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[[Image:Commandos in the Classroom.PNG|thumb|Commandos in the Classroom!]]

The [[Cheat Commandos]] teach about inappropriate peer-2-teen choice behaviors.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Gunhaver}}, {{Film|Fightgar}}, {{Film|Silent Rip}}, {{Film|Crackotage}}, {{Film|Reynold}}, {{Film|Blue Laser Minion}}, {{Film|Firebert}}, {{Film|Blue Laser Commander}}, {{Film|Reinforcements}}

'''Places:''' [[Cheat Commandos HQ]], [[Price Style]], Seedy Bar, [[Blue Laser HQ]] (Easter egg)

'''Date:''' Tuesday, September 13, 2005

'''Running Time:''' 4:15

'''Page Title:''' Buy all our Teaching Aids and Filmstrips!

{{dvd|Everything Else, Volume 2}}
== Transcript ==
''{Open to Cheat Commandos headquarters; a title which reads "'MOVIE NIGHT!' written by A. Chimendez Jr." appears. Cut to some Cheat Commandos at [[The Screen]].}''

'''CRACKOTAGE:''' Movie night is my favorite night. I think it is my favorite night. Hee hee hoo hoo!

'''SILENT RIP:''' Are you even trying anymore?

''{Crackotage looks offended and sad.}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' All right boys, time for a little R&R. Tonight we've got the old family favorite ''Pony Fights 2''!!!

''{the lights dim, and the big screen cuts to the green rating screen. It reads:}''
<blockquote style="background:#0C0; color:#FFF; padding:1em; width:500px; border:none; font-weight:bold; text-align:center; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">THE FOLLOWING FILM HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR 
CERTAIN AUDIENCES 
BY SOME PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHAT'S BEST 
 
IT BE RATED
{| cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="background:none; border:1px #FFF solid; margin:0 auto; color:white"
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| style="border:1px #FFF solid;" | PG-13
| style="border:1px #FFF solid;" | FOR SEVERE CUSSING AND ''VERY'' ILLEGAL PONY FIGHTS
|}
</blockquote>

'''EVERYBODY:''' Yay! Yeah!

'''SILENT RIP:''' All right! PG-13!

'''GUNHAVER:''' Uh, sorry Reynold, ''{He flicks the lights back on.}'' I'm afraid lights-out for you is at oh-now hundred hours!

'''FIGHTGAR:''' Yeah, all that cuss-language might give you nightmares. Ah-ha ha ha.

'''REYNOLD:''' Oh, I can handle it. Why, I can even swear a cuss myself! ''{clears throat}'' Diaper biscuits.

'''OTHER COMMANDOS:''' ''{unrestrained laughter}''

'''REYNOLD:''' Oh, I can't do anything right. I might as well go home and get teen pregnant.

''{The other commandos gasp, Fightgar covers his mouth in surprise, Slient Rip spills some of his popcorn, and the Blue Las-Alert siren sounds once.}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' Easy there, Cheat Cuss-mando, you just made an inappropriate peer-to-teen choice behavior!

'''REYNOLD:''' A whaaa?

''{cut to the black and white Commandos in the Classroom logo, which looks like Reynold in a mortarboard cap pointing a pointer at an A+}''

'''ANNOUNCER:''' ''{singing}'' Commandos in the Classroom!

''{Cut to another black-and-white slide that reads "LESSON 4: INAPPROPRIATE PEER-2-TEEN CHOICE BEHAVIORS". At the bottom in fine print it reads "*TEACHERS, USE THIS TIME TO CATCH A NAP OR HAVE A SMOKE."}''

'''ANNOUNCER:''' Lesson four: Inappropriate peer-to-teen choice behaviors!

''{Cut back to Gunhaver and Reynold in Cheat Commandos HQ}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' Here, Reynold, lemme show you.

''{Gunhaver points the remote at the screen, which briefly shows two ponies fighting in a field. The other commandos start to cheer but then immediately groan as the picture changes to a diagram of a person's head showing the brain.}''

'''SILENT RIP:''' I was watchin' the ponies...

'''GUNHAVER:''' The brain is divided into two halves:

''{The brain in the diagram gets a jagged line down the middle}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' —the good half—

''{A dotted line points to the left half saying "GOOD HALF"}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' —and the evil half.

''{A dotted line points to the right half saying "EVIL HALF"}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' The good half likes positive things, like Self-Esteem, ''{the word "Self-Esteem" appears in the middle of the screen and moves through the mouth into the "good" half of the brain.}'' Oreo Cheesecake, ''{again, the words appear and move through the mouth and up into the brain}'' Bringing Your Old Man a Cold One, ''{again, then cut to a close-up of Gunhaver}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' —and all our playsets and toys.

''{Gunhaver smiles a big grin toward the camera. Cut back to the diagram, which zooms in on the "evil" half.}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' But the evil half likes—

''{as each of the next four words is said, it appears from the "evil" half of the brain and moves to the right side of the screen}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' Littering! Loitering! Latering! Lootering! And all the other stuff that causes inappropriate peer-to-teen choice behaviors!

''{The other words vanish and are replaced by "Inappropriate peer-2-teen choice behaviors". Cut back to Gunhaver and Reynold.}''

'''REYNOLD:''' But how do ''I'' keep from making peer-to-teen choice awards, Gunhaver?

'''GUNHAVER:''' If you find yourself in a sticky ''{makes "finger quotes"}'' teenage situation, just remember these three pro-positive life tools:

''{Cut to Silent Rip in a classroom, next to a Blue Laser minion. Both appear to be taking tests. On the blackboard is written, "ASSIGNMENTS", "TAKE TEST" and "STARE AT CLOCK UNTIL I GET BACK". Silent Rip's assignment reads, "Problem 4. Compare and contrast your 2 most favorite 'Ernest' movies. Show your work!"}''

'''BLUE LASER MINION:''' What did you get for number four, sir?

'''SILENT RIP:''' Uhhhh...

''{Gunhaver suddenly enters the screen from the bottom.}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' ''Freeze!''

''{The screen cuts to a diagram of a male body with "PRO-POSITIVE LIFE TOOL" written next to it, and a giant "#1" appears next to it.}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' Pro-positive life tool number one:

''{Gunhaver appears on the screen}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' say you have one of any debilitating gold rush era diseases!

''{He pulls out a book labeled "BIG BOOK OF DEBILITATING GOLD RUSH ERA DISEASES", and "BBODGRED" on the spine. Cut back to the classroom.}''

'''BLUE LASER MINION:''' Come on, man. I thought we were bros!

'''SILENT RIP:''' I can't! I have the typhoid! Or the cholera!

'''BLUE LASER MINION:''' Never mind. Your answers are gross, bro.

''{Silent Rip smiles. Cut back to Gunhaver and Reynold, the latter of whom is now wearing a false beard and a prospector's hat, and is holding a mining pick.}''

'''REYNOLD:''' Gold rush era diseases, eh?

'''GUNHAVER:''' Now you're getting it!

''{Cut to the supermarket, where two Blue Laser Minions are holding a lot of bottles labeled "WINE COOLA," some of them in their pants, and Fightgar is standing nearby.}''

'''FIRST BLUE LASER MINION:''' Hey, man. We need you to put these wine coolers down your pants... er, down your headband.

'''FIGHTGAR:''' Oh, um, uh...

''{Again, Gunhaver suddenly jumps onto the screen.}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' ''STOP!''

''{The diagram of the body returns, but now, it's a woman's body. "#2" appears on the side and "EN SAP" at the bottom.}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' Pro-positive life tool numero two:

''{silhouettes of the two Blue Laser minions and Fightgar appear with question marks over them. The minions are labeled "INAPPROPRIATORS"}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' Envision your Inappropriators ''{Fightgar is labeled "STILL JUST YOU" and the minions turn into pizza slices.}'' as giant slices of pizza.

''{Cut back to the supermarket.}''

'''FIGHTGAR:''' Ah-ha ha! You're deep-dish! Ah-ha ha! And you've got extra cheese! Ah-ha ha ha ha! Oh, pepperoni!

'''FIRST BLUE LASER MINION:''' What's with this guy?

'''SECOND BLUE LASER MINION:''' He sounds crazy. Should we shoot him?

'''FIRST BLUE LASER MINION:''' Abso-total-lutely!

''{The second minion pulls out a large gun and aims it at Fightgar, who looks startled. The scene cuts back to Gunhaver and Reynold, who is now wearing a baseball cap and holding a bat, with a ball sitting next to him, and we can hear shooting over the next exchange.}''

'''REYNOLD:''' But Gunhaver, I've never had pizza before!

'''GUNHAVER:''' But you know what it looks like, don't you?

'''REYNOLD:''' ''{smiling}'' I think so!

'''GUNHAVER:''' Now you're getting it!

''{Cut to an alley next to a building labeled "Seedy Bar". Firebert walks by in the background, while the Blue Laser Commander is standing next to a building.}''

'''BLUE LASER COMMANDER:''' ''{Jumping out}'' Hey, kid! Wanna smoke some ''candy'' ''{holds up chocolate bar}'' with me?

''{The diagram of the body, which now appears to be a bear, appears over the scene this time. "#3" appears on the right. Firebert and Blue Laser Commander lean back to make room for the diagram}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' ''{voiceover}'' Pro-positive life tool number three:

''{The diagram and "#3" disappear, and Silent Rip appears from the side of the building and throws a smoke bomb.}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' Have your light infantry create a thick smokescreen.

''{The commander starts hacking and coughing, while Firebert pulls out a gun and shoots it at the commander.}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' Then lay down some suppressive fire until the snipers are in position. ''{He stops firing.}'' But look out for surface-to-air antioxidant missiles!

''{Firebert jumps out of the way as three missiles, labeled "100% GREEN TEA" and painted with skulls-and-crossbones, just barely miss the Commander.}''

'''BLUE LASER COMMANDER:''' Ah!

'''GUNHAVER:''' ''{voiceover}'' Then by the time Reinforcements shows up...

''{Reinforcements shows up.}''

'''REINFORCEMENTS:''' Hey, guys.

''{Cut to a screen with Gunhaver.}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' ...Your mom ''{an image of a station wagon appears}'' should be waiting for you in the bus turnaround!

''{The theme music plays. Cut back to Gunhaver and Reynold.}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' So, do you think you're ready to make ''{more finger quotes}'' appropriate inappropriate whatever thingies now?

'''REYNOLD:''' Yes sir! I'm gonna get high on life!

''{Silent Rip walks up.}''

'''SILENT RIP:''' We're about to start the movie! You guys coming?

'''GUNHAVER:''' What do you think, Reynold?

'''REYNOLD:''' ''{thinks a moment, then grins}'' I've got dysentery!

'''GUNHAVER:''' Good job, little buddy!

''{Gunhaver pushes Reynold offscreen to stage left, then walks with Silent Rip to stage right}''

'''GUNHAVER:''' Man, I can't wait to see some serious pony carnage!

''{Fade to the Commandos in the Classroom logo again.}''

'''ANNOUNCER:''' ''{singing}'' Commandos in the classroom!

''{Cut to an image that reads "NEXT WEEK... LESSON 5: LISTEN YOU GUYS, YOU SERIOUSLY NEED TO START SHOWERING EVERYDAY"}''

'''ANNOUNCER:''' Next week, lesson 5: Listen you guys, you seriously need to start showering every day!

''{"THE END" and "BACK" appear at the bottom of the screen.}''

==Easter Eggs==
*Click on "Lesson" to see the "Commandos in the Classroom" Lesson 4 Worksheet.

:<div style="background:#F5F5F5; color:black; padding:8px; width: 240px; border:1px solid #CCC">'''LESSON 4''' '''WORKSHEET''' '''1. DRAW A PICTURE OF YOUR FAVORITE INAPPROPRIATE''' '''PEER-2-TEEN CHOICE BEHAVIOR''' <table align="center" style="border:1px black solid; background:none"><tr height="50"><td width="70"> </td></tr></table> '''2. WHY DO YOU THINK REYNOLD''' '''HAS NEVER TRIED PIZZA?''' ___________________________ ___________________________ <nowiki>*</nowiki>(TEACHERS, THIS WORKSHEET SHOULD BUY YOU 10-15 MORE MINUTES OF PEACE. FIX YOURSELF A DRINK, MAYBE!)</div>

*Click on "Guys" for Blue Laser to get the wrong end of the stick.
:''{The Blue Laser Commander and a minion are standing in their HQ, dressed as pizza slices. The text "OPERATION DRESS UP AS PIZZA!!" is flashing on a screen in the background.}''
:'''BLUE LASER MINION:''' Um, I'm not entirely sure this is what they were talking about sir.
:'''BLUE LASER COMMANDER:''' Shut it! Pizza can't talk!

*Click on "[[Seriously]]" for the following exchange:
:''{Cut to Silent Rip and Crackotage in the HQ, with Pony Fights 2 playing in the background.}''
:'''SILENT RIP:''' Ah, you can do it. Try another one.
:'''CRACKOTAGE:''' I think my rhymes are truly broke! Broke, broke, broke, broke, broke, broke, broke! Hoo-hoo, hweh-hweh!

== Fun Facts ==

===Explanations===
*[[Wikipedia:Second audio program|SAP]] is an auxiliary audio channel for television that can be broadcast or transmitted both over the air and by cable TV. It is often used for an alternate language or descriptive video (usually [[Spanish]]).
*[[Wikipedia:MPAA film rating system#The addition of the PG-13 rating|PG-13]] is one of the film ratings used in the [http://mpaa.org/FlmRat_Ratings.asp MPAA] film rating system. It is a strong caution to parents that some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
*[[Wikipedia:Chicago-style pizza|Deep-dish]] is a style of [[pizza]] in which the pizza is much thicker than usual, often requiring the use of a fork and knife to eat it.
*[[Wikipedia:Typhoid fever|Typhoid fever]], [[Wikipedia:Cholera|cholera]], and [[Wikipedia:Dysentery|dysentery]] are bacterial diseases generally associated with the ingestion of drinking water contaminated by improper sanitation. Today's sanitation standards have all but wiped them out in developed countries, though they were common in the United States during the gold-rush era.
*[[Wikipedia:Antioxidants|Antioxidants]] are chemicals that prevent the [[Wikipedia:oxidation|oxidation]] of other chemicals.
**[[Wikipedia:Green tea|Green tea]] has been identified as a source of [[Wikipedia:flavonoids|bioflavonoids]], a type of antioxidant, hence the "100% Green Tea" labels on the missiles.
*"Oh-now hundred hours" is a reference to the military use of the 24-hour clock, where the time is stated as a single 4-digit number. For example, using the 24-hour clock, 9 a.m. is 0900 hours (pronounced "Oh-nine hundred hours"), and 9 p.m. is 2100 hours ("twenty-one hundred hours").
*Imagining your enemies as pizza is a reference to the common suggestion of imagining the audience as being in their underwear while giving a speech or presentation to reduce stress.

===Trivia===
[[Image:Commandos4 problem4.PNG|right|thumb|Smell that purple ink!!]]
*The blackboard in the classroom sequence reads "ASSIGNMENTS", "TAKE TEST", and "STARE AT CLOCK UNTIL I COME BACK".
*In the same scene as above, Silent Rip's test paper reads "Problem 4: Compare and contrast your 2 most favorite '[[Wikipedia:Ernest P. Worrell|Ernest]]' movies. Show your work!"
*This is the first time Reinforcements is shown in his animated form, and also the first time he talks in his own voice.
*This is the longest "Short" cartoon on the website (although technically [[Limozeen vs. sloshy]] has a longer running time if the length of all four songs together is added). This toon is in fact longer than a few of the main cartoons.
*The line "Come on, man, I thought we were bros." is the first time a [[Blue Laser Minion]] has ended a sentence without referring to the person he was speaking to as "sir" or "ma'am".
*This is the first toon that is not a [[Strong Bad Email]] or a [[Halloween]] toon to have three Easter eggs at the end.
*The [[YouTube]] description for this toon is "The Cheat Commandos teach teens and peers how to make proper behavior choices."

===Remarks===
*The episode is called "Movie Night", but when the headquarters are seen, it is daytime.
*When Gunhaver sees Reynold, he appears to turn a lightswitch on at the edge of the screen. But when the camera zooms out (when Fightgar starts talking), there is no lightswitch in sight.
*"Cuss-mando" is an example of a [[portmanteau]].

===Goofs===
*"Every day" is misspelled "everyday" on the slide at the end. In that context, it should be the two-word adverb, not the one-word adjective.
*The clock in the classroom sequence has only 8 hours on its face, instead of 12.
*When you are looking at the wider view of the HQ, the panel to the right of Reynold is blank. But when you get a close-up of Reynold, the panel has a bunch of buttons on it.

===Inside References===
*This episode of Cheat Commandos is written by [[A. Chimendez]] Jr.
*The [[rating screen]] appears at the beginning of ''Pony Fights 2''.
*Gunhaver makes a reference to [[Cold Ones]].
:*There is also a reference to [[alcohol]].
*The grocery store scene takes place in the same aisle as [[Shopping For Danger]].
*The lesson four worksheet seems to be based on the application form in [[CGNU]].
*There are a couple of instances of [[smoking]]. One of them is a reference to [[drugs]].
*Reynold's remark, "I might as well go home and get teen pregnant", is another instance of [[pregnancy]].
*There is another reference to [[pants]] in this cartoon.
*Lesson 5 is another mention of [[showering]].

===Real-World References===
*The title is based on [http://www.ciconline.org/default.htm Cable in the Classroom], a non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational programming to be aired in schools.
*The [[Wikipedia:Teen Choice Awards|Teen Choice Awards]] is an awards ceremony shown annually on Fox since 1999 in which teens get to vote for the winners of various categories such as movies, music, and television.
*[http://www.kraftfoods.com/recipes/CakesPiesCheesecakes/CheesecakesBaked/OREOCheesecake.html Oreo Cheesecake] is a novelty dessert made by replacing the normal cheesecake crust with crushed [[Wikipedia:Oreos|Oreos]].
*This cartoon is based on the "Knowing is half the battle" segments of the original [[wikipedia:G.I. Joe|G.I. Joe]] cartoons.

===Fast Forward===
*Pony fights would be mentioned again in [[Cheat Commandos: Two Part Episode: Part 2]].
*The phrase "swear a cuss" is used again in [[Skills of an Artist LIVE!!]].

== DVD Version ==
*To access the Easter egg with Silent Rip and Crackotage, push down on the DVD remote until the H*R logo lights up. To access the scene of Blue Laser dressed up as pizza slices, push right until the star of the logo lights up. To access the Lesson 4 worksheet, press left until the logo turns red.
*The DVD version features creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

=== Commentary Transcript ===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]])

'''MATT:''' Do you remember watching things like this when you were in school, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, back in the '80s we used to have to watch movies that were made in the '60s about peer pressure, hygiene, and...

'''MATT:''' Yeah. They taught me several things.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah, like...

'''MATT:''' Um...

'''MIKE:''' ...you needed to use deodorant, and,—

'''MATT:''' Absolutely!

'''MIKE:''' —The importance of showering and dressing out before gym class...

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ...why you couldn't wear your black jeans and trenchcoat out on to the blacktop! Now you can't wear your black jeans and trenchcoat at all.

'''MATT:''' Yeah, because you'll... you'll be a bad kid.

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MATT:''' I don't wanna get...

''{pause until Reynold begins saying his "swear"}''

'''MIKE:''' A-hem!

'''MATT:''' One of the original lines for that was him saying "crap-dang-fire", which is something our friend Jamie's mom, uh, used to say sometimes, she'd say "Crap-dang-fire!"

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MATT:''' ''{regarding Reynold's "teen pregnant" line}'' Ooh, that set off the, uh—

'''MIKE:''' Blue Las-Alert! ''{laughs}''

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MATT:''' That was such a bad thing he said that it thought Blue Laser was... ''{laughs}'' up to no good!

''{pause until the "Commandos In The Classroom" logo is shown on screen}''

'''MATT:''' Nice little logo you made there, Mikey.

'''MIKE:''' Thanks, Matty!

'''MATT:''' How often do you think we compliment things that we did—

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MATT:''' —or say, or talk about how much we like what we did on these commentaries?

'''MIKE:''' I really like that tie that Reynold's wearing.

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

''{pause until divided brain is shown on the screen}''

'''MIKE:''' I enjoy drawing brains, I gotta tell ya.

'''MATT:''' You did a good job on that brain. Looks real good.

''{after a long pause}''

'''MATT:''' Ummm, what else, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Um, ''{pause}'' I'm kinda just watching the cartoon right now...

'''MATT:''' ''{laughs}''

'''MIKE:''' ...I haven't seen it in a while.

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''MIKE:''' This is one of those ones, sometimes the cartoons that take a long time to make, I don't wanna watch for a long time. Sometimes I find that a year has gone by and I never watched the cartoon since the second we published it.

'''MATT:''' That's good.

'''MIKE:''' This might be one of those.

'''MATT:''' Assignments: Take test, stare at clock until I get back.

'''MIKE:''' That's a good teaching tool.

'''MATT:''' I'm pretty sure I got those instructions written on the board a few times during the course of schooling.

'''MIKE:''' I forget, what does his thing say?

'''MATT:''' His paper? Is that the one about Ernest movies?

'''MIKE:''' "Which is your favorite Ernest movie?" or something? I think there are way more Ernest movies out there there realizes.

'''MATT:''' That's true.

'''MIKE:''' Are those bottles empty?

'''MATT:''' NO! That's why you can see the bubbles in there.

'''MIKE:''' Okay.

'''MATT:''' That's just a really crystal-clear, uh, a crisp, clear wine cooler, Mike! Goes down smooth!

'''MATT:''' So those Pro-Positive Life Tool icons don't seem to make any sense. The first one was a girl's- a guy's body ingesting something, now it's a girl's circulatory system ingesting something, and the last time, it's, like, a bear that's devouring the logo.

'''MATT:''' ''{in response to Fightgar getting shot}'' OH! So did Fightgar just get killed?

'''MIKE:''' Uh, maybe.

'''MATT:''' I like how Reynold's costume continues to change. Now he's a little kid.

'''MIKE:''' ''{indecipherable}''

'''MATT:''' He's little Jimmy out on the, uh, ballfield!

'''MATT:''' I wanna go to Seedy Bar!

'''MIKE:''' And, there's the bear.

''{pause until Firebert fires on Blue Laser}''

'''MATT:''' He's not a very good shot, Firebert. He's maybe two feet away from Blue Laser and can't hit him.

'''MIKE:''' Is that the first time Reinforcements said anything?

'''MATT:''' I think that's the first cartoon appearance of Reinforcements.

'''MATT:''' I like how they also kinda treat this like they're celebrities. The cartoon characters are like, ''{Gunhaver's voice}'' "Yeah, they're makin' me do this, I owe some customer service."

'''MIKE:''' Owe some customer... community service, maybe?

'''MATT:''' ''{normal voice}'' Community service, Mike!

'''MIKE:''' Customer service... you gotta go clean up the side of the highways for customer service.

'''MATT:''' ''{Gunhaver's voice}'' Thank you for calling MindSpring, this is Gunhaver! May I have your email address or account number, please?

'''MATT:''' ''{normal voice}'' I remember our teacher having that conversation with us in fifth grade.

===Fun Facts===
*Matt's mention of [[wikipedia:MindSpring|MindSpring]] refers to his previous job there before he quit to do [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] full-time.

==External Links==
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Mr. Poofers Must Die Costumes

2018-11-03T15:46:59Z

Ppk01: Dragon's Lair used a circuit board as well as a LaserDisc.

Costumes that the characters wore in [[Mr. Poofers Must Die]], Halloween 2018.

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|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
! Image !! Character !! Costume !! Explanation !! External Links
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|| [[File:MarzipanMascis.png|150px]] || [[Marzipan]] || J. Mascis || Joseph Donald Mascis Jr. is an American musician, best known as the singer, guitarist and main songwriter for the alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr. || [[Wikipedia:J Mascis|Wikipedia article]]
|-
|| [[File:HomestarDirk.png|150px]] || [[Homestar Runner]] || Dirk the Daring || Dirk the Daring is the protagonist of ''Dragon's Lair'', an interactive movie-style arcade game that features animated sequences directed by [[Don Bluth]] streamed off of a [[Laserdisc|LaserDisc]]. The player controls Dirk by choosing between sets of actions that pop up every few seconds. || [[Wikipedia:Dragon's Lair|Wikipedia article]]
|-
|| [[File:StrongBadJoe.png|150px]] || [[Strong Bad]] || Viewtiful Joe || Viewtiful Joe is the protagonist of the Viewtiful Joe video game series. While normally a regular person named Joe, he obtains the ability to transform into Viewtiful Joe by entering a movie and gaining the ability from an older superhero named Captain Blue in order to save his girlfriend, Sylvia. || [[Wikipedia:Viewtiful Joe|Wikipedia article]]
|-
|| [[File:TheCheatKorok.png|150px]] || [[The Cheat]] || A Korok || Koroks are small plant creatures from games from ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' franchise, most notably ''Wind Waker'' and ''Breath of the Wild''. The Cheat's dance and sound effects are a reference to when Koroks are found in the latter game during a game-spanning sidequest. The Cheat most specifically resembles Rown from ''Wind Waker''. || [[Wikipedia:The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Wikipedia article]]
|-
|| [[File:StrongSadTummiGummi.png|150px]] || [[Strong Sad]] || Tummi Gummi || Tummi Gummi is a member of the Gummi Bears, a group of bears who live in Gummi Glen and who were the central characters of the 1985 [[Disney]] animated series ''Adventures of the Gummi Bears''. Tummi, as his name implies, is the hungriest of all.|| [[Wikipedia:Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears|Wikipedia article]]
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[File:PomZElliott.png|150px]] || [[Coach Z]]
| rowspan="2" | Missy Elliott
| rowspan="2" | Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott is a rapper and singer who first gained notice as a solo artist in 1997. The collaborative effort of Coach Z and Pom Pom is a specific reference to the video for Elliott's single "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" off of her debut album.
| rowspan="2" | [[Wikipedia:Missy Elliott|Wikipedia article]]
|-
| [[Pom Pom]]
|-
|| [[File:KingOfTownLittleDebbie.png|150px]] || [[The King Of Town]] || [[Little Debbie]] || Little Debbie is a brand of confectioneries established in the 1960s by McKee Foods. The product was named after one of the grandchildren of founders O.D. and Ruth McKee, who also served as the basis of the logo. The King of Town holds a box of [https://www.littledebbie.com/102.51/star-crunch Star Crunch] for his costume.|| [[Wikipedia:Little Debbie|Wikipedia article]]
|-
|| [[File:PoopsmithSeaMonkey.png|150px]] || [[The Poopsmith]] || a Sea Monkey || The name Sea Monkeys refers to a line of aquatic novelties marketed to children since 1957. The creatures are actually a species of brine shrimp, a crustacean known for its ability to live in high-salinity seawater. The Poopsmith's costume portrays one of the pink humanoid creatures used to represent Sea Monkeys in illustrations. || [[Wikipedia:Sea Monkeys|Wikipedia article]]
|-
|| [[File:StrongMadKano.png|150px]] || [[Strong Mad]] || Kano || Kano is one of the main characters of the comic Bad Company, part of the anthology comic 2000 AD. After being captured by the aliens known as The Krool, he had half of his mind replaced with half of a Krool's mind, slowly driving him insane. || [[Wikipedia:Bad Company (comics)|Wikipedia article]]
|-
|| [[File:ThnikkaStanman.png|150px]] || [[Bubs]] || Stan S. Stanman || Stan is a fast-talking salesman from [[LucasArts]]'s ''Monkey Island'' series, known for waving his hands wildly when speaking, and for his plaid jacket whose pattern does not move even as Stan does. || [[Wikipedia:Monkey Island (series)|Wikipedia article]]
|-
|| [[File:HomsarDavidStHubbins.png|150px]] || [[Homsar]] || David St. Hubbins || David St. Hubbins is the frontman for the fictional rock group ''[[Spinal Tap]]'' in the mockumentary film ''This is Spinal Tap''. The character was portrayed by actor Michael McKean. || [[Wikipedia:David_St. Hubbins|Wikipedia article]]
|-
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{{halloweennav|nocat=yes}}
[[Category:Halloween Costumes]]

Stack 'Em to the Heavens!

2018-11-03T14:33:20Z

Ppk01: /* Inside References */ TGS vegan reference.

{{watchyoutube|YiCSHK00188}}
[[File:StackEmToTheHeavens.png|thumb|"Now you can play a game called Stack 'Em to the Heavens!"]]

Marshie's talkwords inspire a new [[Trogdor!! The Board Game]] minigame.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Marshie}}, [[Generic Announcers|Wendell]], {{Film|The Sad Kids}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Bad}}, [[Videlectrix Guys]]

'''Places:''' [[The Bar]]

'''Date:''' Thursday, October 25, 2018

'''Running time:''' 1:03

==Transcript==
''{Four towers of marshmallows assemble in front of a purple background.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' ''{voiceover}'' Stack 'em to the heavens!

''{Three towers of obliquely placed peasant and knight meeples are assembled in the spaces in between.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' ''{voiceover}'' Stack 'em to the heavens!

''{Marshie flies in onscreen, knocking out the marshmallow and meeple towers in the center.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Now you can play a game called—

''{Marshie becomes angry as the words he speaks come out of his mouth in spiky-edged yellow balloons.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' —Stack 'Em to the Heavens!

''{The text drifts upward to the top. The background fades to orange as a white bag with the words "Stack Em to the Heavens!" and a flaming Marshie appears onscreen with a tower of four meeples and several more meeples scattered throughout.}''

'''WENDELL:''' ''{laughing}'' That's right, Marshie.

''{The Boardelectrix logo slides in from the right}''

'''WENDELL:''' New from—

''{A record scratch interrupts. Marshie suddenly peeks in from the text above.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Oh no you don't, Wendell! ''{Close up}'' This my barbecue!

''{Cut to Marshie sandwiched between peasant and knight meeples stacked in a tower. The scene pans out to reveal the bag.}''

'''MASRHIE:''' Stack 'Em to the Heavens is a quick stacking game that's great for when your little brats—

''{The scene stops panning out when The Sad Kids are shown beside the table.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' —are waiting for their chicken fingers!

'''THE SAD GIRL:''' We're...

'''THE SAD BOY:''' ...vegan.

''{Cut to a white screen. The TROGDOR!! The Board Game box slides in from the right. As Marshie speaks, Trogdor on the box spits out a Stack Em to the Heavens bag, which spins out onscreen.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' ''{voiceover}'' And it comes free inside every box of Trogdor!! The Board Game!

''{Cut to the Stack Em to the Heavens bag on a pink background.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' ''{voiceover, anticipatory}'' Shake up the bag!

''{The bag is shaken, and all the meeples are dumped out of it as Marshie's mouth appears and speaks}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Roll the knights and peasants!

''{Cut to a blue background with meeples scattered about. Marshie is wearing a pink helmet and rolling on a skateboard. The meeples assemble themselves into two towers.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' And take turns ''{Marshie spins his skateboard}'' making radical stack-em-ups!

''{Marshie jumps and spins in the air}''

''{Cut to Homestar and Strong Bad at the bar, playing Stack 'Em to the Heavens. A can of Coldson Lite and a bowl of peanuts are on the table.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{unenthusiastically}'' If I can force you to ''{he places a meeple on top of the existing tower}'' stack three peasants in a row, you lose.

''{Homestar adds a peasant meeple to the tower.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{unenthusiastically}'' Not if I can stack 'em weird-ways enough ''{Strong Bad adds a meeple to the tower}'' to topple you down.

''{The tower becomes unstable and wobbles, then collapses.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{raising his arms, unenthusiastically}'' Oh no, ''{trailing off}'' you toppled me down...

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{unenthusiastically}'' Hooray. ''{He turns backwards}'' 'S great.

''{The music resumes, cutting to a dark-faded scene of two Marshies wearing vampire costumes floating top-to-top. Below read yellow words "Talk-Say Re-Enactment". Stacks of yellow and black marshmallows appear behind them. Marshie floats past in front of it from the right.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' "Stack 'Em to the Heavens" is a talk-say I made a long time ago...

''{Cut to an angry Marshie in front of a black background.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' And then-then—

''{Cut far out to reveal a tiny Marshie floating in front of the pixelated forms of Videlectrix One and Two.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' —these jerks STOLE IT!

''{The words "STOLE IT" resound with an echo several times.}''

''{Cut back to the orange screen, where Marshie is peeking in upside-down.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' The first one to stack a million, ''{comes in closer}'' is doing it wrong!

''{Cut to a white screen featuring the Stack Em to the Heavens game next to the Trogdor!! The Board Game box. The yellow-spiked letters "Stack Em To The Heavens!" wiggle below.}''

'''VIDELECTRIX ONE:''' ''{voiceover}'' Stack 'Em to the Heavens from ''{the Boardelectrix logo fades in on the upper left}'' Boardelectix and that floating horror. ''{A picture of an angry Marshie accompanied by the words "That Floating Horror" fade in next to the logo.}'' Included in every box of Tragdar cereal. I mean, board game. Don't... don't pour milk on it.

==Fun Facts==
===Trivia===
*The [[YouTube]] description for this toon is:
<blockquote>
Marshie's made up song from 15 years ago somehow turns into a stacking game included with Strong Bad's made up dragon board game!
 
Pre-orders for Trogdor! The Board Game end Oct. 31 at midnight! 
[https://trogdor.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders https://trogdor.backerkit.com/hosted_...]
</blockquote>

===Remarks===
*The Sad Kids state that they are [[Wikipedia:Veganism|vegan]].

===Inside References===
*The origin of the phrase "Stack 'Em to the Heavens" comes from [[Malloween Commercial]], where Marshie noted that the marshmallows fit on top of each other.
*Marshie says that the game can be played while the kids are waiting for their [[chicken]] fingers.
*The Sad Kids say that they're vegan in a manner reminiscent of [[What's Her Face]] in [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 6]].
*The words "[[Noun-Verb|Talk-Say]]" were first used in [[Squintmojis]].
*Homestar and Strong Bad [[Poor Acting|sound bored]] while playing. A similar scene occurs in the [[Trogdor!! The Board Game (video)|commercial for the board game]].
*"The first one to stack a million" comes from the email [[the show]] where Marshie states that the first person to eat a million marshmallows wins.
*Trogdor is once again mistakenly called Tragdar by Videlectrix One, like he was in the [[Trogdor!! The Board Game (video)|Trogdor!! The Board Game video]].
*Videlectrix One briefly [[Eating Non-Food Items|confuses the board game]] for [[cereal]].

==External Links==
{{extlinks|youtube=YiCSHK00188}}

[[Category:YouTube]][[Category:Trogdor!! The Board Game]][[Category:Advertisements]]

Play Date

2017-06-24T07:23:56Z

Ppk01: This is clearly an iPhone reference and I'm surprised that this hasn't been noted already.

{{toonnav|Shorts|playdate|The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck In His Craw|Somber Vacation}}
[[Image:Playdate2.PNG|thumb|"THIS ONE'S NOT MY FAULT!"]]

Homestar and Strong Mad hang out, with disastrous results.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{film|Homestar Runner}}, {{film|Strong Mad}}, {{film|Bubs}}, {{film|Nebulon}}, {{film|Strong Bad}}, {{film|The King of Town}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Marzipan's House]], [[The Field]], [[Marshmallow's Last Stand (place)|Marshmallow's L'est Stand]] (Easter egg)

'''Date:''' Monday, June 9, 2008

'''Running Time:''' 2:46

'''Page Title:''' Wanna mess around?

==Transcript==
''{Camera tilts down to reveal Homestar Runner calling on his cordless phone, sitting on Marzipan's couch.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, Pom Dog. It's Homedog. Yeah, dog. You wanna hang out? Oh? Oh. Firmware upgrade. No, that sounds important. No, it's cool. I'll catch you later. Boop! Oh.

''{Homestar actually hangs up the phone. Reverse shot, with a list marked "Phone People". Pom Pom (Pom Dog) is crossed out. Homestar dials the phone.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{without pause}'' Strong Bad? No? Cool.

''{Homestar hangs up. Strong Bad's name is crossed off.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Bubs! In federal prison? ''{Homestar hangs up; white frame}'' Coach Z? In ''juvenile'' prison!?

''{Homestar hangs up. Coach Z's name is crossed off the list. Increasing Dutch angle shots as Strong Sad and The Cheat are crossed off. Cut to Homestar lying on the couch.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{Disappointed}'' Nah, it's cool. I forgot today was you and Brunswick stew's anniversary. 'Kay. Bye.

''{Homestar hangs up. King Of Town's name is crossed off. Homestar sighs off camera.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh, well, I guess I'll just have to call —

''{Cut to Strong Mad opening the door.}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' CAN HOMESTAR COME OUT AND PLAY?

''{Title "Play Date" drops down over a black background as music plays.}''

''{Crossfade to Homestar leaning out the front door talking to Strong Mad.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Uh, we don't really call it "playing" anymore, Strong Mad. ''{Close-up of Homestar}'' It's more like hanging out, messing around, kicking back...

''{Two shot of Homestar and Strong Mad}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' LET'S FOOL AROUND!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hm. Maybe not "fool around" either. ''{Close-up of Homestar}'' Why don't we get down to business? Let's play. Or, kick around. Whatever.

''{Two shot}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' LET'S PLAY BLOCKS!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Blocks, eh? I'm not opposed to the classics. Let's play some blocks.

''{Push wipe left to a tower of cinder blocks wavering slightly. Strong Mad grunts off camera and another cinder block flies to the top of the pile. Pull back to reveal Homestar pushed into the ground with the blocks on top of his chest.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{strained}'' You know, this is exactly what I thought you had in mind. ''{Close up on Homestar}'' Not sure why I agreed to it. How 'bout we play catch?

''{Push wipe left to Homestar crouching slightly, his cap on backwards, and a baseball glove floating in front of him.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' All right! Fire it in here! Gimme the old pepper atta pepper whatta pepper who's a pepper— ''{Strong Mad grunts off camera and Bubs' Concession Stand lands on Homestar, who drops his glove}'' Oof!

''{Bubs pops up in the Stand, music similar to the Senorial Day Sale plays in the background.}''

'''BUBS:''' It's a relocation sale! Fifty percent off all badly beaten Homestars!

''{Push wipe down to Homestar, with bandages on his head and face, and Strong Mad sitting on the couch.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{shakily & sounding exhausted}'' Okay, Strong Mad. We're gonna have a little something I like to call "Migraine Time". We can play your new favorite game, ''{pull back to a wider shot}'' Feathers and Cotton. Ready? Go.

''{Homestar puts an ice pack on his face. A meteor falls through the ceiling, crushing Homestar.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Waugh!

'''STRONG MAD:''' THIS ONE'S NOT MY FAULT!

''{Nebulon pokes up from the meteor, looking around. Nebulon's sound effect is heard}''

''{Push wipe up Homestar heavily bandaged, legs in casts, and sitting in a wheelchair in The Field. Strong Mad is standing next to him, smiling apologetically.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Wow! I had a real great time messing around today, Strong Mad. But next time, maybe we should just play.

''{Strong Bad enters from the left}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey, thanks for babysitting the little guy for me, Homestar.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' What?

'''STRONG MAD:''' AWWWW! TIME TO GO?

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah, sorry, man. ''{close-up of Strong Bad}'' Cinder blocks, structural damage, and meteors? It is ''definitely'' time for your nap.

''{Pull back to previous shot. Strong Mad and Strong Bad exit left, Strong Mad pouting and sobbing a little.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Whew! Bubs, hit me with a Cold One! ''{Camera shift right to reveal Bubs' Concession Stand, as Homestar's wheelchair leans back. Bubs slides an 'Old One down the counter.}''

''{Cut to black. A crash is heard followed by a gulp.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Ahh. Thanks, man.

''{"END" appears on the screen as music plays. A dot soon follows and the word back fades in the lower left corner.}''

==Easter Eggs==
*At the end, click on the "E" to continue the ending scene.
:''{scene reopens at the [[Bubs' Concession Stand|Concession Stand]]. The 'Old One bottle lies broken on the ground}''
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Hey, wait a minute! Aren't you supposed to be in federal prison?
:'''BUBS:''' I got time off for snitchy behavior!
*At the end, click on the period to see The King of Town.
:''{At Marshmallow's L'est Stand. The music from [[Date Nite]] and [[love poems]] is playing. The King sits at one end of the table, with a bowl of Brunswick stew at the other end. A candle and small jewelry box are also on the table}''
:'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' You know, Brunsy, the 50th anniversary is the ''{holds up a spoon with sour cream in it}'' dollop of sour cream year!

== Fun Facts ==

===Explanations===

*Fiftieth anniversaries are typically celebrated with the presentation of gold to one another.
*A [[Wikipedia:Firmware|firmware]] upgrade is updating of software embedded on a hardware device such as a chip.

===Trivia===

*This toon was not added to the Shorts menu until a week after its release.
*Homestar's telephone uses [[Wikipedia:Dual-tone multi-frequency|dual-tone multi-frequency dialing]] and the numbers can therefore be determined from the tones produced. Homestar dials the following numbers:
**5-3-3 at the beginning of the toon before saying, "Hey Pom Dog..."
**8 after hanging up on Pom Pom.
**8-6-5-3-3 before talking to Strong Bad
**8 after hanging up on Strong Bad and before talking to Bubs.
**8 after hanging up on Bubs and before talking to Coach Z.
**8 after hanging up on Coach Z.
**5-3 before talking to the King of Town.
**8 after hanging up on the King of Town.

===Remarks===
*Homestar presumably calls Bubs and Coach Z with their home phone numbers; but he somehow talks to them while they were in prison.
*Homestar's list indicates that he has called The Poopsmith, but The Poopsmith's vow of silence would make it impossible to communicate with him over the phone.
*Homestar crosses out the names on his list without using a writing utensil.
*Bubs's legs don't appear on the ground, despite the angle his concession stand is at.
*At the end of the toon, Homestar appears to have both his legs injured from the meteor. However, his legs were the only parts of his body that were ''not'' hit by the meteor.
*The large wheels of Homestar's wheelchair are not attached to the chair, or to each other.
*In the Easter egg, Bubs' arms are in the older, bendy state.
*The word "END" appears to come down over the top of the first Easter Egg: in the last frame, you can see bottom half of the word at the top of the screen.
*This is the first toon to show the new design of the bushes in the background of the Field.

===Goofs===
*When Homestar's list first appears, The Poopsmith is listed after Strong Sad and The Cheat. However, after Homestar crosses out The Cheat, The Poopsmith is listed before The Cheat.
*In the Concession Stand Easter egg, the left wall of the stand is separated from the front at the top.
*In the beginning of the toon, Homestar is in [[Marzipan's House|Marzipan's house]]. However, when talking to Strong Mad while poking out the front door, the railing does not bend in an angle at the middle, like Marzipan's railing does. It is instead straight - exactly the way [[Homestar Runner's House|Homestar's house]] has been shown [[The Best Decemberween Ever|before]].
*When Strong Mad starts to sob at the end, his mouth doesn't move.
*At the end of the toon, when Homestar asks for a [[Cold One]], Bubs' Concession Stand seems to be tilted at a more obtuse angle than it was when it landed on Homestar, though this could have happened when it was removed from on top of him.
*Before the Concession Stand lands on Homestar, he is facing right, in the direction that the stand comes from. However, when it actually falls on him, Homestar appears to turn around, as the positioning of his leg suggests it came at him from the front while he was facing to the left.

===Inside References===
*Homestar refers to Pom Pom as [[My Dog|Pom Dog]].
*The King of Town is on a date with [[Stew|Brunswick stew]].
*During the King of Town's date in the Easter egg, the romantic music from [[do over]] and [[Date Nite]] is played.
*Strong Mad ripped Bubs' Concession Stand out of the ground in [[Fall Float Parade]].
*Bubs' Concession Stand was previously seen landing on [[Señor]] and [[Mr. Bland]] in [[origins]].
*The loading screen reads "[[Irregular Loading Screens|load it]]".
*There is another appearance of [[Strong Mad smiling]].
*This is another appearance of a [[cinder block]].
*The music during Bubs's explanation of his relocation sale comes from [[Senorial Day]].
*Homestar is [[Homestar Runner left behind|left]] at [[Bubs' Concession Stand]] in the Easter egg.

===Real-World References===
*Pom Pom's "firmware update"-related engagement likely refers to [[Wikipedia:Apple Inc.|Apple]]'s [[Wikipedia:Apple Worldwide Developers Conference|WWDC]] keynote presentation, where new products and updates are announced. At [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHolDv1plk0 the 2008 keynote], which took place on the same day as this toon's release, the [[Wikipedia:iPhone OS 2|iPhone 2.0 Software Update]] was introduced.
*Homestar Runner shouting about "peppering" is a reference to [[Looney Tunes|Bugs Bunny]]'s similar shouting during [[Wikipedia:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] after which Bugs grins and says, "That's the old pepper, boy!" This in turn is a reference to the common warm-up "[[Wikipedia:Pepper (baseball)|pepper game]]" used before baseball games, where a coach hits a grounder or low fly to the infield, and the fielders try to field and throw back the ball as quickly as they can. The coach then hits the return throw.
*Homestar's chatter starts to follow [[Wikipedia:Dr Pepper|Dr Pepper]]'s jingle from the 1970s and 1980s, "I'm a Pepper, He's a Pepper, We're a Pepper, Be a Pepper, Wouldn't you like to Be a Pepper too?"

== External Links ==
{{extlinks|playdate|14306|youtube=xCHq6sioZ1E}}

[[Category:Shorts]]

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2008-06-11T19:00:49Z

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User talk:Heimstern Läufer

2007-09-02T03:33:33Z

Ppk01: /* Re: Reversion of Who Said What Now talk and subtitles */

'''[[User talk:Heimstern Läufer/archive1|Archiv Okt-Nov 2005]]''' 
'''[[User talk:Heimstern Läufer/archive2|Archiv Dez 2005]]''' 
'''[[User talk:Heimstern Läufer/archive3|Archiv Jan 2006]]''' 
'''[[User talk:Heimstern Läufer/archive4|Archiv Feb 2006]]''' 
'''[[User talk:Heimstern Läufer/archive5|Archiv März-Apr 2006]]''' 
'''[[User talk:Heimstern Läufer/archive6|Archiv Mai-Dez 2006]]'''

==Dashboard==

I don't know if somebody's figured out the German in your troll userbox before or not, but I did. It says, "as fast as if it were on wheels," right? Nice joke. I just used my computer's dashboard, though; I don't know a word of German. But seriously, has anyone else realized that people can do that and win userpage contests really fast? -[[User:Brightstar Shiner|''Brightstar Shiner'']] 20:55, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
:Yup, good work. It would actually be better to translate it "as fast as if ''he'' himself were on on wheels", but an automated translator can't really tell the difference in German. So basically, my userbox says "This user p0wns vandals as fast as if he himself were on wheels", which is, of course, a reference to the prolific vandal Willy on Wheels. I put that thing up months ago, and you're the first to comment on it. You get cupcakes. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 21:15, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
::Cool. I give out cupcakes in my movie quote contest at my userpage, but this is the first time (I think) that I've gotten cupcakes myself! Oh, and I must point out that automated translators can't translate things like "Wood Davers" and they just stay in German. So your Homestar quote thing is a little harder. Darn. -[[User:Brightstar Shiner|''Brightstar Shiner'']] 21:30, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
:::That's true. "Holzdaver" is a made-up word in German, kind of like "wood daver" is in English, so you'd have to figure it out from the context. Eh, the German translation isn't really going on anymore, anyway. I'm kind of done with it for foreseeable future. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 21:33, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
::::I sorta knew that; I was just using your contest as an example to show the Dashboard thing. Anyway, thanks again for the cupcakes. Bye! -[[User:Brightstar Shiner|''Brightstar Shiner'']] 13:30, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

== German Translation ==

Since you say you'll bring it up if people pester you, Can you please Bring it back up? Please? (does puppy dog face) {{User:Dacheatbot/sig}} 01:45, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
:Yeah, probably. You're not the first to have brought it up. Give me a bit, though. And don't expect me to do it once every two weeks like I used to. But yeah, we'll probably see a new one soon. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 07:29, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
::Answer: "Have you some time play football?" I think...-[[User:LordQuackingstick|LordQuackingstick]] 22:56, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
:::Uhh, almost... but you need to tweak a word. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 22:57, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
::::Have you some time play soccer?-[[User:LordQuackingstick|LordQuackingstick]] 22:58, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
:::::Not that either... {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 22:58, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
::::::Has you some time play football? I'm telling you, man, I got it without a translator, but then I used one, and it said I was right.-[[User:LordQuackingstick|LordQuackingstick]] 23:04, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
:::::::How about when hyperactive Strong Sad said "Wanna play some soccer?" to coach Z in [[caffeine]]? By the way, translators aren't waht you'd call fluent... - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 23:05, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
::::::::Yeah, but Strong Bad says it.-[[User:LordQuackingstick|LordQuackingstick]] 23:07, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
:::::::::"Has you sometime play football" is correct. Good work. Remember, we're looking for the actual quote, not whatever your translator puts out. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 23:09, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::Danke.-[[User:LordQuackingstick|LordQuackingstick]] 23:24, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
:::::::::::I'll admit that I'm impatient, but wo sind meine kleinen Kuchen?-[[User:LordQuackingstick|LordQuackingstick]] 12:29, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::::Wo sind meine kleinen Kuchen?-[[User:LordQuackingstick|LordQuackingstick]] 14:14, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

== King of Town DVD commentaries ==

I thought you might want to know that 72.128.106.87 didn't write those commentaries. It looks like Mibluvr13 did, but she put them on the wrong page. 72.128.106.87 just moved them to the right pages. {{User:Shwoo/sig}} 06:59, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
:Yes, we were discussing that in IRC after I posted that. At any rate, annony has still made some pretty good edits, and the weclome is still well-given, I think. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 07:02, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

==?==
What profanity? --[[User:90.240.34.177|90.240.34.177]] 04:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

''it is considered offensive by many''[[[HRWiki:About#Wiki_etiquette|1]]]
''and is not allowed at the wiki''[[[HRWiki:About#A_Warning|2]]]

I'm sorry, I'm going to have to ask you to find me a consensus on that. As for editing, I am aware of how a wiki works and that I do not own what I submit; that doesn't mean I will allow improper editing, which is what I see going on here. I mean, just forget it and move on, because I certainly won't until my point is made. It irritates me. --[[User:90.240.34.177|90.240.34.177]] 04:50, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:I see sources have been added. Nothing specific about my comment though (or Strong Bad, whom I consider to be pretty foul-mouthed anyway). --[[User:90.240.34.177|90.240.34.177]] 05:01, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
::The page says "no swearing will be tolerated". {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 05:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
:::And who defines swearing? You? --[[User:90.240.34.177|90.240.34.177]] 05:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
:::You have coincidentally happened along as I am developing guidelines on this topic (while obscenities have always been out-of-bounds). We have a lot of little kids here, basically. They hate being called that, but it's essentially true. Don't use naughty language in any sense of that here, please. And that's not established by one user, but by common sense. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 05:09, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

::::Is it alright if I type "What the aitch-ee-double-hockey-sticks" then? --[[User:90.240.34.177|90.240.34.177]] 05:39, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::I'd assume such precise language would be within bounds. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 05:47, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

:::::Actually, 90.240.34.177, I think you know the answer to that. Just in case, no, that wouldn't be appropriate. Just leave the phrase out altogether. And isn't it a little silly to be having this discussion at such length? Heimstern was very polite when he first posted on your talk page, and our policies are what they are. They're really not a big deal, but they are important nonetheless; I'm sure you can abide by them. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 05:50, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

== Opera ==
'''"Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me, '''
'''il nome mio nessun saprà! '''
'''No, no, sulla tua bocca lo dirò, '''
'''quando la luce splendera!"'''

'''Question: In what toon did a character refuse to go to the place this opera is set?'''

