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Quote of the Week is a featured article, which means it showcases an important part of the Homestar Runner body of work and/or highlights the fine work of this wiki. We also might just think it's cool. If you see a way this page can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, feel free to contribute.

Checklist for new Weeklies:(INACTIVE) [edit]

Add appropriate new entries to Quote of the Week, Weekly Fanstuff and Sketchbook.
Add a new {{qotw}} line to the Quote of the Week character's page.
Check that the previous week's quote is on the mirror (Change the link to Mirror:, Show Preview and click the link)
- If it is, change it on Quote of the Week and the appropriate character page.
Update the dates on Quote of the Week Character Heads
Make sure the bot correctly updated Secret Pages XML Source#Weeklies XML File with weeklies.xml
Update {{whatsnew}} and H*R.com updates 2025

[edit] Ja What?

...all right, I've removed that silly "Ja" fact like, three times, and it keeps getting added back. What *is* the big deal here? Considering it's not actually a real word, and that Schenkel McDoo's grasp of the English language is tenuous at best, this fact seems pointless and demeaning. Should we put a fun fact in buried about how when he says "Yold Ones Vry" at the end, he actually means "Cold Ones Dry"? Some of these so-called "facts" are so ridiculously nitpicky it's not funny. -YK 23:53, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Are you aware of the linguistic relation between /y/ and /j/? - Qermaq - (^T/C)

23:55, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Ja, but that's really not the issue. "Yah" is perfectly acceptable; I've seen it spelled this way before. It isn't a glaring error that especially needs to be pointed out, because it's really not much more "incorrect", IMO, than Catsup/Ketchup. But let's be serious here. When you consider McDoo uses "Yah" in another line along with "Yold Ones Vry", which isn't proper grammar no matter *how* you look at it, it seems, as I said, excessively nitpicky. That, and I think TBC is allowed to make their characters talk as they want. But eh. -YK

00:00, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Apart from YK's rant, he has a point. It borders on speculation to assume that he was actually saying "ja". Admittedly, a word meaning "yes" fits there, and he does have a foreign name and accent ("Ja" actually means "yes" in at least 7 languages [1], most notably German - which would also match his accent). In my opinion, it's speculation, and a discussion here on the talk page is all the documentation we need. Loafing

00:01, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

...this wouldn't be the first time I've complained about some of us being a tad bit too nitpicky here... -YK

00:11, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Given that Taranchula are clearly portrayed as Scandinavian, I don't think it's at all unreasonable to speculate that they were saying "ja". I wouldn't call spelling it "yah" a goof, but I think noting that the real Scandinavian word is "ja" is worthwhile. Heimstern Läufer

04:24, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Oops, I didn't know they were Scandinavian. OK, now the fact makes perfect sense and it should be noted somewhere! Loafing

05:39, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Marshieween

I think the quote's from Marshieween. Awexome 22:25, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] help with syncing

I can't get the quotes to sync from itunes to my ipod. anyone know how to do that? --Shaggy 18:06, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Quote download

Am I alone in this? I tried to listen to the QOTW (Sweetness Sweetness) but I cannot get it to play. I have a new computer, but the archived MP3's work fine, just not the one on the official site. Any ideas? (Windows Vista) - Qermaq - (^T/C) 02:14, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

You having trouble with Hear It or Get It? (I have Vista, and I can get both to play just fine.) --Jay (Gobble) 02:17, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm running into some weirdness too. I go to the main page, and the current quote of the week is the grocery list thing ("Amazing thing, amazing thing," etc.). If I follow the link from the wiki to Strong Sad's "Sweetness, Sweetness" quote, I get a blank black page titled "Oops! You bwoke it." I suspect it may have been taken down? --DeathbyChiasmus 02:55, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm having the same problem (Mac OS X 10.5.x). I've even tried using a different browser and clearing cache. I am wondering if there is some weird cacheing somewhere along the line, rather than a local problem. wbwolf (t | ed) 03:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Same problem here. Windows XP, btw. But by doing proxy surfing I was able to hear it. Strange, strange, strange. Even hours later I can't get to http://www.homestarrunner.com/weeklies/ss_sweetness.mp3. It just tells me I bwoke it. =]

OptimisticFool 07:00, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm still getting a 404 from it, too.— Bassbone (^TALK

^CONT) 04:55, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Jay: On the site it works great. From this article it does not. - Qermaq - (^T/C)

05:43, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I cannot see the new QotW on the official site at all. It's still Homestar's grocery list. I've cleared my cache twice.— Bassbone (^TALK

^CONT) 07:22, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I am having the same problem as bassbone, i've cleared my cache 3 times but it's still the grocery list. it works fine in my PS3 web browser, but not my PC. hazzard4123 17:23, 21 June 2008

Well, I guess whatever happened is over now. MichaelXX2 01:44, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

This all seems to be more evidence for my theory that H*R is hosted on more than one server, with a load-balancer or something, and they don't always keep them in sync properly... things like this, the lime in Let us give TANKS!, passwords on .exe files like the screensavers... sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, depends what server you're hooked up to. --phlip ^T_C 08:57, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "if" vs. "of it"

I think that we should still put "of it" instead of "it" in the newest QotW because that is what Bubs said. The Brothers Chaps of course didn't mean to put "if". Plus I already mentioned this mistake in Goofs. Homestar-Winner (talk) 19:41, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Archive?

This page is getting awfully long. 73 kilobytes, to be exact. Should we employ some archiving here? I was thinking a style similar to the Weekly Fanstuff or Sketchbook. -- Super Martyo boing! 01:05, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

It's been mentioned before here. Heimstern Läufer

01:08, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Newest quote mirror

A message mainly for Tom, did you know that there still is no mirror mp3 of the newest Crack Stuntman quote? Homestar-Winner (talk) 02:56, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Get Smart Reference?

"We are just talkin' about Bubs with a piece of paper stapled to his face, right?" — In the recent Get Smart movie, Agent 23, played by The Rock, staples a piece of paper to another agent's face. I think this may well be a reference, though it's hard to prove it. — Defender1031*Talk 20:06, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, this quote seems to be a Happy Dethemberween blooper, which was made before Get Smart came out. So, this would be very unlikely. Homestar-Winner (talk) 20:51, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps. But i have long felt that it's possible that some of the supposed "outtakes" are actually made after the fact. — Defender1031*Talk 21:33, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Mmm, I dunno. And so, any thinking so would just be speculation, right? Homestar-Winner (talk) 02:36, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alternate link

I already did this, but is it okay to put up an alternate link to download the fist two QOWs with since we have no mirror to it? MichaelXX2 18:46, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

I removed them. As before, I doubt the authenticity of those recordings. The quality is very poor, lower than in the actual toons themselves. They appear to be recorded by someone other than the The Brothers Chaps. How did you find them? Do you know their source? -- Tom 19:00, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I recorded them myself. I thought they might be of assistance since we don't have a link...

— MichaelXX2

[edit] Download Help

I can't get any of these to download because I have Quicktime, which only allows downloads through a paid version that I don't have. Anyone know how to make Quicktime NOT the default download choice? Shaggy, who is currently not signed in.

If you right-click on the links in the list here, you should get a menu that you can choose "Save link" or "Save target" or similar... that should save straight to disk, rather than going through QuickTime. As for disabling QT completely (so that you could download them from the H*R site, for instance), I'm not sure... but it'd help to know what version of QuickTime you have, which browser (Internet Explorer? Firefox? Which version?) and which OS (Windows? Mac? Linux? Again, which version?). --phlip ^T_C 07:05, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

It's QT version 7.5.5, Internet Explorer, and WindowsXP. And the "Save target" worked, so thanks :)--Shaggy | talk 08:07, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Other

I don't know the source of the latest quote. Someone fix it please. Thanks! —Mas12806 (talk·contribs) 01:09, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

I believe it's a Most in The Graveyard outtake.

