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'''[[Strong Bad]] and [[The Cheat| The Cheat's]] relationship''' is a mix of several feelings. While they often work together, they're not always kind. Sometimes Strong Bad hurts The Cheat, both emotionally and physically. Sometimes The Cheat betrays Strong Bad and sometimes works with someone else, at Strong Bad's expense. But sometimes Strong Bad is nice to The Cheat.
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'''[[Strong Bad]] and [[The Cheat]]'s relationship''' is a mix of several feelings. Officially, The Cheat is Strong Bad's lackey, and while they often work together, they're not always kind. Sometimes, Strong Bad hurts The Cheat, both emotionally and physically. Sometimes, The Cheat betrays Strong Bad and works with someone else, at Strong Bad's expense. However, Strong Bad is generally nice to The Cheat.
== Strong Bad and The Cheat working together ==
== Strong Bad and The Cheat working together ==
      
      
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*[[Original Book]] — The Cheat helps Strong Bad cheat at contests.
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*[[Original Book]] {{--}} The Cheat helps Strong Bad cheat at contests.
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**This also occurs in [[The Reddest Radish]], [[A Jumping Jack Contest]],  [[Strongest Man in the World]], [[Halloween Awards Show]] and email 189 [[pet show]].
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**This also occurs in [[The Reddest Radish]], [[A Jumping Jack Contest]],  [[Strongest Man in the World]], [[Tis True, Pom Pom, Tis True]] and [[Halloween Awards Show]].
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*Email [[1 step ahead]] — The Cheat helps Strong Bad [[Strong Bad and Strong Sad's Relationship|torture Strong Sad]].
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*[[Yearbook Character Page]] {{--}} On Strong Bad's page, it mentions him working together with Strong Mad and The Cheat to ruin Homestar's day, despite their tattoo plans.
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*Email [[flag day]] — The Cheat helps Strong Bad with the [[Strong Badia National Anthem|Strong Badia national anthem]].
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*Email [[1 step ahead]] {{--}} The Cheat helps Strong Bad [[Strong Bad and Strong Sad's Relationship|torture Strong Sad]].
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*[[Yearbook Character Page]] — On Strong Bad's page, it mentions him working together with Strong Mad and The Cheat to ruin Homestar's day, despite their tattoo plans.
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*Email [[flag day]] {{--}} The Cheat helps Strong Bad with the [[Strong Badia National Anthem|Strong Badia national anthem]].
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*[[Pumpkin Carve-nival]] — Strong Bad (as Homestar Runner) and The Cheat judge the contest together.
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*Email [[weird dream]] {{--}} The Cheat lets Strong Bad use his computer to check an email.
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*Email [[ghosts]] — The two search [[Strong Badia]] for ghosts.
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*[[Pumpkin Carve-nival]] {{--}} Strong Bad (as Homestar Runner) and The Cheat judge the contest together.
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*Email [[unused emails]] — The Cheat does filing for Strong Bad.
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*Email [[ghosts]] {{--}} The two search [[Strong Badia]] for ghosts.
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*Email [[caper]] — They work together to try to rob [[Homestar Runner|Homestar's]] house.   
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*Email [[unused emails]] {{--}} The Cheat does filing for Strong Bad.
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*[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]] — The two work together, along with [[Strong Mad]], to [[egg]] all the houses in the neighborhood.
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*Email [[caper]] {{--}} They work together to try to rob [[Homestar Runner|Homestar's]] house.   
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*Email [[the process]] — The Cheat helps Strong Bad in inflicting pain on [[Bubs]].
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*[[3 Times Halloween Funjob]] {{--}} The two work together, along with [[Strong Mad]], to [[egg]] all the houses in the neighborhood.
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*Email [[local news]] — The Cheat helps Strong Bad with the Strong Badian news.
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*Email [[the process]] {{--}} The Cheat helps Strong Bad in inflicting pain on [[Bubs]].
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*[[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]] — They work together to commit crimes.
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*Email [[local news]] {{--}} The Cheat helps Strong Bad with the Strong Badian news.
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*Email [[other days]] — The Cheat helps Strong Bad clean up Strong Badia.
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*[[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]] {{--}} They work together to commit crimes.
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*Email [[origins]] — They work together, along with Strong Mad, to spray paint [[Marzipan]]. They also work together as the [[On Point Kings]].
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*Email [[other days]] {{--}} The Cheat helps Strong Bad clean up Strong Badia.
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*Email [[secret recipes]] — Strong Bad and The Cheat try to gross out the residents of [[Free Country, USA]].