Okay, I'm not entirely sure, but my guess is ''[[Wikipedia:Turandot|Turandot]]'', set in Beijing, China. Strong Bad complained about the [[Contests#Dig To China With Your Ears|Dig To China With Your Ears Contest]] in [[alternate universe]]. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 07:21, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

:The opera is [[Wikipedia:Turandot|Turandot]]. It is set in Peking, China, and takes place in the palace (or castle). [[Strong Bad]] doesn't want to go to [[The King of Town's Castle]] in [[the bet]]. -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 07:26, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
::Trey wins. Tom: Good try; I can see how you'd get that answer. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 07:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

== Yep I Am ==

I am WarthogDemon on Wikipedia as well. :) Been meaning to find a userbox to add onto that account (could've sworn I saw one once but now I can't find it...) -[[User:WarthogDemon|WarthogDemon]] 00:45, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

== 'Kipedia Sysop ==

Congraturations!{{User:Loafing/sig}} 01:43, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
:Nice going, dude! Hope you don't forget about us at our little dumb animal character site, now that you're a big-wig in the repository of all knowledge thing you do! ;) {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 01:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
::No worries, juys. I have no intention of neglecting HRWiki just 'cause I have the shiny new buttons at 'KP. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 02:34, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
:::100% approval. Very impressive. Go Heimi! — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 03:12, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
::::Hey Congratulations! Too bad I didn't know you were up for AFD otherwise I would've voted! Now you can block me 100 times over! Yaaay! Oh wait... ;) Again Congratz! --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 03:18, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

== After a hefty hiatus... ==

I, {{User:Sir Strong Bad/sig}}, RETURN to the electronically communicating world of '''2007!''' '''Stop'''

My blasted '''Telly 400''' was swiped from the very comfort of my domecile, and upon it's return.. '''Stop'''

I was shocked to realize that the bloody roustabanks had cut off her '''little toe'''!!! '''Stop'''

What was one to do without the comma key!? '''Stop'''

I had no choice but to begin a quest... or.. send The Sneak.. on a worldwide search for my beloved Telly's little toe! '''Stop'''

To my great delight, it was returned and I can once again begin heckling the inhabitants of the '''post-modern Free Country USA!!''' '''Stop'''

Dapperly yours,

{{User:Sir Strong Bad/sig}}
:Wow, Sir Strong Bad, STOP! You have returned, STOP! Wondered if we'd ever see you again, STOP! Sorry, the Old-Timey language ain't working for me right now. Heading back to everyday language. Anyway, good to hear from you again, I hope you flummoxed the Kaiser a lot while you were gone. See you around! {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 05:54, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

== New Opera Question ==

"Mi tradì quell'alma ingrata, 
Infelice, o Dio, mi fa! 
Ma tradita e abbandonata, 
Provo ancor per lui pietà." 

Aw, it's Mozart, cool. "Leporello" is a character in "Don Giovanni" (the title character's servant) and The Sneak is described in [[Ballad of The Sneak]] as Strong Bad's "leporello". {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 08:11, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
:Correct! {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 08:14, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

== 3/8/07 German ==

"Teacherman, are we just gonna talk about crowns all day?" {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:12, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
:"W'rüber red'n?" {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 03:14, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

==German Translation from YouTube==
*Mr. Heimstern, since you know the German language, I was wondering if you can translate something for me. See my funny videos on my user page and click on link 15. It is a German commercial. There's no dialogue in it, but at the end there is text on the screen. It says, "So wach warst du noch nie." Can you translate this? Thanks, --{{User:Theyellowdart/sig}} 21:56, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
:Well, I don't know any context, so I dun know how much sense this makes. But what it means, so far as I can tell, is "You were never so awake." Loafi is a native speaker; he could tell us for sure. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 21:59, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
::Thank you. It makes pretty much sense, if you see the video also. It's funny. I can go ask Loafing... right now. [[No Hands On Deck|PEAOW!]] --{{User:Theyellowdart/sig}} 22:05, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
==74.37.40.183==
*That is my IP! But it was not me. I would never do that to a wiki. I don't know who that is, but they obviously have the same IP as me. Please do not block that IP. --{{User:Theyellowdart/sig}} 20:52, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

== Barbzerdry! ==
Una voce poco fa 
qui nel cor mi risuonò; 
il mio cor ferito è già, 
e Lindor fu che il piagò.

'''Question:''' In what toon could the title character of this opera have advised Strong Bad? 

The title character is the [[Wikipedia:The Barber of Seville|Barber of Seville]], and I guess he could have helped SB with [[haircut]] :-){{User:Loafing/sig}} 09:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
:Yeah, I reckon Figaro would have given more normal results than a dog and also a cat shaped eyebrows, and a couple of muskrats. So probably it's best he wasn't in that email. Not to mention Figaro would never have thought of Düsseldorke. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 16:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

== Hey there! ==

I was wondering how do you delete and undelete a page? {{User:Sam the Man/sig}}
:Sysops have a button above the page that says "delete". You use that. To restore, sysops can go back to place the deleted page was and view the deleted edits and restore them. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 06:32, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
::Thank you very much for this explanation! {{User:Sam the Man/sig}}

== Latest Operatic challenge ==

In ''[[Wikipedia:The Magic Flute|The Magic Flute]]'' (''Die Zauberflöte''), Tamino takes a vow of silence, just as [[The Poopsmith]] has. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 04:24, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:Very good, though I'm glad Tamino doesn't reek like a Crapsmith, needless to say. Good work! {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 04:27, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
::Whee! I'll say :) {{User:Trey56/sig}} 04:31, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

== fonts ==
Hey i have a question about signatures. You're on the welcoming committee, so i figured you might know. How do i change the font of my sig? i tried doing AS Systematic and Sydnie, but i cna't get it to change from arial. Help! -[[User:Zerlock1124|Zerlock1124]]
Answer to my [[User talk:Zerlock1124|talk]] page

Never mind, i got it.
-{{User:Zerlock1124/sig}}

== Message on my talk page ==

I thought I should tell you that I replied to [[User talk:Bad Bad Guy#STUFF|your message]] with a question so the question does not go unanswered. [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 00:20, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

==Good Blocking==

Thanks for blocking that guy that you just blocked. And for unblocking Trey56. That guy did some pretty twisted stuff. For instance [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Homestar_vs._Little_Girl&diff=prev&oldid=452620|this]. --{{User:Jangles5150/sig}} 23:17, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

== .......... ==

Hi. I just wanted to let you know that my [[User:Viklas|little brother]] was so mad about being blocked that he logged into my name and vandalized a few pages, thus causing me to be indefinately blocked. I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't know my brother knew my password. *sigh* Please understand. If I'm able to come back I'll make my password extremely hard so my brother won't be able to log into my name. This isn't the first time he logged into my name without me knowing. 
<s>-[[User:Cool Tapes.exe|Cool Tapes.exe]]</s> 
PS. You're probably wondering how I'm typing this to you. I couldn't send an email because I don't have an email address, so I had no other choice but to log out and type this using my IP. {{unsigned|70.224.63.27|19:19, 20 May 2007}}

:Cool Tapes (if this is you), you have been [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:Cool_Tapes.exe blocked before]. Do you claim that Viklas was responsible for that as well? And if so, how could you not have noticed? Why did you not tell us, and why did you not change your password? We have had vandals using the "little brother" defense before, so naturally, we are a bit skeptical about this. I assume you understand that we will have to block Viklas instead of you if we choose to believe you.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 22:05, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
::That's right. Cool Tpaes.exe would never do vandalize. Unblock CT.EXE and block Viklas. {{User:Sam the Man/sig}} 23:07, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

== Heimday! ==

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag! At least in my time zone.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 05:38, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I am loev u nd ur birthdai. hav a fun and happy, k? yay! —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 05:42, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

:Happy birthday! Do something fun! Listen to opera music! Eat a cake! [[:Image:Last Three Items in the Pantry Special.png|Or better yet...]] {{User:Trey56/sig}} 09:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
::Happy Birthday for being a great sysop! {{User:Sam the Man/sig}} 11:47, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
:::Happy barfday! {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 17:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
::::No, E.L. Cool, not late at all. It's only 10:35 AM Heimday here in CA. To all of you: Thanks for the privaleges! Err, birthday greetings! {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 17:36, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
:::::I just wanted to wish you...... a really happy birthday (if any) and I hope you have a good time today. You don't have to but I'm just asking nicely if you please would. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
::::::Heimday, eh? Well, enjoy it and don't eat all the cake. At least not all at once. Bad idea. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 21:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
:::::::DC: I will. Qermaq: I won't. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 21:24, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

== German translation #5408 ==

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' You wanna know what ''my'' dream job would be? 
from [[from work]] {{User:Phlip/sig}} 04:08, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
:Yes, very good. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 04:12, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

==Question from Pointy King==

Thanks for the pic.
Hey, I do hae one question, is a wiki picture hosting thing, or do I have to go to imageshack or something? {{unsigned|Pointy King|15:16, 12 June 2007}}

:The wiki hosts its own pictures. Any user can upload them to our sever, just by clicking the "Upload file" link in the toolbox on the left. But before you do so, make sure you read the [[HRWiki:Image use policy|Image use policy]] and the [[HRWiki:Personal images|Personal images policy]] first, so you know da rules. {{User:The Chort/sig}} 15:28, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I went to upload file, but I got a permission error. :| {{unsigned|Pointy King|17:23, 12 June 2007}}
:Ah, that's because your account is very new. New accounts can't upload files: it's a security measure so vandals don't upload inappropriate images. You should be able to upload files tomorrow. Another thing: in the future, sign your comments by writing four tildes like this: <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>. That way we can see who wrote the comment easily. Have a great time around the wiki! {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 17:30, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

== Heimstern Läufer i need help ==

Hey there Heimstern Läufer how are you? Listen, i've been busy at school, and, ummm, i'm kinda worried that some of my friends might look up my name and found out this, and vandalize it. so please, tell me if there is anything "vandalizing like" on my user page, please?

thanks alot, talk atcha later [[User:Nikolce Kocovski|Nikolce Kocovski]] 07:19, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
:Hey, Nikolce. Haven't heard from you in a while; glad you came by. I went ahead and put your userpage on my watchlist so I'll see it if anyone vandalizes it. See you around. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 05:58, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

== Another German Translation ==

Took a while, but I finally got it: "You wanna know what 'my' dream job would be?" {{User:Einstein runner/sig}} 05:52, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
:Correct, but already answered by Phlip about a month ago. Hmm, I need to get a new one up; that one's old. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 05:53, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

== Block ==

Shouldn't someone block [[User:Oda Outdoorsman]] also? {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 12:51, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
:Umm, isn't that what I [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=&page=User%3ABling+Miser just did]? {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 12:53, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
::Sorry, but I said the wrong user at first. As you see now, I said Oda Outdoorsman. He could be the same person as Bling Miser. {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 12:55, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
:::Yes, your message makes much more sense now. Yes, blocked. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 12:55, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

== Translate ==
"I was unhappy □□!" or simple is: "I did not like the food!" {{User:Numa Numa/sig}}
:Hmm, you're close, but you have to think of a real quote, i.e., something Strong Sad really said. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 17:54, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
::"I don't like food anymore!" from [[2 years]]. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:01, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
:::Yes, indeed. Yay for Chinese translation! {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 18:02, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
::::Man I was close. I did not like the food and that is like the same LOL {{User:Numa Numa/sig}}

== Re: Reversion of Who Said What Now talk and subtitles ==

That's not much of an explanation. Why would you want to have deliberately broken subtitles? Is there perhaps some bizarre cover-up involved that we can't even ''mention'' a game that is part of the site? We have a whole [[Secret Pages]] section (which includes [[Marshmallow's Last Stand|toons no longer]] [[A Jumping Jack Contest|on the site]] AND things [[If I Ran the Camera|never intended to be seen by the public]]), so what's so bad about Spin 'n Say that we can't even use subtitles that actually work? [[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 03:22, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
:Yes, there is a different reason. I regret that I'm not at liberty to elaborate on this; the one thing I can say is that this is at the request of the representative of the Brothers Chaps. Hope that explains at least a bit. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 03:30, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
::Thank you. [[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 03:33, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Heimstern Läufer

2007-09-02T03:22:16Z

Ppk01: /**/Re: Reversion of Who Said What Now talk and subtitles

Talk:Who Said What Now?

2007-09-02T02:58:48Z

Ppk01: /**/Spin 'n Say style still available, should be noted

{| style="border: 1px solid #C0C090; background-color: #F8EABA; margin-bottom: 3px; width: auto; border-spacing: 3px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"
|-
|[[Image:Warning.png|30px|Butt's twelve by pies!]]
|'''Note:''' This game used to have a different name and a different shape. We're aware of that. Due to circumstances outside our control, we're not going into further detail at this time. Until we are able to discuss it further, please do not ask about it or worry about it too much. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.
|} 

Does anyone know where I can find that fan music video for Strong Sad's line? I always liked it. --[[User:VolatileChemical|VolatileChemical]] 04:20, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

:I know where you can find it. It's called "Strong Bad Rocks Out" by [[The Skate Party]]. You can listen to it (or download it) using a link on my forum. Here's the URL: [http://www.strongfans.com/portal/show_entry.asp?TYP=2&EntryID=169] Enjoy! {{User:The Paper/sig}} 14:43, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

::Or go here- http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/187036. [[User:Ookelaylay|Ookelaylay]] 20:59, 12 Aug 2005 (UTC)

==The tab==
the tab has 3-type-D animation, ie, when you pull it, it comes up horizontal, when its at rest its at a diagonal angle. {{User:Csours/sig}} 09:07, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

== Is That A Cold One? ==

i always thought that the "dink" heard during strong bads say was a cold one bottle cap coming off. and i still think it is. should i put this up in stuff? -{{User:Homsar7/sig}}
:I think it's pretty hard to say what it is, as there's no visual to match it to. Anything at all is pretty much speculation. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

==Name Change==
This game is now called "Who said what?" I think it's because of the copyright issue thing. - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 21:42, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
:Noted and moved. Thanks for the update! --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 21:44, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
::Is it worth noting somewhere in the article the reason for the name change? {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 00:21, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
:::Doubtful. That's not really part of the encyclopedic significance. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 00:24, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
::::I think it's an important part of the game's history. But we should wait how everything turns out before we add it.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 00:29, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
:::::Yeah. When did it change? Boy, this is getting to be an interesting week. --[[User:Jnelson09|Jnelson09]] 22:40, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
::::::Um, why won't we note the name change? If we aren't sure of the reason why the name was changed, we don't have to jump to conclusions, we could just say something like ''"This game's title was '(crud, I forgot the original title!)' when it was first released. It was changed to 'Who Said What Now?' in early 2007."'' And moreover, why is the page protected now? — {{User:SamFisher1022/sig}} 17:27, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
:::::::It's highly likely Mattel, who made the toy the old game made fun of, tried to sue them. That's why the page is locked with no mention of the original name. [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 17:30, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

==Picture==
Now that the game has been changed, is it permissible to put a picture of the new game up? {{User:Geshmalderborgen/sig}} 22:04, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
:I should think so, yes. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 22:11, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

== Locked? ==

Somehow I ended up logged out, and when I noticed this page on RecentChanges, I noticed it was locked. The only explanation given is that it was "at the request of [[Karen Wagner]]"... I suppose, looking at the above comments, I might have a guess why it was locked (copyright issues?), but that said, how accurate is my guess? And does it still need to be locked? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 23:49, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
:Also, the image was removed per KW (according to the history) and now has been restored. a) are we allowed to do this and b) can someone please explain what's going on? --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 05:07, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
::Well, it's a new image. Different image. But I should probably check first... *sweatdrop* I've commented it out for now, until I get an okay... --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 05:13, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Is it still appropriate for this page to be locked?{{User:Bryanc/sig}} 16:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
:It probably doesn't need to be locked for too much longer, but we're trying to tread through this issue carefully, so hold on a little longer... {{User:Trey56/sig}} 16:19, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a particular reason long-time members are locked as well? I've seen quite a few Wikipedia pages, such as [[Wikipedia:High School Musical]], which were locked only to nonmembers and newbies. If we can lock it for those people only I have an idea for a picture to use in the template. (I know this should go in its own talk page but I didn't know what to call the template) [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 03:27, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
:We don't need a semi-protected template, thanks. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 03:32, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

i need to add a "view the old version" link (to spin and say) [[User:slipknot6477]]
:No, we're not going to do that. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:17, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
why not?
:For reasons that are already listed on this page in various threads. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:26, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

::In other words, [[looking old|legal reasons]] not to be discussed at the current time. --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 23:28, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

== Request for article link change ==

The line ''The game is a parody of Mattel's "See 'n Say."'' should, I think, instead of linking to Mattel's wiki entry, should more appropriately link to the [[Wikipedia:See 'n Say|See 'n Say]] page. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 11:41, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
:Done. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 12:17, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
::Cool, thanks! Also, I don't mean to be knit picker, but I was hoping that the Mattel link would go away or look a bit better, since having the word be half link/half text doesn't look as pleasing as if it looked like: [[Wikipedia:Mattel|Mattel's]]. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 05:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
::That is odd. Isn't the appended bit normally swallowed into the link, or is that only for inside links? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 10:06, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
:::Mine swallows both internal and external links, except any with an "'s". Then it just goes '''Blue Words Here'''<nowiki>'s</nowiki>. Dunno why. *shrugs* --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 18:42, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
::::My guess is that extra characters are automatically apparended to the link when they are only letters. My guess is that the apostrophe breaks that "autolink". I personally don't like that feature and opt to link it myself. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 03:11, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
:::::But don't. The link is to the noun, not the possessive, and shouldn't be linked as though it were. Also, we should avoid piped links when possible. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 00:10, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
::::::True. The link is a noun and not the possessive, but it just looks soooo much prettier! Lol. And we rename things all the time! Oh is that what you mean by avoiding piped links when possible? But I like piped links! They're my frieeend! ... *awkward silence* Right. Anyway, I just think form over function might be a nice idea in this very... isolated... case. Yeah. Isolated. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 02:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

== Add some links ==

Would it be appropiate to add links to the original version? I couldn't add them myself because the edit buttons appear to be hidden.
:I don't think we should. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 00:23, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
::If anything, we should put it on [[Secret Pages]], but only after this page and the other pages involving the toy are unprotected, and the copyright issue is resolved {{User:Dr._Clash/sig}} 00:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
:::I think we should pretend "Sp*n 'N S*y" never existed and it has always been Who Said What?. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 00:29, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
::::I concur. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 00:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Well, there are places where the forbidden name is used, such as the [[Third Games Menu]] and [[Why Come Only One Girl?]]. Also the old [[Handheld Games Menu]] mirrors. I say that we don't do anything more until we get the Chapmans' ok. - {{User:Dr._Clash/sig}} 00:42, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
:That is likely for the best. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:43, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
How can [[Secret Pages]] and [[Astro-Lite 2600]] include links to Lite Brite if it is a registered trademark of Hasbro? [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 15:30, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

::That issue hasn't yet surfaced as a problem (and hopefully never will). {{User:Trey56/sig}} 15:59, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible for us to pretend this game was always this state without creating the impression Kidelectrix predates Videlectrix? [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 19:59, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, you're doing a damn good job of erasing The Game That Apparently Must Not Be Named from history, let me say. I came across this page and thought, "Ah, it's been changed", but then found no reference to [that game]. I know how obsessive you fanboys are at documenting every little thing about Homestar Runner, so I frantically searched for any reference at all to [that game] on the wiki, but found none, and thought to myself, "Have I gone mad? Did I just imagine [that game]? Why on earth isn't there a reference to it?" Nothing made sense until I found this talk page, from which the situation can be inferred.

Pandering to the dictates of the Chaps aside, I don't see why there shouldn't be a reference to it on this site. It isn't affiliated to homestarrunner.com, so there can't be any ramifications, can there? Well, there's my bit. Thanks for causing so much confusion. --[[User:84.67.250.92|84.67.250.92]] 22:16, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
:Hey, no problem. Unfortunately, it's not going to change anytime soon, at least not until the dust finally settles. You may think we're pandering fanboys—and that's fine, you can think that if you want—but really we're being respectful of them and their request. Also, I think it shows poor discretion if one's bottom line in making decisions is "Meh, what's the worst that can happen?". In cases like that, it's almost always better not to find out. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 22:58, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
::Wait, why is this an issue? Is it because of the copyright on the original errm... thing by mattel? I got lost. Suddenly everyone's acting like we need to clean up after a murder. --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 23:07, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
:::The nature of the issue is such that we won't be discussing it at present; however, in due time we will explain the full reasoning behind everything. I know it's frustrating, but we are asking for your patience for a while longer. Thanks for your cooperation. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:49, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
::::I understand. When a legal issue comes up like this, the best thing to do is exactly what you and all the other sysops and admins are doing. --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 03:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
:::::If I may chip in my thoughts on this, to avoid confusion (i.e. the aformentioned "Kidelectrix predates Videlectrix!?!" thing), whenever it is deemed we can edit this again, we could simply say "This game is an edited version of an older game, with Homsar's quote and the Kidelectrix name added" or something--we can be ambiguous and not say anything about the older game's content, just say that this one is a new version of an older game. [[User:Evan|Evan]] 00:05, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::Here's my two cents: Evan's plan is a good one for now, but in the future, should there ever be a resolution, we can give a full explanation as to what happened to the (BLEEEEEEEEP). --[[User:Jnelson09|Jnelson09]] 04:17, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
:::::::Are you referring to something like, "Homsar's quote and the Kidelectrix label were added later," because that sounds good to me. [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 21:47, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
::::::::Maybe we could also treat the Kidelectrix label the way we treat the changes of the secret phrases from [[Homestar Talker]] and the music from [[Dancin' Bubs]]. [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 17:09, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

== About a Fun Fact ==

I don't like the word "parody". Please change the text "This game is a '''parody''' of Mattel's See 'n' Say" to something else. Thank you. Remember: YOU made me hate this word. {{unsigned|76.184.188.124|17:32, 8 March 2007 (UTC)}}
:Look for a second at the [[ahd:61/94/P0079400.html|definition]] of the word, the relevant part of which I will highlight here: "An artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of another work for comic effect." That is ''exactly'' what this game is. But never mind that. TBC, via their representative, ''specifically'' asked us to use that word. It stays. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:00, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

== They're s'posed to what? ==

Where can I find out more about the copyright issue? Did Mattel try to sue them or something? [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 23:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
:We don't know. All we know is [[Talk:Who Said What Now?#Add some links|this was always "Who Said What"]], and the rest doesn't need to be elaborated on. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 23:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
::I don't know if we can pull that off since the original name is still used in [[Secret Pages]] and [[Old Flash Stuff]]. [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 22:03, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

==Homsar==
Hey, Homsar has a line but it's not translated to text!

'''HOMSAR:'''AaAaAh, My cheese is 50 cent!

-Ben from the fanstuff wiki

:<s>You can just put it on the page you know :)</s> This must be an addition to the original because I've noticed that all of the timings for the subtitles are out of sync now.{{User:Bryanc/sig}} 23:45, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
::Nevermind, I didn't realize the page was locked from editing.{{User:Bryanc/sig}} 23:54, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
::An administrator will need to add this.{{User:Bryanc/sig}} 02:07, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

why is it quieter? {{User:Slipknot6477/sig}} 16:59, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
:I don't think it's quieter. It sounds different because it was added later. By the time TBC added his line, what they recorded had a better sound quality than the other buttons. {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 17:08, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Just something I'd thought I'd say, the cowbell at the end of Strong Bad's line is muted.

== Stuff To Add ==

*The [[Handheld Games Menu]] still calls this game Who Said What?
*Include a link in Marzipan's quote to [[The Only Girl]]. Thank you for your time. [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 05:40, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

:The first one would fit better on [[Handheld Games Menu]] than on this page, I think. As for the second one, we usually don't link characters' speech in transcripts. I tried figuring out a different way to work it in, but nothing came to me. Any suggestions? {{User:Trey56/sig}} 05:53, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
::I'd say add is as a fun fact:
::*Marzipan's line refers to the fact that she is considered [[The Only Girl|the only female lead]].
::Feel free to reword to make it sound better. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 13:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
:::I think that sounds prooty grood — I {{p|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Who_Said_What_Now%3F&diff=451063&oldid=449987 added it}}. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 15:55, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
::::Another thing to mention is that Homestar doesn't have a mouth on his picture. I'm still cheesed off that this page is protected in the first place (I'm not going to ask why). Can we just ban it from annonies? Or is it that bad? --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 00:55, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
:::::Please see [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Talk%3AWho_Said_What_Now%3F&diff=461958&oldid=461925]. Sorry about this, and thanks for understanding.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 00:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
::::::Should headers for Remarks, Inside References, Real-World References, and Fast Forward be added? [[Everything Else, Volume 2]] has less Fun Facts but still uses headers. [[User:Bad Bad Guy|Bad Bad Guy]] 17:17, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

== New Fun Fact ==

I noticed that the characters on the buttons resemble the character designs from the back page of the FAQ. Just puttin' this up here, in case you want to STUFF it. [[User:76.184.199.4|76.184.199.4]] 02:07, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
:What part of the FAQ? {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 02:12, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

::Oh, you mean the static characters on the last page — they're very close, but I can find subtle differences in all of them except Pom Pom... {{User:Trey56/sig}} 03:59, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

== For kids? ==

Anyone else notice that Homsar's picture in this resembles the one used in [[For Kids]] in [[Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man?]]'s theme song? -[[User:Free Bagels|Free Bagels]] 01:20, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

== Fact/Goof ==

Is it a fact or a goof that the narrator refers to every character with a "the" infront of their name except for The Cheat?
It should be "the The Cheat says..." -[[User:JamesDean|JamesDean]] 19:35, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
:you forgot the KOT and the poopsmith, both of whom have [[integral article]]s. not a goof or a relevant fact. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 19:40, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
::The King and Poopsmith are not ''always'' integral like The Cheat is, though. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 19:43, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
:::still, they are mostly, as evidenced by their page names [[The King of Town|'''The''' King of Town]] and [[The Poopsmith|'''The''' Poopsmith]]. Ergo, still not relevant. {{User:DeFender1031/sig}} 19:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
::If this toon were created today, then it might be different, but it was from way back when they hadn't firmed up the whole integral article thing. As such, it's not really that notable. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:03, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

==Homsar's line==

Would it, erm, hurt if we could at least say "Assumably, Homsar's line was recorded later than the rest, hence the difference in sound quality" or something? It looks kind of silly as it is. D: [[User:Evan|Evan]] 23:57, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
:I think it's fine as it is. It's not silly at all.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 00:06, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

== The old game ==

Wow, since when was this changed? I think it used to be a Spin 'n Say, because that redirects here. Where you pulled a string and the quotes cycled through 11 different guys. [[User:75.46.60.77|75.46.60.77]] 17:20, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
:The name changed a little over four months ago, and then the game itself was updated about two months ago, because of the work of outside forces. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:29, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Yeah. M*ttel got [[The Brothers Chaps]] to change it because they felt their copyrights were being skimped. (M*ttel manufactures Sp*n 'n S*y, ya know.) [[User:71.231.56.40|71.231.56.40]] 21:53, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
:None of that is a secret; we are just choosing not to discuss the details at present. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:59, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

um... who said what nows article is crazy and we need to get the spin and say/who said what now thing finished. most of its discussion is with secret pages. we got to get this settled in a pole home. [[User|slipknot6477|slipknot6477]]
:We ''have'' finished the page and the only problems are people who continue to bring it up. I'm not sure what you mean by "pole home", but there is no need to continue discussion about the previous happenings of Who Said What Now?. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 15:56, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

== Old Games ==

Is it notable that ''this'' game's back button links to the [[HR:oldgames.html|old games]] menu unlike the other old games, which link to the [[HR:games.html|new games]] menu? And if so, could some sysop add it? {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 22:47, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

== Spin 'n Say style still available, should be noted ==

At the end of [[The Luau]], an alternate [[Luau Main Page|main page]] is displayed. The version of the main page present in the original toon (NOT the standalone version) has its own standalone "newstuff" section which, among other things, links to the original Spin 'n Say-style version of the Who Said What Now? game. Therefore, the original version of the game is still easily accessible on the website, and should be noted on the wiki. If for some reason we can't have two separate pages for these two games, at least note that "Who Said What Now?" descended from this earlier version of the game, and that Homsar wasn't added in until later (explaining the difference in audio quality). I have already fixed the subtitles for the original game; there are now two sets of subtitles for each version of the game that work independently of each other. For the record, the original game's URL is [http://www.homestarrunner.com/spinandsay2.html spinandsay2.html].

On a similar note, the original game appeared to have been named "Who Said What?" (based on what others have said, although it's clearly referenced as "Spin 'n Say" in the Luau Main Page and even within the game itself), and the newer version is called "Who Said What Now?". I believe this to be a reference to the first two books in the [[Wikipedia:Where's Wally?|Where's Wally]] series: "Where's Wally?" and "Where's Wally Now?". [[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 02:58, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Subtitles:spinandsay2/en

2007-09-02T02:58:36Z

Ppk01: Please see the talk page of Who Said What Now? for information.

{{subtitles|Who Said What?|type=game}}
<pre>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<transcript xml:lang="en-us" width="550" height="400">

<line start="47" end="119">
<other>The Strong Sad says,</other>
<strongsad>Each day we die a little more.</strongsad>
</line>

<line start="144" end="186">
<other>The Pom Pom says,</other>
<pompom>bubbling noises</pompom>
</line>

<line start="218" end="287">
<other>The Strong Bad says,</other>
<strongbad>Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Crap!</strongbad>
<sfx>cowbell</sfx>
</line>

<line start="311" end="369">
<other>The Cheat says,</other>
<thecheat>Cheat noises similar to Homestar's singing in the Intro</thecheat>
</line>

<line start="399" end="442">
<other>The King of Town says,</other>
<kingoftown>More butter please.</kingoftown>
</line>

<line start="465" end="540">
<other>The Homestar says,</other>
<homestar>Now spell encyclopedia.... </homestar></line>
<line start="540" end="591" speaker="homestar" volume="0.8">What? I'm supposed to what?!</line>
<line start="591" end="636" speaker="homestar">Oh, man... I blew it real bad this time.</line>

<line start="662" end="731">
<other>The Strong Mad says,</other>
<strongmad>Rrrraaaawww!</strongmad>
</line>

<line start="764" end="808" speaker="other">The Poopsmith has taken a vow of silence.</line>

<line start="837" end="874">
<other>The Marzipan says,</other>
<marzipan>I'm the only girl.</marzipan>
</line>

<line start="907" end="950">
<other>The Bubs says,</other>
<bubs>Everybody wants to shake it!</bubs>
</line>

<line start="977" end="1039">
<other>The Coach Z says,</other>
<coachz>I have more than two prablems.</coachz>
</line>

</transcript>
</pre>

for kids

2007-08-29T14:12:31Z

Ppk01: /* Remarks */ Homsar's eyes on the "Whaddaya Know Haddi-man?" logo are mirrored versions of the smaller of Bubs' eyes.

{{sbenav|110}}
[[Image:sbemail110.png|thumb|right|"Okay, kids, we're gonna play ''Where's The Cheat!''"]]

Allison wonders what a Strong Bad television series for kids would be like.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Rather Dashing}}, {{Film|Kerrek}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Homsar}}, {{Film|The King of Town}} (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]]

{{Comp|Compy 386}}

'''Date:''' Monday, August 9, 2004

'''Running Time:''' 3:24

'''Page Title:''' Compy 386!!

{{dvd|strongbad_email.exe Disc Four}}

== Transcript ==
''{We see Strong Bad at the Compy 386 playing ''Peasant's Quest''. He has a score of -38 and is in the area with Kerrek.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh, let's see here... ''{typing}'' Make friends with Kerrek.

''{A message pops up. It reads, "The Kerrek says he has enough friends already. And he doesn't like your short, short pants." His score also drops to -40.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' What the!? ''(presses enter}'' Um... ''{typing}'' Buy Kerrek a cold one.

''{Kerrek smashes him on the head. There is another message. It reads, "The Kerrek is a teetotaller and is offended by your offer. He pounds your head into the ground. You dead." His score also drops to -45.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' WHAT?! Oh man... Stupid game! ''{types "quit." A message says, "You quitter."}'' I guess I should do the thing... that I do. ''{pulls up the a> sign and types "strongbad_email.exe"}'' ''{Reading}''

<blockquote class="email">Coolest guy ever - - - Strong Bad, 
I've been wondering if you ever 
thought of making your own television 
series? Kids everywhere would love 
you, and your awesomeness. 
 
Allison , NJ</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads "- - -" as "henna henna henna". After reading the greeting, he says, "Whoa! Three hennas! Must be an important one!" After the comma in the last sentence, he says "unnecessary comma," and he pronounces "Allison" as "All is on"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Television?!! Kids?!! Wait, do you people think I'm intended for children? Like, the littlest, tiniest babies? You know, they watch those shows on public television. I don't think I'm cut out for that sort of sugarjob.

''{Cut to a piece of yellow paper of the sort used to teach kindergartners writing. Strong Bad is superimposed on it with a rocket launcher/bazooka, a monster with horns, a bunny with fangs, and a creature that resembles a man sticking its tongue out drawn in crayon around him.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{Smiling beatifically}'' Okay, kids, we're gonna play "Where's The Cheat?". Can you say, "a-The Cheat"?

'''KIDS:''' ''{half incoherent}'' The Cheat. ''{one child mumbles}'' Christopher Columbus.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Not good enough. F minus minus.

''{"F--" appears on the screen. The [[DELETED]] [[Sound Effects|buzzer]] is heard. Cut back to Strong Bad. Behind him are a tree and an open box. A toilet is in front of him.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right, dumb children. ''{rubs his hands together}'' Find The Cheat!

''{The Cheat comes out from behind the box.}''

'''KIDS:''' ''{say things like "He's over there," or "Right there." They continue saying this.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Um, no, he's behind the box. ''{Turns around and points to The Cheat}'' No, uh, he's not even ''behind'' the box, he's ''barely obscured'' by the box. ''{turns around}'' Look, ''The Cheat is behind the freaking box!!''

''{Kids stop talking and the music soundtrack screeches to a halt accompanied by a record scratch. Strong Bad breathes heavily, then comes closer to the viewer, and starts screaming manically}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''HE'S BEHIND THE BOX! I'LL KILL YA!! I'LL KILL ALL YOUR DOGS''!!

''{Cut back via a change of TV channels to Strong Bad at the Compy 386}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' So, you can see how that might be less than pleasant. What with all the letter writing and the angry mothers and the subsequent stringing me up in town square for all to see. But you know who's a natural for that sorta thing? None other than America's favorite blue midget Homestar: Homsar!!

''{Cut to an all-white scene. Homsar comes through a faraway door. He walks closer to the viewer and stops.}''

'''KIDS:''' Whaddaya know, Haddi-man?

''{As the words are sung, they are shown one by one at the bottom of the viewer's screen. A caricature of Homsar rides by from right to left in a boat with a flag. The background is light green, with white, yellow, purple and green flowers spinning counter-clockwise. His shirt says "if you lived here you'd be home"}''

'''MAN:''' We'll have an adventure, and several long trips. We'll make some new friends—

''{Smiling, multi-ethnic children appear behind Homsar as he sails left off the screen}''

'''MAN:''' —and maybe get a bite to eat!!!

''{An orange with "abc" on it appears. Seven Homsar silhouettes now fan like a hand of cards from left to right, and then disappear in reverse order.}''

'''MAN:''' All 'cause we say...

''{A red silhouette of Homsar with the flag from the boat appears. White liquid spills onto the screen. A logo that says '''"Whaddaya Know Haddi-man?"''' with a second caricature of Homsar on it appears.}''

'''KIDS:''' Whaddaya know, Haddi-man?

''{The real Homsar pops up on the left side of the screen in the lower left corner.}''

'''HOMSAR:''' DaAaAaA! I'm a trendy tote bag!

''{Cut to a tan scene. Homsar disappears and reappears in various places, accompanied by raspberry noises. When he stops in the left half of the foreground, a blue lower case "g" appears beside him.}''

'''KIDS:''' A "G"!

'''HOMSAR''': I'm not gonna lie to you, that's a healthy piece of real estate!

'''KIDS:''' A "G"!

''{Cut to a purple background with a seated, mustachioed man playing a guitar. As the words are sung, they appear on the screen.}''

'''MAN:''' Stave it off, 1-2-3, and now you can count to three.

'''HOMSAR:''' That's a real popular song! Who wants to hear of it fifty times more?

'''KIDS''': ''{shouts of approval}''

''{Cut to the previous screen. Now we see two of the guitar-playing people, one in a darker shade superimposed behind the other. Again, as the words are sung, they appear on the screen.}''

'''MAN:''' Stave it off, 1-2-3, and now you can count to three.

''{The darker shaded guitarist is suddenly upside-down, and the song is repeated as are the words on the screen.}''

'''MAN:''' Stave it off, 1-2-3, and now you can count to three.

''{Cut back to the Compy via a channel change.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Good gravy. ''{Spoken: GOOD... GRAVY.}'' I've got two words for the children that are raised on that crap: ''{in monotone}'' HELD BACK. REPEATING THE THIRD GRADE. LOW STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES. I GUESS THIS WAS MORE THAN TWO WORDS. THE PAPER, PLEASE TAKE US HOME.

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*At the end, click on the words "good gravy" to see the King of Town's new food product.
[[Image:kot-gravy.png|thumb|The KOT's Good Gravy]]
<blockquote>the KOT's 
Good 
GRAVY 
"I don't lets the 
Poopsmith near it!" 
104 oz.</blockquote>
*Also at the end, click "crap" to see a CD jewel case and hear a sample of [[All Is On]]'s album:
<blockquote>ALL IS ON!!! 
Mega Hits!! 
PARTY MIX!</blockquote>
<blockquote>(on spine) Songs We Found On The Street</blockquote>
:'''SINGER:''' All is on... feel it, feel it, feel it, feel it...

== Fun Facts ==
===Explanations===
*A person who practices total abstinence from alcoholic beverages is called a [[wikipedia:Teetotaler|teetotaller]].

===Remarks===
*The [[Peasant's Quest Responses|commands]] Strong Bad uses in [[Peasant's Quest]] were not originally part of the game but were added after this email debuted.
**Typing "make friends with kerrek" results in the message "Look, it didn't work for Strongbad ''[sic]'' and it's not gonna work for you either."
**Typing "buy kerrek a cold one" results in the message "The Kerrek is a teetotaller and is offended by your request. You've really cheesed him off now." Also, the Kerrek begins moving twice as fast.
*It is impossible to get a negative score in the real game, despite Strong Bad's miserable showing.
*In [[Peasant's Quest Preview]], it is said the maximum requirements for Peasant's Quest are a 286 CGA enabled PC. The Compy, judging by its name, contains a 386 processor.
*The positions of the crayon graphics in the first scene are all rearranged when the scene zooms in on Strong Bad's face.
*If the "Stave it off" song were really looped 50 times (including the pause heard in the email) it would last for 6 minutes, 10 seconds.
*As Homsar says the word "trendy," his hat changes in size; first larger, then smaller, then back to normal.
*If you type "quit" in the real Peasant's Quest, the game shows a different message than the "you quitter" message, and quits.
*Homsar's eyes on the "Whaddaya Know Haddi-man?" logo are mirrored versions of the smaller of [[Bubs]]' eyes.

===Goofs===
*When Homsar talks after the lowercase "[[g]]" shows up (complete with various head movements and hat flyings, as per usual), his shadow stays still.
*The real Peasant's Quest game shows the score as "# of 150", not "# ''out'' of 150".

===Glitches===
*When Strong Bad is playing Peasant's Quest, the Contrast knob has no effect on any of the black text on the screen except for the game messages (i.e. "You quitter.").

===Inside References===
*The sounds that Homsar makes when he opens the door is the same sound when the door closes in The House That Gave Sucky Treats.
*Strong Bad says "HE'S BEHIND THE BOX! I'LL KILL YA!! I'LL KILL ALL YOUR DOGS!!" This is an instance of one speaking of [[Killing Dogs|killing someone's dog]].

===Real-World References===
*The fake show hosted by Strong Bad is a spoof of many children's shows; the kids heard shouting the answers to Strong Bad's questions are taken from the show [[Wikipedia:Blue's Clues|Blue's Clues]]. Strong Bad's show is actually a strange reversal of Blue's Clues; in Blue's Clues the kids know all the answers to the questions asked but the host is completely clueless.
*The way Homsar enters and walks closer to the viewer is from the British kids' show [[Wikipedia:Bod (television)|"Bod"]]. This is likely, as [[The Brothers Chaps]] have claimed that [http://www.retrocrush.com/homestar/index2.html Bod was one of their influences.]
*The noise Homsar makes when he teleports around are similar to noises on the [[PBS]] show [[Wikipedia:Boohbah|Boohbah]].
*The Guitar Playing Man bears a striking [[Wikipedia:Gorilla_%28album%29|resemblance]] to folk singer [[Wikipedia:James Taylor|James Taylor]]. Taylor has made numerous appearances on the children's TV program [[Wikipedia:Sesame Street|Sesame Street]], often singing educational songs.
**He also bears a resemblance to [[Wikipedia:Fred Penner|Fred Penner]] and [[Wikipedia:Jim Croce|Jim Croce]].
*Homsar asking the kids if they want to "hear of (the song) 50 times more" may be a reference to the [[Wikipedia:British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] show [[Wikipedia:Teletubbies|Teletubbies]], in which whenever a "real-life" clip is shown, it is always repeated per request of the Teletubbies.
*The "letter of the day" feature in Homsar's show is reminiscent of [[Wikipedia:Sesame Street|Sesame Street]], which ends each show with the mock sponsorship, "Sesame Street was brought to you ... by the letter __!"
*The bunny with fangs on the first Strong Bad kids show scene may be a refrence to The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
*The bizarre way Homsar comes onto the screen from an unseen door in the unseen distance, and the way he jumps around the screen without moving otherwise, is a reference to early Sesame Street skits which were noted for their surreality.
*The "animated" Homsar's shirt says "If you lived here you'd be home," bringing to mind the common billboard campaign for new houses under construction, "If you lived here, you'd be home by now."

===Fast Forward===
*The "[[All Is On]]" song from this email is used again in the Easter egg for [[extra plug]].
*The words "Stave it off, 1, 2, 3..." were used again in the email [[virus]].
*[[Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man?]] is heard in the background in [[secret identity]].
*Part of the song played in the "Where's the Cheat?" part of the sbemail is heard in the [[Very, Very Little Girl]] Easter egg in [[Summer Short Shorts]].

==DVD Version==
*The DVD version features hidden creators' commentary. To access it, switch your DVD player's audio language selection while watching.

===Commentary Transcript===
('''Commentary by:''' [[Matt Chapman]], [[Mike Chapman]], [[Ryan Sterritt]] '''on guitar''')

''{Ryan’s guitar playing throughout the commentary}''

'''MATT:''' You’re listening to the smooth, sultry, sounds of the Strong Bad DVD commentary.

'''RYAN:''' Dim the lights, Matt. Who’s on lights? Matt are you on lights?

'''MIKE:''' I know one thing for sure.

'''MATT:''' What’s that, Mike?

'''MIKE:''' Ryan Sterrit’s on the guitar right now.

'''RYAN:''' ''{over Mike}'' Oooooohhhhhhhh yyyyyyeeeeeaaaaaahhh.

'''MATT:''' What’s that Ryan?

'''RYAN:''' Hey um— re— re—

'''MIKE:''' ''{over Ryan}'' Make it sing. Make it sing.

'''RYAN:''' Regarding the P— the Peasant’s Quest thing we— or— before the email or just after we went back and added the phrases.

'''MATT:''' ''{over Ryan}'' Those two commands.

'''MIKE:''' Oh, into the game.

'''RYAN:''' Yes.

'''MIKE:''' Oh.

'''MATT:''' And you’d get the same responses, right?

'''RYAN:''' Y— something like that. Something similar.

'''MATT:''' Or maybe— no.

'''MIKE:''' Oh no, that’s right.

'''RYAN:''' ''{yelling}'' Check— Try— Try it out at home.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah.

'''RYAN:''' Find out yourselves.

'''MATT:''' Give it a shot.

'''RYAN:''' I’m sorry. I’m not being sufficiently jazzy in my role.

'''MATT:''' No! We’re all err—

'''MIKE:''' Hey it’s all good. It’s all hot.

'''MATT:''' Everything— we’re all a family here at Strong Bad Email. This is a little technique I used to make look like crayon drawing Flash it’s the— it’s the stippled stroke. There’s a stroke in your stroke tool all you Flash animators at home.

'''MIKE:''' Stroke.

'''MATT:''' It looks sort of like pebbles. Just do several different layers of it and maybe cut and paste the same layer, move it up a little bit. Instant crayon.

'''MIKE:''' ''{imitating child in the email}'' Christopher Columbus!

'''RYAN:''' Wait— wait, this is where Strong Bad gets violent.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah this is gonna be good contrast to— here...

'''MATT:''' Yeah. I don’t think— I don’t think I wanna watch this part.

'''MIKE:''' Strong Bad! Calm down, man!

'''MATT:''' You need to cool out, Strong Bad.

'''RYAN:''' Does he say, "I’ll kill all you dogs"?

'''MATT:''' Yeah.

'''RYAN:''' Or "all your dolls?"

'''MIKE AND MATT:''' Dogs.

'''RYAN:''' That’s what I thought he said.

'''MATT:''' He’s ang— he’s angry. It’s a little rough. There’s some kids at home who I don’t think could handle that.

'''RYAN:''' Yeah. It’s like— it’s like the new Star Wars episodes. Not suitable for children.

'''MATT:''' That’s what I hear. The world’s most childish...

'''MIKE:''' Hey Ryan. How ‘bout some more finger picking. ''{Ryan plays a little more}'' Thank you. That’s ''nice''.

'''MATT:''' This is a, uh— this is a sweet intro I think to Homsar’s show.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. I really wanna make this show, or at least watch it. I don’t want to make it. I wanna watch it.

'''RYAN:''' I like the, um, the construction paper appearance in this.

'''MATT:''' Yeah. Those kids and that orange— that orange I wanna snack on.

'''MIKE:''' Those kids are diverse.

'''MATT:''' They are! ''{talks over Mike}'' They’re from all over the world, Mike.

'''MIKE:''' ''{talks over Matt}'' There’s some diversity in those kids.

'''MATT:''' Haddi-man is accepting of all cultures.

''{short pause}''

'''MIKE:''' And fart noises.

''{all laugh}''

'''MIKE:''' ''{laughing}'' I wonder—

'''RYAN:''' —like a— statistical analysis on the number of, uh, fart noises or toilets or something like that delay this 1:30.

'''MATT:''' ''Is'' there?

'''RYAN:''' I don’t know. There’s the toilet and the claymation thing that— there’s probably a lot! Not that you guys resort to—

'''MATT:''' Who’s uncle? That’s— that’s Ryan right now. Looks just like that guy.

'''MIKE:''' He does! His legs crossed like that!

'''MATT:''' He’s got his legs crossed, tapping one foot.

'''MIKE:''' You need to put some socks on underneath your flip-flops.

''{short pause}''

'''MATT:''' Me! Me! Me! Me! That’s my favorite kid that’s in the background—

'''RYAN:''' Is he wearing sandals and socks?

'''MIKE:''' I don’t think he is, but I always sort of interpreted those weird lines around his foot as that.

'''RYAN:''' Hey guys, I’m sorry if I was implying that you guys do a lot of potty humor.

'''MIKE:''' Yeah. We’re gonna cut this out— we’re gonna cut you out of the DVD.

''{all laugh}''

'''RYAN:''' But, I’m not in the DVD.

'''MATT:''' You ''are'' in the DVD actually.

'''MIKE:''' You are cut out!

'''MATT:''' Umm—

'''RYAN:''' Nothing to cut.

''{short pause}''

'''RYAN:''' Keep it going. Keep it going, bro.

'''MATT:''' Keep it going. Low standardized test scores—

'''MIKE:''' How long does—

'''MATT: ''' Let’s keep our standardized test scores low this evening, ladies and gentlemen.

'''RYAN:''' Test scores—

'''MATT:''' The Paper— Ryan, take us home.

''{Ryan’s guitar playing until the end}''

===Fun Facts===
*The comment that the new [[Wikipedia:Star Wars|Star Wars]] episodes are not suitable for children refers to the fact that the latest episode, [[Wikipedia:Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith|Revenge of the Sith]], was rated [[Wikipedia:MPAA film rating system|PG-13]], whereas all previous Star Wars movies were rated PG.

==See Also==
*[[Whaddaya Know, Haddi-Man?]]

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|110|459}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}
[[Category: Emails With DVD Commentary]]

sloshy

2007-08-20T17:11:34Z

Ppk01:

{{Infobox Band |
band_name=sloshy |
image= [[Image:Sloshy logo.png|230px]] |
origin= N/A |
genre=[[Wikipedia:Alternative rock|Alternate rock]] |
member=Unknown |
backup=N/A |
discography=we don't even really care about you ok fine unripe art troll |
producer=N/A |
}}

[[Image:Strong Sad Sloshy.png|thumb|left|200px|[[Strong Sad]] wearing a sloshy T-shirt.]]
'''sloshy''' (typeset as '''ʎɥsols''') is a band from the [[Strong Bad Email]] [[concert]]. They were an opening band for [[Limozeen]] and [[Strong Bad]] was unwilling to view it, instead choosing to come late, but Limozeen never came on. It was one of Strong Bad's favorite bands until he learned it wasn't [[Wikipedia:Heavy metal music|metal]] music. sloshy has three members, and was founded in the early 2000s.

[[Category:Bands]]

Quality Time with Cardboard Homestar

2007-08-07T16:08:30Z

Ppk01: /* Remarks */ And smaller.

{{toonnav|Shorts|qualitytime|Ever and More!|Strong Bad Sings}}
[[Image:Quality Time.png|thumb|"Seriously, Marzipan, how do you get so smart?"]]

While Homestar is on "vacation", Marzipan spends some quality time with his cardboard double.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{film|Marzipan}}, [[Cardboard Homestar]], {{film|Strong Sad}}, {{film|Bubs}}, {{film|Homestar Runner}}, [[Cardboard Marzipan]] (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Marzipan's House]], [[Marshmallow's Last Stand (place)|Marshmallow's Last Stand]], [[The Field]] (with fence), [[Bubs' Concession Stand]]

'''Date:''' Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

'''Page title:''' Cut her some FLAX!

'''Running time:''' 1:48

== Transcript ==

''{Marzipan is sitting on her sofa holding a book called "Algonquin Stew".}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' You know, Homestar, I disagree with what you said about the underlying theme of Chapter 8 in this book. It's really not about man's struggle with double-sided tape. It's a metaphor for the Mesopotamian social hierarchy during the Bronze Age.

''{Shift view to see a cardboard cutout of Homestar wearing glasses and with a butterfly instead of a propeller on his cap. Marzipan supplies the cutout's voice, imitating Homestar's. When she does, she gains a heavy brow and an underbite.}''

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' Seriously, Marzipan, how do you get so smart? Don't you see you are a smart?

'''MARZIPAN:''' Well thanks, Homestar. I guess I am kind of smart.

''{Title screen: "Quality Time with Cardboard Homestar"}''

''{Cut to a scene in Marshmallow's Last Stand. Strong Sad is playing violin and has a [[mustache]], and Cardboard Homestar has a green tie wrapped around where his neck is drawn.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Oh, thank you, Homestar. This is so romantic.

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' You are so smart, Marzy-pan.

''{Scene of Marzipan adding flaxseed oil to something in a bowl in her kitchen.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' And I always like to add a drop of flaxseed oil. Gotta get those Omega-3s in!

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' Marzipan, you're so smart.

''{Scene of Marzipan playing guitar and singing in the Field.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Marshmallows are fluffy; 

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' ''{also singing}'' You are so smart Marzipan.

''{Marzipan is at Bubs' Concession Stand. Bubs puts a carton of eggs on the counter.}''

'''BUBS:''' There you go, Marzipan! My last batch of organic batteries.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Thanks, Bubs!

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' You shop so smart, Marzipan.

'''BUBS:''' Yeah. When is ol' Homestar gettin' back from vacation?