What does it have to do with Most in the Graveyard? Omnisweater 02:46, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Reanimation. --Belthazar 03:04, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Quote of the a few weeks

Has anyone noticed that the gaps btw qods are getting bigger? Seriously, they haven't changed it since, what, like Nov. 20? 'Tsup widdis?--Lifty Fernandez

It's most probably the same as any of the other delays in emails and toons and so on: working on the game or the recent DVD. --DorianGray 22:07, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

People have also noticed that the current quote is broken and has been for weeks, right? On the day the quote was originally going to have been switched out there was indeed a new quote there, briefly. Strangely it switched back within 6 hours and broke itself, and it hasn't been tended to since. --74.170.121.220 22:17, 14 January 2009 (EST)

[edit] Best quote of the week ever

Which quote of the week do you think is the coolest? Vote now, to stop this raging conflict. P.S. My favorite is "the hold music" from isp

Take this to the forum. And it's seriously not noice to lie about raging conflicts. BBG 00:29, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Quote of the Week "exclusive"

Should we really call every quote that seems to be an outtake of some toon but we can't tell which toon an "exclusive" quote? Most of what are currently known as QotW Exclusives seem to be outtakes. I think we should change them all to "Unknown", except for a few that really are exclusive quotes, like "This is the Quote of the Day!" one. Homestar-Winner (talk) 23:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah. These quotes are probably all being produced for some-or-other toon; we just don't know which ones. Is there any room for speculation? For example, a recent filename was "patcheer_yearbook.mp3", suggesting that it came from TGS14 and that the guy was Patchbeard. In this particular case, I wouldn't have realized this unless someone had suggested it. — It's dot com 01:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

I read that as "Pat Cheer yearbook" implying that it's some guy named pat. Still, it's clearly a yearbook inscription and thus clearly from TGS 14. — Defender1031*Talk 11:01, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Patchbeard. Still speculation. Still works. — It's dot com 20:44, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

So does anyone object to changing all of the "Quote of the Week exclusive"s to "Unknown"s? Homestar-Winner (talk) 21:02, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] How much xanthan gum can a fella take?

Would anyone be interested in adding "bulgar" and "xanthan gum" in the Explanations section? --69.19.14.29 15:41, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Career Day?

This weeks quote of the week sounds suspiciously like an outtake or deleted scene from Career Day, rather than a quote of the week exclusive. —Guard Duck ^talk 00:09, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

It could be, in theory, but where's the evidence? --Jay (Gobble) 00:28, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Sounds to me like Homestar is answering one of Marzipan's questions asked during class. Homestar-Winner (talk) 00:58, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I would have to agree; the general tone of Homestar's voice (more childish than usual) as well as what he's saying (also more childish than usual) suggests it. --97.113.163.224 05:49, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

It doesn't sound overly childish to me... no more so than usual anyway... — Defender1031*Talk 06:29, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I thought it was an outtake for Main Page 20. — It's dot com 19:53, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] One List

The quote of the week page was recently split into several pages for each year (like the Sketchbook and Weekly Fanstuff pages), but I believe it should remain as one long list ~~(okay, technically two, but on one page)~~. The quotes page, while moderately long, is not unbearably so, and the benefits of having all the quotes on one page far outweigh any page-length concerns. Most important is the fact that the tables can be sorted for easy searching and comparison of quotes over several years. (The sketchbook and weekly fanstuff pages are different in that there is no need to sort the tables, and the graphics take up much more space per entry.) — It's dot com 01:02, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

But what about browsers that can't edit pages as long as Quote of the Week? It is just as helpful having the list broken up, if not more. --Thy Not Dennis (^t/_c) 13:32, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Frankly, that seems to be spurious argument. While MediaWiki does complain when a page is too long, I'm not aware of any browser that cannot outright edit the page. The notice is more about a warning to make sure that data is properly kept track of. However, given the layout and nature of the page, I lean towards keeping it as is. wbwolf (t | ed) 14:14, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Then if you wanna keep the QOTW as a long list, then why is the fanstuff divided?--

Record307 ^Talk/_Contribs 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Because not dividing the Weekly Fanstuff would mean having to temporarily download hundreds of images of every single fanstuff that's ever existed from the server every time you just wanted to see the latest fanstuff. It's easier on your internet connection and speeds up your page viewing if you only need to download the year's fanstuff so far (a fraction of the total), rather than all the fanstuff so far. The Quote of the Week article contains only a dozen or so Character Heads so the images load pretty quickly. The text itself doesn't actually take long to appear in your browser so the amount of text isn't the issue here. But I wonder if the tables could be split up according to year? That way, you would have the choice to only edit the table of the corresponding year in which the quote appeared, instead of the entire table we have at the moment. – T he C hort 18:47, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Breaking it into separate tables would negate the advantage of having them on a single page, namely sorting, as dot com mentioned above. For example, you can sort by the character head, effectively allowing you to easily see all the quotes from a specific character, or by source to group them that way, etc. 64.198.255.1 19:49, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Do you know how much stuff we would have to change template wise to make this big move work out? — MichaelXX2

20:28, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Single ~~duece~~ list! It is easier and no known computer used today (besides the Lappy) is not strong enough to load this page.

As I've said before, the 32kb thing is just a benchmark, nothing more. On Wikipedia, IIRC that message doesn't even mention that some browsers might have problems, or even include the word "Warning". We probably should change the message here to match.

Fanstuff and Sketchbook it makes sense to split up, 'cause each row has its own image... if that was all in one page, there'd be several hundred images to download when you open the page (just look at how long it takes to load, say, Floppy Disk Container over a dialup connection... a one-page Fanstuff or Sketchbook would take even longer to load). The gains you get from paginating those outweigh the loss of sorting... and there's not much to sort on there, anyway. QotW doesn't have that problem - each row has an image, but they're smaller and heavily reused (it only needs to load SB's head once, for instance). And there's more use to be gained from having it all in one sortable table - the "Character head", "Quote" and "Source" columns can all be sorted to group the quotes by the face, who's talking, or which toon it's from.

So, in short: QotW doesn't have the problems that Fanstuff and Sketchbook have that made splitting those pages a good idea, and it does have features that would be made worse by splitting it up. So don't. --phlip ^T_C 23:17, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Well, don't we already have one of these for the sketchbook and the weekly fanstuff? Or, are those a part of the pages themselves? — Stavey the Stupid Hippie 23:06, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Forreally One List

Since the one-list discussion has come up again, how about the other side... What do people think about merging the two lists into one? Just leaving the "Head" column blank for the quotes before they were added... --phlip ^T_C 09:43, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

They're two file types, .zip and .mp3. It's easier to have them in two lists. --Thy Not Dennis (^t/_c) 12:07, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure why the different filetypes should be important... I'm thinking more in terms of why we have it all on one page to begin with – for the sortable tables. There's really nothing special about the quotes themselves that means they should be in a different section... they just happened to be released before some random date that some stuff was changed. --phlip ^T_C 12:10, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

That's a pretty good idea. I went ahead and tried it out. Looks fine to me. — It's dot com 23:21, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Fanstuf QoTW's = "Not" Exclusive

Well, since there have been 2 Fanstuff QoTW's, I believe that they shouldn't be labeled as QoTW exclusives, but as Fanstuff QoTW's. It makes sense, doesn't it? --Darkangel 04:13, 26 June 2009 (UTC) On a side note, whoah, where have I been!?

[edit] July 23, 2009

I see that the most recent quote of the week has been labeled "Quote of the Week exclusive". I think it should say "imaginary outtake". is there any way to determine if a quote actually is an outtake from the toon, or can i just go ahead and change it? The Knight s Who Say Ni 17:28, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Go ahead. This is quite obviously a reference to his line in imaginary. --66.29.169.1 17:49, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

I wasn't really thinking when I wrote that. It probably is an outtake. free 18:36, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

I was thinking. There are a number of quotes like this labeled as an "outtake" when they're really more like alternatives to what was actually said. Could "alternative" be added as a category?--Shaggy | talk 22:03, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

That's what an outtake is, an alternate take that wasn't used. Calling something an outtake doesn't signify anything about the quality of the take, only about whether it's part of the finished product. In other words, outtakes don't have to be bloopers. — It's dot com 00:43, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] It's here!