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*Email [[origins]] {{--}} They work together, along with Strong Mad, to spray paint [[Marzipan]]. They also work together as the [[On Point Kings]].
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*[[HomestarRunner.com PAY PLUS!]] — In the Strong Bad "Trap Door" sample, The Cheat helps Strong Bad with the trap door to get rid of Homestar.
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*Email [[secret recipes]] {{--}} Strong Bad and The Cheat try to gross out the residents of [[Free Country, USA]].
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*[[Bis Cas Fri 3]] — Puppet The Cheat helps Puppet Strong Bad with his computer problems.
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*[[HomestarRunner.com: PAY PLUS!]] {{--}} In the Strong Bad "Trap Door" sample, The Cheat helps Strong Bad with the trap door to get rid of Homestar.
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*[[Happy Hallow-Day]] — They work together, along with Strong Mad, to find [[Halloween]] night.
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*[[Bis Cas Fri 3]] {{--}} Puppet The Cheat helps Puppet Strong Bad with his computer problems.
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*Email [[rough copy]] — They work together to sue Homestar, [[Strong Sad]], and Malinko.
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*[[Happy Hallow-Day]] {{--}} They work together, along with Strong Mad, to find [[Halloween]] night.
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*Email [[more armies]] — They work together, along with Strong Mad, again as the On Point Kings.
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*Email [[rough copy]] {{--}} They work together to sue Homestar, [[Strong Sad]], and Malinko.
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*[[Ever and More!]] — Strong Bad and The Cheat are members of the [[Broternal Order of Different Helmets]] and practice the secret handshake together.
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*Email [[more armies]] {{--}} They work together, along with Strong Mad, again as the On Point Kings.
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*Email [[extra plug]] — The Cheat helps Strong Bad finish his email in the power outage.
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*[[Ever and More]] {{--}} Strong Bad and The Cheat are members of the [[Broternal Order of Different Helmets]] and practice the secret handshake together.
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*Email [[pizza joint]] — Strong Bad and The Cheat make a pizza joint together.
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*Email [[extra plug]] {{--}} The Cheat helps Strong Bad finish his email in the power outage.
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*Email [[pet show]] — Strong Bad enters the Cheat (aka, Saberlord's Scritchascratch Cakemonger The Cheat) in the [[Cat Mess Inbredtational Pet Show]].
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*Email [[pizza joint]] {{--}} Strong Bad and The Cheat make a pizza joint together.
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*Email [[licensed]] — Strong Bad and The Cheat close down [[Bubs]] for being an "unlicensed unlicensed seller."
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*Email [[pet show]] {{--}} Strong Bad enters the Cheat (aka, Saberlord's Scritchascratch Cakemonger The Cheat) in the [[Cat Mess Inbredtational Pet Show]].
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*Email [[buried]] — Strong Bad and The Cheat try to locate ancient ruins underneath [[Strong Badia]].
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*Email [[licensed]] {{--}} Strong Bad and The Cheat close down [[Bubs]] for being an "unlicensed unlicensed seller."
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*Email [[hiding]] — Strong Bad and The Cheat try to lure [[Homestar Runner]] into a cage with [[Fluffy Puff Marshmallows]] and [[melonade]], but then try to capture [[Strong Sad]] by putting a Parliament wig on the pile.
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*Email [[buried]] {{--}} Strong Bad and The Cheat try to locate ancient ruins underneath [[Strong Badia]].
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*Email [[hiding]] {{--}} Strong Bad and The Cheat try to lure [[Homestar Runner]] into a cage with [[Fluffy Puff Marshmallows]] and [[melonade]], but then try to capture [[Strong Sad]] by putting a Parliament wig on the pile.
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*Email [[your edge]] {{--}} Strong Bad and The Cheat work together to prove that Strong Bad hasn't lost his edge.
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*[[Homestar Ruiner]] {{--}} The Cheat stirs the gelatin in the water pool for Strong Bad.
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*[[Strong Badia the Free]] {{--}} Strong Bad calls on his "Secret The Cheat" to threaten Strong Sad into surrendering.
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*[[Baddest of the Bands]] {{--}} The Cheat poses as a hot blonde in a bikini for Strong Bad's cover photo at the [[Gremlin]].
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*[[Most in the Graveyard]] {{--}} Strong Bad, The Cheat, and Strong Mad look for a potential "zombie slave" in the cemetery.