'''MARZIPAN:''' Oh. He, um, decided to stay for a couple more days. ''{Smiles nervously}'' Yeah, couple more days, yeah. ''{Smiles nervously again}''

''{Cut to Marzipan's living room. Her closet door is boarded shut. Homestar's voice comes from within.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Marzipan? Marzipan? Can you let me out now? I'm pretty sure there's no cake in here. It's been about three weeks now, and you'd think I would have found it. All I've been able to find in here is some coats, and a broom. Unless it's a broomcake! Is it a broomcake? Ooh, let's try this broomcake. ''{Noises of labored eating.} {Weakly}'' Uh, Marzipan? This is a really bad broomcake. ''{With renewed vigor}'' Ptooey! Can you let me out, please? Oh, wait- coatcake?

''{The scene goes black and "end" appears.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{sing-song}'' Maybe it's a coatcake!

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click on the "e" in "end" to see a short scene with both cardboard characters.
*:''{Cardboard Homestar and Cardboard Marzipan are sitting on Marzipan's couch. Homestar and Marzipan can be seen barely onscreen, manipulating the characters}''
*:'''CARDBOARD MARZIPAN:''' And then I told him there was cake in the closet. And that's how I got some peace and quiet for three weeks.
*:'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' Marzipan, you're so smart.

==Fun Facts==
===Explanations===

*The [[Wikipedia:Algonquin|Algonquins]] are a Native American tribe centered in [[Wikipedia:Quebec|Quebec]].
*[[Wikipedia:Mesopotamia|Mesopotamia]] refers to the region now known as modern Iraq, and some of the surrounding countries. The name comes from the Greek words "between" and "river", referring to the basins of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers and the area in between.
*The [[Wikipedia:Bronze Age|Bronze Age]] is a period of prehistoric society following the [[Wikipedia:Stone Age|Stone Age]], when working with copper and tin was the most advanced form of metalwork.
*[[Wikipedia:Linseed oil|Flax seed oil]] is vegetable oil made using the seeds of the [[Wikipedia:flax|flax]] plant.
**Flax seed oil is rich in [[Wikipedia:Omega-3 fatty acid|Omega-3 fatty acid]]s, which has certain [[Wikipedia:Omega-3 fatty acid#Health benefits|health benefits]].
*Homestar having been locked in a closet for three weeks refers to the fact that [[homestarrunner.com]] hadn't had many big updates for the past few weeks.

===Remarks===
[[Image:Regulareyes_small.png|thumb|right|100px|Regular Eyed Cardboard Homestar]]
*In the [[TV Time Toons Menu]]'s [[HR:menuswfs/menu_qualitytime.swf|preview]], Cardboard Homestar's eyes are shaped like Homestar's normal eyes and have no glasses.
*Marzipan's teeth were last seen in [[Cool Things]].

===Inside References===
*Marzipan pretending Homestar is on vacation refers to [[Happy Fireworks]], when Marzipan was on vacation and Homestar invented Cardboard Marzipan as a replacement.

== External links ==
*[[HR:qualitytime.html|watch "Quality Time"]]
*[[HR:qualitytime.swf|view the Flash file for "Quality Time"]]
*[[Forum:12052|forum thread re: "Quality Time"]]

[[Category:Shorts]]

Quality Time with Cardboard Homestar

2007-08-07T16:07:26Z

Ppk01: /* Remarks */ Better image.

{{toonnav|Shorts|qualitytime|Ever and More!|Strong Bad Sings}}
[[Image:Quality Time.png|thumb|"Seriously, Marzipan, how do you get so smart?"]]

While Homestar is on "vacation", Marzipan spends some quality time with his cardboard double.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{film|Marzipan}}, [[Cardboard Homestar]], {{film|Strong Sad}}, {{film|Bubs}}, {{film|Homestar Runner}}, [[Cardboard Marzipan]] (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Marzipan's House]], [[Marshmallow's Last Stand (place)|Marshmallow's Last Stand]], [[The Field]] (with fence), [[Bubs' Concession Stand]]

'''Date:''' Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

'''Page title:''' Cut her some FLAX!

'''Running time:''' 1:48

== Transcript ==

''{Marzipan is sitting on her sofa holding a book called "Algonquin Stew".}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' You know, Homestar, I disagree with what you said about the underlying theme of Chapter 8 in this book. It's really not about man's struggle with double-sided tape. It's a metaphor for the Mesopotamian social hierarchy during the Bronze Age.

''{Shift view to see a cardboard cutout of Homestar wearing glasses and with a butterfly instead of a propeller on his cap. Marzipan supplies the cutout's voice, imitating Homestar's. When she does, she gains a heavy brow and an underbite.}''

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' Seriously, Marzipan, how do you get so smart? Don't you see you are a smart?

'''MARZIPAN:''' Well thanks, Homestar. I guess I am kind of smart.

''{Title screen: "Quality Time with Cardboard Homestar"}''

''{Cut to a scene in Marshmallow's Last Stand. Strong Sad is playing violin and has a [[mustache]], and Cardboard Homestar has a green tie wrapped around where his neck is drawn.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Oh, thank you, Homestar. This is so romantic.

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' You are so smart, Marzy-pan.

''{Scene of Marzipan adding flaxseed oil to something in a bowl in her kitchen.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' And I always like to add a drop of flaxseed oil. Gotta get those Omega-3s in!

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' Marzipan, you're so smart.

''{Scene of Marzipan playing guitar and singing in the Field.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Marshmallows are fluffy; 

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' ''{also singing}'' You are so smart Marzipan.

''{Marzipan is at Bubs' Concession Stand. Bubs puts a carton of eggs on the counter.}''

'''BUBS:''' There you go, Marzipan! My last batch of organic batteries.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Thanks, Bubs!

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' You shop so smart, Marzipan.

'''BUBS:''' Yeah. When is ol' Homestar gettin' back from vacation?

'''MARZIPAN:''' Oh. He, um, decided to stay for a couple more days. ''{Smiles nervously}'' Yeah, couple more days, yeah. ''{Smiles nervously again}''

''{Cut to Marzipan's living room. Her closet door is boarded shut. Homestar's voice comes from within.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Marzipan? Marzipan? Can you let me out now? I'm pretty sure there's no cake in here. It's been about three weeks now, and you'd think I would have found it. All I've been able to find in here is some coats, and a broom. Unless it's a broomcake! Is it a broomcake? Ooh, let's try this broomcake. ''{Noises of labored eating.} {Weakly}'' Uh, Marzipan? This is a really bad broomcake. ''{With renewed vigor}'' Ptooey! Can you let me out, please? Oh, wait- coatcake?

''{The scene goes black and "end" appears.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{sing-song}'' Maybe it's a coatcake!

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click on the "e" in "end" to see a short scene with both cardboard characters.
*:''{Cardboard Homestar and Cardboard Marzipan are sitting on Marzipan's couch. Homestar and Marzipan can be seen barely onscreen, manipulating the characters}''
*:'''CARDBOARD MARZIPAN:''' And then I told him there was cake in the closet. And that's how I got some peace and quiet for three weeks.
*:'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' Marzipan, you're so smart.

==Fun Facts==
===Explanations===

*The [[Wikipedia:Algonquin|Algonquins]] are a Native American tribe centered in [[Wikipedia:Quebec|Quebec]].
*[[Wikipedia:Mesopotamia|Mesopotamia]] refers to the region now known as modern Iraq, and some of the surrounding countries. The name comes from the Greek words "between" and "river", referring to the basins of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers and the area in between.
*The [[Wikipedia:Bronze Age|Bronze Age]] is a period of prehistoric society following the [[Wikipedia:Stone Age|Stone Age]], when working with copper and tin was the most advanced form of metalwork.
*[[Wikipedia:Linseed oil|Flax seed oil]] is vegetable oil made using the seeds of the [[Wikipedia:flax|flax]] plant.
**Flax seed oil is rich in [[Wikipedia:Omega-3 fatty acid|Omega-3 fatty acid]]s, which has certain [[Wikipedia:Omega-3 fatty acid#Health benefits|health benefits]].
*Homestar having been locked in a closet for three weeks refers to the fact that [[homestarrunner.com]] hadn't had many big updates for the past few weeks.

===Remarks===
[[Image:Regulareyes_small.png|thumb|right|Regular Eyed Cardboard Homestar]]
*In the [[TV Time Toons Menu]]'s [[HR:menuswfs/menu_qualitytime.swf|preview]], Cardboard Homestar's eyes are shaped like Homestar's normal eyes and have no glasses.
*Marzipan's teeth were last seen in [[Cool Things]].

===Inside References===
*Marzipan pretending Homestar is on vacation refers to [[Happy Fireworks]], when Marzipan was on vacation and Homestar invented Cardboard Marzipan as a replacement.

== External links ==
*[[HR:qualitytime.html|watch "Quality Time"]]
*[[HR:qualitytime.swf|view the Flash file for "Quality Time"]]
*[[Forum:12052|forum thread re: "Quality Time"]]

[[Category:Shorts]]

File:Regulareyes small.png

2007-08-07T16:06:35Z

Ppk01: Similar to :Image:Regulareyes.png and :Image:Cardboard_Homestar.png, this image features just Cardboard Homestar from the Quality Time [http://www.homestarrunner.com/menuswfs/menu_qualitytime.swf preview] to illustrate the different eye [[

== Summary ==
Similar to [[:Image:Regulareyes.png]] and [[:Image:Cardboard_Homestar.png]], this image features just [[Cardboard Homestar]] from the [[Quality Time]] [http://www.homestarrunner.com/menuswfs/menu_qualitytime.swf preview] to illustrate the different eye [[style]].
== Licensing ==
{{web-screenshot}}

Quality Time with Cardboard Homestar

2007-08-07T16:01:35Z

Ppk01: /* Remarks */ Image!

{{toonnav|Shorts|qualitytime|Ever and More!|Strong Bad Sings}}
[[Image:Quality Time.png|thumb|"Seriously, Marzipan, how do you get so smart?"]]

While Homestar is on "vacation", Marzipan spends some quality time with his cardboard double.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{film|Marzipan}}, [[Cardboard Homestar]], {{film|Strong Sad}}, {{film|Bubs}}, {{film|Homestar Runner}}, [[Cardboard Marzipan]] (Easter egg)

'''Places:''' [[Marzipan's House]], [[Marshmallow's Last Stand (place)|Marshmallow's Last Stand]], [[The Field]] (with fence), [[Bubs' Concession Stand]]

'''Date:''' Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

'''Page title:''' Cut her some FLAX!

'''Running time:''' 1:48

== Transcript ==

''{Marzipan is sitting on her sofa holding a book called "Algonquin Stew".}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' You know, Homestar, I disagree with what you said about the underlying theme of Chapter 8 in this book. It's really not about man's struggle with double-sided tape. It's a metaphor for the Mesopotamian social hierarchy during the Bronze Age.

''{Shift view to see a cardboard cutout of Homestar wearing glasses and with a butterfly instead of a propeller on his cap. Marzipan supplies the cutout's voice, imitating Homestar's. When she does, she gains a heavy brow and an underbite.}''

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' Seriously, Marzipan, how do you get so smart? Don't you see you are a smart?

'''MARZIPAN:''' Well thanks, Homestar. I guess I am kind of smart.

''{Title screen: "Quality Time with Cardboard Homestar"}''

''{Cut to a scene in Marshmallow's Last Stand. Strong Sad is playing violin and has a [[mustache]], and Cardboard Homestar has a green tie wrapped around where his neck is drawn.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Oh, thank you, Homestar. This is so romantic.

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' You are so smart, Marzy-pan.

''{Scene of Marzipan adding flaxseed oil to something in a bowl in her kitchen.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' And I always like to add a drop of flaxseed oil. Gotta get those Omega-3s in!

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' Marzipan, you're so smart.

''{Scene of Marzipan playing guitar and singing in the Field.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Marshmallows are fluffy; 

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' ''{also singing}'' You are so smart Marzipan.

''{Marzipan is at Bubs' Concession Stand. Bubs puts a carton of eggs on the counter.}''

'''BUBS:''' There you go, Marzipan! My last batch of organic batteries.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Thanks, Bubs!

'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' You shop so smart, Marzipan.

'''BUBS:''' Yeah. When is ol' Homestar gettin' back from vacation?

'''MARZIPAN:''' Oh. He, um, decided to stay for a couple more days. ''{Smiles nervously}'' Yeah, couple more days, yeah. ''{Smiles nervously again}''

''{Cut to Marzipan's living room. Her closet door is boarded shut. Homestar's voice comes from within.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Marzipan? Marzipan? Can you let me out now? I'm pretty sure there's no cake in here. It's been about three weeks now, and you'd think I would have found it. All I've been able to find in here is some coats, and a broom. Unless it's a broomcake! Is it a broomcake? Ooh, let's try this broomcake. ''{Noises of labored eating.} {Weakly}'' Uh, Marzipan? This is a really bad broomcake. ''{With renewed vigor}'' Ptooey! Can you let me out, please? Oh, wait- coatcake?

''{The scene goes black and "end" appears.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{sing-song}'' Maybe it's a coatcake!

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click on the "e" in "end" to see a short scene with both cardboard characters.
*:''{Cardboard Homestar and Cardboard Marzipan are sitting on Marzipan's couch. Homestar and Marzipan can be seen barely onscreen, manipulating the characters}''
*:'''CARDBOARD MARZIPAN:''' And then I told him there was cake in the closet. And that's how I got some peace and quiet for three weeks.
*:'''CARDBOARD HOMESTAR:''' Marzipan, you're so smart.

==Fun Facts==
===Explanations===

*The [[Wikipedia:Algonquin|Algonquins]] are a Native American tribe centered in [[Wikipedia:Quebec|Quebec]].
*[[Wikipedia:Mesopotamia|Mesopotamia]] refers to the region now known as modern Iraq, and some of the surrounding countries. The name comes from the Greek words "between" and "river", referring to the basins of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers and the area in between.
*The [[Wikipedia:Bronze Age|Bronze Age]] is a period of prehistoric society following the [[Wikipedia:Stone Age|Stone Age]], when working with copper and tin was the most advanced form of metalwork.
*[[Wikipedia:Linseed oil|Flax seed oil]] is vegetable oil made using the seeds of the [[Wikipedia:flax|flax]] plant.
**Flax seed oil is rich in [[Wikipedia:Omega-3 fatty acid|Omega-3 fatty acid]]s, which has certain [[Wikipedia:Omega-3 fatty acid#Health benefits|health benefits]].
*Homestar having been locked in a closet for three weeks refers to the fact that [[homestarrunner.com]] hadn't had many big updates for the past few weeks.

===Remarks===
[[Image:Regulareyes.png|thumb|right|Regular Eyed Cardboard Homestar]]
*In the [[TV Time Toons Menu]]'s [[HR:menuswfs/menu_qualitytime.swf|preview]], Cardboard Homestar's eyes are shaped like Homestar's normal eyes and have no glasses.
*Marzipan's teeth were last seen in [[Cool Things]].

===Inside References===
*Marzipan pretending Homestar is on vacation refers to [[Happy Fireworks]], when Marzipan was on vacation and Homestar invented Cardboard Marzipan as a replacement.

== External links ==
*[[HR:qualitytime.html|watch "Quality Time"]]
*[[HR:qualitytime.swf|view the Flash file for "Quality Time"]]
*[[Forum:12052|forum thread re: "Quality Time"]]

[[Category:Shorts]]

File:Regulareyes.png

2007-08-07T15:59:47Z

Ppk01: An image taken from the [http://www.homestarrunner.com/menuswfs/menu_qualitytime.swf preview] of Quality Time, illustrating the difference of Cardboard Homestar's eyes.

== Summary ==
An image taken from the [http://www.homestarrunner.com/menuswfs/menu_qualitytime.swf preview] of [[Quality Time]], illustrating the difference of [[Cardboard Homestar]]'s eyes.
== Licensing ==
{{web-screenshot}}

Talk:DNA Evidence

2007-05-18T15:54:13Z

Ppk01: /**/Thermite

== Article name ==

I think that we should move the article for the toon to [[DNA Evidence]] and just use the {{tl|abouttoon}} and {{tl|for}} disambiguation notices for the top of the page, rather than having a separate disambiguation page. My reasons: (1) the toon is more important than the running gag, now that all the appearances of the gag have been included into the toon, (2) it will make it easier to cite the toon in the future, which will be necessary for the article much more often than for the gag, (3) it will look better in {{tl|toonnav}} at the top of [[Date Nite]] and the other one (currently [[The King of Town DVD]]), although we could just do a workaround by substituting the template or using a parserfunction in {{tl|toonnav}}. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 23:19, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

:I agree. It should be moved to [[DNA Evidence]].{{User:Loafing/sig}} 23:22, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
::'''AGREE'''/10 {{User:Dr._Clash/sig}} 23:32, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
:::Agree. That seems to be a worthy proposal. --[[User:Chiron|Chiron]] 23:37, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

== Detective ==

When Homestar was running around in his little detective outfit, isn't that a lack of visible ar- wait, it was already referenced. Oh well. "It's gonna cost you an arm and a leg!" --[[User:Chiron|Chiron]] 23:37, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
:His arm being visible inside that sleeve (so to speak) is going to answer a lot of questions about invisible arms vs telekinesis, eh?

== Goofs ==

I actually saw this: When Marzipan first walks up to Bub's concession stand, She did not have her toga on. After I got off and got back on a short time later, She was wearing her toga when she walked up to Bub's's.

I noticed this too. I added it. If anyone disagrees, go ahead and remove it. ;) [[User:DNA Evidence|DNA Evidence]] 02:17, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== Dangeresque, Also? ==

Strong Bad seems to be reprising his role of Dangeresque while he is being interviewed by Strong Sad - he's wearing the glasses, he's in the [[smoky office]], he even says the catchphrase. Should this be mentioned in the Cast section? [[User:Not Horse Woman|Not Horse Woman]] 00:03, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:I even heard some of the Dangeresque music at one point! [[User:Neox|Neox]]
::ONE point? --[[User:Neumannz|Neumannz]]
:::Well, of course. He even says "I'm gonna have to jump!" at the end. No question he was being Dangeresque.--{{User:NevaDie/sig}} 21:13, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== Homestar's teeth ==

On Strong Sad's chart, Homestar is shown smiling with teeth showing. Where should this fact go? -[[User:72.26.64.24|72.26.64.24]] 00:06, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:I was bold and stuck it in Remarks. If that isn't appropriate, you can move it. -[[User:HotBees|HotBees]] 00:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== Delete ==

Could one of y'all sysops delete [[DNA Evidence]] because the actual toon is called [[The DNA Evidence]] and I was going to move [[DNA Evidence (running gag)]] back to [[DNA Evidence]]. {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 00:47, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:Precedent is to name the articles by whatever the [[Toons|Toons Menu]] calls it, even if that's different to the title card in the toon. The menu calls this toon just "DNA Evidence", without the "The". Look at [[KOT's VOQPCS!]] and [[A Folky Tale]]... {{User:Phlip/sig}} 00:54, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

==Edit Conflict'd==

I thought it was just the transcript we couldn't touch. [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 01:00, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah it happens even when I try to edit ANOTHER section. --[[User:Addict 2006|Addict]] [[User talk:Addict 2006|2006]] 02:16, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

== Dang!==

The cleaner on Coach Z's Janitator cart was called "DANG!". This could possibly be in reference to a product called [http://www.easyoffbam.us/ BAM] in North America which has an onomatopoea for a brand name. Thoughts? [[User:PlasticDiverGuy|PlasticDiverGuy]] 01:32, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:Meh, seems TTATOT to me, cleaning products with catchy monosyllabic names are fairly common. [[User:Not Horse Woman|Not Horse Woman]] 02:00, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::I think "DANG!" and "BAM" are pretty similar.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 02:53, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:The last time I checked, "dang" wasn't an onomatopoeia... [[User:EYanyo|EYanyo]] 02:54, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::Dang isn't onomatopoeia by itself, but the adding of the exclaimation mark, especially on a cleaning product, suggests it's a made-up one, like using "Zonk!" on the 60s Batman show. - [[User:PlasticDiverGuy|PlasticDiverGuy]] 03:07, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:::Uh, no. "Dang!" is an interjection. Not an onomatopoeia at all. When was the last time you heard something go "Dang!" when it hit the floor? --{{User:Lux Acerbus/sig}} 04:28, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::::True enough, it's an interjection, but the name "Dang!" might be a reference to "BAM" by EasyOff and that was why I put it here in the first place. There aren't any other spray-on cleaning products I can think of or find with a more similar name. - [[User:PlasticDiverGuy|PlasticDiverGuy]] 05:39, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:::::Also, the same product is marketed in the UK and South Africa under the name "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cillit_Bang BANG]", which might be relevant. --[[User:Johnny Ord'nary|Johnny Ord'nary]] 08:23, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::::When's the last time they made a cultural reference to something outside of the western hemisphere? Furthermore, I don't know that "bam" is more of a possibility than [http://www.shoutitout.com/clean-stains-home.aspx?box=0&tab=trigger] "shout." --[[User:71.203.169.248|71.203.169.248]] 09:58, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::::I dunno, Lux, ''I'' usually say "dang" when I hit the floor, and a few other words to boot. --[[User:Neumannz|Neumannz]]
:I think that by this point it's pretty clear [[TTATOT]]. 'Nuff said. [[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] 10:00, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== Dangeresque 3 ==
Since SB is dressed like Dangeresque, maybe the famed Dangeresque 3, if there is ever one, will be about the DNA evidence. just a guess, though. -{{User:Zerlock1124/sig}}
:I'm pretty sure that this toon marks the culmination of the DNA evidence gag. [[User:EYanyo|EYanyo]] 02:55, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::I think that that was a pun because of the setting and Strong Bad's style of talking--[[User:Brad|Brad]] 22:01, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

==Approved Comics==

Both of the easter egg comics appear to bear the mark of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority Comics Code Authority]. While the mark is fairly close to the real thing, the text of the mark on comic books in real life reads, "Approved by the Comics Code Authority". The text in the comics in this toon do not match that text. - [[User:PlasticDiverGuy|PlasticDiverGuy]] 02:10, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== Old Maid Marzipan? ==

"Old Maid Marzipan" sounds more like a reference to "Maid Marian" than just simply "Old Maid." Do you think it's both maybe? --[[User:Abelhawk|Abelhawk]] 02:18, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:Possibly. I think it's just more of an old-timey reference to an unmarried woman, rather than a card game. Any thoughts?--{{User:NoMayonnaise/sig}} 04:06, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::If [[colouring|Goody Marzipan]] didn't merit a mention (even being wrongfully gunned down in STUFF), I don't see why this should. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 04:08, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== Office Space again! I said Office Space again! ==

I realize this has been voted down several times already in previous toons/emails, but, yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead and point out what I believe is another oblique reference to Bill Lumbergh of [[Wikipedia:Office Space|Office Space]]: Strong Bad's message on the Lappy starts with "Hi. Yeah, go ahead and...", which is very similar to Bill's manner of speaking. And in this case (as with previous turned-down references), the context is clearly similar to that of Office Space, where Strong Bad writes as sort of a manager, presumably to someone he views as a subordinate. That's where the similarity ends, granted, but I believe there is a definite similarity there. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 04:19, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:And of course, it's possible (not entirely likely, but possible) TBC have seen our discussions and included this just to vex us. =3 --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 04:22, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::Personally, if you ask me, I think they've been messing around with us for quite some time now. :) Especially with non-sequiturs like [[Drive-thru]]. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 04:24, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:::Heck, THIS toon is a pretty big indication of their liking to vex us. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 04:25, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:::Dorian, i think it's likely. They've said that they use the wiki a lot. Plus... Who knows that they're not actually one of the users on the wiki... How do we know they're not... YOU! [[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] 04:25, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::::I just think the idea that TBC, who for the most part are pretty anonymous behind Homestarrunner.com and (to my knowledge) have never directly interacted with the wiki, might be sitting there wondering what they can throw out there that'll totally mess with our minds and get us buzzing over here... I just find that really amusing. :) {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 04:28, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Has anyone considered that maybe they're just trying to be funny? Danny Lilithborne 20:24, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
:TBC? Funny?? Naaah, couldn't be. ;) {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 20:29, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I'm gonna have to ask you to stop assuming these are references to Office Space, okay? --{{User:Bigscarymike/sig}} 04:10, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

== Loose end ==

This cartoon explained almost everything, except why Pom Pom wanted Homestar to bring him the DNA evidence in "From Work." [[User:BethEnd|BethEnd]] 04:28, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:Umm, what about why it was in the movie they were watching? It left that out too. [[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] 04:29, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::Hence the subtitle "Your questions sorta answered!". :) Don't read too much into it. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 04:30, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:::Hmm, actually, strong sad DID say "just like in the movies". [[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] 04:39, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:Heh, or how marzipan got the pink TAMPERED test tube --[[User:Neumannz|Zatchman]] 13:41, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

I think Bubs just filled it with whatever soda or coloring he had around the stand. [[User:BethEnd|BethEnd]] 14:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Or how about why Strong Bad wanted the DNA evidence to continue experiments on The Cheat when he knew that it was Strong Sad's DNA he was preventing Bubs from analyzing. {{User:Jeadly/sig}} 16:52, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

THAT was just a flat-out lie to Strong Sad to cover himself. --[[User:Abelhawk|Abelhawk]] 19:10, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== Twin Peaks ==

Ok I tried to say this was a reference to Twin Peaks. Am I doing something wrong? Why is this being removed when I add it?
:Because it's TTATOT. Countless shows have "previously on" segments. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 05:17, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::I understand that, but Twin Peaks has the trademark jazz and fingersnap "previously on Twin Peaks" segments. This wouldn't be the first time Twin Peaks was referenced by TBC either.
:::Maybe true, but it's still TTATOT. jazz and fingersnaps are common to detective shows. [[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] 05:21, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::::That's fair enough. I just know that as a Twin Peaks fan, this reference seems to scream out at me. :) Apologies for being anonymous. Gotta look into getting a user ID.
:::::Umm, it's the link at the top right of the page. ANY hrwiki page. [[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] 05:24, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

:::::You should! [[Special:Userlogin|Creating a username]] is free and has [[HRWiki:Why create an account?|many benefits]]. Also, I don't know anything about Twin Peaks, but you do have a point that the show has been explicitly referenced in the past. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 05:26, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::::::thx... created an account. I know it wasn't rocket science, but hey I hadn't gotten around to it before now. :)
:::::::YAY! now you should remember to sign your talk posts with four tildas: <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> so that it leaves your user name and a timestamp. Like these right here: [[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] 05:34, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== Mild Mannered Alter-Ego ==
Could this phrase be a reference to Calvin and Hobbes? That's where I first saw it. I'm amazingly out of the loop on popular culture though, so I could be wrong. --[[User:James|JamesGecko]] 06:42, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:I'm not sure, but I think it was first used to describe Clark Kent, Superman's mild-mannered alter ego. I do know that it's a cliche in superhero comics. {{User:Shwoo/sig}} 06:44, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::Yes, it translates back to early Superman, where Clark was described as a "mild-mannered reporter". --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 06:45, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:::Superman is the ultimate source I believe. It also translates to Unix geeks, where the concept of a "super-user" exists, (one with root access on their account, see man (8) sudo). Unix admins often refer to non-priveledged users as "mild-mannered".{{User:Bryanc/sig}} 07:21, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Maybe we should mention the Superman/Clark Kent/Kal-El thing on the article, it is a clear reference. {{User:Slipstream/sig}}
:Seems to me to be more like a generic reference to superheroes and their alternate identities. The "mild-mannered" bit also applies to Spiderman/Peter Parker and numerous other heroes, although it is correct to say that Superman started the trend. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 18:25, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== toothéd ==

It seems at least notable to me to mention Homestars teeth.

I totally understand the arguments against and why the references have been removed.

I still think it's worthy of note, as his teeth aren't a normal thing.

{{User:Bryanc/sig}} 08:43, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

:TBC are definately playing with our minds... [[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] 08:45, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

:Are those his teeth? I thought it was just hatching. {{User:Mee/sig}}

:It's just the back of the side of his mouth. It shows even on his normal model, when his mouth's open. --[[User:Abelhawk|Abelhawk]] 19:13, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== Do You Think...? ==

Do you think that this started out as: 
a. Just something in one of the SBEmails that just stuck around (3 votes) 
b. Was planned as a running joke (0 votes) 
c. Planned as a big toon (0 votes) 
d. Something entirely different (0 votes) 

Personally, I think it was something in one of the SBEmails that they just decided to run with. (In other words, option A.) 
--[[User:ArgentAngel|ArgentAngel]] 10:46, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

:Voting isn't necessary here, unless you think you can go into the past and change TBC's motive with your willpower. ¤ {{User:The Mu/sig}} 17:06, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

:Well, I'm just curious as to what people think. --[[User:ArgentAngel|ArgentAngel]] 22:06, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::Probably a topic better suited for the forum. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 22:11, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== French ==

Two things. First of all, Strong Sad's pronunciation, is that a foreign pronunciation? He has in the past accentuated in either French or Japanese.
However, the French word for "due" is "dû." Is Homestar trying to say "Mountain Dû" and "tastes like dûdû?" Obviously it's a mistranslated pun, but it's [[http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/unnatural#Trivia not the first time.]]--[[User:71.203.169.248|71.203.169.248]] 10:48, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Strong Sad's pronunciation of "Marzipan" is not French. I don't know what it is, but it's certainly not French.
Moreover, "dû," the past participle form of "devoir," is not pronounced like "doi." [[User:Pensivepoet.babblingbard|Pensivepoet.babblingbard]] 23:49, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

:I think the pronunciation of Marzipan is a reference to Strong Bad's old accent. At least, it sounds just about the same as when SB said it in [[The Reddest Radish]]. - [[User:Wrath|Wrath]] 15:10, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

==Taxidoimied Strong Bad==

The scene where Homestar hangs up his coat and hat on the 'statue' of Strong Bad suplexing a cougar is from 'your funeral' where it's one of the ways SB wants to be preserved - and apparently part of a sbemail "fantasy" segment. How does that work? Did SB actually die and come back to life during that email?
:No, it was clearly a fantasy because of Strong Bad's changing his mind back at the Lappy. Not sure how it works here though. - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 16:09, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::Not to mention, the "previously on..." segment is literally just a series of clips from previous emails, regardless of how they fit in to whatever passes for a reality in the H*R universe. :) Whoever qualifies as the director of the toon (in-universe) just took the clips verbatim. (Obviously, that's true out-of-universe as well.) {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 18:28, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== Previously.... ==

Didn't Bonus Stage once do an intro that looks very similar to this toon's intro? {{User:Homestar-winner/sig}} 11:22, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:Twice, actually, but it's just a coincidence. [[User:Hagurumon|Hagurumon]] 14:42, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::Let's not forget [[fingers]] and [[retirement]]. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 18:16, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

==Clue==

Isn't the plot for this similar to that of the board game [[Wikipedia: Clue|Clue]]? [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 16:26, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

:Not really. Do you see "Marzipan in Da Basement with Eggs" anywhere? Clue focuses on traveling from place to place and making conjectures, not going to different people and interviewing them. ¤ {{User:The Mu/sig}} 17:04, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== Fun facts ==

Two things I noticed in the Fun Facts section (I want to hear your opinion first, so I didn't edit it)

Strong Sad looking up at the toon title in the beginning of the toon breaks the fourth wall.
:I believe he was looking up to some kind of banner that is part of his presentation. "Coincidentally" the banner is also used as the toon title. So it wouldn't necessarily be a Fourth Wall break since the sign actually "existed". --[[User:80.135.88.26|80.135.88.26]] 16:46, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::There's a fourth-wall break somewhere in there, whether it's Strong Sad or the banner itself. If the banner shifts out of the title screen and into Strong Sad's scene, then the banner itself has broken the fourth wall. If Strong Sad is looking at an element that is physically outside his scene, then he's breaking the fourth wall. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 18:32, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::Decline. I see nothing. [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 21:38, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:::After looking at it in more detail, I agree that it's not clear he's breaking the fourth wall here. Strong Sad has been known to do so before, but in those cases it's really obvious. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 22:14, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

This cartoon is the conclusion to the DNA Evidence story arc.
:I agree, it looks like this - On the other hand this seems exactly the kind of statement to me that would seduce TBC into making even more DNA evidence references, just to annoy the wikians :) So maybe we should be careful with claims like these. --[[User:80.135.88.26|80.135.88.26]] 16:46, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
::I would have worded it: "This cartoon is based on the DNA Evidence running gag that appeared in five straight Strong Bad Emails, starting with X." I agree that declaring it the END of the story arc may be premature, since we don't know what TBC's plans are for this gag. I'm sure we'll see an occasional reference to it from here on out. :) {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 18:32, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== Continuity ==

"Well, it all started several weeks ago."
"Well, it all started a few weeks ago."
"Yeah, I went over to Strong Bad's the other day."
This whole thing occurred in TWO days, didn't it? One day when the DNA evidence went around, and then Coach Z 'took it to work the next day.' Then again, they may just be referring to when the emails happened, which was, as of now, 'several weeks ago,' etc. --[[User:Abelhawk|Abelhawk]] 19:18, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

::Agreed. This is a fourth-wall break. They're clearly referring to several real time weeks ago, which happened to be two days their time. [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 21:33, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== Keep it rusty ==

This is one of those rare cases when you can [[:Image:Keep It Rusty.ogg|hear]] what's actually being said by slowing down the audio. I'm going to change the transcript and subtitles now. ¤ {{User:The Mu/sig}} 19:18, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
:I agree, it sounds like "rusty," not 'rustic."
::I have no opinion one way or the other. I asked the guys in the channel when i was doing the write up and "rustic" seemed to be the consensus. I have no idea which it is, and will let you guys fight it out. [[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] 20:26, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

== Reference to email #12? ==

As you might have noticed on the Lappy's screen, does the email Strong Bad receives in [[credit card]] seem to ring a bell? I know the message on the screen is slightly similar.

== Test Tube Reoccurance ==

Underlings was the only email to not specifically use the term DNA evidence in dialogue, but the test tube on the "You-reek-a" shirt does look exactly like the one used to hold the DNA evidence. worth mentioning? [[User:71.104.226.62|71.104.226.62]] 00:32, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

:Not really. It's a generic test tube. ¤ {{User:The Mu/sig}} 00:35, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
== deep breaths ==
is it just me or do the voices sound a little "off" and obviously "breathy" as compared to the normal voices. specifically marzipan, whose voice sounds different and missy is apparently blowing into the mic on purpose. {{User:TheDude/sig}} 01:47, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

==4th wall break==

Homestar's voiceover at the very beginning is a 4th wall break. [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 02:04, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

== Homestarms! ==

I think this is pretty clear proof of the idea that Homestar has invisible arms, and doesn't use telekinesis or whatever. When Homestar drinks the DNA evidence, the arms of his trenchcoat move and bend like a real (visible) arm would, and the sleeve is even open as if there was an arm in it.

:Yes this was added to the main homestar article. pleas sign your posts. [[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] 15:17, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

== Angry Strong Sad or Strong Sad laughing ==
hey has anyone seen Strong Sad angry or laughing before this came out?
[[user:Dayle14|Dayle14]] 16:42 17 May 2007
:Yes, see [[Strong Sad Smiling]]. Angry? Not except for in [[rough copy]]. [[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] 15:43, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
::You could also check [[Strong Bad and Strong Sad's Relationship#Strong Sad's Revenge|their relationship page]] for other less-than-Strong Sad actions against Strong Bad. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 18:15, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

== 24 Reference ==

The "Previously on HomestarRunner.com" opening is a direct reference to the opening sequence of 24 with the main character narrating and the color of the background and typeface. I was going to include it but there was a note that said not to. I think the reference is strong enough to warrant inclusion especially considering in the past there was a separate narrator. - {{User:BlackWidower/sig}} 17:52, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
:No, a lot of shows use the same thing. [[TTATOT]] [[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] 17:57, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
:Look at it this way. The opening sequence of "24" is a direct reference to most other serialized TV dramas. Not noteworthy here. --{{User:Bigscarymike/sig}} 18:01, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
::But to see the colors and narration? How many other shows use that? I just don't feel it's a coincidence. - {{User:BlackWidower/sig}} 18:16, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
:::[[wikipedia:Star Trek|A]] [[wikipedia:Boston Public|lot]] [[wikipedia:Boston Legal|have]] [[wikipedia:Law and Order|used]] [[wikipedia:CSI: Crime Scene Investigation|it.]] just to name a few. [[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] 18:22, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

== Closed STUFF ==

{{stuffcloseddecline}}

=== A tall, cool glass of STUFF ===
{{stufffact|Homestar mentioning "a tall, cool glass of Mountain Dwa" is a reference to [[other days]], when Strong Bad prompted his motivational-lecture attendees to "make yourself a tall, cool glass of [[piemonade]]."}}
{{stuffverdict|19:05, 16 May 2007 (UTC)|05:35, 17 May 2007 (UTC)|overwhelmingly declined|24|2|DNA Evidence}}

== It'll cost ya...==
Anybody think that Marzipan doesn't care that getting the DNA evidence examined costs so much because shedoesn't have armsor legs? Just thought that was possible. {{User:Visorbot 386/sig}} 19:01, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
:Yep. It's even mentioned in the Inside Refs. I thought that line was hilarious, personally. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 19:03, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
::I agree. That was pretty funny--[[User:Brad|Brad]] 21:55, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

==Homer Simpson?==

This is '''really''' stretching it but on to occurences Strong Sad works out something, repeats it with a long "eh". Homer Simpson has done the same thing when he hears something imortant - I dunno it maybe a coincidence [[User:MJN SEIFER|MJN SEIFER]] 21:29, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

== Hat and Trenchcoat ==

I think that Homestar wearing a hat and trenchcoat while looking for evidence could be a reference to Sherlock Holmes, the fictional detective by the author Arthur Conan Doyle.--[[User:Brad|Brad]] 21:51, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
:I happen to have a hat and trenchcoat. It's a reference to ME! --{{User:Bigscarymike/sig}} 04:04, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

== Stage directions in transcript ==

It seems we're paying (neurotically) close attention to placing stage directions at exactly the dialog point at which they occur. I'm all for accuracy, but I'm concerned it makes the transcript harder to read. --{{User:Bigscarymike/sig}} 04:06, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

:A couple questions for clarification: (1) Are you talking about the lines in italics and braces between lines of dialogue? (2) Are you talking about this toon only, or a trend throughout all of the recent transcripts? If yes to both, then I think you bring up a good point, and we should perhaps talk about it at a more prominent location, like [[HRWiki talk:Standards]]. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 04:10, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
::(1) Yes. (2) I was referring specifically to this toon, and the later revisions to the transcript that moved these action descriptions to break up lines of dialog. I haven't noticed if it's a trend or not, but I'm all for a standards discussion on the topic. --{{User:Bigscarymike/sig}} 04:23, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

== Thermite ==

Anyone want to point out the fact that termite could be a pun on [[Wikipedia:Thermite|thermite]], an explosive chemical reaction that could certainly be used to down-burn a flight of stairs? [[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 15:54, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

dna

2007-05-15T22:51:25Z

Ppk01: Redirect. The Homestar All-In-One script takes me to this page, redirecting to DNA and resulting in a double redirect.

#REDIRECT [[DNA Evidence]]

Rabbit Algebra

2007-04-20T14:07:04Z

Ppk01: /* Fun Facts */

[[Image:rabbitalgebra.png|thumb|220px|"Solve for X!!"]]
'''Rabbit Algebra''' is a [[Videlectrix]] educational title, shown in the [[Peasant's Quest Preview]]. It is a "game" where algebra is taught by a rabbit. This is a parody of [[Wikipedia:The Learning Company|The Learning Company's]] [http://www.learningcompany.com/jump.jsp?itemID=1006&mainPID=1006&itemType=PRODUCT Reader Rabbit] and [http://www.learningcompany.com/jump.jsp?itemID=140&mainPID=140&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1%2C2%2C21%2C85&iProductID=140 Math Rabbit], where various animals teach elementary subjects. It is not listed on Videlectrix's website and cannot be played.

==Fun Facts==
*If the problem seen in Peasant's Quest Preview is solved, it would yield <math>x = \pm 9</math>.
*The score, <math>\log_x 14</math>, is dependent on ''x''.
**Setting ''x'' to 14 or any integer root of 14 (e.g. square root, cube root, etc) yields an integral score.
**If <math>x = 9</math> ''(see above)'', the score is 1.2011.
**If <math>x = - 9</math>, the score is the [[Wikipedia:Complex number|complex number]] <math>0.3945 - 0.5641i</math>.
**If <math>x = 3</math> ''(see below)'', the score is 2.4022.
**The score cannot be zero.
*In the number of "mans", <math>2x = 6</math>, ''x'' is equal to 3.
*The version on [[HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!]] has the problem <math>x^2 + 28 = 44</math>, which yields <math>x = \pm 4</math>.

==Appearances==
*'''Debut:''' [[Peasant's Quest Preview]]
*[[HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!]]
{{VidelectrixGames}}
[[Category:Videlectrix Games]]

President's Daughter

2007-04-17T14:34:49Z

Ppk01: Redirect.

#REDIRECT [[Puppet Jam: President's Daughter]]

Talk:rough copy

2007-04-16T12:54:20Z

Ppk01: /* Preloader? */

== DNA Evidence ==

Is this easter egg more evidence that [[The Brothers Chaps|TBC]] read the wiki?{{User:Bassbone/sig}} 07:08, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:How so? They make the running gags, not us. My own speculation is that this will ultimately end in email 173 with something happening to The Paper. Or maybe in 175. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 07:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
::Yes, but the fact that in this email Homestar seems almost resigned to saying it leads me to believe that they've figured out we've been looking for it. Or perhaps it's there because they realized they've been putting DNA evidence into every email and they're making fun of themselves. I was just speculating, that's all. No need to jump down my throat.{{User:Bassbone/sig}} 07:30, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:::Not trying to jump down your throat. It would probably be really unhealthy anyways. They've got a great thread going on the [[Forum:10974|Forum]] about this, if you want to add your voice to the mix. Seems like most people think that this will culminate with sbemail 173. Personally though, I don't know how TBC could accidentally go 5 emails in a row with unconsciously writing DNA evidence into them. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 07:36, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

== Strong Sad being somewhat violent upon Strong Bad... ==

Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but is this the first time that Strong Sad has ever been violent upon Strong Bad? - {{User:Ren Foxx/sig}} 08:04, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:He did join the Homestarmy... But this is the first act of actual violence, according to [[Strong Bad and Strong Sad's Relationship]].
::He also yelled at Strong Bad and Strong Mad in [[Experimental Film]]. Not physical violence, but close. [[User:0rion|0rion]] 11:27, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

== Preloader? ==

Is it just me, or does this toon not have a preloader? Might be worth watching to see if this changes. {{User:Blendage/sig}} 10:31, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:Oh, you mean the Loading screen? There's one in the Flash file, but you're right, it's not used. This happened recently in another toon, but I don't remember which one offhand.... {{User:Trey56/sig}} 10:34, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
::It was [[your funeral]], I think. {{User:Shwoo/sig}} 10:37, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:::Yeah, that's the one — good call. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 10:38, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
::::The script for frame 1 simply says <pre>ifFrameLoaded(15) gotoAndPlay(16);</pre>. I assume that TBC simply forgot to subsitute 15 for a frame number that makes more sense.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 10:40, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:::::Nope, there's definitely a loading screen. I distinctly remember it taking a longer-than-usual time to load. [[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 12:53, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

== Strong Sad: Executive Lawyer? ==

Is Strong Sad's lawyer alter-ego part of the Rough Copy TV Show sequence, or is that really his profession? [[User:Strong Sader|Strong Sader]] 12:43, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:The scene with Strong Sad the lawyer was after the Rough Copy opening credits, so I don't think it was part of it. It might be his profession, but he was a temp in the last email. {{User:Shwoo/sig}} 12:49, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Talk:rough copy

2007-04-16T12:53:23Z

Ppk01: /* Preloader? */

== DNA Evidence ==

Is this easter egg more evidence that [[The Brothers Chaps|TBC]] read the wiki?{{User:Bassbone/sig}} 07:08, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:How so? They make the running gags, not us. My own speculation is that this will ultimately end in email 173 with something happening to The Paper. Or maybe in 175. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 07:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
::Yes, but the fact that in this email Homestar seems almost resigned to saying it leads me to believe that they've figured out we've been looking for it. Or perhaps it's there because they realized they've been putting DNA evidence into every email and they're making fun of themselves. I was just speculating, that's all. No need to jump down my throat.{{User:Bassbone/sig}} 07:30, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:::Not trying to jump down your throat. It would probably be really unhealthy anyways. They've got a great thread going on the [[Forum:10974|Forum]] about this, if you want to add your voice to the mix. Seems like most people think that this will culminate with sbemail 173. Personally though, I don't know how TBC could accidentally go 5 emails in a row with unconsciously writing DNA evidence into them. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 07:36, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

== Strong Sad being somewhat violent upon Strong Bad... ==

Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but is this the first time that Strong Sad has ever been violent upon Strong Bad? - {{User:Ren Foxx/sig}} 08:04, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:He did join the Homestarmy... But this is the first act of actual violence, according to [[Strong Bad and Strong Sad's Relationship]].
::He also yelled at Strong Bad and Strong Mad in [[Experimental Film]]. Not physical violence, but close. [[User:0rion|0rion]] 11:27, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

== Preloader? ==

Is it just me, or does this toon not have a preloader? Might be worth watching to see if this changes. {{User:Blendage/sig}} 10:31, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:Oh, you mean the Loading screen? There's one in the Flash file, but you're right, it's not used. This happened recently in another toon, but I don't remember which one offhand.... {{User:Trey56/sig}} 10:34, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
::It was [[your funeral]], I think. {{User:Shwoo/sig}} 10:37, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:::Yeah, that's the one — good call. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 10:38, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
::::The script for frame 1 simply says <pre>ifFrameLoaded(15) gotoAndPlay(16);</pre>. I assume that TBC simply forgot to subsitute 15 for a frame number that makes more sense.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 10:40, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:::::Nope, there's definitely a loading screen. [[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 12:53, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

== Strong Sad: Executive Lawyer? ==

Is Strong Sad's lawyer alter-ego part of the Rough Copy TV Show sequence, or is that really his profession? [[User:Strong Sader|Strong Sader]] 12:43, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
:The scene with Strong Sad the lawyer was after the Rough Copy opening credits, so I don't think it was part of it. It might be his profession, but he was a temp in the last email. {{User:Shwoo/sig}} 12:49, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Rejected Characters

2007-04-12T13:21:40Z

Ppk01: /* Champeen */

As with all famous cartoon character ensembles, [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] went through its fair share of line-up changes early on, before the final group of twelve main characters were chosen. The '''rejected characters''' are those who seem to have been abandoned, with very few sightings to date. Some appeared in an early toon or game, while others are only seen in the [[Sketchbook (museum)|Museum Sketchbook]] or the [[Character Cards]]. All that is known about them for sure is that they won't be around much anymore.

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===== Homeschool Winner =====
The mysterious character of Homeschool Winner came about when a friend of [[The Brothers Chaps|the Brothers Chaps]] was unable to recall [[Homestar Runner]]'s name. In the [[Club Aquatica Interview - 29 Oct 2003|Club Aquatica interview]], [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] recalls that his friend said: "What's your website, HomeschoolWinner.com?" Homeschool is described as "a big nerd, with maybe a creepy edge to him." As revealed in [[Why Come Only One Girl?]] on the [[Everything Else, Volume 2|Everything Else, Volume 2 DVD]], he is very smart, winning a "Quiz Bowl" easily and earning a giant #1 trophy.

The character seems to have been aborted, with few sightings to date. He first appeared and was named on the [[Character Cards]], which are now on a [[Secret Pages|secret page]]. He then made a cameo in one of the backgrounds of [[Dancin' Bubs]]. Humorously mentioned in the [[Sample of Style]] video on the [[strongbad_email.exe|DVD]], [[Mike Chapman|Mike]] breaks the tube Matt uses to "make" [[Bubs]]' voice, and Matt says: "Great. Now we have to kill off Bubs. Just like Homeschool Winner."
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[[Image:20050602_weekly_sketchbook_blue_laser_ungurait.PNG|150px]]
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=====The Unguraits=====
The Unguraits are [[Nintendo]]-style bandits, (resembling Shy Guys and Bandits from popular Nintendo titles) that are seen in a set of [[Character Cards]] along with Homeschool Winner, shown above. The Brothers Chaps had apparently considered using them as the forces of [[Blue Laser]] in [[Cheat Commandos]] toons, but this idea appears to have been dumped.
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|[[Image:Unnamed_Girl.PNG|150px]] ||

=====Champeen=====
Champeen appears in the background of the [[Dancin' Bubs|Dancin' Bubs Game]]. In the [[Club Aquatica Interview - 29 Oct 2003|Club Aquatica Interview]], the interviewer refers to her as Strong Glad, but Matt Chapman never agreed that that would be the character's name. Strong Glad is really a sketch of [[Strong Sad]] with long, girly legs, seen in the [[Sketchbook (museum)|Museum Sketchbook]]. After going unidentified for years, the girl was identified as Champeen in [[Why Come Only One Girl?]], and was intended to be the female equivalent of Homestar Runner.
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|[[Image:Sketchbook Nine.PNG|150px]] ||

===== Dijjery-Doo =====
Dijjery-Doo is a character that was abandoned in the design phase because it was too "[[The Cheat|Cheat]]-like" and "walrus-like". It is only seen in the [[Sketchbook (museum)|Museum Sketchbook]]. Its name comes from the [[Wikipedia:Didgeridoo|didgeridoo]], a traditional Australian [[Wikipedia:Aborigine|Aboriginal]] instrument. The upper right sketch also resembles the [[Multi Function Dragon]].

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[[Image:trivia time jar.PNG|150px]]
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=====Trivia Time=====
Trivia Time was going to be [[Pom Pom]]'s dog. Although there are some concept sketches in the [[Sketchbook (museum)|Museum Sketchbook]], he's never appeared directly in a Homestar cartoon because the Brothers Chaps couldn't make a good design. A cookie jar with his likeness is in a few toons, and in [[Homestarloween Party]] one of the [[Pom Pom's girls|girls]]' dog "Chris" looks a lot like Trivia Time. A reference to Trivia Time is made in [[Pom Pom, Too]]: a bowl with the words "Trivia Time" falls from the sky and the words "[Pom-Pom] feeds his Dog... everyday," above and below it.

'''Trivia Time Appearances:'''
* '''Debut:''' [[Pom Pom, Too]]
* [[Sketchbook (museum)]] - Several sketches shown.
* [[Homestar Quiz]] - An early version of the quiz had Trivia Time as an answer.

'''Cookie Jar Appearances:'''
*'''Debut:''' [[Where's The Cheat?]]
*Email [[army]] (Easter egg)
*[[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]]
*[[Halloween Fairstival]]
*Email [[radio]]
*Email [[part-time job]] (corner only shown)
*Email [[narrator]] (somewhat obscured)
*[[Kid Speedy]] (Homestar's ending)

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|[[Image:Preshyandrafferdy.PNG]]
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=====Preshy and Rafferdy=====
Preshy (right) and Rafferdy (left), were [[Homestar Runner|Homestar]]'s cousins, as shown in [[Why Come Only One Girl?]]. They had been set to appear in the unfinished cartoon "Those Darn Cousins," which was evidently being made around the year 2000. They appear to enjoy torturing "Uncle Homestar", as they call him. According to the [[Why Come Only One Girl#Easter Eggs|DVD commentary]], the cartoon would involve Homestar trying to convince everyone else that his cousins were trying to kill him, as they were nice to Homestar when others were around. Preshy and Rafferdy were voiced by [[The Brothers Chaps]]' niece and nephew.