It's still cut off for me. I even restarted my network service on Linux, and still it cuts off! Cold Reactive 12:12, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, it's working poifecly fine for me. Homestar-Winner (talk) 15:55, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

It's been cutting me off too. "It's here! IT'S HERE-" I wonder what's going on?--66.29.169.1 16:04, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

We're aware of this problem. I believe Dot com's looking into it. Everything is probably fine; nothing is probably ruined. Heimstern Läufer

16:05, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

I went ahead and mirrored a known good version. This is likely another instance of unsynchronized multiple servers. — It's dot com 23:50, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for all the fish!

Cold Reactive 00:36, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

it's fixed, it's fixed, it's fina-lully fixed 75.67.225.156 14:21, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Determining the status of a quote

How do you guys decide whether a quote is an outtake, a blooper, an extended take, an exclusive, etc.? Neox ONION BUBS! 00:38, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Its pretty simple. an Blooper is when they say a line, but there's an obvious mess-up. An outtake is when they say a line, but use a few different words. An extended take is when in the toon, not the whole sentence is completed, but the QOTW is. And, exclusive is when we've never heard it before. Simple. StrongAwesome74 00:47, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

To clarify:

outtake: Any take that is not used in the final product. We use the label outtake when none of the more-specific labels below will do, and items with that label are typically takes that feature an alternate wording from what ended up in the toon.
blooper: A specific kind of outtake where someone flubs a line or makes some other mistake.
extended take: A clip where a portion of the audio was part of the toon but the rest was not. The extra portion is included as a bonus.
exclusive: A clip that was prepared especially to be a quote of the week. We used to label more things as exclusive than we do now. Previously, anything we couldn't identify was labeled exclusive, but now we reserve it for things that are unequivocally unique and label everything else as unknown.

It's dot com 04:35, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Stale Cornbread

Bubs's quote that references A Decemberween Pageant on 16 Feb 2006 could not have been an outtake from that cartoon. If you listen closely, his voice is of the newer style, and the quality is much better than the Chaps could have produced during their Cool Edit Pro 'era'. However, the line would make sense in context when replacing his actual line in myths & legends, which was released 3 days earlier, and after his line he does a dance that references Dancin' Bubs, so it probably is from that sbemail.

[edit] Watch those hands, David Coppactuallyfromtheemailandnotanouttake...feel.

I'm just telling you, the QotW, "Hey! Watch those hands, David Coppafeel!" said by Marzipan, are actually from the email and not an outtake. "Let the KOT have some!" sounds like an alternate take more than an actual outtake, since the KOT's line is "Let the king have some!" on the actual email. --h o m_{j e}s_{a n}a rtalk^contr. 22:05, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

The first one you mentioned is clearly an outtake. if you compare the QOTW and the toon, they're very distinctly different. The second one, though also distinctly different sounding, does have different words, so you might be onto something... Strong Awesome

22:14, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mike Chapman's Album?

The Geddup Noise and Cool Tapes "Doley-O" quotes are not only in stereo, but they are also labelled, in the Album section "Mike Chapman's Album". I think the StinkoMetal quote had something like this too. Are there any other stereo and/or Mike Chapman's Album quotes of the weeks? SBE-mail Checker Dan 02:56, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Some odd results? More like, none at all!

Currently the page says that a message will come up when there is no quote in the Flash file. However, it currently shows "undefined" rather than one of the two messages. I have confirmed this as early as 21 December 2009. Is this a glitch, or is it really different and should the page be updated? -- ■■ PURPLE WRENCH ■■ 20:55, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Removal

It doesn't look like the next "weeklies" are ever coming. Should the checklist at the top of the page be removed? (Note that I have also removed the checklist from Talk:Podstar Runner - it was almost certain that the next Podstar Runner toon would never come.) And if sbemail206 doesn't come soon, should the checklist at the top of Talk:Strong Bad Email be removed? Rick Tommy (edits) 07:12, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Why? Even if it takes ten years before the next one comes out, it'll be better to have than checklist there than have to dig through the history to remember what it was. And it's not like it's getting in the way as is. Heimstern Läufer

07:16, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

I completely agree with Heimstern. Almost nothing on the site is being updated, so if you be patient, the weeklies will be useful again. --209.148.176.136 12:06, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Am I imagining things?

Did there used to be a link on this page that, when clicked on, would give you a bulk of past QotWs? I swear I remember this. If so, Where did it go? If not, please call an ambulance. -- Lazylaces Talk 04:53, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

You're not going mad. I can see them too. You're just as sane as I am. -~~Luna Lovegood~~ But really, It's dot com took that out a surprisingly long time ago. I honestly thought it was still there.

The Knight s Who Say Ni

05:16, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Are you sure you linked to the correct edit of mine there, if I in fact did what you're talking about? All I did in the linked edit is combine the two lists into one long list. — It's dot com 05:43, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Any time before that edit, there was a link in the Contents box to "Older Quotes" that started at November 11, 2004. It went away when dc made that edit. I believe that's what Lazylaces was talking about. If not, Lazylaces will have to give a more accurate description of "a bulk of past QotWs".

The Knight s Who Say Ni

22:39, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

He's talking about a link to a .zip archive that was maintained for a while by The Paper. It was removed once it was obsolete. — It's dot com 00:25, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

that makes sense. it was kind of before my time, so i wouldn't know. so i'm leaving this discussion.

The Knight s Who Say Ni

03:37, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Quote Missing

The unedited remix quote from June 25, 2009 called "Power Crunch", which was listed under trivia, is now missing from the linked site. Does anyone have this mp3 so we can put it back on the wiki? --DENNIS ^T/_C 15:49, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Fonts

What font is the qowt text? -- Gfdgsgxg zgdrc 20:17, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Marzipan as Chigurh: outtake or exclusive

An anonny recently changed "Call it, friendo" to be an I Killed Pom Pom outtake, something I was hesitant to do when I originally added the quote. I went ahead and reverted it to a Quote of the Week exclusive. I don't think we can definitively call it an outtake. Based on the finished toon, it doesn't seem having her dress as Chigurh got very far into the planning process, and for all we know it was intended to be a joke from the very beginning. — It's dot com 18:43, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Change it to "Possible I Killed Pom Pom outtake". There is no definite proof that supports either argument. Maybe this was a quote that got cut when Marzipan's costume was changed. Maybe Marzipan was intended to be Tom Servo from the start. None of us know. Homestar-Winner (talk)|

Well then we shouldn't speculate in that column. The possible I Killed Pom Pom connection is covered by the fun facts. And actually, according to the guide above, we don't know for sure that it's an exclusive, so it should be labeled as unknown. — It's dot com 17:07, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

[edit] Notes column

Down in the fun facts, we note how the quote is related to the sketchbook released the same day. I'm wondering if we should move these notes on specific quotes into their own column up in the table itself. — It's dot com 18:43, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

I actually think that makes more sense than what we're currently doing, so I second the motion. --Jay (Gobble) 19:42, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

[edit] Marking as inactive

I brought this up in an above thread, but now that 1) it's been even longer and 2) @StrongBadActual seems to have replaced the Weeklies, I more strongly believe that the checklist should be ~~removed~~ marked as inactive. Rick Tommy (edits) 01:32, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

I don't see why that would be helpful. We mark some of our internal processes, such as FAS, as inactive because their activity is dependent entirely on our own userbase and will not be restarted without a decision made here. By contrast, usage of our weeklies checklist is based entirely on an external factor and thus its activity or lack thereof is not based on what we do. I don't see any value in marking it inactive. Heimstern Läufer

02:07, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Concur. Nothing has changed since the last time this was brought up. Maybe there will never be another QotW, but if there is, we've got the procedure ready to go. Removing it does nothing except make us have to look for it when we need it. I'm not sure that we need the inactive label at all, but as long as there could be a new one, this is not inactive. — It's dot com 02:44, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. That's exactly what I've said earlier.

