Paint Daubs
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Citizens of Free Country, USA have strong opinions about painted (as opposed to carved) pumpkins. When calling them out, they have a tendency to specifically use the phrase "paint daubs" (which means haphazard strokes or smears of paint).
Appearances
- Punkin Show — Homestar Runner explicitly forbids "paint daubs", as he says twice. He later says that The Show is sponsored by the Council Against Paint Daubs.
- Fish Eye Lens — "PAINT DAUBZ" is listed as a filter in a Powered by The Cheat depiction of what appears to be Photoshop.
- @StrongBadActual Tweet (4 Oct 2017) — Strong Bad responds to carved pumpkins with the hashtag #nodaubs4lyfe.
- @StrongBadActual Tweet (4 Oct 2017) — Strong Bad replies to a photo of a pumpkin with Bubs's face drawn on it, saying that it's "getting dangerously close to paint daubs territory", as "Sharpie daubs count too".
- @StrongBadActual Tweet (1 Oct 2019) — Strong Bad quotes "NO PAINT DAUBS!" to a fan who won the Punkin Show.
- @StrongBadActual Tweet (7 Oct 2019) — Strong Bad responds to a pumpkin with his own face painted on it with "nothing heralds the coming of autumn like the smell of NO PAINT DAUBS!!"
- @StrongBadActual Tweet (16 Oct 2019) — In response to a photo of a children's book depicting painted pumpkins (captioned "Happy Pumpkin Day"), Strong Bad says that paint daubs are "the scourge of Pumpkin Days everywhere".