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=====The Hurricane=====
The Hurricane was an early attempt to introduce a new female character, as shown in [[Why Come Only One Girl?]]. She was chosen as the design of a new female after many scrapped ideas, being described as a "corn-dog-cotton-candy-looking lady". She actually made it into [[Macromedia Flash|Flash]] and was prepped for animation, but according to [[The Brothers Chaps]], the [[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda (series)|Legend of Zelda]] game ''[[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Wind Waker]]'' came out, and the idea was scrapped.
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[[Category:Inside Jokes]] [[Category:Characters]]

Talk:Drive-Thru

2007-03-19T18:51:39Z

Ppk01: /* Pretend Reference?? */

==Pretend Reference??==
Strong Bad ordering a "Chateau Pretend" may be a reference to [[Wikipedia:François-René de Chateaubriand|François-René de Chateaubriand]], a French author/political figure from the 18-19th century. Strong bad uses the name in relation to food, and Chateaubriand was known for involvement in culinary arts.
:I think you're making the reference unnecessarily complicated. The way I see it, Chateau Pretend is a pretend wine. {{User:Kahteh/sig}} 11:06, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
::Lies. All lies. Clearly I'm the only one who knows how it all went down. Cast your mind back to [[car]], when Homestar gave a shout-out to Lemon Pretend. Whilst we can safely assume that within the fictional universe of Free Country, USA, Lemon Pretend is a type of pie, a search on Google turns back no recipies or even references to the existence of a Lemon Pretend pie (outside of the Homestar Runner reference, of course). It is through this method that I have come to the conclusion that the reference here is not a Real-World one, but one of the Inside demographic, and, as such, refers to the [[Strong Bad Email]] that usually goes by the name of "car". Thank you for your time. --[[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 12:27, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
:::Um... I'm not all that convinced that having the word 'Pretend' in a foodstuff's name really qualifies it as an inside reference. Unless you can find a way of working Great Uncle Pawdabber's Pre-Tend Ice Cream Showdown into the reference somehow. {{User:Kahteh/sig}} 16:28, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
::::Considering the three instances of the word "[[Pretend]]" in three separate cartoons, this should be considered an Inside Joke and a page should be made for it. After all, we've made pages for [[All Is On|less]]. --[[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 18:51, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

== Name that Tune ==

Gah... The tune the whale plays is ''extraordinarily'' familiar. I just can't place it, for the life of me. It's very frustrating. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 10:14, 19 March 2007 (UTC)


:It sounds really familar to me to. It's really annoying. {{User:Shwoo/sig}} 10:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
::It reminds me a LOT of the music from one of the towns in [[Wikipedia:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 10:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
::I think I've got it! It's the first few notes of the music that plays in Koopa Village in the original [[Wikipedia:Paper Mario|Paper Mario]]! Nailed it! [[:Image:Crappy Speaker Song.ogg|Compare]] the [[:Image:Koopa Village.ogg|two]]. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 10:50, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
:::Those two don't sound that similar to me... {{User:Phlip/sig}} 11:04, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
::::The key may be a bit off. The tune seems similar to me, though. I very may well be tone-deaf. --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 11:05, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Here's another idea [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Drive-Thru&diff=431666&oldid=431665 that was proposed]. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 13:14, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
<blockquote>The tune that the drive-thru whale plays appears to be the first few notes from the theme song for the television show ''Night Court''.</blockquote>
After listening to [http://youtube.com/watch?v=7pod-uZH8s8 the theme from Night Court], I think they're similar, but different. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 13:23, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
:I'm pretty sure it's from a game, possibly one on this site? (doubt it) - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 13:26, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Call me weird, but to me it sounds somewhat similar to the title screen themes in the Pokemon games. -Sumgirl

I think it's the beat that makes it familiar, rather than the tune. The beat is more or less the same as the [[Everybody Knows It]] song. [[User:Nsayer|Nsayer]] 17:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

== Distorted speaker ==

The lines Strong Bad hears as "Sever your leg", I hear that the speaker is saying "Serve to your right", or something similar... and, {{p|l=http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Drive-Thru&diff=431603&oldid=431600 like Shwoo}}, I hear "seventh window". The others I hear the same as SB, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm mishearing any or all of these... what do you think? {{User:Phlip/sig}} 10:20, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
:I distinctly heard "seventh window" too, even before there was a transcript. I stand with "sever your leg", though. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]] 10:21, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
:I can't really hear "serve to your right". There's no t sound. {{User:Shwoo/sig}} 10:25, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
::It's confirmed in the New Stuff section. The description is "Sever your leg, please, sir." --{{User:TotalSpaceshipGuy3/sig}} 11:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
:::Not really, the toon description there could be quoting SB, it was one of the funny lines in the toon after all... Oh well, ''{waits patiently for QotW}''. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 11:20, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
I heard "serve to your right" the first time I watched it, but after listening it to a few more times, I hear "sever your leg". "Seventh window" is definetely correct. - {{User:Super_Sam/sig}} 13:35, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
:::::In terms of the window, I almost hear "south window". [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 15:55, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

== Jeeves ==

Reginald Jeeves is a character created by P.G. Wodehouse who appears in a number of short stories and novels. In the literature, Jeeves works as the valet of Bertie Wooster. Due to the popularity of the series, the name Jeeves is frequently used in popular culture to refer to chauffeurs, butlers, and waiters. [[User:Spiderbaby|Spiderbaby]] 14:12, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

==Whale speaker==

What fast food place has a whale for its speaker? [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 15:48, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
: Invisible ones? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 16:41, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I think the trend of having the order speaker/mic live inside of a mascot started with Jack-in-the-box, which used to have the speaker/mic inside a clown's mouth. [[User:Nsayer|Nsayer]] 18:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

== That was...odd. ==

I don't really see what this short was about... --[[User:Das654|Das654]] 16:11, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
:That was my initial reaction too. You can talk more about it at the forum instead of here, please. There's a nice link to the thread at the bottom of Drive-Thru. -{{User:Brightstar Shiner/sig}} 16:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

==Echo==

*Is the echo becoming a running gag? That is, an echo where there wouldn't normally be one? [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 16:18, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

== Pro-awesome ==

I hear "'''B'''ro-awesome". I don't know what that means, but I don't hear a "P" sound. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 16:39, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
: And, while on the subject, I don't hear "Steer your car around" either, though in that case I'm kinda unsure ''what'' I'm hearing. I think part of it is "turn around" though. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 16:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
:I agree with Bro-awesome, but I hear "Stee your car around" which just sounds like the whale didn't pronounce the R very clearly, and I can't imagine what else that would be. --SamuraiMoose

== a blue one? ==

Strong Bad says "how 'bout a blue one for my little friend"; does this seem to anyone else like a possible reference to Strong Sad's "the blue ones"? [[User:66.251.25.205|66.251.25.205]] 18:23, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

:I thought about that too, but I think it's a coincidence — there's nothing else to tie the two together. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 18:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Drive-Thru

2007-03-19T12:27:48Z

Ppk01: /* Pretend Reference?? */ It's such a lovely gathering of pies and pie people... Like to give a shout-out to Lemon Pretend over there...

Talk:Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 14.2

2007-03-05T10:14:46Z

Ppk01: /**/Image

Okay guys, I've done the transcript! Please bear with it, it's the first I've ever done. You can tweak it if you want, because some of the words I had trouble understanding (particularly some of the things Marzipan and Homestar said). w00t! I've made my first major contribution! [[User:EYanyo|EYanyo]] 07:47, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

== Image ==

That's a pretty spoileriffic image you got there. Why not replace the Easter egg screencap with that of Pistols for Pandas? --[[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 10:14, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Powered by The Cheat Cameo Appearances

2007-02-11T17:04:46Z

Ppk01: A bit of header clarification, and a small correction to New Boots.

[[Image:Sbscreen.PNG|thumb|The Cheat appears as a talk show guest in [[theme song]]]]
'''[[The Cheat]]''' usually '''[[Wikipedia:Self-insertion|incorporates himself]]''' into his '''[[Powered by The Cheat]]''' cartoons. Sometimes he makes a [[Wikipedia:List of Hitchcock cameo appearances|Hitchcock-style cameo]], usually making himself appear awesome, such as receiving a prize of some sort. In other instances, a creature sporting The Cheat-like features, such as a fish or a dinosaur with black spots and yellow skin/fur, makes an appearance. This is a list of all appearances of The Cheat in his cartoons (and other PBTC-style things).

==Appearances of The Cheat==
*[[The Cheat Theme Song]] — The Cheat appears throughout his music video.
*[[Everybody to the Limit]] — The Cheat appears during the line "The Cheat is to the Limit" and grins.
*Email [[crazy cartoon#Powered by The Cheat|crazy cartoon]] — The Cheat receives three trophies, and then another at the end of the animation.
*Email [[mile#Powered by The Cheat|mile]] — The Cheat is a millionaire. In the Easter egg, he appears in a prom photograph and the Cheatsa Parties logo.
*[[New Boots]]/[[Hip Hop Dance]] — The Cheat wears new boots and performs a hip-hop dance.
*[[Seasonal Sweaters]] — The Cheat knits a green sweater.
*Email [[rock opera]] — Various dancing PBTC-style The Cheats appear throughout the rock opera.
*Email [[bedtime story]] — In The Cheat's Cheatventures in [[Moses MaloneLand]], The Cheat grows monster truck tires and plays video games with [[Moses Malone]].
*Email [[strong badathlon]] — The Cheat is shown playing the electric guitar at the end of Strong Bad's made up event.

==Appearances of Things Resembling The Cheat==
*Email [[mile#Powered by The Cheat|mile]] — A large The Cheat balloon and a "Dunkin' the Ch8t" float appear during a parade honoring The Cheat.
*[[New Boots]]/[[Hip Hop Dance]] — [[Strong Bad]] describes The Cheat as a [[Striped Green Rabbit|Stripèd Green Rabbit with two butts]].
*[[Experimental Film]] — Dozens of miniature The Cheats crawl out of [[Strong Sad]]'s hands. Also, there is an extreme close up of The Cheat shaving.
*[[Labor Dabor]] — In one of the [[Wikipedia:Ten-pin bowling|bowling]] Easter eggs, a [[Wikipedia:Godzilla|Godzilla]]-like The Cheat uses its laser vision to bowl a spare.
*Email [[animal]] — The Cheat is some kind of fish.
*[[Summer Short Shorts]] — In the Millionzoic Era short, The Cheatsaurus drinks from a volcano and breathes fire on the caveman variations of [[Strong Bad]], [[Homestar]], and [[Marzipan]].
*Email [[theme song]] — During the PBTC preview, The Cheat appears as a guest on [[Strong Mad]]'s talk show.

[[Category:Powered by The Cheat|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Subtitles:sbemail166/en

2007-02-07T09:07:17Z

Ppk01: Fixed subtitles.

{{subtitles|unnatural}}
<pre>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<transcript xml:lang="en-us" file="sbemail166.swf" width="550" height="400">
<line start="18" end="64" speaker="strongbad">I'm Strong Bad, and I am not making an "I approve this email" joke.</line>
<line start="64" end="100" speaker="strongbad">"Hey Strongbad, 'Sup, man?"</line>
<line start="100" end="206" speaker="strongbad">"So I was just wonderin', does Strong Badia ever have natural disasters, like hurricanes... 'n stuff?" From, Nobody.</line>
<line start="206" end="256" speaker="strongbad">Hey! Whoa! Heh! Watch where you're flinging those apostrophes, nobody.</line>
<line start="256" end="315" speaker="strongbad">You could hurt somebody. You could hurt... yourself.</line>
<line start="315" end="345" speaker="strongbad">Hi. I'm regular Strong Bad.</line>
<line start="345" end="395" speaker="strongbad">If you or someone you love is an anonymous apostrophe-flinger,</line>
<line start="395" end="453" speaker="strongbad">...please call our hot-free number, or give them a charlie horse, right away.</line>
<line start="453" end="520" speaker="strongbad">As for H.R. Hurricanesnstuf, we've dealt with disasters,</line>
<line start="520" end="592" speaker="strongbad">but mainly those with a decidedly UNnatural s-s-s-sort.</line>
<line start="592" end="627" speaker="strongbad">...And that's when I tampered with the DNA evidence.</line>
<line start="627" end="642" speaker="thecheat">The Cheat noises</line>
<line start="642" end="653">
<sfx>stomp!</sfx>
<strongbad>Wha?</strongbad>
</line>
<line start="653" end="665">
<sfx>stomp!</sfx>
<strongbad>What the?</strongbad>
</line>
<line start="665" end="680">
<sfx>stomp!</sfx>
<strongbad>Wuh-oh. The King of Town must be getting a mega-physical.</strongbad>
</line>
<line start="680" end="710">
<sfx>stomp!</sfx>
<strongbad>Wuh-oh. The King of Town must be getting a mega-physical.</strongbad>
</line>
<line start="710" end="735">
<sfx volume="1.3">stomp!</sfx>
<strongbad>WHA!!</strongbad>
<thecheat>screams</thecheat>
</line>
<line start="735" end="770" speaker="singers" voiceover="voiceover">King Bubsgonzola, King-King Bubsgonzola, Supreme!
<sfx>music plays</sfx>
</line>
<line start="770" end="805" speaker="singers" voiceover="voiceover">King Bubsgonzola, King-King Bubsgonzola, Supreme!</line>
<line start="805" end="824" speaker="bubs" sfx="sfx" volume="1.5">roars</line>
<line start="824" end="853" speaker="strongbad">It's a giant Bubs from outer space!</line>
<line start="853" end="890" speaker="strongbad">Or, mutated by radiation!</line>
<line start="890" end="919" speaker="strongbad">Or, from the depths of the ocean!</line>
<line start="919" end="947" speaker="strongbad">Or, flushed down the toilet!</line>
<line start="947" end="985" speaker="homestar">Oh my crap! Bubs turned us all into ants!</line>
<line start="985" end="1016" speaker="homestar">That fortune cookie knew what he was talking about!</line>
<line start="1016" end="1083" speaker="homestar">C'mon, everyone. Let's go steal a slice of chocolate cake from that picnic table over there.</line>
<line start="1090" end="1120"><sfx volume="1.2">stomp! stomp! stomp!</sfx>
<bubs sfx="sfx" volume="1.5">roars</bubs>
<sfx>music plays</sfx></line>
<line start="1120" end="1164" speaker="kingoftown"><sfx>stomp! stomp! stomp!</sfx>
Ooh! Whoo! What am I, getting my mega-physical?</line>
<line start="1178" end="1195" speaker="marzipan">See? The apple's not giant. It's just in the foreground.<sfx>music continues</sfx></line>
<line start="1195" end="1215" speaker="marzipan">See? The apple's not giant. It's just in the foreground.
<sfx volume="0.8">stomp! stomp!</sfx></line>
<line start="1215" end="1235" speaker="strongsad" sfx="sfx">screams</line>
<line start="1235" end="1255" speaker="bubs" volume="1.5" sfx="sfx">roars</line>
<line start="1255" end="1295" speaker="marzipan">See? Bubs' foot isn't giant. It's just in the foreground.</line>
<line start="1295" end="1341" speaker="strongbad">Things were looking grim, so we called an emergency town meeting.</line>
<line start="1341" end="1407" speaker="strongbad">We needed an organized forum for people to shout out their ideas all at the same time!</line>
<line start="1407" end="1415">
<strongbad>I think we should kill it!</strongbad>
</line>
<line start="1415" end="1445">
<strongbad>I think we should kill it!</strongbad>
<strongsad>We must try and understand this creature!</strongsad>
</line>
<line start="1445" end="1468">
<thecheat>angry The Cheat noises</thecheat>
<strongsad>We must try and understand this creature!</strongsad>
</line>
<line start="1468" end="1506">
<thecheat>angry The Cheat noises</thecheat>
<coachz>I say we run the picket fence at him. A box in one!</coachz>
</line>
<line start="1506" end="1529">
<marzipan>...just in the foreground! People, it's just in the foreground!</marzipan>
</line>
<line start="1529" end="1537">
<marzipan>...just in the foreground! People, it's just in the foreground!</marzipan>
<thecheat>angry The Cheat noises</thecheat>
</line>
<line start="1537" end="1572">
<homestar>We must protect the queen! I have six legs!</homestar>
<thecheat>angry The Cheat noises</thecheat>
</line>
<line start="1572" end="1584">
<homestar>We must protect the queen! I have six legs!</homestar>
</line>
<line start="1584" end="1641" speaker="strongbad">So of course, the nerdy scientist-type had it all figured out.</line>
<line start="1641" end="1684" speaker="strongsad">I knew we had to try and understand this poor creature.</line>
<line start="1684" end="1730" speaker="strongsad">So I recorded his roars and played them back at high-speed.</line>
<line start="1730" end="1772" speaker="strongsad">Listen to my extremely scientific findings!</line>
<line start="1772" end="1860" speaker="bubs" sfx="sfx">distorted roars</line>
<line start="1860" end="1897" speaker="bubs" voiceover="voiceover">Don't eat my chicken wings!</line>
<line start="1897" end="1978" speaker="strongsad">Something in Bubs' chicken wings must have caused him to mutate, and he's been trying to warn us all along--</line>
<line start="1978" end="2002" speaker="strongbad">Cut to the chase. How do we kill it?</line>
<line start="2002" end="2049" speaker="strongsad">We don't. I was able to mix-up an anti-chicken-wing...</line>
<line start="2049" end="2123" speaker="strongsad">which is really just a bowl of Kashi. It's the culinary opposite of chicken wings.</line>
<line start="2123" end="2140" sfx="sfx">drums</line>
<line start="2147" end="2160" sfx="sfx">sproing!</line>
<line start="2160" end="2168" sfx="sfx">gulp!</line>
<line start="2168" end="2188">
<bubs sfx="sfx" volume="1.3">roars</bubs>
<sfx>echoing zap</sfx></line>
<line start="2188" end="2214">
<bubs sfx="sfx" volume="1.3">roars</bubs>
<sfx>echoing zap</sfx>
</line>
<line start="2214" end="2250" speaker="bubs">(progressively normal) Don't eat my chicken wings!</line>
<line start="2250" end="2297" speaker="strongsad">We know! The chicken wings will make us grow a hundred feet tall!</line>
<line start="2297" end="2314" speaker="bubs">No they won't!</line>
<line start="2314" end="2348" speaker="strongbad">Then why didn't you want us to eat your chicken wings?</line>
<line start="2348" end="2383" speaker="bubs">'Cause they mine! And they good!</line>
<line start="2383" end="2404" speaker="marzipan">Then how did you grow a hundred feet tall?</line>
<line start="2404" end="2441" speaker="bubs">Oh, that. Well, it's kind of embarrassing,</line>
<line start="2441" end="2490" speaker="bubs">but I accidentally flushed myself down the toilet while I was shaving.</line>
<line start="2490" end="2505" speaker="strongbad">You have to shave?</line>
<line start="2505" end="2520" speaker="coachz">You have a terlet?!</line>
<line start="2520" end="2561" speaker="homestar">C'mon, you guys! Let's all go jump in somebody's pants!</line>
<line start="2561" end="2606" speaker="homestar">Everybody, single file! Hup, two, three, four...</line>
<line start="2606" end="2632" speaker="bubs">Well, I better mosey on.</line>
<line start="2632" end="2645" sfx="sfx">drums</line>
<line start="2650" end="2680" speaker="singers" voiceover="voiceover">King Bubsgonzola, King-King Bubsgonzola, Supreme!
<sfx>music plays</sfx>
</line>
<line start="2680" end="2735" speaker="singers" voiceover="voiceover">King Bubsgonzola, King-King Bubsgonzola, Supreme!</line>
<line start="2735" end="2782" speaker="strongbad">But Strong Badinians are a strong people.</line>
<line start="2782" end="2821" speaker="strongbad">We will recover. We will rebuild.</line>
<line start="2821" end="2843" speaker="strongbad">We will reduce, reuse, recycle!</line>
<line start="2843" end="2856" speaker="strongbad">We will reduce, reuse, recycle!</line>
<line start="2856" end="2876" speaker="strongbad">We will reduce, reuse, recycle!</line>
<line start="2876" end="2888" sfx="sfx">Preeeeow!</line>
<line start="2957" end="3008" speaker="strongbad">We will be kind. We will rewind!</line>
<line start="3018" end="3040" speaker="marzipan">No, I heard you say it!</line>
<line start="3040" end="3091" speaker="strongbad">Marzipan, I was just saying other things that start with R-E.</line>
<line start="3091" end="3122" speaker="marzipan">I don't care. You said it. Now let me see your cans.</line>
<line start="3122" end="3133" speaker="strongbad">What?</line>
<line start="3140" end="3180" sfx="sfx">flush</line>
<line start="3180" end="3208" speaker="strongbad">Try it again. I think I'm starting to mutate.</line>
<line start="3208" end="3220" speaker="thecheat">The Cheat noise that sounds like "Okay"</line>
<line start="3220" end="3258">
<sfx>flush</sfx>
<strongbad>Wheeeeee!</strongbad>
</line>
</transcript>
</pre>

unnatural

2007-02-07T09:06:48Z

Ppk01: /* Transcript */ Fixed transcript.

{{sbenav|166|strong badathlon|some kinda robot}}
[[Image:Sbemail166.png|thumb|"It's a giant Bubs from outer space!"]]

Bubs has grown to 100 feet tall! What are the other characters to do?

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Bubs}} ([[King Bubsgonzola Supreme]]), {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Badia]], [[The King of Town's Castle]], [[The Field]], [[The Classroom]], [[The Island]], [[Bathroom of the Brothers Strong]] (Easter Egg)

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' February 5, 2007

'''Running Time:''' 4:10

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

==Transcript==
'''STRONG BAD:''' I am Strong Bad, and I am not making an "I approve this email" joke.

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: storms</div>
Hey Strongbad, 
 
'Sup, man? So I was just wonderin', does Strong Badia ever have natural disasters, like hurricanes 'n stuff?
</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad enunciates "'Sup, man", "wonderin'", and "'n stuff" and reads the lack of a name as "From, Nobody".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{dodges around}'' Hey! Whoa! Heh! Watch where you're flinging those apostrophes nobody. You could hurt somebody. You could hurt... yourself.

''{Strong Bad turns away from his Lappy as quiet music begins to play.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{speaking as if in a public service announcement}'' Hi. I'm regular Strong Bad. If you or someone you love is an anonymous apostrophe flinger, please call our hot, free number. ''{waves his hand as 1-800-APOSTROHOLIC appears in yellow lettering}'' Or give them a charley horse right away.

''{Strong Bad turns back to his computer.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' As for H.R. Hurricanesnstuf, we've dealt with disasters, but mainly those of a decidedly UNnatural s-s-s-sort.

''{Cut to Strong Bad and The Cheat having a tea party in Strong Badia.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' —and that's when I tampered with the DNA evidence!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{The Cheat noises}''

''{The ground shakes as the table bounces and the dishes clatter.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Whoa! ''{a second shake}'' What the—

''{Cut to a long shot as the ground bounces a third time.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Uh-oh. The King of Town must be getting a mega-physical.

''{An enormous gray foot crashes down from the sky, destroying a section of the fence and sending everything flying.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' WHA!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{simultaneously}'' ''{very startled The Cheat noises}''

''{Asian music plays as a pan upwards reveals the giant to be Bubs, dubbed "King Bubsgonzola Supreme".}''

'''SINGERS:''' King Bubsgonzola! King- King Bubsgonzola, Supreme!

'''BUBS:''' ''{roars}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{terrified, as the camera zooms in}'' It's a giant Bubs from outer space! ''{the camera jumps back and starts zooming in again}'' Or... mutated by radiation! ''{the camera jumps back and starts zooming in yet again}'' Or... from the depths of the ocean! ''{the camera jumps back and starts zooming in one more time}'' Or... flushed down the toilet!

''{Homestar appears a few feet from Bubs' giant foot.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oh my crap! Bubs turned us all into ants! That fortune cookie knew what he was talking about! C'mon, everyone. Let's go steal a slice of chocolate cake from that picnic table over there.

''{As Homestar is about to run, we wipe to a silhouette of Bubs as the background flashes orange with every crushing step as he stomps to The King of Towns castle. Asian music is heard. Bubs roars.}''

''{Cut to The King of Town sitting at a table with a few bites taken out of it as the ceiling of the castle begins to fall.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Ooh! Whoo! What am I, getting my mega-physical?

''{Transition to Marzipan and Strong Sad at a "Free Art Classes for Losers" seminar. Marzipan has painted a picture of a big apple and a tree, while Strong Sad has painted a bar of gold with the word "Death" on it. Asian music and Bubs' footsteps can be heard in the background.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' See? The apple's not giant. It's just in the foreground.

''{Bubs' giant foot crashes away the sign and Strong Sad's painting as Strong Sad runs away screaming.}''

'''BUBS:''' ''{roars}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{unfazed}'' See? Bubs' foot isn't giant. It's just in the foreground.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad at his computer.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Things were looking grim, so we called an emergency town meeting. We needed an organized forum for people to shout out their ideas all at the same time!

''{Cut to a slow pan of characters at a Town Meeting.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I think we should kill it! I think we should kill it!

'''STRONG SAD:''' ''{overlapping}'' We must try and understand this creature! We must try and understand this creature!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{overlapping}'' ''{angry The Cheat noises}''

'''COACH Z:''' ''{overlapping}'' I say we try to run the picket fence, at him. A box in one!

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{overlapping}'' It's just in the foreground! People, it's just in the foreground!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{inexplicably passing by again}'' ''{angry The Cheat noises}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{overlapping}'' We must protect the queen! I have six legs!

''{Cut back to the Lappy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{sarcastic}'' So of course, the nerdy scientist-type had it all figured out.

''{Cut to Strong Sad standing next to a chalkboard and a Boombox.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' I knew we had to try and understand this poor creature. So I recorded his roars and played them back at high-speed. Listen to my extremely scientific findings! ''{presses play}''

'''BUBS:''' ''{from the tape, very slowly, almost incoherently}'' Don't eat my chicken wa!

''{Strong Sad presses fast-forward.}''

'''BUBS:''' ''{slightly faster}'' Chicken wa!

''{Strong Sad presses fast-forward.}''

'''BUBS:''' ''{slightly faster}'' Chicken wa!

''{Strong Sad presses fast-forward}''

'''BUBS:''' ''{in normal tone}'' Don't eat my chicken wings!

''{Strong Sad presses stop.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Something in Bubs' chicken wings must have caused him to mutate and he's been trying to warn us all alon—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Cut to the chase. How do we kill it?

'''STRONG SAD:''' We don't. I was able to mix-up an anti-chicken-wing... which is really just a bowl of Kashi. ''{he holds up said bowl}'' It's the culinary opposite of chicken wings.

''{Drums play during a pan to the chalkboard, then the chalkboard fades into reality as silhouettes of Coach Z with a catapult, The Cheat, Marzipan, Strong Bad, Strong Sad, and giant Bubs stand at the ready. Coach Z lets fly the catapult of Kashi. Bubs can be heard swallowing it.}''

'''BUBS:''' ''{roars as he suddenly shrinks back to normal size}'' ...don't eat my chicken wings!

'''STRONG SAD:''' We know! The chicken wings will make us grow a hundred feet tall!

'''BUBS:''' No they won't!

'''STRONG BAD:''' Then why didn't you want us to eat your chicken wings?

'''BUBS:''' 'Cause they mine! And they good!

'''MARZIPAN:''' Then how did you grow a hundred feet tall?

'''BUBS:''' Oh, that. Well, it's kind of embarrassing, but I accidentally flushed myself down the toilet while I was shaving.

'''STRONG BAD:''' You have to shave?

'''COACH Z:''' ''{leaning in}'' You have a terlet?!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{running up holding a bitten leaf above his head}'' C'mon, you guys! Let's all go jump in somebody's pants! Everybody, single file! ''{drops leaf and marches away}'' Hup-two-three-four!...

'''BUBS:''' Well, I better mosey on. ''{Fade cut through black to a beach that looks surprisingly like [[The Island]].}''

''{Asian music plays as Bubs walks out to sea.}''

'''SINGERS:''' King Bubsgonzola! King-King Bubsgonzola, Supreme!

''{A Japanese symbol in gold appears as the screen fades to black. Cut to Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{heartily}'' But Strong Badinians ''{he has some difficulty pronouncing this}'' are a strong people. We will recover. We will rebuild. We will reduce, reuse, recycle!

''{[[The Paper]] comes down. After a while, Strong Bad says the following.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' We will be kind. We will rewind!

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:Nohito.PNG|thumb|Huge in Japan]]
* Click on H.R. Hurricanesnstuff (prior to the cutaway to The Field) to see a variant of the Homestar Puppet resembling H.R. Pufnstuf.
* Click on Homestar's star after he mentions the fortune cookie to see what it said.
* At the end, click on "reduce" to see Strong Bad trying to flush himself down the toilet.
*:''{Strong Bad spins around in the toilet, grinning, while The Cheat watches. It stops}''
*:'''STRONG BAD:''' Try it again. I think I'm starting to mutate.
*:'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{Affirmative The Cheat noises}''
*:''{The Cheat flushes the toilet}''
*:'''STRONG BAD:''' Wheeeeee!
* At the end, click on "reuse" to see a poster of King Bubsgonzola Supreme.
* At the end, click on "recycle" to see Marzipan making Strong Bad recycle.
*:''{Marzipan and Strong Bad are standing in a field. A recyling box is next to Marzipan.}''
*:'''MARZIPAN:''' No, I heard you say it!
*:'''STRONG BAD:''' Marzipan, I was just saying other things that start with R E.
*:'''MARZIPAN:''' I don't care. You said it. Now let me see your cans.
*:'''STRONG BAD:''' What?

==Fun Facts==
{{checkstuffpage}}
===Explanations===
*Strong Bad's breaking of the fourth wall is likely in reference to [[Wikipedia:very special episode|very special episodes]], wherein an actor from the TV show will speak directly to the audience at the end of the episode.
*"Bubsgonzola" is a [[Portmanteau|portmanteau]] of "Bubs" and [[Wikipedia:gorgonzola (cheese)|gorgonzola]].
*The idea of mutating after being flushed down a toilet is a reference to things mutating in sewers, a notion popularized by [[Wikipedia:Futurama|Futurama]], the ''[[Wikipedia:Alligator (film)|Alligator]]'' films, and other creative works.
**Though not flushed down the toilet, the [[Wikipedia:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] did live in the sewers.
*Coach Z suggests sports defensive plays, [[Wikipedia: Box and One| "box in one"]] and the picket fence. The picket fence is used in many different sports and denotes three or more people in a line defending.
*Homestar carrying a leaf over his head with a bite out of it is imitating the behavior of [[Wikipedia:Leafcutter ant|Leafcutter ants]].
*[[Wikipedia:Reduce, Reuse, Recycle|Reduce, Reuse, Recycle]] is a slogan used by conservationists to promote consumers to save resources.
*"We will be kind. We will rewind" is a reference to "Be kind, rewind", a slogan formerly used by video rental stores to remind the customer to rewind the [[Wikipedia:videotape|VHS tapes]] they rented prior to returning them.
*1-800-APOSTROHOLIC refers to addiction centers such as those that help people with [[Wikipedia: alcoholism|alcoholism]].
*"I am not making an "[[Wikipedia:I approve this message|I approve this email]]" joke" is a reference to American campaign ads as candidates are legally required to state their name and approval of the ad.
*Homestar's suggestion for everyone to "go jump in somebody's pants" is a reference to the expression "[[Wikipedia:Ants in the Pants|ants in the pants]]", used to describe someone who is restless or anxious.

===Trivia===
*On a standard telephone, 1-800-APOSTROHOLIC would be 1-800-276787646542. However, it is impossible to dial this number because it has too many digits.
*Bubs' roars are really him saying "Don't eat my chicken wings!" slowed by 200%.
*The floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#dune 2|dune 2]]".
*The Japanese symbol when Bubs walks into the water resembles "[[Image:edge.jp.png|20px|端]]", which can mean "end" (however, this character means the end of a physical object like a street, or an edge; end in the sense intended here should be "[[Image:end.jp.png|20px|終]]" or "[[Image:finish.jp.png|20px|完]]").
*The Japanese on the King Bubsgonzola Supreme poster reads "[[Image:concession.jp.png|82px|譲歩の人]]" ''Jōho no Hito'', roughly meaning "person of concession" (though the meaning of "concession" is not that of "Concession Stand", rather a synonym for "compromise"). A better translation would be "売店の人" ''Baiten no Hito''.
*The line "We will be kind. We will rewind." was added shortly after the email was released.
*When the email was first released, Marzipan's recycle bucket was empty. Cold Ones and Coldson Lite cans were later put inside it.
*Marzipan's recycling bin has a design on the side that consists of several arrows making a star shape. The universally recognized [[Wikipedia:Recycling symbol|recycling symbol]] commonly found on recycling bins has a similar design where three arrows form a [[Wikipedia:Möbius strip|Möbius strip]].

===Remarks===
*In the scene with everyone talking in the meeting, as the camera pans to the right, [[Twin Characters|two The Cheats]] are seen.
*When Strong Bad is doing the public service announcement he is [[Fourth Wall Breaks|breaking the Fourth Wall]].
*The King of Town appears to be [[Eating Non-Food Items|eating his table]]. Similarly, the leaf that Homestar carries appears to have bite marks taken out of it.
*The "reduce" and "recycle" Easter eggs stated above do not work while Strong Bad is saying "We will be kind. We will rewind!". This is probably to make the Easter eggs jump back to the appropriate place when clicked.
*The music during the apostrophe public service announcement is taken from [[CGNU]].
*This is the first time we see Strong Bad's [[Toilets|toilet]].
*Strong Sad's recording of Bubsgonzola's voice is labeled "Bubsgonzola: The Demos".

===Goofs===
*Strong Bad's mouth doesn't move when he says "wheeeeee" in the easter egg.
*Before The Cheat reappears on the other side of the screen during the "Town Meeting", two pieces of The Cheat's arm can be seen on each side.
*After the apostroholic public service announcement, the words "could hurt...yourself" disappear off the screen; then "hurt...yourself" reappears, but the "could" is gone. As the screen pages down, the "c" in "could" can be seen briefly.
*In the scene where Strong Sad catapults Kashi into Bubs' mouth, Marzipan's dress has one medallion which is not shiny like the others.
*During Strong Bad's public service announcement, clicking on the Lappy's screen does not cause the normal rippling effect.

===Inside References===
*Marzipan mentioned DNA evidence being tampered with while at a tea party with [[Homsar]] in the previous email, [[strong badathlon]].
**The table and tea set from that scene are reused in a [[Wikipedia:Palette swap|palette swapped]] version for this email.
*The fortune cookie Easter egg is in the style of the [[Fortune Cookies|old game]] of the same name.
**It also reads "You are not as good as most people" before it is fully unfolded.
*[[Strong Sad]]'s patting his belly makes the same dodgeball noise it made in [[modeling]] and [[Cool Things]]
*The Easter egg also contains [[Strong Bad Smiling]].
*Homestar makes a reference to [[Pants|pants]].

===Real-World References===
*King Bubsgonzola Supreme is an obvious reference to [[Wikipedia:kaiju|kaiju]] monsters such as [[Wikipedia:Godzilla|Godzilla]], [[Wikipedia:King Ghidorah|King Ghidorah]], and [[Wikipedia:Mothra|Mothra]]. The "King" in his name might allude to King Ghidorah or to [[Wikipedia:King Kong|King Kong]].
** Furthermore, the methods that Strong Bad suggests how King Bubsgonzola Supreme got big are common plot devices in kaiju films.
** The scene in which King Bubsgonzola Supreme makes his entrance and the theme music plays as well as the end scene are references to [[Wikipedia:The_Godzilla_Power_Hour|The Godzilla Power Hour]].
*H.R. Hurricanesnstuff is a reference to [[Wikipedia:H.R._Pufnstuf|H.R. Pufnstuf]], an infamously surreal kids' show with a brightly colored dragon as the star which began running in 1969.
*[[Wikipedia:Kashi_Company|Kashi]] is a natural foods producer owned By Kellogg's, Inc. It is also the name used to market the company's proprietary combination of 7 whole grains and sesame which appears in the bowl.
*Strong Bad's line "Cut to the chase. How do we kill it?" is taken from the movie ''[[Wikipedia:Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]''.
*The end where King Bubsgonzola walks out to sea is a homage to the end scene of [[Wikipedia:King Kong vs. Godzilla|King Kong vs. Godzilla]] where Kong swims out to sea.
**It might also be a homage to the end scene of [[wikipedia:Godzilla vs. Gigan|Godzilla vs. Gigan]], in which Godzilla and Anguirus swim back to Monster Island.
*The drumbeats occurring when Bubsgonzola arrives, and when Bubs is leaving in the final two scenes, are taken from Age of Empires II.

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|166|10767}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

looking old

2007-01-22T12:05:11Z

Ppk01: /* Real World References */ And another one. (Gene Hackman.)

{{sbenav|164|what I want|some kinda robot}}

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{film|Strong Bad}}, {{film|The Cheat}}, {{film|Bubs}}, {{film|Strong Mad}}, {{film|Marzipan}}, {{film|Homestar Runner}}, {{film|Homsar}}, {{film|Strong Sad}}

'''Places:'''

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' January 22, 2007

'''Running Time:''' 4:18

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

==Transcript==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{slowly}'' Boom, tick. Tick-a-tick-a-tick, email. Boom, tick. Tick-a-tick-a-tick, What? Did ya read—
<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: looking old?</div>
Dear Strongbad, 
You really do look old, how old are you anyways? 
 
Your faithful fan, 
Andy Hsiao, Taiwan
</blockquote>
''{Strong Bad reads the sender's name as "Andy, H-S-I-A-O and sometimes Y, from Taiwan."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Look Andyman, my age is a closely guarded secret, protected by a sect of closely guarded monks high atop the Coches Mountains. ''{clears screen}'' They would no sooner dance with a goat than divulge my age. But they ''will'' bake you some crustly guarded bread! Anyways, whattaya mean I look old? Are you telling me the nightly nacho cheese masks aren't working?

''{As he says this, cut to a shot of Strong Bad in the bathroom, looking in the mirror. His face is covered in nacho cheese, and he then covers his eyes with two corn chips, with cucumber on them. Cut back to the computer.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I can't have the young peoples thinking I'm old! Am I really losing the youth vote? This calls for an EMERGENCY MARKETING MEETING!!!

''{Zoom out to a full view of Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{imitating a siren}'' Whaaa-donk. Click-click-click-click-click.

''{Cut to The Cheat watching TV.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{echoing voice-over}'' This is not a drill.

''{The Cheat gets off the couch and walks off. Cut to a silhouette view of Bubs' Concession Stand.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{echoing voice-over}'' Whaaa-donk. Click-click-click-click-click. This is not a drill.

''{Bubs leaves the concession stand and walks off. Cut to Strong Bad at a desk. There is an easel in the background holding a piece of paper labelled "EMERGENCY MARKETING MEETING!"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Thank you all for coming on short such notice. You represent the best, the brightest, the people I hate the least. 'Cept you, Marzipan. You're here because of legal reasons.

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{?}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Now what I need is an image overhaul. Something to reconnect me with the youth of today. Something that says—

''{Zoom in on the easel, the front piece of paper is moved away, revealing a badly-drawn picture of Strong Bad on a skateboard and another person on roller skates, with the caption:}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' "Sup my young parsons, I too am so on the go that I drink my yogurt from a tube". Now what have ya got?

''{Cut to The Cheat with an overhead projector. He puts on a transparency:}''
<blockquote style="width: 20em">
<div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em">'''YOUTH THROUGH''' ''EDITING''</div>
*''QUICK'' '''CUTS'''
*''INCESSANT'' '''MUSIC'''
*''DISORIENTING'' '''CLOSE-UPS'''
</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' Youth through editing, huh? I'm on board, I'm not bored. So, how would it work?
{{inprogress}}

==Easter Eggs==
*When Strong bad is talking about the monks dancing with a goat, click on the word "monks" to see a Peasant's Quest like scene of monks atop a lightnic mountain with treasure.
* Click on 'bread' to see the bread
* Click on the diaper to see a plane fly across the top of the screen with 'WEAR A DIAPER!' towed behind it
* At the end, click on the fork to see Homestar in the eStrong warehouse:
:: '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I'll take it! I'll take 12!

==Fun Facts==

===Remarks===
*This is the first time the Strong's great-grandmother is mentioned. Apparently, she looks a lot like Strong Bad.
*"H, s, i, a, o, and sometimes y" is a reference to the vowels; a, e, i, o, u, and y (if it follows another vowel).

===Inside References===
*The diaper is another appearance of [[Nebulon]].
*'WEAR A DIAPER!' is a reference to [[Wear a Bikini!]], especially [[Main Page 3]].
*"I'll take it! I'll take twelve!" is a direct line from [[garage sale]].

===Real World References===
*Eating your yogurt from a tube is a reference to Gogurt, a brand of "portable yogurt", or "Yo on the go".
*The "items with a lowercase I before it" is an obvious reference to Apple's [[Wikipedia:iPod|iPod]], [[Wikipedia:iMac|iMac]] and [[Wikipedia:iPhone|iPhone]].
*[[Wikipedia:Extreme Measures|Extreme Measures]] is a 1996 thriller starring [[Wikipedia:Gene Hackman|Gene Hackman]].

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|164|10669}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

looking old

2007-01-22T12:04:09Z

Ppk01: /* Real World References */ Hey, I made an edit!

{{sbenav|164|what I want|some kinda robot}}

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{film|Strong Bad}}, {{film|The Cheat}}, {{film|Bubs}}, {{film|Strong Mad}}, {{film|Marzipan}}, {{film|Homestar Runner}}, {{film|Homsar}}, {{film|Strong Sad}}

'''Places:'''

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' January 22, 2007

'''Running Time:''' 4:18

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

==Transcript==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{slowly}'' Boom, tick. Tick-a-tick-a-tick, email. Boom, tick. Tick-a-tick-a-tick, What? Did ya read—
<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: looking old?</div>
Dear Strongbad, 
You really do look old, how old are you anyways? 
 
Your faithful fan, 
Andy Hsiao, Taiwan
</blockquote>
''{Strong Bad reads the sender's name as "Andy, H-S-I-A-O and sometimes Y, from Taiwan."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Look Andyman, my age is a closely guarded secret, protected by a sect of closely guarded monks high atop the Coches Mountains. ''{clears screen}'' They would no sooner dance with a goat than divulge my age. But they ''will'' bake you some crustly guarded bread! Anyways, whattaya mean I look old? Are you telling me the nightly nacho cheese masks aren't working?

''{As he says this, cut to a shot of Strong Bad in the bathroom, looking in the mirror. His face is covered in nacho cheese, and he then covers his eyes with two corn chips, with cucumber on them. Cut back to the computer.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I can't have the young peoples thinking I'm old! Am I really losing the youth vote? This calls for an EMERGENCY MARKETING MEETING!!!

''{Zoom out to a full view of Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{imitating a siren}'' Whaaa-donk. Click-click-click-click-click.

''{Cut to The Cheat watching TV.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{echoing voice-over}'' This is not a drill.

''{The Cheat gets off the couch and walks off. Cut to a silhouette view of Bubs' Concession Stand.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{echoing voice-over}'' Whaaa-donk. Click-click-click-click-click. This is not a drill.

''{Bubs leaves the concession stand and walks off. Cut to Strong Bad at a desk. There is an easel in the background holding a piece of paper labelled "EMERGENCY MARKETING MEETING!"}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Thank you all for coming on short such notice. You represent the best, the brightest, the people I hate the least. 'Cept you, Marzipan. You're here because of legal reasons.

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{?}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Now what I need is an image overhaul. Something to reconnect me with the youth of today. Something that says—

''{Zoom in on the easel, the front piece of paper is moved away, revealing a badly-drawn picture of Strong Bad on a skateboard and another person on roller skates, with the caption:}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' "Sup my young parsons, I too am so on the go that I drink my yogurt from a tube". Now what have ya got?

''{Cut to The Cheat with an overhead projector. He puts on a transparency:}''
<blockquote style="width: 20em">
<div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em">'''YOUTH THROUGH''' ''EDITING''</div>
*''QUICK'' '''CUTS'''
*''INCESSANT'' '''MUSIC'''
*''DISORIENTING'' '''CLOSE-UPS'''
</blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' Youth through editing, huh? I'm on board, I'm not bored. So, how would it work?
{{inprogress}}

==Easter Eggs==
*When Strong bad is talking about the monks dancing with a goat, click on the word "monks" to see a Peasant's Quest like scene of monks atop a lightnic mountain with treasure.
* Click on 'bread' to see the bread
* Click on the diaper to see a plane fly across the top of the screen with 'WEAR A DIAPER!' towed behind it
* At the end, click on the fork to see Homestar in the eStrong warehouse:
:: '''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I'll take it! I'll take 12!

==Fun Facts==

===Remarks===
*This is the first time the Strong's great-grandmother is mentioned. Apparently, she looks a lot like Strong Bad.
*"H, s, i, a, o, and sometimes y" is a reference to the vowels; a, e, i, o, u, and y (if it follows another vowel).

===Inside References===
*The diaper is another appearance of [[Nebulon]].
*'WEAR A DIAPER!' is a reference to [[Wear a Bikini!]], especially [[Main Page 3]].
*"I'll take it! I'll take twelve!" is a direct line from [[garage sale]].

===Real World References===
*Eating your yogurt from a tube is a reference to Gogurt, a brand of "portable yogurt", or "Yo on the go".
*The "items with a lowercase I before it" is an obvious reference to Apple's [[Wikipedia:iPod|iPod]], [[Wikipedia:iMac|iMac]] and [[Wikipedia:iPhone|iPhone]].
*[[Wikipedia:Extreme Measures|Extreme Measures]] is a 1996 thriller starring Gene Hackman.

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|164|10669}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

Powered by The Cheat Cameo Appearances

2006-12-04T12:13:46Z

Ppk01: I knew I was forgetting something.

[[Image:Sbscreen.PNG|thumb|The Cheat appears as a talk show guest in [[theme song]]]]
[[The Cheat]] usually '''[[Wikipedia:Self-insertion|incorporates himself]]''' into his [[Powered by The Cheat]] cartoons in some form or another; sometimes in a [[Wikipedia:List of Hitchcock cameo appearances|Hitchcock-style cameo]], but usually making himself appear awesome or receive some sort of prize. This is a list of all appearances of The Cheat in his cartoons (and other PBTC-style things).

==Appearances of The Cheat==
*[[The Cheat Theme Song]]—The Cheat appears throughout his music video.
*[[Everybody to the Limit]]—The Cheat appears during the line "The Cheat is to the Limit" and grins.
*[[crazy cartoon#Powered by The Cheat|crazy cartoon]]—The Cheat receives three trophies, and then another at the end of the animation.
*[[mile#Powered by The Cheat|mile]]—The Cheat is a millionaire. In the easter egg, he appears in a prom photograph and the Cheatsa Parties logo.
*[[New Boots]]/[[Hip Hop Dance]]—The Cheat wears new boots and performs a hip-hop dance.
*[[Seasonal Sweaters]]—The Cheat knits a green sweater.
*[[rock opera]]—Various dancing PBTC-style The Cheats appear throughout the rock opera.
*[[bedtime story]]—In The Cheat's Cheatventures in Moses MaloneLand, The Cheat grows monster truck tires and plays video games with Moses Malone.

==Appearances of Things Resembling The Cheat==
*[[mile#Powered by The Cheat|mile]]—A large The Cheat balloon and a "Dunkin' the Ch8t" float appear during a parade honoring The Cheat.
*[[New Boots]]/[[Hip Hop Dance]]—The Cheat appears as a [[Striped Green Rabbit|striped green rabbit with two butts]].
*[[Experimental Film]]—Dozens of miniature The Cheats crawl out of [[Strong Sad]]'s hands. Also, there is an extreme close up of The Cheat shaving.
*[[Labor Dabor]]—In one of the [[Wikipedia:Ten-pin bowling|bowling]] easter eggs, a [[Wikipedia:Godzilla|Godzilla]]-like The Cheat uses its laser vision to bowl a spare.
*[[animal]]—The Cheat is some kind of fish.
*[[Summer Short Shorts]]—In the Millionzoic Era short, The Cheatsaurus drinks from a volcano and breathes fire on the caveman variations of [[Strong Bad]], [[Homestar]] and [[Marzipan]].
*[[theme song]]—During the PBTC preview, The Cheat appears as a guest on [[Strong Mad]]'s talk show.

==PBTC-style Things Not Featuring The Cheat==
*[[Main Page 15]] (although The Cheat appears outside of the PBTC section)
*[[marzipan]]
*[[narrator]]
*[[Grumblecakes (video)]]

[[Category:Powered by The Cheat|*]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Talk:The Cheat

2006-10-09T17:18:52Z

Ppk01: Of Pokémon design?

{{featuredarticle}}
== Rewriting ==

This could use a little rewriting. Too conversational, and needs a mention that The Cheat's Flash animations are TBC's way of making fun of their earlier style. Should I take a crack at it? [[User:spblat|spblat]] 11:40, 26 Oct 2004 (MST)

== The Cheat Smokes ==
Why was this taken off?
-Your Fuzzy God

:I suppose because it's not very interesting, and it only occurs in one toon and one game. If we listed every single odd thing that The Cheat happened to do twice on his character page, it would be a mess. Noting it on the pages for those toons is enough. [[User:InterruptorJones|<nowiki></nowiki>]]— [[User:InterruptorJones|InterruptorJones]][[<nowiki></nowiki>]]

I think his smoking is notable for his character page. 3 mentions now -[[User:Drhaggis|<nowiki></nowiki>]]- [[User:Drhaggis|Dr Haggis]] - [[User talk: Drhaggis|Talk]] 00:40, 3 Dec 2004 (MST)

In [[montage|montage]] you actually see him smoke. 4 mentions.
-Doreauxgard507

In "Where's the Cheat" you see that he was cheating on his New Year's resolution. A pack of Cigarettes were in there.But ya can't blame him, ya know...Cause he's the Cheat.--[[User:Gir007|Gir007]] 20:35, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

:I believe there's also a page about this. {{User:Bluebry muffin/sig}} 20:37, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

== Screenshot ==
What's wrong with the screenshot on ths page? The link seems valid, but the picture's not showing up... --[[User:Upsilon|Upsilon]]

this isn't the kind of thing you put on the talk. --- [[User:The Coachsmith]]
:Actually, it's ''exactly'' the kind of thing you put on talk, i.e. talk that directly relates to the upkeep of the wiki. Note, however, that Upsilon wrote that 4 days short of a full year ago (and hasn't been here since July). —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 02:47, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

::I'd imagine Upsilon was having a cache problem, but there's no way to know for sure at this point. All I know is that was right around the time we were uploading all our hotlinked images and thumbnailing them. [[User:spblat]], who was working on the uploading project, made [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=The_Cheat&diff=prev&oldid=12610 the edit] to change the hotlinked image to a thumbnail shortly before [[User:Upsilon]] added his note here, so I'm guessing that was to blame.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 03:07, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

== BIG DESTROY THING ==
Right... I think I'm going to do a big, fat re-write of this thing. There are alot of bugs, mistakes, and general badness. Sorry, whoever wrote this, but the article is pretty shoddy. I mean, there's some good stuff, but most of it is not really... You know. Properly put together.

Unfortunately, the article wasn't ''originally'' written that well, so people tweaked it to make it better, but there's only so much you can tweak before the thing just needs a re-write.

== Hidden video cameras? Pah. ==

"The Cheat has hooked his computer to a hidden video camera in the Computer Room, as seen in huttah!"

That's not how I interpreted that scene. Judging by Strong Bad's reaction, The Cheat was simply watching the email online just like the rest of us (of course, being a fictional character in the same world as Strong Bad he gets to watch it in real time).

:I completely agree and I've changed the article to reflect this. Thanks.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 11:06, 10 Dec 2004 (MST)

Another thing to note: The Cheat's handle.. 'cheatachu'
*If The Cheat was watching the email, he would have seen himself on screen, watching himself watch an email of himself watching the email. Get it? {{User:Salty/sig}} 02:14, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

You're thinking waaaaaaaaay to hard. How can SB type with boxing gloves? How can Homestar pick things up? It's the same thing.

And how can Marzipan pick things up?--[[User:Gir007|Gir007]] 20:36, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Look. In the hr universe, strong bad has his own webcam show, and the cheat was watching it. [[User:Lopolo42|Lopolo42]]

== Drum Solo ==

Based on [[Cool Things]] should we add that The Cheat plays the drums?

