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'''Books by various Sportsinterviewses''' appear in several toons, usually in [[Easter egg|Easter eggs]].
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'''Books by various Sportsinterviewses''' appear in several toons, usually in [[Easter egg|Easter eggs]]. [[Leomard Sportsinterviews]] appears frequently, as does Beverly; other authors typically make one-off appearances.
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== [[Leomard Sportsinterviews]] ==
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== Leomard Sportsinterviews ==
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|align=center| [[Image:lemcover.jpg|This Book is Better Than 1st, 2nd, and Quite Possibly Even 3rd Base]] ||
|align=center| [[Image:lemcover.jpg|This Book is Better Than 1st, 2nd, and Quite Possibly Even 3rd Base]] ||
=====This Book is Better Than 1st, 2nd, and Quite Possibly Even 3rd Base=====
=====This Book is Better Than 1st, 2nd, and Quite Possibly Even 3rd Base=====
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[[Strong Bad]] refers to the title of this book in the [[Strong Bad Email]] [[studying]]. An Easter egg reveals its listing on [[Bookazon.com]], complete with several reviews.
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[[Strong Bad]] refers to the title of this book, and an Easter egg reveals its listing on [[Bookazon.com]] complete with several reviews.
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=====Why People in Hollywood Ought to Give Me $5,760=====
=====Why People in Hollywood Ought to Give Me $5,760=====
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Mentioned by "Just Nobody Sportsinterviews" in his Bookazon.com review for ''This Book is Better Than 1st, 2nd, and Quite Possibly Even 3rd Base''.
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Mentioned by the suspiciously-named "Just Nobody Sportsinterviews" in a Bookazon.com review of ''This Book is Better Than 1st, 2nd, and Quite Possibly Even 3rd Base''.
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|align=center| [[Image:Everyone.png|150px|Everyone is Different]] ||
|align=center| [[Image:Everyone.png|150px|Everyone is Different]] ||
=====Everyone is Different=====
=====Everyone is Different=====
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A children's book defaced by Strong Bad in the email [[kids' book]] to pass it off as a children's book he wrote.
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A children's book [[Books Defaced By Strong Bad|defaced by Strong Bad]] to pass it off as a children's book ''he'' wrote.
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|Email [[kids' book]]
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|align=center| [[Image:That_time_of_year.png|150px|That Time of Year]] ||
|align=center| [[Image:That_time_of_year.png|150px|That Time of Year]] ||
=====That Time of Year=====
=====That Time of Year=====
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[[That Time of Year]] is a children's [[Decemberween]] book defaced by Strong Bad to pass it off as a children's book he wrote.
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''That Time of Year'' is a children's [[Decemberween]] book defaced by Strong Bad to pass it off as a children's book he wrote.
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|[[Decemberween in July]] ([[That Time of Year]])
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|align=center|[[File:thydungeonmanbox.PNG|150px|Thy Dungeonman Instruction Manual]] ||
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=====''Thy Dungeonman'' instruction manual=====
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The 400-page instruction manual for [[Thy Dungeonman]] primarily consists of 395 pages of lore, telling the story of a young man named Collagen beginning a quest to become a Dungeonman.
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*[[videlectrix.com]] (mentioned in Games Gallery)
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*[[Thy Dungeonman Instruction Manual]]
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== Beverly Sportsinterviews ==
== Beverly Sportsinterviews ==
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[[Beverly Sportsinterviews]] (often abbreviated to "Bev Sportsinterviews") is a parody of children's/young-adult fiction author {{w|Beverly Cleary}}. Her books frequently win literary awards, spoofing awards like the {{w|Newbery Medal}}. The books' titles are all based on [[Strong Bad Email]] senders' names and/or locations, and appear in Easter eggs.
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[[Beverly Sportsinterviews|Beverly "Bev" Sportsinterviews]] is a parody of children's/young-adult fiction author {{w|Beverly Cleary}}. Her books frequently win literary awards, spoofing awards like the {{w|Newbery Medal}}. The books' titles are all based on [[Strong Bad Email]] senders' [[Strong Bad Email By Name of Sender|names]] and/or [[Strong Bad Email By Place|locations]], and appear in Easter eggs.
