Editing Mashing

[[Image:sbemailahundred.png|thumb|300px|And so, The Cheat mashed play on an extremely expensive jambox.]]
There have been many occurrences of '''mashing go/play''' throughout the [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner]] body of work.  This phrase generally replaces the term "push" or "press" in relation to a button.  In the southern United States (e.g. Georgia, home of [[The Brothers Chaps]]), "mash" is a common dialect term, so although it has appeared several times in the H*R universe, TBC might not originally have intended for it to become a recurring theme, as they were probably accustomed to the term.

== Appearances ==
*'''Debut:''' Email [[1 step ahead]] {{--}} "Mash spacebar" to peg [[Strong Sad]].
*[[Everybody Knows It]] {{--}} "Mash play on that [[Jam Box|jambox]]."
*Email [[flashback]] {{--}} "And so, [[The Cheat]] mashed play on an extremely expensive jambox..."
*The introduction to [[strongbad_email.exe Disc One|Disc One]] of [[strongbad_email.exe]] {{--}} "Make your selection and mash GO, moron!"
*Email [[alternate universe]] {{--}} "Mash go on that [[blender]]!"
*Email [[senior prom]] {{--}} "...when I mash go on it, everybody's [[pants]] will POOF AWAY!"
*[[Weclome Back]] {{--}} "...when I mash record on that camera...", then later "...Mash stop when you think you're mashing record and mash record when you think you're mashing stop..."
*[[Marshmallow's Last Stand]] ([[Marshmallow's Last Stand#Commentary Transcript|DVD commentary]]) {{--}} "[[Pom Pom]] hit 'mash play' on the... jambox."
*[[Blue Laserdisc Challenge]] {{--}} "Take control of [[Blue Laser Commander]] by mashing left or right on your laserdisc remote when you see this flashing [[style]]."
*[[Guitar Hero]] {{--}} On the loading screen for the song [[Trogdor (song)|Trogdor]] in Guitar Hero II, Strong Bad tells the player, "For squeadlies, mash on the trembalo. For meadlies, tone up on your chord surpassers. Oh, and I'm awesome."
*[[Viidelectrix]] version of [[Duck Guardian One]] {{--}} "Point hereabouts and mash A to start."
*[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 13]] {{--}} [[Tompkins]] presses buttons on his [[Nintendo|Game Boy]]; as he does, the word "[[M*A*S*H|m.a.s.h.]]" appears intermittently.
*[[Telltale Games]] {{--}} A [https://web.archive.org/web/20110831101532/http://www.telltalegames.com/company/pressreleases/id-65 press release] describes [[TROGDOR!]] as an "arcade peasant-masher".
*[[Nintendo Power Interview - July 2008]] {{--}} "Anyone who can't figure out how to mash a bunch of buttons on a game pad shouldn't be indulging in [[Noun-ery|video-gamery]] in the first place."
*[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]] {{--}} The [[SBCG4AP Tutorial|tutorials]] explain the controls by telling the player to mash specific buttons on their controller.
*[[Homestar Ruiner]] {{--}} Strong Bad wonders what will happen if he mashes the erase button on the camera at the [[race track]].
*[[CollegeHumor Interview - 15 Sep 2008]] {{--}} [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] says that [[Homestar Runner|Homestar]]'s favorite video game would be Microsoft Decathlon, "a game where you just mashed keys as fast as you could, and Homestar would love doing that with his head."
*[[8-Bit is Enough]] {{--}} Homestar mentions he used his lucky quarter to beat the game ''[[Street Fighter|Street Masher]]''.
*Email [[too cool]] {{--}} [[Senor Cardgage]] asks Strong Bad to mash play on the air freshener to record his [[character video]].
*[[Disk 4 of 12 - FriendlyWare]] {{--}} Strong Bad, amused that [[Wikipedia:Friendlyware|FriendlyWare]] keeps asking him to "strike" keys, suggests that the words "press" and "mash" hadn't been adopted by the early eighties.

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