:Check out the current first sentence of the third paragraph. It's already there.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 05:48, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)

== Birthyear 1983? ==

In the email [[autobiography]] and on one of the patches, it has the same The Cheat logo stating "since 1983." That could easily mean that The Cheat was born somewheres in 1983. But since it's not concrete evidence or anything I'd suggest putting something like "The Cheat's birthday was presumably in 1983," or something to that effect. [[User:64.230.22.54|64.230.22.54]] 01:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

He was making fun of PBS. just that. {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}} 01:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I really wouldn't dismiss it just like that.
nicko9y

== The Cheat Speak? ==

Are we trying to interpret cheat speak or not? I've seen some articles that to and some that don't. I think a decision has been made, but I don't remember it. --[[User:NFITC1|NFITC1]]

:See [[HRWiki talk:Standards#Standardize "The Cheat Noises"]].[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 08:50, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

== Firefox Rendering Error ==

[[Image:Cheat Firefox Error.jpg|thumb|Whoops!]]
Anyone know what might be causing this? Firefox renders the '''<nowiki>[edit]</nowiki>''' link for The Cheat's Biography section on top of the text for that section, whereas the edit link renders correctly for all other sections. This link also renders correctly in IE. {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 03:48, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
:I can't tell you in technical terms what's ''causing'' it, but it appears to have to do with the way text breaks around pictures. I can also tell you that this is just one example of a phenomenon that happens on scores of pages (of course now that I try I can't come up with any). —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 03:57, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
::Is this just something we gotta live with, then? {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 04:30, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
:::Clever use of <code><nowiki>{{clear}}</nowiki></code> is what is needed here {{User:Phlip/sig}} 05:14, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
::::Sadly, it has to do with the way IE and Firefox interpret the same code -- there are things they treat differently, giving all of this weird behavior :( --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 05:28, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

== What is the Cheat? ==

Is The Cheat a pet owned by The Brothers Strong or is he some kind of yellow midget (sorry, lil person) who hangs around them? Or is this so wildly inconsistent that it'll never be agreed upon? Just trying to clarify this. BEGIN DISCUSSION! -{{User:Houdin654jeff/sig}} 04:17, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
:I think most of his relations to Strong Bad are explained in [[lackey]]. Yes, sure he hangs around with Strong Bad, but when the time comes he does his biddings. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 05:05, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
::''{Edit conflict}'' I think that's answered pretty well by taking [[lackey]], [[privileges]], and [[bedtime story]] into simultaneous consideration. Go ahead. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 05:05, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
::: Also remember that The Cheat does not officially live with The Brothers Strong; he lives in The King of Town's grill for some reason. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 05:25, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
::::Weren't you guys paying attention to Strong Mad and Homestar in [[do over]]? The Cheat is cow! {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 05:49, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
:::::Ok, I understand his living situation. What I meant was what is he in the physical sense; Yellow dog (as in [[army]]) or furry little man (as in [[cheat talk]])? -{{User:Houdin654jeff/sig}} 16:23, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
::::::He's a The Cheat. Not much more you can say about it. {{User:Some HSR themed username/sig}} 16:33, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
:::::::Look, analyzing The Cheat didn't work for Strong Bad, and it's not gonna work for you either! ;) {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 20:08, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Mayhaps you have a point KieferSkunk. Later on, forthwith, trimpantly/abundantly TBC will provide us with more backstory over which to ponder, hopefully. -{{User:Houdin654jeff/sig}} 20:19, 12 December 2005 (UTC) 
PS. Sorry Strong Bad finally nabbed you in [[portrait|email #139]].
:Hehe, that's okay. I gave him $7.50, and he gave me privelages. ;) {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 20:25, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
:PS: You did get what I was referencing above, right?
::You were referring to [[big white face|this email]], right? OR did you mean [[privileges]]? This post or last post? I got them both anyway. I think. -{{User:Houdin654jeff/sig}} 20:41, 12 December 2005 (UTC) 
:::Actually, I was referring to [[for kids|this one]], and to the message in [[Peasant's Quest]] when you try to make friends with the Kerrek. ;) {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 21:48, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
::::Oh oh oh...I thought this weeks e-mail was called Teddy Graham Memories. I thought you were talking about the physical drawing of The Cheat being a mystery in "big white face". But now I see the refernce to the Kerrek and for kids. Very amusing! ha ha ha. -{{User:Houdin654jeff/sig}} 17:31, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
The Cheat is Strong Bad's "very own a-The Cheat!" ([[flashback]]) {{User:Salty/sig}} 02:12, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
:I think of him as Strong Bad's teenage son kinda. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 03:53, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
::If that's true, who's The Cheat's mother? Marzipan? One of Pom-Pom's Girls? Katie 80? Bubs? I've always kind of viewed The Cheat as an intelligent pet, abliet one who screws up capers a lot. -{{User:Houdin654jeff/sig}} 01:55, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
:::I was thinking more of "unnoficial father." Just like a guy who is close enough to him that he's his son, but not legally his father. Kinda like... the cheats adopted. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 01:59, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
::::Adopt a Cheat! Take one home today! Great Jenga player, enjoys sudsuu (you'll have to ask it for the recipie), makes great plans. Warning: Often screws up great plans, stinks when wet, may steal underwear, DO NOT ask it to rig fireworks. Comes with free Van Buren Bust. Available for two easy payments of $19.95 and one difficult payment of $14.95. Call 1-800-555-CHEKT and order yours today!!! We're kind of straying from my original question anyway, but that struck me as kind of funny. -{{User:Houdin654jeff/sig}} 02:16, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
*Sleepy Time The Cheat comes with everyting you see here. The Cheat sold separately. - {{User:Has Matt?/sig}} 03:16, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
:I want one!! 
Anyway, I see him like this: if your dog was intelligent and you understood gis barks and he understood your speech, and was loyal, and yellow and spotted and...... un-dog-shaped, you'd have a The Cheat. {{User:Salty/sig}} 05:57, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
:I'm inclined to agree with both Salty and Has Matt. The Cheat is some kind of super intelligent, accident prone pet and I want one too! -{{User:Houdin654jeff/sig}} 05:39, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
::A pet whose head occasionally explodes. :) {{User:KieferSkunk/sig}} 15:39, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
::: And that lives in a different house. {{User:Bubsty/sig}} 03:20, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

== A cat, not a dog ==

Has anyone ever noticed that the Cheat sort of looks like a cheetah?

:Just the spots. I've always thought of him more of a flat headed Pikachu. {{User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie}} 06:24, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I know. He's yellow with spots. His body couldn't be less like a cheetah. But still, I think there might have been some connection in the early days. But unless it's been mentioned before by a toon or a Chap, there's nothing for the article. So, I guess I'll go watch [[replacement]] yet again.

He was once The Sneak.Back then he was a freakin' mole-lookin' thing chasing around Marzipan. It's in "Ballad of the Sneak".--[[User:Gir007|Gir007]] 20:38, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree he is some what like a cheatah (barely)--[[User:The-double-deuce|The-double-deuce]] 00:41, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

No way man. The Cheat looks more like pikachu COMBINED with a cheatah.--[[User:Daniel|Daniel]] 16:30, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure he's not a cow?

== blinking ==

did anyone else notice that the cheat wil blink twice the first, then blink once?--{{User:Benol/sig}} 13:18, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

== Some dings dis articles says no makeses di senses! ==

:''The Cheat (whose name is "The Cheat", with an integral article).''

Uh, should there be something after that? We should've kept the part that says he's "quite one of a kind." That isn't fanwanks, [[Visor Robot|dis be]]! It'd be worth it to keep something redundant on the page. Better redundant than retarded. (Sorry, I'm in a weird mood.) {{User:Darth Katana X/sig}}
:Yeah, something needs to change there: it's a sentence fragment as it is. But I don't think putting back that thing about "the only one of his kind" is the right solution. Lemme see if I can think of something else (possibly just combining a couple sentences). {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 02:53, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
::Mmm.... stir fry veggie-- what? Oh, yeah, that's pretty much an incomplete sentence. "The Cheat (something about integral article) ___________" and fill the blank with something about The Cheat. I'ma go eat some stir fry.. {{User:Salty/sig}} 02:53, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
:::Was he ever referred to as "one of a kind" in an old characters page...? It sounds vaguely familiar. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::::In [[flashback]] Strong Bad says, my very own The Cheat, infrencing that there are more or that he has heard of the cheat race before. {{User:Invisible_Robot_Fish/sig}} 03:07, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

== Fluffy Image ==

Should there be an image of The Cheat fluffed-out from the drier on this page? It doesn't necessarily contribute anything, but it is gosh-darned cute. {{User:Bassbone/sig}} 09:17, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
: True, but we already have useless pictures on other pages, andi do not want all of the pages to be spammed with useless pictures that have at least 1 thing that is related to it (even though he is cute that way). --Sbmaniac--

== Pouch type Cheat ==

Anyone besides me think The Cheat has a pouch? It would be cool! I mean, like if SB was out of Cold Ones and the cheat stole them from Bubs, he could put them in his pouch, and tell bubs he hasn't seen anything, while it's hiding in his pouch! - Alex H.

:No, I doubt The <s>Chort</s> Cheat has a pouch. Is there any toon that might support this fact, though? (It would be pretty awesome) {{User:Bluebry muffin/sig}} 23:56, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

My freind said that a toon that was taken from the sight might have proved it. Since the only removed toon with The <s>Chekt</s> <s>Ceat</s> Cheat in it was [[A Jumping Jack Contest]], we can see if that's true. -Alex H.

== Best Character?? ==

I've read a lot of userpages that say The Cheat is the user's favorite character. ([[User:SamFisher1022|Mine]] is one of them...) Is it just me, or could The Cheat be the site's most popular character? {{User:SamFisher1022/sig}} 19:02, 7 September 2006
:Edit Conflict! Argh! SB is the most popular character, SamFisher. You know better. -[[User:Brightstar Shiner|Brightstar Shiner]] 23:06, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
::I do, actually. SBEmails are definitely the most popular feature on the site. (I was really expecting you to reply like that, I saw your userpage too.) But SB is seldom mentioned on the userpages I've read, and I've read a lot. {{User:SamFisher1022/sig}} 19:15, 7 September 2006
:::Yeah, alright. Maybe it's possible that The Cheat is just more popular around here? -[[User:Brightstar Shiner|Brightstar Shiner]] 23:27, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
::::You're probably right. We might like The Cheat, but that doesn't mean SB is nothing. The site would probably be pretty boring without his emails. That'd be a freakin' nightmare. {{User:SamFisher1022/sig}} 19:44 7 September 2006

==The Cheat Baxter-Birney==
Surely this was just a throw away joke about a sitcom/soap actor called Meredith Baxter-Birney, not an indication of his surname? --[[User:Gerkuman|Gerkuman]] 17:45, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
:Definitely. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
If that's true, should we leave it in the article? --[[User:Gerkuman|Gerkuman]] 18:01, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
:Definitely not. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Of Pokémon design? ==

According to Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Pikachu|Pikachu]] article, "The character [[The Cheat (Homestar Runner)|The Cheat]] from [[Homestar Runner]] is also sometimes considered to be a Pikachu parody, although he was created before ''Pokémon'' was imported to America. [[The Brothers Chaps]] modified his design to give him more resemblance to a Pikachu after the Pokémon anime made its debut". It is followed by a small "citation needed" notice. I travelled long and hard until I arrived at the HRWiki, knowing that they would provide the necessary citation. After searching both the [[The Cheat]] and [[The Cheat Evolution]] articles, I could find nothing of the sort. Is there anything here that can prove this fact? --[[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 17:18, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

retirement A

2006-10-02T11:58:51Z

Ppk01: /* Remarks */ Wait a minute... OBJECTION! This email directly contradicts another email on this very site!

{{sbenav|159a|cliffhangers|some kinda robot}}
[[Image:sbemail159a.png|thumb|"Perfect! Now I'm out of my anti-depressant."]]

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Marshie}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}.

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]]

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}, [[Tandy 400]]

'''Date:''' October 2, 2006

'''Running Time:''' 3:57

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486
==Transcript==
''{Open in Strong Bad's computer room, coming in on Strong Bad, while suspenseful music plays.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' My computer's been lappynapped!

''{A record scratches and the screen dims, Marshie comes in from the bottom of the screen.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Hello, Kenneth!

''{Marshie flies across a yellow background.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Hear me roar!

''{Marshie growls or a moment, then opens his mouth wide, the background turns red, sound lines come out of his mouth, and he meows. Cut to a shot of the Sad Kids standing on top of Marshie.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' That's right, kids!

''{Silhouettes of the main characters scroll across the page, with big question marks over them. As he names the sweepstakes, the name appears on the screen.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Play the Fluffy Puff Marshmallows ''My Lappy Got Stole!'' Sweepstakes and win big!

''{As Marshie says "big", he grows a large, fat, white body, and his voice deepens. Cut to a shot of a bicycle. Marshie's voice is back to normal.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' First prize,—

''{A shot of a metal detector}''

'''MARSHIE:''' —second tries,—

''{Marshie, in a car, driving along with mountains in the background}''

'''MARSHIE:''' ''{singing}'' Take a trip to the mountains... ''{these words appear above the mountains, written on a musical staff}''

''{The screen dims and Marshie comes down from the top with a top hat and a cane.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' I'm a song and dance man!

''{Cut to a wooden desk, with a note card on it.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Just email who you think done it on a 3x5 note card,—

''{"it was the HIPPO!" is written on the note card.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' —stick a Fluffy Puff on each corner,—

''{Four marshmallows appear, one stuck on each corner of the card. Cut to Marshie, talking through gritted teeth, in front of a painting.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' —and just walk away, mother...

''{Cut to Strong Bad's basement, looking at the ad on the TV. Marshie is next to a bag of Fluffy Puff Marshmallows.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Fluffy Puff Marshmallows. Yeah! Still!

''{The words "Yeah! Still!" appear underneath Marshie. Cut to Strong Bad lying on the couch, surrounded by empty chip packets of various descriptions.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You gotta be kidding me. Man, everybody's trying to make a buck or nine off my heart-drooping loss.

''{He feels around in the nearest bag of chips, and finds that it's empty.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, perfect. Now I'm out of my antidepressant. Nothing dulls the pain quite like several dozen half-full bags of ''{as he lists the flavourings, symbols for them appear at the top of the screen}'' Italian-herb-chipotle-buffalo-ranch-guacamole-Thai-peanut-style chippety-chumps. I guess I'll slink off to Bubs' and refill my prescription. Slinnnk...

''{Strong Bad somehow slides up and over the armrest of the couch, and off screen. Cut to Strong Bad at Bubs' Concession Stand. Bubs is nowhere to be seen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Bubs! Hello? Can I get a witness? Bubs? ''{looks around the stand, and screams}''

''{Pan to the side of the stand, we see the Lappy's power cord hanging off the roof.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' The Lappy's tail! I'll save you, Lappy-pie... boo... ''{runs back and forth anxiously}'' Just keep your pixels on. Strong Bad's got everything under control-alt-delete.

''{Strong Bad picks up a ladder from behind the stand, and climbs up onto the roof.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Who put you up here— Wha?!?

''{The suspensful music plays, and reveal the Lappy, with the broken Tandy and the shotgunned Compy. The Tandy is holding a magnet from a fishing rod above the Lappy's keyboard.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's my crappier and crappiest computers!

''{Both old computers fizz and spark.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Careful guys, let's not do anything inappropriate with that magnet... I've got a lot of important text files on that 5 meg hard drive... Now just let the Lappy go, and we can all go out for Hushpuppies. You guys still like Hushpuppies, don't you?

''{Both old computers fizz and spark a lot.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Okay, fine. Hushpuppies are out. For some reason I... I thought you guys liked Hushpuppies.

''{Both old computers keep fizzing and sparking. The Tandy also churns its floppy disk drive.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Sorry guys, we're getting nowhere. I don't speak extravagantly broken computer.

''{The Paper comes down, reading "'Sup Strong Bad. I'll help with the translation."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' The Paper! You're just in time! Find out what they want!

''{The Paper goes back up, and the Compy "talks" for a bit. The Paper comes back down with "They want to come out of retirement..."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Retirement? They didn't retire, I threw them away. Ask them if they mean they want to come out of thrown-awayment.

''{The Paper comes down again, reading "They're not laughing. They each want to check one last email."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Are they joking? Those guys couldn't check an email with the help of sixty horses dressed up as IT professionals!

''{The Tandy lowers the magnet a little, and the Lappy's screen turns on, showing:}''

<blockquote style="background: #06bfad; padding: 30px; width: 25em; margin: 0; border: none">
<div style="border: 1px solid black">
<p style="border-top: 2px solid white; border-left: 2px solid white; border-bottom: 2px solid #999; border-right: 2px solid #999; background: #CCC; color: black; font-size: 150%; text-align: center; line-height: 125%; margin: 0; padding: 0">
<big>Oh, Child!</big> 
It's the Teal Screen 
of Near Death! (TSoND)
</div></blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' Okay, okay, okay! I'll do my best. If it'll save the orphanage... I mean, my Lappy, I'll do it. Now, let's check emails like it was the deuce double-ought dweice!

''{Both old computers "talk".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' It just means 2002... I... thought it was slick... slick-rick... way to talk...

''{Fade through black to Strong Bad with the Tandy at the email-checking desk.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Green lines, green, green lines. It's a Strong Bad Email again.

<blockquote class="tandy email">
dearest strong bad 
do you remember the email that you deleted 
the hardest 
sincerly 
josh 
oakland
</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads "sincerly" as written, and "josh oakland" as one name}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Well, let's just see here... Zero capitalisation...

''{The first letters of each of "dearest", "strong", "bad", "do", "sincerely", "josh" and "oakland" are all briefly highlighted}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Misspelling...

''{The word "sincerly" is briefly highlighted}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Lack of punctuation...

''{The blank spaces after "bad", "hardest", "sincerly" and "josh" are all briefly highlighted}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Looks like a winner to me! ''{typing}'' Dearest Josho, I have some good news for you! I DO remember the email that I deleted the hardest. And I'm still remembering it right now!!! ''{stops typing}'' Homestar! Little help please.

''{Pull back to reveal Homestar poaring a bottle of Mountain Dew into the hole in the side of the Tandy}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I'm way ahead of ya, SB.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Then, we'll just add some of the King of Town's fizzy denture tablets.

''{Strong Bad holds up a box of "Oh No You Dent!!!" disgusting old person tablets}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' ''{offscreen}'' Thems is my after-dinner mints!

''{Strong Bad tips several of the tablets into the hole.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{heavy reverb}'' And now if you'd please turn in your hymnals, and join me in singing number 119, a-deleted.

''{Strong Bad hits the keyboard, and the "DELETED!!" screen comes up, with a gothic font. Organ music plays.}''

'''STRONG BAD & HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{singing}'' Deleted!

''{Strong Bad swings a picaxe through the keyboard and the desk. The Tandy explodes, and gives off a bad graphics mushroom cloud.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Goodbye, old girl. They'll always say you went blaze of green rectangular glory.

''{Homestar starts poaring Mountain Dew on the carpet. Cut to a closeup of Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Alright. One down, one to go.

''{Cut to a shot of the shotgunned Compy on the desk. The suspensful music plays. The Paper comes down, reading "To Be Continued Tomorrow!"}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:Dullard_sbemail159a.png|thumb|Horses in IT?]]
* Click on Strong Bad's diamond when he says he's got a lot of important text files on Lappy's harddrive to see a selection of those files.
<blockquote style="font-family: monospace">
    clncknmsfrmyslf.txt 
Cool nicknames for myself 
-------------------------- 
Mr. Lewd Comment 1965 
Giantus 
The Fake Frenchman 
<del style="color:red">Light 'n Fluffy</del> NO! 
Heaven in Tights 
Good Fortunator 
Bicep Lad 
Lebner 
Mighty Legit 
Dabney Coleman's Evil Twin 
Wisewallace 
/got nothin' 
The Detroit Locksmith 
Prudeacre
</blockquote>
<blockquote style="font-family: monospace">
      cldshplog.txt 
 Cloud Shape Spotting Log 
------------------------- 
lightswitch w/no cover 
baseball headed baby 
brown water 
michigan w/2 bites out of it 
smallish elbow 
box of crackers (unopened) 
pestilence 
2 salamanders giving low-5's 
oversized novelty comb 
cheap date 
strong sad's ghost 
uppity maitre d 
strong sad's corpse 
diet pills
</blockquote>
<blockquote style="font-family: monospace">
    ltr2bkrythrftstr.txt 
Letter to Bakery Thrift Store 
------------------------- 
Dear Bakery Thrift Store, 
Whom do you think you are 
fooling? You sell old baked 
goods. The stuff regular 
bakeries throw away. So what 
if a loaf of bread is only 
29 cents? It's old bread. 
Should I start collecting 
roadkill squirrels, glue 
cotton balls to their butts 
and open an 'Aftermarket 
Rabbit Thrift Store?' Oh, 
wait. Yes I should. Thank You 
Bakery Thrift Store. Love, SB
</blockquote>
* Click on the chimney after Strong Bad's joke about Horses in IT to see a [[Dullard]] comic.
* Click the plug socket after the explosion to replay the explosion animation.

==Fun Facts==
===Remarks===
*Strong Bad says that the Lappy's hard drive holds five "[[Wikipedia:Megabyte|megs]]". However, in [[animal]], the Lappy has a "2 MB Hard Drive!".
*There are clickable areas on the Lappy's screen, but clicking on them has no effect. This is because they are actually the contrast buttons for the monitor behind Lappy (from Strong Bad's first computer), and they are disabled in this scene.
*The contrast on Strong Bad's Tandy is in a different font than from before it was thrown out.
*The Paper doesn't have a link to Strong Bad's email.

=== Goof ===
*The lappy seems to still have all its keys, despite one of them being removed in [[cliffhangers]].

===Inside References===
*The "it was the HIPPO!" - index card has the exact same stains as the index card(s) from [[band names]].
*The position of Strong Bad's head in front of the Tandy, his visible mouth on his reflection on the Tandy and his lack of head shaking is a reference to his early emails.

===Real-World References===
*The [[Wikipedia:IBM 305|IBM 305]] [[Wikipedia:RAMAC|RAMAC]], the world's first hard drive, was released almost exactly 50 years and one month prior to this email. Like the Lappy's hard drive, it could hold a total of five megabytes, but it was the size of a large fridge-freezer and cost over $50,000.[http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/news/2164273/happy-50th-birthday-hard-drive]
*The explosion following the addition of [[Mountain Dew]] and denture tablets to the Tandy 400 is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Mentos eruption|Mentos eruption]] phenomenon.
*The Teal Screen of Near Death is a reference to the various colored [[Wikipedia:Category:Screens of death|Screens of death]] used by computer operating systems to indicate serious system errors. The [[Compy 386]] has been seen to have its own [[Wikipedia:Blue Screen of Death|Blue Screen of Death]] on more than one occasion.

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|159a|9957}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

retirement A

2006-10-02T11:55:41Z

Ppk01: /* Real-World References */ The point here is that Strong Bad claims that the Lappy has 5 "megs", same as the oldest drive ever.

{{sbenav|159a|cliffhangers|some kinda robot}}
[[Image:sbemail159a.png|thumb|"Perfect! Now I'm out of my anti-depressant."]]

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Marshie}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}.

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]]

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}, [[Tandy 400]]

'''Date:''' October 2, 2006

'''Running Time:''' 3:57

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486
==Transcript==
''{Open in Strong Bad's computer room, coming in on Strong Bad, while suspenseful music plays.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' My computer's been lappynapped!

''{A record scratches and the screen dims, Marshie comes in from the bottom of the screen.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Hello, Kenneth!

''{Marshie flies across a yellow background.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Hear me roar!

''{Marshie growls or a moment, then opens his mouth wide, the background turns red, sound lines come out of his mouth, and he meows. Cut to a shot of the Sad Kids standing on top of Marshie.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' That's right, kids!

''{Silhouettes of the main characters scroll across the page, with big question marks over them. As he names the sweepstakes, the name appears on the screen.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Play the Fluffy Puff Marshmallows ''My Lappy Got Stole!'' Sweepstakes and win big!

''{As Marshie says "big", he grows a large, fat, white body, and his voice deepens. Cut to a shot of a bicycle. Marshie's voice is back to normal.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' First prize,—

''{A shot of a metal detector}''

'''MARSHIE:''' —second tries,—

''{Marshie, in a car, driving along with mountains in the background}''

'''MARSHIE:''' ''{singing}'' Take a trip to the mountains... ''{these words appear above the mountains, written on a musical staff}''

''{The screen dims and Marshie comes down from the top with a top hat and a cane.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' I'm a song and dance man!

''{Cut to a wooden desk, with a note card on it.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Just email who you think done it on a 3x5 note card,—

''{"it was the HIPPO!" is written on the note card.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' —stick a Fluffy Puff on each corner,—

''{Four marshmallows appear, one stuck on each corner of the card. Cut to Marshie, talking through gritted teeth, in front of a painting.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' —and just walk away, mother...

''{Cut to Strong Bad's basement, looking at the ad on the TV. Marshie is next to a bag of Fluffy Puff Marshmallows.}''

'''MARSHIE:''' Fluffy Puff Marshmallows. Yeah! Still!

''{The words "Yeah! Still!" appear underneath Marshie. Cut to Strong Bad lying on the couch, surrounded by empty chip packets of various descriptions.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You gotta be kidding me. Man, everybody's trying to make a buck or nine off my heart-drooping loss.

''{He feels around in the nearest bag of chips, and finds that it's empty.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, perfect. Now I'm out of my antidepressant. Nothing dulls the pain quite like several dozen half-full bags of ''{as he lists the flavourings, symbols for them appear at the top of the screen}'' Italian-herb-chipotle-buffalo-ranch-guacamole-Thai-peanut-style chippety-chumps. I guess I'll slink off to Bubs' and refill my prescription. Slinnnk...

''{Strong Bad somehow slides up and over the armrest of the couch, and off screen. Cut to Strong Bad at Bubs' Concession Stand. Bubs is nowhere to be seen.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Bubs! Hello? Can I get a witness? Bubs? ''{looks around the stand, and screams}''

''{Pan to the side of the stand, we see the Lappy's power cord hanging off the roof.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' The Lappy's tail! I'll save you, Lappy-pie... boo... ''{runs back and forth anxiously}'' Just keep your pixels on. Strong Bad's got everything under control-alt-delete.

''{Strong Bad picks up a ladder from behind the stand, and climbs up onto the roof.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Who put you up here— Wha?!?

''{The suspensful music plays, and reveal the Lappy, with the broken Tandy and the shotgunned Compy. The Tandy is holding a magnet from a fishing rod above the Lappy's keyboard.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's my crappier and crappiest computers!

''{Both old computers fizz and spark.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Careful guys, let's not do anything inappropriate with that magnet... I've got a lot of important text files on that 5 meg hard drive... Now just let the Lappy go, and we can all go out for Hushpuppies. You guys still like Hushpuppies, don't you?

''{Both old computers fizz and spark a lot.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Okay, fine. Hushpuppies are out. For some reason I... I thought you guys liked Hushpuppies.

''{Both old computers keep fizzing and sparking. The Tandy also churns its floppy disk drive.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Sorry guys, we're getting nowhere. I don't speak extravagantly broken computer.

''{The Paper comes down, reading "'Sup Strong Bad. I'll help with the translation."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' The Paper! You're just in time! Find out what they want!

''{The Paper goes back up, and the Compy "talks" for a bit. The Paper comes back down with "They want to come out of retirement..."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Retirement? They didn't retire, I threw them away. Ask them if they mean they want to come out of thrown-awayment.

''{The Paper comes down again, reading "They're not laughing. They each want to check one last email."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Are they joking? Those guys couldn't check an email with the help of sixty horses dressed up as IT professionals!

''{The Tandy lowers the magnet a little, and the Lappy's screen turns on, showing:}''

<blockquote style="background: #06bfad; padding: 30px; width: 25em; margin: 0; border: none">
<div style="border: 1px solid black">
<p style="border-top: 2px solid white; border-left: 2px solid white; border-bottom: 2px solid #999; border-right: 2px solid #999; background: #CCC; color: black; font-size: 150%; text-align: center; line-height: 125%; margin: 0; padding: 0">
<big>Oh, Child!</big> 
It's the Teal Screen 
of Near Death! (TSoND)
</div></blockquote>

'''STRONG BAD:''' Okay, okay, okay! I'll do my best. If it'll save the orphanage... I mean, my Lappy, I'll do it. Now, let's check emails like it was the deuce double-ought dweice!

''{Both old computers "talk".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' It just means 2002... I... thought it was slick... slick-rick... way to talk...

''{Fade through black to Strong Bad with the Tandy at the email-checking desk.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Green lines, green, green lines. It's a Strong Bad Email again.

<blockquote class="tandy email">
dearest strong bad 
do you remember the email that you deleted 
the hardest 
sincerly 
josh 
oakland
</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads "sincerly" as written, and "josh oakland" as one name}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Well, let's just see here... Zero capitalisation...

''{The first letters of each of "dearest", "strong", "bad", "do", "sincerely", "josh" and "oakland" are all briefly highlighted}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Misspelling...

''{The word "sincerly" is briefly highlighted}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Lack of punctuation...

''{The blank spaces after "bad", "hardest", "sincerly" and "josh" are all briefly highlighted}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Looks like a winner to me! ''{typing}'' Dearest Josho, I have some good news for you! I DO remember the email that I deleted the hardest. And I'm still remembering it right now!!! ''{stops typing}'' Homestar! Little help please.

''{Pull back to reveal Homestar poaring a bottle of Mountain Dew into the hole in the side of the Tandy}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I'm way ahead of ya, SB.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Then, we'll just add some of the King of Town's fizzy denture tablets.

''{Strong Bad holds up a box of "Oh No You Dent!!!" disgusting old person tablets}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' ''{offscreen}'' Thems is my after-dinner mints!

''{Strong Bad tips several of the tablets into the hole.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{heavy reverb}'' And now if you'd please turn in your hymnals, and join me in singing number 119, a-deleted.

''{Strong Bad hits the keyboard, and the "DELETED!!" screen comes up, with a gothic font. Organ music plays.}''

'''STRONG BAD & HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' ''{singing}'' Deleted!

''{Strong Bad swings a picaxe through the keyboard and the desk. The Tandy explodes, and gives off a bad graphics mushroom cloud.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Goodbye, old girl. They'll always say you went blaze of green rectangular glory.

''{Homestar starts poaring Mountain Dew on the carpet. Cut to a closeup of Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Alright. One down, one to go.

''{Cut to a shot of the shotgunned Compy on the desk. The suspensful music plays. The Paper comes down, reading "To Be Continued Tomorrow!"}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:Dullard_sbemail159a.png|thumb|Horses in IT?]]
* Click on Strong Bad's diamond when he says he's got a lot of important text files on Lappy's harddrive to see a selection of those files.
*Click on the chimney after Strong Bad's joke about Horses in IT to see a [[Dullard]] comic.
* Click the plug socket after the explosion to replay the explosion animation.

==Fun Facts==
===Remarks===
*There are clickable areas on the Lappy's screen, but clicking on them has no effect. This is because they are actually the contrast buttons for the monitor behind Lappy (from Strong Bad's first computer), and they are disabled in this scene.
*The contrast on Strong Bad's Tandy is in a different font than from before it was thrown out.
*The Paper doesn't have a link to Strong Bad's email.

=== Goof ===
*The lappy seems to still have all its keys, despite one of them being removed in [[cliffhangers]].

===Inside References===
*The position of Strong Bad's head, his visible mouth on his reflection on the Tandy and his lack of head shaking is a reference to his early emails.

===Real-World References===
*The [[Wikipedia:IBM 305|IBM 305]] [[Wikipedia:RAMAC|RAMAC]], the world's first hard drive, was released almost exactly 50 years and one month prior to this email. Like the Lappy's hard drive, it could hold a total of five megabytes, but it was the size of a large fridge-freezer and cost over $50,000.[http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/news/2164273/happy-50th-birthday-hard-drive]
*The explosion following the addition of [[Mountain Dew]] and denture tablets to the Tandy 400 is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Mentos eruption|Mentos eruption]] phenomenon.
*The Teal Screen of Near Death is a reference to the various colored [[Wikipedia:Category:Screens of death|Screens of death]] used by computer operating systems to indicate serious system errors. The [[Compy 386]] has been seen to have its own [[Wikipedia:Blue Screen of Death|Blue Screen of Death]] on more than one occasion.

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|159a|9957}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

Talk:cliffhangers

2006-09-24T21:52:16Z

Ppk01: /* Easter Egg Sequence */ I've been playing Phoenix Wright.

{{talk|9843}}

== my email! ==

This was my email that I sent him! He didn't make fun of me! Yaaaaaa
[[User:Cessna Man!|Cessna Man!]] 00:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

:I can confirm that Cessna Man!'s registered wiki email address contains the word "jake" and that the email was also used to register a website under the name Jake that contains the word "jake". -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 00:59, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::He ''did'' make fun of your name. I'm so jealous.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 01:24, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Good Jorb! Little Jakey!--[[User:Solwyvern|Solwyvern]] 05:07, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

:If this is your e-mail, then I have a question: What did you mean by "resolve all the cliffhangers"? I don't recall there ver being a cliffhanger before. [[User:Exhibit A|Exhibit A]] 05:04, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::The end of the KOT game, etc. [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 16:08, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:: I asked him that because I had asked him stuff relivent to the h*r universe before, and it didn't get answered, and also, most of the emails are not relivent to the show, so I did something totaly diffrent. [[User:Cessna Man!|Cessna Man!]] 19:27, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

==Kid-lapped?==
Woah, does this mean that there's going to be a new computer? {{User:Grit7/sig}}

:You'll have to stay tuned to find out. -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 01:16, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::I thought there would be a new new lappy soon. Has been a while!
:::I'm willing to bet that this was just part of the exaggerated cliffhanger theme of the email, and nothing more. Strong Bad will more than likely have the Lappy back next email, and no explanation will be made as to what happened at the end of this email. --[[User:ISlayedTheKerrek|ISlayedTheKerrek]] 13:10, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::::Oh, there will be an explanation. You can count on it. It's a two-part suspense story arc like the end of the Compy. And maybe the blood from Lappy's little toe is ketchup, not to be confused with catsup. I don't want Lappy to get replaced. She's had a short run. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 13:39, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::::Actually, from [[animal]] to today, there are presently 40 emails on the Lappy. That's the exact same number of emails on the [[Tandy 400]] (from [[some kinda robot]] to [[vacation]]). [[User:MHarrington|MHarrington]] 21:55, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
In terms of time, we've had the Lappy almost 2 years now,which was about the same as the compy.-Teh 4rticle B4ndit
::::::Did anybody notice that the Lappy's been around for as long as Compy, but only had as many emails as the Tandy? Even so, this is a little early to make a descision. There could be an explanation and he just gets it back, although I doubt it. -[[User:Brightstar Shiner|Brightstar]] 20:13, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

== 'nother Batman Parody ==

The first cliffhanger is a parody of one of those Batman scenes where the villain (Coach Z) tries to unmask Batman (Thnikkaman), however he gets away. This should go in Real World References as well as the [[Batman]] page.
:True, but this happens to other superheroes as well. Thus, it's TTATOT and not notable. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:21, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:However, the announcer for the second cliffhanger is the same one that appeared in [[fingers]], and TBC noted in the commentary for that e-mail that it was, indeed, a parody of Batman. [[KensterFox]] 10:41, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Apples and oranges. Qermaq is right. This is TTATOT. It's only notable for the appearance of the announcer, and is not a Batman reference. --[[User:ISlayedTheKerrek|ISlayedTheKerrek]] 13:11, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

== Whammy speed? ==

"Then strap in, Strap, and prepare for ramming speed!"

I heard whammy speed, which would fit in with all the other guitar related jokes in that segment. [[User:Swimma Dan|Swimma Dan]] 02:38, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Hmm. It would certainly make sense. Though I wouldn't edit it in until we can confirm it one way or the other. ~ [[User:Bruce|Bruce]] 04:28, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::That would be brilliant, but I'm afraid I hear "ramming." —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 04:30, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::After listening to it again, I definately hear ramming. The other guitar references must have clouded my judgement. [[User:Swimma Dan|Swimma Dan]] 01:35, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

== Remarks ==

1: Correct me if i'm wrong, but I think this is the first time the paper has failed completely to mention the word "email."

2: I believe that this is also the first time anything on Homestarrunner has explicitly said it will have a sequel. [[User:66.251.27.251|66.251.27.251]]
:The Dangeresque "trilogy" could be taken as counting against the latter, but I think you're right about the former. (I even clicked it to make sure it wasn't an Easter egg.) —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 04:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::In [[Sick Day]], The Paper said "Strong Bad, I can't come in today."{{User:Loafing/sig}} 04:31, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Wouldn't the sequel comment count as another instance of breaking the fourth wall? --[[User:Pladams9|Pladams9]] 16:58, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Sick Day really isn't an Email, It just has the Lappy and Paper in it.
:I admittedly clicked the paper to make sure it wasn't an easter egg, too. Yes, I think it is the first time it didn't say email '''OR''' Strong Bad.--{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 00:57, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::If true, it would only be the first time for a real Strong Bad email. I don't know if this would be notable, since it already happened elsewhere. And yes, I also clicked it to make sure it wasn't an Easter Egg.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 01:04, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Cakewalk ==

Is it possible that rather than the Atari game, the disk in the box is the old MIDI sequencing software "Cakewalk"? That would seem more appropriate for a 486, and the Cheat and Strong Bad do, after all, dabble in music. Generally it seems the precedent of the [[Floppy Disk Container]] is to be for games that were distributed for systems that actually used some kind of disk...
:Possibly, but it would go against the grain. I'm pretty sure every disk in the [[Floppy Disk Container]] thus far has been for a game. Sure, this one happens to be an Atari game instead of a computer game, but heaven knows it wouldn't be the first absurdity in the HsR universe. ~ [[User:Bruce|Bruce]] 04:31, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::Even considering all the other music references in this email?

== Leon Powalski ==

I don't think this is solid enough to put on the page, but the lizard-creature in Strong Bad's mock spaceship reminds me a lot of [[Wikipedia:Leon Powalski|Leon Powalski]] from the [[Wikipedia:Star Fox|Star Fox]] series. Just throwing it out is all. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 03:58, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:He reminded me of [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Balok Balok] from the original Trek episode ''The Corbomite Maneuver'' (and yes, I had to look all that up; all I remembered was "grape-headed alien dude"). —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 04:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::Ah, but he has the chameleon eyes that your Balok seems to lack. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 04:18, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::Right, and forked tongue. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 04:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
: I agree with the user below. [http://www.etacarinae.net/starflight/ss/Starflight42.jpg It looks like a Thrynn from Starflight.] [[User:SCharon|SCharon]] 03:38, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:: As I I'd never previously seen one of those, that didn't occur to me. Now that I have seen one, I think you're on to something. That does fit a little better than Leon. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 04:43, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== Pregnancy ==

This is the second time a male mentions (or anyone for that matter) becoming pregnant. The Cheat Commandos had the only other one, right?
:Yep. I believe you're right. But related, Coach Z once implied that he was a mother. Remember the email Garage Sale? Strong Bad: "Ah ah ah... moms ONLY!" Coach Z: "Oh, then I'm okay to say it!" ~ [[User:Bruce|Bruce]] 04:37, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::Actually, for this one, I think this might be a reference to the episode "Cash" from The Young Ones. In that one, Vyvyan (a male, yes) 'admits' to being pregnant when asked to join the army. The two instances are very similar. (~InvaderJem)
The transcript states SS says "I think I'd like my money back now." but I heard it as "my bunny". This is funnier/more tragic as it implies Homestar "borrowed" the bunny for a rabbit test. Did anyone else hear bunny there? (~Kirin)
::Sounds like "money" here. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:48, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
:Wait a minute... What the hell gave Homestar the idea he was pregnant?? [[User:Cyberdemon|Cyberdemon]] 7:06 am, 21 September 2006
::He's dumb, simple as that. --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 19:11, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
::: what i want to know is: the other ones have a clear reference to an earlier toon, does this one???? {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:58, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== Thnikkaman ==

'''How come in the debut episode of The Thnikkaman ( Monument ) , He takes his Cool Shades off ( Twice ), But in the Cliffhangers episode, Coach Z is trying to reveal The Thnikkaman by taking off the Cool Shades? Wouldn't this mean that The Thnikkaman has already been revealed? .... By himself (?)''' {{unsigned|Assassinator666|06:31, 19 September 2006}}

:Well spotted. I added this as a remark on the page.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 07:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

::And doesn't what Coach Z says to Bubs in the Easter Egg about being a "skinny green man" show that he's not wearing a jumpsuit?-[[User:MasterTrek|MasterTrek]] 18:20, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

:::Or what he calls "athlete's footies".--[[User:Song from the 60's|Song from the 60's]] 01:01, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== A glitch? ==

Is it just me, or did the scene with Strong Sad and Homestar take forever? I mean, they just stood at the table staring at each other for about 20 seconds (then Strong Sad finally said something) and then afterwards the word "resolution" hangs on the screen for about another 30 seconds. I don't think the flash was broken because they were blinking all the while. Did this happen to anyone else? [[User:Jimmy91|Jimmy91]] 16:54, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Must just be you. The "Resolution" screen lasts all of about 2 seconds, and the two didn't stare at each other for long, either. Are you on dial-up, by any chance? Flash allows the video to start before it's fully loaded, and if you got to that point and the scene hadn't been completely loaded yet, then it's going to pause until it does. They were still blinking because the blinking animation is a "tween"--sort of like a seperate animation "thread" that repeats over and over. ~ [[User:Bruce|Bruce]] 16:11, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::Yeah, this is something that occasionally happens when you're on dial-up or any other laggy/slow connection; the toon will freeze for a few seconds while waiting for the rest of it to load. Used to happen to me all the time, when I was still stuck on dial-up. Kind of interesting that it froze ''right'' at that moment, though - for a second I probably would've thought it was intentional, you know, to heighten the suspense. :) {{User:Saturn/sig}} 16:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::As it happens, I'm not on dial-up, but it probably was my connection. (it seemed a bit laggy) Isn't that kind of thing called buffering, or does that not apply to flash? [[User:Jimmy91|Jimmy91]] 16:54, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::::ha, yeah, that always happened to me when i had dialup. it positively sucked. 18:33, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
:Actually, I think the whole point of the "loading..." screen is to buffer the entire thing, not just the first few seconds. If it were proper video it would take forever to do that, but as Flash symbols it's small enough that it can all be done at the start. [[User:81.158.52.207|81.158.52.207]] 22:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::Actually, the loading screen doesn't preload the ''entire'' movie... in this case it only loads as far as when Coach Z starts saying his line "the world will discover your secret, sorcret identity!". After that, it's possible that a slow connection will make the buffer underrun. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 00:08, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:::not that i doubt you philip, but i was just wondering how you know that? i dont know too much about flash. {{User:Csours/sig}} 06:00, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== KOT pose ==

Isn't the pose the KOT is in when he's suspended from the cliff the same one he was in when he was stuck in the tyre swing in Weclome Back? (this may or may not merit a place on the article, but I was just bringing it up). [[User:Jimmy91|Jimmy91]] 16:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Yus, I noticed that too. I didn't think it was THAT noteworthy, but I have no problem with it being included. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::I noticed they tripled up the rope to make it match the width of the tire. - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 17:51, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::I think it's interesting to note that here on the talk page, but I don't think it's article-worthy at all. TBC reuse animation all the times. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:54, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
::::But there is similar fact on the [[lunch special]] page. --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 19:02, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
:::::Not anymore there's not. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:36, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
::::::I agree that expression is not enough for a reference, but a unique position of being stuck/tied and hanging from a tall palce ''is'' a reference. I'm adding it back (5 users agains 1, STUFF it if you want). {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 09:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Goof ==
[[Image:Cliffhangergoof.png|thumb|Oops.]]
I think I found a goof but I want to make sure everyone else is seeing it too before I add it...

During most of the spaceship scene, the green ground is slightly cut off on the left side of the screen, so that a strip of white is visible along the black edge of the frame. Here's a picture in case I'm not making any sense (which... I'm not); you can see it the most at the scene where The Cheat is messing with the CD player. {{User:Saturn/sig}} 19:21, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Definitely a goof. Add it in. --[[User:That crazy DumDe!|DumDe]] 19:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

== Ropes ==

I can't see anything that the ropes holding the King of Town and Homsar could've been attached to. Also, as a note, Strong Bad is very skilled at swinging that big knife. --[[User:Proxtown|Proxtown]] 22:36, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Actually, I'm going through it frame by frame right now, and it looks really odd. At first glance, it would seem that they're just knotted on the edge of the cliff. But Strong Bad's knife goes under the cliff, so it would have to be further back. - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 23:05, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

== The Creepy Cliff? ==

Doesn't the cliff Homsar and The KOT look like the Creepy Cliff from Halloween Potion-Ma-Jig? And Strong Bad looks totally awesoem with that machete with him.

:That machete is actually the [[Big Knives|big knife]]. Also, the cliff ''could'' be te same cliff, but it could also not be --[[User:That crazy DumDe!|DumDe]] 23:47, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

:Yes, it's impossible to tell from the angle whether they are the same or different/ That could be noted on the [[Cliffs]] page, I suppose. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

== Other elements to focus on ==

This gives us more insight into Coach Z's life. He coaches because his "secrort" is that he has poor hand-eye coordination, limiting his actual playing abilities. "Those who can't, teach," as the cruel saying goes.
But this is hrwiki where nearly every pixel is examined, so let's amp this up. Why the comma? Why the less-than sign? What is the significance to this? Why not the tilde button? Much more a "little toe."
And any significance to the missing T in "Nex time?"
:Correct, this is the hrwiki. We document facts about Homestar Runner toons. Speculations like these are discussed on the forum. As for Coach Z's secret, you could be '''bold''' and add this on his page.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 04:23, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
:If you want to ask a question, you do it on the forum. If you have a theory, then be '''bold''' and post it here and then people will argue about it until its 2 pages long. [[User:JamesDean|JamesDean]] 07:17, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I think a comma because it looks kinda like a toe and it's at the bottom of the keyboard, an anagalous(sp?) place where a toe would be. [[Foolster41]]

:"Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym". Works wonderful on the coach :). {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 09:48, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Thrynn? ==

I'm trying to find a screenshot to verify this, but the drawing of the reptile-looking alien inside of Space Captainface's ship looks ''remarkabky'' like a Thrynn from the old PC/Sega Genesis game "Starflight." Does anyone else have a way to help verify this? -[[User:204.155.72.139|204.155.72.139]] 18:05, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
: As I noted above, I saw a totally different reptilian alien creature from a video game when I saw it... --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:36, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

== Beatles song "Revolution" ==

Apparently this was disputed for some reason, but I think it's pretty obvious that SB's line, "so you say you want a resolution, huh?" is a reference to a famous line from the song "Revolution" by the Beatles. The line begins, "so you say you want a revolution?" I can't see much to dispute there. - [[User:Pete Sampwas|Pete Sampwas]] 01:34, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
: I completely agree. Being a Beatles fan, I back Pete's statement. It probably is what they were trying to convey.
::Oh, don't let being a Beatles fan cloud your judgement ;-) The fact was deleted because "Revolution" is not the only song featuring such a line (and the fact that the other songs probably reference "Revolution" does not change this) [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=cliffhangers&diff=368602&oldid=368601] (and just so you know, I have all their albums on CD).{{User:Loafing/sig}} 03:28, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:::However, a reference to a thing that in itself is a reference is invalid normally. So, the Marilyn Manson reference would be revertible simply on the basis of it being itself a reference to the Beatles. Thus we are left with the same question - is it likelier than not the line is a reference to "Revolution"? I think perhaps it is. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 04:02, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::::Not true. What if TBC thought of the Manson song and not the Beatles song? What if they didn't even know about the Beatles song? The toon does not give any hint towards this. Which leads us to the next question: is this a reference at all? Is "So you say you want a resolution, eh?" not what you would expect SB to say anyway? He's not even singing it. The "reference" is weak, and we can't say for sure what exactly it references.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 04:25, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Eh. I think this is maybe being a little overthought. Since the beatles song is the more well known (Who knows about Manson who hasn't heard of The Beatles?), isn't the more liekly that it is the one being refrenced? [[Foolster41]]
:While Manson was only mentioned in one remark (which is probably quoted from somone at the con) in the commentary for TrogdorCon, The Beatles are referenced [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Special:Search?ns0=1&search=Beatles&searchx=Search 14 times], including a [[TMBG_Concert_-_25_Sep_2004#With_a_Little_Help_From_My_Friends|parody]] by Homestar. Therefor I think the reference is to The Beatles' song. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 09:45, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::Sounds convincing. But are we sure that this is in fact a reference?{{User:Loafing/sig}} 10:23, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:::After sleeping on this, I believe that it is a reference. SB could have said "So, you want a resolution?", but TBC chose to use the longer version instead; probably as a reference to "Revolution".{{User:Loafing/sig}} 20:26, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
I'd just like to add to the discussion that the song "Revolution" was used in a well known Nike TV commercial in 1987, and that ad prominently used the chorus. It was also the subject of much controversy (about whether John Lennon would have wanted his song used to sell sneakers), at least partially due to the fact that it was one of the first times that an original recording of a pop song was used in such a way. (This is discussed in [[Wikipedia:Revolution (song)|the wikipedia entry on the song]].) Given the date of many of the other BrosChaps references, this may be the source of the quote (not that they don't know it's a Beatles song, but that's what makes it stick out in their minds) -- [[User:Wfaulk|Wfaulk]] 13:12, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't even aware that Marilyn Manson used the same line in one of his songs, and at least now I know what the dispute is about. Since the Beatles song was written about thirty-odd years before MM even started performing, and was already a highly influential song at that, you have to wonder where MM got the inspiration to include that line from..? - [[User:Pete Sampwas|Pete Sampwas]] 14:44, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:If you look at the lyrics of the MM song, then it's obvious that he is referencing "Revolution". But that's not quite the topic of this section.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 20:25, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::I don't even know which MM song features the line, since I don't really like his stuff. But it isn't important anyway, since there seems to now be a consensus that it was a reference to the Beatles. Unless anybody else complains, I'm going to add it to the Real-world references soon. - [[User:Pete Sampwas|Pete Sampwas]] 01:52, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Awright. The fact is back on the article page.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 06:48, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== Easter Egg Sequence ==

Doesn't anybody else think that the two end easter eggs should be listed in the opposite order (Homestar/SB then Z/Bubs)? Not only was the trigger for Homestar/SB physically above the other, Z/Bubs clearly refers back to it more easily than vice versa: the more awkward "accusing yourself of being the Thnikkaman" seems more a parody of "admitting that you stole my computer", and Homestar's "...sports team" is actually somewhat appropriate given its context (water cooler talk : sports) whereas it was a complete non sequitur when Coach Z said it. [[User:69.168.161.140|69.168.161.140]] 01:54, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:Coach Z would be likely to actually talk about a sports team, as he's a coach. However, I support putting them in the order we see the links on the page. It's senseless to decide on an order from contextual clues, as we do not know the order the viewer will discover the links. Nor should we present a presumed sequence when none is implicit. The only sensible sequences to follow in listing eggs are earlier/later, top/bottom, left/right. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:56, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

::They are currently in the order they appear in the actual Flash file. Coach Z and Bubs are frames 2501 to 2681 and Homestar and Strong Bad are frames 2695 to 2938. -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 03:01, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:::While that's meaningful to you or I, it's less so to the average viewer who might consult the knowledgebase. Putting the ransom note one (SB+HR) first, and the outlet one (CZ+B) second makes ordering sense for those who aren't aware of what frame they're in. And that's who we're trying to help here, isn't it? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:15, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::::I do think that the Coach Z one should be first, for a few reasons: (1) The Coach Z one is first in the Flash file, so it shows that TBC likely consider it to come first, or at least made it first. (B) The Coach Z one refers to an earlier part of the toon (Cliffhanger #1) than the Homestar one (Cliffhanger #4). (III) It makes more sense (to me) for Coach Z to talk about sports, since he's a ''coach'' after all, then Homestar's line referring to that, than vice-versa. {{User:Phlip/sig}}
:::::But this is presuming order where none was given. It's imposing your artistic intent over TBC's, which is not our role. The only order the common user is afforded here is visually sequential order, top/bottom, left/right. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:59, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::::::I'm somewhat between you guys. Aren't we always trying to interpret what TBC meant to do? What the characters are saying and what they are referring to? Anyways, for Easter eggs that are accessible in the same frame, no natural order is given. We have to invent one. Be it left/right and top/bottom, size and colour (prominence), order in the Flash file, or by content, I don't mind much. My guess is that the order they are in in the Flash file is the intended order, as the file would probably match the thought process of TBC. {{User:Loafing/sig}} 04:41, 21 September 2006 (UTC) Addendum: (If the Easter eggs appear in text on the compy, then I think they should be listed in that order.)