Gfdgsgxg zgdrc 04:11, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

[edit] Not Working

Quote of the Week doesn't seem to work on the new site. Wolf O'Donnel 04:25, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

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-The fact that these dates won't line up is driving me nuts. Is there some snippet of code we can use to add a date in a sort of uniform manner? -- [[User:AgentSeethroo|AgentSeethroo]] 13:38, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)
+{{Template:Talk:Quote of the Week}}
+{{featuredarticle}}
-:Ask and ye shall receive.  Actually, I came here to ask you if you liked the table, but found your note.  You like?  --    [[User:Tom|Tom]] 13:50, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)
+{{talkchecklist|Checklist for new Weeklies:|inactive=true}}
-::Yeah, it looks wicked! I looked at the code, and even though it's probably rudimentary HTML, I'm lost on it. That's probably gonna be your thing. -- [[User:AgentSeethroo|AgentSeethroo]] 13:55, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)
+*Add appropriate new entries to [[Quote of the Week]], [[Weekly Fanstuff]] and [[Sketchbook]].
+*Add a new {{tl|qotw}} line to the Quote of the Week character's page.
+*Check that the previous week's quote is on the mirror (Change the link to Mirror:, Show Preview and click the link)
+**If it is, change it on [[Quote of the Week]] and the appropriate character page.
+*Update the dates on [[Quote of the Week Character Heads]]
+*Make sure the bot correctly updated [[Secret Pages XML Source#Weeklies XML File]] with [[HR:weeklies/weeklies.xml|weeklies.xml]]
+*Update {{tl|whatsnew}} and [[H*R.com updates {{CURRENTYEAR}}]]
+|}<br/>
-:::Okay, I did the whole thing.  It looks kind of weird now, since some of the quotes are so long.  I don't like how the date and download links get moved down.  How about another form of writing the date?  I tried another one in the first three, check it out.  --  [[User:Tom|Tom]] 14:05, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)
+== Ja What? ==
-::::It looks pretty good, but not uniform, ya know? How can we make the long quotey ones look...not jacked up? -- [[User:AgentSeethroo|AgentSeethroo]] 14:09, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)
+...all right, I've removed that silly "Ja" fact like, three times, and it keeps getting added back. What *is* the big deal here? Considering it's not actually a real word, and that Schenkel McDoo's grasp of the English language is tenuous at best, this fact seems pointless and demeaning. Should we put a fun fact in [[buried]] about how when he says "Yold Ones Vry" at the end, he actually means "Cold Ones Dry"? Some of these so-called "facts" are so ridiculously nitpicky it's not funny. -{{User:YK/sig}} 23:53, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
+:Are you aware of the linguistic relation between /y/ and /j/? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 23:55, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
+::Ja, but that's really not the issue. "Yah" is perfectly acceptable; I've seen it spelled this way before. It isn't a glaring error that especially needs to be pointed out, because it's really not much more "incorrect", IMO, than Catsup/Ketchup. But let's be serious here. When you consider McDoo uses "Yah" in another line along with "Yold Ones Vry", which isn't proper grammar no matter *how* you look at it, it seems, as I said, excessively nitpicky. That, and I think TBC is allowed to make their characters talk as they want. But eh. -{{User:YK/sig}} 00:00, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
+:::Apart from YK's rant, he has a point. It borders on speculation to assume that he was actually saying "ja". Admittedly, a word meaning "yes" fits there, and he does have a foreign name and accent ("Ja" actually means "yes" in at least 7 languages [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja#Andere_Sprachen], most notably German - which would also match his accent). In my opinion, it's speculation, and a discussion here on the talk page is all the documentation we need.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 00:01, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
+::::...this wouldn't be the first time I've complained about some of us being a [[Talk:Rap Song#New Math|tad bit too nitpicky]] here... -{{User:YK/sig}} 00:11, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
+:::::Given that Taranchula are clearly portrayed as Scandinavian, I don't think it's at all unreasonable to speculate that they were saying "ja". I wouldn't call spelling it "yah" a goof, but I think noting that the real Scandinavian word is "ja" is worthwhile. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 04:24, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
+::::::Oops, I didn't know they were Scandinavian. OK, now the fact makes perfect sense and it should be noted somewhere!{{User:Loafing/sig}} 05:39, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
-:::::Yeah. [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table This] might be of some help.  I think this might be the most confusing Wiki format there is.  Maybe someone else has some ideas... Joey?  --  [[User:Tom|Tom]] 14:17, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)
+==Marshieween==
-::::::This may be a stupid question, but can you use html throughout MediaWiki? Or just when creating tables? -- [[User:AgentSeethroo|AgentSeethroo]] 14:38, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)
+I think the quote's from Marshieween. [[User:Awexome|Awexome]] 22:25, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
-:::::::I think it works everywhere.  <strong>Strong?</strong> <em>Em?</em> <strike>Strike?</strike> <tt>Tt?</tt>  Yup.  Well, at least those tags work.  But it's important to use wikitext where possible.  I know that's one thing that Wikignomes do on Wikipedia, they fix someone's crazy HTML and make it simple to understand wikitext.  --  [[User:Tom|Tom]] 15:20, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)
+== help with syncing ==
+I can't get the quotes to sync from itunes to my ipod. anyone know how to do that?
+--[[User:Shaggy|Shaggy]] 18:06, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
-Um hath anys peoples realized that half thy links have been 404'd?
+== Quote download ==
---[[User:Clever Dan|Clever Dan]] 17:42, 9 Oct 2004 (MST)
-:Yeah, if someone happens to have those quotes mirrored, it would be great to be able to link to them. --[[User:oddtodd|oddtodd]] 14:45, 22 Nov 2004 (MST)
+Am I alone in this? I tried to listen to the QOTW (Sweetness Sweetness) but I cannot get it to play. I have a new computer, but the archived MP3's work fine, just not the one on the official site. Any ideas? (Windows Vista) {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:14, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
+: You having trouble with Hear It or Get It? (I have Vista, and I can get both to play just fine.) --{{User:Jay/sig}} 02:17, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
+:: I'm running into some weirdness too.  I go to the main page, and the current quote of the week is the grocery list thing ("Amazing thing, amazing thing," etc.).  If I follow the link from the wiki to Strong Sad's "Sweetness, Sweetness" quote, I get a blank black page titled "Oops!  You bwoke it."  I suspect it may have been taken down?  --[[User:DeathbyChiasmus|DeathbyChiasmus]] 02:55, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
+:::I'm having the same problem (Mac OS X 10.5.x).  I've even tried using a different browser and clearing cache.  I am wondering if there is some weird cacheing somewhere along the line, rather than a local problem. {{User:Wbwolf/sig}} 03:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
+::::Same problem here.  Windows XP, btw.  But by doing proxy surfing I was able to hear it.  Strange, strange, strange.  Even hours later I can't get to http://www.homestarrunner.com/weeklies/ss_sweetness.mp3.  It just tells me I bwoke it.  =]  {{User:OptimisticFool/sig}} 07:00, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
+:::::I'm still getting a 404 from it, too.{{User:Bassbone/sig}} 04:55, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
+::::::Jay: On the site it works great. From this article it does not. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 05:43, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
+:::::::I cannot see the new QotW on the official site at all. It's still Homestar's grocery list. I've cleared my cache twice.{{User:Bassbone/sig}} 07:22, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
+::::::::I am having the same problem as bassbone, i've cleared my cache 3 times but it's still the grocery list. it works fine in my PS3 web browser, but not my PC. hazzard4123 17:23, 21 June 2008
+:::::::::[[QOD|Well, I guess whatever happened is over now]]. [[User:MichaelXX2|MichaelXX2]] 01:44, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
+::::::::This all seems to be more evidence for my theory that H*R is hosted on more than one server, with a load-balancer or something, and they don't always keep them in sync properly... things like this, the lime in [[Let us give TANKS!]], passwords on .exe files like the [[Homestar Runner and Strong Bad Screensaver|screensavers]]... sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, depends what server you're hooked up to. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 08:57, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
-::Okay, I have a mirror for a few of them. Most of them I don't have, though. --FatPamPam
+== "if" vs. "of it" ==
-Also, if you keep pressing the QotW button, you don't just get Homestar's broken speech bubble, but you also get a frame where he's saying 'undefined' -- Matt 16:59, 25 Nov 2004 (MST)