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*[[Front Facing]] {{--}} The Cheat aids Strong Bad in his initial scheme to sell snowballs to the face.
== Strong Bad being mean to The Cheat ==
== Strong Bad being mean to The Cheat ==
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*Strong Bad frequently [[Powered by The Cheat#Responses|criticizes]] [[Powered by The Cheat|The Cheat's cartoons]].
*Strong Bad frequently [[Powered by The Cheat#Responses|criticizes]] [[Powered by The Cheat|The Cheat's cartoons]].
*Strong Bad frequently [[Kicking the Cheat|kicks]] The Cheat.
*Strong Bad frequently [[Kicking the Cheat|kicks]] The Cheat.
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*Email [[vacation]] — Strong Bad claims that he has been lashing out at The Cheat more often than usual (according to Strong Mad).
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*Email [[vacation]] {{--}} Strong Bad claims that he has been lashing out at The Cheat more often than usual (according to Strong Mad).
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*Email [[techno]] — Strong Bad grounds The Cheat for throwing lightswitch raves.
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*[[Quote of the week]] {{--}} Strong Bad says that he going to throw a bunch of pies at The Cheat.  
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*Email [[your friends]] — Strong Bad duct tapes The Cheat to the side of [[Pom Pom]].  
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*Email [[techno]] {{--}} Strong Bad grounds The Cheat for throwing light switch raves.
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*Email [[caper]] — Strong Bad gets mad at The Cheat for messing up their past caper.
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*Email [[your friends]] {{--}} Strong Bad duct tapes The Cheat to the side of [[Pom Pom]].
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*Email [[huttah!]] — All the fans write nice things about The Cheat and Strong Bad disagrees with all of them.  
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*[[Pumpkin Carve-nival]] {{--}} [[Bubs]] makes a pumpkin that scares The Cheat away. Strong Bad (disguised as Homestar), being pleased with the result, gives Bubs a "not last place" ribbon.
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*Email [[funny]] — Strong Bad makes a mess with ketchup, and tells The Cheat to clean it.
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*Email [[huttah!]] {{--}} All the fans write nice things about The Cheat and Strong Bad disagrees with all of them. Caught in the act, he tries to cover it up by saying that they're actually mean to him and replacing up his own name in the emails with The Cheat's to make it seem like they're writing mean things about him.
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*Email [[stupid stuff]] — The Cheat offers Strong Bad some [[Cheatcakes]], but Strong Bad tells him to "get that mess outta here" and smacks the plate out of The Cheat's hands.
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*Email [[english paper]] {{--}} The final sentence of the English paper Strong Bad writes reads: "Also, I think Strong Bad should decrease The Cheat's allowance."
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*Email [[crying]] — Strong Bad makes The Cheat cry using his picture of [[Li'l Brudder]].
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*Email [[caper]] {{--}} Strong Bad gets mad at The Cheat for messing up their past caper.
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*Email [[animal]] — After Strong Bad creates [[Sterrance]], he claims him to be "way cuter than that stupid, ugly, old, washed-up The Cheat he used to have".
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*Email [[2 years]] {{--}} Strong Bad puts The Cheat in the dryer since breakfast.
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*Email [[bedtime story]] — Strong Bad throws 2 or 3 roach foggers into The Cheat's bed, causing a big explosion and nearly killing him.
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*Email [[funny]] {{--}} Strong Bad makes a mess with ketchup, and tells The Cheat to clean it.
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*Email [[secret recipes]] — Strong Bad says he has a secret recipe for cooking the C H E _ T.
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*Email [[stupid stuff]] {{--}} The Cheat offers Strong Bad some [[Cheatcakes]], but Strong Bad tells him to "get that mess outta here" and smacks the plate out of The Cheat's hands.
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*[[The Cheatar]] — When Strong Bad discovers The Cheat can't turn into a giant guitar he says to him "What good are ya?"
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*[[The Cheatar]] {{--}} When Strong Bad discovers The Cheat can't turn into a giant guitar he says to him "What good are ya?"
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*[[TrogdorCon '97]] — Strong Bad tells The Cheat that he doesn't pay him enough and The Cheat corrects Strong Bad that he doesn't pay him at all.  
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*Email [[crying]] {{--}} Strong Bad makes The Cheat cry using his picture of [[Li'l Brudder]].
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*Email [[portrait]] — Strong Bad calls The Cheat, Along with Strong Mad, his no talent minion.
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*Email [[animal]] {{--}} After Strong Bad creates [[Sterrance]], he claims him to be "way cuter than that stupid, ugly, old, washed-up The Cheat he used to have".
