Strong Bad Losing His Edge

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While Strong Bad claims to be a pretty cool guy, there are occasions where he reveals himself to be not quite so cool as he always says he is.

Examples of Strong Bad losing his edge

• Email lures and jigs — Strong Bad accidentally admits that he doesn't know how to get ladies, before hastily correcting himself and running away.
• Email pom pom — Pom Pom beats the ever-loving snot out of him.
• Email autobiography — Strong Bad's "greatest moment on the court" is when Reg passed the ball to the Deke instead of him and the Deke slammed dunked it, and when he tried to hi-five everyone the Deke shoved him into the ground. Also, Strong Bad tells a blatantly false story about a girl with "skinny blond hair" who "loved him so much" but "had to go to another planet for reasons too complex to elaborate on."
• Email labor day — Ironically, Strong Bad tells Pom Pom he needs to get a life, while asserting he "has a great life". Pom Pom, like everyone else, is attending the BBQ, and even Strong Sad makes fun of Strong Bad for not coming.
• Email pizzaz — While questioning the duplicate Strong Bad's decision to dress like a ship's captain, Strong Bad tricks the duplicate into admitting he is not cool.
• Email extra plug — Strong Bad accidentally says that he will be dancing with The Cheat instead of a hot girl, before correcting himself.
• Decemberween Short Shorts — Strong Bad writes to the tube socks he'll be receiving that year, telling them that his bemoaning them is just a farce and that he actually appreciates them very much.
• Email record book — Strong Bad's record is for Dirtiest Diapey (as Lil' Strong Bad), which he attempts to hastily cover up by "accidentally making breakfast" all over the book.
• Email geddup noise — Strong Bad describes how "a bunch of cheap knockoffs" of the Geddup Noise started popping up, and is then shown having presented his own version, the "Git Outcha Seat Sound". He quickly tries to laugh it off and claim it was "just not anything".
• Email lady fan — Strong Bad can't do a single push up.
• Email senior prom — Strong Bad invents a story about a girl named "Delilelia" who can't go to the prom with him because she's helping a robot stuck in the sand on Mars. He accidentally wins Prom Queen.
• Email your edge — Gee Tee worries that Strong Bad might be losing his edge. Strong Bad accidentally justifies this concern by recounting the times The Cheat and he consciously decided not to re-inflate a deflated basketball, feathered Strong Sad, and spread mayonnaise on some cardboard boxes before cleaning the mess up, vacuuming and using air-freshener thirty minutes later. It is also revealed that the pair play "pretend-we're-grandmas-baking time". In an attempt to regain their edge, Strong Bad stomps on a casserole and The Cheat saws a hole in the floor, which the two fall into. They remain in the hole for at least three hours.
• Strong Badia the Free — Strong Bad receives a package with pilot wings from TPA Airlines, which he explains as his reward for not crying through the flight flying and landing the plane and making out with all the stewardesses when the pilot suffered from a charlie horse-that Strong Bad gave him.
• Baddest of the Bands — Strong Bad goes out of his way to reveal a stage prop that he is convinced will win the crowd over; instead, the crowd carries off The King of Town of all people, as no one cared about his prop and, in the act of revealing it, Strong Bad inadvertently makes the King look cool.
• 8 Bit Is Enough — Strong Bad admits to owning the game "Lady Crate Ape" before correcting himself. Homestar Runner reveals Strong Bad has scheduled manicures and bubblebaths, which Strong Bad attempts to claim are 'codenames' for make-out sessions.
• hremail3184 — Strong Bad attempts to replace the Lappy 486 with the Steaky Steaky 6 Millenium Edition before coming to the realization that it's just a steak sandwich and admitting to being out-of-practice with email and computers.
• April Fools' 2014 (Easter egg) — When asked what he has been doing in the past few years, Strong Bad replies that he's been "doing a lot of side projects, some consulting, [and] maybe a little freelance", after which he asks "those are words that people say when they haven't actually been doing anything, right?"

See Also

• Strong Bad's Ladies
• Strong Bad Getting Beaten Up