+I think that we should still put "of it" instead of "it" in the newest QotW because that is what Bubs said. The Brothers Chaps of course didn't mean to put "if". Plus I already {{p|l=http://hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Quote_of_the_Week&diff=575054&oldid=575045 mentioned this mistake}} in Goofs. {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 19:41, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
-== blabittablough ==
+== Archive? ==
-Am I the only one that hears a very clear z at the beginning of the last "word" of the 12/16 quote? I suggested "zabbitablough" as a more accurate transcription, but it was reverted. (BTW, I agree with "blabittablough" in the actual email, but this sounds different.)
+This page is getting awfully long. 73 kilobytes, to be exact. Should we employ some archiving here? I was thinking a style similar to the [[Weekly Fanstuff]] or [[Sketchbook]]. --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 01:05, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
-:I hear a "Z," as well. -- [[User:FortyTwo|FortyTwo]]
+:It's been mentioned before [[HRWiki:Main_Page_Talk_Archive_22#Too_long.2C_Clanky.21|here]]. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 01:08, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
-:Yup. That's definitely a Z. Try changing it again.
-Well, it says "zabittablough" on the QOD thing.--[[User:oopsyoubwokeit|oopsyoubwokeit]] 14:26, 25 Mar 2005 (MST)
+== Newest quote mirror ==
-== QoD files ==
+A message mainly for [[User:Tom|Tom]], did you know that there still is no mirror mp3 of the newest Crack Stuntman quote? {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 02:56, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
-Hi all,
+== Get Smart Reference? ==
-Just wondering if anyone was interested in these files I found on my HD. If so, I could upload them somewhere for a while. They seem to all be QoDs, though I can't be sure. (One of them (sb_possums.zip) might not be the original download, but a rezip.)
+"We are just talkin' about Bubs with a piece of paper stapled to his face, right?" &mdash; In the recent [[Wikipedia:Get Smart (film)|Get Smart]] movie, Agent 23, played by The Rock, staples a piece of paper to another agent's face. I think this may well be a reference, though it's hard to prove it. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 20:06, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
+:Well, this quote seems to be a [[Happy Dethemberween]] blooper, which was made ''before'' Get Smart came out. So, this would be very unlikely. {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 20:51, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
+::Perhaps. But i have long felt that it's possible that some of the supposed "outtakes" are actually made after the fact. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 21:33, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
+:::Mmm, I dunno. And so, any thinking so would just be speculation, right? {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 02:36, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
-[[User:The Archon|The Archon]]
+== Alternate link ==
-File list begins:
+I already did this, but is it okay to put up an alternate link to download the fist two QOWs with since we have no mirror to it?
+[[User:MichaelXX2|MichaelXX2]] 18:46, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
-blc_hateusomuch.zip
+:I removed them.  As [[#Mirrors_behind_mirrors.|before]], I doubt the authenticity of those recordings.  The [[Audio Quality|quality]] is very poor, lower than in the actual toons themselves.  They appear to be recorded by someone other than the [[The Brothers Chaps]].  How did you find them?  Do you know their source?&nbsp;-- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 19:00, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
-bubs_cantdrive.zip
+:Actually, I recorded them myself. I thought they might be of assistance since we don't have a link...
+{{User:MichaelXX2/sig}}
-bubs_chickenshine.zip
+== Download Help ==
-bubs_sugarspice.zip
+I can't get any of these to download because I have Quicktime, which only allows downloads through a paid version that I don't have. Anyone know how to make Quicktime NOT the default download choice? Shaggy, who is currently not signed in.
+:If you right-click on the links in the list here, you should get a menu that you can choose "Save link" or "Save target" or similar... that should save straight to disk, rather than going through QuickTime. As for disabling QT completely (so that you could download them from the H*R site, for instance), I'm not sure... but it'd help to know what version of QuickTime you have, which browser (Internet Explorer? Firefox? Which version?) and which OS (Windows? Mac? Linux? Again, which version?). {{User:Phlip/sig}} 07:05, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
-cc_theme.zip
+It's QT version 7.5.5, Internet Explorer, and WindowsXP. And the "Save target" worked, so thanks :)--[[User:Shaggy|Shaggy]] | [[User talk:Shaggy|talk]] 08:07, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
-cz_bdhman.zip
-email_rokk.zip
+==Other==
+I don't know the source of the latest quote. Someone fix it please. Thanks! {{User:Mas12806/sig}} 01:09, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
-gunhaver_rro.zip
+I believe it's a Most in The Graveyard outtake.
-hsgirl_likefunny.zip
+What does it have to do with Most in the Graveyard? [[User:Omnisweater|Omnisweater]] 02:46, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
+:Reanimation. --[[User:Belthazar|Belthazar]] 03:04, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
-hs_brutus.zip
+== Quote of the a few weeks ==
-hs_grabbinbutt.zip
+Has anyone noticed that the gaps btw qods are getting bigger? Seriously, they haven't changed it since, what, like Nov. 20? 'Tsup widdis?--{{User:Lifty Fernandez/sig}}
+:It's most probably the same as any of the other delays in emails and toons and so on: working on the game or the recent DVD. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 22:07, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
+People have also noticed that the current quote is broken and has been for weeks, right? On the day the quote was originally going to have been switched out there was indeed a new quote there, briefly. Strangely it switched back within 6 hours and broke itself, and it hasn't been tended to since. --74.170.121.220 22:17, 14 January 2009 (EST)
-hs_letmein.zip
+== Best quote of the week ever ==
-HS_PEE.ZIP
+Which quote of the week do you think is the coolest?  Vote now, to stop this raging conflict.
+P.S. My favorite is "the hold music" from [[isp]]
+:Take this to the forum.  And it's seriously not noice to lie about raging conflicts. {{User:Bad Bad Guy/sig}} 00:29, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
-HS_REPS.ZIP
+== Quote of the Week "exclusive" ==
-hs_thatsbupkis.zip
+Should we really call every quote that seems to be an outtake of some toon but we can't tell which toon an "exclusive" quote? Most of what are currently known as QotW Exclusives seem to be outtakes. I think we should change them all to "Unknown", except for a few that really are exclusive quotes, like [[Quote of the Week#QW-quote of the day|"This is the Quote of the Day!"]] one. {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 23:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
+:Yeah. These quotes are probably all being produced for some-or-other toon; we just don't know which ones. Is there any room for speculation? For example, a recent filename was "patcheer_yearbook.mp3", suggesting that it came from [[TGS14]] and that the guy was [[Patchbeard]]. In this particular case, I wouldn't have realized this unless someone had suggested it. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 01:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
+::I read that as "Pat Cheer yearbook" implying that it's some guy named pat. Still, it's clearly a yearbook inscription and thus clearly from [[TGS 14]]. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 11:01, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
+:::'''Pat'''chbeard. Still speculation. Still works. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:44, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
+::::So does anyone object to changing all of the "Quote of the Week exclusive"s to "Unknown"s? {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 21:02, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
-hs_thnikkaman.zip
+== How much xanthan gum can a fella take? ==
-k_assaulted.zip
+Would anyone be interested in adding "bulgar" and "xanthan gum" in the Explanations section? --[[Special:Contributions/69.19.14.29|69.19.14.29]] 15:41, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
-labordaysong_hs.zip
+== Career Day? ==
-larry_fromzeen.zip
+This weeks quote of the week sounds suspiciously like an outtake or deleted scene from [[Career Day]], rather than a quote of the week exclusive. {{User:GuardDuck/sig}} 00:09, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
+: It ''could'' be, in theory, but where's the evidence? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 00:28, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
+::Sounds to me like Homestar is answering one of Marzipan's questions asked during class. {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 00:58, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
+:::I would have to agree; the general tone of Homestar's voice (more childish than usual) as well as what he's saying (also more childish than usual) suggests it. --[[Special:Contributions/97.113.163.224|97.113.163.224]] 05:49, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