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*Email [[looking old]] — Strong Bad says to The Cheat, as well as Bubs, Strong Mad, and Marzipan, "These are all terrible ideas. What do you think I'm not payin' ya for?"
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*Email [[secret recipes]] {{--}} Strong Bad says he has a secret recipe for cooking the C H E _ T.
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*[[Date Nite]] — Strong Bad isn't happy that The Cheat is dating Marzipan and he suggests to Homestar that they [[Death| drown]] both of them. Homestar and Strong Bad later attempt to ruin The Cheat and Marzipan's date.
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*Email [[bedtime story]] {{--}} Strong Bad throws 2 or 3 roach foggers into The Cheat's bed, causing a big explosion and nearly killing him.
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*Email [[licensed]] — Strong Bad buys two cases of ferret ointment and uses it on The Cheat, despite hearing that they'll make him "swell up like a balloon."
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*[[Trogdor Con '97]] {{--}} Strong Bad tells The Cheat that he doesn't pay him enough and The Cheat corrects Strong Bad that he doesn't pay him at all.  
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*Email [[portrait]] {{--}} Strong Bad calls The Cheat, along with Strong Mad, his no talent minion.
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*Email [[lady fan]] {{--}} Strong Bad puts The Cheat in the dryer and makes him sick and puke.
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*Email [[looking old]] {{--}} Strong Bad says to The Cheat, as well as Bubs, Strong Mad, and Marzipan, "These are all terrible ideas. What do you think I'm not payin' ya for?"
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*[[Date Nite]] {{--}} Strong Bad isn't happy that The Cheat is dating Marzipan and he suggests to Homestar that they [[Death|drown]] both of them. Homestar and Strong Bad later attempt to ruin The Cheat and Marzipan's date.
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*Email [[licensed]] {{--}} Strong Bad buys two cases of ferret ointment and uses it on The Cheat, upon hearing that they'll make him "swell up like a balloon."
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*[[8-Bit is Enough]] {{--}} Strong Bad scolds The Cheat for going near the [[FunMachine]] with [[Gel-Arshie's Pro Fruitboarder]] without his permission.
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*Email [[fan club]] (DVD commentary) {{--}} Strong Bad says the [[Cinder Block]] is the only member of [[The Deleteheads]] that he respects, including The Cheat.
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*Email [[sbemail 206]] {{--}} Strong Bad appears to have had something to do with an ambiguously gluten-free The-Cheat-shaped lump in Marzipan’s throat.
== The Cheat betraying Strong Bad ==
== The Cheat betraying Strong Bad ==
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*Email [[sibbie]] — The Cheat plays a beat that causes Strong Bad to make up a song he didn't want to write.  
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*[[The Luau]] {{--}} The Cheat, along with everyone else at Strong Bad's "party", hastily leaves for the source of the fire so that he can roast his marshmallow.
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*Email [[impression]] — The Cheat beats Strong Bad in a Strong Sad look-a-like contest.
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*[[A Mother's Day Message]] {{--}} The Cheat, along with [[Strong Mad]], [[Homestar Runner]], and [[Pom Pom]], ridicules Strong Bad's sailor costume
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*Email [[labor day]] — The Cheat, along with Strong Mad, goes to the labor day BBQ without Strong Bad.
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*Email [[extra plug]] {{--}} The Cheat leaves Strong Bad to watch TV with Strong Mad and Strong Sad; however, he, Strong Mad, Strong Sad, and Homestar later come back to help him with his unplugged email.
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*Email [[secret recipes]] — The Cheat throws a floppy disk at Strong Bad. Later in an Easter egg, The Cheat reads a book entitled "So You Wanna Cook a [[Wrestleman]]?"
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*Email [[sibbie]] {{--}} The Cheat plays a beat that causes Strong Bad to make up a song he didn't want to write.  
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*Email [[disconnected]] — The Cheat reacts with disappointment when Strong Bad decides not to chop his head off.
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*Email [[impression]] {{--}} The Cheat beats Strong Bad in a Strong Sad look-alike contest.
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*Email [[business trip]] — Homestar mentions that The Cheat got promoted to "Junior Executive of Not Having to Go on Pointless Business Trips."  Strong Bad exclaims that "[he's] been trying to get that job for years."
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*Email [[labor day]] {{--}} The Cheat, along with Strong Mad, goes to the labor day BBQ without Strong Bad.