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|align=center|[[Image:ewwclairewhy.png|150px|Ewww, Claire!! Why???]] ||
|align=center|[[Image:ewwclairewhy.png|150px|Ewww, Claire!! Why???]] ||
=====Ewww, Claire!! Why???=====
=====Ewww, Claire!! Why???=====
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The title of this book mocks "{{w|Eau Claire, Wisconsin|Eau Claire, WI}}", the hometown of the sender of the [[origins]] email.
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The title of this book spoofs the sender's location of "{{w|Eau Claire, Wisconsin|Eau Claire, WI}}".
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|Email [[origins]]
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|align=center|[[Image:Laramie,Why.PNG|150px|Laramie, Why?]] ||
|align=center|[[Image:Laramie,Why.PNG|150px|Laramie, Why?]] ||
=====Laramie, Why?=====
=====Laramie, Why?=====
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The title of this book mocks "{{w|Laramie, Wyoming|Laramie, Wy}}", the hometown of the sender of the [[secret identity]] email.
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The title of this book mocks the sender's town of "{{w|Laramie, Wyoming|Laramie, Wy}}".
<br>Lem Sportsinterviews co-authored this novel.
<br>Lem Sportsinterviews co-authored this novel.
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|Email [[secret identity]]
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|align=center|[[Image:Cat_Spoke_Anne_Wash.png|150px|"Cat," spoke Anne, "Wash!"]] ||
|align=center|[[Image:Cat_Spoke_Anne_Wash.png|150px|"Cat," spoke Anne, "Wash!"]] ||
====="Cat," spoke Anne, "Wash!"=====
====="Cat," spoke Anne, "Wash!"=====
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The title of this book mocks "Kat [[Spokane]], Wash.", the sender and hometown of the [[pop-up]] email.
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The title of this book combines the email's sender and hometown: "Kat, [[Spokane]], Wash."
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|Email [[pop-up]]
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|align=center|[[Image:Problem_Brian.png|150px|Problem Brian]] ||
|align=center|[[Image:Problem_Brian.png|150px|Problem Brian]] ||
=====Problem Brian=====
=====Problem Brian=====
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The title of this book is based on [[Strong Bad]]'s expansion of the sender's initials, "PB", in the [[specially marked]] email.
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The title of this book is based on [[Strong Bad]]'s imagined expansion of sender's initials "PB".
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|Email [[specially marked]]
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|align=center|[[Image:Scar let moe.png|150px|Scar, Let Moe!]] ||
|align=center|[[Image:Scar let moe.png|150px|Scar, Let Moe!]] ||
=====Scar, Let Moe!=====
=====Scar, Let Moe!=====
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The title of this book mocks "Scarlet, {{w|Missouri|MO}}", the sender and location of the [[hiding]] email. The subtitle (and possibly a self-commentary on the quality of the pun) is "a real stretch".
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The title of this book mocks "Scarlet, {{w|Missouri|MO}}", with the titular "Moe" bearing the likeness of {{w|Moe Howard}} of [[The Three Stooges]]. The subtitle (likely doubling as a meta-commentary on the quality of the pun) is "a real stretch".
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<br>The titular "Moe" bears the likeness of {{w|Moe Howard}} of [[The Three Stooges]].
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|Email [[hiding]]
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=====Boss Ton, Mass=====
=====Boss Ton, Mass=====
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This book isn't seen, but mentioned on Strong Bad's [[@StrongBadActual|Twitter account]]. He descibes it as a "bizarre office-church-weightlifting novel". It is a play on {{w|Boston|Boston, Massachusetts}}.
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A play on {{w|Boston|Boston, Massachusetts}}, this unseen book is described as a "bizarre office-church-weightlifting novel".
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|align=center|[[Image:Fishwasdelish.PNG|150px|Two heads, an arm, and one great story]] ||
|align=center|[[Image:Fishwasdelish.PNG|150px|Two heads, an arm, and one great story]] ||
=====The Fish was Delish and it made Quite a Dish!=====
=====The Fish was Delish and it made Quite a Dish!=====