+::::It doesn't sound overly childish to me... no more so than usual anyway... {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 06:29, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
+:::::I thought it was an outtake for [[Main Page 20]]. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 19:53, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
-marshie_whatmore.zip
+== One List ==
-oldaboy2_missvg.zip
+The quote of the week page was recently split into [[:Template:Quote of the Week|several pages<!--feel free to remove this link if it turns red-->]] for each year (like the [[Sketchbook]] and [[Weekly Fanstuff]] pages), but I believe it should remain as one long list <s>(okay, technically two, but on one page)</s>. The quotes page, while moderately long, is not unbearably so, and the benefits of having all the quotes on one page far outweigh any page-length concerns. Most important is the fact that the tables can be sorted for easy searching and comparison of quotes over several years. (The sketchbook and weekly fanstuff pages are different in that there is no need to sort the tables, and the graphics take up much more space per entry.) &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 01:02, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
+:But what about browsers that can't edit pages as long as Quote of the Week? It is just as helpful having the list broken up, if not more. --{{User:T3H_CH3K7_888/sig}} 13:32, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
+::Frankly, that seems to be spurious argument.  While MediaWiki does complain when a page is too long, I'm not aware of any browser that cannot outright edit the page.  The notice is more about a warning to make sure that data is properly kept track of.  However, given the layout and nature of the page, I lean towards keeping it as is. {{User:Wbwolf/sig}} 14:14, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
+:::Then if you wanna keep the QOTW as a long list, then why is the fanstuff divided?--{{User:Record307/sig}} 15:05, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
+::::Because not dividing the Weekly Fanstuff would mean having to temporarily download hundreds of images of every single fanstuff that's ever existed from the server every time you just wanted to see the latest fanstuff. It's easier on your internet connection and speeds up your page viewing if you only need to download the year's fanstuff so far (a fraction of the total), rather than ''all'' the fanstuff so far. The Quote of the Week article contains only a dozen or so [[Quote of the Week Character Heads|Character Heads]] so the images load pretty quickly. The text itself doesn't actually take long to appear in your browser so the amount of text isn't the issue here. But I wonder if the tables could be split up according to year? That way, you would have the choice to only edit the table of the corresponding year in which the quote appeared, instead of the entire table we have at the moment. {{User:The Chort/sig}} 18:47, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
+:::::Breaking it into separate tables would negate the advantage of having them on a single page, namely sorting, as dot com mentioned above.  For example, you can sort by the character head, effectively allowing you to easily see all the quotes from a specific character, or by source to group them that way, etc. [[Special:Contributions/64.198.255.1|64.198.255.1]] 19:49, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
+::::::Do you know how much stuff we would have to change template wise to make this big move work out? {{User:MichaelXX2/sig}} 20:28, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
+::::::: Single <strike>duece</strike> list! It is easier and no known computer used today (besides the Lappy) is not strong enough to load this page.
+:::::::: As I've [[HRWiki:Main Page Talk Archive 22#Too long, Clanky!|said]] [[Talk:Quote of the Week/Archive 2#Sort By Year|before]], the 32kb thing is just a benchmark, nothing more. On Wikipedia, IIRC that message doesn't even mention that some browsers might have problems, or even include the word "Warning". We probably should change the message here to match.
+:::::::: Fanstuff and Sketchbook it makes sense to split up, 'cause each row has its own image... if that was all in one page, there'd be several hundred images to download when you open the page (just look at how long it takes to load, say, [[Floppy Disk Container]] over a dialup connection... a one-page Fanstuff or Sketchbook would take even longer to load). The gains you get from paginating those outweigh the loss of sorting... and there's not much to sort on there, anyway. QotW doesn't have that problem - each row has an image, but they're smaller and heavily reused (it only needs to load SB's head once, for instance). And there's more use to be gained from having it all in one sortable table - the "Character head", "Quote" and "Source" columns can all be sorted to group the quotes by the face, who's talking, or which toon it's from.
+:::::::: So, in short: QotW doesn't have the problems that Fanstuff and Sketchbook have that made splitting those pages a good idea, and it does have features that would be made worse by splitting it up. So don't. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 23:17, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
+::::::::: Well, don't we already have one of these for the sketchbook and the weekly fanstuff? Or, are those a part of the pages themselves? &mdash; {{User:Stupid Hippie/sig}} 23:06, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
-sbhs_havetojump.zip
+== Forreally One List ==
-sbz_backoff.zip
+Since the one-list discussion has come up again, how about the other side... What do people think about merging the two lists into one? Just leaving the "Head" column blank for the quotes before they were added... {{User:Phlip/sig}} 09:43, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
+:They're two file types, .zip and .mp3. It's easier to have them in two lists. --{{User:T3H_CH3K7_888/sig}} 12:07, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
+::I'm not sure why the different filetypes should be important... I'm thinking more in terms of why we have it all on one page to begin with &ndash; for the sortable tables. There's really nothing special about the quotes themselves that means they should be in a different section... they just happened to be released before some random date that some stuff was changed. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 12:10, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
+:::That's a pretty good idea. I went ahead and {{p|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Quote_of_the_Week&oldid=644305 tried it out}}. Looks fine to me. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:21, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
-sb_brudder.zip
+== Fanstuf QoTW's = "Not" Exclusive ==
-sb_giftshop.zip
+Well, since there have been 2 Fanstuff QoTW's, I believe that they shouldn't be labeled as QoTW exclusives, but as Fanstuff QoTW's. It makes sense, doesn't it? --{{User:Darkangel/sig}} 04:13, 26 June 2009 (UTC) On a side note, whoah, where have I been!?
-SB_JIG.ZIP
+==July 23, 2009==
+I see that the most recent quote of the week has been labeled "Quote of the Week exclusive". I think it should say "imaginary outtake". is there any way to determine if a quote actually is an outtake from the toon, or can i just go ahead and change it? {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 17:28, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
+:Go ahead. This is quite obviously a reference to his line in imaginary. --[[Special:Contributions/66.29.169.1|66.29.169.1]] 17:49, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
+::I wasn't really thinking when I wrote that. It probably is an outtake. {{User:Theycallmefree/sig}} 18:36, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
+:::I was thinking. There are a number of quotes like this labeled as an "outtake" when they're really more like alternatives to what was actually said. Could "alternative" be added as a category?--[[User:Shaggy|Shaggy]] | [[User talk:Shaggy|talk]] 22:03, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
+::::That's what an outtake is, an alternate take that wasn't used. Calling something an outtake doesn't signify anything about the quality of the take, only about whether it's part of the finished product. In other words, outtakes don't have to be bloopers. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:43, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
-sb_kingmessup.zip
+== It's here! ==
-SB_MATT.ZIP
+It's still cut off for me. I even restarted my network service on Linux, and still it cuts off! {{User:ColdReactive/sig}} 12:12, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
+:Well, it's working poifecly fine for me. {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 15:55, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
+::It's been cutting me off too. "It's here! IT'S HERE-" I wonder what's going on?--[[Special:Contributions/66.29.169.1|66.29.169.1]] 16:04, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
+:::We're aware of this problem. I believe Dot com's looking into it. Everything is probably fine; nothing is probably ruined. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 16:05, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
+::::I went ahead and mirrored a known good version. This is likely another instance of unsynchronized multiple servers. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:50, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
+:::::Thanks for all the fish! {{User:ColdReactive/sig}} 00:36, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
