Soapbox

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The Soapbox is a small wooden shipping box that Homestar Runner has used as a podium in several toons. Its contents increase by one with every appearance. To get "on a soapbox" is a popular American idiom that means to make a flamboyant or persuasive speech in an unofficial setting. In every cartoon it has appeared in, and has been labeled, the amount of whatever is in the soapbox has increased by one. It started at eleven and is now at seventeen.

Appearances

• Email fingers — Homestar talks while standing on a box labeled "Eleven Soaps". In an Easter egg, one can see that an unconscious (or possibly dead) Strong Sad is crammed inside the box.
• Email army — Homestar recites his "fight speech" for the Homestarmy from atop a box labeled "Twelve of Them".
• Email record book — Homestar tells bad redneck jokes standing on a box labeled "Thirteen, Y'all".
• Email 4 branches — Homestar does math problems and explains Coulomb's law on a box labeled "Fourteen Times".
• Decemberween Short Shorts — While Homestar is singing to Coach Z, Coach Z sits on the soapbox, but it isn't labeled.
• Email business trip — Strong Sad gives a business lecture on the soapbox, now labeled "Fifteen Types".
• Everything Else, Volume 3 — Homestar jumps over the soapbox on the Toons menu of the DVD; the soapbox is unlabeled in this appearance.
• Email hiding — Animatronic Strong Bad stands on the soapbox labeled "Sixteen For You".
• Email magic trick — Strong Bad performs magic while standing on the soapbox, which is labelled "Seventeen For Free".