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*[[Summer Short Shorts]] — In a PBTC segment, The Cheatsaurus burns Caveman Strong Bad into a lobster.
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*Email [[secret recipes]] {{--}} The Cheat throws a floppy disk at Strong Bad. Later in an Easter egg, The Cheat reads a book entitled "So You Wanna Cook a [[Wrestleman]]?"
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*[[Date Nite]] — The Cheat goes on a date with Marzipan, with Strong Bad's disapproval.
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*Email [[rock opera]] {{--}} The Cheat throws another rose toward Strong Bad after he told him to "cut it out".
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*[[Puppet Time]] {{--}} The Cheat steals stuff from Strong Bad.
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*Email [[disconnected]] {{--}} The Cheat reacts with disappointment when Strong Bad decides not to chop his head off.
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*Email [[business trip]] {{--}} Homestar mentions that The Cheat got promoted to "Junior Executive of Not Having to Go on Pointless Business Trips". Strong Bad exclaims that "[he's] been trying to get that job for years."
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*Email [[your edge]] {{--}} When Strong Bad attempts to kick The Cheat as a "classic shenani-move", The Cheat hits him in retaliation.
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*[[Summer Short Shorts]] {{--}} In a PBTC segment, The Cheatsaurus burns Caveman Strong Bad into a lobster.
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*[[Date Nite]] {{--}} The Cheat goes on a date with Marzipan, with Strong Bad's disapproval.
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*[[Strong Badia the Free]] {{--}} The Cheat (and [[Tire]]) secede from [[Strong Badia]] to form "The Cheat and Tirerea", complaining that Strong Bad kicks him too much and takes him for granted.  Later, during the war against [[The King of Town]], The Cheat betrays the Homestarmy by defecting to [[the Municipality]] along with Coach Z and [[Homsar]].
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*[[A Death Defying Decemberween]] {{--}} The Cheat goes to a "previous engagement", much to Strong Bad's chagrin.
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*[[8-Bit is Enough]] {{--}} The Cheat disobeys Strong Bad by switching games in the [[FunMachine]] while [[Spirits of '76]] was still loading.
== The Cheat working or hanging out with someone else ==
== The Cheat working or hanging out with someone else ==
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*[[Where's The Cheat?]] — It's revealed that The Cheat played board games with Strong Sad.
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*[[Where's The Cheat?]] {{--}} It is revealed that The Cheat played board games with Strong Sad.
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*Email [[funny]] — The Cheat eats fries with Bubs.
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*[[Cool Things]] {{--}} The Cheat, along with Strong Mad, joins [[Cool Tapes|Marzipan's band]].  
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*Email [[marzipan]] and [[Seasonal Sweaters]] — The Cheat makes Marzipan a music video of herself.
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*[[Experimental Film]] {{--}} The Cheat helped Strong Sad make the video.
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*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 13.2]] — The Cheat does a remix of The King of Town's demo and in an Easter Egg they cut a split seven inch album together.  
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*[[Baddest of the Bands]] {{--}} The Cheat is again with Cool Tapes, much to Strong Bad's dismay.
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*[[Cool Things]] — The Cheat, along with Strong Mad, joins [[Cool Tapes| Marzipan's band]].  
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*[[Where U Goin 2]] {{--}} The Cheat "sing[s] baritone in Marzipan's choir (but please don't let Strong Bad know)".
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*[[Experimental Film]] — The Cheat helped Strong Sad make the video.
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*[[A Death Defying Decemberween]] {{--}} The Cheat helps Homestar bury a mattress filled with many dangerous objects.
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*[[Rap Song]] — The Cheat makes the video for [[Coach Z]].
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== Strong Bad being nice to The Cheat ==
== Strong Bad being nice to The Cheat ==
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*[[Where's The Cheat?]] {{--}} Strong Bad wants to find The Cheat when he is missing.
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*[[Everybody to the Limit]] {{--}} Strong Bad likes The Cheat's music video and offers him a [[pizza]].
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*Email [[new hands]] {{--}} Strong Bad imagines using his bucket-hand to wash The Cheat, though the latter is discomforted.
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*Email [[privileges]] {{--}} Strong Bad gives The Cheat some privileges as a reward.
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*[[Strumstar Hammer]] {{--}} Strong Bad edits out The Cheat's [[cheating]], as well as Homestar's abuse of The Cheat.
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*Email [[different town]] {{--}} In Strong Bad's imagination, he imagines [[The Stick]] as a Big Ol' Tree that would eat everybody except The Cheat and himself.
