DELETED

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When Strong Bad gets an email he doesn't like, it gets...DELETED!! This is apparently mandatory with the "How do you type with boxing gloves on?" emails.

Contents 1 Sightings 1.1 Tandy 400 Era 1.2 Compy 386 Era 1.3 Lappy 486 Era 2 Fun Facts and Abnormalities with DELETED

Sightings

Tandy 400 Era

In this era, the DELETED screen is a green background with black letters.

• homestar hair (almost, see fun fact below)
• spring cleaning (debut)
• sisters

Compy 386 Era

In this era, the DELETED screen is a blue background with white letters.

• 50 emails
• huttah!
• unused emails
• 2 emails
• car (almost, see fun fact below)
• replacement
• virus

Lappy 486 Era

None

Fun Facts and Abnormalities with DELETED

• The very first deleted email (a Hairstyle Runner design) was in "homestar hair," but it was not DELETED!!
• Strong Bad has been known to have emails DELETED by mistake, as seen in the email, sisters.
  • This may have been a result of the Tandy being broken, given that he tries to delete something else in that email and it gets "saved forever".
• In 50 emails, when he types "matt = DELETED!", he got the "MATT!!" response, but it was still deleted.
• In "replacement," when Coach Z tried to say his best DELETED, he said "DELORTED!" and the computer flashed "DELORTED!!" and the buzzing noise became distorted, and the screen turned greenish-yellow instead of blue.
• The Virus prevented Strong Bad from deleting the offending email in the Strong Bad Email, "virus." He got the "NICE TRY!" response on his first attempt, and he got the "NOTTA CHANCE!!" response on his second.
• In labor day, when Strong Bad doesn't show up to the Labor Day party, Strong Sad makes a funny by wondering if his invitation was DELETED!! (Strong Sad also smiles while saying that, which is, of course, rare.)
• In "unused emails", Strong Bad begins a running gag in which he "winds up" and delivers a large, louder "DELETED!!" He attempts to do this again in "car," but Homestar Runner saves the email from a tired old Strong Bad joke and is rewarded with a punch in the face.
• Homestar attempts (and spectacularly fails) to perform the "DELETED!" gag in 50 emails.
• Although the Lappy's "DELETED!" has yet to be seen, a similar technique called a "do over!" was used in the email do over. It had red text against a black screen and an explosion.