Awesome

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Time to brush up on your awesome, then.

Sometimes the word awesome gets used in contexts where one might not normally use it. It might have even become one of Strong Bad's catchphrases, along with, "Holy Crap!"

As A Noun

• Email some kinda robot — Strong Bad asks Abdi LaRue if he uses his super powers "for good, or for awesome".
• Email butt IQ — Strong Bad boasts, "On a scale of one to awesome, I'm super great".
• Email band names — Dan suggests "For Good Or For Awesome" as a band name.
• Email coloring — The email begins, "Dear Awesome". Strong Bad responds, "Oh! Somebody finally got it right!"
• Strong Bad Gameways — Strong Bad boasts to have an "awesome-based crew".
• Strong Badia the Free — After Strong Bad conquers Pompomerania, the reporter says, "Maybe we should all start brushing up on our 'awesome'! "
• Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective — The highest rank has the label, "Codename: Awesome!"
• SBCG4AP Collector's DVD — An ad on the Store Front Page boasts, "Get all 5 awesome-packed actionsodes of Strong Bad's point-and-click-em-up adventure game on one DVD!"

As Part of an Original Word

(Some of these words cannot be found in traditional dictionaries, but they have entries in the Urban Dictionary that precede their uses in h*r. Do they belong here?)

• A Secret Page consists of Strong Bad raising his hands repeatedly next to text reading, "I am awesomer than you."
• Email monster truck — Strong Bad advertises Awexome Cross 98.
• Email local news — Strong Bad boasts that Action Cool 5 is "investiga-awesome".
• Drive-Thru — Strong Bad precedes the bottle rocket's launch by telling The Cheat, "This is gonna be bro-awesome".
• Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People — This Wiki keeps bringing up the "awesomeness meter", but do they ever actually call it that in the game?
• Homestar Ruiner: Strong Bad boasts that he'll check emails from "Awesome to Zawesome".
• Strong Badia the Free — Strong Bad pulls out a glowing drink and tells Pom Pom, "prepare to be blinded by awesomosity".
• Baddest of the Bands:
  • Bubs claims to have an "omnipotent, omnipresent, and omni-awesome" security robot.
  • Strong Bad exclaims that spending a day with Limozeen sounds "so Tremendously-awesome-that-it-kinda-hurts-my-brain-and-I-maybe-need-some-aspirin!"
• Baddest of the Bands, Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective, and 8-Bit is Enough — Strong Bad calls the Max shirt, "the most rarest, awesomest shirt ever!"
• Email dictionary — Costrick calls Strong Bad, "the superest, awesomest guy ever", and says that makes him "sawesome". Also, Strong Bad uses the word "zawesome" again.
• Poker Night at the Inventory — Strong Bad says "Flops are stupid, but floppy disks are analog-awesome."

Kick-Awesome

• Email space program — Strong Bad admits that The Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil blew their budget on their "kick-awesome" logo.
• Lappynapped! — Strong Bad seeks a "kick-awesome guitarist".
• Homestar Ruiner — Strong Bad desires a "kick-awesome" trophy.

Gags That Don't Fit The Above Categories

• Email rock opera — The word "awesome" gets sung twice in a row.
• Email underlings — Clicking the word "awesome" leads to an Easter Egg featuring two TV show clips.
• Baddest of the Bands — Marzipan gives Strong Bad an autographed Cool Tapes picture reading, "To awesome Strong Bad. You are not awesome. Love, Marzipan."

Miscellaneous Appearances

• Homestar Talker: Originally, the phrase, "Making out with Marzipan is totally awesome!" unlocked the Strong Bad Talker.
• Quote of the Week — One quote features Blue Laser Commmander saying, "Awesome! Just awesome!"