: For what it's worth, I'm for Coach first, Homestar second. I saw the "sports team" line as being more naturally appropriate to the Z. But it's not ''that'' big a deal to me if consensus goes the other way. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 08:32, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

::I'm for listing Coach Bubs before Homestar Bad. The fact the Coach Z grumbled before saying "sports team", for me at least, shows signs that he thought about the phrase before saying that. Homestar just spit it our after two seconds of thinking, making it a reference, rather then his own invention. (and all the other stuff Phlip and Jay said still counts) {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 09:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

:::I'm for Homestar, then Coach Z. Humour comes before programming in my [metaphorical] book, and the Homestar-then-Coach-Z combination is definitely the funniest sequence. Also, the ransom notice is more obviously an easter egg link than the socket (although the socket has been used before), and the sequence makes more sense due to the expectation that the characters will be discussing "whodunit", so to speak, and the Coach and the Bubs are discussing something different. So, in summary: unexpected + reference / correct order = solid easter egg. --[[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 13:44, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

:I think there is a consensus emerging here. In truth, I actually edited the page to reverse the easter eggs before checking the discussion page to see that there was already talk on this issue. (Jay reversed me) I have never felt strongly enough to edit anything here before. As the story of this e-mail unfolds, Homestar first, then Coach Z makes WAY MORE SENSE. Not only do the links flow top to bottom, but the ransom note is the more obvious thing to click on and likely to be found first. Besides that, since Homestar makes mention of why he is about to migrate to the sports team topic, it makes Coach Z's migration not only funnier, but even more absurd of a non sequitur. Regardless of programming order, the easter eggs tell a story, and Homestar followed by Coach Z is the only logical way to tell that story. I strongly encourage the switching of the order. One final thought: If the order had been Homestar followed by Coach Z from the very beginning, does anyone honestly think that there would be a discussion thread suggesting that they needed to be reversed? That's proof enough for me that we should just switch them and put this behind us. --[[User:72.229.110.222|72.229.110.222]] 21:35, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

:Same thing here. I've only once before ever thought to edit a page here, and the ordering of this was number two. The most compelling arguments above are these:
:the ransom notice is more obviously an easter egg link than the socket...and the sequence makes more sense due to the expectation that the characters will be discussing "whodunit"....
:Since Homestar makes mention of why he is about to migrate to the sports team topic, it makes Coach Z's migration....funnier [coming second].
:You know what: forget it. I'm changing the order -- feel free to revert or ban me or whatever. There is no universe in which it is either funnier or more coherent to read the coach Z clip before reading the homestar clip. ---- (sorry, I thought four dashes prints my ip address and timestamp. in any case, it's available in the version history.) {{unsigned|69.86.179.137|07:03, 23 September 2006}}

::We have not actually reached a consensus here. It seems evenly split to me. And the anonny should learn to discuss their view first before doing something that gets reverted anyway.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 07:38, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
:::I was trying to post just that and then got sidetracked on another page. But anyway, ''even if you are confident that you are right and the page is wrong'', if we're having a discussion like this, you should not change the article itself. To do so results in [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Edit war|edit wars]], which benefit ''nobody.'' You may always contribute to the discussion. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 07:48, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

:(You're right, obviously, and I apologize for going ahead with the edit anyway. This discussion seems even more ridiculous now that I've also read the one above in which someone argues that "you say you want a revolution" could very well be a reference to a marilyn manson song and not the (fairly obvious) beatles song. And someone will have to add the sig for me again, I guess. Apologies. ----)

::I'm going to have to go with Homestar first, on the basis that the "it" in "you know who I think done it?" is better understood grammatically and has better comedic timing in an uninterrupted sequence, ''id est'', when viewed immediately after the Lappy-napping.

::Of course, the argument about the order of "sports teams" is valid, but I say it doesn't have to be in the Coach Z → Homestar order to be more funny/make more sense. Also, the order of Easter eggs in the Flash file is another clue, but again I say it doesn't have to be the case. If we did Easter eggs in order of Flash file for [[flashback]], we would have to click "left firework / have / 100 / answered / right firework / you" in order, with a totally ambiguous "Congratulations".

::So, there you go, all arguments for each order have positive qualities and negative qualities. So, who's right? Nobody. Everybody. Strong, Mad?

::—[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 17:10, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

:Ooh, ooh, I thought of another one. [...] In actuality, Coach Z is the LEAST likely person to be talking about Sports Team. As the Z-man has shown in past misadventures, he (as a sports coach) is not very knowledgeable in the field of his profession. For example, in [[secret recipes]], he failed to identify an item as simple as a basketball, instead referring to it as a (and I quote) "Bounce Thing". It is for this reason that the third reason presented in the fifth comment in this section of this talk page (delivered by [[User:Phlip|Phlip]]) is faulty, and another point should be added to the consensus to place Homestar's quotation before Coach Z's quotation in the article. As a firm believer in this decision, I will not rest until action is taken. I thank you for your time, and I await your response. --[[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 21:52, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

== Coach Z ==

Guys, Coach Z said something along the lines of "Now, i'g going to reveal your secret, sorcret identity!"

You should include that in Coach Z's page, as his accent is fake.
: We've had hints about his accent being fake before. [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]], for instance. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 08:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Lightning ==
I think that the grass should also be tinted in red when Strap blinks the red alarm light, but it isn't. Goof/Remark/whatever? --[[User:Sysrq868|Sysrq868]] 17:44, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Jakenstein!? ==

I've never used the edit section of a wiki before, so bear with me here. I just wanted to point out that Strong bad isn't saying "And there you go, Jakenstein." Actually, he's saying "And there you go, Jacob Stein." This is a reference to the movie "Blues Brothers" when Jake Blues (Jake being the name of the author of the email Strong Bad is responding to) introduces himself to the Good 'Ole Boys as "Jacob Stein of the American Federation of Musicians."
:Well done for posting! :-) But I really do hear "Jakenstein" after listening to that passage about five times now.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 01:26, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:As a fan of ''The Blues Brothers'', I ask you this - are you kidding? No, sorry, that's a major stretch. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 01:27, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:It sounds very clearly like an "N" to me.[[User:Exhibit A|Exhibit A]] 02:59, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:It definatly sounds like Jakenstein to me. Think like if his name was Frank SB might call him Frankenstein. Except he wouldn't 'cause it wouldn't be as funny. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 06:13, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== strap's cap. ==

ok, this is not mentioned anywhere in the fun facts, and i seriously dont know where to put it, but strap is wearing a cap on his cap in one of the shots. and it is seriously funny. seriously. {{User:Csours/sig}} 06:03, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:Um, where? I don't see anything like that... {{User:Phlip/sig}} 06:17, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
::You can't just add stuff because it is "seriously funny. seriously." You just can't. seriously. [[User:Cessna Man!|Cessna Man!]] 21:03, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:::doh. on closer examination it is strongbad's taped glove and thump that only appears to be another. look at frames 1633-1658. oh well. at least im funny. (in some kind of way). {{User:Csours/sig}} 02:19, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

== What about money? ==

Maybe I'm missing the joke, but does anyone understand why Strong Sad says "I'd like my money back now" after Homestar says he's pregnant? What money? Did he pay Homestar money to tell him the secret? Or give him money for a pregnancy test? Let me know. -[[User:Compdude|Compdude]]

== Possible Simpsons quote? ==

I thought I'd ask here first before I tried adding it to the article but who thinks that Strong Bad's "lady irony" line references a quote from The Simpsons? Think about it:

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{after finding out that his computer's been Lappy-napped}'' Oh, sweet lady irony! Why do you mock me? ''{from cliffhangers (sbemail 156)}''

'''HOMER SIMPSON:''' ''{after finding out he can't go to the monster truck rally since Lisa is performing at a school concert on the same night}'' Oh, cruel fate! Why do you mock me? ''{from Bart the Daredevil (7F06)}''

What do you think? Stupid coincidence or obscure reference? Shall I put it in STUFF? {{User:The Chort/sig}} 18:11, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
:Sounds like coincidence and semi-common phraseology to me. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Is The Table Too Big? ==

Is it just me, or does Strong Bad look smaller than usual when he's walking back to the computer room at the end of the email (right before he discovers that the Lappy's gone)? -[[User:Brightstar Shiner|Brightstar]] 20:23, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

keep cool

2006-09-22T16:59:49Z

Ppk01: /* Transcript */ I'm pretty sure he's saying "mannonball". You know, like a man... on a ball.

{{sbenav|154|redesign|theme song}}
[[Image:Keep_cool.PNG|thumb|"Cool Time, Pool Time!"]]

Strong Bad explains how he keeps cool in the summer.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Badia]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]], [[The Stick]], [[The Brick Wall]], [[Marzipan's House]], [[Swimming Pool]]

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' July 31, 2006

'''Running Time:''' 3:33

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

==Transcript==

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{rapping}'' I'll take you back to a time when e-mail was king! ''{brings up the email}''

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: Oh man,,,</div>
How hot is it right now in Strongbadia? We're boiling over 
here. What do you do to keep cool? 
 
Tom B 
Sunnyvale, CA
</blockquote>

''{After "Strongbadia", a record scratches, the screen dims and another Strong Bad appears.}''

'''SECOND STRONG BAD:''' Note to viewers:

''{Screen cuts to Strong Badia. A cutout in the shape of Strong Bad labeled "sb" is shown.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ''This'' is Strong Badia.

''{Screen cuts to Bubs' Concession Stand, with a similar cutout for Bubs labeled "bubs".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Not this...

''{Screen cuts to Strong Bad's basement, with a cutout of Strong Mad labeled "graw mad".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ...this...

''{Screen cuts to The Stick, with a cutout of Homestar labeled "ds".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ...or this.

''{Cut back to Strong Badia.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Just this.

''{Cut back to the still-dimmed Lappy.}''

'''SECOND STRONG BAD:''' We clear? Now gimme five.

''{The second Strong Bad holds up his left hand, and then disappears as the rest of the screen returns to normal and the original Strong Bad finishes reading the email. He reads "CA" as "Cactus Area."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I'm not exactly sure how hot it is round here, Tomby. But we do have an old-timey, made-uppy, no-worky way of finding out.

''{Cut to Strong Sad, sleeping on a brick wall. A book labeled "Mr. Chekhov" is next to him.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' We carefully place a spoonful...

''{Strong Bad and Strong Mad rise from behind Strong Sad, and Strong Bad places a spoon of sauce on Strong Sad's head.}

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ...of hoisin sauce on Strong Sad's disturbing soft-serve flip. ''{pause}'' And then we just... ask him.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey!

''{Strong Bad hits Strong Sad, who wakes up.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Trundle bed, how hot it is right now?

'''STRONG SAD:''' Current temperature: ninety-seven, ninety-eight degrees... humidity: twenty-five percent... ''{Strong Bad and Strong Mad slowly start to leave, making a tapping noise as they do.}'' barometric pressure's thirty point oh five inches mercury... I'm gonna eat this spoonful of hoisin sauce...

''{Strong Sad grabs the spoon from off his head and opens his mouth to eat the sauce. But before he does, we cut to the edge of the wall, where Strong Bad and Strong Mad are standing.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You hear that?! The high nineties!

''{Strong Bad pulls out a paper titled "[[#Trivia|Monkey D's Summer Tips]]". The screen cuts to a closeup of the paper.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You know what that means!

''{Cut to Strong Bad and Strong Mad. Music starts. Strong Bad jumps up in the air, whilst Strong Mad raises his hands up.}''

'''STRONG BAD AND STRONG MAD:''' COOL TIME, POOL TIME!!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' In the pool that we've always had... ''{Strong Mad looks surprised}'' that we use all the time... and the school has always had an elevator!

''{Cut to Marzipan's couch. Marzipan is sitting on it. Homestar Runner pops up in the foreground.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Cool time!

'''MARZIPAN:''' Pool time!

''{Cut to Bubs' Concession Stand, where Coach Z is leaning on the counter.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Cool time?

'''BUBS:''' Pool time!

''{Cut to the Field, where Pom Pom and The Poopsmith are standing.}''

'''POM POM:''' ''{bubbles}''

''{The Poopsmith gives him the thumbs-up.}''

''{Cut to the Pool. Strong Bad is sitting in the lifeguard's chair. Coach Z walks past in the background with a barrel over him. Bubs floats with inflatable water wings on his arms. The Cheat skims across the surface of the water quickly twice. Cut to a closeup on Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right, ya little sacks of crap, just so I never have to use this weird foamy thing, ''{He kicks a floatation device hanging from his perch.}'' lemme explain the pool rules.

''{A paper reading "POOL RULES" appears. Strong Bad reads along.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Welcome to our 'ool. (Notice there is no "Take a crap in it" in it. Please keep it that way. 

''{Cut to The Poopsmith, wearing a Nebulon flotation device and testing the water with his foot.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Poopsmith, don't even try it.

''{A Nebulon-esque sound is heard as The Poopsmith hangs his head. Cut back to Strong Bad. The Pool Rules sheet returns, and the following rules get added with illustrations as Strong Bad mentions them.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Also, no rough-horsing, no house-rousing, no butt-patting.

'''COACH Z:''' ''{offscreen}'' Aw, nuts!

'''STRONG BAD:''' And no running, no diving, no swimming.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' But that last one is not very widely enforced. But most importantly, after you eat, wait three full days, get a complete physical, have an ear candling, and press UP, A and START before re-entering the pool.

''{Strong Bad looks at Marzipan, whose ponytail has a green tinge and the very tip of it is on fire. The burn is slowly making its way up her ponytail, burning it off during the whole scene.}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' Strong Bad, what did you put in this pool water?

'''STRONG BAD:''' I dunno... chemicals, whatever was under the sink.

''{Cut to a pile of chemical containers and a bottle of Awesome Sauce.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You gotta put chemicals in the pool, right? That's what they say. ''{Pause}'' And that is ''all'' that they say.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad and Marzipan}''

'''MARZIPAN:''' ''{suddenly smiling}'' Well, whatever it is, it's doing wonders for my hair. I can feel it tingling.

''{Cut to stormy clouds, faint flashes of lightning, and the sound of thunder. Cut back to Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{in sing-song voice}'' Lightning. ''{in a normal voice}'' You guys know the drill.

''{Cut to Bubs, Strong Mad, and The Cheat leaving the pool}''

'''STRONG MAD and THE CHEAT:''' ''{groans and The Cheat noises}''

'''BUBS''': Man!

''{Homestar Runner, Coach Z, and The King of Town walk through the pool carrying a TV antenna, golf clubs, and an umbrella, respectively. They stop in the middle of the pool.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER, COACH Z and THE KING OF TOWN:''' ''{sighs and groans}''

''{Cut to Strong Bad talking with Bubs at the lifeguard chair}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' So later on anybody wanna get together a game of "Sharks and Minnows"? "Einstein and Kreskin"? "Pregnant and seventeen"?

'''BUBS:''' ''{points toward the diving board}'' Uh-oh! Looks like we should be playin' "Keep Strong Mad off the freakin' high dive for Pete's sake, man!"

''{Strong Mad jumps off of a high-dive}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' MANNONBALL!


''{Strong Mad takes the shape of a cannonball and makes a tiny splash in the water. There is a short pause. Suddenly, all of the water is splashed out of the pool. Shadows of The Cheat, Coach Z, the lifeguard tower, Strong Bad, and Homestar are seen through the wave. Cut back to Strong Bad's computer. Strong Bad crashes in through the ceiling. Water splashes down on him. He looks up}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I should really just stop patching that hole. ''{typing}'' Well, it looks like pool season's over. Guess I have to start Back2School shopping. Get some new pencil holders... ''{Homestar can be heard screaming in the background}'' stencil folders...

''{Homestar lands on top of Strong Bad}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Uh, Strong Bad, I think that total wave ruined your 'ool.

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{groaning}'' Ah... I... breaky... spiney...

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

==Easter Eggs==
* Click on CA when Strong Bad says "Sunnyvale, Cactus Area" to see a menu:

<blockquote>
Cactus Area 
"The most boring Mexican restaurant on Earth" 
''{picture of a circle around two [[Wikipedia:saguaro|saguaros]] and the word 'sombrero'.}'' 
(Yes, we know what salsa is now!)</blockquote>

* Click on the Lappy's screen at the end to see Strong Sad continuing his weather forecast:

:'''STRONG SAD:''' Wind sou'-sou'west at 10 miles per hour. Sunset at 8:45 PM. ''{the King of Town slowly comes up behind him}'' Baseball games at two, eleven, and three. ''{King of Town puts a cherry on Strong Sad's head and pulls out a can of "Lard Wipt"}''

==Fun Facts==

===Explanations===
*A [[Wikipedia:Trundle bed|Trundle bed]] is a low bed on wheels that can be rolled under another bed for storage.
*[[Wikipedia:Ear candling|Ear candling]], also known as ear coning, is a folk remedy purporting to use the heat from a specialized candle to remove wax and debris from the ear.
*[[Wikipedia:Hoisin sauce|Hoisin sauce]] is a type of Chinese dipping sauce made from soybeans, garlic, and spices.
*"Rough-horsing" is a play on the words roughousing and horseplay, which signify rowdy playing or play fighting.

===Trivia===
*Strong Bad's paper reads:
<div style="text-align:center; padding:8px; border: 1pt solid #000; width:300px">Monkey D's Summer Tips 95°-100°=COOL TIME, POOL TIME!!! 90°-95°=Grip n' Glide time,                               Slide n' Slide time 85°-90°=Tinkler time, Sprinkler time 80°-85°=Nose time, Hose time 
 </div>

===Remarks===
*Strong Bad's explaining the difference between Strong Badia and the other parts of [[Free Country, USA]], is one of the most abrupt [[Fourth Wall Breaks|fourth wall breaks]] to date.
*Strong Bad clearly explains the extent of Strong Badia, and then immediately leaves it (going to The Brick Wall near Homestar's house) to get the meteorological information.
*An air temperature of 97° [[Wikipedia:Fahrenheit|Fahrenheit]] (36° [[Wikipedia:Celsius|Celsius]]) with a relative humidity of 25% puts the dew point at approximately 55° F (13° C), low enough to make the heat index approximately 95° F (35° C), which is not unbearably uncomfortable. A south-southwest wind of 10 mph (16 km/h) also helps keep the air from becoming too oppressive.
*This marks the first time viewers have seen the King of Town's exposed shoulder area, further reinforcing the fact that he doesn't have [[Lack of Visible Arms|visible arms]].
*The Pool Rules state there is no diving. However, there is a diving board.
*When Strong Bad jumps out from behind the wall, his legs are an older version.
*When Homestar lands on Strong Bad, neither the new [[No Loafing]] sign or the old one is anywhere to be seen.
*Strong Bad mentions that, after eating, you must have an ear candling before reentering the pool. None of the main characters have ears.
*Unlike Homestar and the King of Town, the other characters (Coach Z {even in a barrel}, Bubs, Strong Mad, and Marzipan) wear their everyday clothing as if they were swimsuits.

===Goofs===
*The Pool Rules sign doesn't have a closing parenthesis.
*Clicking on the Lappy's screen after Strong Bad starts typing after he falls from the ceiling does not cause the usual ripple.

===Inside References===
[[Image:Keepcool_stoppatchnhole.png|thumb|"I should really just stop patching that hole."]]
*The disk in the [[Floppy Disk Container|floppy disk container]] is the same one found in [[disconnected]].
*The "ds" on the Homestar Runner cutout might stand for "Duckshirt" or "Dumbstar", two [[Nicknames#Homestar Runner|nicknames]] Strong Bad has used for Homestar in the past.
*Strong Bad's reference to the pool's existence refers to the pool scenes from [[A Jumping Jack Contest]] and the [[Theme Song Video]]. Since the Theme Song Video, the pool has not been seen until this email.
**Also, in the commentary for [[In Search of the Yello Dello Commentary|In Search of the Yello Dello]], Strong Sad mentions that everyone in school suddenly started being nice to him because he had a pool. This backs up Strong Bad's assertion that they've always had the pool.
*The Poopsmith uses a [[Nebulon]] floating tube; when Strong Bad tells him that he can't get in the pool, the Nebulon [[Sound Effects|sound effect]] is played.
*The nickname "Graw Mad" is a reference to [[the facts]].
*Strong Bad's tan lines were first seen in [[lures & jigs]].
*The patch of sunscreen on Strong Bad's face is a reference to a running gag that he [[Lack of Visible Arms#Strong Bad.27s Nose|has no nose]].
*In the pile of chemical containers, there is some "[[Roach Killa!]]" from [[bedtime story]] and some "Awesome Sauce" which was mentioned in [[funny]] (though this is "Awesome Sauce for her").
[[Image:bottles.png|thumb|For Her?]]
*Homestar's swimsuit is the same as the one he wears in [[Theme Song Video]], only updated to fit the current animation style.
*[[Monkey D]] contributes his "summer tips".
*Strong Bad's remark explaining that he "should really stop patching that hole" refers to [[pom pom]], when he fell through the roof in a similar fashion.
*Back2School was first mentioned in [[modeling]].
*[[Wikipedia:Hoisin sauce|Hoisin sauce]] was previously mentioned in the Homsar easter egg in [[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]

===Real-World References===
*"We'll take you back to a time when email was king" is a reference to many dinosaur documentaries which begin with similar phrases, such as "When dinosaurs ruled the earth."
*When Strong Bad is pointing out places that are Strong Badia and places which are not, the scenes with the cut-out figures are modeled after pages from children's sticker books in which the goal is to place the proper sticker in the right blank area on the page.
*This email was released during an actual heat wave in the [[Wikipedia:2006 United States heat wave|United States]], Canada, and much of [[Wikipedia:2006 European heat wave|Europe]]. [[Wikipedia:Sunnyvale, California|Sunnyvale]] itself had just suffered a two-week period of unusually hot weather, responsible for 83 heat-related deaths in California.
*[[Wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|Anton Chekhov]] is a Russian writer. [[Wikipedia:Pavel Chekov|Pavel Chekov]], a character on [[Wikipedia:Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]], was often refered to as "Mr. Chekov." It is not clear from context whether the intended reference is to one or both of these people.
*The second item on "Monkey D's Summer Tips" is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Slip 'N Slide|Slip 'N Slide]] water toy.
*Strong Bad's "Welcome to our 'ool" sign is a parody of a popular [http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/crystalclear_1911_12963799 "Pool Rules" sign] that states "Welcome to our ool. Notice there's no 'P' in it. Let's keep it this way."
*Strong Bad's advice that "after you eat, wait three full days, get a complete physical," and so on, is a reference to the urban legend that one must [[snopes:oldwives/hourwait.asp|wait an hour after eating]] before swimming so as to prevent cramps.
*Marzipan's comment "I can feel it tingling" is a reference to commercials for medicated anti-dandruff shampoos that use tingling as an indication that the product is working.
*In the pile of chemical bottles, there is a bottle of Bleach juice, which claims to contain −4% fruit juice (a possible parody of many modern fruit juices, which are composed mainly of water and artificial ingredients).
*Einstein and Kreskin refer to [[Wikipedia:Albert_Einstein|Albert Einstein]] (world-famous physicist) and [[Wikipedia:Amazing_Kreskin|The Amazing Kreskin]] (sort-of-famous mentalist).
*The manner in which Strong Sad reports the weather is just how it's reported on [[Wikipedia:NOAA_Weather_Radio|NOAA Weather Radio]], including the monotone voice.

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|154|9311}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

Talk:cliffhangers

2006-09-22T13:59:26Z

Ppk01: /* Easter Egg Sequence */ A little bit more.

{{talk|9843}}

== my email! ==

This was my email that I sent him! He didn't make fun of me! Yaaaaaa
[[User:Cessna Man!|Cessna Man!]] 00:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

:I can confirm that Cessna Man!'s registered wiki email address contains the word "jake" and that the email was also used to register a website under the name Jake that contains the word "jake". -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 00:59, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::He ''did'' make fun of your name. I'm so jealous.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 01:24, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Good Jorb! Little Jakey!--[[User:Solwyvern|Solwyvern]] 05:07, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

:If this is your e-mail, then I have a question: What did you mean by "resolve all the cliffhangers"? I don't recall there ver being a cliffhanger before. [[User:Exhibit A|Exhibit A]] 05:04, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::The end of the KOT game, etc. [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 16:08, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:: I asked him that because I had asked him stuff relivent to the h*r universe before, and it didn't get answered, and also, most of the emails are not relivent to the show, so I did something totaly diffrent. [[User:Cessna Man!|Cessna Man!]] 19:27, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

==Kid-lapped?==
Woah, does this mean that there's going to be a new computer? {{User:Grit7/sig}}

:You'll have to stay tuned to find out. -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 01:16, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::I thought there would be a new new lappy soon. Has been a while!
:::I'm willing to bet that this was just part of the exaggerated cliffhanger theme of the email, and nothing more. Strong Bad will more than likely have the Lappy back next email, and no explanation will be made as to what happened at the end of this email. --[[User:ISlayedTheKerrek|ISlayedTheKerrek]] 13:10, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::::Oh, there will be an explanation. You can count on it. It's a two-part suspense story arc like the end of the Compy. And maybe the blood from Lappy's little toe is ketchup, not to be confused with catsup. I don't want Lappy to get replaced. She's had a short run. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 13:39, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::::Actually, from [[animal]] to today, there are presently 40 emails on the Lappy. That's the exact same number of emails on the [[Tandy 400]] (from [[some kinda robot]] to [[vacation]]). [[User:MHarrington|MHarrington]] 21:55, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
In terms of time, we've had the Lappy almost 2 years now,which was about the same as the compy.-Teh 4rticle B4ndit
::::::Did anybody notice that the Lappy's been around for as long as Compy, but only had as many emails as the Tandy? Even so, this is a little early to make a descision. There could be an explanation and he just gets it back, although I doubt it. -[[User:Brightstar Shiner|Brightstar]] 20:13, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

== 'nother Batman Parody ==

The first cliffhanger is a parody of one of those Batman scenes where the villain (Coach Z) tries to unmask Batman (Thnikkaman), however he gets away. This should go in Real World References as well as the [[Batman]] page.
:True, but this happens to other superheroes as well. Thus, it's TTATOT and not notable. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:21, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:However, the announcer for the second cliffhanger is the same one that appeared in [[fingers]], and TBC noted in the commentary for that e-mail that it was, indeed, a parody of Batman. [[KensterFox]] 10:41, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Apples and oranges. Qermaq is right. This is TTATOT. It's only notable for the appearance of the announcer, and is not a Batman reference. --[[User:ISlayedTheKerrek|ISlayedTheKerrek]] 13:11, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

== Whammy speed? ==

"Then strap in, Strap, and prepare for ramming speed!"

I heard whammy speed, which would fit in with all the other guitar related jokes in that segment. [[User:Swimma Dan|Swimma Dan]] 02:38, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Hmm. It would certainly make sense. Though I wouldn't edit it in until we can confirm it one way or the other. ~ [[User:Bruce|Bruce]] 04:28, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::That would be brilliant, but I'm afraid I hear "ramming." —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 04:30, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::After listening to it again, I definately hear ramming. The other guitar references must have clouded my judgement. [[User:Swimma Dan|Swimma Dan]] 01:35, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

== Remarks ==

1: Correct me if i'm wrong, but I think this is the first time the paper has failed completely to mention the word "email."

2: I believe that this is also the first time anything on Homestarrunner has explicitly said it will have a sequel. [[User:66.251.27.251|66.251.27.251]]
:The Dangeresque "trilogy" could be taken as counting against the latter, but I think you're right about the former. (I even clicked it to make sure it wasn't an Easter egg.) —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 04:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::In [[Sick Day]], The Paper said "Strong Bad, I can't come in today."{{User:Loafing/sig}} 04:31, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Wouldn't the sequel comment count as another instance of breaking the fourth wall? --[[User:Pladams9|Pladams9]] 16:58, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Sick Day really isn't an Email, It just has the Lappy and Paper in it.
:I admittedly clicked the paper to make sure it wasn't an easter egg, too. Yes, I think it is the first time it didn't say email '''OR''' Strong Bad.--{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 00:57, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::If true, it would only be the first time for a real Strong Bad email. I don't know if this would be notable, since it already happened elsewhere. And yes, I also clicked it to make sure it wasn't an Easter Egg.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 01:04, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Cakewalk ==

Is it possible that rather than the Atari game, the disk in the box is the old MIDI sequencing software "Cakewalk"? That would seem more appropriate for a 486, and the Cheat and Strong Bad do, after all, dabble in music. Generally it seems the precedent of the [[Floppy Disk Container]] is to be for games that were distributed for systems that actually used some kind of disk...
:Possibly, but it would go against the grain. I'm pretty sure every disk in the [[Floppy Disk Container]] thus far has been for a game. Sure, this one happens to be an Atari game instead of a computer game, but heaven knows it wouldn't be the first absurdity in the HsR universe. ~ [[User:Bruce|Bruce]] 04:31, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::Even considering all the other music references in this email?

== Leon Powalski ==

I don't think this is solid enough to put on the page, but the lizard-creature in Strong Bad's mock spaceship reminds me a lot of [[Wikipedia:Leon Powalski|Leon Powalski]] from the [[Wikipedia:Star Fox|Star Fox]] series. Just throwing it out is all. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 03:58, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:He reminded me of [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Balok Balok] from the original Trek episode ''The Corbomite Maneuver'' (and yes, I had to look all that up; all I remembered was "grape-headed alien dude"). —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 04:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::Ah, but he has the chameleon eyes that your Balok seems to lack. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 04:18, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::Right, and forked tongue. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 04:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
: I agree with the user below. [http://www.etacarinae.net/starflight/ss/Starflight42.jpg It looks like a Thrynn from Starflight.] [[User:SCharon|SCharon]] 03:38, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:: As I I'd never previously seen one of those, that didn't occur to me. Now that I have seen one, I think you're on to something. That does fit a little better than Leon. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 04:43, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== Pregnancy ==

This is the second time a male mentions (or anyone for that matter) becoming pregnant. The Cheat Commandos had the only other one, right?
:Yep. I believe you're right. But related, Coach Z once implied that he was a mother. Remember the email Garage Sale? Strong Bad: "Ah ah ah... moms ONLY!" Coach Z: "Oh, then I'm okay to say it!" ~ [[User:Bruce|Bruce]] 04:37, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::Actually, for this one, I think this might be a reference to the episode "Cash" from The Young Ones. In that one, Vyvyan (a male, yes) 'admits' to being pregnant when asked to join the army. The two instances are very similar. (~InvaderJem)
The transcript states SS says "I think I'd like my money back now." but I heard it as "my bunny". This is funnier/more tragic as it implies Homestar "borrowed" the bunny for a rabbit test. Did anyone else hear bunny there? (~Kirin)
::Sounds like "money" here. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:48, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
:Wait a minute... What the hell gave Homestar the idea he was pregnant?? [[User:Cyberdemon|Cyberdemon]] 7:06 am, 21 September 2006
::He's dumb, simple as that. --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 19:11, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
::: what i want to know is: the other ones have a clear reference to an earlier toon, does this one???? {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:58, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== Thnikkaman ==

'''How come in the debut episode of The Thnikkaman ( Monument ) , He takes his Cool Shades off ( Twice ), But in the Cliffhangers episode, Coach Z is trying to reveal The Thnikkaman by taking off the Cool Shades? Wouldn't this mean that The Thnikkaman has already been revealed? .... By himself (?)''' {{unsigned|Assassinator666|06:31, 19 September 2006}}

:Well spotted. I added this as a remark on the page.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 07:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

::And doesn't what Coach Z says to Bubs in the Easter Egg about being a "skinny green man" show that he's not wearing a jumpsuit?-[[User:MasterTrek|MasterTrek]] 18:20, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

:::Or what he calls "athlete's footies".--[[User:Song from the 60's|Song from the 60's]] 01:01, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== A glitch? ==

Is it just me, or did the scene with Strong Sad and Homestar take forever? I mean, they just stood at the table staring at each other for about 20 seconds (then Strong Sad finally said something) and then afterwards the word "resolution" hangs on the screen for about another 30 seconds. I don't think the flash was broken because they were blinking all the while. Did this happen to anyone else? [[User:Jimmy91|Jimmy91]] 16:54, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Must just be you. The "Resolution" screen lasts all of about 2 seconds, and the two didn't stare at each other for long, either. Are you on dial-up, by any chance? Flash allows the video to start before it's fully loaded, and if you got to that point and the scene hadn't been completely loaded yet, then it's going to pause until it does. They were still blinking because the blinking animation is a "tween"--sort of like a seperate animation "thread" that repeats over and over. ~ [[User:Bruce|Bruce]] 16:11, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::Yeah, this is something that occasionally happens when you're on dial-up or any other laggy/slow connection; the toon will freeze for a few seconds while waiting for the rest of it to load. Used to happen to me all the time, when I was still stuck on dial-up. Kind of interesting that it froze ''right'' at that moment, though - for a second I probably would've thought it was intentional, you know, to heighten the suspense. :) {{User:Saturn/sig}} 16:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::As it happens, I'm not on dial-up, but it probably was my connection. (it seemed a bit laggy) Isn't that kind of thing called buffering, or does that not apply to flash? [[User:Jimmy91|Jimmy91]] 16:54, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::::ha, yeah, that always happened to me when i had dialup. it positively sucked. 18:33, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
:Actually, I think the whole point of the "loading..." screen is to buffer the entire thing, not just the first few seconds. If it were proper video it would take forever to do that, but as Flash symbols it's small enough that it can all be done at the start. [[User:81.158.52.207|81.158.52.207]] 22:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::Actually, the loading screen doesn't preload the ''entire'' movie... in this case it only loads as far as when Coach Z starts saying his line "the world will discover your secret, sorcret identity!". After that, it's possible that a slow connection will make the buffer underrun. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 00:08, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:::not that i doubt you philip, but i was just wondering how you know that? i dont know too much about flash. {{User:Csours/sig}} 06:00, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== KOT pose ==

Isn't the pose the KOT is in when he's suspended from the cliff the same one he was in when he was stuck in the tyre swing in Weclome Back? (this may or may not merit a place on the article, but I was just bringing it up). [[User:Jimmy91|Jimmy91]] 16:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Yus, I noticed that too. I didn't think it was THAT noteworthy, but I have no problem with it being included. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::I noticed they tripled up the rope to make it match the width of the tire. - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 17:51, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::I think it's interesting to note that here on the talk page, but I don't think it's article-worthy at all. TBC reuse animation all the times. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:54, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
::::But there is similar fact on the [[lunch special]] page. --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 19:02, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
:::::Not anymore there's not. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:36, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
::::::I agree that expression is not enough for a reference, but a unique position of being stuck/tied and hanging from a tall palce ''is'' a reference. I'm adding it back (5 users agains 1, STUFF it if you want). {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 09:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Goof ==
[[Image:Cliffhangergoof.png|thumb|Oops.]]
I think I found a goof but I want to make sure everyone else is seeing it too before I add it...

During most of the spaceship scene, the green ground is slightly cut off on the left side of the screen, so that a strip of white is visible along the black edge of the frame. Here's a picture in case I'm not making any sense (which... I'm not); you can see it the most at the scene where The Cheat is messing with the CD player. {{User:Saturn/sig}} 19:21, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Definitely a goof. Add it in. --[[User:That crazy DumDe!|DumDe]] 19:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

== Ropes ==

I can't see anything that the ropes holding the King of Town and Homsar could've been attached to. Also, as a note, Strong Bad is very skilled at swinging that big knife. --[[User:Proxtown|Proxtown]] 22:36, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Actually, I'm going through it frame by frame right now, and it looks really odd. At first glance, it would seem that they're just knotted on the edge of the cliff. But Strong Bad's knife goes under the cliff, so it would have to be further back. - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 23:05, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

== The Creepy Cliff? ==

Doesn't the cliff Homsar and The KOT look like the Creepy Cliff from Halloween Potion-Ma-Jig? And Strong Bad looks totally awesoem with that machete with him.

:That machete is actually the [[Big Knives|big knife]]. Also, the cliff ''could'' be te same cliff, but it could also not be --[[User:That crazy DumDe!|DumDe]] 23:47, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

:Yes, it's impossible to tell from the angle whether they are the same or different/ That could be noted on the [[Cliffs]] page, I suppose. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

== Other elements to focus on ==

This gives us more insight into Coach Z's life. He coaches because his "secrort" is that he has poor hand-eye coordination, limiting his actual playing abilities. "Those who can't, teach," as the cruel saying goes.
But this is hrwiki where nearly every pixel is examined, so let's amp this up. Why the comma? Why the less-than sign? What is the significance to this? Why not the tilde button? Much more a "little toe."
And any significance to the missing T in "Nex time?"
:Correct, this is the hrwiki. We document facts about Homestar Runner toons. Speculations like these are discussed on the forum. As for Coach Z's secret, you could be '''bold''' and add this on his page.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 04:23, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
:If you want to ask a question, you do it on the forum. If you have a theory, then be '''bold''' and post it here and then people will argue about it until its 2 pages long. [[User:JamesDean|JamesDean]] 07:17, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I think a comma because it looks kinda like a toe and it's at the bottom of the keyboard, an anagalous(sp?) place where a toe would be. [[Foolster41]]

:"Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym". Works wonderful on the coach :). {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 09:48, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Thrynn? ==

I'm trying to find a screenshot to verify this, but the drawing of the reptile-looking alien inside of Space Captainface's ship looks ''remarkabky'' like a Thrynn from the old PC/Sega Genesis game "Starflight." Does anyone else have a way to help verify this? -[[User:204.155.72.139|204.155.72.139]] 18:05, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
: As I noted above, I saw a totally different reptilian alien creature from a video game when I saw it... --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:36, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

== Beatles song "Revolution" ==

Apparently this was disputed for some reason, but I think it's pretty obvious that SB's line, "so you say you want a resolution, huh?" is a reference to a famous line from the song "Revolution" by the Beatles. The line begins, "so you say you want a revolution?" I can't see much to dispute there. - [[User:Pete Sampwas|Pete Sampwas]] 01:34, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
: I completely agree. Being a Beatles fan, I back Pete's statement. It probably is what they were trying to convey.
::Oh, don't let being a Beatles fan cloud your judgement ;-) The fact was deleted because "Revolution" is not the only song featuring such a line (and the fact that the other songs probably reference "Revolution" does not change this) [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=cliffhangers&diff=368602&oldid=368601] (and just so you know, I have all their albums on CD).{{User:Loafing/sig}} 03:28, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:::However, a reference to a thing that in itself is a reference is invalid normally. So, the Marilyn Manson reference would be revertible simply on the basis of it being itself a reference to the Beatles. Thus we are left with the same question - is it likelier than not the line is a reference to "Revolution"? I think perhaps it is. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 04:02, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::::Not true. What if TBC thought of the Manson song and not the Beatles song? What if they didn't even know about the Beatles song? The toon does not give any hint towards this. Which leads us to the next question: is this a reference at all? Is "So you say you want a resolution, eh?" not what you would expect SB to say anyway? He's not even singing it. The "reference" is weak, and we can't say for sure what exactly it references.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 04:25, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Eh. I think this is maybe being a little overthought. Since the beatles song is the more well known (Who knows about Manson who hasn't heard of The Beatles?), isn't the more liekly that it is the one being refrenced? [[Foolster41]]
:While Manson was only mentioned in one remark (which is probably quoted from somone at the con) in the commentary for TrogdorCon, The Beatles are referenced [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Special:Search?ns0=1&search=Beatles&searchx=Search 14 times], including a [[TMBG_Concert_-_25_Sep_2004#With_a_Little_Help_From_My_Friends|parody]] by Homestar. Therefor I think the reference is to The Beatles' song. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 09:45, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::Sounds convincing. But are we sure that this is in fact a reference?{{User:Loafing/sig}} 10:23, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:::After sleeping on this, I believe that it is a reference. SB could have said "So, you want a resolution?", but TBC chose to use the longer version instead; probably as a reference to "Revolution".{{User:Loafing/sig}} 20:26, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
I'd just like to add to the discussion that the song "Revolution" was used in a well known Nike TV commercial in 1987, and that ad prominently used the chorus. It was also the subject of much controversy (about whether John Lennon would have wanted his song used to sell sneakers), at least partially due to the fact that it was one of the first times that an original recording of a pop song was used in such a way. (This is discussed in [[Wikipedia:Revolution (song)|the wikipedia entry on the song]].) Given the date of many of the other BrosChaps references, this may be the source of the quote (not that they don't know it's a Beatles song, but that's what makes it stick out in their minds) -- [[User:Wfaulk|Wfaulk]] 13:12, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't even aware that Marilyn Manson used the same line in one of his songs, and at least now I know what the dispute is about. Since the Beatles song was written about thirty-odd years before MM even started performing, and was already a highly influential song at that, you have to wonder where MM got the inspiration to include that line from..? - [[User:Pete Sampwas|Pete Sampwas]] 14:44, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:If you look at the lyrics of the MM song, then it's obvious that he is referencing "Revolution". But that's not quite the topic of this section.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 20:25, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::I don't even know which MM song features the line, since I don't really like his stuff. But it isn't important anyway, since there seems to now be a consensus that it was a reference to the Beatles. Unless anybody else complains, I'm going to add it to the Real-world references soon. - [[User:Pete Sampwas|Pete Sampwas]] 01:52, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Awright. The fact is back on the article page.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 06:48, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== Easter Egg Sequence ==

Doesn't anybody else think that the two end easter eggs should be listed in the opposite order (Homestar/SB then Z/Bubs)? Not only was the trigger for Homestar/SB physically above the other, Z/Bubs clearly refers back to it more easily than vice versa: the more awkward "accusing yourself of being the Thnikkaman" seems more a parody of "admitting that you stole my computer", and Homestar's "...sports team" is actually somewhat appropriate given its context (water cooler talk : sports) whereas it was a complete non sequitur when Coach Z said it. [[User:69.168.161.140|69.168.161.140]] 01:54, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:Coach Z would be likely to actually talk about a sports team, as he's a coach. However, I support putting them in the order we see the links on the page. It's senseless to decide on an order from contextual clues, as we do not know the order the viewer will discover the links. Nor should we present a presumed sequence when none is implicit. The only sensible sequences to follow in listing eggs are earlier/later, top/bottom, left/right. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:56, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

::They are currently in the order they appear in the actual Flash file. Coach Z and Bubs are frames 2501 to 2681 and Homestar and Strong Bad are frames 2695 to 2938. -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 03:01, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:::While that's meaningful to you or I, it's less so to the average viewer who might consult the knowledgebase. Putting the ransom note one (SB+HR) first, and the outlet one (CZ+B) second makes ordering sense for those who aren't aware of what frame they're in. And that's who we're trying to help here, isn't it? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:15, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::::I do think that the Coach Z one should be first, for a few reasons: (1) The Coach Z one is first in the Flash file, so it shows that TBC likely consider it to come first, or at least made it first. (B) The Coach Z one refers to an earlier part of the toon (Cliffhanger #1) than the Homestar one (Cliffhanger #4). (III) It makes more sense (to me) for Coach Z to talk about sports, since he's a ''coach'' after all, then Homestar's line referring to that, than vice-versa. {{User:Phlip/sig}}
:::::But this is presuming order where none was given. It's imposing your artistic intent over TBC's, which is not our role. The only order the common user is afforded here is visually sequential order, top/bottom, left/right. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:59, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::::::I'm somewhat between you guys. Aren't we always trying to interpret what TBC meant to do? What the characters are saying and what they are referring to? Anyways, for Easter eggs that are accessible in the same frame, no natural order is given. We have to invent one. Be it left/right and top/bottom, size and colour (prominence), order in the Flash file, or by content, I don't mind much. My guess is that the order they are in in the Flash file is the intended order, as the file would probably match the thought process of TBC. {{User:Loafing/sig}} 04:41, 21 September 2006 (UTC) Addendum: (If the Easter eggs appear in text on the compy, then I think they should be listed in that order.)

: For what it's worth, I'm for Coach first, Homestar second. I saw the "sports team" line as being more naturally appropriate to the Z. But it's not ''that'' big a deal to me if consensus goes the other way. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 08:32, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

::I'm for listing Coach Bubs before Homestar Bad. The fact the Coach Z grumbled before saying "sports team", for me at least, shows signs that he thought about the phrase before saying that. Homestar just spit it our after two seconds of thinking, making it a reference, rather then his own invention. (and all the other stuff Phlip and Jay said still counts) {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 09:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

:::I'm for Homestar, then Coach Z. Humour comes before programming in my [metaphorical] book, and the Homestar-then-Coach-Z combination is definitely the funniest sequence. Also, the ransom notice is more obviously an easter egg link than the socket (although the socket has been used before), and the sequence makes more sense due to the expectation that the characters will be discussing "whodunit", so to speak, and the Coach and the Bubs are discussing something different. So, in summary: unexpected + reference / correct order = solid easter egg. --[[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 13:44, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== Coach Z ==

Guys, Coach Z said something along the lines of "Now, i'g going to reveal your secret, sorcret identity!"

You should include that in Coach Z's page, as his accent is fake.
: We've had hints about his accent being fake before. [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]], for instance. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 08:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Lightning ==
I think that the grass should also be tinted in red when Strap blinks the red alarm light, but it isn't. Goof/Remark/whatever? --[[User:Sysrq868|Sysrq868]] 17:44, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Jakenstein!? ==

I've never used the edit section of a wiki before, so bear with me here. I just wanted to point out that Strong bad isn't saying "And there you go, Jakenstein." Actually, he's saying "And there you go, Jacob Stein." This is a reference to the movie "Blues Brothers" when Jake Blues (Jake being the name of the author of the email Strong Bad is responding to) introduces himself to the Good 'Ole Boys as "Jacob Stein of the American Federation of Musicians."
:Well done for posting! :-) But I really do hear "Jakenstein" after listening to that passage about five times now.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 01:26, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:As a fan of ''The Blues Brothers'', I ask you this - are you kidding? No, sorry, that's a major stretch. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 01:27, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:It sounds very clearly like an "N" to me.[[User:Exhibit A|Exhibit A]] 02:59, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:It definatly sounds like Jakenstein to me. Think like if his name was Frank SB might call him Frankenstein. Except he wouldn't 'cause it wouldn't be as funny. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 06:13, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== strap's cap. ==

ok, this is not mentioned anywhere in the fun facts, and i seriously dont know where to put it, but strap is wearing a cap on his cap in one of the shots. and it is seriously funny. seriously. {{User:Csours/sig}} 06:03, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:Um, where? I don't see anything like that... {{User:Phlip/sig}} 06:17, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Talk:cliffhangers

2006-09-22T13:44:37Z

Ppk01: /* Easter Egg Sequence */ This is a vote, right? Majority ruling, and all that?

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== my email! ==

This was my email that I sent him! He didn't make fun of me! Yaaaaaa
[[User:Cessna Man!|Cessna Man!]] 00:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

:I can confirm that Cessna Man!'s registered wiki email address contains the word "jake" and that the email was also used to register a website under the name Jake that contains the word "jake". -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 00:59, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::He ''did'' make fun of your name. I'm so jealous.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 01:24, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Good Jorb! Little Jakey!--[[User:Solwyvern|Solwyvern]] 05:07, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

:If this is your e-mail, then I have a question: What did you mean by "resolve all the cliffhangers"? I don't recall there ver being a cliffhanger before. [[User:Exhibit A|Exhibit A]] 05:04, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::The end of the KOT game, etc. [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 16:08, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:: I asked him that because I had asked him stuff relivent to the h*r universe before, and it didn't get answered, and also, most of the emails are not relivent to the show, so I did something totaly diffrent. [[User:Cessna Man!|Cessna Man!]] 19:27, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

==Kid-lapped?==
Woah, does this mean that there's going to be a new computer? {{User:Grit7/sig}}

:You'll have to stay tuned to find out. -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 01:16, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::I thought there would be a new new lappy soon. Has been a while!
:::I'm willing to bet that this was just part of the exaggerated cliffhanger theme of the email, and nothing more. Strong Bad will more than likely have the Lappy back next email, and no explanation will be made as to what happened at the end of this email. --[[User:ISlayedTheKerrek|ISlayedTheKerrek]] 13:10, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::::Oh, there will be an explanation. You can count on it. It's a two-part suspense story arc like the end of the Compy. And maybe the blood from Lappy's little toe is ketchup, not to be confused with catsup. I don't want Lappy to get replaced. She's had a short run. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 13:39, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::::Actually, from [[animal]] to today, there are presently 40 emails on the Lappy. That's the exact same number of emails on the [[Tandy 400]] (from [[some kinda robot]] to [[vacation]]). [[User:MHarrington|MHarrington]] 21:55, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
In terms of time, we've had the Lappy almost 2 years now,which was about the same as the compy.-Teh 4rticle B4ndit
::::::Did anybody notice that the Lappy's been around for as long as Compy, but only had as many emails as the Tandy? Even so, this is a little early to make a descision. There could be an explanation and he just gets it back, although I doubt it. -[[User:Brightstar Shiner|Brightstar]] 20:13, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

== 'nother Batman Parody ==

The first cliffhanger is a parody of one of those Batman scenes where the villain (Coach Z) tries to unmask Batman (Thnikkaman), however he gets away. This should go in Real World References as well as the [[Batman]] page.
:True, but this happens to other superheroes as well. Thus, it's TTATOT and not notable. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:21, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:However, the announcer for the second cliffhanger is the same one that appeared in [[fingers]], and TBC noted in the commentary for that e-mail that it was, indeed, a parody of Batman. [[KensterFox]] 10:41, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Apples and oranges. Qermaq is right. This is TTATOT. It's only notable for the appearance of the announcer, and is not a Batman reference. --[[User:ISlayedTheKerrek|ISlayedTheKerrek]] 13:11, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

== Whammy speed? ==

"Then strap in, Strap, and prepare for ramming speed!"

I heard whammy speed, which would fit in with all the other guitar related jokes in that segment. [[User:Swimma Dan|Swimma Dan]] 02:38, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Hmm. It would certainly make sense. Though I wouldn't edit it in until we can confirm it one way or the other. ~ [[User:Bruce|Bruce]] 04:28, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::That would be brilliant, but I'm afraid I hear "ramming." —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 04:30, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::After listening to it again, I definately hear ramming. The other guitar references must have clouded my judgement. [[User:Swimma Dan|Swimma Dan]] 01:35, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

== Remarks ==

1: Correct me if i'm wrong, but I think this is the first time the paper has failed completely to mention the word "email."