-sb_possums.zip
+it's fixed, it's fixed, it's fina-lully fixed [[Special:Contributions/75.67.225.156|75.67.225.156]] 14:21, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
-sb_sneakup.zip
+== Determining the status of a quote ==
-ss_animal.zip
+How do you guys decide whether a quote is an outtake, a blooper, an extended take, an exclusive, etc.? {{User:Neox/sig}} 00:38, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
-ss_foodanymore.zip
+:Its pretty simple. an Blooper is when they say a line, but there's an obvious mess-up. An outtake is when they say a line, but use a few different words. An extended take is when in the toon, not the whole sentence is completed, but the QOTW is. And, exclusive is when we've never heard it before. Simple. [[User:StrongAwesome74|StrongAwesome74]] 00:47, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
+::To clarify:
+::*'''outtake:''' Any take that is not used in the final product. We use the label outtake when none of the more-specific labels below will do, and items with that label are typically takes that feature an alternate wording from what ended up in the toon.
+::*'''blooper:''' A specific kind of outtake where someone flubs a line or makes some other mistake.
+::*'''extended take:''' A clip where a portion of the audio was part of the toon but the rest was not. The extra portion is included as a bonus.
+::*'''exclusive:''' A clip that was prepared especially to be a quote of the week. We used to label more things as exclusive than we do now. Previously, anything we couldn't identify was labeled exclusive, but now we reserve it for things that are unequivocally unique and label everything else as unknown.
+::[[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 04:35, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
-ss_marzipan.zip
+== Stale Cornbread ==
-stinko_whatRUdoing.zip
+Bubs's [[Quote_of_the_Week#QW-2006-02-16|quote]] that references [[A Decemberween Pageant]] on 16 Feb 2006 could not have been an outtake from that cartoon. If you listen closely, his voice is of the newer style, and the quality is much better than the Chaps could have produced during their Cool Edit Pro 'era'. However, the line would make sense in context when replacing his actual line in [[myths & legends]], which was released 3 days earlier, and after his line he does a dance that references [[Dancin' Bubs]], so it probably is from that sbemail.
-== Mirror ==
-Who does the mirrors for the QOWs? The human wedgie one still isn't on there... &rarr;[[User:evin290|evin290]] 12:52, 27 Feb 2005 (MST)
+== Watch those hands, David Coppactuallyfromtheemailandnotanouttake...feel. ==
-== HRWiki Mirror Uploads ==
+I'm just telling you, the QotW, "Hey! Watch those hands, David Coppafeel!" said by Marzipan, are actually from the email and not an outtake. "Let the KOT have some!" sounds like an alternate take more than an actual outtake, since the KOT's line is "Let the king have some!" on the actual email.
+--{{User:Homsar Jean/sig}} 22:05, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
+:The first one you mentioned is clearly an outtake. if you compare the QOTW and the toon, they're very distinctly different. The second one, though also distinctly different sounding, '''does''' have different words, so you might be onto something... {{User:StrongAwesome74/sig}} 22:14, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
-Is there any way for users to upload files to hrwiki.org/mirror? --[[User:Gafaddict|Gafaddict]] 27 Feb 2005, 22:23 (GMT)
+== Mike Chapman's Album? ==
-:Nope.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]]  --  [[User:Tom|Tom]] 22:21, 27 Feb 2005 (MST)
+The Geddup Noise and Cool Tapes "Doley-O" quotes are not only in stereo, but they are also labelled, in the Album section "Mike Chapman's Album". I think the StinkoMetal quote had something like this too. Are there any other stereo and/or Mike Chapman's Album quotes of the weeks? [[User:SBE-mail Checker Dan|SBE-mail Checker Dan]] 02:56, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
-== Error ==
+== Some odd results? More like, none at all! ==
-Hi my name is Jess.  I have never done wiki before.
+Currently the page says that a message will come up when there is no quote in the Flash file. However, it currently shows "undefined" rather than one of the two messages. I have confirmed this as early as 21 December 2009. Is this a glitch, or is it really different and should the page be updated? --{{User:Purple Wrench/sig}} 20:55, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
-I was looking at this quote:
+== Removal ==
-Strong Bad: Oh. Why do you...guys...like me anymore. I-I've lost it!  origins outtake.
+It doesn't look like the next "weeklies" are ever coming. Should the checklist at the top of the page be removed? (Note that I have also removed the checklist from [[Talk:Podstar Runner]] - it was almost certain that the next Podstar Runner toon would never come.) And if sbemail206 doesn't come soon, should the checklist at the top of [[Talk:Strong Bad Email]] be removed? {{User:RickTommy/sig}} 07:12, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
+:Why? Even if it takes ten years before the next one comes out, it'll be better to have than checklist there than have to dig through the history to remember what it was. And it's not like it's getting in the way as is. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 07:16, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
+::I completely agree with Heimstern. Almost nothing on the site is being updated, so if you be patient, the weeklies will be useful again. --[[Special:Contributions/209.148.176.136|209.148.176.136]] 12:06, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
-I don't think the origins strong bad email is the right source for this quote of the week.  I just watched the cartoon and I didn't hear the quote in the main toon or in the easter eggs.
+== Am I imagining things? ==
-Jess
+Did there used to be a link on this page that, when clicked on, would give you a bulk of past QotWs? I swear I remember this. If so, Where did it go? If not, please call an ambulance. {{User:Lazylaces/sig}} 04:53, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
+:You're not going mad. I can see them too. You're just as sane as I am. -<s>Luna Lovegood</s> But really, It's dot com took that out {{p|l={{FULLURL:Quote of the Week|diff=644305&oldid=643877}} a surprisingly long time ago}}. I honestly thought it was still there. {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 05:16, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
+::Are you sure you linked to the correct edit of mine there, if I in fact did what you're talking about? All I did in the linked edit is combine the two lists into one long list. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 05:43, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
+:::Any time before that edit, there was a link in the Contents box to "Older Quotes" that started at November 11, 2004. It went away when dc made that edit. I believe that's what Lazylaces was talking about. If not, Lazylaces will have to give a more accurate description of "a bulk of past QotWs". {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 22:39, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
+::::He's talking about a link to a .zip archive that was maintained for a while by [[User:The Paper|The Paper]]. It {{p|l={{FULLURL:Quote of the Week|diff=433576&oldid=433554}} was removed}} once it was obsolete. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:25, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
+:::::that makes sense. it was kind of before my time, so i wouldn't know. so i'm leaving this discussion. {{User:The Knights Who Say Ni/sig}} 03:37, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
-:Hi there Jess.  Yeah, it doesn't seem right.  Any ideas?[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]]  --  [[User:Tom|Tom]] 17:45, 12 Mar 2005 (MST)
+== Quote Missing ==
-::I'm putting in "unknown" for the time being. --[[User:Gafaddict|Gafaddict]] 22:19, 12 Mar 2005 (MST)
+The unedited remix quote from June 25, 2009 called "Power Crunch", which was listed under trivia, is now missing from the [http://dod.vgmix.com/past/sep08/05tie-VikingGuitar-Stinkoman20X6-Crunch-DoD.mp3 linked site]. Does anyone have this mp3 so we can put it back on the wiki? --{{User:DENNIS/sig}} 15:49, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
-:::I am quite sure that it IS an outtake from origins. Compare the following two lines:
+== [[Fonts]] ==
-:::'''[[Strong Bad]] (QOD):''' ''Oh. Why do you''...guys...like me anymore. I-I've lost it!
-:::'''STRONG BAD (Origins):''' ''Ugh! Why do you'' Van Peebles always wanna know the origins and histories of every freakin' little thing? Like, do you wanna know how Strong Sad got his belly button, too?
-:::The tone is very identical in the parts that match (made italic here). This leads me to believe that it IS indeed an outtake from origins (don't forget, outtakes are recordings that go wrong and are scrapped - they are not part of the final version).
-:::While I am the one who originally added outtake to the attribution (originally, it just said origins), I'll let you guys compare for yourselves. --[[User:83.88.139.125|83.88.139.125]] 15:26, 14 Mar 2005 (MST)
-::::I'm still not convinced, though. The context for the two quotes are entirely different, though the tone ''is'' the same. --[[User:Gafaddict|Gafaddict]] 19:26, 15 Mar 2005 (MST)
-:::::How on earth do you determine context on a single line? If you mean that the text is different, then that's obvious - it's an outtake, so it would HAVE to be wrong (one way or the other). Besides, I don't recall hearing another possible match in any other toon. --[[User:83.88.139.125|83.88.139.125]] 07:20, 16 Mar 2005 (MST)
