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Poorly Powered.

A page made using Powered by The Cheat technology.

Cast: Homestar Runner, Strong Bad, Strong Sad, The Cheat

Place: The Field, The Cheat's Computer Room

Icon: The Cheat

Page title: "Powered by The Cheat"

Button Effects

Toons - A circle with a slash through it appears over Homestar Runner.
Games - Homestar spits when he says games and a blinking games logo with lightning flashes behind him.
Characters - A JPEG ship that says "wear a bikini" spins around then pans out, disappearing from view.
Downloads - Strong Bad moves with a poorly done shape tween and says, "I am over here," then jumps back and says, "Now I am back over here." This motion repeats infinitely for as long as the cursor is held over the button.
Store - An oval sun lights up around the Store button and Strong Sad floats through the sky and says, "I'm sad that I'm flying..."
E-mail - The scene pulls back to show The Cheat and Strong Bad watching the main page in action, to which Strong Bad comments on The Cheat's work. 3 possible comments:
- STRONG BAD: And what is that terrible voice? Is that supposed to be Homestar? THE CHEAT: {Defensive The Cheat noises}
- THE CHEAT: {Questioning The Cheat noises} STRONG BAD: The animation looks terrible. It's all jerky, ya know, like it was done by a two years old boy.
- THE CHEAT: {Exclamatory The Cheat noises} STRONG BAD: Once again, your visual style just looks thrown together. It looks like you don't care.

One Messed Up Main Page to Go!

The ship shown when you hover over the "Characters" button is the SS United States, an ocean liner that operated from 1952 to 1969.
"Wear a Bikini!" is a recurring inside joke.
The Strong Bad that goes back and forth is a typical example of shape tweening in Macromedia Flash. This technique is commonly used by cheap Flash animation.
After rolling over "E-mail", you will see that the museum button will shift up and down.
After rolling over "E-mail", you can quickly roll over the other buttons on The Cheat's computer. Only the E-mail and Museum buttons are functional on The Cheat's computer.
After rolling over "E-mail", you can roll over the spot where the button is to restart a Strong Bad/The Cheat sequence.
- If you roll over it at just the end of their conversation (this is difficult), the main page frame (with the buttons around the edge) will appear, but the conversation will restart. An easier method is to right-click and click "Play."