Cardboard Boxes

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"Livin' it up, livin' it up, box!"

Strong Mad appears to have a bit of an obsession with cardboard boxes. Additionally, they are handy construction materials and hiding places that factor into many different activities.

Appearances

• Email monster truck — One of the events in Awexome Cross '98 is The Cheat attempting to jump the Tire over The King of Town eating a cardboard box covered in syrup, which the King refers to as "cake".
• Awexome Cross — The same box from "monster truck" is one of the obstacles to avoid.
• Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon — The Jail is made out of a cardboard box.
• Email haircut — Strong Mad asks Strong Bad to make a box "dance and prance", which he later does. Strong Bad and Limozeen also sing about this box, and the box is labeled "GLUTEMATES (BOX OF 6)".
• Email theme park — Strong Bad and The Cheat use cardboard boxes as boats in the Strong Badian Riverquest Safariventure.
• Email replacement — Strong Bad draws Strong Sad and The Cheat on cardboard boxes.
• Email for kids — The Cheat hides behind the box.
• Email the facts — Strong Mad uses a box to make his Box Computer. Another box comprises the disk container and is labeled "NOT CAR PARTS".
• Email garage sale — The same box from "theme park" is on sale for $1.04.
• TrogdorCon '97 — Strong Bad and The Cheat have many cardboard boxes behind them for the entire toon, labeled "GAMERTAG??".
• Email space program — Cardboard boxes are used to build much of The Proud Anselmo.
• Fall Float Parade — Homestar Runner uses a cardboard box labeled "blue face man's store" to replace Bubs' Concession Stand when Strong Mad steals it.
• Email highschool — The "middle school" version of Coach Z holds a box labeled "NOT A BALL!".
• Email pop-up — There is a cardboard box in Strong Bad's pop-up book.
• Email your funeral — One of Strong Bad's boomboxes, the "Jam Box", is made out of a cardboard box.
• Drive-Thru — The table for the second invisible restaurant is a cardboard box.
• Date Nite — Strong Bad and Homestar use a cardboard box as a submarine, the USS Flirtini.
• Email pizza joint — The Pizz is constructed entirely out of one cardboard box.
• Sickly Sam's Big Outing — Sickly Sam is seen inside a cardboard box labeled "Some Hams."
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 15.2 — Coach Z's studio is a cardboard box.
• Email your edge — Strong Bad and The Cheat spread mayonnaise on cardboard boxes and don't clean it up for thirty minutes.
• The Next Epi-Snowed — As punishment for prompting major alterations to the Cheat Commandos cartoon's script, A. Chimendez traps Crack Stuntman inside a cardboard box for the rest of the season.
• Email magic trick — Homestar wears a cardboard box when he is about to be sawed in half.
• Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People — Several items are hidden under cardboard boxes in the game, and Strong Bad sings of being a "box-peering guy".
  • Baddest of the Bands — Strong Bad's vocals manage to make cardboard boxes appear out of thin air.
  • 8-Bit is Enough — Cardboard boxes mysteriously appear if the player takes a screenshot inside a room with a secret ghost. If Gel-arshie comes into contact with something red, he can make items appear inside red cardboard boxes.
• Place ya bets! — Strong Bad walks by with a cardboard box labelled "cat noses".
• Dangeresque: Puppet Squad — Dangeresque beats up some cardboard boxes with his nunchuck gun.
• Donut Unto Others — Homestar makes a doughnut stand out of a cardboard box.

See Also

• Soapbox
• Wooden Crates