-::::::In the outtake, Strong Bad is talking about how everyone likes him. In "origins", he is talking about why he hates that everybody wants to "know the origins of every single little thing". --[[User:Gafaddict|Gafaddict]] 13:18, 16 Mar 2005 (MST)
-:::::::Improvisation is not uncommon in outtakes. It could very easily be explained by Matt forgetting what he was supposed to say, then trying to make up something to go along. And again, I don't see any other potential sources (but feel free to point them out if you have any). --[[User:83.88.139.125|83.88.139.125]] 15:55, 16 Mar 2005 (MST)
-Okay, I just noticed something interesting.  Taking a look at the first line of the code for this file, I see "ID3 TT2 sbemail123_messup TEN iTunes v4.7.0.42 COM h engiTunNORM"  Problem solved, and it look like we were right with "[[origins]] outake."[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]]  --  [[User:Tom|Tom]] 13:01, 19 Mar 2005 (MST)
+What font is the qowt text? --{{User:Gfdgsgxgzgdrc/sig‎}} 20:17, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
-:FWIW, that would be the ID3v2 tag. We should probably make a note to check for those things in the future. Most audio players (Winamp, for one) should show that info, so there's no need to get out Notepad or a hex editor or whatever you used :). (I can't believe it was really that simple.) --[[User:83.88.139.125|83.88.139.125]] 18:14, 19 Mar 2005 (MST)
+== Marzipan as Chigurh: outtake or exclusive ==
-==Zip file==
+An anonny recently changed "Call it, friendo" to be an [[I Killed Pom Pom]] outtake, something I was hesitant to do when I originally added the quote. I went ahead and reverted it to a Quote of the Week exclusive. I don't think we can definitively call it an outtake. Based on the finished toon, it doesn't seem having her dress as Chigurh got very far into the planning process, and for all we know it was intended to be a joke from the very beginning. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:43, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
+:Change it to "Possible [[I Killed Pom Pom]] outtake". There is no definite proof that supports either argument. Maybe this was a quote that got cut when Marzipan's costume was changed. Maybe Marzipan was intended to be Tom Servo from the start. None of us know. {{User:Homestar-Winner/sig}}|
+::Well then we shouldn't speculate in that column. The possible [[I Killed Pom Pom]] connection is covered by the fun facts. And actually, [[#Determining the status of a quote|according to the guide above]], we don't know for sure that it's an exclusive, so it should be labeled as unknown. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 17:07, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
-I'd like to see these all put into zip file(s) to easily download them all at once. As soon as I get an iPod, these are going on there. -- [[User:nintendorulez|nintendorulez]] 18:07, 15 Mar 2005 (MST)
+== Notes column ==
-:Ask and ye shall receive! [http://www.strongfans.com/upload/ThePaper/AZ487_Q1.zip ZIP #1] and [http://www.strongfans.com/upload/ThePaper/DZ215_Q2.zip ZIP #2] (The server I use has an upload limit of 2MB, so that's why I had to split them up.) Hope this is helpful anways! --[[User:The Paper|The Paper]] 06:24, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)
+Down in the fun facts, we note how the quote is related to the sketchbook released the same day. I'm wondering if we should move these notes on specific quotes into their own column up in the table itself. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:43, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
+: I actually think that makes more sense than what we're currently doing, so I second the motion. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:42, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
-::Sweet! Thanks, I hope some others find this helpful too. [[User:nintendorulez|nintendorulez]] 18:38, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)
+== Marking as inactive ==
+I brought this up in an above thread, but now that 1) it's been even longer and 2) [[@StrongBadActual]] seems to have replaced the Weeklies, I more strongly believe that the checklist should be <s>removed</s> marked as inactive. {{User:RickTommy/sig}} 01:32, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
+:I don't see why that would be helpful. We mark some of our internal processes, such as FAS, as inactive because their activity is dependent entirely on our own userbase and will not be restarted without a decision made here. By contrast, usage of our weeklies checklist is based entirely on an external factor and thus its activity or lack thereof is not based on what we do. I don't see any value in marking it inactive. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 02:07, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
+::Concur. Nothing has changed since the last time this was brought up. Maybe there will never be another QotW, ''but if there is'', we've got the procedure ready to go. Removing it does nothing except make us have to look for it when we need it. I'm not sure that we need the inactive label at all, but as long as there ''could'' be a new one, this is not inactive. &mdash; [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 02:44, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
+:::Yes, I agree. {{p|l=http://hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Quote_of_the_Week&diff=769258&oldid=769255 That's exactly what I've said earlier.}} {{User:Gfdgsgxgzgdrc/sig‎}} 04:11, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
-==3/17/2005==
+==Not Working==
-Does anyone have the March 17th Quote of the Week?  Sadly, it's gone from H*R now.&mdash;[[User:StrongstarRunbad|StrongstarRunbad]] 11:02, 27 Mar 2005 (MST)
-:Added.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]]  --  [[User:Tom|Tom]] 23:34, 27 Mar 2005 (MST)
+Quote of the Week doesn't seem to work on the new site. [[User:Wolf O&#39;Donnel|Wolf O&#39;Donnel]] 04:25, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
-== Lost QoDs==
-I have a theory that might work. I know it's possible to record the sound from your comp (no clue how, but I know it can be done), so theoretically, couldn't someone record the QoDs without a mirror straight from the toons? It'd come out the same as the QoD, and that could be added to the mirror. -- [[User:nintendorulez|nintendorulez]] 14:38, 28 Mar 2005 (MST)
-:Sorry, but it's not the same.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]]  --  [[User:Tom|Tom]] 23:18, 29 Mar 2005 (MST)
-::Darn. Well, it is better than nothing, right?
-== Funniest word style ever ==
-Apparently, someone made a useless page that listed the empty "Quote of the Week" phrase as different than the picture here. He went about it the wrong way, but he was actually right - at least when halfway on the on the virus Main Page, it really has changed, and to what he said it was. Is this worth note anywhere? --[[User:Jay|<span style = "color: #9090FF">''Jay''</span>]] [[User talk:Jay|<span style = "color: #006030"><small>(Talk)</small></span>]] 15:56, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
-:As I was TRYING to say before the database went down, it says:
- "Oh Haldo! This is my
- funniest word style
- ever times that I've
- said! Hope all is on
- to it even more
- lately! And I wish the
- chicken & msg place
- was open on
- Somedays"
-:Lot of H*R refs in this one, huh? --[[User:Jay|<span style = "color: #9090FF">''Jay''</span>]] [[User talk:Jay|<span style = "color: #006030"><small>(Talk)</small></span>]] 16:03, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
-== Umm... Un-mirrored quotes not working ==
-Is it me or are loads of the un-mirrord quotes not working for download? it brings me to the HSR 404'D page.
-:Yes, noname, you are right. It seems all the ZIP files from 3 May 2004 to 11 Nov 2004 have been removed from the site. Give Tom a week or two and we should have all these set up for download through the wiki server (mirror). I don't know if the macintosh 'sit' files will ever be mirrored. {{User:The Paper/sig}} 08:32, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
-== Repeated QoD? ==
-They repeated the "human wedgie" quote today...why?
-Yes, that doesn't really make sense...the only difference is it's AaAaahHmm instead of I'm. --[[User:ISlayedTheKerrek|ISlayedTheKerrek]] 18:10, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
-== You're A Girl ==
-That link doesn't work. Neither do any of the "external links." I can't find it anywhere. Where is it? --[[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 01:09, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
-:You will find "'''youreagirl.mp3'''" in my updated [http://www.strongfans.com/upload/ThePaper/allquote0616.zip quote pack]. If you want to take the song directly from Flash, save and open [http://www.strongfans.com/upload/ThePaper/qod1111.swf this file]. I'm glad I saved all those Flash files from last year—when TBC still embedded the quote file into Flash. :) {{User:The Paper/sig}} 08:23, 1 Jul 2005 (UTC)
-Hey, thanks, man! --[[User:24.66.94.141|24.66.94.141]] 06:27, 2 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Quote of the Week

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[edit] Get Smart Reference?

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[edit] How much xanthan gum can a fella take?

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[edit] Determining the status of a quote

[edit] Stale Cornbread

[edit] Watch those hands, David Coppactuallyfromtheemailandnotanouttake...feel.

[edit] Mike Chapman's Album?

[edit] Some odd results? More like, none at all!

[edit] Removal

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