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Revision as of 21:08, 5 March 2010
- "Random" redirects here. For a random wiki page, see Special:Random.
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Random Toon Button
The Random Toon Button was added to the main pages alongside Quote of the Week, Weekly Fanstuff, and Sketchbook on September 12, 2005 and can be accessed by clicking the button labeled R. It loads a random Toon, Strong Bad Email, Marzipan's Answering Machine, or Teen Girl Squad. If you don't like the selection it comes up with, you can press the "again" button on the left side of the box before you are redirected, which will restart the selection process. You can also press the "close" button on the right of the box to abort the selection.
random.bat/go rando!
A similar button was also added to the top right of the Strong Bad Email menu on September 12, 2005, along with a Scroll Button Song referencing it. Originally labeled "random.bat", the button appears in the top-right corner of the computer screen. Pressing it causes the menu to select several random emails in sequence. When it is done, it loads the last random email it picked. Strong Bad says one of several things when it's activated:
- STRONG BAD: Brrrrrrakatakatakataka...ta..ka...tick...tick... Brring!
- STRONG BAD: {higher pitched and louder} Lakalakalakalaka... tuck... tuck... tuck... tuck... {low pitched} Bong.
- STRONG BAD: How 'bout this one? Donk. {a random email is then picked without a roulette of emails}
- STRONG BAD: Broooodagadagadaga..da..ga..da...ga... Dooj.
The random.bat button was removed from the menu after Strong Bad destroyed Lappy 486 in hremail3184, and then was put back as "go rando!" on August 31, 2009, with the introduction of the first Compé scroll button song.
Navigation Bar
The random toon button was also added to the navigation bar at the bottom of every page. It reads "rando". It doesn't show the roulette box, simply jumping straight to another toon. Thus far, this has not been added to the special navbars of Main Page 22 or virus, since the navbar is part of the .swf. On most of the toons, they use main_nav.swf.
Fun Facts
Trivia
- Some of the names of toons were too long for the Main Page random box, leaving the last few letters cut off. They were soon renamed to fit.
Old Title (Letters Left Out) | Solution |
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Homestar Presents: Present(s) | H*R Presents: Presents |
HomestarRunner.com: PAY PL(US!) | HomestarRunner.com: PAY+ |
In Search of the Yello Dell(o) | Yello Dello |
Peasant's Quest Movie Trail(er) | Peasant's Quest Trailer |
Puppet Jam: Bad Jokes (none) | Bad Jokes (renamed for consistency) |
Puppet Jam: Mission Control (none) | Mission Control (renamed for consistency) |
Puppet Jam: Tropical Lazor (Beams) | Tropical Lazor Beams |
Puppet Jam: Vitamins/Celebr(ities) | Vitamins/Celebrities |
Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoo(n) | Strong Bad is in Jail |
Sweet Cuppin Cakes December(ween) | Sweet Cuppin Cakes Dween |
Teen Girl Squad Decemberwe(en) | Teen Girl Squad Dween |
The House That Gave Sucky T(reats) | House ... Sucky Treats |
Sickly Sam's Big Outing (none) | Big Outing |
Doomy Tales of the Macabre (none) | Tales of the Macabre |
- The Random toon button also resulted in The Brothers Chaps formatting all the puppet stuff to html format.
Remarks
- When the rando link in the navigation bar loads a Puppet Stuff, it is placed on a light blue background. This is because a Puppet Stuff is layered over another page, but the rando link doesn't work with this. The Random Toon button on the Main Pages does allow an external Flash link to be layered over them, so a Puppet Stuff is layered over them.
- ".bat" is the filename extension for batch files, which are text files with a series of commands intended to be executed by the MS-DOS or Windows command interpreters.
- While "random.bat" is running, you can still click on the names of the various Strong Bad Emails as they flash on the screen.
- Shortly after being released, a number of minor changes were made to the randomizer. The following issues were resolved:
- Decemberween Puppet Style and Homestar vs. Little Girl (the two Decemberween In July puppet toons) were not originally included in the random list. There was just a comment in the XML file reading "<!--note to add puppet dween!-->", reminding The Brothers Chaps to add them.
- Labor Dabor didn't originally work, as the urls for the html and swf files were reversed in the XML.
- If you clicked the R button on the main page more than once (either after closing the randomizer box or while it was up), and it picked a Strong Bad Email, the email number in the URL would be larger than the correct number by the number of Strong Bad Emails (it would redirect you to something like sbemail405.html). This was because it kept a counter of the emails as it read the email names from the XML file, and when you clicked the R again it re-read the list without resetting the counter.
- flashback was immune to this problem, as it has a different URL from the others (to distinguish it from Not the 100th Email!!!, which itself is not in the XML list)
- The Random Toon machine didn't have the "&" or "_" symbols embedded, so lures & jigs was shown as "SBEMAIL: LURES JIGS" and sb_email 22 was displayed as "SBEMAIL: SBEMAIL 22".
- In the XML code, the newest email has the code: new="yup" after it.
Goofs
- Sbemail 169 Deleted Scene links to An Important Rap Song.
- Date Nite links to Strongest Man in the World.
- Many cartoons are omitted from the XML list, and therefore will not be selected randomly. Currently, these are:
- Commandos in the Classroom
- Homestar vs. Other Little Girl
- Strong Bad is a Bad Guy
- Marshie vs. Little Girl
- Dangeresque: Puppet Squad
- Kick-A-Ball
- April Fool 09
- Any of the New Stuff-exclusive toons, such as Hremails.
Fixed Goofs
- On Monday, January 9, 2006, when the Scroll Button Rap was updated, a new bug was introduced to random.bat: the screen would not automatically scroll to the e-mails as they are selected by the roulette. This was later fixed.
- Strongest Man in the World used to appear as "Strongest Man in the Worldk" in the randomizer. This has since been fixed.
- The Next Epi-Snowed was originally listed in the XML file as
ccd06.html
instead ofccdo6.html
. This was later fixed.
Inside References
- One of the 'random.bat' raps ends with Dooj. Dooj was also used in The System Is Down.
Real-World References
- "Rando" is a possible reference to "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie", in which "The Amazing Rando" is a recurring joke throughout the end credits sequence.
External Links
- Click on the R on any main page to see the Random Toon Button in action.
- view Flash file for "random toon"
- view XML file for "random toon"
- view the Strong Bad Email list with random.bat
- view the navbar with the "rando" link
- forum thread re: Random Toon
- forum thread re: random.bat
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