Trogdor.

This Tweet is a reply to @1010Greg, whose game of Trogdor!! The Board Game, played with a "Dagron" meeple, ended in narrow defeat after Trogdor's Fiery Rage.

This Tweet is a reply to @seanhecking, who concluded that the countryside building was a silo because there were no seagulls in the distance.

Fun Facts

• Birds in Teen Girl Squad have an extensive history of abuse at the hands of Strong Bad. The GIF is from Teen Girl Squad Issue 1.

This Tweet is a reply to his previous reply about the Gorton's fisherman.

This Tweet is a reply to @Paunchberry, who posted a screenshot from Trogday 08, speculating that the lighthouse/silo is where The S is for Sucks Dragon hangs out.

Fun Facts

• The Gorton's fisherman, whom The King of Town dressed up as in Happy Hallow-day, is the mascot of Gorton's of Gloucester.

This Tweet is a reply to @AdamStBear, who commented that it was crazy that Trogdor was now old enough for a learner's permit.

Fun Facts

• The screenshot is of Learner's Permit Girl from Teen Girl Squad Issue 9.

This Tweet links to @hazeyhound's picture of a new Strong Bad tattoo.

This Tweet is a reply to @TheDashingAdnan, who was interested in a port of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People to modern consoles if Strong Bad had influence on the project.

This Tweet is a reply to @stillmoms, who replied to the previous Tweet saying that "we can always use more makeup".

Fun Facts

• @stillmoms and Strong Bad are referring to lyrics from the song "Letter from Belgium" by American band the Mountain Goats.

Image Transcript

KittenQuest, i mean, Strong Bad Coolgame Strong Bads 9.5 on IGN.com or else Supa Challenge

- Strong Badventure - Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People - Strong Bad Supa Challenge '98 - Strong Bad Saga: SB - Strong Bad Total Questfest

Strong Bad's Crapfest, Jerks!

Crapfest for Jerks!

Strong Bad Talkwalker    Zebacke's
Strong Bad: Sudoku Puzzmaster
Strong Bad Stylefest    FontQuest

Styletype

Stylequest

Styleventure

Totaltronic

Challenge of the Strong Bad

Strong Badfest
Strong Bad is Still Awesome
Strong Bad Totalfest '98

Questfest    Questache

Seriously Strong Bad    Zubaaas
Strong Badworldlandia

CG4AP

SB: "Creams &
Powders"

Fun Facts

• Visible on the page is the highly stylized drawing of Strong Bad from the March 13, 2008 edition of the Sketchbook.

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Fun Facts

• 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of homestarrunner.com.