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The title of this book, which appears in an Easter egg, is the test sentence [[Strong Bad]] uses in the [[radio]] email to suggest how the hosts of various types of [[Radio Stations and Shows|radio shows]] would say it. The cover illustration references ''{{w|Green Eggs and Ham}}'' as well as ''{{w|One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish}}''.
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The cover illustration references ''{{w|Green Eggs and Ham}}'' as well as ''{{w|One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish}}''.
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|Email [[radio]]
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|align=center|[[Image:Little_jakey_pleasanthanks.png|150px|Little Jakey Pleasenthanks]] ||
|align=center|[[Image:Little_jakey_pleasanthanks.png|150px|Little Jakey Pleasenthanks]] ||
=====Little Jakey Pleasenthanks=====
=====Little Jakey Pleasenthanks=====
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The title of this book, which also appears in an Easter egg, mocks the sender of the [[cliffhangers]] email.
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The title of this book mocks the sender closing their email with "Thanks, Jake".
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|Email [[cliffhangers]]
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== Leomardbury Chauceinterviews ==
== Leomardbury Chauceinterviews ==
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His name parodies 14th-century English poet {{w|Geoffrey Chaucer}}.
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|align=center|[[File:TheOcelotandthePorridgeMaidenCover.png|150px|The Ocelot & the Porridge Maiden]] ||
|align=center|[[File:TheOcelotandthePorridgeMaidenCover.png|150px|The Ocelot & the Porridge Maiden]] ||
=====The Ocelot & The Porridge Maiden=====
=====The Ocelot & The Porridge Maiden=====
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A children's book that is one of [[Strong Sad]]'s all-time favorites, [[Strong Bad Classics!|defaced by Strong Bad]] for Worldbuilders 2014.
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A children's book that is one of [[Strong Sad]]'s all-time favorites, defaced by Strong Bad for Worldbuilders 2014.
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|[[Strong Bad Classics!|Strong Bad Classics!]]
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== Old Maid Bevulon Sportsinterviews ==
== Old Maid Bevulon Sportsinterviews ==
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|align=center|[[File:TwitterLooptieLie.PNG|150px|Here we go looptie-loo.]] ||
|align=center|[[File:TwitterLooptieLie.PNG|150px|Here we go looptie-loo.]] ||
=====Here we Go, Looptie-Loo! (and nothing more)=====
=====Here we Go, Looptie-Loo! (and nothing more)=====
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A children's book from a [[@StrongBadActual Tweets 2019#1870325079697817660|deleted scene]] from [[the next april fools thing]].
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A children's book (published by [[Cheap As Free]] with the same "{{w|Little Golden Books}}" spine as several of Lem's books) about the addition of "looptie-lie" to the children's folk song "Here we Go, Looptie-Loo".
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|{{postref|1087032507969781766|20|Jan|2019}} (deleted scene from [[the next april fools thing]])
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== Edgar Allen<!--sic--> Sportsinterviews ==
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A parody of macabre writer [[Edgar Allan Poe]].
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|align=center|[[File:The Oar on the Floor.PNG|150px|The Oar on the Floor]] ||
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=====The Oar on the Floor and other inventory poems=====
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A poetry collection playing on the ''Vampire's Castle'' response "the Oar is on the Study floor".
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|[[Disk 4 of 12 - Vampire's Castle]]
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==Lem Sportverslaggever==
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The Dutch "Sportverslaggever" roughly translates to "Sportsinterviews", though ''verslaggever'' is closer to "reporter" than "interview".
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|align=center|[[File:Omsol.png|150px|Omsol en de Rommelige Kamer]]||
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=====Omsol en de Rommelige Kamer=====
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A Dutch board book (translating to "Omsol and the Messy Room"), based on a [[fan costume]] of [[Homsar]] with the shirt deliberately misread as [[Omsol]]. The book is orange, the national color of the Netherlands, {{wp|Oranjegekte|most notably in the context of sporting events.}}
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|[[Fan 'Stumes 2022]]
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Current revision as of 01:32, 15 July 2024