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*Email [[caper]]  {{--}} Strong Bad apologises to the Cheat for being mean to him.
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*Email [[cheatday]]  {{--}} Strong Bad celebrates The Cheat's birthday ("Cheatday").
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*Email [[pizzaz]] {{--}} Strong Bad calls The Cheat "too cool" to dress like a ship's captain.
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*[[Halloween Fairstival]] {{--}} Strong Bad spends the entire toon trying to get rid of The Cheat's hiccups.
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*Email [[do over]] {{--}} Strong Bad felt bad about kicking The Cheat, and wanted to redo [[little animal]] by being nice to the Cheat instead of kicking him.
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*Email [[lady...ing]] {{--}} Strong Bad describes The Cheat as his "holy-crap-adorable pet".
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*Email [[bedtime story]] {{--}} Strong Bad puts The Cheat to bed.
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*[[Trogdor Con '97]] {{--}} Strong Bad compliments The Cheat on his plans.
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*Email [[looking old]] {{--}} The Cheat is one of the people Strong Bad calls to his emergency marketing meeting, referring to him as one of "the best, the brightest, the people [he] hate[s] the least".
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*[[Drive-Thru]] {{--}} Strong Bad tries to get a blue toy for The Cheat.
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*Email [[rough copy]] {{--}} Strong Bad awards The Cheat soft tacos.
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*Email [[business trip]] {{--}} Strong Bad buys The Cheat a wind-up [[Spirit of St. Louis]] plane, but The Cheat does not appreciate it.
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*[[Jibblies 2]] {{--}} Strong Bad views The Cheat as one of the "good characters" and seems genuinely concerned for him and Strong Mad.
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*[[Kick-A-Ball]] {{--}} Strong Bad picks The Cheat first.
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*Email [[dictionary]] {{--}} Strong Bad attempts to potty train the Cheat.
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*[[Fish Eye Lens]] {{--}} In an Easter egg after the cartoon, Strong Bad is thoroughly impressed by The Cheat's music video to the point where he can only stutter. The Cheat takes this stutter and does a short remix of it, which ends with Strong Bad loudly declaring he will buy The Cheat a pizza. A ceiling pizza then falls on the two of them, which pleases The Cheat and bewilders Strong Bad.
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*[[Haunted Photo Booth]] {{--}} Strong Bad takes pictures with The Cheat and Strong Mad in the [[Photo Boooth]].
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*[[Front Facing]] {{--}} Strong Bad tries to reassure The Cheat as he sobs over being stuck in back-facing mode and helps him face forwards with Homestar's "spell".
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*[[Where's The Cheat?]] — Strong Bad wants to find The Cheat when he is missing
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[[Category:Strong Bad Relationships]]
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*[[Everybody to the Limit]] — Strong Bad likes The Cheat's music video and offers him a [[pizza]].
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[[Category:The Cheat]]
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*Email [[privileges]] — Strong Bad gives The Cheat some privileges as a reward.
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*Email [[different town]] — In Strong Bad's imagination, he imagines [[The Stick]] as a Big Ol' Tree that would eat everybody except The Cheat and himself. 
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*[[Halloween Fairstival]] — Strong Bad spends the entire toon trying to get rid of The Cheat's hiccups. 
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*Email [[bedtime story]] — Strong Bad puts The Cheat to bed.
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*[[TrogdorCon '97]] — Strong Bad compliments The Cheat on his plans.
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*Email [[looking old]] — The Cheat is one of the people Strong Bad calls to his emergency marketing meeting, referring to him as one of "the best, the brightest, the people [he] hate[s] the least".
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*[[Drive-Thru]] — Strong Bad tries to get a blue toy for The Cheat.
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*Email [[rough copy]] — Strong Bad awards The Cheat soft tacos.
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*Email [[business trip]] — Strong Bad buys The Cheat a wind-up [[Spirit of St. Louis]] plane, but The Cheat does not appreciate it.
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*[[Jibblies 2]] — Strong Bad views The Cheat as one of the "good characters".
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[[Category:Character Relationships]]
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Current revision as of 19:03, 15 February 2024

The dynamic duo in action, grossing out Coach Z.

Strong Bad and The Cheat's relationship is a mix of several feelings. Officially, The Cheat is Strong Bad's lackey, and while they often work together, they're not always kind. Sometimes, Strong Bad hurts The Cheat, both emotionally and physically. Sometimes, The Cheat betrays Strong Bad and works with someone else, at Strong Bad's expense. However, Strong Bad is generally nice to The Cheat.