2: I believe that this is also the first time anything on Homestarrunner has explicitly said it will have a sequel. [[User:66.251.27.251|66.251.27.251]]
:The Dangeresque "trilogy" could be taken as counting against the latter, but I think you're right about the former. (I even clicked it to make sure it wasn't an Easter egg.) —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 04:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::In [[Sick Day]], The Paper said "Strong Bad, I can't come in today."{{User:Loafing/sig}} 04:31, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Wouldn't the sequel comment count as another instance of breaking the fourth wall? --[[User:Pladams9|Pladams9]] 16:58, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Sick Day really isn't an Email, It just has the Lappy and Paper in it.
:I admittedly clicked the paper to make sure it wasn't an easter egg, too. Yes, I think it is the first time it didn't say email '''OR''' Strong Bad.--{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 00:57, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::If true, it would only be the first time for a real Strong Bad email. I don't know if this would be notable, since it already happened elsewhere. And yes, I also clicked it to make sure it wasn't an Easter Egg.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 01:04, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Cakewalk ==

Is it possible that rather than the Atari game, the disk in the box is the old MIDI sequencing software "Cakewalk"? That would seem more appropriate for a 486, and the Cheat and Strong Bad do, after all, dabble in music. Generally it seems the precedent of the [[Floppy Disk Container]] is to be for games that were distributed for systems that actually used some kind of disk...
:Possibly, but it would go against the grain. I'm pretty sure every disk in the [[Floppy Disk Container]] thus far has been for a game. Sure, this one happens to be an Atari game instead of a computer game, but heaven knows it wouldn't be the first absurdity in the HsR universe. ~ [[User:Bruce|Bruce]] 04:31, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::Even considering all the other music references in this email?

== Leon Powalski ==

I don't think this is solid enough to put on the page, but the lizard-creature in Strong Bad's mock spaceship reminds me a lot of [[Wikipedia:Leon Powalski|Leon Powalski]] from the [[Wikipedia:Star Fox|Star Fox]] series. Just throwing it out is all. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 03:58, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:He reminded me of [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Balok Balok] from the original Trek episode ''The Corbomite Maneuver'' (and yes, I had to look all that up; all I remembered was "grape-headed alien dude"). —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 04:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::Ah, but he has the chameleon eyes that your Balok seems to lack. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 04:18, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::Right, and forked tongue. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 04:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
: I agree with the user below. [http://www.etacarinae.net/starflight/ss/Starflight42.jpg It looks like a Thrynn from Starflight.] [[User:SCharon|SCharon]] 03:38, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:: As I I'd never previously seen one of those, that didn't occur to me. Now that I have seen one, I think you're on to something. That does fit a little better than Leon. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 04:43, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== Pregnancy ==

This is the second time a male mentions (or anyone for that matter) becoming pregnant. The Cheat Commandos had the only other one, right?
:Yep. I believe you're right. But related, Coach Z once implied that he was a mother. Remember the email Garage Sale? Strong Bad: "Ah ah ah... moms ONLY!" Coach Z: "Oh, then I'm okay to say it!" ~ [[User:Bruce|Bruce]] 04:37, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::Actually, for this one, I think this might be a reference to the episode "Cash" from The Young Ones. In that one, Vyvyan (a male, yes) 'admits' to being pregnant when asked to join the army. The two instances are very similar. (~InvaderJem)
The transcript states SS says "I think I'd like my money back now." but I heard it as "my bunny". This is funnier/more tragic as it implies Homestar "borrowed" the bunny for a rabbit test. Did anyone else hear bunny there? (~Kirin)
::Sounds like "money" here. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:48, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
:Wait a minute... What the hell gave Homestar the idea he was pregnant?? [[User:Cyberdemon|Cyberdemon]] 7:06 am, 21 September 2006
::He's dumb, simple as that. --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 19:11, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
::: what i want to know is: the other ones have a clear reference to an earlier toon, does this one???? {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:58, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== Thnikkaman ==

'''How come in the debut episode of The Thnikkaman ( Monument ) , He takes his Cool Shades off ( Twice ), But in the Cliffhangers episode, Coach Z is trying to reveal The Thnikkaman by taking off the Cool Shades? Wouldn't this mean that The Thnikkaman has already been revealed? .... By himself (?)''' {{unsigned|Assassinator666|06:31, 19 September 2006}}

:Well spotted. I added this as a remark on the page.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 07:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

::And doesn't what Coach Z says to Bubs in the Easter Egg about being a "skinny green man" show that he's not wearing a jumpsuit?-[[User:MasterTrek|MasterTrek]] 18:20, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

:::Or what he calls "athlete's footies".--[[User:Song from the 60's|Song from the 60's]] 01:01, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== A glitch? ==

Is it just me, or did the scene with Strong Sad and Homestar take forever? I mean, they just stood at the table staring at each other for about 20 seconds (then Strong Sad finally said something) and then afterwards the word "resolution" hangs on the screen for about another 30 seconds. I don't think the flash was broken because they were blinking all the while. Did this happen to anyone else? [[User:Jimmy91|Jimmy91]] 16:54, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Must just be you. The "Resolution" screen lasts all of about 2 seconds, and the two didn't stare at each other for long, either. Are you on dial-up, by any chance? Flash allows the video to start before it's fully loaded, and if you got to that point and the scene hadn't been completely loaded yet, then it's going to pause until it does. They were still blinking because the blinking animation is a "tween"--sort of like a seperate animation "thread" that repeats over and over. ~ [[User:Bruce|Bruce]] 16:11, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::Yeah, this is something that occasionally happens when you're on dial-up or any other laggy/slow connection; the toon will freeze for a few seconds while waiting for the rest of it to load. Used to happen to me all the time, when I was still stuck on dial-up. Kind of interesting that it froze ''right'' at that moment, though - for a second I probably would've thought it was intentional, you know, to heighten the suspense. :) {{User:Saturn/sig}} 16:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::As it happens, I'm not on dial-up, but it probably was my connection. (it seemed a bit laggy) Isn't that kind of thing called buffering, or does that not apply to flash? [[User:Jimmy91|Jimmy91]] 16:54, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
::::ha, yeah, that always happened to me when i had dialup. it positively sucked. 18:33, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
:Actually, I think the whole point of the "loading..." screen is to buffer the entire thing, not just the first few seconds. If it were proper video it would take forever to do that, but as Flash symbols it's small enough that it can all be done at the start. [[User:81.158.52.207|81.158.52.207]] 22:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::Actually, the loading screen doesn't preload the ''entire'' movie... in this case it only loads as far as when Coach Z starts saying his line "the world will discover your secret, sorcret identity!". After that, it's possible that a slow connection will make the buffer underrun. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 00:08, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:::not that i doubt you philip, but i was just wondering how you know that? i dont know too much about flash. {{User:Csours/sig}} 06:00, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== KOT pose ==

Isn't the pose the KOT is in when he's suspended from the cliff the same one he was in when he was stuck in the tyre swing in Weclome Back? (this may or may not merit a place on the article, but I was just bringing it up). [[User:Jimmy91|Jimmy91]] 16:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Yus, I noticed that too. I didn't think it was THAT noteworthy, but I have no problem with it being included. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::I noticed they tripled up the rope to make it match the width of the tire. - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 17:51, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:::I think it's interesting to note that here on the talk page, but I don't think it's article-worthy at all. TBC reuse animation all the times. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 18:54, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
::::But there is similar fact on the [[lunch special]] page. --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 19:02, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
:::::Not anymore there's not. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 20:36, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
::::::I agree that expression is not enough for a reference, but a unique position of being stuck/tied and hanging from a tall palce ''is'' a reference. I'm adding it back (5 users agains 1, STUFF it if you want). {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 09:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Goof ==
[[Image:Cliffhangergoof.png|thumb|Oops.]]
I think I found a goof but I want to make sure everyone else is seeing it too before I add it...

During most of the spaceship scene, the green ground is slightly cut off on the left side of the screen, so that a strip of white is visible along the black edge of the frame. Here's a picture in case I'm not making any sense (which... I'm not); you can see it the most at the scene where The Cheat is messing with the CD player. {{User:Saturn/sig}} 19:21, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Definitely a goof. Add it in. --[[User:That crazy DumDe!|DumDe]] 19:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

== Ropes ==

I can't see anything that the ropes holding the King of Town and Homsar could've been attached to. Also, as a note, Strong Bad is very skilled at swinging that big knife. --[[User:Proxtown|Proxtown]] 22:36, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
:Actually, I'm going through it frame by frame right now, and it looks really odd. At first glance, it would seem that they're just knotted on the edge of the cliff. But Strong Bad's knife goes under the cliff, so it would have to be further back. - {{User:The Joe/sig}} 23:05, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

== The Creepy Cliff? ==

Doesn't the cliff Homsar and The KOT look like the Creepy Cliff from Halloween Potion-Ma-Jig? And Strong Bad looks totally awesoem with that machete with him.

:That machete is actually the [[Big Knives|big knife]]. Also, the cliff ''could'' be te same cliff, but it could also not be --[[User:That crazy DumDe!|DumDe]] 23:47, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

:Yes, it's impossible to tell from the angle whether they are the same or different/ That could be noted on the [[Cliffs]] page, I suppose. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

== Other elements to focus on ==

This gives us more insight into Coach Z's life. He coaches because his "secrort" is that he has poor hand-eye coordination, limiting his actual playing abilities. "Those who can't, teach," as the cruel saying goes.
But this is hrwiki where nearly every pixel is examined, so let's amp this up. Why the comma? Why the less-than sign? What is the significance to this? Why not the tilde button? Much more a "little toe."
And any significance to the missing T in "Nex time?"
:Correct, this is the hrwiki. We document facts about Homestar Runner toons. Speculations like these are discussed on the forum. As for Coach Z's secret, you could be '''bold''' and add this on his page.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 04:23, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
:If you want to ask a question, you do it on the forum. If you have a theory, then be '''bold''' and post it here and then people will argue about it until its 2 pages long. [[User:JamesDean|JamesDean]] 07:17, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I think a comma because it looks kinda like a toe and it's at the bottom of the keyboard, an anagalous(sp?) place where a toe would be. [[Foolster41]]

:"Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym". Works wonderful on the coach :). {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 09:48, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Thrynn? ==

I'm trying to find a screenshot to verify this, but the drawing of the reptile-looking alien inside of Space Captainface's ship looks ''remarkabky'' like a Thrynn from the old PC/Sega Genesis game "Starflight." Does anyone else have a way to help verify this? -[[User:204.155.72.139|204.155.72.139]] 18:05, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
: As I noted above, I saw a totally different reptilian alien creature from a video game when I saw it... --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:36, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

== Beatles song "Revolution" ==

Apparently this was disputed for some reason, but I think it's pretty obvious that SB's line, "so you say you want a resolution, huh?" is a reference to a famous line from the song "Revolution" by the Beatles. The line begins, "so you say you want a revolution?" I can't see much to dispute there. - [[User:Pete Sampwas|Pete Sampwas]] 01:34, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
: I completely agree. Being a Beatles fan, I back Pete's statement. It probably is what they were trying to convey.
::Oh, don't let being a Beatles fan cloud your judgement ;-) The fact was deleted because "Revolution" is not the only song featuring such a line (and the fact that the other songs probably reference "Revolution" does not change this) [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=cliffhangers&diff=368602&oldid=368601] (and just so you know, I have all their albums on CD).{{User:Loafing/sig}} 03:28, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:::However, a reference to a thing that in itself is a reference is invalid normally. So, the Marilyn Manson reference would be revertible simply on the basis of it being itself a reference to the Beatles. Thus we are left with the same question - is it likelier than not the line is a reference to "Revolution"? I think perhaps it is. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 04:02, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::::Not true. What if TBC thought of the Manson song and not the Beatles song? What if they didn't even know about the Beatles song? The toon does not give any hint towards this. Which leads us to the next question: is this a reference at all? Is "So you say you want a resolution, eh?" not what you would expect SB to say anyway? He's not even singing it. The "reference" is weak, and we can't say for sure what exactly it references.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 04:25, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Eh. I think this is maybe being a little overthought. Since the beatles song is the more well known (Who knows about Manson who hasn't heard of The Beatles?), isn't the more liekly that it is the one being refrenced? [[Foolster41]]
:While Manson was only mentioned in one remark (which is probably quoted from somone at the con) in the commentary for TrogdorCon, The Beatles are referenced [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Special:Search?ns0=1&search=Beatles&searchx=Search 14 times], including a [[TMBG_Concert_-_25_Sep_2004#With_a_Little_Help_From_My_Friends|parody]] by Homestar. Therefor I think the reference is to The Beatles' song. {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 09:45, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::Sounds convincing. But are we sure that this is in fact a reference?{{User:Loafing/sig}} 10:23, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:::After sleeping on this, I believe that it is a reference. SB could have said "So, you want a resolution?", but TBC chose to use the longer version instead; probably as a reference to "Revolution".{{User:Loafing/sig}} 20:26, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
I'd just like to add to the discussion that the song "Revolution" was used in a well known Nike TV commercial in 1987, and that ad prominently used the chorus. It was also the subject of much controversy (about whether John Lennon would have wanted his song used to sell sneakers), at least partially due to the fact that it was one of the first times that an original recording of a pop song was used in such a way. (This is discussed in [[Wikipedia:Revolution (song)|the wikipedia entry on the song]].) Given the date of many of the other BrosChaps references, this may be the source of the quote (not that they don't know it's a Beatles song, but that's what makes it stick out in their minds) -- [[User:Wfaulk|Wfaulk]] 13:12, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't even aware that Marilyn Manson used the same line in one of his songs, and at least now I know what the dispute is about. Since the Beatles song was written about thirty-odd years before MM even started performing, and was already a highly influential song at that, you have to wonder where MM got the inspiration to include that line from..? - [[User:Pete Sampwas|Pete Sampwas]] 14:44, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:If you look at the lyrics of the MM song, then it's obvious that he is referencing "Revolution". But that's not quite the topic of this section.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 20:25, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::I don't even know which MM song features the line, since I don't really like his stuff. But it isn't important anyway, since there seems to now be a consensus that it was a reference to the Beatles. Unless anybody else complains, I'm going to add it to the Real-world references soon. - [[User:Pete Sampwas|Pete Sampwas]] 01:52, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Awright. The fact is back on the article page.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 06:48, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== Easter Egg Sequence ==

Doesn't anybody else think that the two end easter eggs should be listed in the opposite order (Homestar/SB then Z/Bubs)? Not only was the trigger for Homestar/SB physically above the other, Z/Bubs clearly refers back to it more easily than vice versa: the more awkward "accusing yourself of being the Thnikkaman" seems more a parody of "admitting that you stole my computer", and Homestar's "...sports team" is actually somewhat appropriate given its context (water cooler talk : sports) whereas it was a complete non sequitur when Coach Z said it. [[User:69.168.161.140|69.168.161.140]] 01:54, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:Coach Z would be likely to actually talk about a sports team, as he's a coach. However, I support putting them in the order we see the links on the page. It's senseless to decide on an order from contextual clues, as we do not know the order the viewer will discover the links. Nor should we present a presumed sequence when none is implicit. The only sensible sequences to follow in listing eggs are earlier/later, top/bottom, left/right. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:56, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

::They are currently in the order they appear in the actual Flash file. Coach Z and Bubs are frames 2501 to 2681 and Homestar and Strong Bad are frames 2695 to 2938. -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 03:01, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
:::While that's meaningful to you or I, it's less so to the average viewer who might consult the knowledgebase. Putting the ransom note one (SB+HR) first, and the outlet one (CZ+B) second makes ordering sense for those who aren't aware of what frame they're in. And that's who we're trying to help here, isn't it? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:15, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::::I do think that the Coach Z one should be first, for a few reasons: (1) The Coach Z one is first in the Flash file, so it shows that TBC likely consider it to come first, or at least made it first. (B) The Coach Z one refers to an earlier part of the toon (Cliffhanger #1) than the Homestar one (Cliffhanger #4). (III) It makes more sense (to me) for Coach Z to talk about sports, since he's a ''coach'' after all, then Homestar's line referring to that, than vice-versa. {{User:Phlip/sig}}
:::::But this is presuming order where none was given. It's imposing your artistic intent over TBC's, which is not our role. The only order the common user is afforded here is visually sequential order, top/bottom, left/right. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:59, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
::::::I'm somewhat between you guys. Aren't we always trying to interpret what TBC meant to do? What the characters are saying and what they are referring to? Anyways, for Easter eggs that are accessible in the same frame, no natural order is given. We have to invent one. Be it left/right and top/bottom, size and colour (prominence), order in the Flash file, or by content, I don't mind much. My guess is that the order they are in in the Flash file is the intended order, as the file would probably match the thought process of TBC. {{User:Loafing/sig}} 04:41, 21 September 2006 (UTC) Addendum: (If the Easter eggs appear in text on the compy, then I think they should be listed in that order.)

: For what it's worth, I'm for Coach first, Homestar second. I saw the "sports team" line as being more naturally appropriate to the Z. But it's not ''that'' big a deal to me if consensus goes the other way. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 08:32, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

::I'm for listing Coach Bubs before Homestar Bad. The fact the Coach Z grumbled before saying "sports team", for me at least, shows signs that he thought about the phrase before saying that. Homestar just spit it our after two seconds of thinking, making it a reference, rather then his own invention. (and all the other stuff Phlip and Jay said still counts) {{User:E.L. Cool/sig}} 09:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

:::I'm for Homestar, then Coach Z. Humour comes before programming in my [metaphorical] book, and the Homestar-then-Coach-Z combination is definitely the funniest sequence. --[[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 13:44, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== Coach Z ==

Guys, Coach Z said something along the lines of "Now, i'g going to reveal your secret, sorcret identity!"

You should include that in Coach Z's page, as his accent is fake.
: We've had hints about his accent being fake before. [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]], for instance. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 08:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Lightning ==
I think that the grass should also be tinted in red when Strap blinks the red alarm light, but it isn't. Goof/Remark/whatever? --[[User:Sysrq868|Sysrq868]] 17:44, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

== Jakenstein!? ==

I've never used the edit section of a wiki before, so bear with me here. I just wanted to point out that Strong bad isn't saying "And there you go, Jakenstein." Actually, he's saying "And there you go, Jacob Stein." This is a reference to the movie "Blues Brothers" when Jake Blues (Jake being the name of the author of the email Strong Bad is responding to) introduces himself to the Good 'Ole Boys as "Jacob Stein of the American Federation of Musicians."
:Well done for posting! :-) But I really do hear "Jakenstein" after listening to that passage about five times now.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 01:26, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:As a fan of ''The Blues Brothers'', I ask you this - are you kidding? No, sorry, that's a major stretch. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 01:27, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:It sounds very clearly like an "N" to me.[[User:Exhibit A|Exhibit A]] 02:59, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:It definatly sounds like Jakenstein to me. Think like if his name was Frank SB might call him Frankenstein. Except he wouldn't 'cause it wouldn't be as funny. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 06:13, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

== strap's cap. ==

ok, this is not mentioned anywhere in the fun facts, and i seriously dont know where to put it, but strap is wearing a cap on his cap in one of the shots. and it is seriously funny. seriously. {{User:Csours/sig}} 06:03, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
:Um, where? I don't see anything like that... {{User:Phlip/sig}} 06:17, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Fourth Wall Breaks

2006-09-22T12:54:29Z

Ppk01: /* Shorts */ The actual quotation was "...and all our playsets and toys".

[[Image:fourthwalling.png|thumb|Good morning, reality!]]

Sometimes, the [[Characters|characters]] '''break the [[Wikipedia:Fourth wall|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. Excluding Strong Bad Emails that involve a character addressing the viewers, here is a list of fourth wall breakages in the toons.

== Fourth Wall Breakages ==

=== Big Toons ===

*[[Weclome Back]]: All of the characters (including the King of Town) punch in on a time clock after returning from a vacation. Marzipan wonders whether anyone has been "taking care of the website." Homestar Runner says "It's time to get this www-dot-show back on the road-dot-com."
*[[Where's The Cheat?]]: While reassuring Strong Mad, Strong Bad says "Don't worry, big guy. We'll cut to a montage. I mean, find The Cheat."
*[[In Search of the Yello Dello]] and [[The King of Town DVD]]: Characters doing commentaries and being in previews for the toons that are DVDs show that they know it was a cartoon. Strong Bad even calls one of the toons a cartoon several times.
*[[In Search of the Yello Dello]]: The TV announcer says that [[The Yello Dello|the Yello Dello]] is "the most rare and beautiful bird in this entire cartoon."

=== Shorts ===

*[[No Hands On Deck!]]: Homestar says, "I'd better get back to work if I'm gonna build a deck in this cartoon!"
*[[Cheat Commandos]]: There are many breakages, such as [[Gunhaver]] saying "[Buy] all our playsets and toys," "Next episode, Blue Laser," and "Into the action figure storage vehicle!"
*[[The System is Down]]: There are references to both the [[Error Page]] and [[Homestar Runner (Flash cartoon)|Homestarrunner.com]] being down.

=== Holiday Toons ===

*[[More Fan Costumes]]: Strong Bad comments that [[Coach Z]], [[King of Town]] and [[Marzipan]] are the least popular ''Homestar Runner'' characters.
*[[Halloween Potion-ma-jig]]: Throughout the [[Wikipedia:cold open|cold open]], Homestar directly addresses the viewer. When he comes upon [[Homsar]], he remarks "Oh, great. The secret guy" and then comments on the choices that Homsar "gives" him. Then when he reaches the [[Cliffs#Creepy Cliff|Creepy Cliff]], he refers to it as a "cool new background." Finally, in the [[The Goblin|Goblin]] ending, Marzipan declares the end of the scene.
*[[Homestar Presents: Presents]]: Strong Bad informs the viewers that Homestar runs around frantically from [[Decemberween]] to New Year's; then, in the Easter egg, there is a poster on the wall that reads, "Left Out Characters' Support Group & Buffet."
*[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]]: When [[Bubs]] shows frustration that Coach Z mangles his words yet again, Coach Z replies that "It's a crowd-pleaser."
*[[The House That Gave Sucky Treats]]: During the end discussion, Homestar comments first whether the viewers have voted yet (a feature for that year's toon), and then requests that the characters repeat stuff they have already said to freak "them" out, indicating that the characters know they are being watched.
*In [[A Holiday Greeting]], the main characters wish us "[[Wikipedia:Happy Holiday(s)|Happy Holidays]] from all of us to all of you".

=== Strong Bad Emails ===

*[[cliffhangers]]: Strong Bad tells the narrator to get to the resolution of the second cliffhanger.
*[[theme song]]: Besides the whole idea of a theme song for his show, Strong Bad says he gives us a new email song every freakin' week.
*[[keep cool]]: Strong Bad interrupts the email (he rises up from below the frame), to explain the difference between [[Strong Badia]] and the rest of [[Free Country, USA]]. He then offers a high five. He also says "Note to viewers" before everything else.
*[[candy product]]: Strong Bad says he'll have a candy product "by the end of this email".
*[[narrator]]: Strong Bad said that Strong Sad had made corrections in three emails in a row, the first two being [[secret identity]] and [[technology]]
*[[highschool]]: Strong Bad says that he was "probably just like other cartoons" in his high school days.
*[[bottom 10]]: After the end of the email, Strong Bad acknowledges that there are no Easter eggs at the end.
*[[part-time job]]: Strong Bad peeks around the edge of the black on his way to [[Bubs' Concession Stand|Bubs']].
*[[animal]]: Strong Bad says that a man with a laptop computer comes "from the right side of the screen."
*[[virus]]: [[The Virus]] opens most of the characters' minds to realize that they are in a cartoon.
*[[old comics]]: Strong Bad says he and Homestar were used in a comic that was printed at least 60 years ago. Since they are obviously not that old, he is pointing out the fact that he and Homestar are unaging cartoon characters.
*[[crying]]: Strong Bad states (or rather sings) that he "will not sing an email song this week."
*[[dangeresque 3]]: Strong Bad asks the audience to resist the urge to throw full wine bottles at the screen.
*[[flashback]]: The size of the display area is purposefully extended and Homestar Runner is (and has apparently often been) "behind the black."
*[[monument]]: Homestar peeks out from behind the black as he sings, "Here comes the Thnikkaman!"
*[[video games]]: Strong Bad turns and yells directly at the camera saying "'Cause you can't control me!"
*[[couch patch]]: Strong Bad points out that the couch patch is clearly already present in Homestar's flashback, and Homestar says he got confused about the title of the e-mail.
*[[the process]]: Strong Bad spends the whole cartoon explaining how his other emails were/would be done. He also says "you can usually click on certain words and make little pictures of dumb stuff pop up."
*[[huttah!]]: [[The Cheat]] actually watches the email on his own computer.
*[[island]]: When Yami Yugi asks what Strong Bad would do if he were stuck on a desert island, Strong Bad nonchalantly replies, "I suspect it would be like most cartoons". Later, [[Homestar Runner|Homestar]] imitates [[Main Page 3]], with similar effects.
*[[your friends]]: Strong Bad states that he's giving the fans what they want.
*[[little animal]]: Strong Bad talks about the people watching the e-mail at home.
*[[stand-up]]: Strong Sad tells you to come with him.

=== Not Quite Strong Bad Emails ===
*[[Not the 100th Email!!!]]: References to the 404 page and the user poking around the site.
*[[Sbemail 150?!?]]: Strong Sad has prepared storyboards to help Strong Bad with the email.

=== Special Toons ===

*[[First Time Here?]]: Sets the stage for fourth wall breakages, especially when Strong Bad shows up to let you know why you're here.

=== Marzipan's Answering Machine ===

*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 8.0]]: Homestar says, "This is Homestar Runner from HomestarRunner.com".

=== Games ===

*[[Thy Dungeonman 3]]: If you talk to some of the characters, they mention events that happened "screens" ago.
*[[Stinkoman 20X6]]: When [[1-Up]] requests Stinkoman's help, Stinkoman says that he already helped him in Level 4. At the beginning of Level 6, Stinkoman appears to be playing his own game. At the beginning of Level -0, Stinkoman addresses the player while he's stuck sad inside the wall. Also, at the end of Level -0, Stinkoman says he has to get through Level 9 and Level 10 to get to 1-Up and [[Pan Pan]]. Then, at the opening cinematic of level 9, the [[Shadowy Figure]] says, "So he thinks he can get to level 10, eh?"
*[[Peasant's Quest]]: If you talk to the [[Dongolev|second]] "[[Unusual Greetings#Haldo|Haldo]]" brother and say "Haldo" without talking to the [[Mendelev|first one]] (the one at the booth), he will say, "What'd you read that in PQ Stragedy Guide? Go talk to my brother first." On a related note, if you type "throw baby" before you actually ''get'' the baby, the game will say that you must have "misread the walkthrough on [[Wikipedia:GameFAQs|GameFAQS]]." Also, if you type "get broom" in Naked Ned's house, the game will say, "No no. The broom is in the foreground and you can't take things in the foreground. You don't see me all typing 'get browser window', do you?"

=== Character Pages ===

*[[Strong Sad]]: On Strong Sad's character page, he complains about making a "character page", and later runs his finger down the left side of the screen.

=== Teen Girl Squad ===

*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 11|Issue 11]]: Cheerleader is seen reading the script for the issue, and asking how "uggs" is spelled.

===DVDs===
*[[strongbad_email.exe]] (all discs): Homestar walks by an FBI warning. Also, Strong Bad will say your time's up on Bonus Stuff.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc One]]: Strong Bad tells [[The Paper]] to "show these morons what to do". Then, The Paper will tell you to make your choice.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Three]]: Homestar and Strong Bad wonder where you are, Homestar suggests that perhaps you are making a sandwich, and Strong Bad orders you to bring them some cold ones.
*[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four]]: The [[Female Lappy 486]] asks Strong Bad what's taking them so long.
*[[Everything Else, Volume 1]]: Strong Bad says there are no emails on the DVD. Homestar tells you to make up your choice.

===Other===
*[[Podstar Runner]] (emails only): Strong Bad asks, "What am I doing in this tiny box?" and shatters the screen trying to get out.
*[[Store]]: Most of the [[Store Thank You Messages|thank you messages]] break the fourth wall, especially [[Store Thank You Messages#Back Door Message|the "bonus" message]].

[[Category:Lists]]

space program

2006-09-20T12:46:25Z

Ppk01: /* Fats Forward */

{{sbenav|138|bedtime story|portrait}}
[[Image:Sbemail138.PNG|thumb|"Nice work, The Strap!"]]

We learn of Strong Badia's space program, [[The Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil|SBASAF]].

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Coach Z}} (Easter Egg)

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Badia]], [[The Classroom]] (Easter Egg)

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' November 14, 2005

'''Running Time:''' 3:44

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Email is the sound that we make when a young girl cries...

<blockquote class="email"><div>subject: space program</div>
Dear Strongbad, 
Does Strongbadia have a space program? 
Doo doo crap, 
Ryan 
Raleigh, NC
</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad says "Da-da-da-da-" before "Dear," "Good jokes" instead of "Doo doo crap," "Ryan Raleigh" as one name, and "NC" as "Not Cool."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Who ''doesn't'' have a space program these days? I mean, don't, like, the Italians have a space program? Ours is called SBASAF ''{pronounced "sbase-aff"}''. The Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil. ''{clears screen}'' The only problem is, ...

''{Fade to white; Strong Bad continues in voiceover.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...we blew our whole budget on this kick-awesome logo...

''{As he says this, the SBASAF logo appears—a rocket's path tracing the second S, and ending up in position as the first A.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ...and on our orientation filmstrip.

''{Cut to a filmstrip frame of the SBASAF logo, with "2005 Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil" at the bottom. The frame is initially out of focus, but becomes focused partway through the voiceover.}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' SBASAF is a definitely-for-profit organization, dedicated to the manned taping of aluminum foil to cardboard. ''{beep sound}''

''{Another frame comes up - a stylized drawing of alien mountains in [[Outer Space|outer space]], with a [[The Moon|moon]] and a comet in the sky. A ten and five dollar note are visible, and a large arrow pointing beyond the mountains. The ten dollar bill has the text "TEN O' DEMS" along the top, the earth in the president's place and a circled "SB" for the seal. The five dollar bill is mostly obscured, but a sun and planet are visible on it.}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' Our mission objective: to accompany 15 earth dollars on a round trip journey... ''{beep}''

''{Another frame: a drawing of a spaceship flying past a planet.}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' ...to the closest reaches of space. ''{beep}''

''{Another frame: two astronauts, one lying on a bench with weights, the other saying "Gimme '''ONE''' more!!"}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' While the muscular crew will age only a few hours, the cargo, according to our... ''{beep}''

''{Another frame: a portrait of Albert Einstein, saying "Hiya!"}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' ...vague understanding of the theory of relativity, will have aged to an incredible... ''{beep}''

''{Another frame: three large gold bars in space, with the caption "THREE O' DEMS". The slide is initially above center, then is adjusted.}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' ...one million dollars. And who is good enough at video games...

''{Another frame: a photo of a TV screen with a joystick in front of it. On the screen is a typical 2-D one-on-one fighting game with "FIGHT!!!" written on it. The combatants are a hamburger and a ghost. The ghost has only 1/3 health.}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' ...to accept such a dangerous mission? Why, none other than beef bouillon-aire joyboy... ''{beep}''

''{Another frame: Strong Bad wearing a headband with small wings on it, with pants made of foil.}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' ...Space Captainface. First Lieuteneral Captainface knows the true key to success is... 

''{Another frame: a girl smiling at the camera, with a polka-dot background.}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' ...to have as many hot '60s-looking girls in your filmstrips as possible.

''{Another frame: two more girls against a blue background with a wavy stripe.}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' Yeah, girls! All right! ''{beep}''

''{Another frame: The Cheat wearing a blue cap and sunglasses, with the caption Harold "Strap" Coopmore.}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' Hey, look! It's onboard mechanic Harold "Strap" Coopmore! Looks like he could use a grilled cheese sandwich.

''{Another frame: a photo of a grilled cheese sandwich, with the caption Item 3b: "Grilled Cheese". Different music plays for a little bit, then, with a record-scratching noise, the previous music resumes and another frame is cued: two men with flat-top haircuts and headsets in front of a computer terminal. They're wearing horn-rimmed glasses and short-sleeved dress shirts; one has a pocket protector and several pens.}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' Flat-tops and shirt sleeves are the order of the day at SBASAF mission control. Why, Flight Engineer Ted Averill! You aren't smoking a smooth relaxing cigarette at all! ''{beep}''

''{Another frame: the same scene, but the man on the left is smoking.}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' That's better. And somebody get that man a highball. ''{beep}''

''{Another frame: rows of spaceships.}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' The flagship of SBASAF's 30-vessel fleet is the Proud Anselmo.

''{Another frame: Strong Bad in the same outfit, atop a spaceship labeled "PROUD ANSELMO". There is a beam of golden light spotlighting Strong Bad.}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' A wonder of modern SBASAF-ery, the Proud Anselmo is constructed almost entirely out of cardboardium alloy. When blastoff day finally arrives,

''{Another frame: the '60s girls in silhouette with a large question mark.}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' ...will you be among the hot '60s-looking girls to wish Strap and Space Captainface a safe voyage? And if not... ''{beep}''

''{Another frame: a tearful hound dog with the caption "How Come?"}''

'''VOICEOVER:''' ...how come?

''{Cut to Strong Badia. A close-up of Strong Bad wearing his Space Captainface costume in a cardboard box holding an Atari joystick. He and the box are trembling violently.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Argrgrgrgrgrgr! Got to... escape... Earth's... tenacity.... Fire the afterburners, Strap!

''{A wider shot shows that The Cheat is in a taller cardboard box duct-taped to Strong Bad's, and has a [[SeeDees|CD player]]. [[#Trivia|Various objects]] are duct-taped to the side of the box. We can now see Strong Mad's hand shaking the boxes.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{strained The Cheat noises}''

''{The Cheat presses play on the CD Player, which plays a sci-fi flyby sound effect. Cut back to Strong Bad. The box lifts into the air temporarily and lands on the ground.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh... we made it. ''{the boxes continue shaking}'' Ahem. ''Oh, we made it.'' ''{the boxes stop shaking}''

'''STRONG MAD:''' Awww...

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{holding a Speak & Spell}'' According to my ca-cuh-lations, our precious cargo should have already multiplied to about 50 bucks!

''{Strong Mad walks away behind the fence and sits down, looking dejected.}''

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{holding up a CD labeled "SOUND F/X (not sounds from that movie F/X)"} {The Cheat noises}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, right. We spent the precious cargo on that sound effect CD. Well, let me hear "Body falling downstairs".

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{agreeable-sounding The Cheat noises}'' ''{presses button on CD player}''

''{The sound effect of what sounds like a body falling down a staircase plays. Strong Bad moves his head with each thump. Homestar Runner rushes up with a sweater stuck over his head.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' You guys! You guys! I need help putting on this sweater!

'''STRONG BAD:''' A space myoot-ant from Satriani 5! Hit him with everything we got, Strap!

''{The Cheat pushes various buttons, and random laser sounds and explosions are played. After a pause, The Cheat throws the CD case at Homestar.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Aah! I knew I should have asked the Italian space program. ''{hobbles off}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Nice work, The Strap. Another successful mission for ''{music starts; singing}'' Space Captainface!

''{A piece of cardboard labeled SPACE CAPTAINFACE is lowered on a fishing hook above Strong Bad}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{still singing}'' Pretender of the galaxies! He's all-the-ways having space cocktails with hot '60s-looking girls!

''{Cut to wide shot; we see that The Cheat is holding a fishing rod with the SPACE CAPTAINFACE logo hanging from it.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{although the first few words are almost spoken, concludes singing an octave higher}'' Where are all the hot '60s-looking girls? ''{music stops}''

''{The King of Town enters from the left.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' I'm in my 60s!

''{[[The Paper]] comes down.}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*At the end, click "S. CAPTAINFACE" on the boxflap to the side of Strong Bad to hear a log entry.
:''{Strong Bad is at the Lappy}''
:'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Captainface Log: The vinegar-baking soda drive on the Proud Anselmo has run out of fuel, stranding us in the Impellitteri Sector. There is shrapnel everywhere. It makes one wonder, does man truly ''{beep}''
:''{The slide of Item 3b: "Grilled Cheese" comes into frame from the bottom and stays a few seconds, accompanied by its music from the filmstrip.}''
*At the end, click the [[Tire]] to see Cadet Z at recruitment.
:''{The last two slides of the slideshow play again. Coach Z's arm enters frame from the bottom}''
:'''COACH Z:''' I was told I was gonna get to pee in a cup!
:''{Pull back to see Coach Z watching Strong Bad next to a projection screen}''
:'''STRONG BAD:''' In due time, Cadet Z. In due time.
:'''COACH Z:''' Oh, doo time! Even better.
:''{Strong Bad looks slightly shocked}''
*At the end, click the CD to see the back cover
SOUND F/X are not a joke!
featuring such favorite hits as:
- baby in a wagon
- drippy towel
- single bird tweet
- the hush of winter
- baseball in repose
- body falling downstairs
- sonar ping
- creaking rustiness
- sonar pong
- rub sequence 00003 or 2
:On the side of the case is the text ''Sound F/X (not sounds from that movie F/X)''.

==Fun Facts==

===Explanations===
*The beeps in the filmstrip are common when a presenter is given a set of slides and a tape - so the presenter knows when to change the slides. Also, some combined tape player/projector models advance automatically upon detecting the beep.
*The "vague understanding of the theory of relativity" is a parody of [[Wikipedia:Special relativity|Special relativity]] which is popularly held to be difficult to understand, and predicts that space travellers going near the speed of light will age more slowly.
*A [[Wikipedia:Sonar|Sonar]] ping is a method used to determine distance from one object to another, like two submarines. One will send out a low level "ping" that travels at a set speed through water, "bounces" off the other submarine, and is re-received by the first's sonar system. The amount of time this takes determines the distance.
**There is no Sonar "pong" - the reflection of the ping is called a return. The term "pong" is often incorrectly used due to confusion with the game [[Wikipedia:Ping Pong|Ping Pong]].
**You can hear an example of a Sonar ping near the end of [[dreamail]].
*SBASAF's "definitely-for-profit" status is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Non-profit organization|not-for-profit organizations]].
*Although it makes sense as constructed, Strong Bad's reference to "escap[ing]... Earth's... tenacity" appears to be a [[Wikipedia:Malapropism|malapropism]] for the phenomenon of [[Wikipedia:Escape velocity|escape velocity]].
*A [http://m-w.com/dictionary/highball highball] is an iced drink containing liquor (as whiskey) and water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass. Highballs were also featured prominently in [[radio]].
*An [[Wikipedia:Alloy|alloy]] is a combination of two or more elements that includes at least two metals and has metallic properties.
*The phrase "smooth and relaxing cigarette", like most of the SBASAF slide show, comes directly from the '50s and '60s TV culture. [[Smoking#Cigarettes|Cigarettes]] were "in" during this period, so advertisers primarily targeted men in their 20s and 30s, often trying to make non-smokers seem uncool.
*Mixing vinegar and baking soda together causes a chemical reaction that, in some instances, can be powerful enough to propel small objects forward.
*An [[Wikipedia:afterburner|afterburner]] increases the power of a jet engine. It cannot be fitted to a rocket.

===Trivia===
*The various things and text adorning Strong Bad's spaceship are from left to right:
**[[Duct Tape]]
**A [[Van Buren]] bust
**An [[ABA Basketball]]
**Used paper towel rolls
**An [[Atari 2600]] joystick
**The [[Strong Badia|Strong Badian]] national flag/emblem
**A/C ductwork
**''"the proud anselmo"''
**''1ST LTNRL. S. CAPTAINFACE''
**Aluminum foil
**Upside down ''THIS WAYS''
**''"STRAP" COOPMORE''
**An empty milk carton
*Apparently several parts of the [http://static.flickr.com/32/63362276_e72bcf6cc6_o.png original email] were cut out. The alleged original version was:
<blockquote class="email"><div>subject: Space Program</div>
Dear Strongbad, 
Does Strongbadia have a space program? Certainly your terrestrial resources will be depleted at some point: What plans do you have for emergency migration to other worlds? 
Crapfully DooDooCrap, 
Ryan 
Raleigh, NC
</blockquote>
[[Image:Television Reflection.JPG|thumb|We see you!]]
*If you use a decompiler to get the original picture used on the video game scene, you can see the reflection in the screen, showing one of [[The Brothers Chaps]] taking the screenshot, with someone else in the background.
*This is the first time we learn of the King of Town's age, as he claims that he is in his 60s.
*"Lieuteneral" is another example of [[Portmanteaus]], being a combination of "Lieutenant" and "General".

===Remarks===
*As of this cartoon's release, only the [[Wikipedia:United States of America|USA]], [[Wikipedia:Russia|Russia]], and [[Wikipedia:China|China]] have [[Wikipedia:Human spaceflight|manned space programs]]. [[Wikipedia:Italy|Italy]] is a member of the [[Wikipedia:European Space Agency|European Space Agency]].
*Homestar's difficulty with his sweater's sleeves is ironic because he [[Lack of Visible Arms|has no visible arms]].
*In the old-fashioned video game shown on the TV, the player on the left is titled "Hamburger" even though it has a large layer of cheese in it which would technically make it a cheeseburger.
*The [[Tire]] wears a corded headset and is smoking a cigarette. Thus it appears to be the only acting member of Mission Control.
*"Track 03" is displayed on the CD player for the afterburner sound as well as for one of the laser sounds.
* Some beeps don't occur in the soundtrack accompanying the SBASAF filmstrip. Also, while there is a beep between the final two slides in the filmstrip, the beep is absent when the clip is replayed during one of the Easter eggs.

===Inside References===
*Strong Bad receives yet another email signed with the word [[Crapfully Yours|crap]].
*The soundtrack to the filmstrip is built around the theme that plays when you roll over Store and Downloads on [[Main Page 19]] (with much longer notes, and transposed from G to C).
*In [[Halloween Fairstival]], Coach Z attempted to use a drippy towel to scare the hiccups out of The Cheat.
*In the slide featuring Harold "Strap" Coopmore, [[The King of Town's Grill]] is visible in the background.

===Real-World References===
*The S. CAPTAINFACE log is similar to the ones that occur at the beginning of many [[Wikipedia:Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]] episodes. The original Star Trek series also included philosophical musings on whether man belonged in space, which may be the sentiment interrupted by the grilled cheese sandwich slide.
* The narrator's comments about shirt-sleeves and flattops being the order of the day, and implying a cigarette is required, is a good description of late '60s early '70s [http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/images/pao/AS11/10075291.jpg Mission Control].
*[[Wikipedia:Albert Einstein|Albert Einstein]] was a twentieth century theoretical physicist, most famous for his [[Wikipedia:Theory of relativity|theory of relativity]]. This e-mail came out in 2005, which marked the 100th anniversary of Einstein's famous paper on Special Relativity.
*Harold "Strap" Coopmore is possibly a reference to U.S. Air Force General [[Wikipedia:Henry H. Arnold|Henry "Hap" Arnold]] who served on the committee that would become [[Wikipedia:NASA|NASA]].
*[[The Proud Anselmo]], Satriani 5 and the Impellitteri Sector all refer to famous rock musicians — [[Wikipedia:Phil Anselmo|Phil Anselmo]], [[Wikipedia:Joe Satriani|Joe Satriani]] and [http://www.rapture.net/impellitteri/ Chris Impellitteri], respectively. Also note Satriani's late 80's album, ''Surfing with the Alien''.
**The "Proud Anselmo" is also likely a reference to [http://www.space.com/news/space_news_100-1.html Rene Anselmo], the driven creator of the commercial satellite industry.
*Strong Bad's pronunciation of "mutant" is most likely a reference to the classic science-fiction film ''[[Wikipedia:This Island Earth|This Island Earth]]'' (featured in ''[[Wikipedia:Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie|Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie]]''), where an alien "mut-ant" figures in the climax.
*[[Wikipedia:F/X|F/X]] is a movie from 1986 starring [[Wikipedia:Bryan Brown|Bryan Brown]] and [[Wikipedia:Brian Dennehy|Brian Dennehy]]. The movie is about a special effects technician who is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well-known gangster.
*The joystick next to the TV is the standard [[Wikipedia:ColecoVision|ColecoVision]] joypad, known as the "doorknob" due to the control stick's distinctive and somewhat uncomfortable shape.
*Strong Bad's "Space Captainface" costume includes a [[Wikipedia:petasus|petasus]], the winged hat that is characteristically worn by the Greek god [[Wikipedia:Hermes|Hermes]].
**Hermes' Roman counterpart is [[Wikipedia:Mercury (mythology)|Mercury]], which was the name given to the [[Wikipedia:Project_Mercury|first American manned space project]].
*Strong Bad checks his "ca-cuh-lations" on a [[Wikipedia:Speak & Spell (game)|Speak & Spell]]. This educational toy also formed part of the [[Grape-Nuts Robot]].
*Strong Bad's opening is a reference to [[Wikipedia:Prince (artist)|Prince's]] [[Wikipedia:When Doves Cry|When Doves Cry]].

===Fast Forward===
* Space Captainface makes a reappearence in [[cliffhangers]].

==External Links==
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{{Strong Bad Email}}

cliffhangers

2006-09-20T09:29:25Z

Ppk01: /* Easter Eggs */ The joke doesn't work so well if you don't watch them in this order.

{{sbenav|158|trading cards|some kinda robot}}
[[Image:sbemail158.png|thumb|"Prepare to be resolved!"]]
Strong Bad resolves three cliffhangers, and is then confronted by "sweet lady irony."

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Homsar}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Bubs}}/[[The Thnikkaman]], {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Cliffs|A Cliff]], [[Coach Z's Locker Room]], Inside [[The Proud Anselmo]], [[Strong Sad's Room]], [[Bubs' Concession Stand]] (Easter egg), [[The Office]] (Easter egg)

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' September 18, 2006

'''Running Time:''' 3:21

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

== Transcript ==
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Oooh, it's a e-email, money, money, money. Oooh-ooh. Shut up. ''{brings up email}''
<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: cliffhangers</div>
Dear Strong Bad, 
Resolve all the cliffhangers please. 
 
Thanks, 
Jake
</blockquote>

''{Strong Bad reads "Jake" as "Little Jakey Pleasenthanks".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Hmmmmm. The cliffhangers, eh? I never really thought to call them that, but I guess that ''is'' what they are. Yeah. Why not? ''{gets up, accompanied by the geddup noise}''

''{Cut to a face of a cliff. Homsar and the King of Town are both hanging from separate ropes, which are attached to the top of the cliff.}''

'''HOMSAR:''' This dinner party is top dollar!

''{Strong Bad is seen walking up to the edge of the cliff. Zoom in on him.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Alright, cliffhangers. Prepare to be resolved!

''{Strong Bad takes out a knife and slices both the ropes, causing the King of Town and Homsar to fall out of the shot.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oh, and I brought you some snacks.

''{Strong Bad tosses some paper bags labeled "Hom" and "Kot" down the cliff.}''

'''KING OF TOWN:''' ''{echoing}'' You're a good friend, Strong Bad!

''{Strong Bad leaves. Cut back to Strong Bad's computer room. Strong Bad sits back down, and the screen has already been cleared.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Alright, alright. I know what you really mean, Jakesy. So, you say you want a resolution, huh?

''{Static away to the words "Cliffhanger #1" on a dark grey screen. Then, cut to the Locker Room. The Thnikkaman is crammed into a locker, bound with ropes. Coach Z is facing him.}''

'''COACH Z:''' And now, Thnikkaman, at long last, the world will discover your secret, sorcret identity!

''{Cut to a closeup of Coach Z's face.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Thereby rendering you useless as a Thnikkaman!

''{Cut back to the original view of the locker room.}''

'''THNIKKAMAN:''' I'll render you ''toothless''!

'''COACH Z:''' Now, give me them cool shades!

''{Coach Z swipes at the Thnikkaman's "cool shades". Just as he's about to take them off, the frame freezes. Coach Z's arm is blurred. Zoom in, and play the "dun, dun, duuun" sound effect. The screen fades, and "Resolution" appears over the top in yellow text. This goes away, and we return to the scene—Coach Z misses the glasses and falls on his face.}''

'''THNIKKAMAN:''' Yeah, shut up, Coach.

''{The Thnikkaman jumps out of the locker on top of Coach Z, and walks off the left of screen. The usual singers chime in, the words flying across the screen.}''

'''SINGERS:''' You missed unmasking the Thnikkaman!!! ''{slight pause}'' Because you have really bad hand-eye coordination!!!

'''COACH Z:''' Enough already, I get it! My secret sorcret has been revereled.

''{The words "Cliffhanger #2" appear. Cut to Strong Bad in his Space Captainface outfit inside a cardboard spaceship, talking on a cardboard cell phone, with a little paper umbrella as an antenna.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah I know, Lita Ford... but I'm in orbit, baby! Look, I'll call you back when I'm not—

''{Cut to The Cheat, dressed as Strap, who plays an alarm sound on a CD player, and turns a lamp with a red bulb on and off.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Strap! Collision alarm! Bring it up on screen.

''{Strong Mad takes away the piece of cardboard representing the screen, revealing a circular silhouette hanging from a piece of string, and holds up a sign reading "Malmsteen's Comet".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' We're on a collision course with Malmsteen's Comet! Full power to the forward humbuckers!

'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{anxious The Cheat noises}''

''{The Cheat points to a screen drawn on the cardboard that reads "The forward humbuckers have never worked!".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Humbuckers are offline? Then strap in, Strap, and prepare for ramming speed! If this is the end, then we can at least make it awesome for the people in...

''{Strong Bad looks out a side window labelled "the view" at a desktop globe of the Earth.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Greenland.

''{The Cheat plays a rockets firing sound on the CD player, and the ship starts shaking.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Oooohhhh... Shooooooo....

''{Everything freezes, and the same "dun, dun, duuun" sound effect plays.}''

'''ANNOUNCER:''' Will Cap and Strap make it out of this one?

''{Cut to the silhouetted comet, with a question mark overlaid, Strong Mad holds up a sign reading "Tune in NEXTime...".}''

'''ANNOUNCER:''' Tune in next—

'''STRONG BAD:''' Nope, none of that, just get to resolving.

'''ANNOUNCER:''' Okay!

''{Up comes the "Resolution" screen, then cut to Strong Bad and The Cheat holding on to each other as the ship shakes around them.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' This is it, Strap!

''{The shaking stops, the rocket sound dies away, and the "comet" comes out of the silhouette, revealing it to actally be a moldy cantaloupe, with the label "grodalated cantaloupe".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Wait a minute... that's no comet! We've wandered into the Forgotten Produce belt of Tablature 5!

''{The cantaloupe is joined by a bunch of overripe bananas and an overripe avocado.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's guacamole and banana bread time, Strap!

''{Some upbeat music plays, and Strong Bad and The Cheat dance to it. "Cliffhanger #3". Strong Sad and Homestar are standing around a table.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' Look, you can tell me.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I can't!

'''STRONG SAD:''' Oh, come on, what is it?

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' I'm... pregnant!

''{Slow zoom in on Homestar, "dun, dun, duuun". Up comes the "Resolution" screen.}''

'''STRONG SAD:''' No... no, you're Homestar. Runner. ''The male''.

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Oohhhh, phew. Thought I was a pregnant woman for a second there.

'''STRONG SAD:''' Yeah... uh... I think I'd like my money back now.

''{Cut through static to Strong Bad walking back to the computer desk.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And there you go, Jakenstein. All the cliffhangers have been re— Aah!

''{The Lappy isn't on the desk; it has been replaced by a ransom note, which reads "i got your Lappy", and has a blood-splattered comma key from the keyboard.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' My computer's been Lappy-napped! And they cut off her little toe! Oh, sweet lady irony! Why do you mock me?

''{"Dun, dun, duuun". [[The Paper]] comes down, reading "Tune in next time for the cliff hanging conclusion!!"}''

== Easter Eggs ==
*Click on Jake to see a book called "[[Little Jakey Pleasenthanks]]" by [[Crazy Prof. Sportsinterviews]].
*Click on the ransom note at the end to see an extra scene in the office with Homestar and Strong Bad.
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Yeah, yeah, you know who I think done it? Homestar Runner, think about it, think about it. He's got the history, he's got the motive...
:'''STRONG BAD:''' Homestar, are you admitting that you stole my computer?
:'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' What? No! I was just making watercooler conversation, trying to sound up with the times, uh, um, sports team?
*Click on the power plug at the end to see a scene with Coach Z and Bubs at the concession stand:
:'''COACH Z:''' Nah, I bet if you take away them cool shades and rip that "TH" ''{pronounced as the "th" in "three"}'' off his chest, underneath, you'd find a thin green man with a big ol' "Z" hanging from his—
:'''BUBS:''' Coach, are you accusing yourself of being the Thnikkaman?
:'''COACH Z:''' Yeah, I, uh— no! I, wuh, da, rumble-dumble sports team?!

