Talk:bike thief

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Easter Egg, what does Homestar Say?

I hear "burger wrapper". this makes more sense, as it's a kind of garbage, similar to how SB was listing parts of the bush earlier. "Murder weapon" makes no sense. — Defender1031✡Talk 12:43, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Murder weapon. —BazookaJoe 12:45, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

How does that make any sense? — Defender1031✡Talk 12:46, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

You'd put a murder weapon in the trash after using it, wouldn't you? —BazookaJoe 12:46, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

WHAT?! THAT'S the best you can come up with? No, you wouldn't necessarily put a murder weapon in the trash. You WOULD however, necessarily put a burger wrapper in the trash. — Defender1031✡Talk 12:51, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

It's not a question of what makes more sense. It's a question of what he's actually saying. --phlip ^T_C 12:53, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I very definitely hear "murder weapon", and can't hear anything like "burger" or "wrapper" no matter how hard I try. It couldn't be any clearer. --phlip ^T_C 12:47, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Personally, I heard "Mortor Weapon". That sounds closer to Murder Weapon, and I doubt my opinion means much here.--147.133.211.123 12:49, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Okay, just listened to it again, with the sound all the way up, it is most definitely "murder weapon". I stand corrected, and bid you all a good day. — Defender1031✡Talk 12:58, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Ocean's Eleven

When Strong Bad tries to steal the bike seat off the couch, he says, "I'll have to employ some Chinese acrobatics!" When I saw this, I thought of the 2001 film Ocean's Eleven, in which thieves rob a Las Vegas casino. In the heist scene of that film, one of them (a Chinese acrobat) uses his talents to break into the vault. As a side note, two thieves also have to bypass laser security in a long vertical shaft, although they get through the shaft by rappelling rather than using suction cups.

I think that at least the Chinese acrobat bit is a real-world reference; anyone agree? Unless I'm mistaken, the combination of Chinese acrobatics and thievery is uncommon enough that it's almost certainly a reference to that film, but I wanted to post here first and see what others thought... Trey56 13:10, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

No, many movies i've seen make use of acrobatics to avoid lazer security. — Defender1031✡Talk 13:22, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Sure, but Chinese acrobatics? Trey56 13:30, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Nah, i think he just picked a country famous for martial arts. — Defender1031✡Talk 13:31, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

BEH! its Ocean's Eleven (series of movies). Name one other (reasonably famous) movie where they avoid lasers with chinese acrobatics? Not Mission Impossible. And what does martial arts have to do with acrobatics? -Jdhannan 15:32, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

College References

One wonders just how many college references need to be included in the Real World section. Are backwards baseball caps a uniquely American cliche/frat-boy joke? Wannabe hippies with dreads carrying generally ignored petitions? Or should the jokes be allowed to stand on context in the hopes that a viewer in, say, Bangladesh who has never set foot on a university campus will infer the references?

Ivory tower

Another debatable RWR: when I saw the CGNU tower off in the distance during the scene in the Field, I immediately thought of Stanford University's Hoover Tower, a similar tower that is often used as a symbol of the university. I've also seen it silhouetted like that in illustrations (PhD comics, for example). Probably won't get people to agree it's a reference, but thought I'd mention it here. Trey56 13:48, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

CHiPs

I think, rather than "Punch" and "John", Strong Bad is actually exclaiming "Ponch" and "Jon" who are the main characters in the 70s TV show CHiPs.

Definitely agree. Transcriber dropped the ball on that one.