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[edit] Strong Bad and The Cheat working together

[edit] Strong Bad being mean to The Cheat

  • Strong Bad frequently criticizes The Cheat's cartoons.
  • Strong Bad frequently kicks The Cheat.
  • Email vacation — Strong Bad claims that he has been lashing out at The Cheat more often than usual (according to Strong Mad).
  • Quote of the week — Strong Bad says that he going to throw a bunch of pies at The Cheat.
  • Email techno — Strong Bad grounds The Cheat for throwing light switch raves.
  • Email your friends — Strong Bad duct tapes The Cheat to the side of Pom Pom.
  • Pumpkin Carve-nivalBubs makes a pumpkin that scares The Cheat away. Strong Bad (disguised as Homestar), being pleased with the result, gives Bubs a "not last place" ribbon.
  • Email huttah! — All the fans write nice things about The Cheat and Strong Bad disagrees with all of them. Caught in the act, he tries to cover it up by saying that they're actually mean to him and replacing up his own name in the emails with The Cheat's to make it seem like they're writing mean things about him.
  • Email english paper — The final sentence of the English paper Strong Bad writes reads: "Also, I think Strong Bad should decrease The Cheat's allowance."
  • Email caper — Strong Bad gets mad at The Cheat for messing up their past caper.
  • Email 2 years — Strong Bad puts The Cheat in the dryer since breakfast.
  • Email funny — Strong Bad makes a mess with ketchup, and tells The Cheat to clean it.
  • Email stupid stuff — The Cheat offers Strong Bad some Cheatcakes, but Strong Bad tells him to "get that mess outta here" and smacks the plate out of The Cheat's hands.
  • The Cheatar — When Strong Bad discovers The Cheat can't turn into a giant guitar he says to him "What good are ya?"
  • Email crying — Strong Bad makes The Cheat cry using his picture of Li'l Brudder.
  • Email animal — After Strong Bad creates Sterrance, he claims him to be "way cuter than that stupid, ugly, old, washed-up The Cheat he used to have".
  • Email secret recipes — Strong Bad says he has a secret recipe for cooking the C H E _ T.
  • Email bedtime story — Strong Bad throws 2 or 3 roach foggers into The Cheat's bed, causing a big explosion and nearly killing him.
  • Trogdor Con '97 — Strong Bad tells The Cheat that he doesn't pay him enough and The Cheat corrects Strong Bad that he doesn't pay him at all.
  • Email portrait — Strong Bad calls The Cheat, along with Strong Mad, his no talent minion.
  • Email lady fan — Strong Bad puts The Cheat in the dryer and makes him sick and puke.
  • Email looking old — Strong Bad says to The Cheat, as well as Bubs, Strong Mad, and Marzipan, "These are all terrible ideas. What do you think I'm not payin' ya for?"
  • Date Nite — Strong Bad isn't happy that The Cheat is dating Marzipan and he suggests to Homestar that they drown both of them. Homestar and Strong Bad later attempt to ruin The Cheat and Marzipan's date.
  • Email licensed — Strong Bad buys two cases of ferret ointment and uses it on The Cheat, upon hearing that they'll make him "swell up like a balloon."
  • 8-Bit is Enough — Strong Bad scolds The Cheat for going near the FunMachine with Gel-Arshie's Pro Fruitboarder without his permission.
  • Email fan club (DVD commentary) — Strong Bad says the Cinder Block is the only member of The Deleteheads that he respects, including The Cheat.
  • Email sbemail 206 — Strong Bad appears to have had something to do with an ambiguously gluten-free The-Cheat-shaped lump in Marzipan’s throat.

[edit] The Cheat betraying Strong Bad

  • The Luau — The Cheat, along with everyone else at Strong Bad's "party", hastily leaves for the source of the fire so that he can roast his marshmallow.
  • A Mother's Day Message — The Cheat, along with Strong Mad, Homestar Runner, and Pom Pom, ridicules Strong Bad's sailor costume
  • Email extra plug — The Cheat leaves Strong Bad to watch TV with Strong Mad and Strong Sad; however, he, Strong Mad, Strong Sad, and Homestar later come back to help him with his unplugged email.
  • Email sibbie — The Cheat plays a beat that causes Strong Bad to make up a song he didn't want to write.
  • Email impression — The Cheat beats Strong Bad in a Strong Sad look-alike contest.
  • Email labor day — The Cheat, along with Strong Mad, goes to the labor day BBQ without Strong Bad.