Books by various Sportsinterviewses appear in several toons, usually in Easter eggs. Leomard Sportsinterviews appears frequently, as does Beverly; other authors typically make one-off appearances.

Contents

[edit] Leomard Sportsinterviews

Cover Description Appearances
This Book is Better Than 1st, 2nd, and Quite Possibly Even 3rd Base
[edit] This Book is Better Than 1st, 2nd, and Quite Possibly Even 3rd Base

Strong Bad refers to the title of this book, and an Easter egg reveals its listing on Bookazon.com complete with several reviews.

Email studying
[edit] Why People in Hollywood Ought to Give Me $5,760

Mentioned by the suspiciously-named "Just Nobody Sportsinterviews" in a Bookazon.com review of This Book is Better Than 1st, 2nd, and Quite Possibly Even 3rd Base.

Everyone is Different
[edit] Everyone is Different

A children's book defaced by Strong Bad to pass it off as a children's book he wrote.

Email kids' book
That Time of Year
[edit] That Time of Year

That Time of Year is a children's Decemberween book defaced by Strong Bad to pass it off as a children's book he wrote.

Decemberween in July (That Time of Year)
Thy Dungeonman Instruction Manual
[edit] Thy Dungeonman instruction manual

The 400-page instruction manual for Thy Dungeonman primarily consists of 395 pages of lore, telling the story of a young man named Collagen beginning a quest to become a Dungeonman.

[edit] Beverly Sportsinterviews

Beverly "Bev" Sportsinterviews is a parody of children's/young-adult fiction author Beverly Cleary. Her books frequently win literary awards, spoofing awards like the Newbery Medal. The books' titles are all based on Strong Bad Email senders' names and/or locations, and appear in Easter eggs.

Cover Description Appearance
Ewww, Claire!! Why???
[edit] Ewww, Claire!! Why???

The title of this book spoofs the sender's location of "Eau Claire, WI".

Email origins
Laramie, Why?
[edit] Laramie, Why?

The title of this book mocks the sender's town of "Laramie, Wy".
Lem Sportsinterviews co-authored this novel.

Email secret identity
"Cat," spoke Anne, "Wash!"
[edit] "Cat," spoke Anne, "Wash!"

The title of this book combines the email's sender and hometown: "Kat, Spokane, Wash."

Email pop-up
Problem Brian
[edit] Problem Brian

The title of this book is based on Strong Bad's imagined expansion of sender's initials "PB".

Email specially marked
Scar, Let Moe!
[edit] Scar, Let Moe!

The title of this book mocks "Scarlet, MO", with the titular "Moe" bearing the likeness of Moe Howard of The Three Stooges. The subtitle (likely doubling as a meta-commentary on the quality of the pun) is "a real stretch".

Email hiding
[edit] Boss Ton, Mass

A play on Boston, Massachusetts, this unseen book is described as a "bizarre office-church-weightlifting novel".

@StrongBadActual tweet (16 Sep 2017)

[edit] Crazy Prof. Sportsinterviews

The books by Crazy Prof. Sportsinterviews parody the works of children's author Dr. Seuss. These also appear in Strong Bad Email Easter eggs.

Cover Description Appearance
Two heads, an arm, and one great story
[edit] The Fish was Delish and it made Quite a Dish!

The cover illustration references Green Eggs and Ham as well as One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

Email radio
Little Jakey Pleasenthanks
[edit] Little Jakey Pleasenthanks

The title of this book mocks the sender closing their email with "Thanks, Jake".

Email cliffhangers

[edit] Leomardbury Chauceinterviews

His name parodies 14th-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

Cover Description Appearance
The Ocelot & the Porridge Maiden
[edit] The Ocelot & The Porridge Maiden

A children's book that is one of Strong Sad's all-time favorites, defaced by Strong Bad for Worldbuilders 2014.

Strong Bad Classics!

[edit] Old Maid Bevulon Sportsinterviews

Cover Description Appearance
Here we go looptie-loo.
[edit] Here we Go, Looptie-Loo! (and nothing more)

A children's book (published by Cheap As Free with the same "Little Golden Books" spine as several of Lem's books) about the addition of "looptie-lie" to the children's folk song "Here we Go, Looptie-Loo".

@StrongBadActual tweet (20 Jan 2019) (deleted scene from the next april fools thing)

[edit] Edgar Allen Sportsinterviews

A parody of macabre writer Edgar Allan Poe.

Cover Description Appearance
The Oar on the Floor
[edit] The Oar on the Floor and other inventory poems

A poetry collection playing on the Vampire's Castle response "the Oar is on the Study floor".

Disk 4 of 12 - Vampire's Castle

[edit] Lem Sportverslaggever

The Dutch "Sportverslaggever" roughly translates to "Sportsinterviews", though verslaggever is closer to "reporter" than "interview".

Cover Description Appearance
Omsol en de Rommelige Kamer
[edit] Omsol en de Rommelige Kamer

A Dutch board book (translating to "Omsol and the Messy Room"), based on a fan costume of Homsar with the shirt deliberately misread as Omsol. The book is orange, the national color of the Netherlands, most notably in the context of sporting events.

Fan 'Stumes 2022

[edit] See Also

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