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{{featuredimage|fourthwalling.png|150px|Good morning, reality!}}
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Sometimes, the [[Characters|characters]] "'''[[Fourth Wall Breaks|break the fourth wall]]'''" by displaying awareness that they are in an Internet cartoon. Fourth wall breakages are common in [[Strong Bad Email]]s; [[Strong Bad]] often addresses the viewers, and references to his "email show" are made. Addressing the viewer, however, isn't necessarily breaking the fourth wall. Strong Bad may believe that he has a [[Wikipedia:webcam|webcam]] that follows him around during the email show. Just because the characters realize they are being shown on a website doesn't mean they are breaking the fourth wall. A fictional character speaking into a fictional camera to a future audience hasn't necessarily broken the fourth wall. If they were to refer to being in a cartoon or to refer to being cartoon characters, ''that'' would be breaking the fourth wall. '''[[Fourth Wall Breaks|(More...)]]'''
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Sometimes, the [[characters]] '''[[Fourth Wall Breaks|break the fourth wall]]''' by displaying awareness that they are in an Internet cartoon. Fourth wall breakages are common in [[Strong Bad Email]]s; Strong Bad often addresses the viewers, and references to his "email show" are made. Some of these supposed "fourth wall breaks" may be explained by assuming that Strong Bad has a live [[Wikipedia:webcam|webcam]] show in which he answers e-mails, or that he is talking to an imaginary audience, but in other instances the characters actually refer to the fact that they are in cartoons, which is a real fourth wall break. '''[[Fourth Wall Breaks|(More...)]]'''

Current revision as of 04:32, 21 May 2007

Good morning, reality!

Sometimes, the characters break the fourth wall by displaying awareness that they are in an Internet cartoon. Fourth wall breakages are common in Strong Bad Emails; Strong Bad often addresses the viewers, and references to his "email show" are made. Some of these supposed "fourth wall breaks" may be explained by assuming that Strong Bad has a live webcam show in which he answers e-mails, or that he is talking to an imaginary audience, but in other instances the characters actually refer to the fact that they are in cartoons, which is a real fourth wall break. (More...)

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