Random Toon

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Random Toon Button

This button was added to the main page alongside Quote of the Week, Weekly Fanstuff, and Sketchbook on September 12, 2005. It loads a random Toon, Strong Bad Email, Marzipan's Answering Machine, or Teen Girl Squad. If you don't like the selection it comes up with, you can press the "again" button on the left side of the box before you are redirected, which will restart the selection process. You can also press the "close" button on the right of the box to abort the selection.

The random toon selector is called rando.swf, and the list of toons used is stored in an XML file named rando.xml. Decemberween Puppet Style and Homestar vs. Little Girl (the two Decemberween In July puppet toons) are not currently included in this random list, although there is a note reminding The Brothers Chaps to add them.

random.bat

A similar button was also added to the top right of the Strong Bad Email menu on September 9, 2005, labeled "random.bat". Pressing it causes Strong Bad to do one of several things.

1.){Strong Bad immitates a roulette while the emails scroll}

2.)STRONG BAD: How 'bout this one? Donk! {a random email is then picked without a roulette of emails}

3.){Strong Bad immitates a roulette in a more high-pitched voice while the emails scroll}

4.){Strong Bad immitates a roulette in a slightly different way while the emails scroll}