  • Email secret recipes — The Cheat throws a floppy disk at Strong Bad. Later in an Easter egg, The Cheat reads a book entitled "So You Wanna Cook a Wrestleman?"
  • Email rock opera — The Cheat throws another rose toward Strong Bad after he told him to "cut it out".
  • Puppet Time — The Cheat steals stuff from Strong Bad.
  • Email disconnected — The Cheat reacts with disappointment when Strong Bad decides not to chop his head off.
  • Email business trip — Homestar mentions that The Cheat got promoted to "Junior Executive of Not Having to Go on Pointless Business Trips". Strong Bad exclaims that "[he's] been trying to get that job for years."
  • Email your edge — When Strong Bad attempts to kick The Cheat as a "classic shenani-move", The Cheat hits him in retaliation.
  • Summer Short Shorts — In a PBTC segment, The Cheatsaurus burns Caveman Strong Bad into a lobster.
  • Date Nite — The Cheat goes on a date with Marzipan, with Strong Bad's disapproval.
  • Strong Badia the Free — The Cheat (and Tire) secede from Strong Badia to form "The Cheat and Tirerea", complaining that Strong Bad kicks him too much and takes him for granted. Later, during the war against The King of Town, The Cheat betrays the Homestarmy by defecting to the Municipality along with Coach Z and Homsar.
  • A Death Defying Decemberween — The Cheat goes to a "previous engagement", much to Strong Bad's chagrin.
  • 8-Bit is Enough — The Cheat disobeys Strong Bad by switching games in the FunMachine while Spirits of '76 was still loading.

[edit] The Cheat working or hanging out with someone else

[edit] Strong Bad being nice to The Cheat

  • Where's The Cheat? — Strong Bad wants to find The Cheat when he is missing.
  • Everybody to the Limit — Strong Bad likes The Cheat's music video and offers him a pizza.
  • Email new hands — Strong Bad imagines using his bucket-hand to wash The Cheat, though the latter is discomforted.
  • Email privileges — Strong Bad gives The Cheat some privileges as a reward.
  • Strumstar Hammer — Strong Bad edits out The Cheat's cheating, as well as Homestar's abuse of The Cheat.
  • Email different town — In Strong Bad's imagination, he imagines The Stick as a Big Ol' Tree that would eat everybody except The Cheat and himself.
  • Email caper — Strong Bad apologises to the Cheat for being mean to him.
  • Email cheatday — Strong Bad celebrates The Cheat's birthday ("Cheatday").
  • Email pizzaz — Strong Bad calls The Cheat "too cool" to dress like a ship's captain.
  • Halloween Fairstival — Strong Bad spends the entire toon trying to get rid of The Cheat's hiccups.
  • Email do over — Strong Bad felt bad about kicking The Cheat, and wanted to redo little animal by being nice to the Cheat instead of kicking him.
  • Email lady...ing — Strong Bad describes The Cheat as his "holy-crap-adorable pet".
  • Email bedtime story — Strong Bad puts The Cheat to bed.
  • Trogdor Con '97 — Strong Bad compliments The Cheat on his plans.
  • Email looking old — The Cheat is one of the people Strong Bad calls to his emergency marketing meeting, referring to him as one of "the best, the brightest, the people [he] hate[s] the least".
  • Drive-Thru — Strong Bad tries to get a blue toy for The Cheat.
  • Email rough copy — Strong Bad awards The Cheat soft tacos.
  • Email business trip — Strong Bad buys The Cheat a wind-up Spirit of St. Louis plane, but The Cheat does not appreciate it.
  • Jibblies 2 — Strong Bad views The Cheat as one of the "good characters" and seems genuinely concerned for him and Strong Mad.
  • Kick-A-Ball — Strong Bad picks The Cheat first.
  • Email dictionary — Strong Bad attempts to potty train the Cheat.
  • Fish Eye Lens — In an Easter egg after the cartoon, Strong Bad is thoroughly impressed by The Cheat's music video to the point where he can only stutter. The Cheat takes this stutter and does a short remix of it, which ends with Strong Bad loudly declaring he will buy The Cheat a pizza. A ceiling pizza then falls on the two of them, which pleases The Cheat and bewilders Strong Bad.
  • Haunted Photo Booth — Strong Bad takes pictures with The Cheat and Strong Mad in the Photo Boooth.
  • Front Facing — Strong Bad tries to reassure The Cheat as he sobs over being stuck in back-facing mode and helps him face forwards with Homestar's "spell".
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