== Fun Facts ==
=== Explanations ===
*An actual [[Wikipedia:Cliffhanger|cliffhanger]] is a plot device where the end of a movie or TV show sees the story come to an end quite abruptly, without resolving some key issues, so that if the viewer wants to know how the story finishes, they will have to tune in to the next episode, or watch the next movie.
*A [[Wikipedia:Humbucker|humbucker]] is a type of guitar pick-up that uses two coils.
*[[Wikipedia:Tablature|Tablature]] is a specialized type of sheet music for stringed instruments, such as guitar.
* Homestar's line "I'm Pregnant" with a close up is a spoof of stereotypical [[Wikipedia:Soap Opera|soap operas]] in which an episode would end with such a cliffhanger.

=== Trivia ===
*The floppy disk container reads "[[Floppy Disk Container#cake_walk|cake walk]]".
*Below "the view" in the cardboard spaceship, there is a switch. Both positions of the switch are labelled "off".
*Homestar's and Strong Bad's shirts in the Easter egg read "Just Disks" and "Data Boys" respectively.

=== Remarks ===
*The Thnikkaman already took his shades off in [[monument]] without his secret identity being revealed.

=== Goofs ===
[[Image:Cliffhangergoof.png|thumb|125px|Strap in, Strap!]]
*During most of the spaceship scene, the green ground is slightly cut off on the left side of the screen, so that a strip of white is visible along the black edge of the frame.

=== Inside References ===
*Strong Bad first appeared as Space Captainface in [[space program]].
*When The Thnikkaman waddles away, he makes Homsar's [[Sound Effects|walking noise]].
*The sticker on the cantaloupe says "grodalated", a word that first appeared in [[bedtime story]].
*This email marks another spoken reference to "[[Cool Shades]]."
*Strong Bad wields a [[Big Knives|Big Knife]] in this email.
*A cantaloupe also appears as [[Doreauxgard]] in [[lackey]].
*Strong Sad's stressing of Homestar's first and last name separately is similar to Homestar's introduction in his [[Homestar Runner#Character Video Transcript|character video]].
*This is the second time Strong Bad has anthropomorphized an abstract concept as a "sweet lady", the first being "sweet lady freedom" in [[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]].
*The King of Town is first shown hanging in a position like the one he's in on the cliff in [[Weclome Back]], where he's stuck in a tire hanging from a tree; the rope is wrapped around him three times, perhaps to match the width of the tire.

=== Real-World References ===
* "So you say you want a resolution, huh?" is a reference to the Beatles song "Revolution", specifically its hook "You say you want a revolution."
* Malmsteen's Comet is a reference to Swedish guitar player [[Wikipedia:Yngwie J. Malmsteen|Yngwie Malmsteen]] and [[Wikipedia:Ace Frehley|Ace Frehley]], lead guitarist for Kiss, and his solo album ''Frehley's Comet''.
*The bloody comma key on the ransom note that Strong Bad calls a "little toe" refers to the movie [[The Big Lebowski]], in which a ransom note appears for a kidnapped woman along with a severed little toe.
* The cover of Little Jakey Pleasenthanks (by Crazy Prof. Sportsinterviews) is drawn in the style of [[Wikipedia:Dr. Seuss|Dr. Seuss]].
* The left-hand "screen" picture in the cardboard spaceship and center "eye" when Space Captainface is on screen are from [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]].
* [[Wikipedia:Lita Ford|Lita Ford]] is a female glam metal rocker who became popular in the 80's.
* Homestar's purple polo shirt in the Easter Egg is somewhat reminiscent of the character in the Big Lebowski played by [[Wikipedia:John Turturro|John Turturro]].
* The Announcer in the second cliffhanger, also heard in [[fingers]] and [[alternate universe]], is a reference to the original [[Wikipedia:Batman (TV series)|Batman TV series]].
* The "Y" in the word "Lappy" of the ransom note is similar to the YMCA logo.

== External Links ==
{{sbemailextlinks|158|9843}}
{{Strong Bad Email}}
{{subtitlesLinks|sbemail158}}

Powered by The Cheat Cameo Appearances

2006-09-04T10:42:23Z

Ppk01: /* Appearances of The Cheat */ Capital L, Capital L. Capital L hates Lowercase l. They have a fight. Capital wins. Capital L.

[[Image:Sbscreen.PNG|thumb|The Cheat appears as a talk show guest in [[theme song]]]]
[[The Cheat]] usually '''[[Wikipedia:Self-insertion|incorporates himself]]''' into his [[Powered by The Cheat]] cartoons in some form or another; sometimes in a [[Wikipedia:List of Hitchcock cameo appearances|Hitchcock-style cameo]], but usually making himself appear awesome or receive some sort of prize. This is a list of all appearances of The Cheat in his cartoons (and other PBTC-style things).

==Appearances of The Cheat==
*[[The Cheat Theme Song]]—The Cheat appears throughout this music video.
*[[Everybody to the Limit]]—The Cheat appears during the line "The Cheat is to the Limit" and grins.
*[[crazy cartoon#Powered by The Cheat|crazy cartoon]]—The Cheat recieves three trophies, and then another at the end of the animation.
*[[mile#Powered by The Cheat|mile]]—The Cheat is a millionaire. In the easter egg, he appears in a prom photograph and the Cheatsa Parties logo.
*[[New Boots]]/[[Hip Hop Dance]]—The Cheat wears new boots and performs a hip-hop dance.
*[[Seasonal Sweaters]]—The Cheat knits a green sweater.
*[[rock opera]]—Various dancing PBTC-style The Cheats appear throughout the rock opera.
*[[bedtime story]]—In The Cheat's Cheatventures in Moses MaloneLand, The Cheat grows monster truck tires.

==Appearances of Things Resembling The Cheat==
*[[mile#Powered by The Cheat|mile]]—A large The Cheat balloon and a "Dunkin' the Ch8t" float appear during a parade honouring The Cheat.
*[[New Boots]]/[[Hip Hop Dance]]—The Cheat appears as a [[Striped Green Rabbit|striped green rabbit with two butts]].
*[[Labor Dabor]]—In one of the [[Wikipedia:Ten-pin bowling|bowling]] easter eggs, a [[Wikipedia:Godzilla|Godzilla]]-like The Cheat uses its laser vision to get a spare.
*[[animal]]—The Cheat is some kind of fish.
*[[Summer Short Shorts]]—In the Millionzoic Era short, The Cheatsaurus drinks from a volcano and breathes fire on the caveman variations of [[Strong Bad]], [[Homestar]] and [[Marzipan]].
*[[theme song]]—During the PBTC preview, The Cheat appears as a guest on [[Strong Mad]]'s talk show.

==PBTC-style Things Not Featuring The Cheat==
*[[Main Page 15]] (although The Cheat appears outside of the PBTC section)
*[[marzipan]]
*[[narrator]]
*[[Grumblecakes (video)]]

[[Category:Powered by The Cheat|*]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Powered by The Cheat Cameo Appearances

2006-09-04T10:40:38Z

Ppk01: /* Appearances of Things Resembling The Cheat */ Happy Labour Day, everyone.

[[Image:Sbscreen.PNG|thumb|The Cheat appears as a talk show guest in [[theme song]]]]
[[The Cheat]] usually '''[[Wikipedia:Self-insertion|incorporates himself]]''' into his [[Powered by The Cheat]] cartoons in some form or another; sometimes in a [[Wikipedia:List of Hitchcock cameo appearances|Hitchcock-style cameo]], but usually making himself appear awesome or receive some sort of prize. This is a list of all appearances of The Cheat in his cartoons (and other PBTC-style things).

==Appearances of The Cheat==
*[[The Cheat Theme Song]]—The Cheat appears throughout this music video.
*[[Everybody to the Limit]]—The Cheat appears during the line "The Cheat is to the limit" and grins.
*[[crazy cartoon#Powered by The Cheat|crazy cartoon]]—The Cheat recieves three trophies, and then another at the end of the animation.
*[[mile#Powered by The Cheat|mile]]—The Cheat is a millionaire. In the easter egg, he appears in a prom photograph and the Cheatsa Parties logo.
*[[New Boots]]/[[Hip Hop Dance]]—The Cheat wears new boots and performs a hip-hop dance.
*[[Seasonal Sweaters]]—The Cheat knits a green sweater.
*[[rock opera]]—Various dancing PBTC-style The Cheats appear throughout the rock opera.
*[[bedtime story]]—In The Cheat's Cheatventures in Moses MaloneLand, The Cheat grows monster truck tires.

==Appearances of Things Resembling The Cheat==
*[[mile#Powered by The Cheat|mile]]—A large The Cheat balloon and a "Dunkin' the Ch8t" float appear during a parade honouring The Cheat.
*[[New Boots]]/[[Hip Hop Dance]]—The Cheat appears as a [[Striped Green Rabbit|striped green rabbit with two butts]].
*[[Labor Dabor]]—In one of the [[Wikipedia:Ten-pin bowling|bowling]] easter eggs, a [[Wikipedia:Godzilla|Godzilla]]-like The Cheat uses its laser vision to get a spare.
*[[animal]]—The Cheat is some kind of fish.
*[[Summer Short Shorts]]—In the Millionzoic Era short, The Cheatsaurus drinks from a volcano and breathes fire on the caveman variations of [[Strong Bad]], [[Homestar]] and [[Marzipan]].
*[[theme song]]—During the PBTC preview, The Cheat appears as a guest on [[Strong Mad]]'s talk show.

==PBTC-style Things Not Featuring The Cheat==
*[[Main Page 15]] (although The Cheat appears outside of the PBTC section)
*[[marzipan]]
*[[narrator]]
*[[Grumblecakes (video)]]

[[Category:Powered by The Cheat|*]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Subtitles:shortshorts/en

2006-08-30T12:59:47Z

Ppk01: Wait, wait, wait.

{{subtitles|English|Summer Short Shorts}}
<pre>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<transcript language="English" file="shortshorts.swf" width="550" height="400">
<line start="95" end="129" speaker="strongbad">C'mon, The Cheat! You can do one more! Just one more!</line>
<line start="130" end="181" speaker="strongbad">Oh, have you heard the latest news? I heard the latest news, and it was that you could do one more! ONE MORE!</line>
<line start="210" end="240" speaker="strongbad">Strong Mad, tell your girlfriend to do one more.</line>
<line start="243" end="270" speaker="strongmad">SHE'S GONNA BLOW!</line>
<line start="273" end="311" speaker="homestar">Aaaaaand can I get you gentlemen anything else?</line>
<line start="313" end="334" speaker="homestar">Bou'dliiing!</line>

<line start="406" end="448" speaker="homestar">Ooga-ooga! My breath, it stinks!</line>
<line start="450" end="463" speaker="marzipan">Uh-huh!</line>
<line start="463" end="485" speaker="homestar">Real-real bad!</line>
<line start="488" end="510" speaker="pbtccoachz">Helicopta fly!</line>
<line start="511" end="538" speaker="sfx">Bonga, donga, bonga, donga.</line>
<line start="540" end="582" speaker="strongbad">Ooga! Me want set the face on fires!</line>
<line start="584" end="601" speaker="homestar">What's fire?</line>
<line start="603" end="620" speaker="marzipan">It sounds fun!</line>
<line start="621" end="626" speaker="marzipan">Ooga!</line>
<line start="675" end="710"><marzipan>Aaaaah!</marzipan><homestar>Aaaaaah!</homestar><strongbad>Oh, me too!</strongbad></line>
<line start="715" end="736" speaker="strongbad">I am not exempt!</line>
<line start="739" end="788" speaker="pbtccoachz">Hey, did you see that? The Cheatsaurus can do it again!</line>

<line start="1160" end="1182" speaker="coachz">Thanks for the smellcakes, Pom Pom.</line>
<line start="1185" end="1226" speaker="coachz">But next time, could you dispense with all the flying whoozits?</line>

<line start="1300" end="1330" speaker="sfx">Rock music begins</line>
<line start="1335" end="1375" speaker="larry">Well, she was only 2017!</line>
<line start="1380" end="1420" speaker="larry">She was a low-res beauty queen!</line>
<line start="1425" end="1475" speaker="larry">She was a Brain, Braaaiiiiin, Brain Sister!</line>
<line start="1476" end="1504" speaker="larry">Texas Instruments all day!</line>
<line start="1510" end="1545" speaker="larry">And she remembers how they used to duet...</line>
<line start="1552" end="1583" speaker="larry">And she remembers how they used to duet!</line>
<line start="1584" end="1620" speaker="larry">Tha'll think you know what I mean!</line>
<line start="1640" end="1670" speaker="larry">Yeah, those moves alright, uh.</line>

<line start="1706" end="1756" speaker="homestar">Seriously, Pom Pom, you and me, we're like two breads in a biscuit.</line>
<line start="1758" end="1782" speaker="homestar">Two breads in a biscuit.</line>
<line start="1785" end="1798" speaker="homestar">I'm gonna make a T-shirt.</line>
<line start="1800" end="1811" speaker="homestar">No, wait...</line>
<line start="1815" end="1851" speaker="homestar">You and me, we're like this bowl of mayonaise here.</line>
<line start="1855" end="1892" speaker="homestar">You're the bowl, 'cause you're a big, round, fat guy...</line>
<line start="1895" end="1927" speaker="homestar">... and I'm the mayonaise, because I'm smart as peanuts.</line>
<line start="1930" end="1950" speaker="homestar">That would make a good T-shirt, too!</line>
<line start="1953" end="1983" speaker="homestar">Oop, no, wait. Before you strangle me again...</line>
<line start="1985" end="2015" speaker="homestar">You and me: soggy napkin.</line>
</transcript>
</pre>

Subtitles:shortshorts/en

2006-08-30T12:58:20Z

Ppk01: I've always wanted to be a subtitler.

{{subtitles|English|Summer Short Shorts}}
<pre>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<transcript language="English" file="shortshorts.swf" width="550" height="400">
<line start="95" end="129" speaker="strongbad">C'mon, The Cheat! You can do one more! Just one more!</line>
<line start="130" end="181" speaker="strongbad">Oh, have you heard the latest news? I heard the latest news, and it was that you could do one more! ONE MORE!</line>
<line start="210" end="240" speaker="strongbad">Strong Mad, tell your girlfriend to do one more.</line>
<line start="243" end="270" speaker="strongmad">SHE'S GONNA BLOW!</line>
<line start="273" end="310" speaker="homestar">Aaaaaand can I get you gentlemen anything else? Bliiiing!</line>
<line start="313" end="334" speaker="homestar">Bou'dliiing!</line>

<line start="406" end="448" speaker="homestar">Ooga-ooga! My breath, it stinks!</line>
<line start="450" end="463" speaker="marzipan">Uh-huh!</line>
<line start="463" end="485" speaker="homestar">Real-real bad!</line>
<line start="488" end="510" speaker="pbtccoachz">Helicopta fly!</line>
<line start="511" end="538" speaker="sfx">Bonga, donga, bonga, donga.</line>
<line start="540" end="582" speaker="strongbad">Ooga! Me want set the face on fires!</line>
<line start="584" end="601" speaker="homestar">What's fire?</line>
<line start="603" end="620" speaker="marzipan">It sounds fun!</line>
<line start="621" end="626" speaker="marzipan">Ooga!</line>
<line start="675" end="710"><marzipan>Aaaaah!</marzipan><homestar>Aaaaaah!</homestar><strongbad>Oh, me too!</strongbad></line>
<line start="715" end="736" speaker="strongbad">I am not exempt!</line>
<line start="739" end="788" speaker="pbtccoachz">Hey, did you see that? The Cheatsaurus can do it again!</line>

<line start="1160" end="1182" speaker="coachz">Thanks for the smellcakes, Pom Pom.</line>
<line start="1185" end="1226" speaker="coachz">But next time, could you dispense with all the flying whoozits?</line>

<line start="1300" end="1330" speaker="sfx">Rock music begins</line>
<line start="1335" end="1375" speaker="larry">Well, she was only 2017!</line>
<line start="1380" end="1420" speaker="larry">She was a low-res beauty queen!</line>
<line start="1425" end="1475" speaker="larry">She was a Brain, Braaaiiiiin, Brain Sister!</line>
<line start="1476" end="1504" speaker="larry">Texas Instruments all day!</line>
<line start="1510" end="1545" speaker="larry">And she remembers how they used to duet...</line>
<line start="1552" end="1583" speaker="larry">And she remembers how they used to duet!</line>
<line start="1584" end="1620" speaker="larry">Tha'll think you know what I mean!</line>
<line start="1640" end="1670" speaker="larry">Yeah, those moves alright, uh.</line>

<line start="1706" end="1756" speaker="homestar">Seriously, Pom Pom, you and me, we're like two breads in a biscuit.</line>
<line start="1758" end="1782" speaker="homestar">Two breads in a biscuit.</line>
<line start="1785" end="1798" speaker="homestar">I'm gonna make a T-shirt.</line>
<line start="1800" end="1811" speaker="homestar">No, wait...</line>
<line start="1815" end="1851" speaker="homestar">You and me, we're like this bowl of mayonaise here.</line>
<line start="1855" end="1892" speaker="homestar">You're the bowl, 'cause you're a big, round, fat guy...</line>
<line start="1895" end="1927" speaker="homestar">... and I'm the mayonaise, because I'm smart as peanuts.</line>
<line start="1930" end="1950" speaker="homestar">That would make a good T-shirt, too!</line>
<line start="1953" end="1983" speaker="homestar">Oop, no, wait. Before you strangle me again...</line>
<line start="1985" end="2015" speaker="homestar">You and me: soggy napkin.</line>
</transcript>
</pre>

Talk:Sound Effects

2006-08-27T18:23:28Z

Ppk01: Higher quality sounds?

== Categorised ==
Is there a reason there's a category called "Sound Effects" that includes pages for Geddy and... a different one for everything else? Why not have Geddy on [[Sound Effects]]? --[[User:notstrongorbad|notstrongorbad]] 04:27, 4 Oct 2005 (UTC)

I agree. One page completely covers this, and the other is just the Geddup Noise. {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}} 04:29, 4 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Anybody mind if this is delorted? {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}} 04:36, 4 Oct 2005 (UTC)

:No, I don't mind. But I'd like to say one thing about [[Sound Effects]], as I pioneered the whole article. I always had the idea that it would just be for sound effects that were used in ''different'' fashions. For example, using Homsar's walking noise for another, unrelated sound. I didn't include sounds that repeat themselves in the same way (i.e., the wrong answer buzzer on [[Main Page 19]] is the same sound as in [[geddup noise]], but it's used exactly the same way). I didn't include such things on the list, since it wouldn't flow as well with the columns (specifically the 'Also Used By' column, since it's being used by the same thing), but maybe we could include a second list of sounds that are reused in the same fashion, like the Geddup Noise. I just felt the need to explain myself... --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::I dohnknow, Dorian; if we did that, and were consistent about it, we'd have to document ''every'' sfx used on the site. There (in the words of the Great Understater) are many. Your page serves a valuable purpose, providing a way to talk about sfx that have multiple meanings. Except that, in a sense, Geddy's just been given a second meaning: a personified one in a addition to a functional one. I mean, that's why he's the only sfx with its own page. Perhaps if he were acknowledged and linked to in some way from your page, and ''then'' this category were deleted? --[[User:notstrongorbad|notstrongorbad]] 05:44, 4 Oct 2005 (UTC)
:::Nope, I don't see anything wrong with adding a line to the beginning, something like 'The most consistant and reused sound is The Geddup Noise'. And you raise a good point about the 'every sound' bit... I don't fancy watching every single toon, email, game, main page, and everything else, and making SFX notes (not to mention sounds that could be in DVD-exclusive features that I wouldn't be able to access). Almost all of the ones I put on the list came from searching the Wiki for 'same sound'. So, yeah, putting a link to Geddy in my article seems a good way to go, as he's the most personified, repeated, and somewhat overlooked sound of them all. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::::I added this category because I saw the need to link these sound effects together, but didn't see how the geddup noise could be added to the page. The solution presented seems good. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 06:19, 4 Oct 2005 (UTC)
:::::Then go for it. Me, I'm gonna move this to the Sound Effects talk page, as I like the explanation I gave behind my page. I didn't write an essay just to be lost to the ages. It'll also explain why the Geddup Noise is on the page, and gives people a place to start if they wish to contest it. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Is there any way... ==

Is there any way we could, say record these and upload them so that people could hear them? --{{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 23:21, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
:I'm sure there's a way... Like the Quote of the Week, you thinking? I'm sure it's entirely possible... And I'm sure sound effects fall under fair use... They don't seem to be as unique as, say, dialogue clips. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::Something like QoW, put them up on a mirror...hmm. I'm gonna see if I can't record some. {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 23:30, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
:::Go right ahead. I'd try it myself, if not for two things. One, my recording equipment is a little subpar. And two, I don't know how to upload sound files to the internet. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::Well, I think you save it as an ogg file and upload it like an image, but I'm not sure. I do have a whole bunch of sound effects, though, including the sound that the Heavy Lourde makes falling on Homsar when you mouse over games on his main page. That I've heard often. {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 00:37, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
:::If you don't get to upload them, feel free to send them to me via email. I'd like a listen. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
I uploaded [[:Image:Lurking_horrors.ogg]], so feel free to take a listen. Is the quality/length/volume okay? {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 20:47, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
:I would, except I have NO idea what you do with a OGG file. Media Player and QuickTime don't recognise it. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::I would download and install [http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity], then save the OGG to your computer and open it in Audacity. There are other programs out there, and Audacity only works for Windows. But since you mentioned Media Player, I am pretty sure you have Windows. So, try that. {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 20:53, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
:::Ooh... That's neat. It works. I like it. Further positive comments. -[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

:::: Okay, [[:Image:Kickballsound.ogg|Kickball sound]] is also on. Those were the easiest, I'll have to work to get the others. More coming. {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 21:07, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
:::::Yep. I'm watching the recent changes for uploads, so don't think you need to report here every time. I look forward to your next additions. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

:::::Cool. The strange thing is, Audicity is working with me just fine, and I use OS 10. {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}} 21:14, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

::::::Winamp Player [http://www.winamp.com/player/full.php] version 5.03 and greater support .ogg.[[User:Tom|<nowiki></nowiki>]] -- [[User:Tom|Tom]] 21:30, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

== Strong Bad's Dry cough ==

I think Strong Bad's dry cough is different than Sickly Sam disappearing. I will have evidence shortly. {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 21:45, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Proof is [http://www.hrwiki.org/images/7/75/Cough_versus_poof.ogg here.] I think the disappear is more of a "poof" and the cough is more of a "cough". Which version, if any, should we keep? {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 21:50, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
:Whichever one is also the dry meal sound. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Light globes ==

Homestar's pant's shine is actually the ''shinng'' from Stinkoman combined with the Lurking Horrors sound. I can't find any plain ''shing''s, so should I upload Homestar's pant's sound? {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 22:18, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
:'''RENALDO:''' Sounds like a plan. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Heliocopter ==

Should the Helocopter sound even be on here? It's just SB making a "tup-tup-tup-tup" sound. {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 23:53, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
:Hmm... Maybe not. It just happened to come up in my search, and I added it without really thinking about it. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::I think it would be nice. The atari dowload song is just a beep. {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}} 23:55, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
:::Okay, lets use it. As soon as I get around to it, I'm gonna add some more effects to this page. I like this page. {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 23:57, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

== Merge? ==

Okay, check out [[User:Smileyface11945/Sound Effects]], if you haven't already. Do I have enough to merge that page into this one? {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 00:07, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

I think we should wait until we have all of them uploaded. {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}} 00:11, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
:I bet that shan't take long, though. Behold the new version: '''Sound Effects II: A Dorian/Smileyface Project'''. Now with OGG additives. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

::I like that title! Anyways, how about now? The two that read "not availiable" are that way because I can't find a long enough unobstructed occurrence of the sound. Also, I might re-do L'il SB's drill, since it has slight music in the backround, same as SB's helicopter. Suggestions? {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 00:51, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
:::I think it's good. I'm sure we can get to those last two later. And I applaud your skills for doing all those. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Well? ==
Okay, how's that? {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 13:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

== Suggestion ==

I think we should split this into "Re-used sound effects" and "Commonly used sound effects" on one page. Reason: some sound effects are very common, but always used for the same thing, example: the sound effect when the heavy lourde drops on Homsar, the same one in Homestar Presents: Presents when Homestar hits the bottom of the stairs. {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 22:40, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to work on that at [[User:Smileyface11945/Sound Effects|my own replica page]] until it's finished. {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 00:10, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

== Geddy ==

Wouldn't The Paper's sound be the most used sound effect? {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 00:29, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Actually, yeah. {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}} 00:30, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

So...it still says Geddup Noise. To change or not to change, that is the question. {{User:Smileyface11945/sig}} 00:31, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

== Another re-used sound location? ==

Ok, I didn't want to just add this... I'm still new here, and wanted to check and make sure it wasn't just me, but I think the sound when the power goes off in Coach Z's locker room in [[Homestar Presents: Presents]] is the same as the Tandy 400 before it explodes/Virused universe shutting down/Lappy shutting off, etc. I'd heard it before, and just watched the cartoon again to make sure I wasn't imagining it. Sounds the same to me... anyone? -[[User:YK|YK]] 10:31, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
:Add it! I'll double-check. Dun feel you need my permission just coz this page is My Pride And Joy. =) --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::Yep. It's very faint, and obscured by this ZZT! noise--which may be another one reused from the broken Tandy's wire sparking--but it's there. Anyone disputes this, they can take it here. I have keen ears. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::I see someone already added it, but... woo! My first contribution! Nice to know I wasn't hearing things. =P -[[User:YK|YK]] 22:26, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
:::I added it myself, to be precise. Nice work. Your ears may be even keener than mine (and that's saying something, lemme tell ya). --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

Another one I just noticed: There's a cheering crowd at the end of [[mascot]]. I think it's the same as the one in [[Marshmallow's Last Stand]], [[lady...ing]], etc. Anyone wanna double check that? -[[User:YK|YK]] 02:23, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
:Yep, confirmed. Same cheer. Good ears! --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::Thanks. I guess I'm good at finding sounds. =P I'll post again if I come across any others. -[[User:YK|YK]] 02:36, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
:::I look forward to it. Thanks for helping out my special page. =) --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

Found another one (which I already added): When Pom Pom's family portrait appears in [[Isle of Pom]], it makes the same sound as Eh! Steve jumping off screen. Just a note. -[[User:YK|YK]] 00:09, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

== Ogg? why not mp3? ==

Why does it have to be Ogg? I could convert them all to MP3 or wav and re-upload them, i just didn't know if there was a specific reason they're ogg.--[[User:Collin|Collin]] 04:26, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
:I think ogg is space-saving. I dunno. I can't play them anyways, even if I wanted to. I just don't feel like it. {{User:Bluebry muffin/sig}} 04:27, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
::Not quite sure. I think it's coz MP3s can't upload here. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

::How about wav? wma? asf? qt au aiff ram...anything.. ogg doesn't play in normal players. i'm just saying. it plays in like winamp and abstract players but it would be useful to put it in a format windows media player, quicktime, and real player can understand since they are pretty much the most common players.--[[User:Collin|Collin]] 04:36, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
:::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help_(Ogg) - you can tewak WMP and others to play OGGs. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 04:38, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
::::well its true, but would it not be more convinient for it to just work without doing anything? does anyone know for sure that mp3s will not upload?--[[User:Collin|Collin]] 04:41, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
:::::Actually, I'm told WMP can play oggs already, in the most recent releases. As I run W98 I can't say. A good feature of ogg is that it's patent-free. That means the format won't suddenly be a problem in the future. Wikipedia has a link at every sound file to direct the user to help. Perhaps someone could write a template that can be added to pages so they know how to use oggs? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 04:48, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
::::::A relavent discussion to why OGGs as opposed to any other file can be found [[User talk:Smileyface11945#Help!!|here]], back when the OGGs were first used (which occurred for the first time on this page). --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

::::::Well i just tried to open up the OGG in WMP 10 (newest version as far as i know), and it played fine but it gave me an error message first. "The selected file has an extension not recognized by windows media player . . . Do you want the player to try to play the file?" If you click yes it plays. But i have huge codec packs on my computer that are supposed to make it play everything. so i don't know if the average user on the average computer would have the software and codecs on hand to play the file. I didn't think of patent and copyrights though, good call. --[[User:Collin|Collin]] 05:13, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

::::::ogg it is.. i guess the best thing now is to write a template explaining how to use them or something. i'm really a n00b here so i don't know what to do but i'd be willing to help if someone could tell me what to do :P --[[User:Collin|Collin]] 05:18, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
:::::::Check the link above I gave. it will solve the issue. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 05:18, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

It's essentially the same reason we prefer PNGs to GIFs. Vorbis compresses better than MP3 (better quality at the same bitrate), and it doesn't have any patent issues. Of course, the Fraunhofer Institute isn't as likely to go chasing up MP3 users as much as Unisys did with GIFs, but it's still a good thing for a free project to avoid. Besides, despite OGG Vorbis not being a household name like MP3 is, it is still widely supported among sound players - most decent (non-Microsoft) players, like Winamp, support it out of the box. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 08:11, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

:Take a look [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Beethoven) here] to see how Wikipedia handles this. Maybe we should do similar? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 18:54, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Great job, Venusy. Looks and works wonderful. Now, how to find all ogg files and change their links? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 21:20, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Look, Ogg doesn't work in anything except real player, and I don't like real player. Can't we put it in something that works in quicktime? Sewiously!--[[User:Jnelson09|Jnelson09]] 19:07, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

:Install [http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/ this] QT plugin, and you'll find that you can play the Ogg files in QuickTime. --{{User:Venusy/Sig}} 19:11, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

== Justification ==

Is there some particular reason everything on this page is centered? Does anyone else think that makes it hard to read? — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 21:35, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
:I dunno, man. But I think it makes it ''easier'' to read, in actuality. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::I think all the tables are like this. Halloween Costumes, Character Evolution. If it's more than 3 lines, it can be a little tough to read, but I'm supposing the centering's part of a template. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 21:41, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
:::The tables used for the music video visuals aren't centered. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Higher quality sounds? ==

Most of these sound effects seem to be ripped from the toons themselves. Surely there are higher quality versions of at least some of these sound effects available online in SFX libraries? If we could find and substitute these audio clipe, I'm sure it'd be much better. [[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 18:23, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Strongest Man in the World

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Ppk01: /* hacky sack vs footbag */ Some reassurance would be nice.

== 10 years! ==

Nice toon. I added this to the filmography of mr. bland and señor's charecter pages. I'm glad they re-did the old book. and there is another thing that I saw, when señor gets crushed, it says "sbloncheked" or what ever sb's candy bar was.
[[User:Cessna Man!|Cessna Man!]] 23:43, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
:I really liked this toon. It really captures the series' appeal. Who's doing the transcript for this, by the way? I hope they get done soon. We should put up pictures of Senor, Mr. Bland, etc.'s new forms on their pages. And also, Senor's voice doesn't sound like Matt's; think it could've been done by someone else?-[[User:Brightstar Shiner|Brightstar Shiner]] 00:00, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:I'm almost certain that Mr. Bland was voiced by Mike. Anyone know for sure? --[[User:Bigscarymike|BigScaryMike]] 01:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Plain ol' Matt's voice. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Not on main page? ==

Does anyone else not see this on the Main Pages? Should this be included as a Fun Fact of some kind?
:I see it there. Maybe clear your cache? {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 00:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Introduction ==

The intro says that Homestar enters the contest yet again. This seems a little misleading, as the toon is a modernization, not a sequel, as the intro could imply.

== Everybody Loves The Homestar Runner ==

doesnt he say "Everybody loves THE me" not "loves a'me"? that would make more sense to me. --([[User:Superplough|superplough]] not logged in) [[User:132.181.7.1|132.181.7.1]] 02:01, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:He does say "the me." You can go ahead and change that. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 02:06, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Mega Man Introductions? ==

I think that Mr. Bland, Señor, and The Robot's introductions may be references to games from the [[Wikipedia:Mega_Man_(series)|Mega Man series]], in which the bosses are introduced with a snazzy background, a pose, and a sound effect before you begin their levels. Or, is this a more general reference? {{User:Trey56/sig}} 02:07, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:The opening to The New Leave it to Beaver Show introduced the cast in a similar fashion if I remember correctly. Can't find any substantiating images though. Does it have to be a reference? Maybe it's just a visually interesting way to introduce characters. [[User:PolarBoy|PolarBoy]] 02:37, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Slo-Mo Action ==

Currently, the article page says that Homestar's slo-mo kicking of The Cheat is a reference to Super Mario Strikers. I think that it's actually a reference to The Matrix.

Hmmm... I dont think its necessarily a Matrix reference...its just in slow motion. the camera doesnt rotate around Homestar like the famous "bullet time" effect usually does. To me it just looks like a bicycle kick.
- [[User:Del Taco?|Del Taco?]] 02:49, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:Yeah, you're probably right. But I don't think TBC would make a reference to Super Mario Strikers. {{User:The_Spainish_Inquisition/sig}} 03:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

TBC have mentioned in an Interview (can't remember which one) that they are fans of Nintendo games, it is possible that they would reference Super Mario Striker, In SMS if a player passes the ball to a teammate in front of the Goal and the recieving teammate holds down the shoot button, the game will go into slow motion and the reciving teammate will do one of many different styles of Kicks,The most popular one Being the exact same move that Homestar did on Teh C. Also regarding the fact that it may be actually a reference to The Matrix, I recall no such move being used in any of the Matrix movies, [[User:Dctcool|Dctcool]]

It actually reminded me most of Shaolin Soccer... but that could be because I just watched it today.
:It reminds me of a lot of martial arts movies, but not one in particular that springs to mind.--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:58, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

==I still alive?==
I think Senor says "I see the light!" Instead of "I still alive"! I see the light is much funnier. The Chaps would go for I See The Light!-Me
: I hear "I still alive," funny or not. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 02:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:I originally thought it was "i see the light", but i think "I still alive" makes more sense with the way he waves his hand up through the grapes. And his bad grammar does fit with hes dialect. -[[User:Del Taco?|Del Taco?]] 02:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
: I was just about to add a discussion on this line. I hear, "I ''feel'' alive!" His accent is a little hard to decipher, so I don't see this ending well. Prepare for weeks of arguing...--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 02:54, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::FWIW, the first time I heard it I heard "I steel alive!" and it was hilarious. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::I heard "I steel alive" [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 03:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[[Media:Alive.ogg|The first quote in question]]--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 03:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::I heard "I see de light!" {{User:The_Spainish_Inquisition/sig}} 03:35, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::It is clearly "I steel alive" {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
After watching it a few timew I thought that it was I see de light [[User:Smallowman|Smallowman]] 04:00, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::I hear "I still alive!", too.--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:56, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::::"I still alive!" —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:15, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== All right, you crap-for-brains ==

What is it that the Grape Fairie is saying in his first line. I can't tell what it is, but it doesn't sound anything like "stupid" to me. Thoughts? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 02:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:My first guess is "sorry brains", but I'm not sure enough to change the transcript.--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 02:59, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Perhaps "slowest brains"? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:: ive just listeend to it a bunch of times and im pretty sure its just one syllable. kinda sounds like "All right you slows brains". Im not really hearing the 2 sylables of slowest and not the "ee" sound of sorry. But yea definatly not "stupid brains" -[[User:Del Taco?|Del Taco?]] 03:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[[Media:Listenup.ogg|The second quote in question]]--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 03:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::sounds like: " i'm ready, so you'se brains listen up smart " possibly calling them brains in conjunction with listen up smart. {{User:Csours/sig}} 03:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Do you have headphones or speakers, Csours? I'm curious. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Ohhh yeah, "slows brains" kind of works! I was looking for something that rhymes/sounds like "stoes brains," and I think that's it. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Unplugged? ==

The first fun fact credits the show MTV Unplugged with the creation of the term unplugged. I think (and am researching) that the term predates the show. [[User:Mila|Mila]] 03:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:"Unplugged" dates back to the beginnings of elictricity. But as a description of music played without extra amplification, MTV gets the credit. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 04:09, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

The unplugged fact is credited both to MTV and Eric Clapton in different sections, which is kind of contradicting itself. One or the other should be taken out.
===Teh Proof===
Quotes from the Oxford English dictionary:
*New York Times, 21 April 1957
*:The return of the unplugged guitar gets another boost from George Van Eps, who was supplying rhythmic chords to jazz groups long before voltage came into fashion.
*Washington Post, 26 December 1986
*:Nils Lofgren unplugged is still Nils Lofgren the musician... Lofgren will give a rare acoustic concert at the Bayou tomorrow.
*Toronto Star, 6 October 1989
*:The simple, six-string folk rhythms of several songs here..owe some of their sincere appeal to the unplugged colors of Tracy Chapman's music.
MTV Unplugged first aired on 26 November, 1989. Lexicography saves the day again! --[[User:60.228.144.21|60.228.144.21]] 08:31, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:Nice catch... I've reworded the fact to say that MTV popularised it, but didn't coin it. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 08:41, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Reference ==

I recently removed these RWRs from the page:

*Homestar's slow-motion move (a Pele kick) seems similar to a "Slo-mo Cross Shot" from [[Wikipedia:Super_Mario_Strikers|Super Mario Strikers]].
**It could also be a reference to the "Bullet Time" sequences in [[Wikipedia:The_Matrix|The Matrix]].
***Another possibility is they modeled it after the Sphere Shot in [[Wikipedia:Final Fantasy X|Final Fantasy X]].

This seems to me to be the very definition of TTATOT. I'd be glad to entertain discussion to help settle what Homestar's move ''actually'' refers to; however, I kind of suspect it's actually just a generic fighting move and not a reference at all. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 03:37, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:Heh, I agree. But now that you mention the Sphere Shot...--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 04:12, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I propose that it is a reference to Shaolin Soccer. Though, actually, like many of the most reasonable people here, I doubt it's a direct reference to -anything-. Still, that kind of manuever is done at least once, if not a few times in Shaolin Soccer, in slo-mo and everything.

It's possible that it references all 3 franchises (except the Matrix as there is no such move in any Matrix movies)

==hacky sack vs footbag==

in the transcript, it says that homestar kicks the cheat around like a hacky sack. this is a brand name. footbag is the generic term.{{User:Csours/sig}} 03:39, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
: I never play with hackysacks or footbags, but I don't know anyone who would know what you mean if you say footbag [[User:Inverse Tiger|Inverse Tiger]] 04:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::I've never heard the word "footbag", either. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 05:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Ditto--I've heard them called hacky sacks for 20 years (or thereabouts), but I've never heard footbags. It may be a brand name, but it's pretty much been adopted as a generic term (like with Levis or Kleenex).--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::I've never heard of a footbag ''or'' a hacky sack. Does that mean I'm stupid? [[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 12:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Page Title ==

Is "The Homestar Runner Enters the Longest Page Title on the Website Contest!" actually the longest page title on the website? [[User:!!|!!]]

: [[User talk:William | Shall we find out?]] [[User:William|William]] 04:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::I did my own search by looking up "Page title" on the wiki's search bar and looking through each selection. Turns out this toon doesn't win. See the fun facts for the true winner. - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 05:30, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Wretched Simmons Outfit ==

Homestar's spandex workout uniform is from the Lady Fan E-mail.
:Yep, that's already mentioned there. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Enough with the golbol! ==

Alright already! I see that it's captioned as GOLBOL in the Easter egg. I can accept that many, if not all, characters pronounce it "golbol". But, for the love of all that is humane, can we PLEASE use "gold bowl" or "trophy" when we are describing it? Please, oh please. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 04:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:Since you asked so nicely... --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:: Actually, in the 'toon version, it's never once referred to as a "trophy" or "gold bowl", and only once as just simply a "bowl". Why not call it "Golbol"? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 05:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Because it sounds ridiculous...? --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::::[[Suudsu]]. [[The Denzel]]. [[Lord Quackingstick]]. We don't describe these every time they appear after being named, but they have ridiculous names as well. This is a site about silly cartoon animal people. Keep your sense of humor about you. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 06:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::From another edit just made on another page, I'm reminded of another such case: [[The Geddup Noise]]. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 06:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::I wonder, though, if in the Fun Facts the word golbol would be better placed in quotes, since it's not a real word?--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 07:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::Jay, those are established more solidly than this. The spelling "golbol" is solely from an egg which in all likelihood is just a joke in itself on the characters' pronunciation. As Dorian put in an edit summary, it makes it look like we're a bunch of turkeys. This is a knowledge base, not a poultry farm. We should use an odd spelling when it's needed, but not when it doesn't add to meaning. Suudzu - how else would you spell it? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 09:35, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Strongest Man in the World Poster ==

If I am not mistaken, it features the "Big Beefy Arm" from Trogdor fame.
:I think it's just a generic beefy arm. Y'know, coz it's a strength contest and all. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:: I thought it looked like the same beefy arms from [[Dragon]], too. --[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== LotR reference? ==

It's a stretch, but I thought I'd bring it up here. When Pom Pom has the trophy at the end, Homestar says he should give it to him for his birthday, which of course was today. This is like when Gollum's friend got the Ring and Gollum demanded it for his birthday, which was that day. Of course Homestar didn't kill Pom Pom... but could they be related? I don't feel sure enough about it to add it without some agreement [[User:Inverse Tiger|Inverse Tiger]] 04:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No. No offense, but is there a single line in all of H*R which isn't a reference, by this standard? Anonymous has spoken. [[User:89.1.17.101|89.1.17.101]] 04:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::OK, anonymous, there's no need to be insistent. But I do think you're right that this reference is a stretch. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 05:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:D-d-definitely, definitely a stretch [[User:Jetpac|Jetpac]] 05:12, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Extra Sauce? ==

I think that Homestar acutally says "Extra Sauce" instead of exercise.
:I heard Extracise
:: Me too, though I thought of it as "Extrasize". --[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Correction--the first incident, it sounds like "extra size", the second it sounds like he says "pour on that extra sauce".--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 07:06, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::I'll second that.--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 07:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Pure Pwnage Reference ==

Okay, this is DEFINITELY a reference, stop deleting it. I will make my case clear here.

Pure Pwnage is a somewhat popular internet-show. They did an episode where the main character sat at a desk with a Compy 386 and answered emails EXACTLY like Strong Bad does. Naturally, someone pointed this out to TBC and they threw him a bone by making this reference:
When Strong Bad writes to Homestar telling him he can achieve anything and then stops and says "you're a butt", this is a reference to the episode of Pure Pwnage (which references Strong Bad Emails) where Jeremy answers emails like Strong Bad and he tells someone who professes to 'like boys more than girls' that he should stay true to who he is and then erases it and writes "u r a fag".
Clearly these are the exact same principle. Starting out telling someone that they can 'acheve anything' and 'stay true to who you are' and then saying to them "you're a butt" or "u r a fag" is a TOTAL DIRECT reference. They cant use the word "fag" on Homestar Runner, and Strong Bad wouldnt write "u r" They abbreviated the best they could.
:Except that kind of joke is as old as the hills.--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Character ''x'' does something absurdly out of character, realises what s/he's doing, stops, and reverts back to in character. This isn't exactly a new formula. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 07:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:Yeah, sorry, agree with the people above me. Not a reference. It's just Strong Bad signing 50 autographs in a row without looking up, then realizing he's signing one for Homestar.--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 07:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:Agreed. This is not worth getting on a soapbox over. It's an old joke. [[User:Danny Lilithborne|Danny Lilithborne]] 07:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Down Goes Bland ==

Someone is out to take out all of my references that are blazingly clear here, so i'm gonna write another discussion one.
"Down goes Bland" is a reference to Howard Cosell's ringside calling of the Foreman Vs Frazier fight where when George Foreman won, Howard Cosell repeatedly shouted "Down goes Frazier!"
C'mon, its a competition, one of them goes down and they yell "Down Goes <Last Name>"
What more do you want Phlip?!
:Maybe, but there are only so many ways to say that a competitor is down, after all.--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Given there are over 350,000 Google results for "Down goes" and only 10,000 for "Down goes Frazier", I don't think Frazier owns this phrase. Even after allowing for the number of false positives of a shorter search string, and other refereneces to Frazier's fight, 35x the results is a lot. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 07:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:When Homestar says "Watch your language" to Pom Pom it's a direct reference to The Lion King when Timon says that to Pumbaa!!!11111one OMG FASCISM!! ... seriously, no. [[User:Danny Lilithborne|Danny Lilithborne]] 07:54, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Powered by The Cheat Cameo Appearances

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Ppk01: /* Powered by The Cheat Things Not Featuring The Cheat */ PBTC-style

[[Image:Sbscreen.PNG|thumb|The Cheat appears as a talk show guest in [[theme song]]]]
[[The Cheat]] usually '''[[Wikipedia:Self-insertion|incorporates himself]]''' into his [[Powered by The Cheat]] cartoons in some form or another; sometimes in a [[Wikipedia:List of Hitchcock cameo appearances|Hitchcock-style cameo]], but usually making himself appear awesome or receive some sort of prize. This is a list of all appearances of The Cheat in his cartoons (and other PBTC-style things).

==Appearances of The Cheat==
*[[The Cheat Theme Song]]—The Cheat appears throughout this music video.
*[[Everybody to the Limit]]—The Cheat appears during the line "The Cheat is to the limit" and grins.
*[[crazy cartoon#Powered by The Cheat|crazy cartoon]]—The Cheat recieves three trophies, and then another at the end of the animation.
*[[mile#Powered by The Cheat|mile]]—The Cheat is a millionaire. In the easter egg, he appears in a prom photograph and the Cheatsa Parties logo.
*[[New Boots]]/[[Hip Hop Dance]]—The Cheat wears new boots and performs a hip-hop dance.
*[[Seasonal Sweaters]]—The Cheat knits a green sweater.
*[[rock opera]]—Various dancing PBTC-style The Cheats appear throughout the rock opera.
*[[bedtime story]]—In The Cheat's Cheatventures in Moses MaloneLand, The Cheat grows monster truck tires.

==Appearances of Things Resembling The Cheat==
*[[mile#Powered by The Cheat|mile]]—A large The Cheat balloon and a "Dunkin' the Ch8t" float appear during a parade honouring The Cheat.
*[[New Boots]]/[[Hip Hop Dance]]—The Cheat appears as a [[Striped Green Rabbit|striped green rabbit with two butts]].
*[[animal]]—The Cheat is some kind of fish.
*[[Summer Short Shorts]]—In the Millionzoic Era short, The Cheatsaurus drinks from a volcano and breathes fire on the caveman variations of [[Strong Bad]], [[Homestar]] and [[Marzipan]].
*[[theme song]]—During the PBTC preview, The Cheat appears as a guest on [[Strong Mad]]'s talk show.

==PBTC-style Things Not Featuring The Cheat==
*[[Main Page 15]] (although The Cheat appears outside of the PBTC section)
*[[marzipan]]
*[[narrator]]
*[[Grumblecakes (video)]]

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2006-08-14T12:14:08Z

Ppk01: Let's see what this does, shall we?

[[Image:Sbscreen.PNG|thumb|The Cheat appears as a talk show guest in [[theme song]]]]
[[The Cheat]] usually '''[[Wikipedia:Self-insertion|incorporates himself]]''' into his [[Powered by The Cheat]] cartoons in some form or another; sometimes in a [[Wikipedia:List of Hitchcock cameo appearances|Hitchcock-style cameo]], but usually making himself appear awesome or receive some sort of prize. This is a list of all appearances of The Cheat in his cartoons (and other PBTC-style things).

==Appearances of The Cheat==
*[[The Cheat Theme Song]]—The Cheat appears throughout this music video.
*[[Everybody to the Limit]]—The Cheat appears during the line "The Cheat is to the limit" and grins.
*[[crazy cartoon#Powered by The Cheat|crazy cartoon]]—The Cheat recieves three trophies, and then another at the end of the animation.
*[[mile#Powered by The Cheat|mile]]—The Cheat is a millionaire. In the easter egg, he appears in a prom photograph and the Cheatsa Parties logo.
*[[New Boots]]/[[Hip Hop Dance]]—The Cheat wears new boots and performs a hip-hop dance.
*[[Seasonal Sweaters]]—The Cheat knits a green sweater.
*[[rock opera]]—Various dancing PBTC-style The Cheats appear throughout the rock opera.
*[[bedtime story]]—In The Cheat's Cheatventures in Moses MaloneLand, The Cheat grows monster truck tires.

==Appearances of Things Resembling The Cheat==
*[[mile#Powered by The Cheat|mile]]—A large The Cheat balloon and a "Dunkin' the Ch8t" float appear during a parade honouring The Cheat.
*[[New Boots]]/[[Hip Hop Dance]]—The Cheat appears as a [[Striped Green Rabbit|striped green rabbit with two butts]].
*[[animal]]—The Cheat is some kind of fish.
*[[Summer Short Shorts]]—In the Millionzoic Era short, The Cheatsaurus drinks from a volcano and breathes fire on the caveman variations of [[Strong Bad]], [[Homestar]] and [[Marzipan]].
*[[theme song]]—During the PBTC preview, The Cheat appears as a guest on [[Strong Mad]]'s talk show.

==Powered by The Cheat Things Not Featuring The Cheat==
*[[Main Page 15]] (although The Cheat appears outside of the PBTC section)
*[[marzipan]]
*[[narrator]]
*[[Grumblecakes (video)]]

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[[Category:Lists]]

Powered by The Cheat Cameo Appearances

2006-08-14T12:12:58Z

Ppk01: /* Appearances of Things Resembling The Cheat */ and a "Dunkin' the Ch8t" float appear

[[Image:Sbscreen.PNG|thumb|The Cheat appears as a talk show guest in [[theme song]]]]
[[The Cheat]] usually '''[[Wikipedia:Self-insertion|incorporates himself]]''' into his [[Powered by The Cheat]] cartoons in some form or another; sometimes in a [[Wikipedia:List of Hitchcock cameo appearances|Hitchcock-style cameo]], but usually making himself appear awesome or receive some sort of prize. This is a list of all appearances of The Cheat in his cartoons (and other PBTC-style things).

==Appearances of The Cheat==
*[[The Cheat Theme Song]]—The Cheat appears throughout this music video.
*[[Everybody to the Limit]]—The Cheat appears during the line "The Cheat is to the limit" and grins.
*[[crazy cartoon#Powered by The Cheat|crazy cartoon]]—The Cheat recieves three trophies, and then another at the end of the animation.
*[[mile#Powered by The Cheat|mile]]—The Cheat is a millionaire. In the easter egg, he appears in a prom photograph and the Cheatsa Parties logo.
*[[New Boots]]/[[Hip Hop Dance]]—The Cheat wears new boots and performs a hip-hop dance.
*[[Seasonal Sweaters]]—The Cheat knits a green sweater.
*[[rock opera]]—Various dancing PBTC-style The Cheats appear throughout the rock opera.
*[[bedtime story]]—In The Cheat's Cheatventures in Moses MaloneLand, The Cheat grows monster truck tires.

==Appearances of Things Resembling The Cheat==
*[[mile#Powered by The Cheat|mile]]—A large The Cheat balloon and a "Dunkin' the Ch8t" float appear during a parade honouring The Cheat.
*[[New Boots]]/[[Hip Hop Dance]]—The Cheat appears as a [[Striped Green Rabbit|striped green rabbit with two butts]].
*[[animal]]—The Cheat is some kind of fish.
*[[Summer Short Shorts]]—In the Millionzoic Era short, The Cheatsaurus drinks from a volcano and breathes fire on the caveman variations of [[Strong Bad]], [[Homestar]] and [[Marzipan]].
*[[theme song]]—During the PBTC preview, The Cheat appears as a guest on [[Strong Mad]]'s talk show.

==Powered by The Cheat Things Not Featuring The Cheat==
*[[Main Page 15]] (although The Cheat appears outside of the PBTC section)
*[[marzipan]]
*[[narrator]]
*[[Grumblecakes (video)]]

[[Category:Powered by The Cheat]]
[[Category:Lists]]