Talk:Strong Bad Smiling

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Dang, this is a top-notch page. Good work Miguel! ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 01:57, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

His smile is... fetching! - Qermaq - (^T/C)  04:25, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

He smiles through most of Candy Product, and it's CREEPY. Geh. --66.241.95.65 20:32, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Weird coincidence. This page (discussing how rarely SB smiles) goes up, and 4 days later we get an email full of what? SB smiling! - Qermaq - (^T/C)  18:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Notable?

With nearly two dozen appearances, I fail to see how his smile is notable... :S - Joshua 03:52, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

With 150 emails plus other appearance, I fail to see why not. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  03:58, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Still, we should rewrite the opening paragraph, 2 dozen is much more than 'few' :D Gerkuman 12:25, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm also unsure why this page is notable. I can understand pages like Strong Sad Smiling and Strong Mad Smiling — their names imply that their personalities are generally "sad" and "mad", respectively, and for them to smile is contrary to their general demeanors. Strong Bad on the other hand is "bad", but that doesn't necessarily imply a lack of smiling. In fact, I think that stereotypical villains smile a lot, but usually because they're doing something evil that gives them pleasure. I believe that a lot of Strong Bad's smiles are of this type, which is by no means contrary to his nature.

On top of this, the great number of instances of Strong Bad smiling makes me question its importance. If it's not an uncommon event at all, why are we noting it? It just means more work to pay attention to every instance of a common event and make sure we add it onto the end of this list.

So, unless I'm missing something, I'm beginning to think that this article should be deleted. Anybody agree or disagree? Trey56 23:05, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't think we need this page (or Strong Mad Smiling, for that matter). Seeing Strong Bad smile is not exactly a rare occurrence, and it doesn't draw the viewer's attention the way Strong Sad smiling would. Delete. — ^Sam_{Fisher (Come in, Lambert.)} 23:13, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually, he smiles quite a lot these days. Delort.Arkyopterix 11:46, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

I count 43 instances here and 341 articles total in Strong Bad's filmography, but he does smile more often now. I'm currently neutral. Bad Bad Guy 18:15, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Although I do think Trey56 was right about the fact smiling would not be out of character for the villain. Bad Bad Guy 21:16, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

I think it's a little unnecessary for Strong Sad and Strong Mad. Here it's just ridiculous. Why don't we create separate pages for Marzipan and What's-Her-Face and Bubs smiling. Or why stop at smiling? How 'bout we create a page for every time Strong Bad sits down, every time Homestar opens a door, and every time the KOT walks in from the right side of the screen. We're documenting common occurrences here. Please delete.--.Johnny Jupiter! ^talk _cont 23:30, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok, calm down Johnny. I agree that this should be deleted, at this point, it's a common thing for Strong Bad to do. One seventh of his appearances have him doing it. It sure isn't as noteable as Strong Sad Smiling, SB isn't manically depressed, and I can't remember the last time he has been a genuine villian. He's simply a normal guy now, one that doesn't really like his friends so much, what with all the mean things he does. Well, that last part was pointless, I just wanted to make a sentence out of links.--~ SlipStream 04:09, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

The only thing stopping me from changing my vote to delete is that 36 pages link here. What would we do with those? Bad Bad Guy 17:43, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Logically, if this page gets deleted we would have to remove the links. It seems almost everybody here agrees that SB's smiles aren't notable, so all the "Fun Facts" regarding them or referring to this page would have to be removed. All of the screenshots would also become useless, and the rest of the page links are on Talk pages, where they don't really matter. — ^Sam_{Fisher (Come in, Lambert.)} 18:14, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

The reason I had to bring that up was because when I tagged pages like The Virus and Modestly Hot Homsar the main argument pointed against me was "it gets linked to a lot." I weakly change my vote to delete.Bad Bad Guy 22:53, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Then maybe we should also get rid of the page on The Cheat Smiling, too, shouldn't we? MHarrington 20:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I am still of the opinion that among a few hundred appearances, a few dozen instances of Strong Sad smiling, which is decidedly agaiunst character, is in fact notable. Even if these smiles have become more frequent of late, it still remains that he is Strong Sad, and his showing happiness remains notable. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  20:48, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

This isn't Strong Sad though. Bad Bad Guy 21:27, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

"b" and "s" are right next to each other on my keyboard. (Don't ask.) Same argument applies. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  21:33, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Keep all. Any instance of Strong Bad smiling is notable; he is, after all, a bad, bad guy. If indeed it's becoming more common, then that is also significant, as it might signal a shift in his character, which we should document. (However, looking at the list, I still think it's relatively uncommon.) Furthermore, it would be a mistake to delete any of these articles. If we do, where are we going to move the information? It's unwise to delete so much data that has been here for as long as it has without moving it somewhere, because someone might have linked to it externally. These articles are a set, and they should stay together. — It's dot com 21:43, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree. Keep. Loafing 23:00, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

part-time job

Could someone teach me how to take a picture of the ending? Bad Bad Guy 22:44, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Press the print screen button, paste it into an image editing program, and crop as needed. —Shwoo 09:45, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Where is a print screen button? I use Internet Explorer 7. Bad Bad Guy 01:03, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

It's on your keyboard. "Prt Scrn", often in the pile of keys above the arrows. - Joshua 01:13, 3 April 2007 (UTC)