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Week 34, 2008
The Municipality is the designation of the totalitarian governmental establishment (modeled after dystopian novels such as 1984) that apparently rules over Free Country, USA, as headed by The King of Town. The Poopsmith serves as a grunt worker. Strong Bad has expressed a desire to riot against it, and in disconnected, his body does so while his head gives career advice to Homestar Runner. It appears that the Municipality uses propaganda to further show its own power. One such poster had the stylized logo and images of poopertroopers standing side by side with the words "We're onto you" across the bottom. The Logo for the Municipality is the King Of Town's head with Darth Vader-like attributes. The name "Poopertrooper" could be a connection to this, as Darth Vader's elite shock troops were called 'Stormtroopers.' (more...)
Week 33, 2008
The Drive-Thru Whale is a smiling blue whale-shaped drive-thru speaker that did not originally appear to be linked to a restaurant, though nightlife suggests (and Blubb-O's Commercial confirms) that it is the mascot for Blubb-O's. The speaker is very scratchy and difficult to understand. Its speech patterns range from typical drive-thru speaker phrases like "Would you like to try a combo meal?" to seemingly random phrases like "Sever your leg, please. It's the greatest day," as well as playing a short length of music while moving its flume of water up and down. The Drive-Thru Whale can move from place to place using a rocket booster mounted underneath it, which allows it to fly up into outer space, and it can also rise up from underground. The Drive-Thru Whale was originally discovered in The Field, but has since been seen on the Sweet Puttin' Cakes Puttiature Golf-Golf Course and behind the fence. (more...)
Week 32, 2008
Whatsit is a name for the commodity that The Poopsmith shovels, also known as You-Know-What and crap. First seen in The King of Town DVD, the large pile of whatsit shows up whenever The Poopsmith is "on the job". Incidentally, in Ballad of The Sneak, "whatzit" is used to refer to The Sneak. Also, in Bug In Mouth Disease the King of Town says, "I keep telling him the sun don't rise and set on that pile of whatsit, but he don't want to listen!" In Sick Day, a mound of whatsit on the map of Rotten Egglünd is called "Whatsitshire". Also, in the Strong Bad Email narrator, Strong Bad makes a preview for a movie called "Whatsit All About?", which features The Poopsmith shoveling his pile of whatsit. In 3 Times Halloween Funjob, Homestar Runner gets some to fill his arbitrarily self-imposed weight requirement of "like a million pounds of candy." (more...)
Week 31, 2008
In many instances of text in the Homestar Runner body of work, lowercase i's appear where they normally wouldn't. This subtle quirk originated with Strong Bad's handwriting; the capital i of the font used (AhnbergHand) looks like a lowercase i, so any time Strong Bad needs to write one, it appears as if it were lowercase. The most famous instance is in dragon, where he labels his drawing TROGDOR the BURNiNATOR, although in this case he does actually use a capital i. Strong Bad's handwriting can also be seen throughout every issue of Teen Girl Squad. Over time, Strong Bad's handwriting was used more and more, and the lowercase i was seen more frequently. Gradually, this idiosyncrasy crossed over to the other fonts featured on the website. It soon became evident that The Brothers Chaps decided to make most uppercase i's lowercase, no matter what font was being used, as an inside joke. (more...)
Week 30, 2008
In techno, the 45th Strong Bad Email, released on Monday, October 7, 2002, Silent J asks Strong Bad if he likes techno. While Strong Bad says it's not really his style, he nonetheless proceeds to write a techno song using his own voice. After starting out with a simple beat, he adds more and more parts, including a siren-like noise and the "obligatory old movie quote from some sci-fi movie" which gave the song its name: The System Is Down. Meanwhile, The Cheat begins to add visual effects using his own lightswitch and a glowstick, though Strong Bad disapproves of his "throw[ing] lightswitch raves", and suggests that they pour the contents of the glowstick into Homestar Runner's Mountain Dew. The song created in this email would later be featured as the second track on the Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits CD. (more...) watch
Week 29, 2008
Ryan Sterritt is listed in the credits for strongbad_email.exe under DVD authoring and encoding, and in the credits of the Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer as a cast member, editor, and co-cinematographer. He hails from the city of Atlanta, Georgia. He can be seen working on the DVD in the puppet toon Real-Live E-Mails. Ryan models the Strong Bad and Homestar beanie caps at the Homestar Runner Store, and appears on the album cover for West Is Lip. (more...)
Week 28, 2008
Teen Girl Squad Issue 3 is the third installment in the Teen Girl Squad series, released on May 12, 2003. It's time for summer and the girls all decide to go shopping for summer fashions. Cheerleader arbitrarily decides to take So and So and The Ugly One to the mall, while forcing What's Her Face to go to a thrift store. At the mall, the three girls first go for pan-asian cuisine, only to have The Ugly One attacked by Arrow'd Guy. Then, they all maxorzed their credit cards buying the latest fashions. Meanwhile, What's Her Face buys clothes that smell like grandmas and is attacked by possums. (more...) watch
Week 27, 2008
Strong Bad is a Bad Guy is a short released on Monday, October 17, 2005. It is the first short to be made using Mario Paint since the early work Super NES, which is currently in the Museum. In the toon, Strong Bad, Strong Mad and The Cheat discuss ideas for tattoos they'd like to get. While Strong Mad says he'd have a "glowy box" for reasons he considers "personal", Strong Bad wants one with a rocket launcher and the words "BAD GUY". This leads to a montage showing Strong Bad involved in various "bad" actions, such as beating an exhaust pipe, giving the Double Deuce, and spray painting a poster of Marzipan. Throughout this montage, a song whose lyrics tell us that "Strong Bad is a bad guy" plays. After the montage is over, Homestar Runner arrives and begins discussing his tattoo ideas, all of which seem to be on his arm. (more...) watch
