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Regarding the following:

"The song Strong Bad is singing is "Knocking On Heaven's Door," 
a song by a popular Christian group called Avalon)"

I listened to the Avalon song and I have to admit that what Strong Bad is singing is closer to it than the Bob Dylan classic. SB says "keep on knockin on heaven's door", the refrain from the Avalon song, not the classic Dylan hit. Surprised the heck out of me! - Drhaggis 17:43, 1 Nov 2004 (MST)

• The song Strong Bad is singing is "Knocking On Heaven's Door," a song by a popular Christian group called Avalon.
  • Given the Brothers Chaps' love of pop culture refrences, it seems much more likely that Strong Bad is singing "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," a very famous Bob Dylan song that has been covered by Eric Clapton, Guns N' Roses, Warren Zevon, Avril Lavigne, Elvis Costello, and others.
  • The melody of the song Strong Bad is singing is nothing like that of Bob Dylan's "Knocking on Heaven's Door." Perhaps TBC haven't really heard Dylan's song at this point, but they've heard of it.
  • Whatever Strong Bad sings at anytime, he rarely establishes a melody, so he COULD be singing anyone of those. I go with GNR.

I still think it might be the unrelated Avalon song, but I prefer Mr. Dylan's. - Dr Haggis - Talk 22:31, 13 Feb 2005 (MST)

I just listened to a clip of the Avalon song at Amazon and I can't hear any resemblance between it and what Strong Bad sings. I'm inclined to go with the Dylan tune, considering how ingrained into the cultural consciousness it is. — InterruptorJones[[]] 22:48, 13 Feb 2005 (MST)

Sync

Strong Bad's movements aren't in sync when using Firefox. But in Internet Explorer, he's fine (provided your computer is fast enough). I don't know why, but Firefox has a frame limiter in its version of Flash, making some movies not play right.

• I don't think Firefox has a "version of flash." Flash is done with embed tags, causing the browser to load the flash binary. That doesn't mean that firefox doesn't affect flash, but it doesn't have its own implementation (like it does for PNGs) --Buz

I agree. Furthermore, I don't notice any thing odd in Firefox. -- Tom 08:05, 17 Dec 2004 (MST)

And I'm on IE and it runs out of sync for me. I don't know what causes it, but it clearly isn't the browser. --Upsilon

I could see this happening on an older (read: slower) computer. Flash is fairly CPU- and memory-intensive (compared to, say, HTML at least) and an older computer might have trouble running Firefox and Flash at the same time as all of the Windows and IE bloat that's always running in the background. — InterruptorJones[[]] 22:37, 13 Feb 2005 (MST)

Yes. I was the one who added that fun fact and at the time I was using IE. I just went back to it now (using Firefox) and it appears alright, but this is a different computer then when I saw it in IE. ~Rainer~

There's an option when you add a sound in Flash labelled "Sync with movie" or something like that, that makes it skip frames when being viewed on a slow computer so as to keep up with the sound. Usually if it plays too slowly on an old computer it just takes longer to play, making any sound lose sync. I guess they just forgot to turn it on this time. phlip 06:57, 7 Apr 2005 (MDT)