History according to Strong Bad
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Strong Bad Lore is an instance where Strong Bad creates a fact or instance in the past which is clearly untrue or can be debated as such. These legends can usually be regarded as an attempt to parody actual historical story-telling techniques, or to make himself look good in the present and the past. Other characters can be involved in the stories and story telling as well. Since they are usually done in emails, Strong Bad Lore stories often center around the history of Strong Badia.
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Examples of Strong Bad Lore
In Strong Bad Emails
couch patch
Strong Bad, Strong Sad, Homestar and Coach Z all offer their memories of how the patch of tape appeared on the couch in the basement. Strong Bad claims it's there because he cut the couch open to make a hiding place for his oil filters, but the inside of the couch smelled horrible so he taped over the cut to stop the smell. Strong Sad claims he remembers a young Strong Bad thinking that Olympic speedskater Carl Lewis was both a woman and hot, and graffiti'd so on the couch, taping it over to cover it up. Homestar tries to provide an explanation, but forgets what the subject of the email was, rambling on about his passion for Teddy Graham spitting. Coach Z claims he vomited in a rip in the couch after Strong Bad served him bad gumbo, and taped it up to hide the evidence.
colonization
Strong Bad explains Strong Badia's origins. Portraying himself as a Pilgrim persecuted by Strong Sad for his egg-ketchuping ways, leaves Free Country, USA to set up a new colony in an empty lot behind the dumpsters, owned by local landlord Bubs, who is portrayed as a Native American-like savage. They celebrate Strong Badia's first Thanksgiving at a nearby picnic table with some leftover Hardee's burgers.
flashback
Strong Bad tells the story of how he and Homestar first met in a children's book, also telling how Strong Bad came to own The Cheat and the origin of The King of Town's eating problem. Strong Bad, after playing tennis on the Moon with Coach Z, returns to Free Country, USA and comes across a large pink egg, which Homestar is standing beside. Homestar and Strong Bad get in an argument over who owns the egg, which The Prince of Town settles with a ten-step footface. Homestar wins, and the Prince delcares that loser gets the egg. Strong Bad and Strong Mad break open the egg, inside finding a lifetime supply of fishsticks, and The Cheat. The Cheat mashes play on a jam box and all the characters have a dance party. The Prince claims the fishsticks and gains his rotund figure, becoming the King. Homestar verifies Strong Bad's story, but it's implied that he thinks it's actually a fictional children's book.
highschool
Strong Bad explains the character's younger life. In highschool, the characters were a the obligatory setting for old cartoons about teenagers, a 70's-style gang of mystery solvers. Before that, in middle school, they were all imaginative melon-headed babies, occupying there time pretending to be living their dreams (being captain of the football team, playing better video games, not sitting next to the The Diapersmith.) Homestar is portrayed as some kind of grown adult supervisor. Before that, the gang were a bunch of microscopic single-celled organisms living in a petri dish. And yet before that, they were all Romans, living in Roman times. Before telling this history, he claims his memory is extremely unphotographic, and thus it is all likely not true.
myths & legends
Strong Bad details the legends surrounding the Bear-Shark. Much of the Bear-Shark's origins can be seen in the constellations over Strong Badia, which shows the seven elemental spirits of Strong Badia: a snake, a guy holding the Big Knife, a box of chicken, a piece of wood with some nails in it, a hand giving the "OK" symbol, a fish wearing a fro wig, and a British distance runner. The distance runner held up the fish with the fro wig over his head, and the two defeated the other spirits in either paintball or Red Rover, thus becoming the new rulers. After years of bad story telling and the telephone game, the myth went through various incarnations, as evidenced by various documentary-type evidence, ranging from medieval wood carvings of a hairy "wildernessman" with a "sea beast", to a cathedral-style stained glass window of a moose holding an iguana in its antlers. Strong Bad then researches some "ancient fence drawings" on the Strong Badian picket fence, which consist of strange images of the Bear-Shark destroying villages and crops, stealing babies, and bike riding with what appears to be its family. The drawings were actually done by Strong Bad at age 5, though he has long forgotten this. Bubs begins selling Bear-Shark merchandise like t-shirts, frozen treats and plush toys. Srong Sad remains a firm skeptic of the Bear-Shark, declaring it to probably be a weather balloon or a foreign exchange student. Homestar managed to capture blurry Bigfoot-style footage of what may be the Bear-Shark in the woods, but this only adds to the question of whether the Bear-Shark is a mysterious myth or a legendary legend.
In Shorts
TrogdorCon '97
Strong Bad and The Cheat get a booth at what Strong Bad call's "Trogdor Con '97". Later, Strong Sad debunks this one by confirming that "It's not called TrogdorCon and it's 2005". One can assume that it was DragonCon.
